Tongtian Bamboo Repair

Chapter 394 Taking stock of gains

After leaving Xuanjie Mountain, Zhang Miao returned to Maple Leaf City in the eastern suburbs. When they saw Zhang Miao coming back, the people from the City Lord's Mansion went to say hello and asked where their City Lord Su had gone.

Zhang Miao found a random reason and said that City Lord Su was traveling again. The people in the City Lord's Mansion do not doubt that he is there, because the City Lord Su often travels around. Anyway, Maple Leaf City does not rely on him to run, and it will still run without him.

I have only been away for about a month this time. When I left, a few camellias in the house were just in bloom. Now when I came back, these camellias were in full bloom and very beautiful.

Xiangmao is still taking good care of Zizhu, but she is no longer followed by Chi Gui, but by Li Mozhen. Li Mozhen was like a maid, holding a showerhead in her hand, following Xiangmao step by step, her face full of seriousness and piety.

Zhang Miao looked at her, pondered for a moment, then called the red ghost, and asked: "Why don't you follow Xiangmao? Why did you switch to Li Mozhen?"

Chi Gui was a little aggrieved and complained: "It's Miss Xiangmao who doesn't want me. She said I have my own things to do and can't always follow her, and that little girl... ah no, that little girl is here to visit you. Several times, I didn’t see you at home. Instead, I got close to Miss Xiangmao, so I volunteered to become Miss Xiangmao’s little follower..."

Hearing this, Zhang Miao understood a lot. The two brothers and sisters of the Li family have very different personalities. The elder brother is a boring gourd, with some talents, but he has a sense of not asking for anything from others and being content with the situation. The younger sister is a smart girl. She may seem ordinary, but she has a character that strives to be the first and never lags behind. She is very good at playing tricks, but her performance is not that outstanding.

Such a woman looks a bit like a career-oriented woman...

Forget it, this has nothing to do with Zhang Miao. He sat down casually and asked Chi Gui: "I'm not here these days. Do you have any news to tell me?"

Chi Gui thought for a moment, shook his head and said: "Everything is as usual, there is no special news. There is no new situation in Wenfengling, and there has been no news about the great monk who went to the Red Lotus Realm. "

Zhang Miao nodded. When he went out for an adventure this time, he originally wanted to inquire about the Black Lotus Patriarch. However, the situation later turned out to be completely different, and the inquiry was discontinued.

He waved his hand and said, "Okay, there's nothing else to do here. You can go and do your work."

Chi Gui resigned, while Zhang Miao counted the harvest. First of all, the most important thing is Xuanxin Tribulation Water. This is his important goal, and now it has been achieved. When Xiangmao can raise Zizhu better, he can activate the formation to send this treasure to Zizun.

Secondly, there are those Six Divine Lotuses. This Six Delusions Divine Lotus is a good treasure. If you take it directly, it will have the effect of increasing your cultivation. However, if you take it directly, it will feel like a waste of natural resources by chewing peonies. There should be a better way to use it.

The best way to use it should be to make alchemy. Unfortunately, Zhang Miao is not good at alchemy. He has knowledge of alchemy, but he is still not good at it in practice. If refining alchemy doesn't work, Zhang Miao actually has other ways, such as refining medicine.

Refining medicine and refining elixirs are completely different things. Refining medicine is just boiling and decoction. Medicinal materials can also be more effective after being processed and decoctioned, but they are not as fully utilized as elixir refining.

If that doesn't work, you can still make wine. Brewing wine is different again. Brewing wine is to use wine to soak the ingredients in medicinal materials. If you want to get the best medicinal effect, this requires a long soaking time. Good medicinal wine needs to be brewed for several years, even more than ten years. This method takes a long time, but the advantage is that it can maximize the use of medicinal materials. If you soak Liuwu Shenlian in wine and want to exert an effect similar to that of an elixir, it will probably take hundreds of years...

These three methods of use each have their own advantages and disadvantages, and Zhang Miao needs to make his own choice.

Zhang Miao thought for a long time and decided to use his medical talent to make a decoction from the Six Divine Lotus. In order to make better use of the Six Divine Lotus and reduce waste, he also needed to mix it with other medicines. Achieve the effect of the monarch and his ministers, and maximize the effect of the monarch's medicine.

In fact, the master's Andrographis paniculata pill inspired him a lot. If the heart of a high-quality demon beast is fried together with the Six Delusions Divine Lotus, can he make an 'Andrographis paniculata soup'?

This idea was quite interesting. Zhang Miao wrote it down and continued to count the harvest.

He killed Tongtian Lao Dao, and naturally got Tong Tian Lao Dao's storage bag. There are many elixirs in this old Taoist storage bag. Many of these elixirs cannot be named by Zhang Miao, and he does not know their uses. These elixirs need to be analyzed by professionals.

In addition to the elixirs, Zhang Miao also discovered some medicinal materials that they obtained together, such as the innate purple zhizhi, mulberry and mulberry fruits, and the spring water of Yin Yang Spring. Needless to say, the spring water of Yin Yang Spring is a good material for making tea, decoction, elixir, and even wine. It is very versatile anyway.

The mulberry and zhe fruits are carefully preserved. The fruits can be eaten directly or used to make elixirs. But it would be wasted if used to make medicine. Instead, it can be used to make fruit wine... Sweet and sour fruit wine, whoever drinks it will get drunk.

These are the storage bags of Tongtian Laodao. The rest are just bits and pieces and not valuable.

Finally, there is the Wu brothers’ storage bag. These two people not only have storage bags, but also two Taoist tools. The ice weapons of the two of them were astonishingly powerful. If it weren't for Zhang Miao's tricks, he really wouldn't be able to defeat these two people. Now the two Taoist artifacts are undergoing sacrifice and refining in the Zi Mansion, which will take a long time to slowly wear away the mark of the original owner.

In addition to the two Taoist tools, the two brothers also have a lot of things. For example, the rotating light beads. This thing is the treasure that Tongtian and Su Yuanxiu rushed to get as soon as they entered Xuanjie Mountain. This treasure has one use, and that is to make spiritual plants grow quickly.

Optical beads have a magical power that can deceive plants, making them think that the sun is just right and they can grow indefinitely. This method will overdraw the spiritual energy. If the spiritual energy is not supplied, the plants will wither immediately after growing rapidly. However, things like spiritual energy can be replenished. All in all, this baby is quite good. Master Tongtian is good at refining elixirs and probably has his own medicine garden, so he needs this treasure to ripen the elixir.

Now that the orb is in Zhang Miao's hands, Zhang Miao can use it for lemongrass to make those purple bamboos grow faster.

In addition to this treasure, Zhang Miao also saw a palm-sized piece of ten-thousand-year black ice. The ten thousand years of the ten thousand years of Xuan Bing is a conceptual word. It is not only ten thousand years, but millions of years, or even tens of millions of years.

Thousand-year-old black ice is not uncommon and can be found in many deep layers of ice. But there is a characteristic of this thing. The longer the ten thousand year black ice exists, the warmer the ice will be. The 10,000-year-old Wannian Xuanbing is bitingly cold. It is really cold.

But the 100,000-year-old Xuanbing is no longer cold, just like the stones on the roadside, it is cool but not cold.

After a million years, this ten thousand year black ice is like warm jade, not cold at all when held in the hand, and still has the slightest warmth. After tens of millions of years, this ten thousand year ice will become hot, like a hand warmer, bringing you a touch of winter warmth.

When the ten-thousand-year mysterious ice reaches tens of thousands of years, this mysterious ice will be like the spring sun, shining warmly on people. This is a manifestation of things going to extremes and is a characteristic of cold storage and warmth. If there was such a piece of ten thousand year old ice, Empress Wu Shui's palace cold syndrome could be cured in minutes.

What is in Zhang Miao's hands now is such a piece of ten thousand year old ice that is more than ten thousand years old. You know this thing is hot to the touch, you need to hold it through a piece of heat-insulating cloth. When you hold this baby in your arms, there won't be any chill in your body.

When he saw this thing, Zhang Miao secretly cursed himself as a fool. When he killed the Wu brothers, the cold energy accumulated in his body and he was very cold. If he opened the two people's storage bags and rummaged through them and found this piece of ten thousand year old ice, wouldn't it be easy to resolve the cold energy in his body? matter!

It’s also his fault that he was only focused on finding trouble for Tongtian and the two of them and didn’t count the loot immediately…

In addition to this treasure, Zhang Miao also found a spell book. This spell is called 'Ice Sculpture'. This spell seems ordinary, but in fact it is not unusual at all. Everyone knows that monks in the Hedao realm have a skill called "initiation", which is to use magic to enlighten something for use. This kind of attunement consumes a lot of spiritual power. It is not cost-effective to attune ordinary items, and it is not cost-effective to attune high-level items.

But this ice sculpture technique is very clever. This spell essentially carves the ice cube into what you want. In fact, after you carve the ice cube, you can use very little spiritual energy to bring the ice sculpture to life!

Yes, it is to enlighten the ice sculptures and make them come alive. Only ice sculptures made with this spell can save energy. I don’t know if these two brothers invented this spell or if they found it.

After Zhang Miao saw this spell, his first expression was 'What is this? What's the big use? 'In Zhang Miao's opinion, this thing is to make the ice sculptures of terracotta warriors and horses run, jump and rap. This is an entertainment spell!

But what happened next opened Zhang Miao's eyes. He found a fruit in his storage bag. This fruit was neither a zhe fruit nor a mulberry fruit, but an ice bodhi.

Bodhi is known as the fruit of wisdom in Buddhism. There are many types of Bodhi, including Blood Bodhi, Golden Bodhi, Satsva Bodhi, etc. No matter which kind of Bodhi it is, it is a famous spiritual fruit, and it has the effect of increasing wisdom.

This ice bodhi is no exception. In addition to increasing wisdom, this fruit can also calm the fire of the heart and make the heart stable. It is a very popular fruit in Buddhism.

However, Ice Bodhi is only grown in a few extremely cold Buddhist temples. The yield is low and the growth is slow, which keeps the price of this fruit high.

The Wu brothers planted these ice bodhis by themselves... So the question is, do the Wu brothers have this ability?

In fact, the Wu brothers took advantage of the situation. Don't they have ice carving skills? First, they use ice carving skills to carve out the ice bodhi tree, and then activate the ice bodhi tree so that the ice bodhi tree can produce ice bodhi trees. It seems simple, but it's not easy at all.

Because the biggest problem with ice sculpture is that the enchanted ice sculpture will melt! Someone once said that ice sculpture is a disappearing art. The same is true for the ice sculptures activated by ice sculpture. After a certain period of time, these ice sculptures will melt. Even if they are placed in an extremely cold environment, these ice sculptures will still melt. This is a rule and cannot be changed by external forces.

However, it takes time for the ice bodhi tree to produce ice bodhi trees. If it melts before it bears fruit, it will be in vain. The Wu brothers tried many times, but they only got a few fruits by chance. If it weren't for these fruits, they all thought their idea was unsuccessful!

In order for this idea to continue, they must either increase the survival time of the ice sculptures or shorten the time for the ice linden trees to bear fruit. After some attempts, they felt that the latter was more reliable, so they went to Xuanjie Mountain to look for the Orb of Light. Because this treasure can promote the growth of plants, and the activated ice bodhi tree is a serious plant.

The logic is closed here! If this method works, then the rare and precious Ice Bodhi can be produced in large quantities!

Seeing this, Zhang Miao couldn't help but feel excited. This ice bodhi is really expensive.

But to complete all of this, Zhang Miao still needs to practice more ice, at least to learn the ice carving technique!
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Everything in the world has its destiny.

On this day, Li Mocheng was sitting solemnly in front of Zhang Miao, while her sister was making tea gracefully. Seeing her brother's reserved look, she couldn't help but feel angry. How could he take such a good opportunity? I don’t know for sure! In front of him was a great monk in the Hedao realm! He is a big shot like a city lord!

Faced with many reminders from his sister's eyes, Li Mocheng finally said, "Sir, it's really rude for so many geniuses to come to visit."

Zhang Miao nodded, took a sip of pine needle tea, and said calmly: "Since you know it's rude, what are you busy with during this time?"

Hearing this, Li Mocheng said: "During this period, I have been developing a formation that can promote the growth of plants. I have gained a lot of insights from the Feng Shui methods taught by adults, and now I have some insights."

Zhang Miao raised his eyebrows after hearing this. He knew that this kid was not interested in offensive or defensive formations. He was more interested in making the formations practical. To put it simply, he was a pragmatist who wanted to convert the military into civilians. He believes that formations serve people, and this person is not just a monk.

Zhang Miao said with a smile: "Why, you want to help ordinary people's food production? You have to know that formations cannot produce nutrients out of thin air. If you want to improve the growth of plants, you must invest more materials. This requires It costs a lot of spiritual materials. Even if ordinary farming can increase the farmer's output ten times, it is not cost-effective."

What Zhang Miao said makes sense. Some people do the business of beheading, but no one does the business of losing money. No one would do this kind of investment that exceeds one’s means.

Li Mocheng obviously understood this truth. He nodded and said, "Your Majesty taught me a lesson. I have not attacked ordinary dealers. A friend of mine has cultivated a new vegetable called 'Polychovy'. This is Cultivated from the common vegetable water spinach, this is a low-level spiritual plant that can produce a kind of grass ball, which my friend named 'Yi Qiao Linglong Heart'."

"An exquisite heart?" Zhang Miao was suddenly startled when he heard this, and a strange thought suddenly came into his heart. He coughed lightly and said calmly: "Let your friend come back and take a look at the cabbage. If this project is good, I will also invest in it."

Zhang Miao said it lightly, but Li Mocheng's face was overjoyed, and he immediately said: "I will bring her here tomorrow!"

(End of this chapter)