Sword from the Immortal Mountain

Chapter 106: Good Medicine

Everyone couldn't help but be surprised. After all, Chen Jing had just said that the elixir of immortality was fake and a scam, but then he said he wanted to try to refine the elixir. Isn't this a contradiction?
After being surprised, Chen Shizhen was eager to try and wanted to recommend himself to be Chen Jin's assistant and help with refining the elixir.

But Chen Jin refused, saying it was not necessary.

With the other party's limited skills, it will only make things worse and cause more trouble.

There was no other choice, so Chen Shizhen had to take his daughter and Uncle Chen out, then close the gate, stand guard outside, and instruct the two to keep it a secret and not let the news leak out.

Chen Jin asked: "Dad, don't you want to go back and rest?"

Chen Shizhen said seriously: "I want to see what kind of elixir Master Chen is refining."

Chen Jin didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "No, Dad, are you serious? Master Chen himself just said to give it a try. Maybe he was just teasing you."

Chen Shizhen said persistently: "People like him won't joke around. The slap he gave me last night was very well-meaning."

Chen Jin: "... Dad, are you having a fever and talking nonsense? Although your daughter also hopes that someone can beat you up, how can you wake up after being beaten?"

Chen Shizhen said seriously, "You don't understand this. I was lying in bed later, thinking back, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt it was not simple. The slap from Master Chen had the right angle, strength, and degree... In short, it was just right. It instantly shattered the delusions in my mind and made me sober. Also, I had a bad tooth in my mouth, and it hurt so much when it got irritated. Guess what, it was loosened by a slap, and I reached out and took it out. From then on, I never had a toothache again."

Chen Jin blinked his eyes. It was really magical to hear his father say that. But then he thought, maybe it was just a coincidence.

Chen Shizhen said seriously: "So I have to stay here. If Master Chen can really make the elixir, then he is the person your Uncle Hu mentioned, the one with real magical powers."

Chen Jin stopped trying to dissuade her after hearing this. In fact, the girl had the same desire in her heart. Perhaps because she was lonely and helpless, she always wanted someone to help her.

Together with Uncle Chen, she carried the jars containing gold and silver to the accounting office, where they counted and recorded them.

The results are impressive.

With this sum of money, I can solve my urgent problem and no longer have to sell my gold and silver jewelry.

If we can sell the mountains of elixir materials in the side yard, this family can survive.

The old butler Chen Bo was also sincerely happy. As the saying goes, "A lean camel is bigger than a horse", this is what it means.

This family dinner at noon must be prepared.

……

The servant Awu brought a bamboo chair to the master. Chen Shizhen lay on the chair, swaying slightly. He felt quite comfortable and even dozed off.

Time passed by.

"Dad, it's time for lunch."

Chen Jin came over and called out, "Where's Master Chen? Hasn't he come out yet?"

Chen Shizhen looked at the still closed courtyard door and said slowly, "Refine the elixir, it takes real effort, how can it be completed so quickly? You see, I used to refine the elixir, it took me two or three days."

Chen Jin curled his lips and said, "What about Master Chen's meal? Otherwise, I'll go in and call him."

Chen Shizhen quickly stopped him: "The most taboo when refining the elixir is being disturbed. The last time my furnace exploded, it was because of this that it caused me to lose my mind."

Although Chen Jin didn't believe it, he felt that there was some truth in it.

It’s a pity that the sumptuous lunch was missed, as it was carefully prepared. The girl had specially cooked several of her signature dishes.

If Mr. Chen doesn't eat it, what's the point?
Chen Jin asked gloomily, "Dad, what about you?"

Chen Shizhen waved his hand and said, "The doctor said I can't eat too much. Just ask Awu to bring me a bowl of porridge."

"Oh."

The girl responded and left unhappily.

……

Time continued to pass, and it was evening.

Chen Shizhen was not in good spirits and was dozing off all day.

At this moment, he vaguely heard some noise and woke up suddenly. Sure enough, it was Chen Jin who opened the door and came out.

Chen Shizhen looked him up and down hurriedly and saw that he was wearing a clean blue shirt, with a clean face and long hair tied in a Confucian scarf, and he was meticulous in everything.

No matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like he just came out of refining the elixir. He just looks a little tired.

He immediately asked, "Mr. Chen, have you made the elixir?"

Chen Jin raised his hand, revealing two gourds in his hand, one with a green skin and one with a yellow skin.

Chen Shizhen recognized that he had bought these two gourds at a large price and planned to use them to store golden elixirs.

However, his craftsmanship was poor, and the pills he refined were either useless or half-finished products that had to be thrown away after tasting them. Therefore, the gourd was basically brand new and had never been filled with anything.

Chen Jin said, "Today I refined a total of twenty-one pills. I ate one myself. The remaining twenty pills are evenly packed in gourds. You can choose any gourd and take it."

"what?"

Chen Shizhen's expression was dazed when he heard this.

In just this morning, I refined more than twenty pills. What a joke!
Did you rub it with your hands?

Chen Jin said: "Of course, what I refine is not some immortality elixir, but a 'Five Qi Jing Yang Pill', made from pure herbs, which can cultivate the body and calm the mind, nourish the spirit and replenish the Qi."

In the past, he followed his master to seek the truth in the fairy mountains, and he had a wide range of interests, including drawing talismans, refining tools, and making medicine.

Most of them are auxiliary skills for spiritual practice, and mainly serve the great way.

These skills are very pure and practical, but of course they are also subject to the limitations of reality.

Drawing talismans was not a big deal, as long as the mind was stimulated, one could get rid of the shackles of form and write words into talismans. But refining equipment and making medicines were not the same, as the requirements for materials were very real and it was impossible to draw cakes out of thin air.

Chen Jinke has not yet reached the state of "words come true".

As for the application of refining equipment, it is currently mainly reflected in the Kuixing Wenhuo Lamp; as for medicine making, the few packets of rejuvenation soup I bought for my uncle Chen Abu before was just a small trial.

In fact, Huichun Decoction is just a low-level simplified version of Wuqi Jingyang Pills.

Because it is impossible to buy them, let alone buy all kinds of high-quality medicinal herbs of sufficient age.

When he was in Yunshan Market, Chen Jin had taken a look around, but only found two or three suitable medicinal herbs, so he had to give up.

On the path of spiritual practice, resource integration is a great subject. Human resources, material resources, financial resources, etc. are all indispensable, so there is the saying of "Dharma, friends, wealth and land".

It is not realistic for Chen Jin to do it alone and pick up bargains.

In addition, a rural county town is a small place after all. There may be no shortage of wild game, but precious medicinal herbs of sufficient quality are hard to come by.

The prototype of the divine creature born on Yunshan Mountain is a special case born from heaven and earth.

Now that he has entered the prefectures and counties, it is like a fish leaping into the river, and he can show his talents.

Chen Shizhen spent all his family wealth and worked hard to collect materials, which were just what Chen Jin needed, so he started to make medicine and refine the Wuqi Jingyang Pills.

He had no intention of keeping the product to himself; after the finished product was completed, he gave half of it to the other party to offset the value of the materials.

Very fair.

Strictly speaking, Wuqi Jingyang Pills are certainly not pills, but rather a type of tonic medicine.

For ordinary people, this medicine can effectively improve physical fitness and regulate the mind, thus achieving the effect of prolonging life. As for rejuvenation and replenishing yang, those are just incidental effects.

As for Chen Jin himself, taking the pills, refining his essence into qi, and consolidating his realm are quite beneficial.

This is because the Wuqi Jingyang Pill itself is a prescription carefully developed in conjunction with the early stage practice of "Huangting Benjing".

But Master also said that elixirs and other external objects should not be abused just for the sake of quick success. The foundation of Taoism should be built slowly and steadily, so that it is solid.

……

Hearing that it was not the elixir of immortality, but just some kind of tonic, Chen Shizhen was relieved. His eyes moved around the two gourds and he coughed dryly: "This medicine was made by the young master himself. I dare not take away someone's love. I just want one pill to taste it."

Chen Jin directly handed over the yellow gourd: "Anyway, the number is the same, you can take this one."

Chen Shizhen really wanted to see what the Five Qi Jing Yang Pill was, so he took it and immediately pulled out the wooden cork.

The next moment, a medicinal fragrance that penetrated the lungs wafted out.

He couldn't help but open his eyes wide, and quickly turned the gourd upside down, pouring a pill into his palm.

I saw that the medicine looked like a lentil, not round and irregular; it was brown all over and had a warm feeling.

The most important thing is the medicinal aroma it exudes, a smell that is difficult to describe but can instantly arouse people's appetite.

Without thinking twice, Chen Shizhen put the pill into his mouth and swallowed it with a gulp.

Then he stood there, closed his eyes, as if in a trance.

"Dad, it's time to have dinner...ah, Master Chen, you're out."

Chen Jin came again and was very happy to see Chen Jin. He observed Chen Jin with a smile, worried that Chen Jin might be injured because of the alchemy. After all, every time his father finished making the alchemy, he was in a mess, with his body and face either blackened by the fireworks or burned.

Fortunately, Chen Jin is doing fine as usual, still handsome and calm.

"Hey, Dad, what's wrong with you?"

Chen Jin then realized that her father looked a little abnormal. She sniffed and exclaimed in surprise, "What smells so good?"

Chen Jin replied: "I made a pill and your father just took one."

"You're eating so soon?"

Chen Jin's first reaction was worry.

How can you take pills and the like casually?

Especially after seeing the room full of elixir materials, including cinnabar, realgar, and even arsenic.

Can anything good come from eating these things?
Not to mention that Chen Shizhen already had a lot of poison accumulated in his body.

But this time, the medicine made by Master Chen smelled really good.

As the girl smelled it, she wanted to eat one.

After a while, Chen Shizhen suddenly opened his eyes, his expression ecstatic, and praised: "Good medicine!"

Chen Jin said: "Even if it is a good medicine, you can't take too much. Especially with your current physical condition, the pills should be dissolved in warm water and taken as tea. If you take the whole pill, there will be some side effects."

"What side effects?"

“Like diarrhea.”

"what!"

The next moment, Chen Shizhen felt his stomach gurgling like boiling water. His face changed and he ran away, rushing to find a toilet.

Running so fast.

He still held the yellow gourd tightly in his hand, reluctant to put it down.

(End of this chapter)