Chapter 21: Start Alchemy
Lin Mei had no heartbeat? I was shocked. I rushed into the side stone chamber and probed her chest. Sure enough, there was no heartbeat. I felt like I was struck by thunder and was completely stunned.
Why is this happening? The immortal drew the talisman himself and said it would keep her alive until the elixir was refined. Why couldn't she survive even one night?
Taoist Boishi followed in, and when he checked there was no heartbeat at all, he stared blankly: "This, this..."
I turned around and grabbed Taoist Boiled Stone's shoulders: "If I freeze her, will it be useful until the elixir is refined?"
"I, I don't know either. My master said that we should keep her alive. I'm afraid it will only be effective as long as she has one breath left..."
"Invite your master quickly!" I almost yelled.
Master Zhuoshi closed his eyes with his palms in his hands. After three minutes, there was still no movement. He opened his eyes and looked at me awkwardly. His master was not here.
I'm going crazy. Could it be that like my mother last time, even the immortals couldn't save me? Why is God so cruel to me, not only Lin Mei, but also our children? This is all my hope and happiness, but now
If everything is lost, then what’s the point of living for me?
"Master, Master, you must calm down and think of other ways. Maybe there are other ways." Xiaoxue's voice echoed in my mind, pulling me back from the edge of collapse.
I asked numbly: "What else can I do?"
"Is it useful to send me to the hospital?"
Xiaoxue didn’t have any good ideas at all. Neither she nor I really believed in hospitals. We would seek medical treatment indiscriminately for emergencies, and we would only think of hospitals when we had no other options. But when I mentioned hospitals, I thought of how doctors would use artificial intelligence when patients had no breathing or heartbeat.
The method of breathing and electric shock to the heart can make the heart beat again. Can I also try it?
Lin Mei's internal organs were seriously injured, so of course she could no longer be slapped or shocked, but I had spiritual energy to use. I didn't care about the risks at this time, so I immediately pressed her heart, sending out a gentle spiritual energy that penetrated into her body, and squeezed her gently.
Press your heart, release it and squeeze it again, and scale it according to the heartbeat frequency.
I squeezed it more than a dozen times, but there was no reaction at all. I felt desperate, but refused to give up. Suddenly I thought of the fourth level of the Yin Yang Jue I practiced and the Five Elements Immortality. The five kinds of spiritual energy can nourish the essence of the internal organs. Lin Mei is now doing it.
The problem is because the essence of the internal organs has been dispersed, so can I use my spiritual energy to nourish her internal organs?
This idea was quickly rejected by me, because the spiritual energy nourishing the internal organs must run according to specific meridians. Lin Mei's Qi meridians were cut off and could not run at all... So what if I directly use my internal organs essence to nourish her internal organs?
At this point, as long as there is a little bit of hope, I will try it. I started to reverse the Five Elements Immortality Method, extract the essence from my heart, follow the Shaoyin Heart Meridian of my hand to the palm of my hand, and then slowly and gently inject it into Lin Mei's heart.
Xiaoxue said in a trembling voice: "Sir, this is consuming your vitality. It will seriously consume your cultivation and shorten your lifespan!"
I sighed in my heart: "You said you were willing to trade your life for hers, but why can't I?"
"..."
Two or three minutes later, a miracle happened. Lin Mei's heart began to beat, and it was stronger than before. I was overjoyed and continued to input spiritual energy, and moved along the Shaoyin Heart Meridian on her hand, trying to connect the disconnected meridians.
After trying for a long time, the Qi pulses could not be connected, but the blocked blood vessels could be slowly unblocked. The Qi pulses were blocked, but she lost her martial arts and some physiological functions. The blood could flow, at least she could survive, so my spiritual energy followed her blood and began to attack the blocked blood vessels.
place.
It took about an hour, but the main blood vessels in Lin Mei's body had been opened up, and the blood could perform basic circulation, and there was a weak pulse. I breathed a sigh of relief, feeling extremely tired, and hurriedly sat down cross-legged, and followed my normal mind.
Reiki restores my consumption.
Taoist Boishi was very surprised. He pressed Lin Mei's pulse for a long time and then said something very shocking: "It's just a temporary improvement. She is like water without a source or a tree without a root. It won't take long for her to slowly fail again."
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Old Taoist, can't you say a few words of comfort?
I know this situation. Unless Lin Mei also has the cultivation of the fourth level of Yin Yang Jue, her Qi pulse is smooth and she wakes up, she can slowly recover. But this is impossible. She has never practiced Yin Yang Jue, so I
Every once in a while, I have to consume my life force to extend her life. To put it simply, this is sacrificing my life to extend her life.
Taoist Boishi found some elixirs to nourish my vitality and gave them to me. He asked me to take them regularly, sighed and left.
Since the heart can be temporarily revived using this method, the same method can be used to temporarily restore her other organs to normal. The internal organs are moving and the body's physiological functions are restored. Maybe she will get better, so rest
After a period of time, I began to reverse the movement of spiritual energy, nourishing her lungs with my lung energy, and nourishing her kidneys with my kidney energy...
My losses were huge, just like the accumulation of water in a reservoir. It accumulated for more than half a year or even several years. I opened the gate and let it out. But in order to save Lin Mei, I didn't care about anything. Xiaoxue reminded me from time to time.
Let me stop me from over-consuming, otherwise I will fall down before I can refine the elixir to revive Lin Mei.
I don't know how much time passed, until Lin Mei's internal organs started to feel a little bit alive, she vomited out some congestion, and she could breathe weakly, I felt a little more relieved. The tension relaxed, and I suddenly felt extremely tired, mentally and physically exhausted.
The consumption made me unable to hold on any longer, and my eyes gradually became dark...
"Young Master, Young Master..."
I woke up when I heard Xiaoxue's voice and found that she was lying next to Lin Mei. I hurriedly checked on her condition and found that her breathing was very weak and her heartbeat was intermittent and intermittent. I immediately reversed the mental method and used my own vitality to continue.
her life.
Xiaoxue cried on the side and said: "Your hair has turned completely white. If you continue like this, even if you save her, you will...not be able to live for a few days."
I still don't hesitate to pump out my energy. It lasts for a while. I can't just watch Lin Mei die, right?
This time it was much smoother than last time. Lin Mei stabilized without spending too much. The first time was to rejuvenate the internal organs that were basically cut off, so the cost was staggering. This time it was just to replenish a little energy, relatively speaking.
It's much easier.
There was a constant banging sound outside. I went out and saw that the Taoist priest was crushing a stone. There were more than a dozen kinds of ores or powders on the stone platform.
"What are these?" I couldn't help but ask.
"This is cinnabar, this is oyster powder, this is realgar, talc, zengqing, bittern salt..." Taoist Boishi pointed at various materials and said, "The things are almost ready, we can start at noon today."
I helped with the preparation, crushing what needed to be crushed, grinding what needed to be ground, boiling stone, using a bamboo tube to measure various materials and mix them together, then mix one of them with water into mud, and wrap the mixed materials.
I had already seen the alchemy furnace placed in the middle of the cave, but I had never opened it to take a closer look. After all, it was someone else's important thing and should not be tampered with. Only then did I discover that when I opened the boiling stone, it was divided into nine areas, representing the directions of the nine palaces.
The furnace is actually two layers, and the lower layer is divided into eight burners with Bagua patterns inside.
Zhuo Shi told me that in the past, he used to refine elixirs from plants and trees, using ordinary fire. As long as he burned the fire for a while under the cauldron, the inside could be kept warm for a long time. The main purpose was to keep the elixirs at a certain temperature, absorb spiritual energy, and fuse with each other.
, improve the efficacy of medicine, strictly
It is said that it is an elixir adjustment, not an elixir. What is being refined this time is the elixir of gold and stone, which is a real elixir. It needs to be sprayed into the true fire of samadhi at different fire ports at regular intervals, and it must be burned continuously for seven or forty-nine days without interruption, and it must be controlled accurately.
If you are not careful about the heat, you will fail.
In addition, of course, I have to set up a spirit-gathering array, which is the key to turning gold and stone into elixir. Without enough spiritual energy, even if I have done all the other steps, the result will still be a pile of ore powder or poison elixir.
I was a little puzzled: "I can understand why thousand-year-old ginseng, polygonum multiflorum and the like are used to make elixirs. Instead of using precious medicinal materials, many highly toxic ores are used to make the elixir?"
Taoist Boishi smiled and said: "Plants and trees wither every year and cannot withstand wind, frost, snow and rain. Even if a few can live for a hundred years, they are extremely fragile and short-lived. The accumulated essence is limited, so the prepared elixirs can only cure
The disease of immortality prolongs life but cannot live forever; metal, stone and the like take tens of thousands of years to form and will not decay for thousands of years.
It cannot be burnt by fire or rotted by water. The accumulated essence is ten thousand times that of plants and trees. The effect of the refined elixir is naturally ten thousand times that of the elixir of plants and trees. Gold and stone can last for tens of thousands of years, and the refined elixir can make people immortal forever and connect with the world.
Same life, but many people don't know how to do it, and what they refine is not elixir, but ore, so they are poisoned to death."
There is some truth in this. Take traditional Chinese medicine as an example. Many of them are poisonous, but if they are taken together, they are harmless to the body and can actually cure diseases. So many kinds of toxic ores are burned together at high temperatures for a long time.
Refining, absorbing spiritual energy, recombining internal molecules and atoms, may become a new substance. It is internationally recognized that Chinese alchemists are the ancestors of modern chemistry, so alchemy pills are unquestionable chemical changes, but the immortals
How do you understand such profound chemical knowledge that even modern experts cannot understand?
If I can't figure it out, I won't think about it. Anyway, I'm not planning to be a chemist or an alchemist. As long as I can make it well this time, it will be fine. I took out seven pieces of real jade talismans, including my psychic wood seal, the fire scale mountain dragon inner elixir,
I set up the spirit-gathering array by looking at the sea mirror. The Taoist Boiler put the mixed materials into the cauldron, covered it and sealed it. I sprayed the true fire of Samadhi into the fire door and officially started to refine the elixir.
I didn't leave the cave for a while. Apart from taking some nourishing pills and water, I didn't even have time to eat. Every day I had to replenish Lin Mei's energy once and spray the Samadhi True Fire to burn the stove three times for a quarter of an hour each time.
They all consume a lot of cultivation, I want to squeeze out every
One minute is used to recover myself. Although the Jade Rabbit can borrow light to speed up the recovery of my spiritual energy, the recovery is still far from keeping up with the consumption. I am very worried, fearing that I will not be able to hold on until the elixir is refined, but
I have no other choice but to do my best.
At noon that day, I was breathing fire and refining elixirs. Lu Chengshan's voice suddenly came from not far away: "Search the area carefully. He has a good relationship with that old man. He has been here many times and may be hiding nearby."
Chapter completed!