Chapter 1 Who Am I
who I am……
who I am……
who I am……
In the early morning, the sun had not yet risen, and a series of heroic and powerful shouts that buzzed the forest continued to ring in the Guilong Mountain.
Although the sound suddenly sounded and had strong penetration, the various animals around the boy did not flee in panic.
The green bird in brocade clothes was still standing freely on the branches, and the red rabbit in red hair was leisurely on the grass. A few squirrels looked back and climbed up the trunk quickly, as if nothing had happened just now.
"It's been three years, and this young man is really stormy and rainy. He comes here every day and shouts." The little animals communicate with each other again.
Yes, for three years, the teenager in green has come here almost every day to shout a few times to vent his depression and worries, and then start a new day with the rising sun.
Three years ago, the boy suddenly came to Jiangshan Town as if he was jumping out of a crack in the stone. Everyone knows that he is a 12-year-old boy named Xuan Yuanhao, and he knows nothing else.
I don’t know where he comes from or who his parents are, and of course no one really cares about this issue.
In the first year, Xuan Yuanhao was obsessed with this question and asked Uncle Xu, who lived with him every day: Where did I come from? How did I come here? Who are my parents?
Every time, Uncle Xu would tell him calmly: You were sent by a savior of my former life, saying that you lost your past memory due to accidents and your martial arts talent was not obvious. You asked me to take care of you temporarily for a while and ensure peace and happiness. You don’t demand good news and will take you back when the time is right. I don’t know whether your benefactor is your father. The benefactor has not told me about your life experience.
Uncle Xu is a child of the Xu family. Although he is not very talented in martial arts and is nearly middle-aged, he is only at the seventh level of the bone forging level. However, because he is peaceful and has some management skills, he was assigned by the Xu family as an outside manager.
More than ten years ago, Uncle Xu, who was still in the early stage of the bone forging realm, was collecting herbs in the mountains. Unfortunately, he encountered a ferocious beast. When he was alive and died, fortunately, a master passed by and saved Uncle Xu's life.
It’s okay if he loses his memory and does not know his own life experience. What’s depressed is that no matter how hard Xuan Yuanhao practices, he seems to have a bottomless abyss in his body. All his efforts are like mud cows entering the sea, disappearing without a trace. His martial arts progress is slow, and he has only promoted from the third level of refining to the fifth level of refining, and only two small realms have been improved, and the spiritual power, which represents the talent for cultivation and future achievements, has made no progress.
Even for those who are the most uncultivated peers, in three years, the martial arts realm is enough to advance from refining tendons to forging bones, and to improve to a great realm, and spiritual power can take shape; with the help of spiritual medicine and spirit stones, three years is enough to advance to the early stage of the Marrow Cleansing Realm.
After shouting, Xuan Yuanhao soaked in the cold pond at the foot of the mountain for another stick of incense.
The cold pool was discovered by Xuan Yuanhao by accident. When he was free, Xuan Yuanhao climbed down the steep cliff and accidentally discovered the cold pool.
Although the cold pond is only separated by a mountain from Jiulong Lake, it is remote and dangerous, and is covered by a large dense forest. It is very hidden and does not see the sun all year round. The pond water is cold all year round, biting cold and thick white smoke emits, but it has never frozen, which is quite strange.
After three years of tempering, Xuan Yuanhao has gone from not even entering the water at the beginning to slowly being able to hold on for one breath, five breaths, ten breaths... and now he has been able to hold on for one stick of incense.
Xuan Yuanhao gradually fell in love with this feeling. Not only can he temper his will and exercise his muscles and bones, but after each soaking, he feels refreshed and full of strength, and his physical condition has been greatly improved without realizing it.
After practicing, Xuan Yuanhao rushed to the alchemy workshop and started his day's work. His daily work was to sort, prepare, temper the medicinal materials, and distribute the elixir to some major customers.
Xuan Yuanhao is an apprentice at a Dan Pharmacy Firm called "Yin Centen Danxin" in Jiangshan Town. More than two years ago, Xuan Yuanhao followed Uncle Xu to the Dan Pharmacy Firm to do business. Wei Dansheng took a fancy to Xuan Yuanhao, who had not yet cultivated his spiritual power, and accepted it as an apprentice.
Alchemy is mostly a direction for those who cannot make breakthroughs in the martial arts path, but it is easy to get started and difficult to get promoted. It is even more difficult to achieve outstanding achievements in the healthy development. Its advancement speed and expected results are much lower than that in the martial arts path. It has outstanding talent, diligent learning and hard practice, and chances are indispensable.
Every time an alchemist is promoted to a higher level, it will cause a sensation and become a popular commodity for major families and sects, and the courts to compete for it to make friends.
Wei Dansheng, the owner of Yicun Danxin Dan Pharmacy, is a special entrusted by the Xu family, one of the four major families in Jiangshan Town. According to the agreement between Wei Dansheng and the Xu family, Wei Dansheng refines several conventional elixirs for the Xu family for free every year, and can meet the requirements of the Xu family three times a year. All operations of the Danfang are not related to the Xu family.
The other three major families are the Ma family, Zhang family, and Li family.
The four major families have their own strengths and reliances on each other. They have been together for three years, maintaining the prosperity and harmony on the surface of Jiangshan Town.
When Xuan Yuanhao came to the alchemy workshop, it was still early, so he picked up the books on the alchemy workshop to read carefully, including the collection of herbs, elixir knowledge and other books.
For three years, Xuan Yuanhao has been reading books at the Dan Pharmacy half an hour in advance every day. He has read these books well and learned from other things. He even discovered many of the contradictions or confusions one by one, and he carefully tested them privately and verified them when conditions were available during the apprenticeship process.
After the master Wei Dansheng arrived at the alchemy workshop, he assigned tasks to everyone, and the eight apprentices were each busy.
Wei Dansheng's martial arts realm is not high and has not yet successfully built a foundation. However, his qualifications for alchemy are very high. He is already a seventh-grade alchemist and a member of the Yunwu County and National Alchemy Association. He is already at the highest level in Jiangshan Town and has a good reputation in the local area.
Xuan Yuanhao’s task is to sort and temper the star anise maple.
After picking up the star anise maple, a string of memories immediately appeared in Xuan Yuanhao's mind: the star anise maple tastes spicy, bitter, warm in nature, and is toxic. After being refined, it can be refined into the basic elixir, which has the effects of removing wind and dampness, relaxing muscles and revitalizing collaterals, dispersing blood stasis and relieving pain. It is a basic elixir that ordinary warriors and families have all year round.
In less than an hour, Xuan Yuanhao had completed the work task for the day, which aroused the admiration of several other apprentices.
"Yuanhao, your speed is too fast. If you can cultivate spiritual power, you will definitely become an alchemist who is more powerful than your master." A apprentice named Wang Chao, who is closer to Xuan Yuanhao, said, "But don't be discouraged. If you work so hard, you will be able to cultivate spiritual power one day and make great achievements in the alchemy path."
"What's the use of fast sorting and tempering speed? It's not the speed of alchemy. Yuan Hao is still a novice in spiritual power. He is not as good as me in spiritual power. Moreover, Yuan Hao is already 15 years old and one year older than me. In less than half a year, I will definitely be able to form spiritual power and start learning to refine alchemy. He can't even learn to try elixirs, so he can only spend his life sorting and making medicinal materials and delivering elixirs. How can he talk about making great achievements?" Another apprentice, Ma Han, sarcastic.
Xuan Yuanhao smiled helplessly. It was no secret that he was not able to cultivate spiritual power. Some people gloat about the misfortune, while others felt very sorry.
The external evaluation can no longer affect Xuan Yuanhao's mood, because he is as solid as a rock inside and has never given up on himself.
Although three years of hard work have not made progress in martial arts, he can feel changes in his body and mind.
"Yuanhao, come to the alchemy room," Wei Dansheng called. After every task that Xuan Yuanhao completed, his master would call him to the alchemy room alone, asking Yuanhao to help him take action and watch him refine the alchemy.
"Although you have poor martial arts talent, you have not achieved success in martial arts practice, and your spiritual power has not been shown in the prototype, but you are smart and hardworking, and you have put in several times more sweat and hard work than others, and your master sees it.
Your understanding of various medicinal properties, interrelated mastery, techniques of tempering medicinal materials, and understanding of alchemy is far beyond ordinary people. Based on the master’s decades of experience, the master is sure that you have a high talent in the art of alchemy. I believe that once you make a breakthrough in spiritual power, you can start learning to refine elixirs. You will definitely pass on your own elixir, create your own integration, and achieve greater achievements than being a master. You have always been optimistic about you."
"Thank you, Master." Xuan Yuanhao has a kind of trust and admiration for his master Wei Dansheng from the bottom of his heart. In this world, like Uncle Xu, the master is a person who unconditionally believes that he will become a great man. Xuan Yuanhao has already treated them like his relatives.
The master refines the bone-forging pill today, which is an eighth-grade elixir, which is specially used for bone-forging warriors. It can shorten the cultivation cycle of bone-forging warriors. It is very popular among bone-forging warriors and is in short supply.
While the master was refining the alchemy, Xuan Yuanhao was not idle either. He sat sideways, feeling the master's techniques and breath when he refining the alchemy process. At the same time, he also made up for the alchemy process in his mind.
Apart from the fact that the pills cannot be integrated without spiritual power and cannot be formed into pills, Xuan Yuanhao is very familiar with the refining process of the bone forging pill.
When the pill was released, a fragrance filled the air. The master immediately put the pills in the bottle of the characteristics. He refined the eighth-grade bone-forging pill as a seventh-grade alchemist, which was perfect and easy to deal with.
After the day's work in the pharmacy shop ended, Xuan Yuanhao delivered the bone-forging pills booked by various families to the managers of each family, and then returned home. At this time, the sky was already dark.
Uncle Xu had already prepared the meal and prepared the dishes and chopsticks. A warm feeling surged in Xuan Yuanhao's heart. He knew that no matter how late, in this noisy town, there was always a bright light for him to light up the way home; there was always someone who cared for him and warmed his heart; there was always a kind of firmness, attachment and reluctance to warn him not to exile himself or give up on himself.
Uncle Xu is just a child of the Xu family. His position is not high and his income is not high. Aunt Xu left early. Uncle Xu has never gotten married again and has no biological children. He has already raised Xuan Yuanhao as his biological son.
Uncle Xu spent almost all his income on Xuan Yuanhao to improve his diet and buy him elixirs, spirit stones and other cultivation resources that help him practice.
After dinner, Xuan Yuanhao took the initiative to wash dishes as usual, cleaned the table, and started a day of late exercise.
Xuan Yuanhao meditated on the bluestone in front of the house and silently asked himself three questions:
Xuan Yuanhao, don’t you want to make a name for yourself?
Xuan Yuanhao, don’t you want to find out the mystery of your life experience?
Xuan Yuanhao, don’t you want to pursue the peak of martial arts to explore the eternal way?
Chapter completed!