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Volume 1 Rebirth in Another World Chapter 16 Senior Brother (Part 2)

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    Naturally, Tie Heng didn't know that Feng Shiyou had a new evaluation of him. He also placed the cleaned silver-leaf grass in another wooden tray, and Tie Heng tidied the utensils on the counter.  After doing all this, he looked around.  Lu Daqian was still busy in front of the furnace. He was seen carefully pouring the molten metal in the crucible into the mold. It seemed that he had reached the finishing stage.

    Gongsun Bian on the other side began to cook the prepared herbs.  A small stove that also used spirit stones as fuel heated the stone cauldron, and a faint medicinal fragrance slowly spread around.

    Tie Heng couldn't restrain his curiosity, so he walked quietly to his side and behind him to see how he operated, just like he had often done in the Xuanling Palace for hundreds of years.  It's just that now he is no longer an invisible and breathless consciousness, but a living young man.  Gongsun Bian noticed his approach, turned around in surprise, and glanced at the workbench with inspection eyes.  When he saw the neatly arranged scales and silver-leaf grass, the look of surprise on his face became even stronger.

    "It seems that I have underestimated you. I didn't expect you to be so quick. I will increase your workload next time." Gongsun Bian said in a joking tone, but Tie Heng knew that this was likely to become a reality.

    Tie Heng smiled back and shrugged.  Gongsun Bian was slightly startled when he saw his free and easy action, then he turned his head and continued the work at hand.

    "It's great that you are so studious." He pointed to the gurgling stone cauldron on the counter.  "This is muscle-promoting ointment. It is almost ready. It is a top-grade elixir with a yellow label among the four levels of Heaven, Earth, Xuan, and Huang. When applied externally to wounds, it can stop bleeding, generate muscle, and quickly heal trauma."

    After a pause, he continued: "It is the highest-level elixir that I can refine now. The main material is the bone marrow of the spotted beast. In addition, fifteen kinds of herbs and the blood of the other two monsters are needed.  , it can only be completed after at least more than twenty processes."

    "More than twenty processes!?" This time it was Tie Heng's turn to be surprised.

    "Haha, don't be so surprised. I completed most of these processes a few days ago. For example, the mixing and precipitation of the blood of two monster beasts requires a whole day's work, which cannot be done in this short time."

    Tie Heng was relieved now, otherwise Gongsun Bian would have completed more than twenty processes in the time it took him to deal with the Gila Scales and Silver Leaf Grass, which would have been too scary.  In fact, Tie Heng was misled by what he had seen and heard before.  He had watched countless times when the magician of the Xuanling Temple was refining elixirs and making medicines. They were all divine elixirs. The materials were usually prepared on site and refined at the same time, and it would take at least ten and a half days to produce the finished elixirs.  So it caused Tie Heng's misunderstanding.

    "This is the last step." Gongsun Bian said this to remind Tie Heng not to disturb him.  Tie Heng also heard the connotation of his words and immediately stopped talking.

    Gongsun Bian observed the bubbling white slurry in the cauldron for a while. When it was about to reach boiling, he pinched it with one hand and hung it above the mouth of the cauldron with one hand. A light white spiritual power emerged from the palm of his hand facing downwards, slowly.  Pour into the cauldron.  His eyes were fixed on the changes in the serum, and he maintained this position for almost half a stick of incense.  Then he quickly turned off the small stove under the stone cauldron, poured a bowl of clear liquid into the cauldron, and stirred it quickly with a silver rod.

    "It's done!" Gongsun Bian looked a little pale, took a deep breath, stopped turning his wrist, and said happily.

    ¡°People who don¡¯t know better think it¡¯s grease!¡± Tie Heng got closer and saw the whole thing inside the stone cauldron.  The originally boiling slurry has cooled and turned into a white paste, which looks a bit like solidified grease, but smells faintly of fragrance.

    "Haha, don't look at it because it is inconspicuous. A small bottle like this can be sold for twenty to twenty-five gold coins." Gongsun Bian picked up an empty porcelain bottle the size of a teacup on the table, shook it and said.

    "So valuable!?" Tie Heng stared at the white muscle-building cream in front of him. The cauldron was filled with bright gold coins!

    "It's worth the price. Those demon slayers and middle- and high-level officers in the army don't carry a few bottles with them. People who make a living with these swords regard these healing and life-saving elixirs as important as their own weapons and armor."  Gongsun Bian explained.

    "Oh! Then their sales must be very good." Tie Heng knew that this kind of elixir was extremely popular. Generally, it would be sold out as soon as it arrived in the store. There would never be any market problems.  Through Remo's memory, he also knew that the profits from these elixirs were also astonishing.

    "Of course it's very good. Unfortunately, the output is too limited." Gongsun Bian said as he used a silver spoon to divide the ointment in the cauldron into small porcelain bottles. Tie Heng also followed to help.  The capacity of a stone cauldron can only be filled with about thirty porcelain bottles at most, which is indeed not much.

    Gongsun Bian sighed a little and was a little proud: "In fact, this commonly used ointment, the required raw material formula, production sequence and things that need to be paid attention toitems, all have complete records.  The materials are also easy to obtain, and the refining technology is quite reasonable and mature.  A doctor in an ordinary medical clinic can make preparations according to the recorded content.  "

    "But this is not an ordinary gold-creating elixir after all. Every step of the elixir requires the tempering of spiritual power, especially the final cooking process. If the spiritual power is insufficient, all previous efforts will be wasted. And for each process, you have to  It consumes a lot of my spiritual power, and it helps my cultivation once or twice, but if I do this for several days in a row, it will affect my daily homework and put a heavy burden on my body. Therefore, I can only refine it once a month.  It only lasts about thirty bottles at a time.

    ¡°Can¡¯t we use spirit stones to complete the refining process?¡± Tie Heng suddenly asked.

    "Spiritual stone?" Gongsun Bian was stunned when he heard this.  Spirit stones are a type of crystal formed by condensing the aura of heaven and earth. They have different properties. They are mostly used to arrange magic circles, serve as raw materials for refining magic weapons and precious tools, or supply the spiritual power of certain magic weapons. They are also used by magicians.  It is used to replenish one's own spiritual energy consumption. Holding a spiritual stone in your hand to absorb it during meditation or arranging it into a spiritual gathering array can also improve the effect of cultivation.  Because spirit stones are of such importance and are quite rare in quantity, they are used as a currency for transactions among some magicians.

    "Use spiritual stones to replace people and automatically refine spiritual power during the pharmaceutical process!?" Gongsun Bian stopped and looked at Tie Heng in surprise.

    "good."

    "Did you think of this yourself?" he continued to ask.

    "Yes!" Tie Heng lied without changing his expression. This idea came from what he saw and heard in Xuanling Hall.

    "You are quick-thinking and dare to imagine." Gongsun Bian seemed to be re-examining the boy in front of him who was two or three years younger than himself.  "A friend of the master's has a similar idea and has been researching it for many years. He is a pharmacist who is famous for his alchemy and is also experienced in making utensils. But he has never been successful in this area. According to the master, it seems  There is always no progress in a certain link.¡±

    "Is that so!? I just had a whim when I saw this small stove with the fire spirit stone as the heat source." Of course Tie Heng would not tell the truth.

    His memory is surprisingly good now. In addition, the only way to pass the boring time in Xuanling Palace was to watch the spiritual magicians perform various weird experiments or make magical artifacts. Looking back now, it is still vivid in his mind.  .

    At that time, every time the magicians made elixirs and medicines, it was a huge project.  Some people have specially invented several synthesis furnaces, each of which corresponds to some specific material formulas. You only need to put the preliminary processed raw materials into it. It does not require human operation. It can complete the mixing and refining according to the process, and then put it into the furnace.  The finished product is sent out of the oven.  Therefore, as long as one servant keeps transporting raw materials, energy can be continuously produced.  It is very suitable for the refining of several types of semi-finished products and primary elixirs that are commonly used and in high demand.

    The core of this synthesis furnace is a special memory array that can store established programs and has certain intelligence. It can finely adjust the energy released by the spirit stones to achieve complex and precise refining processes.  And like the spiritual stone in the small stove, it simply uses the fire spiritual energy in it. At most, it controls the strength of the spiritual energy output, and it cannot be that complicated at all.

    "This memory circle is the difficulty. It is probably the link that stuck the pharmacist. Fortunately, I have kept their structure and principles in mind, and slowly understood them, so it is not difficult to reproduce them." Tie Heng  Then I thought about it again.  What he studied in the United States in his previous life was mechanical engineering, which may not seem to be of use in this world, but it is still quite helpful in refining weapons.  He had originally imagined that if these types of synthesis furnaces were combined into a whole according to the industrial production assembly line, whether connected in series or in parallel, each synthesis furnace would complete a process independently and finally be brought together, even if long-term processing is required.  The raw materials can also be prepared in advance and then added by people at the right time, so that some high-level elixirs can be automatically refined.  Moreover, it does not waste the magician's precious time and spiritual power. It is completely borne by the spirit stone, and several trained apprentice servants will take care of and feed the materials. Non-stop production throughout the day is feasible.

    "It's a pity that Tie Heng couldn't do anything at that time, and those extremely smart spiritual masters may not have considered this aspect at all because of the limitations of their knowledge or their unwillingness to be completely replaced by a tool.

    At this moment, Tie Heng thought of the huge market demand for elixirs and the attractive rate of return. Once the envisioned intelligent combined synthesis furnace is manufactured, it will be an inexhaustible gold mine.  .

    Although this world is somewhat different from Earth.  The entire world on Earth revolves around money, it is the cornerstone of everything.  Whether it is as small as an individual or as large as a country, to put it bluntly, what they are seeking is nothing more than profit.  In this world, what people pursue most is power, whether it is practicing martial arts or magic., are all means to obtain power, and only with strong power can we survive better.  But money is still very important, and the world often stages tragedies where a penny can stump a hero.  What's more, Tie Heng has always firmly believed that no matter in which world he is, money is not everything, but there is nothing that can't be done without money.  He had a deep understanding of this in his previous life, and he knew that problems that could be solved with money were not problems, but most things in this world could be solved with money.

    "Hey! Ah Heng, Ah Heng, haha, you are distracted!" Gongsun Bian's words called back Tie Heng who was deep in thought.

    "What are you thinking about? So invested." This time it was Lu Daqian who spoke. He had finished smelting the two metals and came over to greet the two of them.  However, he looked even more tired than Gongsun Bian, with sweat stains all over his forehead, cheeks and collar.

    "It's nothing." Tie Heng smiled and shook his head.

    "He has a very good idea. He wants to use spiritual stones to replace manual refining in the pharmaceutical process." Gongsun Bian told Lu Daqian the question raised by Tie Heng.

    "Haha, Ah Heng, you can think of such a question on the first day here, it's amazing!" Lu Daqian laughed happily.  "If you can make such a magic weapon, you must give me a few. This is a hen that can lay golden eggs!"

    Lu Daqian seemed casual, but he keenly grasped the huge benefits that this idea would bring if it came true.

    "It seems that none of these boys are simple. Gongsun Chang can refine yellow-level high-grade elixirs at a young age, but looking at how much energy he has, he may still have some reservations. Look at this Lu Daqian  He is passionate and straightforward, but he should not be underestimated." Tie Heng thought to himself: "To be chosen by a master like Feng Shiyou and take him under his sect, he is naturally not an ordinary person."

    "By the way, Ah Heng. You have just started practicing now. It is best to pick a special skill that interests you. Then you can ask the master for some related errands. It will be easier to complete and you will get more living expenses.  "After Lu Daqian finished speaking, he saw that Tie Heng had a confused look on his face. Only then did he react and couldn't help complaining: "Elder brother, you didn't explain such an important matter to A Heng clearly!?"

    Without waiting for Gongsun Bian to speak, Lu Daqian began to explain himself.  It turns out that alchemists are generally proficient in material transformation and refining artifacts, but most of them are also involved in other aspects of magic skills.  For example, medicine, alchemy, spirit formation, spells, spells, seals, etc. There are many people who have expertise in many aspects, which is also very helpful to their jobs.

    These apprentices under Feng Shiyou¡¯s sect have their own areas of expertise.  In this regard, in addition to their daily meditation, practicing spells, processing raw materials, and raising demonic insects and demonic plants, Feng Shiyou will also give them a task list for them to choose from every month.  For example, Gongsun Bian refined Shengji Powder because he was the best at making medicines. This way he could balance cultivation and making money.  As one of the directors of Kunyuan Academy, Feng Shiyou has access to a large number of materials stocked by the academy, and any treasure or magic weapon he makes can be sold for a sky-high price.  But he has been in poverty for many years and achieved his current achievements in extremely difficult circumstances.  Therefore, he believes that his apprentices must also have the ability to be self-reliant and the character to endure hardships and withstand pressure.  In this way, he only provided the most common and cheap materials to his four apprentices. As for other materials needed to complete the homework assigned by him, they had to earn their own money to buy them.

    You must know that each experiment by the alchemist consumes a large amount of materials, and their value is not cheap.  The four apprentices worked hard to solve this problem.  For example, Gongsun Bian would hand over these muscle-building ointments to a trading firm that had a close relationship with Feng Shiyou to sell them on his behalf, which would get a good price.  Part of the money earned is used for tuition, and the other part is used for living expenses, which can be saved to purchase additional raw materials or other items.

    After listening to this explanation.  Unlike the dissatisfaction revealed in Lu Daqian's words and the wry smile from Gongsun Bian, Tie Heng did not feel any surprise or difficulty in understanding.  In the 21st century, the earth is facing an increasingly competitive society.  Parents want their children to become successful, and there are endless ways to do so.  It is no longer unusual to cut off the financial supply to children in this way, requiring them to find their own sources of living expenses, giving them realistic pressure, forcing them to become self-reliant and further explore their potential and talents.

    "Tuition fees!?" He was concerned about another issue.

    ¡°Is it possible to worship Feng Shiyou as a teacher and also pay him tuition fees?  This is a bit hard to accept. Previously, it was a personal way to teach students by paying for the materials, but this is a bit contrary to tradition.  It's okay for a master to accept a disciple with courtesy and filial piety, but it's rare to blatantly exploit a disciple's income like this, and it's not an ordinary martial arts gym that opens its doors to recruit disciples.  At this point, the Middle-earth China is quite similar to ancient China. Recruiting and teaching apprentices is equivalent to raising children and is a self-existence.A kind of inheritance of culture is noble and sacred.  Most of the masters give selflessly, and all they ask is that their disciples carry forward their inheritance.  This has also created a culture of respecting teachers and respecting morality among the people. Therefore, if A Gan kills his teacher in order to seize the treasure, once word spreads, people all over the world will kill him quickly.

    "Hey, don't get me wrong, this tuition fee must be paid to the college." Gongsun Bian said quickly.

    Tie Henggang said in his heart that such a master figure would not be so miserable, but the euphemistic explanations given by the two people made him decide to keep this view for now.

    Feng Shiyou has been doing his own research and cultivation almost all his life, but he doesn't know how to teach his disciples.  So as soon as I received the offer letter from my alma mater when I was a child, I came up with what I thought was a brilliant idea.  Gongsun Bian and four others became his disciples, but most of the basic knowledge was learned by paying money to Kunyuan Academy and attending classes in the school.  Although the professors of the school are also called teachers by the students, they are essentially different from the masters.

    "The master is so accomplished that he naturally doesn't bother to waste time teaching these simple things. Instead, he often calls us to the top floor to assist him in various experiments and refining tools. This requires the use of a lot of profound knowledge and skills.  How much you learn depends on your own understanding." Lu Daqian added hastily.

    His words had no effect, and Tie Heng smiled bitterly.  "It's up to a master to lead you in, but it depends on the individual!" And he is an expert who can understand on his own by watching.

    Gongsun Bian naturally knew that his master's personal strength was first-rate, but he was really not the material to teach his disciples, so he never introduced this aspect to Tie Heng. He planned to wait until the time was right to mention it again, just to avoid Tie Heng's heart.  Leave a bad impression and grudge.  It's good now, Lu Daqian has said everything.

    He glared at Lu Daqian angrily. The latter seemed to realize that he had said too much, and was frightened by the majesty of his senior brother. He shrank his neck and closed his mouth knowingly.

    Tie Heng actually doesn¡¯t care much about this. It¡¯s the same as going to school anyway.  On the contrary, it would be really bad if Feng Shiyou insisted on teaching his disciples by himself regardless of his own ability for the sake of face!

    Gongsun Bian put the small porcelain bottles containing the muscle-stimulating cream into a bamboo basket, locked it in the locker, carefully cleaned the workbench and used utensils, and finally said: "I'm done with today's work.  , it¡¯s getting late, let¡¯s go back and rest!¡±

    Lu Daqian yawned and praised him repeatedly.  Seeing Gongsun Bian go out first, he followed behind with Tie Heng.  The three of them went downstairs and returned to their respective residences. Before they parted, Gongsun Bian gave another reminder.

    "Ah Heng, after you return to your room, you can practice meditation according to the instructions given by the master. But remember, do not exceed the limit of your body. Once you feel any discomfort in your body, you must rest in time. If you have a headache,  If you want to come to me, it¡¯s because the spiritual power has had an adverse reaction on you, and you need to nurse yourself back to health for a period of time. This kind of situation often happens to beginners, so you should pay more attention."

    "You must be careful, little brother." After saying this, the three of them said good night to each other and then dispersed.

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