PDLP Chapter 151 Ginseng Refining Herb
Chapter 151 Ginseng Refining Herb
"Are you the brother who made Sister Chen Ru so sad and heartbroken?"
The little girl wasn't shy at all. Her big eyes darted around and she quickly understood the situation. She looked at Du Fan with a rather unfriendly expression, pointed at him with her little finger, and questioned him in a childish voice.
"Tongtong, don't talk nonsense." Chen Ru's pretty face immediately turned red with embarrassment. She quickly covered the little girl's mouth, stood up, and looked at Du Fan with a complicated expression.
Du Fan glanced at the cute little girl and chuckled, "I really did wrong Sister Chen Ru in the past, but... I won't do it again."
"Du Fan, you..." Chen Ru's heart tightened, her breathing became rapid, and a look of surprise and doubt flashed in her eyes.
"Miss Chen, please give me another chance. I will cherish it." Du Fan's heart was also racing a little, but he remained calm and smiled gently. He took another step forward and said softly.
"You mean..." Chen Ru felt a little dizzy. Seeing Du Fan walking towards her, she panicked and stupidly took a step back.
"Let that nine bows to heaven and earth that day become real!" Du Fan took a deep breath, took another big step, and came to Chen Ru's side. He stared into her eyes, his expression serious, and said in a firm tone.
But then, Du Fan suddenly looked at him with a strange expression and added, "Ahem, in fact, I really did it..."
Well, although Du Fan used an extremely vulgar and unpleasant word, fortunately, Chen Ru was now completely certain of his feelings.
An unprecedented happiness and a strange feeling instantly filled Chen Ru's body, as if mixed with a trace of unreality, making her eyes somewhat dazed and speechless. She felt as if she had finally seen the light after all the storm, and all her efforts had been worthwhile.
Finally, her body began to tremble slightly, her eyes reddened, and two lines of tears slowly flowed down her cheeks.
Seeing this, Du Fan was at a loss for words for a long time, but he knew he had to speak now. So, his expression changed, and he used an extremely strange tone for the people of Blue Star to hum a low murmur:
"Love is the process of laughter and tears; love was once me and it was once you..."
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The initial tension and awkwardness passed, and what followed was naturally filled with warmth and affection.
A man and a woman, a little girl, and a snow fox sat there quietly, watching the moon.
The little girl, Tongtong, suddenly pouted, stood up, glanced reluctantly at the snow fox in her arms, then handed it back to Chen Ru. She looked at Du Fan, her voice slightly downcast, and said:
"I'm going back to sleep."
"Huh? Tongtong, what's wrong?" Chen Ru asked in surprise, her eyes flashing.
"When Brother Yutian and Sister Chunjiao are alone with me, they both like me a lot. But when the two of them are together, they don't like me anymore. I understand. You two can continue looking at the moon. I won't bother you anymore."
The girl's innocent face was filled with grievance. She touched the snow fox, then turned and staggered back into the house without looking back.
Seeing the little guy's aggrieved and sighing expression, Chen Ru and the other woman couldn't help but chuckle.
"This little girl is so precocious. By the way, how long are you going to stay in the mortal world?" Du Fan shook his head and chuckled, then looked at Chen Ru, pulled her into his arms, and asked softly.
"We can go back tomorrow." Chen Ru gently pressed her head against Du Fan's chest, listening to his heartbeat, a blush rising on her cheeks as she softly replied.
"How come it's so fast?" Du Fan asked, somewhat surprised.
"My only unresolved issue was you. Now that it has been unexpectedly resolved, my life in the world... is complete." Chen Ru glanced at him, her eyes sparkling with tenderness.
"The word 'accident' is really used... accurately." Du Fan muttered under his breath, pursing his lips.
Then, his gaze inadvertently swept over the vegetable garden in the yard, and suddenly he was struck by a flash of inspiration.
The next morning, after having a simple meal at the farmhouse, Du Fan and his companion left amidst the little girl Tongtong's red eyes and reluctant gaze, and returned to Qixia Sect.
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After returning to their sect, the two first met with the Maple Leaf Sect Master and subtly expressed their desire to become Daoist partners.
However, the Maple Leaf Sect Master only smiled and remained silent, clearly showing an ambiguous attitude, which puzzled Du Fan. In his mind, the Maple Leaf Sect Master should not object.
However, he didn't care. If all else failed, he would shamelessly approach Xiao Yan and ask her to speak on his behalf. He believed that Vice Alliance Leader Xiao should be able to make a decision for him.
Although Chen Ru had not been in the mortal world for long, she had gained some insights besides those related to Du Fan. Therefore, she took this opportunity to continue her seclusion and consolidate her cultivation.
That night in the farmhouse courtyard, Du Fan caught a glimpse of the vegetable garden, and a word suddenly popped into his mind: "hybridization!"
This flash of inspiration gave him the opportunity to break through to the fifth level of the Qi Refining stage within a year. He felt it was feasible and was even confident that he could use it to create a pill and essential oil that was most suitable for cultivators at the fourth level of the Qi Refining stage!
Du Fan returned to the villa and abandoned his usual habit of taking a nap after going out, and began his research on the hybridization of spiritual herbs.
He spent a full ten days developing theoretical hypotheses, often rejecting a plan immediately after it was devised. He repeated this process over a hundred times, and finally, on the tenth day, he created a crazy and audacious theoretical concept.
This theory, when put into words, is just a rhetorical question: Why does a pill need to be made from different spiritual herbs? Can't a pill be made from just one herb?
He then collected hundreds of ingredients for the Qi Refining Pill and, following the biological sciences of his previous life, conducted a grafting and hybridization experiment.
The ingredients of the Qi Refining Pill are Tian Shan Snow Lotus, Yuan Gui, Deer Ginseng, and Aconite. So his only purpose is to knead these four spiritual herbs in a certain proportion into a brand new spiritual herb.
This newly grown spiritual herb, if used for alchemy, only requires this one herb to produce a Qi Refining Pill; if used to make pill essential oil, it only needs to be extracted into a juice essence to produce Qi Refining Essential Oil!
Even if you do nothing and eat this spiritual herb raw or use it to make soup, it will still produce the same effect as a Qi-refining pill, only the effect will be less than that of pills and essential oils.
This is Du Fan's first step!
It has to be said, this is a really crazy idea.
With the help of special fertilizer, Du Fan spent a month and failed more than two hundred times before finally succeeding in hybridizing a strange, unrecognizable plant, which he named the Qi-refining Grass...
Having succeeded once, things became much easier afterward. Du Fan spent another ten days cultivating over a hundred Qi-refining grasses, which he planted in the medicinal field for future use.
Of course, there were failures at first, but as his experience increased and his skills became more refined, his success rate eventually approached 100%. After nearly two months, he had completed his first step.
The second step, naturally, was to simply copy the method and create a Ginseng Qi Grass...
Although he initially experienced various failures, with the Qi-refining grass as a foundation, he successfully cultivated a Qi-refining grass after more than ten days.
With renewed vigor, Du Fan spent another ten days increasing the quantity of Ginseng Qi Grass to roughly the same level as that of Refining Qi Grass before finally stopping.
Having completed his first and second steps, he could finally begin his ultimate plan: to hybridize the most suitable spiritual herbs for cultivators at the fourth level of the Qi Refining stage—"Refined Ginseng Grass!"
That's right, it's Refining Ginseng Grass! This is the name Du Fan came up with, taking the first characters from Refining Qi Pill and Ginseng Qi Pill.
It wasn't that he didn't want to come up with a sophisticated and elegant name for the herb, but rather that, given his limited literary skills, he simply couldn't think of a particularly good name. However, that wasn't his concern at the moment, so he had to put it aside for the time being.
If the proportions of the various components of the first two spiritual herbs could be referenced by the formula, then the upcoming hybridization of the Refined Ginseng Herb would require him to rely solely on his own continuous experimentation.
This involves not only the issue of success or failure, but also the issue of the potency of the medicine, which makes Du Fan extremely cautious.
Of course, it wasn't all bad. The next research project, Refining Ginseng Grass, was composed of only two materials: Refining Qi Grass and Ginseng Qi Grass. This made the subsequent experiments much easier.
With a slight thought, Du Fan began his experiment on hybrid ginseng grass without hesitation. He dared not waste a moment; a year was not enough time for him to squander.
Two months later, Du Fan stood at the edge of the medicinal field, looking at the three rows of strangely shaped spiritual herbs, and a gratified smile appeared on his face.
These three rows of spiritual herbs are naturally ginseng herbs, but upon closer inspection, there are subtle differences between each row, because their medicinal properties are not the same.
Based on the strength of each stage of the four levels of Qi Refining, Du Fan theoretically cultivated these three types of Refining Ginseng Grass, corresponding to the early, middle and peak stages of the four levels of Qi Refining respectively. This would be beneficial to his subsequent cultivation speed.
Of course, he still doesn't know the specifics of the middle and peak of the fourth level of Qi Refining. It's just a theoretical speculation, but it won't be too far off from the actual situation. At worst, it won't cause him to explode and die after taking it.
The most crucial steps have been completed, and the next steps are relatively simple: turn the ginseng grass into ginseng essential oil, which is essentially just extracting the juice essence from the ginseng grass.
A few days later, in the laboratory, Du Fan extracted a bottle of ginseng essential oil with a somewhat strange color. Du Fan immediately sat cross-legged, took a drop, and began to circulate the Water-Guiding Technique to refine it.