Chapter 17: Porcelain bottle becomes jade bottle

After finishing dinner!

He Pingsheng lit the oil lamp!

Then he began to read.

A knock on the door came from outside the house.

He Pingsheng walked over, first taking down the door bolt, then opening the locked door.

"Hey..." Outside, Hao Yun's face was as black as the bottom of a pot: "What are you doing in the room, kid? Why keep the door locked so tight?"

"Couldn't open it for the longest time?"

After speaking, Hao Yun's eyes focused, moving from top to bottom, landing on He Pingsheng's philtrum.

He Pingsheng abruptly covered his crotch with his hand, "Don't misunderstand, it's not what you're thinking!"

"I'm only fourteen this year, I don't understand anything!"

"Enough!" Hao Yun raised his gaze again, threw a book in his hand onto He Pingsheng's table, and said: "Look at this, what is it?"

He Pingsheng and Hao Yun sat down across from the table, their gazes falling on the book.

Written on the cover were a few characters: Thirty-Six Alchemy Prescriptions!

What does it mean!

Don't understand!

"These are the alchemy prescriptions for thirty-six common types of pills in the Cultivation World!" Hao Yun said: "Actually, in their world of immortals, it's not really a secret; it's the most basic stuff, almost everyone has a copy!"

"It records the refining methods for a series of pills like the 【Jin Gu Dan】, 【Qi-Gathering Pill】, 【Foundation-Cultivating Pill】, 【Marrow-Cleansing Pill】, 【Spirit-Gathering Pill】, 【Foundation Establishment Pill】... and so on!"

"Although you are only a servant, you have to serve in the alchemy room after all!"

"We don't need to worry about the specifics of how to refine or how to wash them, but you must remember the heat control clearly!"

"Go back and study it well, don't end up like me, beaten half to death!"

"Read it through first, if there's anything you don't understand, just ask me!"

"Oh!" He Pingsheng picked up the book and opened it.

The first prescription of these thirty-six was the 【Qi-Gathering Pill】.

Very comprehensive!

Starting from every aspect of refining the Qi-Gathering Pill: types of medicinal herbs, selection of herbs, order of adding to the pot, heat control, refining time, precautions, etc...

Just this one prescription took up ten pages of paper.

However, for He Pingsheng, there was no need to remember the rest, he only needed to remember the heat control when refining this Qi-Gathering Pill.

After all, he was just a servant, specifically in charge of tending the fire.

"Alright!" Hao Yun stood up: "You read it first, there's no rush, return this thing to me when you've memorized it!"

"Mm..."

He Pingsheng nodded.

Just as Hao Yun stepped out of He Pingsheng's room, he discovered a disciple dressed in green robes entering the small courtyard of the alchemy room.

This person had sword-like eyebrows and star-like eyes, with a friendly expression on his face.

"Are you Hao Yun?" The newcomer stared at Hao Yun.

Hao Yun said: "It's me..."

"That's good!" This person said: "I am a disciple under True Person Yude, and also Junior Sister Linglong's junior brother... What happened before, my junior sister was in the wrong towards you... My master said, since you were injured, he cannot ignore it!"

"You should come with me to Hongdeyuan to pay respects to my master!"

Hao Yun said: "No need... my injuries have already healed!"

The disciple smiled and said: "Hao Yun, this is an invitation from my master, True Person Yude; whether you go or not, you decide for yourself. If you truly don't go, then I will report truthfully to my master that you are unwilling to come."

Hao Yun's expression suddenly sank: refusing was not an option.

"Fine!" He nodded, then looked at He Pingsheng and said: "Everything here is left to you... I'll go to Elder Yude's side first to listen to his teachings!"

He Pingsheng was confused and didn't know why, so he could only nod, then watch his senior brother leave with the disciple of Elder Yude.

After the two of them left, He Pingsheng saw that the sky was getting late and night was falling, so he locked his room door tightly once again.

He ignored the 【Thirty-Six Alchemy Prescriptions】 book and instead took out the Basic Breathing and Meditation Method, beginning to practice.

Now he could already feel the spiritual energy of the outside world, but guiding the spiritual energy into his body to temper and condense it was another threshold.

He didn't know how long it would take to complete.

Just like that, He Pingsheng began to try again and again.

The result was that after trying for a full two hours, he still hadn't achieved his wish.

It could also be said that there was no progress at all.

However, he was not discouraged, because Wang Shixiong Hao Yun had said that even those geniuses with single Void Linggen would take several days to see results.

"Oh..." He Pingsheng yawned: "So sleepy!"

Not to mention that before sleeping, he still had one thing to do.

He Pingsheng took out an axe, pried open the two stone slabs under the bed, and dug out the soil layer by layer, revealing the pills he had buried in the dirt earlier.

A strange fragrance spread throughout the entire room.

He Pingsheng didn't dare to be slow, quickly taking out two of the pills and throwing them into the porcelain bottle Hao Yun had given him.

He had originally been afraid that Hao Yun giving him the porcelain bottle was a trap to spy on his secrets.

Now that Hao Yun had been called away and he was the only one in the alchemy room, He Pingsheng naturally had no such concerns.

*Pa... *

Put on the bottle cap!

He had originally thought that this porcelain bottle could well conceal the fragrance overflowing from the top-tier pills.

In reality!

It couldn't!

It could only cover most of the pill's fragrance, but it would still leak about twenty percent.

He Pingsheng looked disappointed, then buried the pills back into the ground.

Covered with soil, and finally pressed down with the two stone slabs.

Finally, He Pingsheng took out the black, dark pottery basin from the corner under the bed, lifted the wooden board on top, and threw the porcelain bottle inside.

Since this pottery basin could strengthen anything, presumably it should be able to strengthen the porcelain bottle too, right?

Even if it couldn't strengthen it, turning one bottle into two would be good too.

After finishing all this, He Pingsheng climbed onto the bed and fell asleep in a daze.

Early the next morning, just as the sky was brightening!

He Pingsheng climbed off the bed, then couldn't wait to pull out the black pottery basin from under the bed, lifted the wooden board to look, and was immediately overjoyed.

It worked!

Two porcelain bottles were lying quietly in the pottery basin.

No...

These weren't porcelain bottles!

He Pingsheng picked up one of the bottles.

The bottle felt warm and cool to the touch, and looking closely, it actually looked like mutton-fat jade.

This is... a jade bottle?

It seems that putting the porcelain bottle into the Treasure Basin not only increased the quantity but also strengthened and improved its quality.

It's just that I don't know if it can cover up the fragrance of the pills now.

He Pingsheng didn't rush to dig out the pills, but first walked out of the room and went outside Wang Shixiong Hao's door to shout a few times.

Actually, no need to shout!

Wang Shixiong Hao's door wasn't closed at all!

After entering, the inside was empty.

Not a single person.

Exactly the same as yesterday.

Which means, Wang Shixiong Hao didn't return all night yesterday?

He Pingsheng's gaze swept across the entire alchemy room, and he shouted loudly a few more times, but still saw no response.

Only the echoes reverberated endlessly in the empty valley.

His eyebrows twitched violently, and an extremely uneasy feeling welled up in his heart: could something have happened to Wang Shixiong Hao?

What important matter did Elder Yude have to keep him out all night? ===== CHAPTER 18 =====