Chapter 17 Chapter 17 Preparations for the Grand Ceremony

Within a few days, we returned to the cabin in the forest. I introduced Fengrou and Prince Niu to my mother-in-law, and at the same time told my mother-in-law all the things I encountered in Huangtu Town, and finally said that the two of them might be living with us for a while. The mother-in-law said: "Alright, let's all stay here, it's a pity I couldn't bring back those daily necessities." I muttered, "Sorry, I couldn't bring those things back, and the money was also left in the hotel." The mother-in-law touched my head and said with a smile: "There is nothing to be sorry about. We are practitioners and ascetics. Those things don't have much influence on us."

Although my mother-in-law didn't blame me, I still blamed myself a little. If I can restore the dark energy, I can go to Huangtu Town again. At the sumptuous dinner, I expressed my doubts about Dan Xin.Danxin is obviously the secret of Taohuayuan, it is unlikely that I would ask Yan Lie to tell me the secret of Danxin, so the only one who knows this secret is my mother-in-law.Since she taught me the way of cultivating inner alchemy, she should be no stranger to Danxin, maybe she has Danxin herself. After I asked my question, I looked at my mother-in-law nervously.Feng Rou stopped the commotion of the little golden monkey in her arms, and looked at her mother-in-law, quietly waiting for the answer.Wang Ziniu reluctantly grabbed the pheasant leg smeared with a layer of golden honey, swallowed his saliva, and kept his eyes on his mother-in-law.

My mother-in-law said to me calmly, "Give me your hand." I stretched out my hand as promised, and my mother-in-law stretched out a finger to sense my pulse. I waited without daring to breathe, like a prisoner standing in court waiting for the judge to pronounce his sentence, full of worry, anxiety and anxiety. After only a moment, the mother-in-law withdrew her hand and said: "Your loyalty has not yet been formed, but it is constantly condensing. Maybe it won't take long before you will condense your loyalty." I worried: "How long will it take before I can condense my loyalty?"

The mother-in-law was about to answer, Wang Ziniu suddenly interjected: "The guy in Taohuayuan said that the power of loyalty is stronger than dark energy. Does it mean that as long as Lanhu condenses his loyalty, he will regain or even have stronger power than before?" Prince Niu seemed more anxious than I was, but the question he asked was something the three of us urgently needed to know, so Feng Rou and I nodded involuntarily when our mother-in-law looked at us. The mother-in-law smiled lightly and said: "The condensation of the alchemy usually happens when the third-rank outer alchemy is refined, but Lan Hu's situation is quite special. Your inner alchemy and outer alchemy are almost synchronized. This may be a new idea. Human beings have unique advantages. I'm not quite sure, after all, among the people I know, you are the first new human to practice alchemy. Although the dark energy in your body is constantly being transformed into alchemy and then condensed into alchemy, you need to How long it will take is still uncertain, because there will be many unpredictable variables, ranging from two to three weeks to as long as two to three months. I think two to three months is enough for you to reach the level of refining the third-rank outer alchemy Level."

The mother-in-law looked at us still looking at her quietly, smiled and said: "Don't be nervous, you are all safe until Lanhu recovers his strength. Don't see Duguqi put on a fierce look, that's just for It’s scary. The war outside is where the interests of the new alliance lie, and they won’t disperse their strength because of you, unless you hit their guns.” I said anxiously: "Grandma, that... Will I recover dark energy after I condense my loyalty?" The mother-in-law calmly and calmly said: "Little guy, please be patient. Since mother-in-law teaches you alchemy, she will naturally not harm you. The loyalty of the gods and people of Taohuayuan is the same as the dark energy of new humans and the vitality of ancient humans. They are all powerful. One. Because the composition of energy and the laws of operation are different, the methods of use cannot be connected."

"Ah!" Fengrou said with a face full of surprise, "Grandma Dan means that as long as you master the new power's operation law, you can use this power normally?" The mother-in-law nodded with a faint smile, and said, "You are really a smart girl." "Yeah!" Wang Ziniu took a bite of the chicken leg in his hand, stuffed his mouth with the delicious honey chicken, and said inarticulately, "I knew that guy from Taohuayuan didn't just talk casually." At this time, naturally no one questioned the credibility of what he said.The shadow that had been lingering around me was finally dispelled by my mother-in-law's words.

The mother-in-law waited for the three of us to laugh enough, and then said to me leisurely: "Compared with the power of Danxin, dark energy and vitality are both lower-level powers. However, although Danxin is powerful, the rules of use are also more complicated. If you want to fully exert the power of Danxin, you need to practice harder." "Yeah!" I nodded and said, "I will work hard." The mother-in-law said again: "In fact, your loyalty is formed by the condensation of dark energy. The two naturally have something in common. You can regard the loyalty as the more refined dark energy. After you cultivate to a certain level, the two can be transformed into each other.”

Feng Rou looked at Granny Dan tenderly, with a touch of blushing on her face, and murmured: "Grandma, although my request is a bit abrupt, I also hope that I can practice alchemy with Granny like Lan Hu." Both Wang Ziniu and I looked at her in astonishment, not knowing why she would suddenly make this request.Wang Ziniu was stunned for a moment, and then his face revealed a look of thought and struggle, and suddenly he shouted: "I don't want to go back to fight, Grandma Dan, I also want to learn alchemy from you." The mother-in-law looked at the two with great interest, and said after a while: "Are you really going to learn alchemy with the mother-in-law? You can't regret this decision."

"We don't regret it." The two said in unison. Feng Rou wants to stay and learn alchemy, I can still understand, what is this guy Wang Ziniu doing with me, don't you see the miserable state I am in now?I said, "Don't you need to go back to the army?" Wang Ziniu said: "The federal government has tens of thousands of soldiers. It doesn't matter if I am one less, let them think that I died for the country." I didn't expect this guy to be so straightforward. Wang Ziniu suddenly laughed again: "What's more, what's in front of me is my perfect opportunity. The power of Danxin is the strongest power in the world. Seeing the extraordinary power displayed by you and Duguqi, as a Doesn't a man want to become stronger? I won't hesitate, I must learn alchemy." I smiled bitterly and looked at Feng Rou, compared to this girl, her idea of ​​learning alchemy was much simpler.Fengrou pouted at me, apparently she had nothing to do with her brother.

I said: "This is not just as simple as raising your strength from a low level to a high level, it involves the law of power use, and the degree of difficulty is equivalent to abolishing the original martial arts and practicing again." Wang Ziniu rolled his eyes and said, "Don't underestimate me. Although I'm not as powerful as you, I've always been praised as a genius. I've made up my mind, so don't persuade me anymore. Besides, even if I can't comprehend new things temporarily The law of strength, there is no danger of life here." Alas, I sighed, since he is willing to suffer, then let him do it.The mother-in-law laughed and said, "I haven't had an apprentice for decades. I didn't expect to receive a few apprentices with good qualifications when I was a lot older. Since you must learn alchemy from me, I agreed. "

We immediately cheered.The mother-in-law said to the two of them: "But there is one thing I want to tell you. Whether or not you can cultivate your loyalty or something in the end depends on your own chances. Three months later will be the sacrifice ceremony of Taohuayuan. The two of you There is no chance to participate, and mother-in-law will lay the foundation for alchemy for you during this time." The mother-in-law turned to me and said, "During this period of time, you have to devote yourself to practicing alchemy. It is best to refine the three-turn alchemy before the grand ceremony. The higher your level of alchemy, the greater the chance of obtaining a high-level alchemy cauldron. So this paragraph You have to leave all the chores in your hands to them both." The mother-in-law said it carefully, and Feng Rou was also surprised when she heard it. She didn't seem to see that there would be anything that would take a lot of energy to do here. Of course, the next day, when I took her and Wang Ziniu to get acquainted with and take over my daily work, they realized that this is not an easy task. In the past few days when I was away, the types of plants in the flower field have expanded again, and they are all some rare elixir. It seems that the pets have put in a lot of effort to get their favorite elixir. When Feng Rou and Wang Ziniu saw a row of pet animals of all kinds holding, hugging or holding and biting some rare and good things, they were quite surprised as if they were bartering. I let Feng Rou sit on the tree stump, gave her a bottle of golden pills, and started trading with the beasts one by one, while Wang Ziniu stood aside and was responsible for receiving and sorting the things sent by the beasts. The two of them gradually recovered from the shock, but Fengrou was a bit soft-hearted like a girl, and when she saw cute beasts, she would always give them a few more golden pills. In the afternoon, I will lead them to familiarize themselves with the surroundings, telling them where there are delicious berries, where they can hunt prey, and where there are ferocious monsters. After four days, the two of them finally got used to this kind of life.And I also had enough free time, and my mother-in-law began to explain to me the law of Danxin's power use seriously. Danxin is the most advanced kind of power discovered by human beings so far. The symbol of successful cultivation of Danxin is that the heart is strengthened and transformed into golden yellow.After that, the energy absorbed from the outside world will be concentrated and transformed into a new kind of condensed and powerful energy concentrated to the heart.When facing the enemy, Danxin will quickly mobilize the condensed and powerful energy to the whole body like an engine. Its high level is reflected in the richness of the laws of power utilization.This is like the level of civilization in society, the more barbaric the society, the fewer rules it has; on the contrary, the more civilized the society, the richer the rules will be, involving all walks of life and affecting every corner of society . Listening to my mother-in-law's explanation, I interjected, "In other words, I can no longer perform some of the martial arts I used to perform through dark energy." The mother-in-law's wise expression showed kind eyes, and said: "You are not completely right, it's just that high-level martial arts can't be used, but some ordinary low-level martial arts can still be used." "Why?" I wondered. "The more advanced a martial skill is, the more it represents the advanced understanding and application of a certain power, and it involves a lot of rules for the use of that power. The current rules are different. Naturally, this kind of advanced martial skill cannot be used. But power There are some basic similarities between them, low-level martial arts are only the most basic use of this kind of power, so no matter what power you change, you can use it normally." The mother-in-law explained in this way. I looked a little sad: "That is to say, my 'Panlong Gongfa' and 'Beastmaster Ten Styles' can no longer be used?" The mother-in-law nodded. In fact, I also know that these two are the strongest I have learned. His martial arts and exercises are extremely high-level use of dark energy, and now he is practicing Danxin, so naturally he can't use it normally. My mother-in-law comforted me and said, "'Panlong Gongfa' is really amazing, but you have already grasped the essence of it, maybe one day when you master the magic of using Danxin, you can re-evolve a set that is similar to 'Panlong Gongfa'. 'Run the exercises with similar rules." As for my mother-in-law's comfort, I can only keep it in my heart. The most important thing right now is to restore my strength. Whether it is dark energy or loyalty, I urgently need it. In this way, under the guidance of my mother-in-law, a month passed in a flash.My mother-in-law didn't make any pills herself during this month, she was always instructing me to practice the inner alchemy and gather the heart of the alchemy, and at the same time to refine the three-turn pill.The three-turn pill requires a lot of materials, so although I have been refining alchemy, I have refined the three-turn pill seven times in a month, but every batch of pills failed in the end. It seems that the three-turn pill is not so easy to make, even so, I am not discouraged at all, because I have gradually been able to master some methods of using the pill.The feeling of mastering the power gave me some comfort in my restless heart.However, Danxin still didn't seem to be congealing. For this reason, I had to ask my mother-in-law again. The mother-in-law seemed very calm about this, and said slowly: "It is difficult to refine a loyal heart. Even for a god, it takes about ten years of hard work to refine a loyal heart. It takes at least five years for a talented person to cultivate a loyal heart." Eight years. And your situation is very special, according to your situation, mother-in-law has also done some special experiments recently, and got some possible speculations." I hurriedly said: "What do you speculate?" The mother-in-law said: "It starts with your physical condition. You are different from ordinary people. I mean new humans. A normal new human usually only has one pet beast at your age, but you have two. Only pets." "But it doesn't seem to have anything to do with Danxin?" I objected. The mother-in-law said: "The world is so wonderful. There are many seemingly unrelated things, but there are connections that are difficult to ignore. There are several extremely simple energies in this world, such as the energy of water, the energy of wind, and the energy of fire. energy, and as the evolutionary species of human beings, you new humans are born with a kind of energy, no matter what kind of energy exists in nature, this energy is called dark energy by you. And you are uniquely endowed with multiple A combination of dark energy." "The vitality obtained by our ancient humans is transformed from a single energy, so it also has a certain pure attribute, such as the 'Taishan' Baimu you have seen, the 'shuilingzhenqi' he cultivated is water vitality. And Danxin is a new energy body formed by the fusion of various energies in a certain proportion, you can understand it as the evolution of the dark energy you have.” I murmured: "Evolution." The mother-in-law said lightly: "That's right, Danxin is the evolution of the special non-attribute dark energy you possess, and the Danqi used to condense Danxin is transformed from your dark energy. Your own talent enables you to obtain You have acquired a huge dark energy that is not commensurate with your age, and your two high-level pets also have strong dark energy. This provides enough dark energy that can be converted into pill energy." I suddenly thought of a question, and said: "Since Danxin is a higher level of power, why doesn't anyone among your friends learn a higher level of power?" The mother-in-law said: "This kind of more advanced power requires extremely high talent to master. Compared with the ratio of new humans to ancient humans, the number of people who can master the heart is not even one-thousandth of the new humans. Of course I know Many of these people are extremely gifted, and it is entirely possible for them to learn this more powerful power, but this means that they have to abandon their existing power and learn another kind of power, which is very likely to be impossible to learn. The strength to do it. The courage to do it all over again is not something everyone has.” If I realized something, I said: "So, why did my mother-in-law teach me?" The mother-in-law smiled and said, "It's not that I teach you, but before I teach you, you have already studied on your own and have a good foundation. Of course, the mother-in-law will help you." I suddenly felt a little frustrated and said: "Three-turn pill is so difficult to make, it's completely beyond my imagination." frustration. The mother-in-law showed a thoughtful expression, and suddenly looked at me kindly and said: "Then let's make the second-turn pill first, maybe you still need to further understand the essence of the pill, maybe it's because you are progressing too fast, you still don't know the essence of the pill." I didn’t realize it. At the same time, you can also absorb more alchemy, maybe you can condense your loyalty because of this. After all, you have failed in the three-turn pill training several times, and the amount of alchemy you can absorb is limited after all.” I nodded, maybe I am so depressed now because I have failed too many times in a row, and I have lost confidence. It is good to practice the second-rank pill, and I can take this opportunity to regain my confidence. Recently, a few higher-level powerful guys have been added to the pet beasts that come here especially, and they can even be compared to Falconer. They need higher-level pills, and ordinary gold pills can't satisfy them. These powerful guys will also be angry, even angry, because they didn't get a satisfactory Dan. I don't want to put Feng Rou in danger because of this.After all, although those powerful beasts are intelligent, they are not as good as humans, let alone restrain their emotions. Once anger breaks out, their fighting power is also very scary. In the early morning, after listening to my mother-in-law's instruction, I walked slowly in the forest.I didn't immediately start refining the second turn alchemy, I had to adjust my state of mind first, and let the whole impetuous heart calm down, the ethereal state is the best state of alchemy. Not far away, Wang Ziniu shouted loudly like a loudspeaker: "The red-tailed snake will send you three stalks of asparagus, in exchange for two 'she saliva pills'." From a distance, I heard Feng Rou's faint soft voice entreating: "Don't eat it all at once, you must eat it twice, and you can take the second 'Shexi Dan' after three days, so as to exert the best effect. "Although she also knew that pet beasts couldn't understand what she was saying, she would always subconsciously ask, presumably this was the result of girls' innate delicate thoughts. After staying in the Michen Forest for such a long time, the snake pets are the ones I see the most.The proportion of animals of other races evolving into beasts is much smaller than that of snakes, perhaps because snakes have a long lifespan.As long as snakes are not attacked by natural enemies, they can shed their skin and live forever. If they live for a long time, their chances of evolution will increase greatly. The size of the dark energy of the snake pet beast will live longer than anyone else. Wang Ziniu's loud voice kept ringing, but he suddenly trembled a little unsustainably: "Well, this, what kind of deer..." Fengrou's voice then sounded: "What a big deer, you are here for the first time, I have never seen you before, what kind of pill do you want, let me see...Golden pill? No...' "Huafeng Pill"? Don't want..."Shenli Pill"? Not yet, "Shenli Pill" can increase your strength." Fengrou said, shaking different kinds of pills in front of the deer. Then I keenly felt the heavy panting of the beast, and the scream of the soft little golden monkey, which seemed to be demonstrating to the new pet.This little golden snub-nosed monkey pet can be regarded as a high-end pet animal. With its pretty face, it has attracted many little female monkeys since it came to the forest, thus triggering two big battles among the monkey groups.But the monkey king was defeated by it twice, and it is now the monkey king of one side, screaming with more confidence than before. When I walked over, I saw the golden snub-nosed monkey laughing and dancing at a giant deer.Behind the Julu was a long line of beasts waiting to be traded, and there were many powerful guys inside, but they were afraid of the coercion released by the Julu, so they didn't dare to make the slightest sound. As I walked towards the giant deer, I told Xiaohu to scan the giant deer in my heart. Soon I got the answer from Xiaohu. This guy is a fifth-level low-grade pet beast "Sword Horn Deer", named after a blade-like horn growing on its head. Although the sword-horned deer is a herbivore, it is notoriously short-tempered. It has a strong physique and great strength. This kind of pet animal is rare. This sword-horned deer has actually reached the fifth-level low-grade level, and the strength of its dark energy can be imagined.This guy may be one of the rare overlords in the Michen Forest. No wonder the beasts behind him are honest, I thought so. Feng Rou searched through all the pill bottles, but none of the pills could satisfy him. This big guy's copper-bell-like eyes gradually showed bloodshot eyes, showing that he was somewhat dissatisfied. Seeing the big guy in front of him gradually showing signs of attack, Feng Rou and Prince Niu also became nervous.Wang Ziniu said: "Sister, I will block you here, you go and call Lan Hu, or call mother-in-law." Although the incidents of being attacked by pet beasts who came to trade did not happen frequently, it was not unheard of. Generally, there were falcons and little dogs and wolves that could solve the problem.But this time, it was obviously impossible for the two little guys to deal with this big guy. I walked up to Wang Ziniu, tilted my head and thought for a while, "What rare thing did it bring in exchange for the elixir?" "Hmm..." Wang Ziniu pondered for a while, then suddenly opened his eyes and said, "Yes, I haven't received its elixir yet. Hey, what are you going to exchange for our precious elixir?" He said to himself Talking to himself, regardless of whether the other party could understand or not, he began to look at the sword-horned deer. Looking at his righteous appearance, completely ignoring the anger in the blood-red eyes of the sword-horned deer, this guy is really innocent and cute sometimes.