Nine Bends Yellow River Formation
"Of course not, it was given to me by my father. After all, I am the sect leader's daughter, so I have some privileges." Sun Ruoya said with pride.
Tang Tianshu nodded, took the token, and looked at Sun Ruoya's smiling face, asking suspiciously, "You lent me this token for half a year, it can't be just to thank me for giving you a Spirit Gathering Pill, right?"
In the past six months, they've already given me over twenty taels of silver and taken good care of me..."
"Junior brother is indeed clever."
Senior sister, I want to ask you, do you still have any Hundred-Year True Gathering Pill...?
"I spent money to buy..." Sun Ruoya ran over to massage Tang Tianshu's shoulders.
"You silly girl. You know how rare this Hundred-Year- True Gathering Grass is."
That one hundred-year-old True Gathering Pill of mine is something I've treasured for many years.
Senior Brother Shen Wenjing still didn't believe me and came to see me several times.
"Actually, as soon as you come here, you start rummaging through boxes and cabinets looking for something..." Tang Tianshu curled his lip.
"This is outrageous! Only I can search through this place; no one else can."
I'll turn around and warn Elder Shen to make sure Senior Brother Shen Wenjing doesn't bother you again...
Hmm... but...
I know you probably don't have the Hundred-Year True Gathering Pill anymore...
"But you can refine pills, so how about you refine some ordinary True Gathering Pill for me?"
Doesn't the sect distribute some True Gathering Pill every month?
"Cut.
In the herb garden on the front mountain, there are very few old True Gathering Grass.
The amount of True Gathering Pill produced was far from enough to go around.
"Now several elders are getting restless, and my father can only give a small number of True Gathering Pill to disciples with high cultivation levels. I can't get many at all..." Sun Ruoya said with a pout.
"It's true that I have some True Gathering Grass in my Carefree Residence, but they are all seedlings of one or two years old, which are completely unsuitable for alchemy."
"I know, that's why I gave you this Sect Leader's Scripture Token, allowing you free access to the library."
The three-story library contains many books on alchemy.
Just as you said last year that I would achieve great things, I also think you are a very intelligent person.
If you've read those alchemy books, you'll definitely be able to use some unknown herbs to concoct pills with effects similar to the Hundred-Year True Gathering Pill.
Even if its medicinal potency is only one percent of that of a hundred-year-old True Gathering Pill, it's still a divine spirit medicine for our sect...
"Then you overestimate me..." Tang Tianshu smiled.
"Junior brother... even if you can't refine pills, spending more time in the library will definitely benefit you greatly."
"Oh, you... why did you help me?"
I have a Martial Meridians, so my cultivation level is destined to remain relatively low...
Sun Ruoya stopped what she was doing with her hands. "Tang Tianshu, you managed to produce a hundred-year-old True Gathering Pill as soon as you entered the sect."
I think you joined our Diancang Sect not simply to improve your cultivation level...
Tang Tianshu was immediately taken aback, not expecting this young girl to be so clever.
However, I've been cultivating and growing herbs in this Samsara Valley every day for the past six months, so she probably couldn't have guessed that I came here to "borrow" the treasure.
In any case, I must be more cautious from now on...
Of course, there's no need to use a hook, because one's cultivation level speaks for itself.
Of the 1,236 disciples of the Diancang Sect, his cultivation level ranked among the bottom ten...
"Hey, think what you want of me."
My purpose in joining the Diancang Sect was simply to improve my cultivation level.
Think about it, the Diancang Sect is a large sect. Even if I leave the sect and become a bodyguard, I can still ask for a higher salary, right?
The best response is not to directly refute it.
"Hmph, say whatever you want, I don't believe it." Sun Ruoya pouted.
"Whether you believe it or not, please massage my shoulders a little harder, okay..." Tang Tianshu said with a smile...
The following day, Tang Tianshu took the Sect Leader's Scripture Token and planned to go to the second floor of the Hidden Spirit Pavilion.
Before setting off, I decided to take a look around my herb garden.
Tang Tianshu already knew the few herbs in the herb garden like the back of his hand.
A strange phenomenon puzzled him: some True Gathering Grass seedlings had somehow become ten years old and medicinal.
After careful observation, I realized that these True Gathering Grass, which had become ten years old, were irrigated yesterday with the blood from washing my own palms.
Could one's own blood increase the medicinal lifespan of herbs?
Overwhelmed with excitement, Tang Tianshu grabbed a dagger and slashed his palm.
S...!
That hurts so damn much.
The blood I shed can't even irrigate a few grains.
With a slight smile, Tang Tianshu used a copper basin to fetch clean water and wash his palms.
I watered some of the Spirit Gathering Grass with the pale red handwashing water.
After watering the herbs, Tang Tianshu ran expectantly towards the Sutra Repository on the front mountain...
... Nothing happened that day. The next morning, Tang Tianshu excitedly ran to the medicinal herb garden to observe.
It turned out that the True Gathering Grass I watered with my own handwashing water yesterday did not increase its medicinal age at all...
Where exactly did things go wrong?
Tang Tianshu kept recalling the scene of watering the True Gathering Grass the day before yesterday...
Could the problem lie with that handkerchief?
With a determined heart, Tang Tianshu retrieved the golden handkerchief the old Daoist priest had left him.
Cut your palm again, wipe it with a brocade handkerchief, then wash the handkerchief and water the herbs...
The next day, Tang Tianshu rushed to the herb garden again, counting the leaves of the True Gathering Grass, and immediately beamed with joy.
It worked!
Some True Gathering Grass that was only one or two years old has become ten years old. And some True Gathering Grass that was ten years old yesterday has become a hundred years old.
Tang Tianshu frowned as he looked again at the golden handkerchief in his hand.
"I must examine this handkerchief carefully when I go to the library another day, to see if I can recognize the writing on it."
... For the next month, Tang Tianshu repeated the same routine every day: cutting his palms, wiping them with a handkerchief, washing his hands, watering the herbs, and going to the library to read...
Gradually, I discovered some of the tricks of the trade.
His own blood dripped onto the handkerchief, and the handkerchief seemed to absorb some of it.
Then, the water used to wash the handkerchief does indeed increase the medicinal lifespan of the herbs.
On the first day, herbs can be aged for ten years;
The next day, the herbs became a hundred years old;
If you continue to irrigate with blood, you will gain one hundred years of medicinal life every day.
However, the increase stopped after three or four hundred years.
The herb that increases the most is called Tiger Bone Grass, which can increase the medicinal life to five hundred years.
Tiger Bone Grass, when refined into Tiger Bone Pill, can strengthen one's skin, flesh, and bones.
By refining and consuming it frequently, one can regulate their True Qi to resist attacks from ordinary swords and blades.
With a high-end herb garden and access to the alchemy books in the library, Tang Tianshu could refine the Hundred-Year True Gathering Pill...
After refining a batch of Hundred-Year True Gathering Pill and True Restoration Pill, Tang Tianshu, holding the Sect Leader's Scripture Token, began spending long periods of time reading in the Scripture Pavilion.
However, just in case, Tang Tianshu always carried the century-old elixirs he refined with him...
The first floor of the Diancang Sect's scripture library contains basic martial arts manuals.
The second layer contains advanced Swordsmanship and body-training skills.
And just as Sun Ruoya had said, this third floor indeed contained quite a few alchemy books.
Besides alchemy books, there were also some tattered ancient books and classics.
Tang Tianshu also recognized the words "Nine Bends Yellow River Formation" on his handkerchief.
The Nine Bends Yellow River Formation is mentioned in many books in the library, but most of them are vague and based on legends...