
Cultivation: Starting as a Street Apothecary
修仙:从坊间药徒开始
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- Cultivation
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- Cultivation Civilization
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Everyone wants to harm every immortal cultivator. There is no goodwill around him, which is actually quite boring. After all, our real life is quite anxious, upset, and tiring. As long as it's logical and sound. I don't like being a good guy, nor do I like fighting every day. The important thing is to be reasonable. Of course, fights, frame-ups, backstabbing, and betrayals should all occur. Sincerity, brotherhood, friendship, support... Are also indispensable. In addition to profit, there is always something else in the life of cultivating immortals. Reasonable, just logical and reasonable.
Well, living in the fairy city, life is not easy for a small person, but the overall situation should be stable. You can't live at the foot of the sect like those books, and fight and kill day and night without even having a peaceful life. Golden Finger is not too big, it is the daily steady struggle of a little cultivator.
Before reading the book, I read some Taoist friends in the comments section who said that the protagonist of this book is really refining alchemy. I didn't expect that in other books, alchemy is just like an assembly line worker. But after reading more than a hundred chapters, I found that the protagonist's alchemy in this book is similar to that of other immortal novels. Just throw the medicinal materials into the furnace. In other people's novels, the alchemy requires at least using magic formulas, controlling the furnace fire, combining civil and military fires, and observing the changes in the properties of the medicine during the alchemy. But where is the protagonist of this book? Knead it, knead it, and throw it into the furnace. After that, you can knead it into an elixir with your hands, just like a doctor boiling medicine and rubbing it into pills. The author writes in the book that it takes talent to become an alchemist. Alchemy is a technical job, and the results are not reflected at all. Forget about the first-level elixir, it is acceptable to write it as a pill, but the refining of the second-level elixir is not. No matter what, the entire alchemy process in the book is mentioned in one stroke, giving people a false and empty feeling. In my opinion, whether it is elixir refining or weapon refining, or the refining process of formations and talismans is a kind of practice. The same goes for alchemy. The changes in the various medicinal properties in the alchemy furnace are similar to the changes in the body during practice. Alchemy is not just about practicing outer elixirs, it is also about letting the alchemist understand the process of cultivation. As a result, the alchemy in the book is just about refining alchemy, just practicing some outer elixirs. The only benefit to the alchemist is that he has stronger control. No. I know if I have read too little, and alchemy will be different in the future of this book, but after reading more than a hundred chapters, the protagonist's alchemy gave me the feeling that it was just throwing medicinal materials into the alchemy furnace, sitting aside and watching, and it was done. It was just like making a soup and medicine, boiling it into a paste and it was done! It's really too superficial, without any surprises. Personally, after reading so many books, I think the only alchemy in "Ming Zun" that can really be regarded as alchemy is the alchemy in "Ming Zun". Everything in the world can be used to make alchemy, low-end grass and tree pills, gold and stone pills, flesh and blood essence pills, high-end vitality pills, and those with high cultivation can even make pills in the heaven, earth and universe. Of course, these are only personal opinions, and I hope the author Jun Yue writes better.
The progress of my training was too slow. I was an alchemy master, but it was only when more than a hundred chapters were released that I could only practice the fourth level of Qi.
It's very well written, but I'm just worried that if the author doesn't have an outline, it might be difficult for this book to continue. It's currently unfolding a bit slowly.
This book is not written like a book about cultivating immortals. Apart from spiritual stones and the like, there are no magic spells. The protagonist only knows how to make alchemy. He doesn't even practice or care about various methods of protecting his own safety and practicing techniques. He doesn't know what kind of immortal he is!
The protagonist's survival depends purely on luck. Just to make alchemy, you can just join the sect to make alchemy. If the sect doesn't rush to get the 13-year-old alchemy master, the protagonist keeps refining alchemy to gain proficiency. It's not a sure win.
Without a panel, wouldn't it be possible to write without proficiency? Seeing the proficiency of the panel makes me sick
1 For alchemy, you should practice hard when you join the sect and make more alchemy to make money. Instead, you go to solve crimes and solve more than ten episodes at a time. You are pretentious and annoying.
Personal opinion
Refining elixirs is not only like dispensing medicine in traditional Chinese medicine, which requires the help of kings and ministers, but also like cooking. Different medicinal materials are prepared according to the needs, using different processing methods. According to the elixir recipe process, which medicinal materials need to be dried, which should be ground into powder, which parts should be taken, the order of adding medicinal materials, the size and time of the fire, whether to add fire or ingredients according to the five elements and eight trigrams, whether to need the assistance of formation runes, and to stabilize the medicinal properties on the stove? It is better to set up an external array to stabilize the spiritual energy, which ones should be put together and which ones should be put in sequence. Pay attention to how to balance the mutual restraint of the medicinal properties and whether the elixir needs to be nourished in the end. There are so many medicinal materials that have been compressed and combined with so many sets of procedures to form a pill that is either a soybean, a jelly bean, or a thumb-sized elixir. Should it be taken internally or externally? How should it be refined for internal use? Do you have any tips? What if the medicinal properties evaporate too quickly and turn into poison? If the pill cannot be refined and becomes a stubborn stone, it will be harmful to both the body and mind. If the medicinal properties evaporate or are refined, or the absorption rate does not match, wouldn't it be a waste of precious medicinal materials. The elixir is not necessarily what it looks like. Just crush the medicinal materials and refine them into pills. It would be better to dissolve it into a potion and drink it. If the elixir evaporates layer by layer, and the medicinal properties are gradually advanced and combined, different tips and luck methods are needed to achieve the effect. Looking at external application, it can also be taken internally, held in the hand, orally, or used in other channels for absorption, or used in combination, and refined in different ways or in combination or for different periods of time. It should be adjusted according to the four seasons, environment, and climate. Examples of traditional Chinese medicine include navel, anus, sucking, swallowing, and external application on the body. What about the more mysterious elixirs? Should we consider the four seasons, meridians, acupuncture points, exercises, constitution, birth date, destiny, environment, cultivation, and state of mind? There is obviously a lot of room for adjustment. It is necessary to make alchemy like a decoction in traditional Chinese medicine. You need to take the medicine according to the prescription, cook it, and take it. This is not a junior high school chemistry laboratory. It is so simple. The threshold for this thing is so low. Does it mean that the average person in the spiritual world has an IQ below 80 and no basic learning ability?