No matter how much chaos, ups and downs, and darkness, time can always heal them, leaving only twisted scars to remind them of what happened. However, even looking at the scar, the pain in my heart is not as strong as it was at the beginning.
Two years later...
A thin but tall young man sat on the roof of a bell tower, looking at the clan stele in the center of the square in the light of the sun, and a faint longing was revealed in the young man's eyes.
"Brother Chen, you really are here again."
When the voice came, I saw a fat young man jumped from the bell house to the roof out of breath, grinning at the young man: "By the way, the tiger flame grass you asked me to find last time is gone. When my elder brother came back from this experience, he happened to pick some."
The boy's eyes lit up slightly, "Really? I can exchange it with Qingyan Pill."
The fat boy shook his head repeatedly, and said: "What to change? My brother said, Brother Chen needs it, even if you take it, it's not a particularly precious material anyway, it's just a matter of merit in the clan. , It’s a bit troublesome for Brother Chen, but... Brother Chen, you have prepared so many good materials this year, isn't it because you want to participate in this medicine meeting?"
The thin and tall boy was Yaochen. He smiled at this moment and turned his head to look deeply at the great clan stele. Before his father died, he still wanted to bring him to this stele. The significance of this is this year. Yao Chen, who was already fifteen years old, could truly understand. He nodded vigorously and said, "This is an opportunity. As long as you can prove yourself at the Medicine Fair, maybe you can... Haha, Luo Shu, let's go."
The so-called "Medicine Fair" is an extremely important activity among the medicine clan. It only takes place every five years. In the medicine clan, all young people younger than twenty-four years old can participate.
In the medicine fair, the younger generation competed in the art of refining medicine, and the final winner would win the reputation of "the first pharmacist". For the disciples of the medicine clan, this kind of glory is almost supreme.
The fat boy is Luo Shu, Yaochen’s playmate since childhood. Two years have passed, and I don’t know why. Luo Shu likes to follow Yaochen even more. Whatever Yaochen does, he does what Yaochen does. When Chen asked him to go west, he would never go east, even his father and brother could not persuade him to come back.
Luo Shu's eyes flickered slightly, and he also looked at the stone monument in the distance, and there was also an emotion that was almost pious and respectful in his eyes.
In the medicine clan, anyone, regardless of surname Yao, regards the clan inscriptions as the ultimate glory.
But... Luo Shu touched his stomach and said, "Brother Chen, no matter how good the clan stele is, it can't fill your stomach. Let's go back to eat. I'm already hungry."
"Tululu", Luo Shu's stomach also screamed in cooperation.
Yao Chen smiled suddenly and nodded, "Let's go, go back."
Luo Shu happily nodded, and while walking, he talked about the dinner dishes with Yaochen, "Aunt Qing made braised fish and braised rabbit meat today. The portion is full. Don't eat it all in a while. Save some until night before going to my house. Get some bamboo green wine, perfect supper, tut tut, don't be too chic..."
"What chic, don't get fat anymore." Yao Chen shook his head and smiled.
Luo Shu basically wouldn’t argue with Yao Chen, except for the prime minister about his figure. As soon as he heard the word "fat", Luo Shu violent on the spot, arguing: "Brother Chen, you don’t Understand, I'm not fat, it's baby fat. My brother was fatter than me back then, and he is not handsome yet tall."
"I'm too lazy to talk about you." Yao Chen shook his head.
When the two walked to the alley home, Yao Chen saw his mother standing at the door of the house, looking towards this side.
Yao Chen quickened his pace, "Mother, I'm back."
"Auntie Qing, can we have dinner?"
Luo Shu's saliva is about to come out, and it has become his normal state to eat at Yaochen's home.
Yao Qing smiled lightly, "Have you washed your hands?"
"I washed it early, right, Yaochen?"
After seeing Yao Chen nodded, Yao Qing said, "Okay, it's time for dinner."
Half-and-half, I eat to death, and Yaochen Luoshu, at the age of a long body, like a wind, they ate all the food on the table.
Looking at the empty dining table, Luo Shu touched his stomach, only then remembered that he originally planned to leave some braised rabbit meat for supper.
"Aunt Qing..." Luo Shu turned his head eagerly and looked at Yao Qing.
"Don't worry, there is still a lot left in the pot."
"Yeah, Yaochen, go, go to my house to play."
Luo Shu jumped up, took Yaochen and walked outside.
"Yao Chen, don't forget to test your grudge progress tonight." The smile on Yao Qing's face was suddenly put away, and there was also a slight coldness in his voice.
After the death of his father, the once gentle mother became stricter, especially in the practice of dealing with Yaochen. Two years ago, Yaochen rushed for promotion. Although he broke through to the nine-star fighter overnight, the sequelae was the meridian rebellion. For two full years, even his talent foundation was damaged.
"I see, mother, I will be back soon."
Yao Chen nodded, and walked out with Luo Shu, passing through a courtyard gate, and it was Luo Shu's house.
It was dinner time, Luo Shu's family was also eating, but in comparison, the food on the table was pitifully simple, there was nothing other than a pot of white steamed buns, not even the simplest pickles. As for meat, want to eat? Go to the back mountain to catch game by yourself, and you must catch yourself to eat, not to eat, which is considered as a practice. This is already included in the Luo family motto. To be honest, with Luo Shu’s figure, don’t go to medicine dust. I really can’t eat meat for a lifetime.
"I'm back? Have you eaten it? Come, this, eat it. I heard that it's better to use it after a meal."
It was Luo Bing who was speaking, looking at Yao Chen's gaze, with a slight guilt, he took out a porcelain bottle from his arms and handed it to Yao Chen's hand.
"Thank you, Uncle Luo." Yaochen nodded, and he opened the porcelain bottle, and a strange fragrance diffused from the bottle, which contained a thumb-sized pill. After taking out the dust, he swallowed the pill. At the entrance, the fecal fluid penetrates into the lungs, and the medicinal power is transformed into the meridians.
This is the Musk Original Guyuan Pill, but it is not an ordinary pill. It can consolidate the cyclone in the Dantian and increase the quality of fighting energy. The disciples of the Yao clan can only take one in the clan library every one month.
After the incident two years ago, Luo Bing resigned from Tiewei and is currently the captain of a tribal guard. With his former Tiewei identity and the current powers of the small defense chief, together, there will be monthly visits. The clan library receives the privilege of five musk solid solid pill.
The consumption of the pills needed to supply medicinal dust every month was the only way he could think of to help.
After the death of Yao Chen’s father, the various cultivation resources in the clan, and the things that can be distributed to Yao Chen’s disciples, were less and less. If it were not for the help of his father’s brothers in Tiewei, he had experienced a grudge runaway. Yao Chen, I'm afraid I won't even think about cultivation in this life.
It is with these help that he was able to recover in the past two years.
Yaochen closed his eyes and adjusted his breath for a while, feeling that the power of the medicine was included in the meridians. When he opened his eyes, he saw a smile on Luo Bing's face and said: "Yes, I will absorb the power of the medicine in a stick of incense, Biluoshu has no interest. It’s too strong."
The chubby Luo Shu chuckled and said, "Anyway, there will be Brother Chen covering it, so it's better to give my share to Brother Chen..."
"Blindly, although the Sheben Guyuan Pill is good, two in a month is the limit, can the pill be eaten indiscriminately?" Luo Bing glared at Luo Shu, in fact, it is not impossible to eat more, but it is medicine. Three-point poison, the pill is no exception. There is no other pill to eliminate the side-toxin of the medicine. Although eating more can make progress by leaps and bounds, but it will be harmful and useless if it goes on for a long time.
The direct disciples of the clan or those who have strong branches and branches will naturally receive corresponding detoxification pills. However, for their ordinary branch disciples, it is already a gift for them to send a solid solid foundation every three months. Now, let alone the more precious Detoxification Pill
Yao Chen smiled and bowed to Luo Bing, "Thank you, Uncle Luo."
Luo Bing nodded and patted on Yao Chen's shoulder, as if there was still something to say, but his lips moved a little bit, and he held it back, and said, "Okay, I have something to do. Let's go. You guys play."
As soon as Luo Bing left, Luo Shu immediately rushed to his brother Luo Shan, "Hey, brother, where is Huyancao?"
Yao Chen also looked at Luo Shan expectantly. Two years ago, Yao Chen was preparing for this medicine fair...
In fact, most of the preparations were done by his father, but his father left him before he could mention the medicine meeting with him.
That is, no amount of preparation is too much. In the medicine clan, there are countless talented and talented disciples. If you want to show your true strength, rely on the ordinary materials provided by the clan that can only refine ordinary pill, even if He is a talented god, and he can't win the championship. Only by carefully preparing a variety of rare materials and refining a special pill can he show his talents and win the first place.
However, the Yaochen family is just a branch after all. After the death of his father, the daily life and the family will naturally take care of all kinds of things. It is not bad, but it is extremely difficult to collect and prepare various rare materials for the medicine meeting, even if the father is in the past. My brothers tried every means to help. After two years, Yaochen still lacked a few special medicinal materials.
Tiger flame grass is the most difficult to obtain, and even the clan library is in short supply right now, and the merits cannot be exchanged. The news that I found seemed to be that the pill that a certain clan elder recently refined needed a large amount of tiger flame grass, and almost all the stock in the clan library was taken by that clan elder.
Luo Shan is Luo Shu's elder brother, with a very stable personality. He has just turned 20 this year. In the medicine clan, at this age, he is already able to stand alone. As the saying goes, the tiger father has no dogs, Luo Shan is also quite a fatherly style. He is already a nine-star fighting master at the age of twenty. It is possible to rush into the realm of the great fighting master at any time. It is not only strength, but also determination and calmness. Among the younger generation of disciples in the clan, they are also among the best. Several missions in the clan were completed easily by Dzogchen. They have been selected as a guardian clan soldier a few days ago. With their potential for practice, they will become like their fathers within five years. The captain of the clan army is by no means a problem, and even has the opportunity to become a more demanding iron guard.
At this time, Luo Shan smiled at Yao Chen, "Your breath fluctuates a bit, two years have passed... Yes, it's time to hit Dou Master, right?"
Yao Chen nodded slightly, and attacked Dou Master at the age of fifteen. To be honest, this achievement was not outstanding among the Yao family. However, after two years, due to the damage to his foundation, his main direction of practice was not on fighting qi, but on the perception of the soul.
The most important thing in refining medicine is not the material, nor the fire, but the perfect control of the fire, and this control does not rely on experience. Perhaps ordinary pill, you can go through hundreds or thousands of refining, forming a kind of instinct, but for high-level pill, it is rare to collect all the materials once a year. How can you give you the opportunity to test your experience? At this time, the only thing you can rely on is soul perception.
Yaochen's soul perception has been different from ordinary people since childhood. Therefore, Yaohuo, the father of Yaochen, planned a rigorous cultivation path for Yaochen in terms of soul perception.
In order to cultivate soul perception, Yaochen's practice on fighting qi has unknowingly fallen a lot. Of course, no matter how much it falls, Yaochen can be regarded as upper-middle among the branch disciples, but compared with the geniuses of the direct line, it is heaven and earth. .
"Go harder, Yao Feng, Yao Tong, and your age are already three-star Dou masters." Luo Shan nodded, and took out a half jade box from his arms. This is Dou Shi Dou Yu's box, which has medicinal properties. The effect of.
Luo Shu spit out his tongue, "Brother, Yao Feng is a direct descendant, how many pieces of Musk Ben Guyuan Pills are taken a month? Brother Chen can only take two pieces a month, which can be compared? Why don't you compare with Yao Wan Go back to Bibi? I heard that Yao Wangui is already a two-star master, right?"
Luo Shan shook his head and tapped on Luo Shu's head to stop talking. He opened the half jade box. There were more than ten red exotic grasses emitting a faint enthusiasm, which could be vaguely seen. Among them, the tiger shadow fluttered.
Seeing Hu Ying, Yao Chen's eyes lit up, and he took the half jade box, "This... is this the best-quality virtual flame grass?"
The high-grade virtual flame grass can see the tiger shadow, but the tiger shadow is dead, with the tiger shadow fluttering, it is definitely the best material.
Luo Shan nodded, "I was lucky this time. I picked a lot of the best products. Most of them are handed over to the clan library. I will leave some especially for you. This time the medicine meeting, come on."
"Brother Shan, thank you."
Yao Chen was grateful that he had the best tiger flame grass, he was more confident about the medicine meeting, but he didn't know what to give in return. The Qingyan Pill... is the only medicine he can come up with at the moment, but with Compared with the extremely mouthful tiger flame grass, it is nothing.
"Thank you, your strength, others don't understand, I don't know it yet, I just take it as an investment, after you become a five-mouth pharmacist, just give me some five-grade pill, I'm worth it."
Luo Shu laughed and said: "What is the fifth-rank, Brother Chen can definitely become a seventh-rank alchemist."
Luo Shan laughed too, "Yes, ideals should be fuller. I underestimate you."
Yao Chen also smiled, "Since you want to be a little plump, why isn't it a ninth product?"
Luo Shu and Luo Shan couldn't laugh anymore. In the whole medicine clan, only the patriarch Yao Pill was a ninth-level pharmacist.
"This... will it be a little farther away?" Yao Chen touched his nose embarrassedly.
"No more!" Luo Shan, who was as steady as a mountain, also laughed and cursed.
"It's just... I don't know how high the sky is." Luo Shu also shouted loudly.
Yao Chen just smiled. How could he engrave his parents' names on the clan stele if he knew that the sky was high and the earth was thick? Looking at the clan stele, how many of the names carved into the stele for thousands of years are of branch origin
Among the thousands of names engraved by Wannian, only a few dozens of backgrounds were born!
Branch disciples, want to engrave their names into the clan stele, not only to be good enough, but also to pay more... After all, the clan stele is the highest glory of the whole medicine clan!
After getting the tiger flame grass, Yao Chen's pressure on the refining materials was suddenly reduced. Several other rare medicinal materials have already been found, but the medicine dust is enough to change the medicine.
The three of them played for a while, and Luo Shu touched his belly. Although he was not hungry, his mouth had no taste. He wanted to eat, so he said, "Brother Chen, let's go, it's supper time, brother, are you coming?"
Luo Shan shook his head and said with a smile: "I think so, but I still have the task of patrolling the night, so please go back."
"gone."
The two are neighbourhoods, and the way back is a long road less than 100 meters long.
Yaochen grabbed the tiger flame grass, opened the jade box as he walked, and looked at the tiger flame grass. This top-quality tiger flame grass is very delicate. After picking, he must drop nectar from time to time to maintain the best medicinal properties. .
At this time, Yao Chen noticed that the tiger shadow of the tiger flame grass was shaking somewhat abnormally. Knowing that it was time to drop the nectar, he said to Luo Shu: "Wait, it should be the nectar. You go first, I'll go to the side. Get some nectar."
For foreigners, if they want to get nectar, they have to get up early to collect it in the mountains before dawn, but for the disciples of the medicine clan, it's just a matter of pill.
Ganlu Dan, a first-class pill, took medicinal dust with me when I went out. At this time, I took one out of my arms and walked towards the other side of the waterway.
The water channel communicates with the mountain spring, with the bucket array as the core, which penetrates the entire medicine family, and the bucket array plays a role in purification and deodorization. Every household can introduce the water in the water channel for daily needs.
A porcelain bottle containing medicine was used to draw water from the waterway, and then the Kuludan was crushed into powder, sprinkled into the bottle, and melted with the water. After a while, the water in the porcelain bottle turned into nectar.
Yao Chen opened the jade box again, and carefully, with a grudge, dropped the nectar on the tiger flame grass drop by drop.
Just when the last tiger flame grass was dripped, suddenly there was a sound from a fork in the road. A group of young people turned around from the intersection. Yao Chen glanced at it, and his face changed slightly. These young people They are all classmates in the same class as him, but the relationship between them is not very friendly.
"Huh? Medicine dust?"
"Huh? Tiger Flame Grass! The best Tiger Flame Grass!"
A group of people stared at the best tiger flame grass in Yao Chen's hand in amazement, and some people wiped their eyes to try to see clearly, who is Yao Chen? Among the clan studies, the famous poor ghost, where did he get the tiger flame grass
Unless it is exchanged from the clan library with meritorious service, but...
"No, I remember that the tiger flame grass in the clan library was transferred by the elders to refining medicine, and there is no need to change it."
"Oh, Yaochen, where did your tiger flame grass come from?"
"It's not... You stole it? Yaochen, you are so bold, you dare to steal medicinal materials from the elder!"
Young people are good-natured. When they are bored, they have to booze when they encounter something as big as shrimps. At this time, looking at the tiger flame grass in Yaochen's hand, they shouted wherever they could remain quiet.
Luo Shu, who was waiting for Yaochen not far away, immediately became angry and jumped over and shouted, "Fart, it smells inaudible. This is what my brother just brought back from outside. If there is no evidence, he will blame the same clan. , This is a felony."
"Fatty man, what are you talking about?"
"Heavy your uncle's sin, hit!"
Young and vigorous, reasonable? It is the truth to talk about it after you move your fist. Whoever has a strong fist will stand on the side of the truth.
A group of people rushed forward, their fighting spirit flickered, but it was not a melee, but stepped on the rhythm of the joint attack, separated Yaochen and Luo Shu, and then continued to attack.
These young disciples' vindictiveness is only the eight-dan and nine-dan of the fighters, and the victory is due to the large number of people. At this time, they used the method of joint attack taught by the patriarchy, and immediately knocked both Yaochen and Luo Shu to the ground.
Yao Chen roared, a power surging in his body. The violent walk that hurt the foundation two years ago was actually not a completely bad thing. Under the seal of the past two years, there is an extremely huge power in his body.
"Go to hell!"
Luo Shu guarded his head, roared, but unexpectedly hugged one of them, opened his mouth, and bit down.
"Wow... He bites!"
The muscles on Yao Chen's cheeks twisted, and with a roar, he was about to fight back desperately, but at this moment...
"What are you doing!"
A sound of scolding came from the side.
"Auntie Qing, help!"
The little fat man, who was brave just now, immediately let go and shouted loudly.
What came out was Yaoqing that was driven out by the shouts outside.
When a group of young people saw the presence of an adult, they screamed and screamed. They walked along the road and disappeared in an instant.
Yao Qing hurried over, checked Luo Shu, then walked to Yao Chen and asked, "Are you okay?"
"Well, just got a few punches." Yao Chen nodded.
Yao Qing was not relieved, and took the pulse for Yao Chen, feeling that there was no abnormality in the vindictive energy in Yao Chen's body, and then he was relieved, "Before completing the last step, don't do anything with others. No matter how difficult it is, you can't do it."
Yao Chen nodded, and promised: "Well, I see."
Luo Shu was a little dazed, but turned his head to look at Yao Chen, but shouted: "Brother Chen, it's unfair, my face is swollen, why are you doing nothing?"
"That's because your face is fat and swollen."
"Then I still have this bruise!" Luo Shu grabbed the back of his head, no matter how he thought it was wrong.