When Li Shiyin came out of the research building, she saw Qin Ran holding a hoe and digging the soil on the river bank, right next to the green grass that she didn't recognize.
She came over to the river and asked, "Master, what are you planting?"
"Grow some Crane Crown Immortal Grass..." Qin Ran replied, put away the hoe, took out a porcelain bottle from his Qiankun bag, poured out a few milky white seeds with black spots, spread them out and gestured to Li Shiyin, "These are Crane Crown Immortal Grass seeds, very expensive, just this bottle, less than fifty seeds, ten low-grade spirit stones."
Li Shiyin knew that spirit stones were very precious. In the mortal world, it was hard to find one. Now, just a few seeds cost ten spirit stones, so she asked again: "What is this grass, Crane, immortal, for? Is it very precious?!"
"Crane Crown Immortal Grass. When this grass grows up, the tip of the grass will bend down and turn white, just like a crane's head. It looks very beautiful." Qin Ran replied, "It is one of the three main ingredients for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill. Naturally, it is very valuable."
"Foundation Building Pill?"
"Some cultivators have poor talents and may not be able to build a foundation. The foundation-building pill will greatly increase their chances of building a foundation." Qin Ran answered every question.
Li Shiyin nodded, pointed at the lush green grass next to Qin Ran, and asked, "What kind of magical grass is this?"
Qin Ran looked to the side and his expression changed slightly. He replied, "This is the Spirit Rejuvenating Herb."
"What is the awakening grass used for?"
“Xingshen Grass…” The Xingshen Grass is used to refine the Rongling Pill, but Qin Ran did not answer that. He only said, “Xingshen Grass is very good for the soul.”
“Oh!” Li Shiyin didn’t notice Qin Ran’s abnormality. She smiled and said, “So this is how fairy grass is grown. This is how my father grows flowers at home.”
"You don't have to think of fairy grass as too noble. For example, this awakening grass doesn't require a high environment, so it can indeed be planted this way." Qin Ran explained casually, squatted down, and poured a Crane Crown Fairy Grass seed into the newly dug hole, and said, "But Crane Crown Fairy Grass can't actually be planted this way. Crane Crown Fairy Grass likes the sun and water, and it's best to plant it in a sunny wetland. Ordinary soil won't work, you have to use spiritual soil. It's truly noble."
Li Shiyin was puzzled by this: "Then why do you plant it this way, Master?"
“Well…” Qin Ran hesitated for a moment, and replied, “Because I’m poor.”
"poverty?"
"Spiritual soil is too expensive. I can't afford it." Qin Ran said
"I can only try to plant it."
As he spoke, he took out a porcelain bottle from his Qiankun bag and poured a few drops of turbid water onto the seeds. He then explained to Li Shiyin, "This is specially made by me. Well, let's call it spiritual water. It is made by extracting spiritual stones and some nutrients needed by plants into the water."
After collecting the "spiritual water", he smiled and said, "Let's do an experiment to see if I can grow magical herbs with just the spiritual water without the spiritual soil."
The master is really knowledgeable! So amazing! So amazing! Li Shiyin exclaimed in her heart again.
“Oh, right…” Qin Ran stood up and gently buried the soil with his hoe. He asked Li Shiyin, “How much of the book I gave you just now have you read?”
The admiration in Li Shiyin's eyes suddenly disappeared, and she looked away awkwardly.
Qin Ran looked up and saw her expression. How could he not understand? He did not ask any more questions. He buried the soil, stuck the shovel aside, and squatted down to the river to wash his hands.
"If you don't understand the direction of the meridians and the location of the acupuncture points, you definitely won't be able to practice..." He soaked his hands in the cold river water and said, "I mean you can't practice, not that you can't make pills. Do you understand what I mean?"
"Unable to make pills? Unable to practice?" Li Shiyin didn't understand and shook her head.
Qin Ran sighed inwardly, thinking that he had accepted an idiot apprentice. Why did he think she was a cold goddess yesterday? It had only been one day, and she was so stupid that he was a little overwhelmed.
He patiently explained: "You can't practice. Maybe you can feel the energy in your body and the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, but you can't drive them! Don't you understand this?"
“But Master…” Qin Ran’s speechless look frightened Li Shiyin a little. She didn’t dare to speak loudly and only whispered, “I can already activate the innate energy in my body.”
"An?" Qin Ran was stunned, thinking he had heard wrongly. Then he felt that Li Shiyin was lying to him, and he was really a little angry. "Tell me, how do you drive the energy of heaven and earth?"
"Just... like it says in the book, put your five hearts facing the sky, then press your tongue against the roof of your mouth, close your eyes, and focus your consciousness from your brows to your body and limbs. Imagine the feeling of air flowing, just like that..." Li Shiyin replied weakly. She closed her eyes, as if she was driving the innate energy in her body. "There really is an air flow moving in my body, from the Qi Sea that Master mentioned, to here..." She pointed to her left rib, "to the Dan Zhong point, and then to my left hand..."
She pointed out to Qin Ran one by one, from the left hand in, the left hand out, the right hand in, the right hand out again, and finally back to the sea of qi, forming a perfect cycle.
Looking at Li Shiyin's appearance, Qin Ran realized that she might not be lying, and seemed to have really started practicing. He quickly crossed the stream and came to the river. Without saying a word, he picked up Li Shiyin's wrist, closed his eyes and carefully examined it, and found that there was indeed air flow in her body, following the trajectory of the basic exercises.
He opened his eyes wide, full of disbelief, and asked: "Have you... practiced before, or..."
"Master, didn't you give me the Basic Kung Fu last night?" Li Shiyin looked at her wrist that Qin Ran had grabbed, not knowing what she was thinking. She said, "I couldn't sleep last night, so I followed the instructions, and then I felt the energy. I then moved it around my body, just like the diagram in the book. It was very simple. Master, you said that if you don't know the meridian points, you can't practice. I'm a little scared... Am I practicing wrong? Will I go astray?"
“No… No…” Qin Ran let go of Li Shiyin’s hand and began to doubt his life. “You did the right thing. You practiced very well. Once you open your Ren and Du meridians and sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, you can condense the cyclone and start building your foundation.”
Li Shiyin clearly knew nothing about meridian acupuncture points, so why could he feel the qi so smoothly and drive the qi flow so correctly? He didn't quite understand. Could it be that this apprentice was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, looking simple, but actually very cunning
“Master…” When he was doubting his life and Li Shiyin, Li Shiyin suddenly called him again.
He looked over with a blank expression.
Li Shiyin lowered her head and asked softly, "Master, can you make an elixir that can prolong life?"
"I haven't refined it." Qin Ran answered truthfully. Medicinal materials that can prolong life are usually very expensive and he can't afford them.
"Oh!" Li Shiyin responded with some disappointment.
Seeing her like this, Qin Ran didn't know why, so he added, "But I have studied it. If there is a pill formula and medicinal materials, I believe it can be refined."
"Really?" Li Shiyin became happy instantly.
"real."
"Then..." Li Shiyin continued to ask while she still had the courage, "If I practice sword, do I have to go to Jianfeng?"
Qin Ran's heart moved when he heard this, and he looked at Li Shiyin, only to see Li Shiyin's pair of watery eyes staring at him eagerly.
"If..." But he still answered, "If you want to go further in the way of the sword, it's better to go to Jianfeng. After all, I practice the way of the elixir."
"oh… "