Chapter 722: Internal Organs

Zhang Cheng learned alchemy in the "Xuelu Garden" under the "Danfang" in the town. All apprentices followed the teacher Dantong to study medicinal materials, pharmacology, recipes and elixirs. After becoming proficient, they would become the Dantong of the alchemist and start to do odd jobs and run errands.

After being promoted to alchemist, Zhang Cheng transferred to the "Lingmiao Garden", where the alchemist made elixirs on a daily basis. He now has two Dantongs under him, who can apply for a batch of medicinal materials every month. In addition to completing the designated elixirs that must be submitted every month, the remaining time can be used to develop and try new recipes.

Zhang Cheng loves alchemy.

He likes the way that various inconspicuous things, even poisons and waste materials, are turned into pills in the alchemy furnace through steaming, drying, filtering, pounding and grinding. Anything that seems ordinary may be an indispensable part of a certain elixir.

Just like the saying circulated among alchemists.

"The world is the elixir furnace, and everything can be refined."

This is the experience summarized by alchemists of all generations who have been constantly exploring and exploring.

Heaven and earth are the best alchemy masters. People must follow heaven and earth to learn the natural laws of all things.

For this reason, alchemists go out every month to walk in the wild, feel the nature and mountains and seas, and visit relics and medicinal materials, all for the purpose of obtaining new alchemy recipes.

It is easy for Zhang Cheng to go out.

He is worried about his younger brother Zhang Ye.

The "Golden Works Institute" where the alchemist works is notoriously strict. This is also because the alchemy that the alchemist is engaged in always involves some more dangerous operations and reactions, which must be strictly controlled.

Alchemy has a core concept - understanding, decomposition and reconstruction.

This is somewhat similar to the alchemist's heaven and earth furnace, which is a simple and easy-to-understand summary, but it also points to the essence through complex phenomena.

Every time you prepare to build an alchemy device, you need to prepare and use a lot of materials, and strictly follow the corresponding alchemy formulas and symbols.

The furnace used by Zhang Cheng is an alchemy creation.

The vessel looks like an iron cauldron, but it needs to be made of high-temperature resistant volcanic clay, porcelain clay, crystal and special fine sand to create the embryo of the crucible. Then after shaping, it is fired with molten iron, and sulfur, salt, cinnabar, etc. are added to it, and it is repeatedly quenched and tested, which is called washing the furnace.

After the transformation of the furnace embryo is completed, it needs to be immersed in the reaction pool, and a layer of yellow iron sand is sealed on the outer layer, which is used to seal and stand still to prevent rust.

Then it will be handed over to the person in need.

Most of these materials in alchemy are high-risk items. For example, the reaction pool is actually a highly corrosive liquid that is concentrated and purified after poisonous rain. Cinnabar and sulfur are also deadly things, not to mention the processes of firing molten iron. Any mistake will lead to a disaster.

Among them, the most mysterious and core step is [Transformation].

Transformation is the core of alchemy, that is, through specific alchemical symbols and formula records, ordinary copper, iron and stone are converted into some materials or substances that do not exist with specific auxiliary catalysts.

For example, the most critical part of the furnace is the outer wall of the [fire silver]. As a mysterious material transformed by alchemy, fire silver has two characteristics: one is that it is very active at high temperatures, which can further concentrate the high temperature and is not easy to dissipate; the other is that its temperature distribution is very uniform and it is not easy to explode the furnace.

In addition to the difficulty of taking leave for metalwork, Zhang Cheng also has his own considerations.

His younger brother Zhang Ye has always been obsessed with alchemy. He fiddles with various materials, draws drawings, cuts materials with ink lines and makes various tools.

Zhang Cheng couldn't bear to interrupt his brother's practice.

At least wait until he becomes an alchemist before leaving. Once he leaves, Zhang Ye will never get such a good opportunity to study alchemy again.

Zhang Cheng keeps his troops in place.

The core of the 36 towns of the entire Jindan Kingdom is alchemy and alchemy, and the name of the country is taken from these two crafts.

The Jindan Kingdom takes the mountain god as its belief and national totem. The capital is built at the foot of Tianming Mountain, and Tianming Mountain is where the mountain god lives and cultivates.

Every year, Tianming Mountain grows a little bit higher, which means that the mountain god is recovering. Until Tianming Mountain rises to the top of the clouds and reaches the sky, it means that the mountain god has completely recovered, and the curse of the whole world will be washed away.

On the secular level, the king of Jindan Kingdom is named "Feng Danzi". He is also a prophet of the gods and the person closest to the mountain god. He has the ability to turn mountains and seas, and is mysterious.

The first Lao Ren Mountain was created by Feng Danzi using magic to move mountains and change the course. This is widely circulated.

In the past, whether it was the mountain god, Feng Danzi or Lao Ren Mountain, it was enough to make people proud.

Now all of these are covered with a layer of darkness and gloom.

The bright shell of the whole world was torn apart by the Powang Pill, and the bloody conspiracy and cruelty below were all naked in front of him, which made Zhang Cheng feel a huge pressure, fearing that he would attract the attention of Feng Danzi or even the mountain god.

He tried to make himself normal and not reveal any flaws.

But he couldn't help but use the Powang Pill to see this world again.

Alchemists always pursue various changes in nature, and he also wants to see the real appearance of this place.

Zhang Cheng discovered that for most people in Jindan Country, the monsters live in their chests, close to their hearts. That is also where everyone gets the divine seal.

There is no doubt that the mountain gods implanted monsters into people's bodies.

As people get older, these monsters gradually mature until they finally break out of their bodies.

But what Zhang Cheng couldn't figure out was that he didn't feel the existence of monsters in his body at all, and he had never heard anyone say that there was something drilling around in his stomach and chest.

Why is this?

After patiently observing, he found that the monster was different from what he thought. It had an irregular oval head and some strange blocky bodies. They didn't seem to be gathered together.

However, Zhang Cheng reacted quickly.

That monster... was the internal organs of a person!

The internal organs of a person were awakened by the divine seal and connected into a monster inside the body!

Zhang Cheng felt a chill on his back.

The mountain god wanted everyone's internal organs... so he used people to feed these organs.

The entire Jindan Kingdom was the mountain god's human sacrifice pasture.

This terrible secret made him unable to sleep and eat, but he couldn't tell anyone.

Just as he was getting thinner and uneasy, he suddenly heard a rumor.

The alchemist who came back from outside said that he saw Qing Monk appearing in the nearby mountains from a distance, and he was also beating a wooden fish.

The Qing Monk was said to be a rural hermit who had lived for hundreds of years. He was also the target of the Jindan Kingdom's Divine Guards. However, there is another saying among the people that this old monk is very smart and has seen through the secrets of life and death, so if you are lucky enough to meet him, you will have the opportunity to learn the method of immortality from him.

Zhang Cheng immediately applied to the alchemy house to go out to find medicine, and did not let the alchemy boy accompany him.

He went into the mountain in the direction the alchemist said.

It was still sunny, but as soon as he entered the mountain, poisonous rain began to fall from the sky. It was a common scene in the mountains when the sun was out and it rained at the same time.

The poisonous rain fell like oil on the ground. Zhang Cheng hurriedly ran to a rock under a thousand-layer umbrella to take shelter from the rain.

Although he was wearing the medicine-collecting clothes provided by the alchemy house, with thick linen on the outside and pigskin armor on the inside, he was wrapped tightly, but there would still be risks after getting wet.

Zhang Cheng covered his face with a medicine cloth to avoid inhaling too much poisonous gas.

The poisonous rain attracted bursts of loud frog calls.

Zhang Cheng lit an insect repellent incense.

The smoke drifted away, bringing with it the fragrance of herbs, and the tiny buzzing sound around was also weakened a lot.

When going out, poisonous insects are the biggest threat, and many people die from them every year. Some of the injured did not even react until they were extremely uncomfortable, and then they found swollen wounds from being bitten.

The alchemist was also very careful about this.

This rain seemed to be endless, and it even got heavier.

Zhang Cheng silently took out a handful of fried rice and stuffed it into his mouth, and filled his stomach with the clear water in the leather bag.

In the rain, he suddenly saw a figure.

The figure was tall, wearing a very wide hat, wearing green clothes, walking slowly in the rain, knocking on the wooden fish all the way.

He could also be heard chanting.

"His life is like floating, and his death is like rest."

"The traces of the ancients on the thousand-year-old stone, a little space in front of the ten-thousand-foot rock."

Zhang Cheng was delighted.

These characteristics are exactly the monk Qing.

However, for safety reasons, Zhang Cheng gritted his teeth and swallowed three pills of Pohuan Dan.

Then, after a spasm in his stomach, he saw the figure of the monk in green clothes dim, as if he could disappear at any time. The other party had only one eye, and the shadow under his feet disappeared without a trace, but there was no other abnormality.

What surprised Zhang Cheng was that the monk had no divine seal and strange internal organs in his body.

Zhang Cheng was puzzled.

Don’t people who live forever have shadows?

However, he resisted the dizziness and ran all the way with an umbrella.

“Excuse me, are you Master Qing?”

“I don’t dare to be a master, you can just call me Monk Qing.” Monk Qing’s voice was generous, and even if he had only one eye, he was not scary.

Zhang Cheng wiped the blood from his nose with a handkerchief and said, "I am Zhang Cheng, and I want to ask the master to solve my doubts."

"Master, do you know that the mountain god is the biggest evil in the world?"

"I know a little bit."

Zhang Cheng was overjoyed and immediately talked about his experiences during this period, the departure of his mother, the withered bones and remains of the old man in the mountain, and the marks and monsters on everyone's body... He was full of depression and finally found someone to confide in.

After listening, Monk Qing said, "What the layman saw is a secret that is difficult for the world to see. Perhaps it is fortunate that the common people do not know it."

"I don't understand why it is like this?"

Zhang Cheng looked painful.

"Why is it like this?"

Monk Qing also said softly, "If you want to understand all this, you need to comprehend it yourself, and I am on the way. However, life is like a dream, and you don't have to be too afraid. There is great terror between life and death."

Zhang Cheng keenly felt that the other party must know something.

"If you don't mind, Zhang Cheng wants to take me as his master, follow me and meditate! Please accept me!"

The green monk's one eye just blinked: "Are you sure you want to take me as your master? I am wanted and hunted everywhere, and you have a cause and effect with me. You will have to hide from the world and face danger all your life. But you will still face the worry of life and death here. Have you really thought it through?"

"I have thought it through!"

Zhang Cheng thought that if he could become the apprentice of the capable green monk, he and his brother would have a place to go.

"Okay."

The green monk smiled: "I know you want to escape from the mountain god. I'll give you a token. Take this and come to me when you decide to come. I can solve the mark left by the mountain god."

He tore off a piece of green cloth and handed it to Zhang Cheng, then continued to stagger forward, blending into the rain with the sound of wooden fish.

Two months later, Zhang Ye successfully obtained the qualification of alchemist.

That day, Zhang Cheng and Zhang Ye left the village overnight and went to seek refuge with Monk Qing.

However, after meeting, the first words of Qing Heshang made the two brothers feel a little helpless.

"I need you to go back and continue to lie dormant over there."

Qing Heshang stared at the two brothers with his one eye.

Zhang Cheng cursed in his heart.

Gan Lin's mother! !