Chapter 3 - A Dan Formula

　　The sun was high in the sky and it was midday. 　　His roommate knew that Song Shuhang hadn't recovered from his cold and told him to take a good rest, and had already made up another day of sick leave for him. 　　"How does the condition feel like it's getting worse? Is it because of the lack of exercise lately, the physical quality has gotten worse?" Song Shuhang said. 　　Beside him was a portion of leather and egg porridge, which his roommate had brought for him at noon. 　　"Good man na!" Song Shuhang didn't hesitate to give his roommates a good person card. 　　After sleeping for an unknown amount of time, he was early starving his front and back, he finished the skin and egg congee in a few strokes and turned on the computer again. 　　After habitually opening the chat software, he saw the red dot of the number of chats of the offspring of the 'Nine Continents One Group'. 　　Song Shuhang curiously reached out and opened the Nine Continents No. 1 Group, wanting to see what the immortal senior middle-aged groupies inside had chatted about all night. 　　The chats from the early hours of the morning surfaced before his eyes. 　　Beihe Scatterer's question about 'newcomers', Mad Blade Sanlang's death-defying behavior, the interesting Spirit Butterfly Island seniors. There was also the Yellow Mountain True Lord who claimed to have counted a fortune and figured out that he was destined to be with him. 　　Looking at the chat logs, the images of several people fleshed out in Shuhang's mind. 　　"So I added the wrong person, I told you, I don't even recognize this Yellow Mountain True Lord." 　　Judging from the chat logs, this group was still not like anyone could enter? There was still a need for someone to recommend them to join the group. 　　Also, this group of senior immortal fans in the group seem to be not young, and even have daughters. 　　And it sounds like their daughters are not young? That counts up to maybe forty or fifty years old, so old and still middle-aged, their daughters are really hard. 　　Brushing through the group's chats, Song Shuhang maintained a diving state, definitely not speaking. 　　It was fun to watch the members of the group committing douchebaggery, but what would be the point if he himself got involved? It wasn't like he was a douchebag. 　　So his plan was to dive in and watch the chats, purely as a daily joke. 　　When the day came that he felt this group was no longer interesting, he would quit the Nine Continents One group. 　　That's what he's always thought. 　　...... 　　Unconsciously, ten days passed ...... 　　June 1, Saturday, Children's Day. 　　Shuhang's roommates were all half lodging and half walking, which meant that they stayed from Monday to Friday and would go home on the weekends. So once the weekend came, he was the only one left alone in the dormitory. 　　Song Shuhang's cold had recovered, it was just that he still had a bit of nasal congestion and a cough. This cough was a cold cough, and it was more troublesome to recover. You would cough for a month if you didn't maintain it well. 　　Resting on Saturday, Shuhang slept until eight o'clock before waking up, and went to the cafeteria to eat some light food. 　　With nothing to do, he returned to the dormitory. 　　After turning on the computer, he habitually went to the Nine Continents One group to look at the chat logs, which had become a good way for him to pass the time every day. 　　Unconsciously, joining this group has been more than ten days. 　　During the ten days of diving, he saw that most of the people in the group were chatting about which secret realm they had ventured to and how much they had gained. Or where evil spirits and demons appeared, either subdued or killed. 　　It was all told as if it was true. Song Shuhang thought to himself, if he copied all of this down and retouched it a bit, he could even post it on the internet as an immortal novel to earn a fee. 　　Within ten days, Song Shuhang had also gotten to know several characters in the group. 　　For example, the group master, Huang Shan Zhenjun, who seldom ventured out. 　　There were also the two administrators who hadn't appeared since he joined the group, True Lord Rain Moon of the Great Luo Sect and Venerable Seven Cultivators. 　　The 'information pass' Beihe Scattered Man who is often online, the Wild Blade Three Waves who has made a good death, Su's Aqi who is always fighting, and the Pill Master who is as stingy as gold. 　　There is also the cloud wandering monk Tongxuan who has been diving, and even if he ventures out, he only expresses his feelings and punctuation marks. It is said that this monk is practicing closed-mouth Zen, not only can't speak, even typing is not possible, at most, just send an expression. 　　Lastly, there was Spirit Butterfly Island's Yu Rouzi who spoke normally in this slightly middle-aged group. Her number and Song Shuhang's were only one digit apart. Thanks to her, Shuhang had the opportunity to enter this Nine Continents One group. 　　All of this information was obtained from the enthusiastic 'North River Scatterer' introducing other group members to 'Lingdie Island Yurouzi'. 　　...... 　　...... 　　When I opened the Nine Continents No. 1 group today, the first thing I saw was the pharmacist's speech. 　　Rarely, the word-shy Pill Master opened his golden mouth, "Improved a basic Dan formula." 　　This was a sentence with 9 words with punctuation, Song Shuhang hadn't seen Medicine Master send such a long message since he added the group. Therefore, he read on with curiosity. 　　Medicine Master's message was sent in the wee hours of the morning. 　　"Simplified version of the Body Hardening Liquid Dan formula: three taels of ginseng, four taels and three cents of wolfberry; one or two taels of Chao Lu Xuan Cao; three taels of Yang Qi Shi, one taels and three cents of Daughter's Fragrance ...... one or two taels of Fresh Bastard Branches, four taels of Nine Suns Red Inflammation Bamboo Slices ...... " 　　A series of forty-five kinds of medicinal herbs, among which there are more familiar ginseng, wolfberry and so on, there are also more out-of-the-way stream of Yang Qi Shi, and there are also some simply have never heard of what Chaolu Xuan Grass, Fresh Bajing Branch, Nine Yang Red Flame Bamboo and so on. 　　"Put them into the medicinal furnace one by one according to the formula proportion, and smother them for about five minutes; put in new herbs and continue to smother them for about five minutes. Pay attention to the fire! Cycle like this until the medicinal liquid becomes a paste. The finished quenching liquid is black in color, transparent, and has a punchy taste." 　　Plain and easy to understand! 　　The forty or so medicinal names Shuhang didn't recognize many, and he curiously looked them up on the internet. 　　In the Dan formula, there were thirty types of ordinary Chinese herbs, all of which were for tonifying qi and blood and such. 　　There were also fifteen types such as Chao Lu Xuan Cao, Baji Wang Zhi ah, Red Inflammable Bamboo ah but he had never heard of them at all, it couldn't be something that this 'medicine master' and the group had deluded themselves into thinking of, could it? 　　"These guys are too sick, they even came up with a prescription, it's not possible that someone would really follow the prescription and then eat that medicinal paste, right?" Song Shuhang secretly said in his heart. 　　He was a little worried because while rice could be eaten indiscriminately, medicine couldn't be drunk indiscriminately ah! 　　Taking medicine indiscriminately would kill you, right? Should he advise these middle-aged groupies? How to say that he had been watching from the sidelines for more than ten days. 　　If someone in the group died from taking pills indiscriminately, he couldn't bear it. 　　He continued to pick up the chat logs, and sure enough, someone had already gone to refine the medicine according to the prescription! 　　Surprisingly, it was the most normal girl in the group, Spirit Butterfly Island Yurouzi, at around 2:00 am. 　　Spirit Butterfly Island Yu Rouzi: "Compared to the old version of the Body Hardening Liquid there are a lot fewer herbs that are already rare, and the refining process has been simplified too much. Pill master senior, to what extent does the fire have to be mastered? I just tried it and it failed halfway through. Also how much difference is there in terms of potency compared to the past?" 　　"Efficacy 2:1," the pharmacist said. 　　The potency was only half of what it used to be, after all, many precious herbs had been reduced. But to be able to formulate a body quenching liquid with such a common and popularized medicinal herb, one could say that one had earned it anyways. 　　"The fire and the specific smothering time is something you can figure out on your own, it can't be explained." The pharmacist once again made a rare long sentence, and it was only when it was about alchemy medicines that he could grit his teeth and type a few more words, "Also, if your 'Fire Control Skill' is not good, it is recommended to use a fire control magic treasure." 　　"Thank you senior, I'll try again." Spirit Butterfly Island Yurouzi sent a smiley face and dived away. 　　Spirit Butterfly Island Feiluozi's last statement was at 2:13 a.m. If she had gone to refine pills right behind her, counting the time she should have already refined several stoves of pills? 　　It's going to kill people, isn't it? Originally is a group of two-side disease is very mengmengda, and then take the wrong medicine, will not become super mengmengda? Originally, it might be possible to salvage them again, but now after taking the medicine, they are simply hopeless, okay! 　　He finally had a bad conscience and couldn't help but type in the chat box, "You can't take medicine indiscriminately!" 　　Just as he was about to hit enter and type his first sentence in the group ...... the chat window vibrated. 　　A large smiley face popped up in the group chat screen. 　　However, it was the administrator, Venerable Seven Cultivators, who hadn't ventured out since Song Shuhang joined the group, "The formula is very good, I just tried seven stoves at the same time, and they all succeeded with ease, the success rate is extremely high. I took some of it, and the medicinal effect is almost one-half the effect of the old body quenching liquid and a little more. However, the cost of the formula is ten times lower than the old version. Although it's only the lowest-order body quenching liquid, it's really a good thing for us nowadays when the aura of heaven and earth is getting thinner and thinner, and precious medicinal herbs are becoming more and more scarce. Pharmacist, keep up the good work. If you can improve a Dan formula that is above the third grade, it would be a true feat." 　　"Adding: most importantly, the difficulty of the refining method is greatly reduced, and it can even be given to apprentice pill practitioners to refine." 　　Venerable Seven Cultivators was a famous senior in the group, his strength was a shade stronger than True Lord Huang Shan. Moreover, he also had extremely deep attainments in alchemy, and could be said to be an authority on alchemy in this group, his praise naturally encouraged the pill master, a junior. 　　"Thank you senior, I'll try my best!" The medicinal master excitedly typed out a sentence with more than six words, and it was also very fast. 　　The corners of Song Shuhang's mouth even began to twitch: surprisingly, someone had already refined and taken that 'Body Tempering Liquid'?