Chapter 40: Preparation of Spiritual Fluid
Still walking along the leftmost mine tunnel, taking out the moonstone, and going all the way to the left to where he had stayed before, Duan Qing breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the cave entrance he had sealed was intact.
After moving the rubble away, Duan Qing bent down and entered the cave, placed the moonstone on a high place for lighting, and then took out some raw stones and wooden gourds, ready to start the experiment.
The fool followed Duan Qing all the way into the cave. When he first entered the mine, he was still a little scared. He only dared to follow Duan Qing's feet and didn't dare to leave. After walking for a while, the fool seemed to let go a little and returned to his jumping appearance.
However, as soon as he entered the cave, the fool became quiet again, just burying his head beside Duan Qing and whimpering softly.
Duan Qing touched the fool's head. Although he didn't know why this active little guy suddenly became quiet, this was exactly what he wanted. He was a little worried that the fool would run around after entering, and what if he fell into the water cave.
Subconsciously looking in the direction of the cave entrance, and confirming again and again that there were no traces of other people nearby, Duan Qing took out the mysterious metal from the storage bag and began to make spiritual spring water.
He used ten, fifty and one hundred raw stones to make three portions of spiritual spring water, and then sealed the three wooden gourds with the wooden plugs prepared before, and put them all into the storage bag.
After the spiritual spring water was made, Duan Qing took out all the thousands of raw stones in the storage bag, spread them flat on the ground, and took out the empty bamboo tube that he had made before. He was ready to start making spiritual liquid.
In the process of making spiritual spring water before, he let the mysterious metal absorb a hundred raw stones at most at one time. Now, he also planned to start with a hundred raw stones to see how much spiritual liquid he could make with a hundred raw stones.
Count out a hundred raw stones, place the mysterious metal in the middle of the raw stones, and wait until the spiritual energy in the raw stones is completely absorbed by the mysterious metal. Duan Qing immediately put the mysterious metal into the prepared empty bamboo tube, and then plugged it with a wooden plug, leaving only a section of the hemp rope tied to the mysterious metal outside for easy removal.
After a while, a wisp of white mist emerged from the bamboo tube. Because of the hemp rope, the bamboo tube was not completely sealed, so some spiritual mist still leaked out.
Duan Qing tightened the wooden plug again, but found that it was useless. Some of it would still leak out, so he stopped caring and waited at ease.
In his opinion, only a very small part of it leaked out. Most of the spiritual mist would still form spiritual liquid in the bamboo tube because it could not come out.
After a while, Duan Qing estimated that the mysterious metal had almost finished spitting out the spiritual mist, but the bamboo tube continued to leak out spiritual mist. It seemed that although the mysterious metal had finished spitting out the spiritual mist, it had not completely transformed into spiritual liquid.
After waiting for about half an incense stick of time, the bamboo tube finally stopped leaking spiritual mist.
Duan Qing carefully pulled out the wooden plug and took a look. As he expected, the spiritual mist inside had disappeared without a trace. There was only a thin layer of transparent liquid. Feeling the majestic spiritual energy contained in it, it seemed to be spiritual liquid without a doubt.
The little idiot next to him seemed to have discovered the extraordinary nature of the spiritual liquid. He raised his head and tried to get closer to the bamboo tube.
Duan Qing saw this and quickly reached out and patted the idiot on the forehead to stop him.
"What are you doing! Don't make trouble. This is not something you, an idiot, can touch. Go to sleep."
After saying that, he moved the bamboo tube a little further away from the idiot.
The idiot seemed to have lost interest in the bamboo tube after being scolded by Duan Qing, and continued to bury his head and hum quietly.
One hundred raw stones only made such a little spiritual liquid, which did not even completely submerge the mysterious metal.
Duan Qing pulled the hemp rope, took the mysterious metal out of the bamboo tube, and then immediately stuffed the bamboo tube.
Looking at the raw stones on the ground, he estimated that these raw stones seemed to be not enough to make a bamboo tube of spiritual liquid.
However, Duan Qing was not worried about this at all. In this spiritual mine, the most abundant thing was the raw stones. What he was worried about now was that the spiritual liquid and spiritual spring made by him could not be preserved for a long time!
Next, he made all the remaining thousands of raw stones into spiritual liquid. It was almost the same as he expected. The spiritual liquid made from more than 5,000 raw stones almost filled half of the bamboo tube.
He divided these more than 5,000 raw stones into several times for the mysterious metal to absorb. The most he used was about 2,000, but it still did not reach the limit of the mysterious metal.
How could such a small thing contain so much spiritual energy? As he got to know it more and more, Duan Qing felt that the value of this mysterious metal was inestimable, and he became more and more curious about it.
After solemnly putting away the mysterious metal, Duan Qing took out a wooden gourd filled with water from his storage bag. He had to try now to see if he could mix the spiritual liquid and water to make spiritual spring water that he could use for cultivation.
He carefully poured a drop of spiritual liquid into the wooden gourd, then sealed the half-tube spiritual liquid with a wooden stopper and put it into the storage bag, then picked up the wooden gourd and shook it gently a few times, and tried to drink a small sip.
Sure enough, this familiar feeling was undoubtedly the spiritual spring water!
Duan Qing finally smiled, his guess was right again, the spiritual liquid could indeed be made into spiritual spring water, now he needed to confirm two more things, so that he would not have to worry about the spiritual stones for cultivation.
First, these spiritual liquids can exist for a long time, the longer the better.
The second is to confirm that these spiritual liquids can pass through the two-element spirit-avoiding formation, so that he can take them out without anyone noticing.
"Haha, idiot, your master is going to be rich, with so much spiritual liquid for me to practice, it doesn't matter if my qualifications are mediocre, I will still not lose to those geniuses."
Duan Qing happily rubbed and kneaded the idiot, making the idiot hum with dissatisfaction.
Looking at the idiot who was humming with his head down, Duan Qing took out some grass and placed it in front of him, wondering if he was hungry. However, the little guy was completely indifferent to the food and still stuck his butt out and hummed softly.
Duan Qing had no choice but to let him lie down.
Glancing at the raw stones on the ground that had been depleted of spiritual energy, Duan Qing frowned slightly. This won't do!
So many waste raw stones are really eye-catching. It is well known that raw stones cannot be used for cultivation below the Questioning Heart Realm. If these waste raw stones are discovered by others, it is likely to arouse suspicion from those who are interested, and even expose the secret of the mysterious metal!
Duan Qing glanced around the cave, and suddenly his eyes lit up, locking onto the water cave in the center of the cave.
The last time Duan Qing fell into the water, he guessed that this water cave should be very deep. If the waste raw stones were thrown into it, no one should be able to find it.
The more he thought about it, the more feasible it seemed to him. He picked up the waste stones on the ground and threw them all into the water cave, along with the ones he had stored in his bag.
He had never figured out how to deal with these waste stones before, so he could only keep them in his bag. Now he could just deal with them together.
After throwing away the waste stones, Duan Qing took the moonstone and took a look. The water cave was still dark and bottomless, and the water line had not changed.
Duan Qing nodded with satisfaction. He made up his mind to throw all the used stones into the water cave in the future.