There is no special alchemy room in Linhai. Xu Shaotang and Zhen Miao find some broken empty wooden houses. This is their temporary alchemy room.
Tantai Jingming has already set out. It's estimated that she can't come back until dark. These elixirs in Xu Shaotang's hands can only refine some inferior healing pills.
Outside the cabin is mu Tiance, who stands facing the wind.
"What is he doing?"
Zhen Miao has put the elixir into the alchemy furnace. For her, there is no challenge in refining these inferior healing pills, and she doesn't need to be as careful as refining the top grade pills. Seeing that mu Tiance has been standing there with a sword, she can't help asking Xu Shaotang curiously.
Xu Shaotang glanced at mu Tiance, then returned his eyes to the alchemy furnace, and said with a smile, "what else can I do, practicing sword."
"Then why didn't he move?"
Zhen Miaoman asked suspiciously.
"You don't have to move to practice sword." Xu Shaotang said with a smile: "not moving like a mountain, moving like thunder."
Zhen Miao still doesn't understand. In her impression, practicing sword seems to be a constant practice. Mu Tiance looks more like a sculpture holding a sword.
Looking at the blank color on Zhen Miao's face, Xu Shaotang said with a smile: "take your time, you will understand soon! However, you have to pay attention to the fire. Don't waste this furnace of pills. "
"No!"
Zhen Miao confidently said: "even if I close my eyes, I can also refine this furnace of Huoqi pill."
Xu Shaotang said with a smile: "yes, you used to deal with pills almost all the time. This inferior pill is just a piece of cake for you."
For a man who has been with the alchemy furnace for nearly 20 years, the alchemy of Huoqi pill should be just handy.
He almost forgot that Zhen Miao was the one who could make the best pills.
Zhen Miao was slightly silent, then shook his head and said: "in fact, I don't like alchemy."
"No?"
Xu Shaotang surprised raised his head, Zhen Miao in addition to eating and sleeping is alchemy, now actually said he did not like alchemy?
"Surprised, isn't it?" Zhen Miao raised her eyelids slightly and looked at Xu Shaotang. She said: "I'm only refining pills to survive. In fact, I'm very resistant."
Xu Shaotang is surprised that he can understand Zhen Miao's idea. She doesn't like alchemy because she does. She has to pretend to be addicted to alchemy just to make Zhen Yin think she likes alchemy. Maybe, every time she does alchemy, her heart is suffering incomparably.
"Then you still come to alchemy with me?"
Zhen Miao had no choice but to smile: "because in addition to alchemy, I can't seem to find anything to do."
This is an extremely contradictory behavior. She clearly hates doing something, but in addition, she doesn't know what she can do. For her, it seems that only by doing what she hates the most can she prove her worth.
Xu Shaotang gently shook his head and said, "you have many things to do, for example, to try to make more friends, to try to chat with people near the sea, and not to shut yourself in our small circle."
"I..."
Zhen Miaogang is about to speak, but Yu Guang in the corner of his eye catches a glimpse of Mu Tiance's sudden movement. He subconsciously turns to look at mu Tiance. He sees mu Tiance's lightning like sword, and then takes it back quickly. Then he takes it back again, and repeats this extremely monotonous action all the time.
Seeing mu Tiance's strange behavior, Zhen Miao couldn't help feeling at a loss again.
Mu Tiance didn't use real Qi. He just relied on his own speed and did the simplest movements. He didn't have any moves. Even a three-year-old could easily do them.
"That's how he practiced his sword."
Xu Shaotang said with a smile: "he is pursuing an extreme!"
"The ultimate?"
Zhen Miao looks at Xu Shaotang in a puzzled way. What can be the best?
"The acme of speed!"
Xu Shaotang adjusted the fire a little. When the fire recovered, he continued: "there are no fancy moves for the master. He only attacks with simple and sharp attack. When he practices the speed of his sword to the extreme, his opponent even has no time to react, so he has become the ghost of his sword."
He knew mu Tiance very well. He practiced sword in the same way as mu Tiance in the year when he worked hard on Tianzhu Mountain.
It was because he knew that mu Tiance had great attainments in fencing that he had to take Yao lie's green mang sword and give it to Mu Tiance.
For mu Tiance, this green awn sword in hand will make him more powerful, and also make his swordsmanship useful.
Zhen Miao nodded and asked curiously, "do you know him well?"
"Yes Xu Shaotang said with a smile: "I know more about him than I know about himself!"
"Ah?"
Zhen Miao stares big eyes, a pair of bright eyes full of surprised look.Is there anyone in the world who can know himself better than himself?
As far as she is concerned, she believes that no one in the world knows herself better than herself.
"So, he and I became life and death friends, but also unconditional trust in him." If Xu Shaotang had a deep look at Zhen Miao, he said with a smile: "you may not know, in fact, a few years ago, the person he wanted to kill most was me."
“……”
Zhen Miao was stunned again, and her eyes were full of disbelief. "Then why do you trust him unconditionally?"
From Xu Shaotang's understanding of Zhen Yin's plot to Xu Shaotang's suspicions that she betrayed them, we can see that Xu Shaotang is not the kind of person who will confide in others, but Xu Shaotang actually treats a person who once wanted to kill him, which is unbelievable.
"Because even if he wanted to kill me, he would invite me to fight openly, instead of fighting behind my back."
Xu Shaotang said with a smile.
"So your friends are all aboveboard people?" Zhen Miao's face was full of insight.
"I can't say that."
Xu Shaotang slightly pondered: "hypocrites are often more terrible than real villains, and Zhen Yin is a typical hypocrite."
"I see."
Zhen Miao nodded.
While they were talking, the speed of Mu Tiance's sword suddenly slowed down.
This time, Zhen Miao didn't ask much, but locked his eyes on the alchemy furnace: "this furnace of pills is almost finished."
"You are faster than me!"
Xu Shaotang smile: "in fact, you can try to like alchemy."
"Why?" Zhen Miao asked.
"When you do what you like to do, you feel happy."
"I'll try!"
Zhen Miao tilts his head and smiles. Then he quickly extinguishes the fire and opens the red stove. A fragrance suddenly comes to his face.