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Chapter 811: Invitation from the Pharmacist Guild

Wuwei Pharmacist was a very amiable old man. When he saw his disciple coming to him, he invited him to have dinner with him.

Xiuzhi was not in the mood for this, but as his master requested, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and finish the tasteless meal.

After eating, Xiuzhi rushed to wash the dishes, and said as he washed, "Master, the personal guard of Zhou's adopted son, named Ku Tang, is very likely a fourth-grade pharmacist!"

He then went on to talk about his explorations over the past year, including presenting samples of several major medicines that Lian Feihong had commissioned him to refine.

Wuwei Pharmacist did not touch the heavy medicines. He took a quick look and analyzed, "Good medicine tastes bitter. He named it Bitter Soup, which clearly shows that he has lofty ambitions!"

This spiritual pharmacist is one of the few great pharmacists in the capital.

Unlike his senior brother Sanwei Pharmacist who serves the monarch, Wuwei Pharmacist lives in the market place. His greatest interest is collecting folk prescriptions and improving various medicinal ingredients, while also training disciples.

After a while, Xiuzhi had finished washing the dishes, wiping the table, and sweeping the floor, and stood respectfully in front of the Master.

"Master, there are five flavors: sour, bitter, sweet, spicy, and salty. He only has the bitter flavor, while you have all five flavors. Aren't you much better than him?"

Seeing his disciple being so stupid, Pharmacist Wuwei sighed and said, "So if you calculate it this way, my senior brother Pharmacist Sanwei is not as good as me?"

As soon as these words came out, Xiuzhi immediately shut down and no one dared to say that!

"Listen carefully, my name is Five Flavors, which is a blend of sour, bitter, sweet, spicy and salty to create a good medicine. The main purpose is balance and harmony!"

"Brother's three ingredients have another meaning. He is very skilled. No matter what prescription he gets, he can reduce it to three ingredients or less. Therefore, three ingredients can refine all the medicines in the world, hence the name three ingredients!"

The former refers to the taste, while the latter refers to the quantity of medicinal materials, which are very different.

"There are five flavors in medicine. If you master one, you can establish a school of thought and reach the pinnacle. Although I am called the Master of Five Flavors, I dare not say that I have mastered the mysteries of any one of them. How dare you casually evaluate me?"

Wuwei Pharmacist pointed at several kinds of medicine on the table and said, "Can't you see that these medicines are all ready-made?"

"Master, I see!"

Xiuzhi said seriously, "So I guess that being a fourth-grade pharmacist is far from his limit!"

"Idiot, the newly refined medicine has two meanings. The first is what you see, these medicines were just refined not long ago, and the second is what you haven't seen..."

Wuwei Pharmacist pinched a piece of tobacco and put it in his mouth to chew. "That is, the person who refined it is a new learner and has just mastered the refining technique. Even the pharmacist level has just been promoted."

"what does that mean?"

He picked up a dry branch and hit Xiuzhi on the head, "Whatever you ask him to refine, he will learn it on the spot and improve his pharmacist level according to your requirements, all the way to a fourth-grade pharmacist!"

"This is impossible. How can someone who can do this still be a human? Isn't he... a monster?"

Wuwei Pharmacist exhaled, "Yes, it is a monster. You actually found a monster by testing it!"

The room was filled with oppressive silence. After a moment, Xiuzhi asked, "Master, how will the Pharmacist Guild deal with this...evildoer?"

"You should call him by his name, Bitter Soup Pharmacist. Didn't your master teach you etiquette?"

Wuwei Pharmacist waved his hand and said, "Send an invitation and invite him to come and talk. I didn't expect that there is such a talent in the North!"

He spoke with disdain for his colleagues in the Medicine King Sect. They just made medicine and did business, why did they set up a sect?
Facts have proved that the group of elders guarding the tripod have limited achievements. There has been a lack of talent for so many years, and there is not even a single spiritual pharmacist.

The North's pharmacist tradition has gone astray.

However, the bitter soup from the north gave Wuwei Pharmacist a surprise.

In terms of the pharmacist's rank, he is a spiritual pharmacist, and he doesn't even take the mere fourth-rank great pharmacist seriously, but the opponent's terrifying upgrade speed is worthy of attention.

For such a talented and growing player, no one can estimate his bottleneck, so we must carefully investigate it.

"Invitation, Pharmacist Guild, Five Flavors Pharmacist!"

The next day, Zhou You was stunned when he received the invitation. When he married Zhu Qinghua, Wuwei Pharmacist sent a valuable gift. He thought it was just an ordinary gift at that time, but now he thought it was prepared in advance, because he couldn't postpone this matter.

The other party invited the pharmacist "Ku Tang", who was also his personal guard, so the invitation was given directly to Zhou Daqian.

"Well, I heard that Wuwei Pharmacist is a spiritual pharmacist, one of the few master-level figures in Dijing!"

Zhou You touched his chin and said, "It would be nice to meet once!"

The meeting date agreed on the invitation!

Pharmacist Wuwei, accompanied by several disciples, received the pharmacist Kutang who came to visit.

He usually leads a simple life and only has a private medicine house in Dijing, where a few boys take care of him and take care of his daily life. Well, these boys are also his disciples who learn the craft of refining medicine.

Back then, Xiuzhi and his fellow disciples went through the same thing.

The medicine hut is very quiet, and is filled with cauldrons and furnaces for refining medicine. These are practical utensils, different from ritual and sacrificial vessels.

There are round or oval bosses on the body of the tripod and the furnace, with a seal character "药" written on it.

This mark represents a medicine cauldron or medicine furnace.

Ku Tang looked at it a few more times and suddenly had an idea. The Yaowang School's cauldron also had a similar logo, but the difference was that the seal character "药" was written differently.

The same seal script can undergo vastly different changes depending on the medium and technique of copying.

For example, the medicine cauldrons and furnaces of the Northern Medicine King School have different logos from those of the Five Flavors Pharmacist.

In Tianzhu Mountain, the medicine furnace and utensils sent by Lian Feihong turned out to be from the same school as Wuwei Pharmacist!

When Ku Tang thought back, he vaguely guessed that the person who asked Lian Feihong to test Ku Tang must be one of Wuwei Pharmacist's disciples.

and also……

"Analysis of seal characters..."

When Zhou You saw the different seal characters for "medicine", he suddenly had an idea: could the medicine-making styles of the Yaowang School and the Wuwei Pharmacist be related to the differences in their respective seal characters for "medicine"?

He immediately used the two laws analyzed by the Nine Cauldrons of the North to start reverse deduction.

"Master Bitter Soup, I allowed someone to test you, my useless disciple. I apologize to you for this matter!"

As soon as they met, Wuwei Pharmacist told the truth and pulled Xiuzhi aside to admit his mistake and apologize to him.

"So it turned out that Pharmacist Xiuzhi was joking with me. It's just a game between pharmacists. It's not offensive at all!"

Ku Tang just laughed it off.

Then, Wuwei Pharmacist explained his purpose, "Ku Tang Pharmacist is from the north, could he be related to the Medicine King Sect?"

"To be honest, I offended the Medicine King Sect and had nowhere to stay in the North, so I followed my master to the capital to make a living!"

Ku Tang said this and bowed, "I have been busy and have not come to pay my respects to you. Please forgive me, President!"

"It's okay. Bitter Soup Pharmacist is a fellow practitioner. Do you want to join our Pharmacist Guild?"

The Five Flavors Pharmacist asked.

Ku Tang paused and asked, "What are the responsibilities and restrictions of joining a guild?"

"Of course not. The guild is free to come and go. There is no assignment or conscription!"

After hearing this, Ku Tang replied, "I'm willing to join!"

(End of this chapter)