ca-book Chapter 217 Ancient Potion (2)
Chapter 217 Ancient Potion (2)
After a brief excitement, Eugenie became quiet again. She lowered her head and stared at the row of liquid weeds on the table.
They are removed from the entire plant, even the hair-thick roots.
Look at how plump those beautiful jade-colored rhizomes are, and their bright and shiny leaves seem to be dripping dew at any time, and there seems to be moonlight flowing on them.They were fixed by spells at their most beautiful time. On that full moon night, the liquid grasses were bathed in the cold and bright light, and were nourished by the moonlight and enriched with the most abundant magical energy.
She raised her wand and closed her eyes, using the Scarpin Revealing Charm to carefully feel the subtle differences they reflected - they were all taken at the time of the full moon, but in different months.
The moon phase cycle is about 29 days, and they will collect the last sapweed before the Christmas holidays.
Eugenie stood in front of the 11 bundles of liquid grass and recited the mantra silently for two rounds. She finally opened her eyes, but her eyebrows sank. "It is easy to distinguish between those picked in winter and summer. The difference between spring and autumn is relatively small. You have to follow the month." The specific identification is even more difficult - it has such high requirements for medicinal materials."
The sapweed in Polyjuice Potion only requires harvesting during the full moon.
The reason why this potion has not been passed down is that firstly, its uses are not widespread, and secondly, it is too complicated and not many people can make it.
Snape knocked on the book and said, "Come on, read the following steps."
Eugenie picked up the book and read it carefully along with the circled notes on it. Her expression switched back and forth with the words - sometimes confused, sometimes amazed.
Snape set up the silver cauldron while she read, leaving only the necessary tools and instruments, a January harvest of sapweed, three jars of leech powder, and a jar of unconscious immortal jellyfish.
He carefully cut the oozing grass, and the thicker jade-colored roots were neatly divided into four long strips.
"Finished?" he asked.
"Yes." Eugenie nodded, her fingers still flexibly making small gestures on her chest, rehearsing the experimental scenario in her mind.
"Okay, answer my question with your own opinions. What is the purpose of the pharmaceutical inventors going to such great lengths to set high standards for the preparation of liquid weed and leech powder? I hope your answer supplements my comments rather than copying them. "
"Yes, Professor, this potion is designed to replicate organs that are exactly the same as the original body, but simple replication cannot meet the needs. In your notes, you mentioned the affinity and the subtle changes in human organs with the seasons and the temperature difference between morning and evening.
I would like to take two other potions with similar effects as examples, Polyjuice Potion and Shengguling. Their copying effects have reference significance in different directions. "
"Well, let's talk about it, why is it different?"
"The duration of action of Polyjuice Potion is only 12 hours at most, because during this period the body will continue to resist the suppression of the potion. When the energy of the potion is exhausted, the body will immediately counterattack the physical characteristics of another person and regain sovereignty. Both of them There is no affinity at all, they are a relationship of invasion and invasion.”
"Yes, what about the bone spirit? What are the shortcomings of this copying method?"
"The new bone is very stiff and looks like a prosthetic limb when it first grows, but it appears inside the human body in its most suitable position, so as long as some time passes, the body will gradually accept it and assimilate it. And we make The organs are outside the body and do not have this opportunity to adapt, so more complex preparation methods must be used to make up for it."
"Yes, do you understand all the compensation methods?"
"I understand it as an in vitro domestication process. I add liquid grass picked in twelve different months to the medicine, and after each addition of new herbs, I add them in the order of morning, noon, and sunset, respectively. With three leeches sucking blood at all times, the medicinal solution has been rapidly domesticated in the equivalent of one year. It is no longer rigid and rigid, but has become adaptable and closer to real life."
Snape just turned around, suppressed the corners of his mouth with restraint, and then created a flat white flame like a piece of paper under the cauldron, which was regarded as acquiescing to her answer.
The jellyfish, which spent its entire life in a coma, was baked thinner and thinner in the crucible, slowly melting into water. After stirring clockwise for 3 minutes, and then counterclockwise for 1 minute, the translucent body completely disappeared into the silvery background of the crucible. Colorful.
The faint smell of sea breeze brushed the tip of my nose. After letting it sit for a while, some small and dense ripples appeared on the surface of the jellyfish liquid. Under the sunlight, it looked like a large group of plankton coated in gold powder were trying to break out of the liquid surface.
The roots of the liquidweed were added to the crucible at this time. They gradually became transparent, and the light jade color slowly dissolved into it.
Then the addition of the leaves made the liquid immediately turn green. However, after stirring slowly for 5 minutes, when the fragrant light green smoke ring rose close to the inner wall of the crucible, the medicine underwent a wonderful qualitative change at that moment. It suddenly His whole body was shaken and turned completely opaque and pure black.
Next, add the three leech powders in order. Each time you add one, stir clockwise and counterclockwise for one week.
After adding the three types, the color of the potion is still dark, matte carbon black.No matter how hard the sunlight climbing higher and higher outside the window shines on it with all its strength, it still swallows all the light unshakably.
Even after the glittering silver unicorn horn powder was sprinkled in, it remained as black and lackluster as ever.
Snape held the wand and twisted his wrist, and the black things in the crucible began to rotate gracefully in a clockwise direction. "Okay, pay attention to the time, 29 minutes."
"Simulating a lunar cycle." Eugenie immediately glanced at the clock and replied happily.
Snape put down his wand regretfully, "Yes, the following steps are basically simple repetitive operations. It's a pity that we have to pause after the 11th time is completed."
"Professor, you said that you tried to make organs using sap grass that did not meet the requirements, but the finished product was a bit strange. Why is it so strange?"
"Oh, I didn't use a human body during the test, but cut a piece of the atrium of a mouse - our medicine is not only applicable to humans."
"Will that heart contract and beat?"
"Yes, the contraction is very strong and the blood pumping volume is sufficient," Snape said lightly. "The only problem is that it is a bit temperamental. It will jump a few times when it thinks about it, but it won't move when it doesn't."
Eugenie held her forehead, "That's really fatal."