Chapter 69: Alchemy and Fire
"True person, the disciple has another elixir that I want you to see. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" Zhang Yi once again took out a small jade box and respectfully handed it to Qinghe Zhenren.
"What elixir? is worth treating with such care?" said Qinghe Zhenren as he opened the jade box.
"This is?" Seeing the colorful petals of this box, Qinghe Zhenren hesitated and said, "Could this be the legendary rainbow orchid?"
"Yes," Zhang Yi said a little proudly.
"How did you get it?" Qinghe Zhenren was happy again, and he seriously interrogated Zhang Yi.
"This is what the disciple got from some bees, and I don't know where they got it from, but I found it occasionally after breaking through a bee's nest, and I'm not sure about it myself. As he spoke, Zhang Yi took out the nectar and flower dew collected on the rainbow orchid and handed them to Qinghe Zhenren together.
"Hey, you're really a treasure boy. Such a superb elixir can also be picked, and I won't ask you how these came about, but I just want to warn you that you must be cautious and slow on the path of cultivation, and never be dominated by greed. Qinghe Zhenren warned Zhang Yi again.
"Yes, the disciple has written it down, this time it is really a coincidence to get the rainbow orchid petals, the disciple has already decided that he will not enter the rainbow orchid swamp again before the golden pill in the future. Zhang Yi said respectfully.
"Well, you are not small in luck and can get this rainbow orchid, so what do you want to do?" Qinghe Zhenren asked after calming down.
"The disciple wants to ask the real person to refine this elixir into a soul-nourishing pill, and after the pill is completed, he can still give half of it to the real person. Zhang Yi said.
"Good boy, do you know how long it takes to refine this Soul Nourishing Pill? For three years, you kid didn't prepare other auxiliary elixirs, so he dared to ask for half? It's good to divide one-third of you. Qinghe Zhenren pretended to be angry and said.
"Hehe, the real person laughed, this auxiliary elixir of the Soul Nourishing Pill, don't talk about it, but this main medicine is the only one produced in this Honglan Swamp in the past hundred years, if you don't help, the disciple can only go back to the Pure Ming Sect to get rid of the alchemist in the door. Zhang Yi smiled and bargained.
"Hmph, if such high-grade materials are given to those peak master-level alchemists of your Pure Ming Sect, eighty percent of them will be refined, and if you ask one of the two alchemy masters in your sect to come out, then the cost will be more than one-third of this. Qinghe Zhenren flickered.
"Hehe, don't scare the kid, although the kid's cultivation is not very good, he also knows that if it is other pills, the cost of the grandmaster's shot may be two-thirds, but the main medicine of this soul-nourishing pill is extremely scarce, and if you pay half the price, the grandmaster may still agree. Zhang Yi replied.
"Forget it, then you kid don't want to learn alchemy?" Qinghe Zhenren changed another method to lower the price.
"Hehe, it depends on the real person, how you let me tell the teacher. Zhang Yi insisted without hesitation.
"That's it, you slippery boy, half is half. Let's go down now. Qinghe Zhenren couldn't stop flickering when he saw it, so he relented.
"Huh" Zhang Yi let out a long breath after leaving the main hall, this Qinghe real person is really cheeky when he sees good things, even his junior is the same.
After Zhang Yi returned to his residence, he slept a lot of peace of mind, and the next day, he was about to start learning alchemy, and it was going to be even harder.
"Learning alchemy is very difficult, first of all, we must start with the simplest mortal pill, this simple pill, refining must first start from understanding the medicinal properties, according to the pill for different years to grow good medicinal properties to balance, and then we must learn to control the heat, increase or decrease the temperature and water volume, and then we can make the simplest mortal pill. Qinghe Zhenren sat on the main hall and earnestly preached the mystery of the entrance to alchemy.
And Zhang Yi is also studying seriously, the refining of this ordinary elixir is very similar to boiling Chinese medicine in his opinion, but for the boiling of these ordinary pills, the compatibility of medicinal properties is more nuanced, and the grasp of the heat is more delicate, and the main use is often the elixir, these ordinary pills can also retain some aura and achieve magical medicinal effects. So Zhang Yi began his career as a medicine boy.
That Qinghe Zhenren's little disciple Xiao Jizi has now become his master, in the first month, Zhang Yi's success rate of refining is less than one tenth, even if he uses the Three Thousand World Orbs to gain some forward-looking experience, and Xiao Jizi's hand-in-hand help, he has failed again and again.
According to Zhang Yi's statement: "This is a skill that requires a very high level of proficiency, and you must not look at the master and think about it in one step." "It's like a master-level carving artwork, which often requires a master to have decades of carving experience and life experience before he can precipitate this perfect skill.
After burning the fire for a month, burning several Dan furnaces, and scorching countless pills, Zhang Yi finally grasped some experience and was able to refine some simple pills by himself.
Getting up early, Zhang Yi got up in the masterpiece of cultivating the true yuan, and then went to bathe and change clothes, preparing for his own independent alchemy.
When he came to the Danfang, he first prepared the charcoal he needed, which is a kind of hundred-year-old green gang wood firing, very hard charcoal, and even makes a metal-like sound when struck, this charcoal is very resistant to burning, and the fire is strong, it is a kind of good charcoal used in alchemy, these charcoal are made very finely, there are several specifications, there are finger sizes, palm length, arm length, and it is also very convenient to use.
Then the clear spring water cleans the Dan furnace, and the huge Dan furnace made of brass weighing nearly one ton is scrubbed clean. Then the preparation of medicinal materials, the careful use of drug identification, based on the medicinal properties of the main drug, the allocation of other adjuvants, this amount is accurate to the slightest.
Finally, when the morning sun rises and the morning dew has not disappeared, the dew on the trees and elixirs is collected as water for alchemy.
At this time, Qinghe Zhenren also quietly came to the alchemy room, watching Zhang Yi be busy in an orderly manner. After Zhang Yi saluted Qinghe Zhenren, he continued his actions.
Pile up the green oka charcoal under the Dan furnace, slowly warm the Dan furnace over low heat, inject the precipitated dew, and then put all the medicinal materials in turn according to the needs of the fire, and finally close the Dan furnace.
The true element and spiritual power are probed into the Dan furnace, and according to the reaction and combination of the medicinal properties of the medicinal materials inside, the charcoal is increased or decreased, and the heat is controlled, so that the spiritual energy in the elixir is stimulated, and it is miscible with all the medicines.
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