Chapter 0789: First foray into alchemy
This "Alchemy Secrets" was obviously specially prepared by the Baicao Monk for his future disciples, otherwise, with the cultivation of the peak of the first emperor at his peak, how could he prepare the secret book of the heart method for a minor monk in the qi refining period?
In the "Secret of Alchemy", there is a detailed entry formula for the five attributes of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth recorded by the Baicao monks, in fact, there are not many cultivation formulas for each attribute, and the alchemist's cultivation method is very simple and not complicated, it is a formula that transforms the true qi in the inner cultivator's body into the corresponding Danhuo process, so the level of the alchemist is generally linked to his cultivation strength, because this is limited by his own true qi level. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info For example, the cultivators in the foundation building period generally correspond to the alchemists below the sixth-rank Xuandan master, and the cultivators in the Jindan period generally correspond to the alchemists below the ninth-rank Xuandan master, and so on. If you want to refine Bao Dan, you basically need to advance to the Yuan Infant Stage for alchemists.
But in fact, because of the limited true qi of a cultivator, and the cultivation of the inner family mind method and the cultivation of the Danhuo heart method is not completely compatible, it will cause some degree of error and loss, and it is basically impossible to become an alchemy master and alchemy master, and it is generally possible to stably refine the inferior elixir corresponding to the cultivation, even if he is a qualified alchemist. And it is good to be able to stably refine medium-grade pills, and he can be regarded as an excellent alchemist.
As for alchemy masters, there may not be one alchemist out of a hundred. As for the alchemy master, it is even more one in a million.
You must know that this is the proportion in the case of extremely rare alchemists. You must know that among the ten cultivators, there is not necessarily one who has the talent of alchemy. As for being able to become a qualified alchemist, there is not necessarily one in a hundred cultivators.
In other words, a million cultivators may not be able to appear an alchemy master.
As for the more demanding Dan King, there may not be one among the hundreds of millions of cultivators.
As for Emperor Dan, according to the Baicao monk in his book "Travels to the Hundred Grasses", in the cultivation realm where he is located, there may not be one in ten thousand years. You must know that a cultivation realm has tens of thousands of cultivation planets, and as for cultivators, they don't know how many trillions there are.
As for Dan Sheng, in the cultivation realm where the Baicao Monk is located, for hundreds of millions of years, he is also the only one who rakes the scorpion, and he is the only one.
After learning some basic information about the alchemist, Zeng Cheng began to check the alchemy formula.
The Danfang is of course important to the alchemist, but the alchemists who are limited to the Danfang are destined not to have much achievement, at most, they will stop at the ninth rank of the Xuandan Master, and it is almost impossible to advance to the Baodan Master.
Because they don't understand pharmacology and medicinal properties, in a situation where there is a shortage of medicinal materials, they can't change the Danfang at will, which is naturally much worse than the kind of alchemist who understands pharmacology and can change the Danfang by himself!
And Baicao Jushi, as a generation of Dan Saints, is obviously the kind of alchemist who can change the Dan recipe by himself!
As a beginner, Zeng Cheng naturally can't reach the level of changing the Danfang now, he still needs to honestly consult the Danfang and understand the Danfang.
The first pill that Zeng Cheng looked at was a pill called the Qi Gathering Pill, which was specially used to improve the cultivation of cultivators during the Qi cultivation period.
According to the Baicao monk in the "Secret of Alchemy", the Qi Gathering Pill did not exist in the first place, because this elixir only worked on monks in the Qi cultivation period. However, asking an alchemist who is at least a foundation building stage cultivator to refine pills for a Qi cultivation period cultivator is not using a cannon to fight mosquitoes.
In the cultivation realm, there was originally only one other elixir, and that was Juyuan Dan. This is a super elixir.
The so-called super-grade elixir is not a pill that surpasses the four grades of lower, middle, upper and best, but a pill without a clear grade, it can be a Xuandan, a Baodan, or even a spiritual elixir, depending on what level of alchemist it is refined.
This elixir is mainly used to improve the strength of a cultivator.
For cultivators, before the appearance of the Baicao Cultivators, it had always been very hard, because there was no pill exclusive to them at all. If they want to improve their strength, in addition to honest cultivation, they just take some medicinal herbs directly.
However, the appearance of the Baicao Monk changed the situation in the cultivation realm where he was located, because he was a genius, and according to the Dan prescription of Juyuan Dan, he developed an elixir specifically for Qi cultivation period cultivators, which was the Qi Gathering Pill. This elixir changed the previous situation in which Qi cultivation stage cultivators in the cultivation realm could only rely on luck purely if they wanted to quickly improve their cultivation, so that Qi cultivation period monks had the possibility of rapidly improving their cultivation on a large scale.
Subsequently, Baicao Jushi developed the Hui Qi Pill according to the Dan prescription of Hui Yuan Dan, developed the Qi Nourishing Pill according to Yang Yuan Dan, and a series of pills for Qi cultivation monks.
However, after reading a series of pills, Zeng Cheng was suddenly a little deflated! Because he basically didn't have the medicinal materials to refine these low-grade pills.
Don't look at the millions of acres of space in this Baicao space, I don't know how many medicinal materials have been planted, but the grade of these medicinal materials is too high, more than 90% of them are immortal herbs and immortal medicines, which were collected by Baicao monks in the long years before. As for the level below the immortal grass, it was when he encountered some spirit grasses with special effects during his travels, and he collected some of them.
After all, it was difficult for a powerhouse at the peak of the first emperor to be interested in low-level spirit herb elixirs.
In other words, Zeng Cheng wanted to refine low-grade pills such as Qi Gathering Pill, Hui Qi Pill, and Qi Nourishing Pill, and all the medicinal materials he needed needed to find them himself.
But in any case, the pills left by the Baicao monks were enough for Zeng Cheng to use for a while, and most of the pills that had been changed by the Baicao monks were extremely ordinary medicinal materials, which could be easily purchased in the market.
The so-called thick accumulation and thin hair, Zeng Cheng did not immediately refine the pill, firstly, he did not have any kind of pill medicinal materials now, and secondly, he also needed to carefully scrutinize the cultivation mantra of Danhuo, although the mantra was short, but it was jerky and difficult to understand, before he figured out the meaning, Zeng Cheng was not ready to practice indiscriminately!
Some people who are anxious often start to cultivate impatiently after getting a secret book, only to find out halfway through their cultivation that they have made a mistake in the direction of their cultivation, or have made a detour, and so on......
It's not that there are no such people, but there are too many, at least they will re-cultivate, or at worst, they will go crazy, in short, Zeng Cheng doesn't want to be such a person.
This is like a joke that Zeng Cheng once saw, saying that Yue Buqun got the sword spectrum to ward off evil spirits, and he was very happy in his heart. opened the first page, it was written: "If you want to practice this skill, you must first go from the palace", Yue Buqun thought for a long time, and in order to become the first in the world, he finally endured the pain of cutting "love".
But he fainted from the great pain, and when he woke up, he gladly turned the second page, and when he saw it, he was so angry that he vomited blood, because the second page read: "Even if you are from the palace, you may not succeed"!
He still endured the pain and heartache, and suddenly turned the third page, and when he saw it, he was so angry that he vomited blood and died!
It turned out that the third page read: "You don't have to be in the palace to succeed".
Of course, this is just a joke, a bit exaggerated, Zeng Cheng doesn't know if there are such stupid and tragic people in reality, but there must be someone who is in a hurry to go wrong!
This is the so-called impatience to eat hot tofu!
Zeng Cheng first studied the cultivation method of the fire attribute Danhuo, which was also the cultivation method that alchemists would initially choose, because of its strong versatility, and after successful cultivation, many ordinary pills could be condensed.
Of course, unless it is limited by the true qi of the cultivation of the heart method in the body, some people may conflict with the fire attribute Danhuo, such as those who cultivate the cold attribute heart method, such a person will basically not succeed in cultivating the fire attribute Danhuo, if the cultivation of the water attribute is higher.
To cultivate Danhuo, in addition to true qi, you also need to have a strong spiritual perception.
The so-called spiritual perception is a more mysterious existence, to put it bluntly, it is to use spiritual power to perceive the state of the pill in the pill furnace to change the size and temperature of the pill, after all, the condensation process of each pill is different, if the pill fire is too strong or the condensation time is too long, it may affect the quality of the final pill or even become a furnace of waste pill!
Of course, the so-called diligence can make up for clumsiness, practice makes perfect, you don't need spiritual perception, refining the same kind of elixir, refining hundreds of times, even if you don't have spiritual perception, you can find the law from failure and increase the success rate!
However, this doesn't matter if the material is ordinary low-grade pills, after all, the raw materials are available, and they can be wasted casually, but for high-grade pills, it may not be easy to get together enough materials for refining a pill, how can you waste the opportunity to experiment? So this is also doomed, those alchemists who do not have strong spiritual perception can only stay in the primary stage, even if the Danhuo has cultivated to the Yuanying True Fire, it is impossible to successfully refine the Xuandan above the seventh rank Xuandan.
And the profession of an alchemist has become extremely prominent because of this, and it is more noble than that of a cultivator.
However, because of the difficulty of cultivating the Danhuo, the huge amount of true qi consumed, and the limitation of spiritual perception, this limited the number of alchemists, and it was destined to become a rare existence!
And the alchemist has also become the object of all forces, because there is a family or sect of the alchemist, and it is unknown that it may take off.
Of course, Zeng Cheng's purpose of learning alchemy is very simple, because this is his master's housekeeping skills, as the only heir of the master in this universe, if he doesn't learn his old man's housekeeping skills, what face will he have to be his disciple?