Chapter 42: Alchemy is an Art

Wake up refreshed. As for the recovery of divine soul power, it can only be a water grinding effort, and there is no urgency.

"During this time, it's just the right time to try to learn alchemy. Then, go and seek to break through to the liquid realm. After that, you can go to Chenxing City or other big cities to find the fetus of spirit beasts above level 7 and refine the Red Soul Pill. ”

Zhao Xuan studied alchemy and had several biggest advantages.

The first is the inheritance left by Xue Fengchen as an elixir master. It contains a variety of pills, many of which are now lost, and some of them are explored by Xue Fengchen alone.

The second is that the Xuanyuan Divine Furnace and the Qilin are on fire. Even if the Xuanyuan Divine Furnace only opened one layer of prohibition, the Qilin Fire Vitality was greatly damaged, and it was enough for Zhao Xuan to use it. Especially the Qilin Fire, which is enough to make up for Zhao Xuan's lack of own strength.

The third is a large amount of spirit grass. In the Secret Realm of Space Medicine Garden Valley, a large amount of spiritual grass was obtained. In Shennong Ring, it is basically a medicine garden, and there are basically no high-level medicinal herbs, but there are a large number of low-level elixirs in it.

With so many advantages, if Zhao Xuan can't make some achievements, it will be too bad.

Zhao Xuan took out the Dan furnace in a hurry, and according to the introduction in the inheritance jade slip, after making sure to memorize the steps, he began to refine the pill for the first time in his life.

When I was in Nebula Gate, I didn't look at the basic knowledge of alchemy, and I thought I had memorized all those introductions, and I also followed the steps of alchemy, but I couldn't even do the first step of purification!

After repeating it a few times, he sighed and sat down.

Only then did Zhao Xuan understand that alchemy was really not so easy, and it was no wonder that there were so few alchemists who were so popular.

Eye-catching, high-handedness, and talk on paper, these are not the main reasons for failure. What Zhao Xuan was troubled about was that several pieces of knowledge that introduced the spirit grass conflicted with each other, and they were not detailed enough.

What hit Zhao Xuan the most was some of the comments about the alchemist in the Snow Wind and Dust Jade Jane.

"Anyone who has more than half a year of experience in growing herbs will have a certain sensitivity to the appearance and shape of herbs, medicinal properties, growth conditions, etc., and have a natural sense of closeness. If you can't even do this, let alone Dan Dao comprehension, it means that if you don't have a good talent in alchemy, you should not waste time on the way to Dan Dao. ”

Not to mention, Zhao Xuan thought back carefully, it seemed that he really didn't have any so-called closeness to medicinal herbs.

Really, not?

Even if the talent is really not good, can't it be alchemy?

The more Zhao Xuan thought about it, the more bored he felt, could he only ask others to help with alchemy? Put a great advantage and give it up like this?

A few days later, Zhao Xuan, who was thinking hard, slapped his thigh violently, "Closeness?" Hehe, you are not my daughter-in-law, why do you have to be close! I don't believe it yet! ”

As the saying goes, sharpening a knife is not wrong for a woodcutter. Zhao Xuan let go of the impatience in his heart and decided to start from the first step.

Take out a herb and bring it to your eyes. From top to bottom, I watched carefully. Take out all the relevant information and compare them. After a while, he tore off the tendrils, stuffed them in his mouth, and tasted them carefully. After that, he tore off another leaf and stuffed it into his mouth, and after that, he didn't let go of the rhizome.

Frowning, he took out a blank jade slip and began to record something.

Each Zhao Xuan is, first observe the shape, what shape the leaves, what shape the rhizome, what shape the flowers or grains are, and then what the smell of the leaves, what the smell of the rhizomes, what the smell of the flowers, what smell of the emitted are, and then use the spiritual power to feel the richness of the aura.

After that, go through all the jade classics at hand to find relevant introductions, including growth habits and growth needs, and what kind of pills are suitable for them. Then compare what you record and what you feel personally. Then, take out the inheritance jade slip of Xue Fengchen, find the relevant introduction, and compare.

Finally, distinguish it and start recording. Take a leaf and feel the taste carefully, and remember the breath with mental power; Then the flowers, then the grains, then the rhizomes, and finally the whole herb vein.

People can practice and draw spiritual energy into the body, but what about medicinal herbs? Why can it be used as medicine, and then it is good for people? So, is it possible to think that medicinal herbs are actually another kind of human-like existence?

If a person is spoken, how can we get to know him and understand him? First of all, the looks, the looks of various places; After the smell, the smell of all aspects; In the end, the realm is cultivated into various breaths such as spiritual fluctuations, in short, the more detailed you want to understand, then you can recognize it when you close your eyes, and even turn into ashes.

Make sure that you have mastered what you can know before you look at the next one. Don't feel it? Then I will remember you, remember you to the death, and feel even if you don't feel it! Even if you still don't feel it in the end, what do you need to feel? It's okay to be able to completely handle you, who rarely has feelings with you!

Later, when I closed my eyes, the herb gradually grew from a seed, blossomed and fruited to the shape of a medicinal herb in my hand, and a picture scroll was outlined. With the introduction of pictures and texts, the information of this herb in the jade slip is clearly visible, and the introduction of some contradictions in the other jade slips is solved by what he can solve, and the one that can't be remarked at the end.

It's more detailed than the introduction of Xue Fengchen!

Feeling that his spiritual power was insufficient, he directly held the tenth-level snake python demon pill in his hand, and continued to study while absorbing it.

Zhao Xuan was almost sleepless, and every time he studied a hundred herbs, he would go back and make sure that there would be no mistakes. For such a tedious and boring workload, Zhao Xuan didn't feel any discomfort at all, but enjoyed it. It's an accumulation, a lot of accumulation, and it's always useful in the future.

Time passed, and Zhao Xuan was unaware.

Three months later, Zhao Xuan thoroughly studied all the herbs at hand, each one, before turning to the Xuanyuan Divine Furnace and the Qilin Fire.

Alchemy requires not only knowledge of the Dan Dao, but also some specific utensils.

It is said that some alchemists with deep attainments do not need to use anything when refining low-level pills, just one pair of hands. However, most alchemists still have to use alchemy furnaces.

A good alchemy furnace not only makes the success rate of alchemy quite high, but also improves the level of alchemy.

With an alchemy furnace, there must also be fire.

The power of the flames that can be emitted by the aura realm is too weak, and it can't last long, so it can't meet the requirements of the alchemy furnace. This requires the help of some fuel, or the fire of the lungs, and the disadvantage is that you need to be distracted to control the temperature.

Alchemists refining elixirs are extremely draining. Some pills, even if you go all out, may not be able to succeed, let alone divide your mind. Therefore, being able to distract from the mind or only pay a little attention to the temperature of the flame is the favorite of alchemists.

And there is indeed such a flame in the world, and that is the natural fire with spirituality! Qilin Fire is this kind of spiritual fire, and the grade is higher.

Although there were Xuanyuan Divine Furnace and Qilin Fire, Zhao Xuan still thought that since he wanted to lay the foundation, he would lay a solid foundation. Use the worse Dan furnace and earth fire first, and then use the Xuanyuan Divine Furnace and Qilin Fire after you are familiar with it.

Zhao Xuan didn't need to ask to know that his spiritual power was definitely stronger than that of his peers, which was his advantage.

At the moment, it is still necessary to grasp the temperature of the flame corresponding to the herb.

Whether it is the collected Dan Book materials or the Dan Dao inheritance of Xue Fengchen, there is no introduction to the temperature of the flame. It is only said that practice makes perfect, and it is mastered by feeling. There is no standard, so I can only try again and again. This also caused difficulties for alchemists to advance to the ranks, as well as the cost of pills.

Zhao Xuan felt that this was too mysterious, and it took too much time and energy. Is there any way to quantify the standard and grasp the approximate temperature range first, and then finely control the learning?

The flames of the fingertips were beating, and with the output of the aura, the temperature could be felt rising. Is it possible to remember the difference in temperature by feeling it exactly, and then in mind? After that, it is divided into various stages, and when alchemy, it is in different stages, and then the control is refined?

It felt feasible, and after thinking through some details, I started to do it.

After thousands of repeated trials and tests, and after half a month, Zhao Xuan finally determined a set of temperature control and evaluation methods.

After that, he began to strengthen the practice of Qilin Fire to determine the feasibility of that method. Also under the Dan furnace, the flame temperature after the coal and wood are burned. The comparison is also included in that theoretical system.

This method was called by Zhao Xuan as the "Danhuo Wanduan Ten Layer Method". Each section of temperature is divided into ten layers. The first stage is roughly equivalent to the temperature of the flame that can be emitted in the middle and late stages of the Aura Realm.

These days, I haven't done anything, and I've finally taken care of the temperature. It's a long and stupid method, but it has many benefits. With the ascension of the ten layers of ten thousand sections, it is believed that the temperature control is not comparable to that of ordinary alchemists.

The next step is to test the temperature at which the herb is purified, which section and which layer are close to the requirements of the purification in the Dan book, and then the small scale in that layer is accurate to achieve the effect described in the Dan Shu Yu Jian.

This will inevitably waste a lot of herbs and consume a lot of time. However, after accumulation, summarize and compare, then in the face of other herbs in the future, you can also directly control the approximate range, saving a lot of time, and at the same time, it will not waste the rare Dan grass that will be more precious in the future.

Any herbs and medicinal stones must be like people, with dirt and impurities, essence and dross. The purification of spirit grass is the process of taking its essence and removing the dross.

In the alchemy room, the fire of the earth lungs was drawn out, and the Dan furnace obtained from Wu Laosan was released.

"The Dan furnace is on fire, and it's time to test. Let's start with the low-level herbs introduced in the jade slip and practice your hands. ”

Throwing a red grass into the Dan furnace, closing the lid, and the spiritual power entered it to observe, recording the changes that occurred with the temperature.

With a little increase in temperature, the red grass began to melt locally, expelling impurities, and when it reached a section of eight layers, the red grass melted completely, but there were still many impurities in the Dan furnace that were not discharged from the permeable holes of the Dan furnace, and were intertwined with the essence part.

The temperature was raised by half a layer, the impurities disappeared completely, and the essence part shrank by three percent at this time, finally meeting the requirements described in the Danshu Yu Jian.

Zhao Xuan was greatly encouraged, and excitedly opened the lid and prepared to collect it. It's just that before he entered the jade bottle, half of the Chiying herbal liquid had been destroyed, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

"What's going on? It's already done, how can this be? ”