Chapter 153: First Alchemy
An Yun was in the cemetery on the hill, silently paying tribute for a while, clapping his hands and going down the mountain, walking towards the stone building at the bottom of the mountain.
The stone buildings are simple and old, and the jet-black unpolished large boulders are built haphazardly, without a trace of decoration, and some are all various stone tools made by the primitive inhabitants for convenience and simplicity.
The stones used in these stone tools are as hard as cold iron and will not be damaged for many years, but unfortunately the quality of these stones is heavy and not spiritual, so they cannot be used to refine the magic weapon flying sword or various cultivation equipment required by the monks. Except for the Wu Clan, these stones are waste to cultivators, demon cultivators, and even demon clans.
An Yun pushed open the tall stone door that had been sealed for a long time, and the two stone doors let out a rough friction sound, and slowly opened.
The interior of the house is very simple, only a slightly flat boulder is used as a stone table, and two smaller stones are placed next to the boulder, which is the stone bench. There was a futon on the ground, but on the table was a jade bottle with a quaint shape all over the turquoise, and next to the jade bottle were two crude pottery bowls, and nothing else.
This empty stone house is the place An Yun is most familiar with. After she got married, this was her cave, a place that no one knew.
In his previous life, many monks who knew An Yun felt strange that An Yun was a four-line miscellaneous spiritual root, and the spiritual root qualification could be described as the lowest qualification in the cultivation world. Her immortal fate is extremely poor, she has no sect to take her in, she has not spoken out in the cultivation family, and she has not met any nobles. Every progress, every breakthrough, and every harvest of her cultivation is by herself. How did such an unknown casual cultivator break through the foundation building period step by step. Stepping on the Jindan Avenue, he was even almost able to successfully promote to the Yuanying Monk?
An Yun's firmness, An Yun's hard work, An Yun's persistence...... If this is all that is said, all the monks will dismiss. Cultivators, who are not firm, who are not hardworking, who are not persistent, and even far beyond An Yun's efforts, I don't know how many. But except for An Yun, in the casual cultivation, except for those with high innate spiritual root qualifications. Or a child of a monastic family. Who can build Jindan Avenue by themselves?
Before and after thousands of years, except for An Yun, there is no one.
An Yun's gaze fell on the shoddy stone table, and the jade bottle on the table exuded a warm light. The light was like the rising sun. It's like a mild spring breeze. Just watching. It makes people feel joy from the bottom of their hearts, which is the light of life.
Glass jade net bottle.
Long time no see.
An Yunzhen stroked the smooth and gentle body of the glass jade net bottle, and the fluorescence of the bottle mouth illuminated her slender fingers transparent and warm. Such as ten jade hands carved from the best white jade.
Glass jade net bottle, hers.
In her previous life, in order to get the Yuanying Pill, An Yun followed Ye Tiannan into the Netherworld Fire Sea, because the glazed jade net bottle was cultivating a very important spiritual grass, and the spiritual water irrigation could not be in short supply, so she was very lucky to leave the glazed jade net bottle in the Valley of Forgotten Worries.
It is precisely because of this that she can see the glazed jade bottle again in this life, hold the warm body of the glass jade bottle again, and feel the aura gushing out of the bottle. And all the magic weapons and refined pills she collected in her previous life were all carried by her in the Sumeru ring, and together with her previous life, they fell into the sea of netherworld fire.
Well, herbs?
An Yun suddenly remembered that in her previous life, when she left the Valley of Forgotten Sorrows for the last time, she was cultivating the most important medicinal herb needed for the Chong Ling Pill, the March Dusk Snow Grass, and her eyes immediately fell on the crude pottery bowl on the table.
At the bottom of the two crude pottery bowls, there was a dark black flocculent thing in each, An Yun couldn't believe it, put down the glazed jade bottle, picked up a pottery bowl and put it in front of him to look carefully, and finally gave up.
In her previous life, she had cultivated a total of two March Dusk Snow Grass, an elixir as high as the ninth order, which was extremely difficult to cultivate. Moreover, the March Twilight Snow Grass grows slowly, and it takes up to a thousand years for the March Twilight Snow Grass to mature, and it is the most important medicinal material for refining the Chong Ling Pill, so it is extremely precious.
Chong Ling Pill is a kind of auxiliary elixir, the level of the pill is very high, up to the ninth order, almost the same level as the Yuan Ying Pill, and it cannot be refined by non-alchemy masters. In time, he is an alchemy master, and the success rate of refining is only one percent at most.
There is only one kind of monk who takes the Chong Ling Pill, and that is the Tribulation Monk who impacts the Yuan Infant Realm during the Jindan period. Chong Ling Pill can maximize the medicinal effect of the Yuan Infant Pill, and at the same time lock the medicinal effect of the Yuan Infant Pill, so that most of it can be absorbed by the monks. But the most important thing is that the Chong Ling Pill has a strong resistance to Lei Yuanqi, and if the Jindan monk succeeds in conceiving a baby, he will immediately summon the Nine Heavenly Tribulations. The Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation has the greatest chance of appearing as a Thunder Tribulation, because after taking the Chong Ling Pill, the number of monks who successfully crossed the Tribulation was ten times more than that of those who did not take the Chong Ling Pill.
Therefore, although the Chong Ling Pill is not as precious as the Yuan Ying Dan, it is not much worse.
An Yun sighed, these two March Twilight Snow Grass were completely destroyed, this Forget Worry Valley is immortal, the only thing that can destroy the March Twilight Snow Grass is March Twilight Snow Grass itself.
Not to mention the slow growth of the snow grass in March, it needs to absorb a large amount of aura during the ripening process, and once it is cut off, it will be immediately replaced with crumbs, which is extremely delicate. However, once the March Dusk Snow Grass is ripe, it must be taken out and sealed into the jade bottle immediately, so that the spiritual power of the herb will not leak out.
Otherwise, the March Twilight Snow Grass will slowly rewrite the spiritual power of the herb to heaven and earth, and it will wither into slag.
It has been more than three hundred years since An Yun died in his previous life, and this March Dusk Snow Grass has already spit out its spiritual power and turned into black powder.
An Yun just regretted it for a moment, and then held the glass jade net bottle in his hand again, and the heavy treasure was lost and recovered, which was already a great luck, where would he dare to force it again. Besides, she is still early to conceive and baby, and in the future, the world will slowly cultivate March twilight snow grass.
It was imperative that she refine a batch of knotted gold pills before the Valley of Forgotten Worries was discovered.
In the upper right corner of the stone house, there is a wooden staircase, and the staircase has not even scraped the bark, and at a glance you know that it is the kind of stone and iron tree planted in the valley. I don't know how the Ancient Giant Witch Clan cut and split the stone iron tree, which was stronger than most immortal iron, just to make a staircase.
An Yun went upstairs, the layout of the second floor was even simpler than the first floor, and there was a huge alchemy furnace in the middle of the huge stone house. On a huge stone platform next to the alchemy furnace. There are neatly placed large and small jade bottles and jade boxes.
These pills are all left by An Yun in his previous life, and the varieties are very complete, even if there are no herbs, there must be seeds of herbs, and there are glass jade bottles, so that the herbs can be quickly cultivated and matured.
The alchemy furnace was obtained by An Yun in his previous life with heavy treasures from the elders of the Danxia Sect, and it is a third-order armillary furnace, which can be regarded as a middle and upper grade in the alchemy furnace, which can greatly enhance the success rate of alchemy and shorten the time for the pill to be formed.
The armillary furnace was the last work of the refining master Ou Yezi before he was promoted to the refining master, and the bottom of the furnace was sealed with a wisp of Sanyang purple fire. As long as the monk's spiritual power is stimulated. The alchemy furnace will be heated by the sealed Sanyang Purple Fire. Although the Sanyang Purple Fire is an underground fire, its power is a few points higher than that of the Jindan Monk's Samadhi True Fire.
In particular, the Sanyang Purple Fire was sealed in the Celestial Furnace, which only needed to be stimulated by the monk's spiritual power, and there was no need to continuously input spiritual power. Sanyang Purple Fire is very stable. The heat energy is completely exerted in the Dan furnace. There will not be the slightest leakage to guide the failure of the refining of the pill.
An Yun's fingers slowly brushed over the round and heavy lid of the Armillary Furnace. Slowly circling around the Armillary Furnace, calming down as if communicating silently with the Armillary Furnace.
In alchemy, this is an indispensable detail and rule. Alchemists open the furnace for alchemy. The Dan furnace is the only partner that alchemists can rely on, and whether a furnace of elixir can succeed depends on the performance of the Dan furnace in many cases. Therefore, alchemists must understand their Dan furnace, every minute and every inch, whether the heating is uniform, whether the exhaust hole is a little blocked, and even whether the Dan furnace is damp or has some dirt, these must be eliminated.
The alchemist's understanding of his own Dan furnace was even far greater than the monk's understanding of his own body.
In fact, in the Valley of Forgotten Worries, nothing will change, and no one uses the Armillary Furnace, so naturally there will be no change. An Yun did this because this was the first time she had come into contact with the Armillary Furnace in her life, and she had to get herself familiar with the Armillary Furnace quickly.
The second is that she wants to refine the seventh-order knot golden pill after all, and with her current cultivation realm, it is still a little reluctant in the end. Taking advantage of this time, she recalled the process and details of refining the medicine several times in her mind, making sure that there were no omissions.
An Yun walked around the Heavenly Furnace for forty-eight laps, and his footsteps suddenly stopped, and the people just walked to the stone platform where all kinds of large and small jade bottles and jade boxes were kept.
To refine the golden pill, a total of about one hundred and seventy-three elixirs are required, and the amount of each elixir is different, and the parts taken are also different, and even the slightest mistake in the order and timing of the release will also lead to the failure of alchemy. The procedures for alchemy are even more complicated, the divine sense cannot be relaxed in the slightest, the size of the Dan furnace, and the steps of putting the elixir must not be slow, fast, slow, or wrong......
An Yun suddenly opened his eyes, and slapped his palm heavily on the thick furnace lid, and the heavy furnace lid jumped up with a "buzz" and rolled in the air.
An Yun leaned down, his fingers swept along the runes drawn at the bottom of the furnace, the Sanyang purple fire sealed at the bottom of the furnace was unsealed, the heat suddenly came out, and the temperature of the stone house immediately increased several times.
In an instant, the bronze skin of the Armillary Furnace turned red, and three wisps of white steam came out of the three vents carved into dragon heads, and then he closed his mouth tightly.
An Yun's hands flashed quickly on the stone platform like butterflies wearing flowers, and the jade bottles appeared in her hands one by one, and quickly returned to the stone platform. The herbs in the jade box were even more like they flew out by themselves, and they were randomly flicked left and right by An Yun and fell into the red and purple Heavenly Furnace, and the rest returned to the jade box one after another.
There are four main medicinal materials in refining the Jin Dan, among which the Yin God Flower and the Fire Yang Spirit Grass are the most important. The two herbs, one yin and one yang, symbolize the yin and yang of heaven and earth, and merge into one to form Tai Chi, just as the scattered spiritual liquid of the Zhuji monk forms a solid and round golden pill.
The second is the blood coagulation grass and jasper, one can make the person who impacts the realm repair the physical damage extremely quickly, and the other can repair the damage of the meridian dantian extremely quickly.
Under An Yun's alchemy technique, these four main medicines turned into four clusters of liquid liquid in the Armillary Furnace, rotating in the heat wave, each incompatible. An Yun pointed his finger at the bottom of the Heavenly Furnace again, and the spiritual power was emitted through his fingertips and landed on the formation diagram at the bottom of the furnace. The Sanyang purple fire at the bottom of the furnace made a whirring burning sound, and the heat wave in the furnace rushed out like substance. The impurities in the four clusters of liquid medicine were refined in an instant, and they left the Heavenly Furnace with the heat wave.
At this time, the heavy furnace lid that was tumbling in the air fell again, just tightly clasping the furnace mouth, blocking the heat wave of the furnace from leaking.
An Yun only exhaled at this time, her forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, and it was only two or three blinks just now, but she seemed to have experienced a protracted battle.
After a slight breathing, An Yun wrapped his palm with spiritual power and slapped it on the stove lid again, this time the stove lid only shook open a little. Without waiting for the heat wave in the furnace to pour out, An Yun swung a palm towards the open gap and pushed the heat wave in, the jade bottle in her hand flashed like a meteor, and the herbs in the bottle had been poured into her through the gap.
An Yun immediately closed the lid of the furnace again, and carefully stared at the copper pill dripping and turning on the lid of the furnace, and identified the situation in the furnace from the speed and color of the copper pill.
The temperature of the spiritual fire required for alchemy is extremely high, it is by no means an ordinary ordinary fire, and then the heat is locked and amplified by the alchemy furnace, and the temperature in the alchemy furnace can evaporate the monk's divine consciousness in an instant. Therefore, alchemists cannot use their divine sense to probe the Dan furnace, and can only rely on experience, feel, and the changes in the patterns of the copper pills on the lid of the alchemy furnace and the surface of the Dan furnace, or the changes in the air flow of the vent to speculate on the situation of the herbs in the Dan furnace.
It is precisely because of this that alchemy is easy to learn and difficult to refine, and the improvement of alchemy level is completely improved by refining countless pills and improving experience. Among them, the talent of the alchemist is very important, he can get the most experience in the least loss, and avoid wasting countless precious elixirs and losing more than he gains.
There are fewer and fewer precious spiritual herbs in heaven and earth, and many ancient and ancient medicinal herbs have become extinct.
That is to say, the major sects have the strength and background to cultivate one or two talented alchemists, and use the strength of the entire sect to help them improve their alchemy level.
An Yun is a casual cultivator, how can there be such treatment? However, in her previous life, she was lucky enough to get the ancient Buddhist Sect Strange Treasure Glass Jade Pure Bottle, which can produce the best spiritual liquid, which can be used to water the spirit grass, which can shorten the maturity time of the spirit grass dozens of times. The spiritual grass is hard to find, but the seeds are very easy to obtain, An Yun exchanged almost all varieties of spiritual grass seeds from the major sects in his previous life, and what spiritual grass he needed was cultivated with a glazed jade net bottle.
Then she began large-scale alchemy, and alchemy and level advanced by leaps and bounds. (To be continued......) I1292