Chapter 40: Dancheng
Fail!
Fail!
Fail!
Looking at the fragments of medicinal herbs in the Shenmu Ding, Chen Shen's face showed a wry smile, and he grabbed his hair with his hand in annoyance, not understanding what was wrong with him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
For seven whole days, every day he had to refine three to five furnaces of pills, and each time he ended in failure, and just now, it was already the thirty-second failure.
Thinking that every time the elixir was refined to the end, it was either a pile of pitch-black medicine residue or a puddle of unpleasant water stains, his heart collapsed a little.
In the past seven days, Chen Shen has not been alchemizing all at once.
After every failure, he will spend a lot of time analyzing and summarizing, not letting go of any details; From time to time, he would also take out Pei Yuan Dan's Dan prescription to observe and compare it to see if he had missed anything. During this period, he also found out a lot of small problems, and after thinking about it carefully, he always had a feeling of sudden realization. However, when it came to the next alchemy, he still failed.
"This technique is fine, the size of the flame here is also properly controlled, and the order of the medicinal materials is not wrong, what is the problem?" Chen Shen sat on the ground, dragging his cheek with his right hand, muttering to himself.
"I remember that when I first refined the Quenching Pill and other first-grade pills, the technique and heat were the same as now, and I could easily refine them successfully every time, why did I keep failing now?" Chen Shen recalled the time when he was alchemy in Dinghai City, and his face was full of puzzlement.
"It seems that the only difference is that my body was full of true qi at that time, or mainly true qi, and now my body is all converted into spiritual qi." Chen Shen blinked and said thoughtfully.
"That's not right! Definitely not for this reason! There is no reason why the level of Yuan Force in the body is higher, and it is not possible to succeed in refining the pill, otherwise how would other monks refine the pill. As soon as the previous words came out, Chen Shen reacted, knowing that it was definitely not like that.
"Each elixir has its own refining method, and if you use the same method of refining other elixirs to refine another elixir, of course it is easy to fail." Just when Chen Shen was full of distress and didn't understand for a while, the voice of Tianyun sounded in his head.
"That's right! How could I be so stupid, I didn't even think of it. After listening to Tianyun's words, Chen Shen was stunned for a moment, and then slapped his thigh with his hand, and suddenly realized.
"Because you have too little experience in alchemy, and you have fallen into the wrong place of thinking." Tianyun said lightly.
"In other words, as long as I change the refining technique, or some other details, I can successfully refine Pei Yuan Dan?" Chen Shen subconsciously touched his chin and said thoughtfully.
"I don't know! I only know that the elixir has a spirit, and if you want to refine it successfully, you must understand its true nature. For example, his medicinal effects are obviously non-toxic medicinal materials, but when put together, they will be toxic, if you don't find the right way to deal with it, even if you succeed in refining it in the end, it will be poison. Anything, as long as you find the right way and grasp the essence, it will be much easier to do. Tianyun was silent for a while, and then spoke.
After listening to Tianyun's words, Chen Shen didn't speak for a while. He felt that Tianyun was right, at least, he knew that there were a lot of medicinal materials that would produce toxic substances when two non-poisonous herbs were put together.
"Fortune, how do you know this?" Chen Shen found that it seemed that every time he encountered a difficulty, Tianyun could answer one or two, which couldn't help but make him a little curious.
"I've heard people talk about it before." After half a ring, the voice of heavenly fortune came, but listening to its luck, it seemed to be a little different.
Chen Shen thought about it and didn't ask more. Since Tianyun is reluctant to say it, it has its truth, and it is not necessary for him to understand everything so clearly.
"By the way, did you find any effect on that piece of black soil?"
Then, Chen Shen remembered the abnormal place in the dzi, and didn't know if there was a result. Thinking of the effects that Tianyun had said at the beginning, his heart was slightly excited.
"I have a little clue, but the specific situation will have to be observed for a while to be determined." Heavenly Fortune returns.
"Hmmm! Then you keep observing! If there's anything you need, just let me know. Chen Shen said as he cleaned up the medicinal residue in the Shenmu Ding, intending to continue alchemy.
"I will!" Tianyun replied, and then there was no sound, and it was estimated that he was already busy.
After recalling the place where the alchemy failed before, Chen Shen controlled the law duel and hit Shenmu Ding to prepare for a new round of alchemy.
Soon, the refining of Pei Yuan Dan reached a critical moment, Chen Shen carefully controlled the fire, released his divine sense into the Ding, and observed the changes in the medicinal materials at any time, so as to make adjustments in time. He clearly remembered that one of his failures was because the heat was a little heavier, and the entire furnace of elixir turned into ashes, causing all his hard work for an hour to be in vain.
"It worked!"
When Chen Shen sensed through his divine sense, most of the medicinal materials in the Ding had melted away, he couldn't help but shout happily. However, the sad thing is that while he was excited, the fire that had been properly controlled had made a mistake, and the temperature was a little higher than before. Although he then discovered the problem and regained control of the fire, it was too late, and the medicinal herbs in the Shenmu Ding stopped melting in an instant, and then emitted a pungent white smoke.
Pei Yuan Dan's refining failed again!
Seeing this scene, Chen Shen patted his head in annoyance, and a wry smile appeared on his face. I didn't expect that my excitement would lead to another failure of alchemy, I really can't be careless!
After sighing, Chen Shen cleaned up the Shenmu Ding again, and then continued to start alchemy.
After learning the lesson of the last time, Chen Shen had a good grasp of the control of the heat this time, and there was no mistake, and all the medicinal materials in the Ding had also melted into liquid, and they were developing in the direction of condensing into pills.
It seems that all these phenomena mean that this alchemy will be successful. However, unfortunately, when Chen Shen was full of excitement and was ready to cast a magic decision to control the formation of the pill, the refining of Pei Yuan Dan failed again.
No gas, no frustration!
After careful cleaning, Chen Shen started alchemy again, and he didn't believe that he couldn't refine it successfully.
Fail!
Fail!
Or a failure!
In the next few alchemies, Chen Shen still failed, until the evening of the ninth day, when things took a turn for the better.
This time, Chen Shen had been smooth since he began to invest in medicinal materials and until the pill was formed, which made him himself unable to believe it. It wasn't until there was a ping-pong crash sound from the Shenmu Ding's Ding that he woke up and hurriedly cast a spell to enter the Dan furnace to prepare for the last step of Cheng Dan.
After half a ring, when the sound of the ding stopped, Chen Shen opened the lid of the ding, and a strange fragrance suddenly filled the hut, he sniffed lightly, only to feel that his spirit was shocked, and his whole body was comfortable.
"Hahaha, it's done!"
When Chen Shen looked down at the inside of Shenmu Ding, he saw seven or eight pills lying inside, and he laughed happily.
After laughing, Chen Shen reached into the ding and took out Pei Yuan Dan. Then, pills the size of a dragon's eye appeared in his hands, which were all green and emanating with an attractive fragrance. Chen Shen recalled the scene on the lower Dan side about Peiyuan Dan after becoming a Dan, and found that it was the same, he finally put his mind at ease and confirmed that his conjecture was correct.
Counting the Pei Yuan Dan in his hand, there were only eight in total, four less than the number recorded on the Dan Fang, and he did not reach a perfect state, but Chen Shen's heart was satisfied, after all, he finally successfully refined the Pei Yuan Dan, and after refining it a few more times, there was no chance of reaching perfection.
He took out a jade bottle and put seven of the Pei Yuan Dan in it. Afterwards, Chen Shen sat directly on the ground, threw the Pei Yuan Dan in his hand into his mouth, and began to practice pranayama.
After about a cup of tea, Chen Shen opened his eyes with a satisfied look on his face. Through the observation of his divine sense, he knew that his cultivation had been completely stabilized, and the aura in his body had been condensed, and his strength was also stronger than before he took the pill.
Subsequently, Chen Shen threw himself into the crazy alchemy, and piles of medicinal materials were constantly thrown into the Shenmu Ding, turning into tempting pills. When he got to the back, Chen Shen took out the other medicinal materials in the storage bag, refining the pill like a demon, and he didn't want to rest for a moment.
After another nine days, when Chen Shen successfully refined a furnace of pills again, he still habitually stretched out his hand to take out the pills in the ding and put them in the jade bottle. However, this time, his outstretched hand suddenly stopped in the air, and then a surprised expression appeared on his face, and he laughed out loud.
It turned out that after these eighteen days of continuous alchemy, constantly wandering between failure and success, Chen Shen's understanding of the pill continued to deepen, and finally accumulated sand into a tower, from quantitative change to qualitative change, and was successfully promoted to a second-grade alchemist just now.
At this moment, Chen Shen had a feeling of seeing the sun through the clouds, he had suddenly opened up to many things he didn't understand in alchemy before, and then looked back at the pills he had refined before, those failed places were so simple that they could be easily avoided.
In addition, he felt that his body seemed to be different, as if the cultivation that had only been consolidated a few days ago had improved a lot, and it seemed that as long as he found an appropriate time, he would be able to break through again and reach the stage of spiritual silence.
Thinking of it, Chen Shen was slightly lucky, and he felt that his cultivation had really improved, and he released his divine sense to inspect the Qi Sea Dantian, only to see that the fog that was only the size of a fist before had actually grown by a fifth, and it became more condensed. This phenomenon confirmed his conjecture.
After half a ring, Chen Shen waved his hand and put the remaining medicinal materials in the house into the storage bag, put the Shenmu Ding into his body, and then inspected the pills on the ground. I saw that around him, nearly twenty jade bottles were placed in a messy manner.
This time in alchemy, although there were many failures, there were also a lot of Cheng Dan, and most of the grades were second-grade, but they were much more valuable than the pills he had refined before.
Chen Shen counted it carefully, and found that there were a total of one hundred and twenty Peiyuan Pills, thirty Ning Yuan Pills, and twenty-six Pure Heart Pills, but as for Qingyun Pills, Chen Shen failed in his attempt and did not refine one.
In addition to these three elixirs, Chen Shen also refined the second-grade elixir Huiling Pill that could quickly restore the consumption of spiritual energy, with a total of forty-eight pills; There are a total of thirty-six second-grade pills that can treat injuries, Bi Luo Dan, which is much stronger than the previous Qingyun Pill, and it is effective after being taken by monks below the Yuan Infant Stage.
Putting away all the pills, Chen Shen stretched his waist and opened the door, planning to go out for a walk, nearly two months of cultivation and alchemy, which also made him panic.
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