Chapter 21: Refining I

"Excuse me, do you have any of these things here?"

Holding a huge sum of money in his hand, Qin Jue suddenly felt that as long as money could solve the problem, it would not be a problem, so he reached out and took out a list and asked the female teller.

The female teller stared at the list again, and finally frowned slightly and said: "The items you need are basically there, but I don't know if there is this medicine pod, this thing is rarely used, wait for me to find it for you." ”

'It seems that there are really very few people who refine pills, and even the Daoist Academy may not have a medicine tripod', Qin Jue said secretly.

A moment later, the female teller came back again but did not disappoint him.

Among the piles of items, a medicine tripod that looked like an incense burner and looked antique was particularly eye-catching.

"This pod should be a very early item, and it took a lot of effort to find it. The female teller said with a smile. After speaking, his face was slightly embarrassed and said: "However, I checked the price, and the price of this item is relatively expensive." ”

"Oh, how much?"

"Thirty crystals!"

"How much!" Qin Jue stared at the female teller in surprise, and the other party returned an indifferent gaze, which seemed to have no intention of bargaining.

In the end, I had to grit my teeth and endure the pain, pay the other party money, and leave with my things.

As soon as I arrived, the crystal coins that had not yet been covered with heat were instantly reduced by more than half. It seems that on the path of cultivation, his little money is nothing at all.

Back at home, Qin Jiebai began to prepare to try to purify and refine the elixir. At the beginning, it was naturally impossible to directly refine the core of the earth, so first take a few flame grasses with different grades to practice.

Purifying elixir is only the basis of alchemy, and for ordinary elixirs, simple purification is more conducive to absorption.

Refining elixir is a very troublesome and time-consuming matter, which is why there are fewer and fewer alchemists.

Generally, ordinary elixirs, monks can take them orally, even if they are refined into pills, so that their efficacy can be increased by one or two percent, and the cost performance is not high. And there is a chance of failure in alchemy, once it fails, there is no return.

Therefore, very few low-grade elixirs bothered to refine them into elixirs.

The high-grade elixir is valuable and scarce and hard to find, so most of the metropolis will try its best to refine it into an elixir to improve its effectiveness.

As a simple example, a ten-year flame grass is worth ten taels of gold at the top. After refining into an elixir, increasing the efficacy of one or two percent of the medicine is equivalent to increasing the value of one or two taels of gold. Then a hundred-year-old flame grass is refined into an elixir, and the value will increase by one or twenty taels, if it is like the Red Flame Heart Fruit, such a precious treasure, the value of the increase after refining is incalculable.

And the chance of failure of the alchemist in the early stage is relatively high. Therefore, the early alchemist is less profitable, risky, hard, and time-consuming, affecting his own cultivation.

For all these reasons, alchemists are almost extinct, and only some major sects will be cultivated. Moreover, most of them are elderly elders in the sect, and there is no hope for progress in cultivation.

Young monks are only concerned with increasing their cultivation, and who would be willing to spend time studying various pills, medicinal properties, refining, and so on, mixed with a lot of experience and knowledge.

Qin Jue stared at the medicine tripod in front of him, and a scorched smell came from it. For a whole day, he had already wasted three spirit grasses.

On the bright side, he already has some clue about refining the ichor.

A complex spirit array is engraved inside the small medicine pod, and the spirit grass can be gradually refined by inputting yuan force to urge the spirit array. The process is very strict on the control of Yuan Li, and the slightest carelessness will fail.

Because refining medicine requires a high degree of mental concentration, the consumption of mental power is particularly powerful. It is not easy for an ordinary monk of his realm to complete a refinement, and he can persist in doing it three times, which shows that his spiritual power is far superior to that of ordinary people.

Right now, Qin Jue's face was already pale, and sweat was pouring out on the top of his head, and it was really unwise to continue trying at this time. So, he planned to give up for the time being and wait until his energy recovered before trying.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, his mind carefully recalling the content of 'refining the Void Divine Decision'. Then seal your hands and meditate on the state described in the Divine Decision: 'The essence is nourished in the body, and the divine one, the Lord is in the body, like the feeling of the ears and eyes, and the luck of the hands and feet. Concentrate on the mind, control the mind, feel the sun, moon and stars, heaven and earth, and understand the way of nature'.

As the exhalation and inhalation gradually calmed down, Qin Jue felt that everything around him gradually disappeared. A sense of tranquility that has never been felt before, a sense of nothingness slowly envelops itself.

When the world around us is completely lost, leaving only a piece of nothingness, an extremely faint sense arises in the whole nothingness.

This faint perception is completely unlimited by the body, and roams freely in a world of nothingness.

It didn't take long for him to discover that this empty world was not for nothing. Not far from him, there was a trace of strange energy.

Although he was in a wonderful state at this time, he knew it in his heart. At present, his state is the spiritual body mentioned in the divine decision, which is the condensation of all his spiritual power, and this empty world is the 'void world'. The void and the real world exist at the same time, but they cannot be perceived under normal conditions. Only by refining the Void Divine Decision, a divine decision that cultivates spiritual power, and condensing the spiritual body, can it be perceived.

And in this void, the most basic product is the 'spiritual source'.

From ancient times to the present, after the death of all living beings, the spiritual body also dissipates. After dissipation, the spiritual energy returns to the void, and after a long time, it becomes the source of the spirit and floats in the void.

These weak spiritual sources have no consciousness, but exist in the form of an energy source.

After discovering the source of the spirit, he slowly approached. After getting closer, those shredded spiritual sources were gradually absorbed by him.

A refreshing feeling came, and within a few moments, the source of the spirit was absorbed by him.

After absorbing the spiritual source, he could obviously feel that his spiritual body was a little stronger.

However, the change is not particularly obvious, and it seems that if you want to continue to become stronger, you must continue to absorb more spiritual sources.

The spiritual source here is not dense, and it will take a while to discover one. And some are rich, while others are very thin.

There was no concept of time at all in the Void Realm, and Qin Jue didn't know how long it had been, when he had absorbed a piece of spiritual source again, his entire spiritual body suddenly became boiling.

The feeling becomes a little uncontrollable, and the shape is extremely uncertain, and even the energy is overflowing.

Although he didn't know why this phenomenon occurred, he vaguely felt that something was not good, and if he didn't stop the current situation quickly and let it develop, it would cause very serious consequences.

So, he quickly stopped cultivating and withdrew from the Void Realm.

As soon as consciousness returned to the body, a sharp pain like a landslide and tsunami came from the brain.

Even if he was suffering from the pain of the reverse Yuan Tuomai, it was difficult for him to bear this kind of pain from the depths of his spirit.

The sore spot that seemed to be about to split his soul made Qin Jue hold his head in his hands and let out a suppressed roar on the bed.

Time is passing little by little, and the pain in the head has not diminished in the slightest.

Before his consciousness collapsed, he struggled to control his mind and came to the Boundary Bead Space. If there is anyone who can save himself at the moment, the only hope is to refine the woman who has refined the Void Divine Decision for him.

As soon as Qin Jue appeared in the boundary bead space, he propped his hands on the ground, his eyes were wide open, the blue tendons on his forehead burst out, he lowered his head and clenched his teeth, still letting out a deep roar of pain from the depths of his throat.

"What are you,,,。 After a brief moment of surprise, Xi immediately sealed his hands - Xi Song!

A ray of light came from the sky, shining on the ground, shining through the sky.

In the blink of an eye, two, three, and ten thousand rays of light were mighty, filling a realm.

The vast sky, filling the heavens and the earth, and the sight of light in the whole world looked extremely shocking.

What kind of power is this ,,,?

The woman who made such a big move stood in the light. The light of the whole realm reflected her graceful and peerless figure, but it was a pity that Qin Jue was on the verge of collapse at this time, and he didn't care about appreciating it.

"Concentrate!" Xi drew a circle with his arms, his palms pressed against his chest, and his handprints changed again.

In an instant, the light in the whole world suddenly condensed, and the whole world suddenly darkened.

In fact, the world is still the same world, just a light that cannot be described as 'bright', eclipsing everything else.

The only light shone on Qin Jie's forehead, passing through his head, and the brightness did not diminish in the slightest.

The world is quiet!

I don't know when the pain will go away.

It was only when a long sigh sounded in his ears that Qin Jiefang came to his senses.