Chapter 174: A Touch of Ripples
"Four Beast Ding?" Jia Feiliang instantly widened his eyes and looked at Lan Qian incredulously.
"How can you have four beasts?" Jia Feiliang couldn't believe his eyes. These four beast tripods had appeared in Jin Island for a period of time, and they were a six-star treasure tripod second only to Feng Tianding. Later, the Four Beasts disappeared, and Jia Feiliang also searched for a while, but he never found anything. Now that it has appeared in the hands of Lan Qian, Jia Feiliang is envious, jealous and hateful!
"Can you handle it?" Because Jia Feiliang also participated in the conspiracy to make things difficult for him, Lan Qian also looked at him unpleasantly.
"You!"
"Senior Huang, let's start!"
"Wait! I'm going to bet you!"
"Don't bet!" Lan Qian replied.
"I'll bet you on this Four Beasts! You can make your bet!"
"Don't bet!"
"You!" Jia Feiliang felt the urge to vomit blood!
"Okay, without further ado, the game will start soon!" Huang Lao stopped the two from bickering.
"Hmph, look how I defeat you!" Jia Feiliang was indignant, he was a flame before, but now he is Yaoding, a stunned young man who has just debuted, but his conditions are better than him, he is very unhappy!
"The content of this competition is to refine the primary high-grade elixir through the meridian pill, this is the prescription, each person has three copies of the formula elixir, that is, three refining opportunities, the time is two hours, overtime is negative! If the Tongjing pill is successfully refined within two hours, the one with the highest quality of the pill wins, and if the quality of the pill is the same, the one with the less time wins!"
When he heard the content of the game, Jia Feiliang was overjoyed. He has been refining the pill for hundreds of years, what kind of primary high-grade elixir has he never refined? He has already refined the Tongjing Pill in the content of this competition many times, and he is extremely proficient, and the success rate is as high as 70%, and now he has three chances, and he has the chance to win!
Lan Qian has only been refining medicine for a few days, and naturally he has not refined the Tongjing Pill, but the soldiers are coming to block it, and the water is coming to cover it, and Lan Qian is not afraid at all.
Lan Qian had already seen the prescription of the Tongjing Pill in the Imperial Ring, but in order not to arouse suspicion, Lan Qian still symbolically looked at the prescription provided by Huang Lao and once again understood the refining method of the Tongjing Pill.
The Tongjing Pill is refined from four elixirs: purple and blue leaves, snake molt flowers, three-leaf green mushrooms and fire dragon births, which can help dredge the main veins and is the favorite elixir of martial artists below the military general. However, because the Fire Dragon Festival is very rare and hard to find, the number of meridian pills has always been very small, and the price is very expensive.
"The race timer begins!" Huang Lao announced.
Under Huang Lao's order, Jia Feiliang quickly lit the flames, and skillfully threw the purple and blue leaves into the medicine pod with his right hand.
Meltize, remove impurities, purify!
The power of the flame kept changing, and soon, the violet-blue leaves turned into a small pile of blue-purple powder. The blue-purple powder was transferred to the small medicine pod, and Jia Feiliang threw the snake flower into the pod with great skill, and all the movements were smooth, very coherent and flawless. Among the martial artists watching, those who have practiced medicine, or those who have come into contact with medicine refining, are all amazed, "It is really worthy of being a long-famous alchemy master, and there are a few people who can do this skill!"
On the other hand, Lan Qian, when Jia Feiliang began to purify the snake molt, Lan Qian had just put the purple and blue leaves into the medicine pod. Comparing the two, it is clear which is stronger and which is weak. Many viewers couldn't help but shake their heads, "A novice is a novice, one step behind, one step behind, the game has just begun, this Lan Qian has already lost half of it!"
Of course, it's not that Lan Qian is not in a hurry, but Lan Qian is really unfamiliar with this Sutra Pill, he must think about the whole process repeatedly, carefully screen, and find out the key points that need special attention, otherwise blindly starting can only lead to failure.
After everything was ready, Lan Qian began to refine the medicine, first of all, the purification of the four formula elixirs.
It is also melting, removing impurities and purifying, but Lan Qian's operation is very stiff, and he has to pause for a while after each action before starting the next action.
Looking at Lan Qian's unfamiliar movements, Jia Feiliang's heart became more determined.
There is no risk in the first step of purification, and although Lan Qian moves slowly, he has successfully completed this step.
Next is the elixir refining. For most pills, the most critical step is generally in the later stage of fusion and finalization, but the Tongjing Pill is more special, and its biggest difficulty is in the refining step, especially the tempering of the Fire Dragon Festival, and if you are not careful, you may lose all your efforts.
After some pondering before refining the medicine, Lan Qian also understood the difficulty of refining the Tongjing Pill. This step of refining is very demanding on the power of the flame and the length of time, as long as one of them makes the slightest mistake, the entire pill will be directly destroyed.
Lan Qian calmed down and began to refine the purple and blue leaf powder.
"It's done!haha!" When Lan Qian was just about to start refining, Jia Feiliang had already successfully completed the refining of the Fire Dragon Birth Elixir, and the timing and heat were very appropriate, which was perfect!
Jia Feiliang's success did not affect Lan Qian, because Lan Qian didn't want to compare speed with Jia Feiliang from the beginning, because this couldn't be compared at all, he had only been refining medicine for a few days, and others had been refining for hundreds of years!
Time passed slowly, and after an hour of time, Lan Qian finally finished refining the three elixirs of purple and blue leaves, snake molt and three-leaf green mushroom, at this time Jia Feiliang had already completed the fusion of the elixir, and only the last step of calcination and finalization was left.
"The refining of the Fire Dragon Birth Elixir is the most critical step!" Lan Qian concentrated all his attention and began to control the power of the flame for refining.
"Control the power of the flames, pay attention to the time, and pay attention to observation!" Lan Qian threw himself into it.
However, inexperience is inexperience, and despite Lan Qian's repeated caution, a slight mistake ruined the Fire Dragon Birth Elixir.
"Failure, failure is good, failure is wonderful!" Seeing Lan Qian's stunned expression and Jia Feiliang's smiling face, Dongmen knew that Lan Qian had failed to refine medicine for the first time, and immediately began to gloat!
"After all, it's still inexperienced!" Huang Lao also sighed.
"Now Lan Qian is completely out of play!" the audience also began to talk.
"yes, it's too far behind!"
"The gap is too big!"
"There is basically no suspense!"
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"Whew!" Lan Qian took a deep breath, adjusted his state, and began the second round of alchemy. Because the elixir has not yet begun to fuse, the other three quenched elixirs can continue to be used, that is to say, Lan Qian only needs to re-purify and refine the Fire Dragon Birthday, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune!
The purification was completed quickly, followed by the most critical quenching stage.
A failure is equivalent to accumulating experience, plus Lan Qian's mentality is very good, he is not anxious, and he is not irritable, so this time, Lan Qian succeeded.
Successfully taking the most critical step, Lan Qian breathed a sigh of relief. This is followed by the simpler fusion phase.
After a stick of incense, Lan Qian's fusion was completed, and at this time, Jia Feiliang had already completed the warmth of the elixir and was doing the final calcination and molding.
For Tongjing pills, this last step is also quite crucial, the longer the time is to calcine, the higher the quality of the pill, and the better the efficacy.
Calcination for a long time with the same flame power is easy to say, but it is also difficult to do. It's as simple as standing still, but it's very difficult to keep you still for hours on end.
Jia Feiliang was nearly half an hour ahead of Lan Qian, so no matter how Lan Qian calcined, it was impossible to surpass Jia Feiliang in time. After realizing this, Jia Feiliang already saw that victory was in sight.
Lan Qian also knew this situation, with the same flame power, the intermediate flame still had a slight advantage over the primary flame, which would save him a little time disadvantage, but it was only a little bit of a redemption. The gap of nearly half an hour was too big for flames alone to completely make up for it, so Lan Qian had to find other countermeasures, otherwise he would definitely lose.
Lan Qian was gentle while thinking about what to do. The warming step was smooth and steady, and it was also completed quickly. Without a pause, Lan Qian immediately entered the final stage of calcination and shaping.
The blue flame wrapped the elixir, and the power of the flame was adjusted just right. At this time, Lan Qian closed his eyes and used his soul power to finely sense the power of the flame, ensuring that the power of the flame remained unchanged. At the same time, the spiritual power output from Lan Qian's hand began to fluctuate slightly, and this fluctuation was very subtle, causing the power of the flame to fluctuate slightly around the target value. The fluctuation value is so small that if you don't feel it carefully, you won't notice it at all.
This calcination method was not created by Lan Qian himself, and a method in the Medicine Emperor inheritance, called the Ripple Method, is a calcination method similar to the Nine Rounds and Nine Turns Method.
It is mentioned in the inheritance of the Medicine Emperor that the calcination method is a single flame power, and when calcined for a long time, it can be replaced by a trace of ripple method, which can effectively improve the quality of the elixir.
In the previous few days of refining medicine, Lan Qian had just used a trace of the ripple method, so it was no stranger to use it at this time.
Jia Feiliang used conventional means and advanced Lan Qian for nearly half an hour, if nothing else, the quality of his elixir would definitely be higher than Lan Qian's. However, Lan Qian possessed an intermediate-grade flame and used an advanced trace of ripple method to catch up in the quality of the elixir.
As the minutes passed, Lan Qian and Jia Feiliang continued to calcinate the elixir.
When there was still a tea time before the end of the game, Jia Feiliang's elixir was the first to be baked. The moment he got the elixir, Jia Feiliang could clearly feel that the quality of the Tongjing Pill was extremely high, and it had basically reached the limit of the primary high-grade elixir. Normally, when he refines the Tongjing Pill, he only calcines it for more than half an hour, because the further he goes, the improvement in quality becomes smaller and smaller. However, this time, for the sake of safety, Jia Feiliang calcined it for nearly an hour, so the quality of the pill was almost impossible to surpass.
The reason why the tea was baked in advance was because Jia Feiliang wanted to guarantee his victory 100%, assuming that if Lan Qian's elixir quality was comparable to him, then with the advantage of time, he would still be the final winner.
Although the tea time was advanced, Jia Feiliang's calcination time was still more than one stick of incense more than Lan Qian's, so no matter what the situation was, in Jia Feiliang's eyes, Lan Qian was completely defeated this time!