Chapter 19: The Way of Alchemy
Ouyang Wuji's face became very serious, and he said slowly: "Alchemy is divided into five steps: taking water, preparing materials, sealing the furnace, refining fire, and injecting yuan. The five processes are indispensable, why is the elixir so precious, and the starting price is far beyond that of mortal items? Because the last item of the essence refers to the injection of true yuan, and the elixir without the true yuan cannot have strong medicinal power. β
"The higher the grade of the elixir, the more true elements are needed, the purer it is. Legend has it that the power to condense into a divine pill requires at least a piece of heaven and earth yuan power the size of nineteen domains. β
"Just by betting yuan, the starting price of the worst pill rises to 5,000 taels of silver, which is still so cheap to prepare the elixir that can be made in batches, and the others will cost at least 1 gold knife coin or more. β
"Note Yuan!" Zi Yanfan nodded, "Indeed, this step that must allow the Jade Que Realm to make a move excludes countless alchemists. β
"In the steps of taking water, Zhenyu grade and Baoyu grade can use clear springs, white jade grade needs rootless pure dew; Ingredients, is to treat the raw materials of alchemy, herbs and ganoderma lucidum, etc.; sealing the furnace is to put all the materials into it, to provide a place for Ning Dan; refining fire, that is, the control and control of the fire, Zhen Yu and Baoyu can be fired, and what white jade needs is Yuan Huo; Zhu Yuan, inject the true yuan when it is critical, and at the same time transform the power of Ning Dan to condense and form. β
"And the injection of the yuan too early or too late, a little more shallow will cause the pill to fail to form, which is equivalent to waste. In addition, if the corresponding heat is not well mastered, the specific gravity of the material is wrong, and the elixir to be refined does not match the level of the alchemy furnace, it will directly lead to the failure of alchemy. β
Lin Xiaoyue said thoughtfully: "It sounds so complicated. No wonder my father said that today's alchemists are too rare, there has not been a famous alchemy master in the Yanqi Continent for a long time, and those who can refine the divine pill are said to be monopolized by big forces, and money can't buy them. β
After listening to this, Ziyanfan thought silently for a while.
"Brother Wuqi, have you ever used an alchemy furnace to refine Dan?"
"Yes, when I was bored, I bought a random practice a few times, but failed. The master said that if you don't have that plan, don't touch it, the way of alchemy is vast, as deep as the river and the sea, rashly distracted and multi-use, if you don't do it, you won't learn anything. β
"Take it, I'm going to try it, please ask Brother Wuqian to help me in the process of injecting the yuan. Zi Yanfan stretched out his hand unknowingly.
Wu Que sighed secretly in his heart, Xiao Fan, you are proficient in other things, the sound of the piano is peerless, the medical skills are outstanding, and it is rare in ancient and modern times to break through the mortal path in three days...... But this alchemy is by no means something that can be achieved overnight, even if you are good at this knowledge, you will not want to get started without decades of work. I have confidence in you else, and I really don't dare to guarantee this, even the master has to think so.
The surface of Wu Feng was not revealed, he nodded, shook his fan, and a black Dan furnace appeared in his palm.
This black Dan furnace is very small, with a diameter of about one foot at the widest point, which at first glance looks similar to the ancient tripod of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but there is no protruding side pillar on the tripod. The round belly is like an incense burner on the table, and the rules are even. There is a small cover with a diameter of inches on the top, and three half-foot high stilts below. The walls of the Dan furnace are engraved with countless runes that resemble tadpoles, faintly filled with a faint and mysterious atmosphere.
"This Dan furnace is called 'Two-Leaf Condensation Frost Dan Furnace', and there are two Dan positions in it, which can refine two grains at a time. There are also single-leafed, five-leafed, ten-leafed, and the largest, such as the preparation of the spirit pill thousand leaves of the jade furnace, the alchemy master made a one-time refining of a thousand jade pills, and the batch production of one furnace and one furnace was simply profitable, and the wealth was faster than anything else. β
Ouyang Wujian said and handed over the Dan furnace.
Zi Yanfan looked at it, temporarily placed the Dan furnace on the stone table in the pavilion, and asked Ouyang Wujian for a thin jade plate to put on the table, and then put the dark red marrow washing pill about the size of a little finger on the jade plate, picked up a small piece of knife, and began to observe before the dissection.
The other two watched carefully.
Lin Xiaoyue was curious and funny, although Ouyang Wuqian didn't have any hope for alchemy, he had some hope that Zi Yanfan might be able to find the problem in the pill.
Zi Yanfan originally wanted to find something like a 'magnifying glass', so that he could observe it more clearly. But he found that his vision was far clearer than that of a magnifying glass, and even caught up with the microscope in his memory, and the finest textures on the pills could be seen clearly.
This myelin-washing pill is worth 50 gold knife coins, which is considered a sky-high item in the mortal world, Zi Yanfan's hands do not tremble at all because of this reason, he knows that if he studies it thoroughly, the achievements will be far more than 50 gold knife coins.
He first carefully observed the Dan patterns all over the Dan body:
Curved, delicate, some veins intersect and intersect, some completely deviate, one line wanders, two lines are intertwined, and the three lines each bypass the terminal and then wrap again...... The common denominator is that there are no breaks. It seems to follow some kind of law, and it seems to be naturally generated.
Zi Yanfan looked at the Danwen for a long time, and slowly stretched out the tip of the knife in his right hand.
The tip of the knife gently picks off a trace of Dan in the middle.
Call~
The whole pill moved slightly, as if something heavy flew out.
Looking at the Dan body again, all the Dan lines dissipated in an instant.
The red marrow washing pill is like an ordinary soybean that has no abnormality.
"This, is this the true yuan that has been injected is scattered, or is the power of Ning Dan scattered?" Zi Yanfan asked.
"Both are scattered. Ouyang Wujian said: "The power of the Ning Dan is actually born from the destruction of the True Yuan and the transformation of the Dan Furnace, and the two complement each other. If the Dan pattern is destroyed, the overall balance is broken, and the Heaven and Earth Yuan Force will naturally dissipate. β
Zi Yanfan thought for a moment and continued to go under the knife.
He cut the Dan along a stripe of Dan with two small blades, and when the Dan split into two halves, there was nothing unusual, and at first glance, the two halves were all exactly the same dark red.
Pick up a petal with the tip of a knife and place it in front of your eyes for a closer look.
Zi Yanfan wanted to figure out what kind of combination of such pills, which were tens of thousands of times more effective than ordinary prescriptions, which was full of temptation and curiosity for him, who was proficient in medicine, especially after taking two pills in person.
The drugs prescribed by ordinary prescriptions, a bowl of soup and a dressing, at most remove a certain part of the toxicity in the human body, and the effect is extremely slow, and many of them are still long-term.
And the Dan furnace refines a grain of Dan, which can easily transform all the meridian structures of the human body, and even the dantian can be expanded, reborn and washed away the impurities...... It can be described as the creation of heaven and earth, the spirit of the sun and the moon, full of magical colors.
Zi Yanfan remembered the 'nuclear fusion' reaction on the earth: just a few atoms, after a simple collision and fusion, can trigger countless chemical particles around them to change, explode layer after layer, and finally derive incredible surging energy!
The elixir seems to be the same...
The moment it was swallowed, did it also trigger some kind of fusion of the power of heaven and earth to trigger a series of medicinal powers? Otherwise, no matter how powerful a small pill was, how strong could it be?
This is the biggest reason why Ziyanfan must figure it out!
"The ingredients of this elixir are completely fused together, they look exactly the same, you can't see anything. Lin Xiaoyue said on the side.
But no, the dissected Dan is also all red, without any other color, if the raw materials are divided into more than a dozen kinds of colorful colors, then now it is completely fused into one, completely pure monochrome.
"If you look at it this way, you really don't see anything. Zi Yanfan pondered for a while and said, "I need to break it down." β
"It has already been completely refined and fused into one by the furnace fire, and it is also one after the Yuan Force is eliminated, can this be decomposed?"
Zi Yanfan held a petal of the marrow cleansing pill with the tip of the knife and sniffed it at the tip of his nose, "There are at least fifteen different breaths in it, if you don't decompose, you can't see the raw materials, let me think about it......"
He looked at it with a slight frown in thought.
Lin Xiaoyue and Ouyang Wuqian looked at each other...... This guy is talking decently, and he is doing it as if it were real...... Could it be that this grain was completely refined by the alchemy master through the furnace fire... Can you really separate it?
Just because you're a teenager, do you know what you're doing? Lin Xiaoyue almost asked.
Zi Yanfan pondered for a while, flipped his hand, and took out a jade box from the Void Ring.
When I opened it, it was the 'Fallen Soul Grass' that I bought at the trading house last time.
Poison rushed a hundred medicines, and he knew very well the medicinal properties of the Falling Soul Grass, and with this bundle of poisonous herbs, he might be able to dissolve the elixir that had lost its Yuan Force.
Zi Yanfan got a bowl of water.
Crush the marrow cleansing pill into crushed foam and pour it in, the crushed foam melts, and the water quickly turns into a clear red.
Carefully cut off the Soul Grass and put it back into the bowl.
Suddenly, the Soul Falling Grass turned into a black thread that slowly spread out, spreading into the red liquid.
The black line only spread about two inches before stopping, and its poisonous punch was obviously only enough to cover such a point.
Zi Yanfan cut another cut and still went in.
Continuing to spread for two inches, the red liquid still occupies almost everything.
......
It wasn't until Zi Yanfan almost turned a whole bundle of Soul Falling Grass into it that the red liquid in the bowl changedβthe black line devoured about one-third of the other red with poison.
Black accounts for one-third and red accounts for two-thirds!
The change appeared at this moment - when a third of it was devoured, the black liquid representing the poison of the Fallen Soul Grass was temporarily quiet, and then it seemed to collide with some evenly matched substance, and the black liquid rippled violently in the water a few times, and it was visibly hazy with the naked eye, and disappeared without a trace in an instant.
And Zi Yanfan clearly felt that it also took away a certain part of the red liquid.
Now in the bowl, only pure and clear red liquid remains, and the surface looks a little lighter than before, but somehow, Ouyang Wujian and Lin Xiaoyue have a feeling that it is more pure.
"The decomposition didn't come out, but I figured out what the problem was. Zi Yanfan smiled bitterly.
"What's the problem? Your poisonous weeds are gone. Lin Xiaoyue asked impatiently.
"I know what the problem is. β
Ouyang Wuqian saw the crux of the problem: "The problem lies in the pill, there is indeed a harmful force in this elixir, just now it attacked the poison with poison, and at the same time it was dissolved." The rest is the purest and most beneficial. β
"Wow, no. β
Lin Xiaoyue said incredulously: "These are all refined by famous alchemists, how can there be a problem? Every pill of elixir is a miraculous work between heaven and earth, and the benefits are endless, how can it be harmful?"
Zi Yanfan smiled slightly and said, "In order to pursue the strongest Dan power, the alchemist must have picked all the treasures of heaven and earth, and the raw materials of the great supplement are all treasures that are beneficial to people. However, when the moon is full, it is lost, and when the water is full, it overflows. The combination of the two best medicinal materials that are too strong and too strong will give birth to harmful things, which is understood by those who have been in pharmacology. I also don't understand how an alchemist could make such a low-level mistake. β
"It's knowingly. β
Ouyang Wuqian said lightly: "The Yanqi Continent has always lacked alchemists. The little alchemist may not know. But even if he knew, he didn't dare to rashly use the method of flushing drugs. Powerful masters with skills are too lazy to care, so the middle and lower level pills are all like this. β
"That's right! Only the best elixir will find a way to flush out this harmful impurity. Zi Yanfan nodded.
Lin Xiaoyue was stunned and said, "It seems, it seems to be this principle." But the pill is harmful in it, can't ordinary people eat it?"
"Although there is a harm, it will be suppressed by Dannai's beneficial yuan force at the same time, so there will be no problem eating it. From what I just felt, the harmful power consumes at least half of the beneficial elemental power. Let's put it this way, if this harmful substance is eliminated, then the overall efficacy of the elixir will be at least twice as high!" Zi Yanfan said helplessly.