Chapter 47 The New Master
It is not only all kinds of spiritual herbs and spiritual flowers that can be used to refine pills, but also all kinds of spiritual flesh and blood, spar minerals, etc., which contain medicinal properties. However, the ingredients and heat required for each elixir are different, and if you are not careful, the alchemy will fail, and the worst will directly fry the furnace.
The blaster is not a joke, the power accumulated before the pill is formed suddenly explodes, more violent than the explosion of supernatural powers, the higher the level of the pill when refining, the greater the damage caused by the blaster, the fryer is the most feared thing by all people in the Dan Dao.
In addition, the most commonly used method of alchemy is fire refining, which is to extract the required medicinal properties from flowers and minerals with the power of flames, and other unwanted substances are all impurities, which must be refined with flames.
Alchemists can help themselves with alchemy by refining spiritual fire, treasure fire, or even Dao fire, so that it is very easy to control the temperature of the flame and increase the success rate of alchemy. Of course, refining flames is not an easy task, refining flame grades that are too low are not very useful, and high-grade flames are not only difficult to obtain, but the refining process is extremely dangerous, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will be turned into ashes by flames.
There are also people in the Dan Dao who practice the exercises themselves are extraordinary, and there are means to refine special flames in the exercises, which is not uncommon. Moreover, many alien races are born with flames, such as golden crows, such as phoenixes, etc., can use natural flames to refine pills, and there are indeed many Dan Dao masters in their clan.
At present, the people in the Dan Dao in the cultivation world generally use the fire room when refining the pill, and the fire room is also called the Dan room, which is to build a house on the fire vein, and lay out a formation in the house to draw the flames in the fire vein up for alchemy. This method is simpler, but it does not have the convenience and ease of control of refining flames, after all, there is not a fire chamber that can be used for alchemy anytime and anywhere, and it is not easy to control the leyline fire drawn from the fire chamber.
In addition to fire refining, there are also alchemy methods such as water refining and thunder refining, but those methods of alchemy are more difficult, and it is difficult to refine high-grade pills, so few people learn them.
After reading the "Dan Dao Initial Explanation" carefully from beginning to end, Su He closed the book and closed his eyes and pondered, and after a while, he opened another "Dan Dao Apprentice Introduction", the content of this book describes in detail how the Dan Dao apprentice also extracts the medicinal properties in the flowers and minerals, how to knead these medicinal properties together, and so on.
"Introduction to Dan Dao Apprentices" also recorded several refining pills of mortal level pills, as well as specific explanations, Su He also read them carefully, and then closed the book and recalled them carefully in his mind.
In the end, Su He took out the Dan Dao experience of the Evil Medicine King, at the beginning, it was the Evil Medicine King's own various difficulties encountered in the process of alchemy, the summary of his alchemy failure, the reasons for the failure, and so on. Su Hezai read it carefully, then adjusted his spirit to the best state, and started his first alchemy with confidence.
Huo Lao is sleeping, and there is no way for Huo Lao to provide flames, but Su He can inlay jade essence on the Nine Dragons Fire Gathering Array and awaken part of the power of this formation to alchemy. You must know that the Nine Dragons Gathering Fire Array was originally a formation in ancient legends, and its grade was unimaginably high.
Even if it's just a broken formation, this Nine Dragons Fire Gathering Array is a simplified version, but it's enough. Using the Nine Dragons Gathering Fire Array, the Evil Medicine King didn't know how many Dao Rank Pills he had refined, allowing him to dominate the Dan Dao Realm. Of course, the Nine Dragons Gathering Fire Array can not only be used for alchemy, if the enemy is introduced into the formation and the power of this formation is completely triggered, even ordinary cave heavens will be refined alive.
Of course, the power required to fully awaken the formation is unimaginable, even if it is a high-grade jade essence, it must be a treasure jade essence or a cave heaven king to personally urge the formation. Now Su He just wants to refine the pill of the lower rank of the mortal rank, as long as he attracts a little bit of the power of the formation, and uses the medium-grade jade essence to provide the power.
In addition to purchasing the thirteen elixirs needed to refine and strengthen the meridians, Su He also purchased a large number of mortal-level medicinal materials and several other elixirs in the Treasure Medicine Workshop. On the one hand, the purpose of this is to practice with mortal-level medicinal materials, and on the other hand, it is also to cover up, otherwise it would be too dazzling to buy only thirteen kinds of elixirs, and it would be easy for people to see something. Although the odds are pitiful, Su He doesn't want to take any risks.
For the first time in alchemy, Su He chose to refine the essence qi pill of the lower grade of the mortal rank. The Essence Qi Pill is the most common pill in the cultivation world, suitable for monks in the Qi Gathering Realm to take in Qi Refining and Qi Gathering Realm, and can replenish the mana consumed by monks.
The Essence Qi Pill only needs three kinds of medicinal materials, namely the Essence Qi Grass, which is the main medicinal material, the middle grade, and the Cangshi Mushroom and Magnolia Grass, which are the auxiliary medicinal materials. Jingqi Dan requires few medicinal materials, and the treatment method is simple and easy to master, so it has become the first choice of Dan for those who are new to Dan Dao.
Su He beckoned, and the essence grass flew into his hand, the appearance of the essence grass was very similar to the dog's tail grass, but it was more like a withered dog's tail grass, and there was a faint essence in it.
The medicinal materials are all specially processed and preserved, and the medicinal properties in the medicinal materials are very well preserved, which are all the high-quality goods selected by the rich monk himself, otherwise the ordinary monk will buy them, and he will only take out the goods that have lost some of the medicinal properties.
The cultivation world is like this, the same jade essence can buy different things, and the rudder will not be lacking anywhere when he sees the wind. Neither the cultivation world nor the mortal dust could avoid it, which was also the reason why Huo Lao had let Su He show his hand and deter the rich cultivator.
On the eighteen formation nodes of the Nine Dragons Gathering Fire Array, a medium-grade jade essence was placed in each of them, and Su He threw the essence qi grass into the black dragon furnace. This Dan furnace, which had been silent for hundreds of years, was once a medium-grade Dao weapon, and now it had fallen into a spiritual weapon, made a "bell" sound, and then slowly levitated, three feet above the ground.
The Black Dragon Furnace rotated slowly, Su He opened the formation, and the Nine Dragons Gathering Fire Array emitted strong flames under the urging of the eighteen pieces of medium-grade jade essence. The bright fiery red dragon head phantom flashed away, Su He's eyes were pierced, and he subconsciously closed his eyes and stepped back, only to hear the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, making a loud "bang" sound.
When Su He opened his eyes again, the Black Dragon Furnace had already fallen back to the center of the formation, and the essence grass in the furnace had disappeared, and the eighteen pieces of medium-grade jade essence had been drained of strength by the formation and turned into useless stone powder.
Obviously, Su He didn't have time to control the Nine Dragons Gathering Fire Array, and the formation instantly drained the power of the eighteen pieces of medium-grade jade essence, and the essence grass in the black dragon furnace had already burned out.
"Long Bao, you come out for me!" Su He shouted.
"Who's calling me?" a young child's voice sounded, and then a two-foot-long dragon with the thickness of a baby's arm and crimson scales covered with red scales probed out of the Nine Dragons Fire Array.
Su He also listened to what Huo Lao said, although the Nine Dragons Gathering Fire Array laid out on the first floor of the attic was only incomplete and a simplified version, its grade could definitely be regarded as a high-grade Dao Array. The formation spirit was born in the formation, and the appearance was a crimson dragon, named Dragon Treasure, but since the evil medicine king fell into the cave, he never used the Nine Dragons Gathering Fire Array, and the array spirit dragon treasure fell into a deep sleep.
Su He opened the formation just now, and he didn't urge too strong a force, it stands to reason that it is impossible to evacuate the power of eighteen pieces of medium-grade jade essence in an instant, then it can only be another force that urges the formation, and the only one who can do this can be the Array Spirit Dragon Treasure.
Long Bao swam around in the sky above the formation, if it wasn't exactly the same as the dragon clan, it would make people think it was a snake, after all, he was only two feet long, and the baby's arm was thick. Long Bao looked at Su He carefully, scratched the dragon's head with his little paws, and said in a milky voice: "Hey, it doesn't seem right, who are you?"
Su Hedao: "I am the new master of the Finger Bone Cave Heaven, and I am also your new master." ”
"You lie to people, don't want to deceive this baby!" Listening to Su He's words, the Formation Spirit Dragon Treasure drilled back into the formation, only revealing two big eyes, and continued to look at Su He curiously.
Su He has already left a mark in the Fingerbone Cave Heaven, he is the master here, as long as he moves his thoughts, he can suppress Long Bao and forcibly let Long Bao help him refine the pill. However, there is no need, strong means are only suitable for dealing with the enemy, and Long Bao, as the formation spirit of the Nine Dragons Gathering Fire Array, is not an enemy.
Shaking his head helplessly, Su He held the sleeping Huo Lao on his shoulder in the palm of his hand, and said, "You don't know me, you always know him, right?"
Huo Lao followed the Evil Medicine King from his cultivation to a very low level, until the fall of the Evil Medicine King, which can be said to have witnessed the life of this legendary figure. Whether it is the Nine Dragons Gathering Fire Array or the Black Dragon Furnace, or the Finger Bone Cave Heaven, etc., Huo Lao is clear, and he is naturally familiar with the Array Spirit Dragon Treasure.
Sure enough, Su He held Huo Lao in the palm of his hand, and Long Bao felt the familiar breath, re-drilled out of the formation and flew over slowly. When he saw the fire in Su He's palm, his eyes lit up, and he said in surprise: "Lan Lan, it's really you, Lan Lan, what's wrong with you?"
"Poof. Hearing Long Bao call Huo Lao Lanlan, Su He almost collapsed to the ground laughing while holding his stomach, it turned out that Huo Lao still had such a strange name. No, it's so funny, I have to tease him when Huo Lao wakes up. Long Bao felt inexplicable when he saw Su He, who suddenly couldn't laugh, what happened to this person? But it seems that he is not a bad person.
"Human, do you know what's wrong with Lan Lan, and where is the original owner?" asked Long Bao as he looked at Su He with a pair of big eyes.
"Huo Lao, oh, that's what you said about Lan Lan eating up, and now you need to sleep to digest it, and she will wake up soon. As for your original master, he ......" Su He didn't know how to tell Long Bao, after all, the fall of the Evil Medicine King was too complicated, and he was originally going to take away himself, but in the end, he was sucked out of the power of the Yuan Shen by the tentacles protruding from the black lotus seed and fell.
Long Bao asked, "What's wrong with him?"
"He ......" Su He hesitated for a moment and said, "He has completely fallen." ”
"No, the master is so powerful, how can he fall, you lie to the baby, you are a liar!" Long Bao cried very sadly, and fiery red tears welled up in his big eyes.
Su He didn't know how to comfort him, Huo Lao smacked his lips, turned over and sat up, and said, "Who is this, crying so loudly, and not letting people sleep!"
Huo Lao rubbed his eyes, the first thing he saw was Su He, and the second thing he saw was Long Bao. Huo Lao flew to the top of Long Bao's head, grabbed Long Bao's dragon horn and said, "Little guy, do you still recognize Old Ancestor and me, why are you crying?"
Long Bao woke up when he saw the fire, just like a bullied child who saw his parents, and cried even more sadly. While crying, he pointed at Su He with his little paws, and said: "He said that the master has fallen, he lied to people, Lan Lan, you said, the master has not fallen, right?"
When Huo Lao heard this, his face suddenly froze, and he patted Long Bao's head and said, "He has indeed fallen." ”
Hearing this, the last bit of illusion in Long Bao's heart was shattered, and he cried even more sadly. Huo Lao sat on top of Long Bao's head, didn't speak, just rubbed Long Bao's dragon horn with his hand. The Nine Dragons Gathering Fire Array was personally laid by Li Mad Jun according to the mutilated array diagram, and the Spirit Dragon Treasure was born, so it can be said that Li Mad Jun created him.
Although in the eyes of Huo Lao, Li Maarjun was indifferent and proud, and did not pour any feelings into Long Bao, but feelings have never been equal. Maybe you are good to someone with your heart and lungs, but he doesn't have the slightest affection for you, maybe someone you never care about can do everything for you.
Long Bao cried for most of the day, and finally calmed down under the comfort of Huo Lao, his mind was actually a child, and he finally got better under Huo Lao's teasing. And Su He, who was on the side, also took this opportunity to get close to Long Baotao, and soon became acquainted with him.
The Nine Dragons Gathering Fire Array has not been used since the Evil Medicine King fell into the Cave Heaven, and now hundreds of years have passed, and Long Bao was also woken up by Su He's sudden opening of the formation, and now he can't stay outside for too long, and soon returned to the core of the formation to sleep.
Huo Lao was startled when he saw Su He's eyes, if he had skin, he would have goosebumps on the ground long ago. Said cautiously: "Boy, why are you looking at Old Ancestor me with such eyes?"
Su He's face was full of teasing: "Lan Lan, I absorbed the power of two spiritual fires, how do you feel now?"
"Dragon Treasure, Ancestor, I fought with you!. Su He covered his ears, and a terrifying roar sounded on the first floor of the attic, and the sound lasted for a long time.
Su He covered his ears and rolled his eyes, people just called you Lanlan, and now you have only reacted, it's too slow.
The roar subsided, and when Su He looked at Huo Lao again, he had already fallen asleep again. After some temptation, he found that Huo Lao was really asleep, Su He shook his head and put him back on his shoulder, he sensed that the aura on Huo Lao's body had become much stronger.
Su He looked at the eighteen pieces of medium-grade jade essence that had turned into stone powder on the formation node, and he was distressed, this was 1,800 pieces to be replaced with low-grade jade essence. After cleaning up the stone powder, Su He put eighteen pieces of medium-grade jade essence again, and the black dragon furnace slowly levitated.
The Nine Dragons Fire Gathering Array was opened again, and this time there was no Dragon Treasure to make trouble, and it went a lot smoother. The fiery red blurred phantom of the dragon's head slowly appeared, and clusters of flames erupted from the dragon's mouth and landed at the bottom of the black dragon furnace, slowly heating the Dan furnace.
It is recorded in the Dan Dao experience of the Evil Medicine King that the Dan furnace must be preheated before alchemy, otherwise it will be extremely difficult to extract the medicinal properties due to uneven cold and heat. Of course, this kind of detail will not appear in books such as "The First Explanation of Dan Dao" and "Introduction to Dan Dao Apprentices", either passed down from master to apprentice, or always groped by yourself.
Just because I don't know how to preheat the Dan furnace before alchemy, and I don't know how many people who have just entered the Dan Dao have wasted their spirits, they obviously come according to the Dan formula, but they always can't succeed, and they can't figure it out.
The Dan furnace was almost preheated, Su He grabbed a essence grass and threw it into the Dan furnace, Su He's soul power poured into the furnace, carefully observing the changes in the essence grass. After entering the Dan furnace, the essence qi grass was suspended in the furnace, and under the action of the Dan furnace, the essence qi grass slowly changed, and the whole medicinal herb turned into a gray-green medicinal liquid, and the medicinal power of refining the essence qi pill was in the medicinal liquid.
Although the gray-green medicinal liquid had the medicinal power needed to refine the Essence Qi Pill, it was more of an unwanted impurity, and these impurities had to be removed in order to obtain the medicinal power. Alchemy, alchemy, the word "alchemy" contains multiple meanings. It is not only to refine impurities, but also to refine medicinal power, knead various medicinal powers into one, and finally become a pill.
Su He's Yuan Shen operated, carefully controlling the formation to release firepower, and at the same time controlling the Dan furnace to transfer the appropriate heat to the medicinal liquid and refining the impurities in it. Obviously, this is very depleting for the spirit, and it is not a small requirement for the soul of an alchemist.
"Poof. The gray-green medicine liquefied into a wisp of smoke and disappeared, and Suhe failed again, and the reason for the failure was that the temperature of the Dan furnace was too high. Su He was already prepared for failure, according to the Evil Medicine King's own records, his first alchemy was also the essence pill he chose, and he failed three times before succeeding.
This is already very surprising, for a first-time alchemist, even if it is the simplest mortal-level low-grade pill like the Essence Qi Pill, it is normal for it to fail ten or twenty times.
There are too many bends and curves in alchemy, even if those alchemy masters, even alchemy grandmasters, fail in alchemy. The more high-level the elixir, the more difficult it is to refine, and the lower the success rate of refining, which is common knowledge in the cultivation world.
Before the Evil Medicine King fell into the evil path, he was named the Medicine King by the cultivation world because of his extremely high success rate in alchemy. He has a ninety percent success rate, which means that he can refine ten times, and nine of them can be successful. And the general success rate of other alchemy masters is three or four percent, and some of the better ones are only five or six percent, how can they be compared to him. Other higher-grade Dao Pills, the success rate of the Evil Medicine King is also outrageously high, and his legend is completely refined by his Dao Pills one by one.
Putting in a Essence Qi Grass again, soon the Essence Qi Grass turned into a gray-green medicinal liquid, and Su He refined the impurities in it more carefully and carefully. Slowly, the gray-green liquid became clear, and from time to time, gray sand-like impurities were refined and fell to the bottom of the furnace, and the bottom of the furnace was automatically cleaned up by a formation.
The liquid became clearer and clearer, but it was also more and more difficult, because it only took a little more temperature to refine the impurities and the medicinal power. Looking at the liquid medicine that was almost transparent and had a small amount of impurities, Su He hesitated.
In fact, at this time, the medicinal liquid can already be used for alchemy, and the quality of refining the elixir is still excellent. Although the quality of the refined pill is not good, and the impurities are mixed into the pill to turn into erysipelas, but considering the first alchemy, it is already worth celebrating.
Relying on the cultivation of the Dan Dao in the short term will indeed make the cultivation improve quickly, but it is precisely because the impurities mixed in the alchemy process turn into erysipelas, so that the pill should not be eaten too much.