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The herb waste in the warehouse of Xinzihao Medicine Garden has been looted by Yang Tianhong. Not only that, but he also got a large amount of herb waste from the neighboring Gengzi and T-shaped medicine gardens. He didn't tell anyone about this, he stayed inside the Linglong Treasure Lock every day, concentrating on studying the method of alchemy.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Book of Dan is the best alchemy textbook in the world. However, if you want to become a good alchemist, textbooks alone are certainly not enough. Just like children in the Internet age, they can be exposed to all aspects of knowledge, but whether they will achieve success in the future still depends on their own cultivation.

Alchemy, like cultivation, is only one way to practice hard.

A large amount of materials were invested, and Yang Tianhong's alchemy techniques became more and more proficient.

According to the ratio of one to three, he has been inside the Linglong Treasure Lock for a full year and a half.

As early as half a year ago, Yang Tianhong had completely understood all the refining steps and techniques of the Yuan Qi Pill. He found that the so-called second-turn and third-turn pills were to continue to purify the pills that had been refined for the first time. Under normal circumstances, the purity of the three-turn pill is already extremely high, and the impurity content of the pill is compressed at about 15%. If purification continues, the impurity content will be further reduced to less than 10%.

The monks like to take multi-rotation pills of high purity. Because the spiritual energy contained in it is rich and easy to absorb. However, according to the "Dan Book", the pill with more than four revolutions is no longer the practice of removing impurities and then purifying, but something else must be added in the refining process in order to maximize the effect of the high-speed pill.

The purity of more than 90% is almost the purification limit that the four-turn pill can achieve. Nothing in the world can reach 100% purity, and the same is true for elixirs. If there are no impurities inside the pill, it is impossible to form pill-like particles, and it cannot bind the spiritual energy inside the medicine body. In short, a 100% pure psionic energy simply could not exist in the form of an elixir. That kind of thing could only exist between heaven and earth, or within the monk's meridians.

The fourth and fifth turns are a watershed. It is very clear in the "Dan Book": the pill with more than five turns no longer has the attributes of the original pill. It had to be added with a certain amount of alternative materials before it could be refined into a true five-turn elixir.

Lingdan, this is the specific name of the five-turn pill on the "Book of Dan".

The moment he lifted the lid of the Dan furnace, Yang Tianhong smelled an extremely rich dry breath with a strong sense of heat. He had to turn his head to avoid the high temperature rising from the inside of the Dan furnace, and quickly collected the Dan with extremely skillful techniques and put it into the jade bottle that had been prepared long ago.

This was the 489th furnace of the Five-Turn Vitality Pill he had refined so far, and it was also the first time that he had successfully refined the Five-Turn Pill.

The type of material added to the high speed pill is very special. There are hundreds of thousands of species listed in detail in the Dan Book. Expensive and scarce, there are Tianjinsha and Qingyunshi, and cheap and ordinary ones, there are bitter lotus wood and eagle root...... The applicable object and scope of each five-turn pill are different. For example, the one with the addition of Tianjinsha is suitable for metallic monks, and it can greatly increase the cultivation of the corresponding attributes.

Yang Tianhong had already understood the specific effects of the Five Turns Pill. That is a separate detailed elixir for different groups of people. The "Book of Dan" even mentions a very unique five-turn vitality pill, which must be made by adding sunflower water for women's menstruation and refining it by special means. This weird five-turn vitality pill has a yin and evil effect, which is very suitable for the woman's physique during menstruation and pregnancy. There is also a special note on this in the "Book of Dan": This Dan can only be used by women, and it can still be cultivated even during pregnancy. But men must not take it, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable.

When he saw this for the first time, Yang Tianhong couldn't laugh or cry a little -- I'm afraid that no alchemist would add such an extremely weird thing as women's sunflower water to the extremely pure converter elixir. I don't know which wonderful alchemist's invention is this Dan recipe? In short, this kind of thing called the "Five Turns Yin Water Vitality Pill" can only be seen in the "Dan Book" at most, and there will be no finished product in the world under any circumstances.

Yang Tianhong successfully refined this furnace of the Five Turns Yuan Qi Pill, adding the volcanic embers he had obtained from the northern foot of Mingfeng Mountain. In the refining process of the five-turn pill with more than 400 furnaces, this is also the only excipient he added. The reason is very simple: the northern foot of Mingfeng Mountain is full of volcanic embers, which is also the cheapest and easiest auxiliary material mentioned in the "Dan Book".

The three pills in the jade bottle were all red all over their bodies, as if they were flames jumping in the bottle. This is a high-speed elixir with fire attributes, which is most suitable for fire attribute physique cultivators. Its effect is even far more than the Pei Yuan Dan dedicated to the Jindan period, and the Fu Yuan Dan dedicated to the Yuan Infant Period.

The preciousness of auxiliary materials determines the strength of the efficacy of the elixir above five turns. These three fire attribute elixirs were just the products that Yang Tianhong used for practice, and he himself would not take them anyway. Unless, we can find better auxiliary materials, more precious natural treasures.

The frantic refining of no matter the time and materials has made extremely subtle changes in the Tongding Dan furnace. As early as a year ago, Yang Tianhong found that the Dan furnace transformed from the sword actually appeared on the surface of the ancient pattern, but it looked quite rough. It's like being forcibly carved with a knife and axe, without any embellishment.

But no matter what, the Tongding Dan furnace is better than in the past. Just like the leather shoes you just bought, they are a little hard when you put them on your feet, and after a few weeks of wearing them, the leather will gradually soften and become very comfortable.

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The iconic pattern of the Purple Furnace Hall is a round furnace ding. However, if you cover the triangular bracket under the stove, it looks like a spittoon with a stuffy head from any angle.

As the master of the Purple Furnace Palace, Zhang Shuo certainly knew that this kind of informal statement was circulating among the disciples of the sect. He never treated it as a harmless joke. But now, Zhang Shuo sat sullenly on the futon, looking down at the Dan furnace pattern embroidered on the front of his clothes with red silk thread, and felt that this thing was really ugly, it was indeed a spittoon.

Guo Linsheng, the master of the Gengjin Palace, sat opposite, sipping tea slowly, and his mouth made an extremely indecent "snoring" sound from time to time.

In Guiyuan Sect, Zhang Shuo's status is transcendent.

The reason is very simple: the position of the Purple Furnace Hall Lord is not something that just anyone can sit on. Once he became the hall master, he had to be responsible for the pills that thousands of disciples of the Guiyuan Sect needed on a daily basis. Of course, you yourself must also be an extremely good alchemist.

Although Guo Linsheng has a gloomy personality, he is very upright. Zhang Shuo and Guo Linsheng have a good personal relationship, and occasionally get together for a drink, express their opinions on common topics that some men are interested in, and then talk nonsense in a daze.

It's just that there are always exceptions.

Zhang Shuo feels like a woman now.

There are a few days a month when a woman is irritable and uncomfortable.

Every few years, Zhang Shuo sees Guo Linsheng for a few days and wants to walk around, timid.

Although the time varies greatly, the psychology and feelings are similar.

In the past, at this time, Zhang Shuo always pushed the problem to Chen Zhengjian to deal with, and asked the fat deputy hall master to deal with Guo Linsheng, a guy with a cold face.

This year's situation is somewhat special, Chen Zhengjian went into retreat more than two months ago.

The tea in the cup was refilled twice, Guo Linsheng spit out a tea stalk that had no taste from his mouth, glanced at Zhang Shuo, who was restless opposite, and said lightly: "The disciples of the Five Elements Hall have been prepared, and the sect master and elders have also issued orders. Now, only your Purple Furnace Hall is not moving. Zhang Danshi! Zhang Daochang! Zhang Dianmaster! Can you not hold me back at this time every time?"

Except for a wry smile, Zhang Shuo couldn't say a word.

I don't know since when such a thing as the "Spring Great Competition" between various cultivation sects has existed. It is said that this is a practice that has continued since ancient times. Although there is no explicit rule, it has become a custom between the various sects. There are many fighting items, from traditional strength comparisons to refining, alchemy, animal taming and so on. Of course, the ancient immortals who originally proposed the Spring Day Contest obviously also took into account the tragic consequences caused by the life-and-death competition between the opponents on the field, so they stipulated that the Spring Day Contest would be held once every five years, and the contestants could only be disciples below the fifth level of Qi refining of each sect.

As long as it does not damage the monks of the Yuan Infant stage, even if there are occasional deaths and injuries during the competition, at most it will be the loss of a few Qi refining disciples, and for the sect itself, it will not shake its foundation.

Since it is a "big competition", it means that the winner will definitely be rewarded.

The prizes also come from the participating schools. According to the regulations, the number of prizes contributed by the sect and the quality of the prizes are directly related to the number of participating disciples. Referring to the previous practice, taking out two hundred Yuan Qi Pills meant that the sect could send one disciple to participate in the competition. If you want to get two quotas, you have to take out 400 pills of the same kind.

Of course, if you don't have enough pills, you can also use other precious ores, herbs, magic weapons, and so on as a substitute. Kasuga Dabi has been handed down since ancient times, and has formed a very stable referee council. The members are rotated by the highly respected senior monks of each sect, and in addition to judging the results of previous competitions, they must also be responsible for evaluating the prizes contributed by each sect.

For example, a piece of Lingyun Iron Mother, the size of a grain of rice, is equivalent to fifty Yuan Qi Pills.

These exchange ratios have been recognized by many monks with the success of the Kasuga Contest time and time again, and have become a fixed value framework.

According to the classics, the reason why the monks in ancient times set up the Spring Day Contest was to promote the talented talents with excellent qualifications among the later monks, and to give various cultivation conveniences in the form of prizes, such as exercises, pills, precious materials, etc. It's just that with the passage of time, by now, the original purpose of the Kasuga Dabi has changed its flavor and has become an open gamble of the major cultivation sects.

Regarding Guo Linsheng's almost coercive urging, Zhang Shuo also had his own complaints.

"Lao Guo, it's not like you don't know that only the champion of the Spring Competition can get prizes in each event. The disciples of my Purple Furnace Hall are not good at fighting, and most of the disciples in the Qi refining stage are also mediocre in their qualifications. Even if you participate, at most you will make up the number of people, and you will not be able to play any role at all. ”

Guo Linsheng put aside the empty tea bowl and shook off the non-existent dust on his clothes, although his tone was flat, there was an obvious stern coldness: "In the last big competition, I lost three hundred Yuan Qi Pills, eleven Azure Stones, three taels and seven coins of Crimson Star Sand, and a piece of condensed crystal blue silver weighing fifteen coins. It took two years for the sect to accumulate these pills and materials. originally thought that I would be able to gain a lot in the spring competition, but who would have thought that Haotianmen would actually dominate everywhere and suppress us in many competitions in a row. ”

Zhang Shuo stopped talking, stared intently at the mountain stone bonsai placed in front of the opposite window, and fell into deep thought.

Each sect has its own unique cultivation advantages. Taking the Guiyuan Sect as an example, there are multiple spiritual vein nodes around Mingfeng Mountain, and sufficient spiritual energy has given birth to a large number of mineral resources. Lazurite, crimson star sand, and condensed blue silver are among the representative precious minerals. And their role is also very simple, that is, they are used to refine various magic weapons and weapons.

The Purple Furnace Hall plays an important role in the Guiyuan Sect, but Zhang Shuo knows very well that with his qualifications, he is actually nothing in the alchemy faction. Of course, the magic weapons produced by the Guiyuan Sect are also very famous, and the "Luotu Palace", which is specially responsible for refining magic weapons, is the most powerful magic hall of the Guiyuan Sect. However, no matter how powerful the magic weapon is, it can't replace the pill after all, and it can't improve the cultivation. And no matter how good the elixir is, it is impossible to help itself in battle. In short, whether it is a magic weapon or an elixir, it has its own benefits. The Guiyuan Sect, which occupies the advantage of mining ore in Fengming Mountain, can only use this as an exchange to continuously exchange pills from other sects.

Everyone has desires, and so do monks.

The prizes that Dabi Guiyuan Sect took out last time were all lost. Under normal circumstances, those precious ores would be enough to exchange for elixirs that would last for about two years to maintain the sect. It's just that the sect masters and elders all have high expectations for the Kasuga Dabi, believing that the disciples of their sect can win at least two individual championships in the Dabi. Therefore, that batch of resources did not exchange for pills from other sects through normal channels, but all of them were used as bargaining chips and invested in the last big competition.

On the face of it, the Kasuga Big Match should be fair.

The participating disciples of all sects and sects were restricted to below the fifth level of qi refining, and were not allowed to use magic weapons, and could only use ordinary mundane weapons. Players in the arena don't care about life and death, which means being able to fight freely.

This kind of fight is like a secular boxing arena and black boxing. On the same heavyweight basis, only those who survive can win. However, Kasuga Dabi pays great attention to this aspect, and will repeatedly advise the players on both sides before the game.

Taiyi Palace is recognized by the monks as the most powerful sect, and it is also the organizer of the previous Spring Competitions.

According to the usual practice, the Purple Furnace Hall must send a disciple to follow Guo Linsheng to the Taiyi Palace.

Dabi will definitely have life and death. Since he wanted to win, he had to send the best fifth-level Qi refining cultivators. This kind of practice has the meaning of letting people go to the stage to die in vain. However, as long as you win the battle and come back alive, you will prove your worth in disguise, and the sect that has received rich benefits will certainly not be stingy to invest a lot of resources in the winners and cultivate them.

It's an opportunity, a very scary opportunity.

The sects are gambling, and the participating monks are gambling. The difference is that the former is to take out a large number of natural treasures as bargaining chips, and the latter is to fight for his future life directly at the cost of his life.

To be able to become a monk, in addition to being resolute, you must also be ruthless.

Zhang Shuo is not indecisive, and he is also enthusiastic about the rich prizes of Kasuga. It's just that there is really no way around the difficulties in front of us. He thought about it and thought about it, and went through all the disciples in the Purple Furnace Hall in order in his head. In the end, he still shook his head and said regretfully: "Lao Guo, it's not that I deliberately want to disobey the sect master's orders, but I really can't get anyone on my side!"

Guo Linsheng raised his head and looked at him indifferently and calmly: "Why?"

"There is not a single disciple in the Purple Furnace Hall who has reached the fifth level of qi refining. ”

Zhang Shuo said seriously: "There are eleven in the fourth layer of qi refining, and there are nine in the sixth layer of qi refining. The rest are either below the third level of qi refining, or disciples who are about to build a foundation above the tenth level of qi refining. Only monks below the fifth level of Qi refining can play, where is there still a ...... in my Purple Furnace Palace"

Guo Linsheng interrupted him coldly: "That's right, only those below the fifth level of qi refining can play." In other words, four, three, two, or even one floor. ”

Zhang Shuo's eyes widened and he was dumbfounded, and it took several seconds before a flame of anger ignited uncontrollably from the bottom of his heart.

"Let those disciples who are not strong enough to play, are you going to let them die in vain?"

The sun outside the window had already deflected direction, and most of Guo Linsheng's body was shrouded in shadows, looking more and more cold and gloomy.

"Which Spring Contest will not kill people? Don't say it's your Purple Furnace Palace, even if it's my Gengjin Palace, it is difficult to select the participating disciples. No one wants to go, everyone wants to save their lives. You know very well that the advantage of my Guiyuan Sect is not in the elixir, if you don't send someone to participate in the Spring Competition, no one will care about the ore mined in the Mingfeng Mountain Mine, let alone exchange it for spar to buy medicinal herbs. This is a rule that has been handed down since ancient times, and only the sects that participate in the Kasuga Daibi can be accepted by other sects, and then get the opportunity to exchange resources with each other. On the surface, Kasuga Dabi is a big gamble between various sects. In fact, this is just to give the Guiyuan Sect a chance to survive. As long as the disciples above the foundation really grow up, it is not a big deal to die a few outer sect qi refining disciples. ”