Chapter 25 Alchemy
One day, in a stone house in the Valley of No Return, there was a huge Dan furnace in this room.
There was a young man standing next to the Dan furnace, he was holding a book in his hand and looking at it intently, and that person was Shen Luo.
It has been more than a month since the day Zhao Lao seized the house.
The book that Shen Luo was holding in his hand was the "Book of Medicine" written by Zhao Lao all his life. ”
There are many medical techniques recorded in this "Medicine Sutra", among which the most striking one is a kind of true qi that can help martial artists practice true qi, true qi pills.
This True Qi Pill was created by Zhao Lao himself, and the materials used were all extremely expensive and rare things.
It's just that although he created this elixir, he rarely refined it.
Since he knew that there were immortal cultivators, where was he still in the mood to practice martial arts.
And Shen Luo wanted to refine this elixir to see if this elixir could help him break through the bottleneck of cultivation.
There are a total of two bottles of Qi Gathering Powder left by Zhao Lao, and now he has used half of the bottle and is still stuck on the third layer.
He was reluctant to continue using the elixir, so he tried it.
Let's see if we can use home remedies to break through the bottleneck.
Shen Luo carefully looked at the book in his hand, read it back and forth several times, and then put the book aside.
Pour the cool water you prepared earlier into the Dan furnace.
He scooped up the water from the lake outside.
Then he brought some firewood, placed it under the furnace, piled it up, and lit it.
Looking at the flames burning in front of him, Shen Luo stood aside and waited.
He felt that alchemy was like boiling soup, and when the water boiled, he could put herbs into it.
About half an hour later, Shen Luo has been adding firewood continuously during this time.
As the flame heated, the lid of the Dan furnace was propped open by the water vapor with a "bang".
Before the meeting, the Dan furnace made a strange movement, and he put all the materials he had prepared before.
Since it was his first alchemy, he didn't know how to refine it.
I could only draw a scoop with a gourd, throw all these materials in, and stand aside and wait.
After a while, the flames under the Dan furnace gradually became smaller.
Shen Luo opened the Dan furnace with great anticipation, and then let him see the scene that made him dumbfounded.
This alchemy really made him almost like boiling soup, and there were many boiled herbs floating in the Dan furnace.
Shen Luo thought that alchemy was the same as boiling soup, but in fact, it was not the case that this mortal alchemist was refining pills.
It is to preheat the alchemy furnace first, and then chop the medicinal materials into a puree and press them into a spherical shape through a mold.
Finally, it is put into the alchemy furnace, and when it is dried, it becomes an elixir.
Most of the alchemy of immortal cultivators is made with water, and the spirituality of the medicinal materials is first dissolved in the water.
Then the condensation liquid becomes a pill and then through some magic tricks, the pill that is refined is very different from the pill that is refined by fire.
Looking at the medicine residue floating on it, Shen Luo scooped up all these medicine residues.
He felt that there must be too much water, so the alchemy failed.
So he got out the water and dregs in the Dan furnace.
Although he was messed up by the first alchemy, he was not distressed at all.
After all, this medicinal material is not his, but Zhao Lao's medicinal material.
He got out all the contents of this Dan furnace, and after the Dan furnace cooled down.
The second alchemy began, and this time he learned his lesson and put less water.
An hour later, the result was still the same as before.
"It's strange, why is this still the case, what is wrong." He scratched the back of his head a little confused and muttered to himself.
Shen Luona, who did not give up, picked up the medicine scripture and flipped through it again.
This time he didn't jump to look directly at the part of the True Qi Pill, but looked at it from the beginning.
I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.
It turns out that this alchemy does not need water, just crush the medicinal herbs and then press them with a mold.
"Oh, I should have thought a long time ago, how could this be boiled?"
"I'm so stupid." Shen Luo scolded himself.
But fortunately, it's not too late.
After all, it's just the beginning, and it's still too late.
He went to Zhao Lao's room to find a mold, took some herbs, chopped it up, and then put it in the mold and pressed it.
Alchemy's ability to control the heat is required.
When the heat should be increased and when the heat should be reduced, there is a strict control time.
And Shen Luo doesn't care about these three-seven-twenty-one.
He put these pills that had been pressed by the mold into the Dan furnace.
began to add firewood, and the firepower was fully turned on to alchemy with the maximum firepower.
As long as the fire is louder and more vigorous, the faster this elixir will be refined.
After adding a lot of firewood in a row, Shen Luo became idle and simply waited there.
Soon, a cup of tea passed, and there was no sign of it.
At this time, a fresh fragrance wafted from the alchemy room, and it came to my nose.
The fragrance makes people smell the fragrance, and the heart is refreshing and refreshing.
Could it be ......
A hint of joy flashed on Shen Luo's face, and he opened the Dan furnace.
In an instant, the smell of the medicine became stronger, and he grabbed all the pills in his hand.
The elixir was green and red, and he picked up a pill and put it in his mouth.
But in a second, he spit it out again.
"This pill is mushy."
He looked down at the elixir in his hand, which looked pretty good on the surface.
When he turned the pill over, he looked down and it was all confused.
"Damn, do you want to play with me like this!"
He never thought that this alchemy would be too difficult, but the medicine scripture did not indicate what to pay attention to when alchemy.
It only marked the materials needed for alchemy, as well as the efficacy of the elixir.
Isn't this a pit man?
In the face of these three setbacks, Shen Luo was not discouraged.
Instead, he adjusted his mentality, since there was no indication of how to make an alchemy on it, then he slowly explored it by himself.
In this way, Shen Luo began the long road of alchemy, and seven days passed unconsciously.
During this time, he was alchemy every day in addition to sleeping and eating.
In the face of failure after failure, he is not annoyed, but finds problems from himself.
In this way, his whole mentality has changed.
Before, because of the bottleneck and anxiety encountered during cultivation, that restless heart finally calmed down.
Half a month passed, and a young man's hearty laughter suddenly came from the alchemy room.
"A month, a whole month, I finally refined the elixir!" Shen Luo laughed in the room.
After countless failures in a month's time, he finally made it truly refined.
Hard work pays off!
Looking at the good-quality elixir in his hand, he immediately swallowed a pill, sat cross-legged and began to practice.
After a few days of luck, he found that the spiritual power in his body had not changed in the slightest.
"How so?"
He opened his eyes and frowned, very depressed.
Could it be that he worked hard for half a month to refine the elixir?
Is it actually of no use to himself, or is this elixir only helpful to those who cultivate True Qi?
Shen Luo recalled that before, he seemed to be cultivating immortal exercises, which belonged to the kind of qi refining, not the true qi exercises practiced by martial artists.
In order to guess his thoughts, he thought of a person who could be used as a guinea pig for experiments, and that person was Jiang Fugui.