Volume 3: Ignorance of Qi Refining Fifty: The Path of the Danshi
In fact, similar to those senior brothers on duty in the inner hall of Chengqi Hall, there are not only Jiuxuan who sell spiritual weapons to the sect, but also in Qixia Mountain, and the various pills and medicines from Qixia Mountain are extremely sought after outside the sect.
Yan Xuan's Nanyutang, where he refines the elixir, and the Baicao Academy, where he prepares the elixir, all have people doing the same business. It's just that the number of people who came to Qixia Mountain was much smaller than that of Jiuxuan, and the refining of the pill was more difficult than the refining of the weapon, and the refining of the pill used by the Zhuji monks was even more difficult, so their scale was much smaller than that of the Chengqi Hall. Second, the number of monks in the Five Spirits Sect is huge, and the pills from Qixia Mountain will not be sold within the Five Spirits Sect, and the spirit grass used to refine the high-level spirit pill is even more difficult to find. The alchemists themselves have most of the craftsmanship of alchemy.
Therefore, there are very few pills that can be sold outside the sect, and they are pitifully few compared to spiritual weapons, and it is almost impossible for high-level spirit pills to flow out of the sect.
Those who are proficient in refining pills are respected as alchemists, but alchemists are more closed and wary of each other than refiners. The alchemists in the inner hall of the Chengqi Hall have experience in a certain alchemy and can also write a book and send it to the inner hall, and after the approval of the specified number of refiners, it can be sealed as a classic in the inner hall for others to refer to, of course, the person who wrote the book is of great benefit.
Alchemists are different, which may be caused by the difference between alchemy and alchemy. When refining the elixir, each elixir has a kind of Dan formula, according to the Dan recipe to prepare the spirit grass and then open the furnace to refine, as long as there is no mistake, it can become a Dan.
However, if the alchemy is more advanced, those alchemists will find that there may be more than one kind of elixir available when refining. The refining of the elixir is nothing more than the fusion of the elixir obtained from the spirit herbs with different medicinal properties into the elixir. However, the medicinal properties of the spirit grass are different, and some are similar, so when refining a spirit pill, a certain spirit grass is not easy to obtain or extremely difficult to obtain, and it can also be replaced by a spirit grass with similar medicinal properties, but this is also said to be simple, the amount of effort spent when actually refining, and the amount of spirit grass consumed is incalculable. It is not impossible for a skilled alchemist to refine a high-level spirit pill with a low-level spirit grass, but this kind of recipe is properly treasured by these alchemists, and it is not revealed. In addition to being able to take it for oneself to enhance one's cultivation, you can also get a great benefit when you sell it, if you share it with others, how can you have this benefit exclusively?
Because of this, some high-level elixir pills often only give a ratio of medicinal properties, and alchemists are familiar with the medicinal properties of various spirit herbs, so they can try it according to the pill recipe.
However, these Yan Xuan are not yet in contact, and that night she not only succeeded in refining the Yang Yuan Pill but also broke through her cultivation, which already made her excited.
Since the first furnace of Yangyuan Dan was successfully refined, she calmed down, carefully recalled the whole process of refining, and after thinking about it again, she did not go back to her residence to rest, and continued to refine with the remaining spirit grass, and two of the four furnaces became two furnaces.
By the time these four furnaces of elixir were also refined, it was already bright outside, and the sun was already rising.
This time, she refined a total of eight furnaces of pills, the first three furnaces failed, and the fourth furnace became a pill, and at the same time, she also successfully broke through her cultivation. Then four furnaces were refined, and two furnaces were made into Dan. Eight furnaces of Dan have become three furnaces, and the rate of more than 30% of Dan is not low. If it is calculated according to the last four furnaces, it becomes two furnaces, which is half of the Chengdan rate. In terms of Yan Xuan's cultivation, this Cheng Dan rate is not low.
Generally, the qi refining disciples of Qixia Mountain, who concentrate on alchemy, basically mainly prepare elixirs in the Baicao Courtyard when refining qi at the first and second levels, and there are not many like Yan Xuan.
Out of Nanyutang, Yan Xuan thought of only one thing, although her elixir was refined, but the color of this pill was still unknown, she had not yet learned the art of tasting pills, and she could not identify the color of the pill by herself, so before handing over this pill to Qi Xiangge, she thought of finding someone to identify her own pill, and she naturally thought of Senior Sister Min.
Not to mention Qixia Mountain, she is only the most familiar with the two of the female monks in the entire Five Spirits Sect, one is naturally Tang Ping, and the other is Senior Sister Min, who has been teaching her until now.
I found Senior Sister Min in Baicao Courtyard, and found Senior Sister Shi Min was explaining the method of preparing elixir to several junior sisters, and when she saw Yan Xuan coming in, she smiled slightly, and asked her to wait first, and then continued to carefully explain the key points of elixir preparation to these people.
"Senior Sister Yan" Senior Sister Min greeted Yan Xuan.
"Senior Sister Min" Yan Xuan saw that Senior Sister Min was fine, so he walked over.
"Huh?" Senior Sister Min frowned curiously and glanced at her a few times, although she was also a Qi Refining Disciple, after all, Senior Sister Min's cultivation was much higher than Yan Xuan's, and she was considered a mid-level Qi Refining Disciple, although Senior Sister Na Yan had the same expression and temperament as before when she came over, the aura she exuded after approaching was different from usual.
After glancing at Yan Xuan a few times, Senior Sister Min finally confirmed that this Senior Sister Yan seemed to have made a breakthrough in her cultivation.
"Congratulations to my sister, my sister has been locking herself up and working hard a few days ago, it seems that there is finally a result, when did you break through?" Senior Sister Min asked with a smile.
The few female disciples who heard that Senior Sister Min would prepare the elixir had just walked out at this time, and they couldn't help but look at each other in surprise when they heard Senior Sister Min's words, they entered Qixia Mountain with Yan Xuan, but they didn't expect this little girl who didn't like to talk on weekdays to break through her cultivation so quickly, which surprised them, according to the rules, they would also call Senior Sister when they saw Yan Xuan in the future.
"It's just what happened last night, and it was my breakthrough when I was alchemizing." Yan Xuan replied.
"Oh? Yes, yes, it turned out to be a breakthrough cultivation at the time of alchemy, which is very rare. Well, I know that several senior brothers with advanced alchemy attainments also broke through their cultivation during alchemy, and it seems that Senior Sister Yan will also become a great female Dan master in the future. ”
Senior Sister Min laughed, "This made Yan Xuan a little embarrassed, "Senior Sister Min, I tried to refine the pill yesterday, and I was lucky enough to make a few furnaces, so I asked Senior Sister Min to take a look at it for me." ”
"Cheng, come, sit down and talk."
Yan Xuan and Senior Sister Min sat down across a wooden table, took out a flat wooden box containing their pills and put it on the case.
"It's all here." Yan Xuan said.
"Well, I'll see." Senior Sister Min opened the wooden box as she spoke.
At the bottom of the box was a layer of ayako, and nineteen of them were neatly arranged inside.
"So much!" Senior Sister Min was even more curious when she saw it, "How many times have you practiced and how many furnaces have you become?" ”
"Well, it was refined a total of eight times, and it became three furnaces."
"Three furnaces and nineteen pieces, it's about the same, but eight times it becomes three furnaces, and the Cheng Dan rate of three percent is nearly forty percent, not bad, Senior Sister Yan, you really impress my senior sister. Come, I'll help you identify it. ”
Saying that, Senior Sister Min went to a small silver-white plate, took out an amber pill from the wooden box and put it on the plate, took a silver shining sharp knife, held down the pill, and used the knife to cut off a very small point on the pill, and then dipped the tiny pill into her mouth with her finger, and after a while, she spit it out sideways, and took the tea on the case and rinsed her mouth.
"How?" Yan Xuan asked.
"Well, my Pill Tasting Technique, although it is a little worse than the senior brothers in the Qixiang Pavilion, but this elixir must be a low-level mid-grade."
Yan Xuan was overjoyed when he heard it.
"Oh, is there really a low-level mid-grade?" She asked.
"You can't make a mistake, don't worry." Senior Sister Min said with a smile.
The elixir refined is different from the elixir prepared in the Baicao Academy, when the elixir is handed over to Qixiang Pavilion, it must be a low-level mid-grade, and the elixir can be as long as it is a low-level and low-grade elixir. If you hand in the lower-level mid-grade ones, you can get more spirit grass in the South Jade Hall when you turn back.
There is another key in this, Yan Xuan's alchemy is all the spirit grass obtained from the Baicao Academy, although those spirit grasses are also suitable for alchemy, but they are a little worse than the spirit grass received from Nanyutang, only the spirit grass received in Nanyutang after handing in the spirit pill is the best in the same kind, and it is the most suitable for alchemy. This is not to say that the Baicao Courtyard is lower than Nanyutang, but that refining the elixir is more demanding than the preparation of the elixir on the spiritual grass, and the small pile of spiritual grass that Yan Xuan received in the Baicao Courtyard before going to Nanyutang was also picked, leaving the spiritual grass that is not suitable for alchemy, and the remaining suitable ones are used for alchemy.
Senior Sister Min appraised four more elixirs for her, and in the end, three of these five were lower-level middle-grade and two were lower-grade lower-grade.
"Very good, Senior Sister Yan, to be honest, your elixir is better than the color I made when I first became a pill."
"Then thank you Senior Sister Min, if Senior Sister hadn't taught me like this, where would I have been able to refine it."
"It's my job to teach you, okay, I won't give you all the appraisals, at least half of your elixirs are low-level mid-grade, just know it, you can go to Qixiang Pavilion and hand it over to them."
Speaking of this, Senior Sister Min saw Yan Xuan nodding, so she said again: "Senior Sister Yan, don't be in a hurry to earn spirit stones, there will definitely be no shortage of spirit stones in the future when we learn alchemy, but it is only right to get more spirit grass to polish and polish your alchemy." In addition, since you can refine the pill, you should also learn the pill technique, not only to identify the pill yourself, but also not to suffer when you have the opportunity to exchange the elixir with others in the future, if you have the opportunity to get some unknown pills, you can also know what it is for. ”
Yan Xuan nodded after hearing this, "Well, I'll learn this Dan Technique well when I go back." ”
"Well, there is one more thing, but there is no hurry, you are using the alchemy furnace of Nanyutang for alchemy now, and if you have the conditions in the future, you still have to find a way to get your own Dan furnace, in fact, you don't need to spend spirit stones, you can exchange it for pills, and many people on Jiuxuan's side are willing to do this."
"Senior Sister Min, is there anything else to pay attention to in this Dan furnace?"
"Well, this is a big deal, let's not talk about those high-grade Dan furnaces, even if you use a handy Dan furnace, you can increase your Dan success rate. However, when you find someone to refine the Dan furnace, you must explain your requirements in detail, this one, you will find out what habits you have when you refine the Dan more times, how to get it right, and then go and tell the person who refines it. At least half of the people who make alchemy in Nanyutang use the Dan furnace they brought with them. ”
"That's it," Yan Xuan heard of these things for the first time, and after hearing it, she immediately thought of Qian Chao, the spirit sword refined by Brother Qian is good, but I don't know if he will refine this Dan furnace, it seems that the next time everyone gets together again, they will have to ask.
"Ah, this is my own Dan furnace."
Senior Sister Min said and took out a delicate and small Dan stove from the storage bag, just like a small incense burner for incense on the bookcase, which was very chic.
"This is to ask a senior brother surnamed Cheng from Jiuxuancheng Instrument Hall to help refine it, and it also took him a lot of thought, both in terms of materials and utensils, it is better than Nanyutang's, and the most important thing is that this Dan furnace is custom-made, and it is completely refined according to my requirements, so I use this very easily. You go to alchemy more first, and after a long time, you will naturally know what kind of Dan furnace you need, and then go to Jiuxuan's Chengqi Hall to find someone to help you refine. If you don't know Jiu Xuan well, you can come to me, and I'll help you ask. ”
"Well, then I'll refine the Dan a few more times first to see how I can get my hands on it, and then I'll talk about it."
"It's fine."
In fact, Yan Xuan felt that this Dan furnace should not be difficult for Brother Qian, she heard Tang Ping talk about Qian Chao, and felt that this Qian brother was so smart, this Dan furnace must be able to be refined according to his own mind.
Later, when he came out of Senior Sister Min, Yan Xuan went to Qixiang Pavilion and handed over his elixir, this elixir is much more detailed than the elixir, whether it is one or a hundred, it must be carefully checked one by one.
In the end, thirteen of Yan Xuan's nineteen Yangyuan Pills were lower-level middle-grade, and the rest were lower-level lower-grade. After the senior brother who identified the pill for Yan Xuanyan finished the inspection, he took a piece of white paper, took a pen and wrote down the variety, quantity, and fineness of the pill that Yan Xuan handed over in detail, and then stamped the seal of Qi Xiangge and a small chapter of his own, and then handed it to Yan Xuan. The whole process was more meticulous and rigorous than she handed over the elixir.
With this piece of paper, Yan Xuan could go to the South Jade Hall to get a good form of spirit grass.