Tianchi Fort.

After the rain, the sky is clear, and the sky is like a wash.

Above the stone castle was a blue sky, and the earthy yellow poisonous clouds had dissipated.

The sunlight shone on the stone walls, reflecting a faint glow.

Li Shuidao clenched his fists and said goodbye: "Tianfeng Shibo, Brother Haoyang and Miss Zhu, Xue'er and I went to the alchemy room." ”

Everyone hugged their fists and sent the two away.

Leaving the stone building, the two walked in the direction of the fire vein.

The Vein of Fire is a winding underground magma passage that lies beneath the mountains.

The alchemy room is located next to the fire vein, sharing the same fire vein as the refining room.

The two places are separated by a heavy stone wall filled with mysterious runes and patterns.

The style of the alchemy room is rugged, and the walls are made of solid stone blocks, exuding an ancient and mysterious atmosphere.

Li Shuidao took out the array plate and placed it on the stone platform in front of the door of the alchemy room.

Gently touching the array disk, I felt a faint surge of energy into my body. He stabilized his mind, gently turned the array disk, and finally succeeded in opening the heavy stone door.

The stone door slowly opened, revealing the interior of the alchemy room.

Li Shuidao and Xia Ruoxue stepped into the alchemy room and immediately felt the scorching heat of the flames and the surge of energy. The two stepped into the alchemy room.

The alchemy room was on fire, and the flames burned magma and emitted intense heat.

The firelight reflects on the walls, casting deep shadows.

In the alchemy room, only the light of the flame illuminates the space.

The entire alchemy room was empty, and there was nothing but the earth fire stove.

Adjacent to the alchemy room was a bedroom with only a stone bed covered with a simple straw mat.

It's hard to sleep two people in this small bed.

"It's shabby, but it's clean." Li Shuidao looked around and said.

"It's a little hot, it's not very comfortable." Xia Ruoxue replied with a frown.

Li Shuidao nodded: "This is the fire vein, you are cultivating the dark attribute exercises, so it is naturally uncomfortable, so I will stay in the alchemy room alone." ”

"Then I'll take a stroll around the surrounding mountains." Xia Ruoxue said.

With Xia Ruoxue's current cultivation, there is really no need to stay in the corner of Tianchi Fort.

The surrounding mountains are verdant and majestic, and you can find a quiet place with green trees and beautiful mountains and rivers to retreat, and there is really no need to accompany Li Shuidao next to this stove.

"Be careful yourself, don't expose your cultivation, don't kill in vain!" Li Shuidao reminded seriously.

Xia Ruoxue didn't agree, with a stubbornness on her face.

"Are you really going to kill him?" Li Shuidao asked.

"Yes." Xia Ruoxue gritted her teeth and replied, "I must kill Li Haoyang." ”

Li Shuidao's eyes showed a thoughtful look, Xia Ruoxue was different from him, not he could bear any anger.

What's more, Li Haoyang said that she would not have children, which should have hit her in the sore spot.

As the saying goes, beating people without slapping their faces, scolding people without revealing their shortcomings, Xia Ruoxue did not kill people on the spot, which can be regarded as taking into account the overall situation.

"What method are you going to use to kill him?" Li Shuidao asked calmly.

"I will find an opportunity to take advantage of his unpreparedness and use the blood refining divine light to draw him into dry bones." Xia Ruoxue said coldly.

Li Shuidao was silent for a moment again and then said, "If you do this, even a blind man can see that you did it." ”

"They can't even see that I have cultivation." Xia Ruoxue's cultivation of the Qi Locking Method can also hide her cultivation.

"That's right, Li Haoyang and Li Tianfeng don't know that you have cultivation, but Li Haimo knows that the patriarch Li Haimo is Li Haoyang's own grandfather, and Li Haoyang is his grandson. Have you figured out the relationship between the Man in the Iron Mask and the Patriarch? You ask yourself, can you beat them? Li Shuidao slowly analyzed.

"But...... But I can't stand it! Xia Ruoxue's face was distorted and she gritted her teeth.

"Even if you can't stand it, put up with it." Li Shuidao said firmly.

"I can't take it! I'll find an opportunity to kill him by other means. Xia Ruoxue's eyes were faintly red.

Li Shuidao frowned slightly......

After all, Xia Ruoxue is a cultivator of demonic skills, and her personality has become extreme due to the influence of demonic skills, which is completely reasonable, if she is not allowed to vent, it will backfire.

After thinking for a long time, Li Shuidao said seriously: "If you want to kill him, you can do it." ”

Hearing this, Xia Ruoxue's eyes were pleasantly surprised, and the red light in her eyes quickly dissipated.

"You have to find a way to kill him by means other than magic skills, it's best to fake it to others, if you can't do it, you must also blame others afterwards, if you have to use magic skills, then you have to turn him into ashes afterwards, if you can't do it cleanly, you and I can only break away from the family, my parents, and two younger brothers and sisters, will be affected by us, and even lose their lives for it." Li Shuidao said with a serious face.

"Hmm." Xia Ruoxue also knew that it was powerful, so she nodded seriously.

"Before you do it, you have to tell me your specific plan, and I think it's appropriate before you can do it." Li Shuidao reminded again.

"Don't worry, husband! The concubine knows how to do it, so I'll go out for a walk first. Xia Ruoxue saluted slightly, left the alchemy room alone, and left Tianchi Fort on foot.

She looked at the tallest stone tower in Tianchi Castle with a cold expression.

When Xia Ruoxue left, Li Shuidao sighed.

Don’t wait for prosperity to care for the things important to you!

Xia Ruoxue was temporarily appeased, and then she put her mind on improving her cultivation.

Li Shuidao took out a cyan storage bag from his waist.

In the storage bag, there were a total of thirty materials for refining the Jade Heng Dan of the Green Frost Grass, the Golden Yang Grass, the Purple Hidden Flower, and the Jade Vine worth one hundred spirit stones.

Now it is necessary to refine all these materials into Yuheng Dan, and ensure that there is a certain rate of becoming Dan.

"Yuhengdan" is a watershed.

Being able to refine the "Changchun Pill" signifies that a monk has become a first-order alchemist.

Being able to refine the "Jade Heng Dan" and having a success rate that meets the standards indicates that this is an alchemist who can make money.

The thirty materials in Li Shuidao's hand, as long as he can refine forty "Jade Heng Dan", it can be regarded as an alchemy standard.

Although these forty "Jade Heng Pills" were far from enough for Li Shuidao to advance to the Rong Ling Realm, they could allow his alchemy to gain the approval of his family.

In this way, Li Shuidao didn't need to personally engage in alchemy materials, and the family would send a steady stream of materials for refining Yuheng Dan to him.

No matter what world "high-tech talents" are more earned, well-fed and do not need to go to the front to fight hard.

At that time, Li Shuidao will be backed by his family, and he will have no worries about resources, just refining elixirs and improving his cultivation, what sect trials and dangerous family tasks have nothing to do with him, and it won't be long before he can easily advance to the Rong Ling Realm.

Of course, this is more troublesome than Xia Ruoxue's promotion, but even if Li Shuidao has 100,000 spirit stones in his hand, it is impossible to buy a bottle of "Ten Thousand Year Spirit Milk" worth 20,000 spirit stones.

Li Shuidao took a deep breath, closed his eyes, calmed his mind, re-interpreted the whole process of alchemy in his mind, and opened his eyes again with confidence.

He first put the green frost grass into the mortar, and gently grinded it with a thin mortar, only to see that the green frost grass exuded a cool breath, and the fine grass powder gradually formed in the mortar.

Then, Li Shuidao took out the golden yang grass, gently twisted it with his fingers, and used his fingers and his own mana to preliminarily extract the medicinal power, and the aroma of the golden yang grass immediately diffused, exuding a warm and fragrant taste.

Finally, he carefully took out the purple flower, which was delicate and mysterious, and he gently plucked the petals to reveal the stamens, extracting the medicinal power in the same way.

Li Shuidao put the ground green frost grass powder, golden sun grass crushed and purple flower stamens into the refining furnace Dragon Tiger Ding.

The furnace is inlaid with a dragon and tiger motif, symbolizing the balance of yin and yang and the fusion of strength.

With a slap of the dragon and tiger, this alchemy furnace landed steadily on the fire.

The fire of the earth is blazing, and the temperature is blazing.

Li Shuidao rotates the furnace to control the heat, keeping the flame at just the right temperature so that the essence of the herbs can be extracted.

As the flame rises, the temperature inside the furnace gradually rises, and the herbs begin to release a rich herbal aroma.

Li Shuidao closed his eyes, concentrated, and began to urge his own spiritual power, injecting spiritual power into the furnace, controlling the power of the flames, letting them revolve around the herbs, and gradually refining the essence of the herbs.

It's a mind-consuming process......

He watched as the flames gradually changed color, from red to orange to golden yellow, each representing a different herb extraction.

As time passed, the flames in the furnace gradually subsided, and in their place a fresh breath permeated.

Li Shuidao knew that the essence of the herbs had been completely extracted, and success was just around the corner!

However, at this moment, a sudden change occurred.

The flames in the furnace suddenly became extremely violent, and the dragon and tiger tripod began to shake violently, as if it could not withstand the power inside.

Li Shuidao hurriedly used his spiritual power to try to stabilize the situation in the furnace, but no matter how hard he tried, the flames in the furnace became more and more violent, and the dragon and tiger ding began to make a roaring sound.

In the end, Dragon Tiger Ding could not withstand the internal force, and let out a loud bang, the furnace door slammed open, flames splashed, and the pill that was about to take shape was swallowed by the furnace fire.

Li Shuidao looked at everything in front of him with a dejected expression, and was silent for a long time......

Originally, there were only thirty copies of the materials in hand, but now I have gone to one.

What's the problem?

Li Shuidao paced back and forth in the cramped alchemy room, frowning, thinking about the reason for the failure.

In the narrow alchemy room, apart from the raging flames, there was only the scorching smell of alchemy.

It should be a fork in the last step of fire control......

But how can it be avoided?

Li Shuidao thought about it repeatedly, exhausted, and simply lay on the bed to rest for a while.

His head rested on the stone pillow, and his hands unconsciously touched it.

Inadvertently......

Li Shuidao's fingers touched a crack in the stone under the stone bed.

The architectural style of the entire Tianchi Fort is very rough, and the big stones are built one by one.

It's normal to have stone crevices......

I don't know which Xiuxian family built it?

When he was curious, Li Shuidao actually pulled out a diary from this crack in the stone.

He gently brushed away the dust and opened the diary, which recorded the mental journey of a young man when he practiced alchemy.

The young man's name was Wang Fuhai, he was an apprentice in the alchemy room, and he was also a member of the Wang family's immortal cultivation family.

It seems that this "Tianchi Fire Poison Mine" used to belong to the Wang family, a family of immortal cultivators.

A year ago, there was a tremor inside the Five Poison Gate, which affected some immortal cultivation families, and the Wang family was one of them, and now this spiritual mine has fallen into the hands of the Li family.

This diary records in detail Wang Fuhai's cultivation process, including the difficulties and challenges of alchemy, as well as his mental journey of continuous exploration and breakthrough.

Wang Fuhai described his love and dedication to alchemy in his diary, and he continued to study and practice hard to pursue the ultimate in alchemy.

He recorded his failures and setbacks in the process of alchemy, but also recorded the joy of every breakthrough and success.

Li Shuidao immersed himself in Wang Fuhai's diary and felt that he had gained a lot.

This is not the first "alchemy experience" that Li Shuidao obtained, Jiang Xue, the senior sister of the sect, gave him a copy.

That alchemy experience came from the "Book of Hundred Herbs" written by the second-rate immortal cultivator Ding family, the alchemy master Ding Zhenyan.

The level of that book was too high, and with Li Shuidao's alchemy attainments, he couldn't gnaw on it for a while.

However, this notebook written by an alchemy apprentice was read by Li Shuidao with relish.

This Wang Fuhai's level is not much different from him, and even slightly inferior.

Looking through his notes, I felt that the mistakes he had made were being made by himself.

After reading it, I felt that this stubborn young man who refused to admit defeat took him through again, and the mental journey of hard alchemy gave Li Shuidao a lot of inspiration and encouragement.

Li Shuidao stood up again, the decadence on his face was swept away, and he was ready to refine again.

(End of chapter)