Chapter 16 Looking up to the top students
"Senior Brother Xu, how many times have you opened the furnace this month?"
Introducing Xu Yi into the house, Lu Fang asked cautiously after serving tea.
Xu Yi thought for a while and said, "I haven't counted it carefully, it's just that I just took the time to open the furnace for alchemy after practicing." ”
"Oh. Lu Fang nodded heavily.
It is naturally right to focus on practice, and if you devote all your other time to alchemy, you will probably be able to refine three or four furnaces. To complete the refining of the Zhongpin Pill in such a short period of time, this talent is really shocking.
"Senior Brother Xu, there is a Dan furnace in my brother's house, although the quality is average, but it is more than enough to refine the Qi Strengthening Pill. Lu Fang said with a smile.
"Brother Lu is asking me to refine a furnace now?"
"Not bad. ”
"Good. Xu Yi didn't refuse, why did he come here today because he had already practiced the aphrogen pills, so he was confident.
There must be an alchemy room where the alchemist lives, of course, this is only an ultra-small alchemy room, which can only refine some of the most basic pills, and the conditions are limited, it is difficult to refine high-quality pills.
Generally speaking, the alchemy room here is only for preparation, and the real place where the alchemists work is still in the sect's danfang.
Xu Yi took out a medicinal herb from the burden behind him, and it was a semi-finished product that had been pre-treated in advance.
Lu Fang was slightly stunned and said with a smile: "Good junior brother, it turns out that you have been prepared." "Although there is no shortage of Dan coal in his alchemy room, the medicine may not be complete, since Xu Yi brought it with him, it would be better.
Xu Yi smiled, although he had 1,500 alchemy experiences. However, the experience of pretreating herbs has only been a few dozen times. When facing the exam, it is very important to pay attention to the strengths and avoid the weaknesses, and Xu Yi, who came from Lanxing, will certainly not ignore it.
With the ignition of the Dan coal, the Dan furnace gradually gets hotter.
Xu Yi felt the temperature and put the first herb into the furnace.
Lu Fang, who was watching silently next to him, nodded secretly, the time chosen for this furnace fire is very reasonable, it seems that this kid does have two brushes, and those pills are really likely to come from him.
When the alchemist teaches his disciples, he will tell you what herbs to put when the furnace reaches medium temperature, and what herbs to put when the heat is high.
But what is medium temperature and what is high temperature?
There is also a knack for mastering the furnace fire, and no matter how rich the theoretical knowledge is, it also needs to be practiced.
Xu Yi also had to go through thousands of refining experiences before he vaguely grasped the temperature change of the Dan furnace and knew the difference between medium temperature and high temperature.
The pretreated medicine carries a certain amount of moisture and boils rapidly in the Dan furnace.
Xu Yi was not in a hurry, and put in the following several medicinal materials step by step, and after stirring a few times, he sealed the Dan furnace.
Looking at this series of flowing movements, Lu Fang's eyes had deep self-doubt.
Is this the performance of a novice in a month? His mastery of the Qi Strengthening Pill is probably not much inferior to his own. Such a level, let alone more than a hundred alchemy experiences, even if it is ten times more than an exaggeration.
However, he didn't know that Xu Yi had indeed refined more than 1,000 furnaces this month. In terms of the refining experience of the Qi Strengthening Pill, even he was beyond his reach.
Soon, the herbs were boiling in the Dan furnace, and the various medicinal effects began to exert their wonderful effects and slowly combined together.
This kind of Dan furnace is not sealed, there is a thin mouth to let the water vapor in it volatilize, Xu Yi is next to the Dan furnace and sniffs gently. After so many experiences, he has been able to grasp the extremely subtle differences.
After half a moment, Xu Yi's eyes lit up slightly, and he quickly kicked it away, directly closing the tuyere, and then with a flick of his wrist, he uncovered the lid of the Dan furnace. Suddenly, a rich medicinal fragrance volleyed out, and the entire alchemy room was filled with smoke and fragrance.
"Good. ”
Lu Fang snorted heavily, with an indescribable look of appreciation in his eyes.
When the fragrance of the talent was changing, Lu Fang also smelled it. However, at the moment when he was considering whether to remind Xu Yi, this kid had already completed the process of sealing the fire and opening the furnace in one go.
Xu Yi grasped the entire process of alchemy extremely accurately, whether it was the timing of the medicine, the control of the furnace fire, or the moment of opening the furnace, it all gave him a feeling that it was nothing more than that.
At this moment, Lu Fang's feelings in his heart were quite complicated.
He was able to become an alchemist, although he had the support of his family, but it was more due to talent.
At the beginning, there were thirty people who were selected as alchemy apprentices, but in the end, for various reasons, most of them gave up this seemingly promising career.
Of course, there is a problem of resources, but more of it is because of the cost of time.
When a person has spent a lot of time and used a lot of resources, but he can't refine any finished pills, the frustration is absolutely indescribable.
It's like a student who was one of the top students in his class in junior high school, but after he entered high school, he became the tail of a crane every time he took an exam.
In this mentality, there are only a handful of people who can really survive. It's like more than 30 apprentices in the past, and there are only two people who can finally become junior alchemists. In fact, if it weren't for the strong support of his family, he might have given up a long time ago.
But at this moment, looking at Xu Yi's alchemy process, he really had a feeling of looking up.
That's a feeling of being a scumbag looking at a scholar, which is quite bad!
After opening the furnace three times to refine the lower grade pill, after one month, he would be able to master the Zhuangqi Pill to such a skillful level. Oh, this is still the result of the other party's main focus on cultivation, if you devote yourself wholeheartedly to alchemy, what kind of pattern will it be?
Lu Fang shook his head vigorously, he was a little reluctant to think about it, or he didn't dare to think about it, otherwise, he was afraid that he would have some bad thoughts.
Xu Yi took out the viscous liquid medicine and began to knead it into pills, and soon the thirteen pills were packed into the medicine bottle.
Basically, there will be the same quality of pills in a furnace, but sometimes there will be different qualities. And this time, the pills refined by Xu Yi were decent, and all of them were medium-grade aphrodisiac pills.
Lu Fang carefully tasted it, and finally believed that those pills were indeed refined by this kid himself.
"Yes, you...... Very good. ”
Xu Yi smiled, more than a thousand and two thousand times to open the furnace, if you still can't get such an evaluation, you can also jump off the building.
"Brother Lu, I came over today to ask for something. ”
"What's the matter?"
"I want to ask for a Realm Breaking Pill and the method of refining this elixir. Xu Yi said solemnly.
Lu Fang was slightly stunned, is it too early to want to break through the realm pill now?