Chapter 10: Introductory Alchemist
Alchemy?
Cheng Ming hurriedly flipped out this ancient book.
This ancient book is very damaged, and Cheng Ming is careful when he even opens it, because the pages of this book are extremely thin and brittle, and if he exerts a little force, it will be damaged.
Alchemy is a technique that combines the treasures of heaven and earth to refine them into magic weapons.
And the refiner, the talisman and the pill medicine master are the three special professions in this world.
And the employment rate is very high.
Even half-baked refiners, when they come to the army to make armor and weapons, this group is also highly favored
And excellent refiners, even in the big sects, have some quite high status.
Cheng Ming roughly flipped through the ancient book in his hand, which had a total of more than 100 pages and was divided into 12 volumes.
The book is so torn that many pages are missing, but fortunately, the introductory instructions at the beginning are fairly complete.
To learn technology, you should first enter the door, and then move slowly from shallow to deep.
For example, cloth armor is fused with fine iron to make armor.
That's the basic stuff.
This book starts with the basics.
The refiner is very talented, and Cheng Ming is not sure if he has this talent, so he looks at it very seriously.
A few hours passed.
If you are an ordinary person who has never been exposed to alchemy, holding this ancient book at this moment must be like a junior high school student holding a book of advanced mathematics, and you can't start.
But Cheng Ming is different.
I don't know if I have experienced the brutal elimination of test-oriented education, or the baptism of the information explosion.
Cheng Ming is still very good at "learning", flexible thinking and the ability to draw inferences from one another, so that Cheng Ming can grasp the key points of alchemy in less than a few hours.
In general refining, the key lies in the ratio of materials, the refining of auxiliary materials, and the heat during refining.
But it's one thing to grasp the gist, it's easier said than done. In addition to talent, it is also necessary to have a lot of experience.
And to refine a higher-level magic weapon, you need to integrate the formation into the magic weapon, which is even more difficult, you need to consider the relationship between the attributes and the operation of the heaven and earth vitality engraved in the magic weapon, and so on.
Therefore, refiners, talismans, pill masters, etc., all need extremely strong spiritual power, and the strength of their souls needs to be different from ordinary people.
After reading the introductory teaching of alchemy, Cheng Ming had a general understanding of the principles of alchemy.
And then, the book recorded many kinds of refining methods.
From simple armor, to the more difficult four spirit flags, to high-level magic weapons such as the Linglong Tower, etc., from the materials to the refining method, there are detailed records in this book.
This reference book is very precious and valuable, and it is actually put here to eat ashes?
Moreover, how did you pay attention to it before?
Cheng Ming faintly felt that he was about to step into the threshold of a refiner.
With this book, you can refine the magic weapon yourself.
Cheng Ming's mood couldn't help but get excited.
However, the highest-level magic weapon recorded in it is also a fifth-order magic weapon, and there is no higher-level magic weapon manufacturing method on it, let alone an immortal artifact.
Maybe it's because the senior refiner who wrote this book has a limited level, but it is more likely that the high-level magic weapon making method, any one of them, can trigger a big power struggle, how could it be written in the book like this?
However, even these fifth-order magic weapons written in this book are extremely precious, what Liuhe Mirror, Shenmu Baojian, and so on......
Let's put it this way, Cheng Ming will take it casually and walk outside, it must be ...... It's going to die a terrible death.
Come to think of this...... Cheng Ming suddenly understood Lu Shen's hard work.
If you don't have enough strength, your background is not thick, and you have a lot of treasures, you will lose your life.
Therefore, those magic weapons and magic weapons at the back of the book don't need to be looked at anymore. And the refining materials of these magic weapons are too rare to get by yourself.
I can't refine it myself.
If you refine it, you don't have the courage to take it with you.
So...... It's useless to watch.
Among the many magic weapons recorded in the book, there is a magic weapon called Xinling, which is exactly what Cheng Ming needs at present.
Because the Heart Bell is a magic weapon that causes damage to the soul, what he lacks now is the means of soul attack.
The heart bell is a first-order magic weapon, but when it comes to the magic weapon of the grade, there are certain requirements for materials and refining techniques.
It stands to reason that it is definitely not practical for Cheng Ming to read a book casually, learn a little theoretical knowledge, and immediately start refining.
However, Cheng Ming is different.
Cheng Ming looked at his skill board, and now it really changed.
There's an extra item in the skill bar.
"Special Class: Refining Weapons (Not Started)"
Ordinary people have to go through countless practical operations at the very least, and success from failure after failure is considered to be a beginner.
This process can be omitted, and he can use experience points to add points.
1100 experience points is the entry price of Cheng Ming.
1100 points, which is also worth a lot.
Cheng Ming felt that this was the squeeze of staring at his remaining experience.
However, Cheng Ming felt that this experience was worth it, so she didn't feel pain.
Cheng Ming decisively spent 1,100 experience points, and suddenly Cheng Ming had an indescribable understanding and experience of refining the weapon in his mind.
It's as if I've done this many times.
And at this moment, his skill bar has also changed.
"Special Class: Refining Weapons (1st Order)"
Suddenly, Cheng Ming suddenly felt a little complacent, alchemy, what's so difficult?
It's not like you have hands.
After becoming a first-order refiner, Cheng Ming found that he could continue to level up, while to become a second-order refiner, he needed 10,000 experience points.
I only have more than 100 experience points left, so I definitely can't level up anymore.
However, Cheng Ming has no intention of continuing to upgrade. Because the Heart Bell is a first-order magic weapon, this means that you can refine this magic weapon now.
Cheng Ming took another look at the material formula of the heart-stopping bell.
Red Essence Iron, three third-order water-based demon beast demon crystals, and soul condensing stones, these three things are the main materials.
There are also other spirit stones that need to be arranged for the Spirit Gathering Formation, as well as auxiliary materials such as Ice Spirit Pills when quenching.
Refined iron and spirit stones are all ordinary things, and they are ready-made.
The demon crystal of the third-order water system demon beast, this one is more difficult to do. However, it is also written in this book that thirty second-order water system demon crystals can be used to replace the energy in the refinement.
This amount is all made up in this attic.
Of course, if it is a fourth-order water-based demon crystal, the quality will be better, but it is not cost-effective to refine a first-order magic weapon and hunt a fourth-grade demon beast.
Cheng Ming will not take this risk.
As for the Ice Spirit Pill, this elixir is specially taken for those who practice fire-based exercises or for people who have been poisoned by fire, and the medicinal properties are extremely cold, and if you put it in water, it will quickly turn the water into ice.
Cheng Ming used this elixir to make iced soup.
So, you can find it here too.
The key is the Soul Condensing Stone, this is the material for special refining, this is a bit difficult to find. I'm afraid I'll have to go to the nearby Dragon's Tooth City to buy it.
The most important thing is the furnace of the refining vessel, which must also be purchased.
Cheng Ming immediately decided to go to the Black Forest tomorrow to hunt some more water monsters and get some demon crystals.
Because refining tools also have a success rate, when preparing materials, you must prepare several sets to be safe.
When you have enough demon crystals, you have to go to Dragon's Tooth City again.
There is a shop in Dragon's Tooth City that is specially opened for cultivators, selling some pills, weapons, talismans, cultivation materials and the like.
Cheng Ming followed Lu Shen to Dragon's Tooth City, and the small place of Fengmian County couldn't be compared with that.
Fengmian County is backed by the mountain gate of the Wind Thunder Sect, so there are no other sects and cultivation families nearby.
In Dragon's Tooth City, there are many cultivators, and there are also many cultivation forces.
Therefore, there is also an industry for the group of practitioners.
Cheng Ming has met cultivators in the Black Forest more than once who hunt demon beasts to obtain demon crystals, or look for precious spirit grass, and basically exchange these things for cultivation resources such as spirit stone pills.
It's just that the price of goods in Dragon Tooth City is expensive, whether it is the spirit stones traded by cultivators, or the gold and silver circulating among ordinary people.
Lu Shen once said, "It's only a few dollars of silver in Fengmian Town, and you can send it once when you go ten times, but Dragon Tooth City actually wants one or two pieces of silver, inlaid with gold?"
Cheng Ming didn't know what Lu Shen was talking about.
In short, things are very expensive, and Cheng Ming doesn't know if the spirit stones he has saved are enough to buy a furnace tripod and a few soul stones
Thinking like this, when Cheng Ming came back to his senses at this time, he found that several hours had passed.
The night is already deep.