Chapter 35: Alchemy 2
After settling down, Lu Xiaotian took out the Dan furnace again, cleaned the impurities and wastes in the ding, and re-ignited the alchemy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The most difficult fire to grasp in alchemy, as well as the opening time is extremely difficult to grasp, usually it takes nearly two hours to refine a Qi Gathering Pill, Lu Xiaotian must always keep an eye on the size of the firepower, when the firepower is too large, remove a little spiritual wood charcoal, and add carbon when the firepower is small.
However, these two points are all mastered by the experience of the alchemist, and it is not just a pill that can be easily refined.
Even if it is a junior alchemist, it is very popular in Mochizuki City, because alchemy is not only difficult, but also a profession that consumes spirit stones very much. For those who have just learned alchemy, the rate of alchemy is often ridiculously low, and often a few furnaces, or even a dozen furnaces, may not be able to succeed once. To improve the rate of Dan, it requires long-term practice and experience accumulation.
Ordinary casual cultivation is simply not able to bear such a heavy burden in the early stage. Most of the alchemists in Mochizuki City were cultivated by the families who controlled the various Danfangs using their family resources.
And after cultivating, the alchemists need to work for the Danfang of each family. Usually, the pills sold to the outside world are low-grade pills, and the medium-grade and even top-grade ones with better quality are taken by talented people in the Xiuxian family, or they appear in auction houses and sell for amazing prices. Therefore, the strength of the people who come out of the immortal cultivation family is often stronger than that of ordinary casual cultivators.
Except for the time of daily cultivation, Lu Xiaotian stayed in the courtyard and practiced the pill for nearly ten days in a row, refining seventeen furnaces of pills one after another, and the remaining spirit stones were almost used, such a high failure rate made him a little discouraged, if it weren't for the space within the enchantment that could cultivate the purple spirit grass, the alchemy of this strength would have been impossible for a long time.
The value of the seventeen purple spirit grasses alone was as high as nearly forty spirit stones in Mochiyue City, and if the auxiliary medicine was counted, the spirit stones that Lu Xiaotian had wasted in the past ten days were very amazing for a monk in the Qi refining period.
However, after so many failures, Lu Xiaotian summed up a set of methods for refining the Qi Gathering Pill. I also have some experience in the heat and opening time. Lu Xiaotian was engrossed in looking at the blazing carbon fire under the ding.
At this time, he was no longer like at the beginning of alchemy, taking out the spirit wood charcoal when the carbon fire was too big. The previous experience of failure gave him a rough idea of how much firepower he needed to add to the spirit wood charcoal. This is the experience that Lian Danshi has gained from practicing Danshi for a long time.
Nearly two hours later, the familiar fragrance came again, and Lu Xiaotian's heart tightened, if he failed again this time, he could only sell the remaining twenty spirit runes in his hand before he could continue alchemy.
Calm down and open the furnace!
As he opened the lid of the ding, a warm and familiar fragrance of pills came to his nose, and he saw two milky yellow pills lying quietly in the small ding, one of which was particularly fragrant, and there were two tiny pills on the milky yellow surface.
"I even refined a medium-grade Qi Gathering Pill!" Lu Xiaotian was suddenly pleasantly surprised, and his hard work for more than ten days finally paid off. This kind of reward after going through hardships is far more meaningful than two pills.
After the heat on the surface of the two round and full elixirs dissipated, Lu Xiaotian put them into small bottles.
Iron striking should take advantage of the heat, and now we have successfully refined a furnace of Qi Gathering Pill, and we will refine it a few more times today.
With enough seeds left in his hand, Lu Xiaotian refined it seven times in succession, consumed all the purple spirit grass in the enchantment, and succeeded three times, but there was only one pill, and he didn't refine two like before.
However, he was also quite satisfied with this kind of result, even if it was some veterans of the Alchemist of the Mochizuki City family who had decades of experience in alchemy, it was already a very good result to succeed three or four times out of ten.
Alchemy is a very realm-oriented skill, and heat control and furnace opening are not immutable. Different purple spirit grasses have different growth degrees and states.
A clever alchemist will have a prediction of the spirit grass in his hand, and what kind of heat he will use. This judgment may also be incorrect, so during the refining process, the alchemist will also slightly adjust the firepower and the time of baking according to the changes. But no matter how powerful an alchemist is, he can't guarantee that his judgment is 100% correct, and a slight difference in the middle will lead to the scrapping of this furnace of elixir.
Therefore, experienced alchemy veterans can only maintain a certain success rate.
The reason why Lu Xiaotian was able to achieve such a high Dan rate in such a short period of time was in addition to the improvement of his own alchemy skills. What's more, he has refined the same pill so many times in a row, which other alchemists do not have, and the purple spirit grass that grows in the enchantment is not disturbed by external conditions such as wind and rain, and its growth is relatively consistent. This also increased his exit rate.
After refining the last purple spirit grass, Lu Xiaotian put away Xiao Ding with satisfaction. Take out the medium-grade Qi Gathering Pill, and the good pill will naturally be kept for your own use. Now it's time to try the effects of the elixir.
Lu Xiaotian sat directly on the stone chair in the small courtyard, and subdued the medium-grade Qi Gathering Pill, which slowly melted in his body, turning into a gentle stream of heat and wandering in his limbs.
In the past, it took nearly six hours to refine the medicinal power of the Qi Gathering Pill, but now it only takes less than two hours to refine the fifth layer of Qi.
The aura that could not be contained in the meridians still appeared in the enchantment. After absorbing the medicinal power in the meridians, Lu Xiaotian's Yuan Shen chased after eating the Yuan Qi in the enchantment. Then he sprinkled the seeds of the purple spirit grass, and crushed a piece of spirit stone into powder and sprinkled it on the soil next to the purple spirit grass seeds.
When the purple spirit grass was used up in the previous alchemy, he was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, because the spiritual energy escaping in the air was floating around, and it was difficult to float directly to the seeds of the purple spirit grass and be absorbed by it. Later, he was forced to use spirit stones, and he found that he could control these spirit stones with his mind and crush them.
When using spirit stones, he is also particular, after all, he has five kinds of spirit stones, such as gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Only the rare Ice Wind Thunder does not have on hand. Water is the source of life, but it should not be used too much, otherwise the soil is too warm and moist, which is not conducive to the growth of purple spirit grass.
Earth-based spirit stones can enhance the spiritual power of the land. The spirit stones of the wood system are also the undergraduate of purple spirit grass, and these three spirit stones can be used as fertilizer. However, in general, the wood system corresponding to the purple spirit grass has the best effect, followed by the earth spirit stone, and the water spirit stone again.
He also tested the gold system and the fire system, but it didn't work at all, after absorbing the aura of the golden spirit stone, the purple spirit grass quickly withered, and the fire spirit stone directly burned the purple spirit grass into black ash.
Overall, one spirit stone can almost cultivate three purple spirit grasses. According to his previous Cheng Dan rate, it is close to forty percent, that is to say, the alchemy removes the part of refining waste, according to the price of Qi Gathering Pill, once it is sold, one spirit stone can get four returns.
Although the effect of the Qi Gathering Pill was a little worse for a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi refining, it was better because of the large amount, and after having enough pills, his cultivation speed began to rise in a straight line, which was several times faster than relying on sitting alone to cultivate. Within half a year, he had just entered the fifth layer of qi refining, and at this time, the vitality accumulated in the fifth layer of qi refining had almost reached one-half.
At this time, Lu Xiaotian, who was dressed in green clothes, had grown a lot taller than before, and his body was still slightly thin and not very handsome, but he also had a somewhat delicate face because he had been alone for a long time, and the life and death tribulations he had experienced in the past few years, which made Lu Xiaotian have a cold and distant temperament.
Roar...... The leopard's senses were more sensitive than those of ordinary monks, and it quickly noticed the movement outside the courtyard, and it suddenly stood up after lazily lying in the courtyard to bask in the sun.
There was a banging on the door.
"Is Brother Lu here?" Luo Qingjiao shouted outside the house.
Hearing the voice of the comer, the leopard returned to the original place, and the Luo brothers and sisters would come and jump on the door from time to time in the past six months, and after one or two times, the leopard also remembered them.
"Hey, the smell of this Qi Gathering Pill is not the same as usual. Luo Qing walked in the door and sniffed vigorously a few times and said.
"Why did you come here so early today?"
Lu Xiaotian smiled when he heard this, and avoided talking about the pill, just now he was lucky, he actually refined a high-grade Qi Gathering Pill, he has been refining the Qi Gathering Pill for the past six months, and the number of times he has opened the furnace to refine the Pill is probably not comparable to other alchemists for decades. After all, even if the purple spirit grass is planted in the spiritual field, it will only be harvested once a year. It is impossible for him to continue harvesting spirit grass as long as he has spirit stones.
Luo Yuan said, "That's the case, in four months, the major immortal sects will start recruiting disciples once a year, our brothers and sisters, and a few other familiar friends plan to enter the Moon Moon Mountain Range, find some spiritual objects, if you are lucky, you can also encounter items in other sect tasks, Brother Lu's strength is good, I want to invite Brother Lu to form a team together, one more person, we will be safe in the Moon Mountain Range." ”
"What, is it dangerous in the Mochizuki Mountain Range?" Lu Xiaotian said in surprise.
"Brother Lu doesn't know that there are not only demon beasts rampant in the Mochizuki Mountain Range, but what is more dangerous is that it comes from other monks. I've been to the Mochizuki Mountains a few times, and I've killed more of my teammates in ambushes by other monk squads than from monster beasts. Luo Yuan said in a deep voice.
Lu Xiaotian was shocked, he stayed in the small courtyard for half a year, but he was a little lighter about the bloody killing among immortal cultivators.
"Who are the other people invited by Brother Luo?Who is the highest cultivator?" Lu Xiaotian asked, and did not directly agree.
"Together with our brother and sister, there are five other people together, among whom the highest cultivation is the same as mine, which is the sixth level of qi refining. However, Brother Lu is an extremely clever alchemist, if he joins our team, he will have a certain priority in the spirit grass he will get at that time. ”
Luo Qing said expectantly, in the past six months, they have also learned a little about Lu Xiaotian, and being able to rent such a large courtyard by relying on alchemy alone and complete their daily cultivation is already quite powerful in their eyes.