The Awakening Pill that was refined was only a low grade, and the grade was very low.

However, Liu Xiaoxu was very satisfied, after all, he was already very good if he succeeded in alchemy on the first day.

The next day, when He Zhixing learned the news of Liu Xiaoxu's successful alchemy, he was very surprised.

"I just taught you the art of alchemy yesterday, and you will be able to refine the Awakening Pill on your own today, Senior Brother Liu's talent is really admirable. ”

"Senior Brother He has won the award, and I just happened to have it. ”

Liu Xiaoxu said modestly, but his heart was happy.

Who doesn't want to listen to the praise of others?

That morning, because He Zhixing had already learned the dish of pan-fried foie gras, Liu Xiaoxu taught him to make pickled pepper chicken feet.

In the afternoon, He Zhixing formally taught Liu Xiaoxu to refine the quenching elixir.

"The difficulty of refining the Quenching Pill is much higher than that of the Awakening Pill, although it is only one more medicinal material than the Awakening Pill, presumably you should also know by now that the more medicinal materials, the more difficult it will be to fuse. ”

"That's right!"

Liu Xiaoxu nodded approvingly.

Yesterday, when he refined the Awakening Pill and fused the first two medicinal materials, he didn't feel how difficult it was, but when he fused with the last medicinal herb, he always made mistakes.

In the final analysis, it is because there is not enough understanding of the medicinal properties of each herb.

You must know that there are only three kinds of medicinal properties: warm, hot and cold, which seem simple and easy to remember, but when more than two medicinal materials are fused, the medicinal properties are not so easy to judge. Whether it is the amount of medicinal materials put in, the control of the heat, or the order of fusion, it will affect the final medicinal properties. It is very likely that if a certain medicinal herb is put a little more, the medicinal properties will be reversed dramatically after fusion.

Seeing Liu Xiaoxu nodding in agreement, He Zhixing paused, and said:

"In addition, the refining of this quenching elixir must also rely on the convenience of the location. ”

"What does Senior Brother He mean by this?"

Faced with Liu Xiaoxu's doubts, He Zhixing patiently explained: "This quenching pill is different from the awakening pill, and there are requirements for the place of alchemy. The richer the aura, the more spiritual power it contains. If the spiritual energy in the place of alchemy is thin, then the spiritual power contained in the refined pill will be very scarce, which is like chicken ribs, and the gains outweigh the losses. ”

Liu Xiaoxu blinked: "Our Xianlan Mountain people are outstanding spirits, presumably the Quenching Spirit Pill refined here will not be too bad, right?"

He Zhixing smiled: "That's nature. However, Xianlan Mountain is certainly a feng shui treasure of Zhong Lingyuxiu, but in different places, there are also many or less aura. For example, the main peak of Xianlan Mountain, the concentration of its aura is much higher than here. The reason for this phenomenon is that the spiritual veins of Xianlan Mountain are located at the bottom of the main peak. The aura in the spiritual veins radiates from the main peak to the other peaks, and the moon is the first to get near the water, and the degree of aura of the main peak is naturally much higher than that of other peaks. ”

"Where did the three quenching pills that Senior Brother gave me earlier refine them?" Liu Xiaoxu asked again.

"Those three Quenching Spirit Pills were all refined in Danfeng. If the junior disciple learns to refine the Quenching Spirit Pill, it will be the same if he refines it in Yuhui Peak. ”

Next, He Zhixing personally demonstrated to Liu Xiaoxu the refining process of the Quenching Pill.

After about an hour, He Zhixing successfully refined a quenching elixir.

Subsequently, Liu Xiaoxu also learned alchemy, but he only practiced for an afternoon, but he was unsuccessful.

Liu Xiaoxu was not discouraged, after all, alchemy is not something that can be learned overnight. If alchemy was really so studious, the alchemists in this world would have been flooded long ago.

In the next few days, He Zhixing did not teach Liu Xiaoxu again, but just let him practice alone. Because of the refining method of the Quenching Pill, everything that should be handed over has been handed over.

It's a four-course recipe, and Liu Xiaoxu hasn't finished teaching it yet. Because He Zhixing's cooking talent is too poor, like an old cow pulling a broken car, he is making progress at a turtle speed.

It lasted like this for half a month, He Zhixing finally learned all four recipes, and Liu Xiaoxu was able to independently refine the Quenching Pill. This transaction of exchanging four recipes for quenching elixir recipes can be regarded as an end.

However, his cooperative relationship with Danfeng did not end there.

After all, if you only have an alchemy method but no medicinal materials, you can't drop it. To refine the medicinal materials of the Quenching Pill, Liu Xiaoxu could only obtain it from Danfeng.

And the price of acquisition is the gourmet recipe.

After some bargaining with Elder Qi, a gourmet recipe can be exchanged for two pairs of medicinal materials for the Quenching Pill.

Fortunately, this time you don't need to teach He Zhixing, just write down the recipe.

Liu Xiaoxu wrote five recipes in one go, and replaced ten pairs of quenching elixir medicinal materials. Elder Qi smiled, Liu Xiaoxu was satisfied, and the two sides could be said to take what they needed.

After that, Liu Xiaoxu locked himself in the house and refined the Quenching Pill.

Almost speaking, every time Liu Xiaoxu refines two furnaces of quenching elixir, he will fail once, and even if the alchemy is successful, most of the pill grades that come out of the furnace are low-grade. Occasionally, the explosion will refine a medium-grade quenching elixir, and as for the high-grade quenching elixir, he has never seen it at all.

Liu Xiaoxu refined ten furnaces of quenching elixir, and the harvest was five low-grade quenching elixirs, one medium-grade quenching elixir, and four scrapped elixirs.

This result is so-so, and Liu Xiaoxu is quite satisfied.

Six quenching pills are enough for your cultivation to break through to the foundation building period.

In the next few days, Liu Xiaoxu took the Quenching Pill, meditated and cultivated, then took the Quenching Pill, and then meditated and cultivated.

Half a month later, all the quenching pills were used.

Through these years of cultivation, Liu Xiaoxu's cultivation has advanced by leaps and bounds, and the aura in the sea of qi has reached a state of overflow, and he is only one step away from the foundation building period.

But for some reason, it was this step away, and Liu Xiaoxu was never able to cross it.

Originally, according to his estimates, the six Quenching Pills plus the three Quenching Pills that He Zhixing had given him earlier were enough for him to enter the foundation building period.

But reality gave him a heavy slap in the face.

No matter how hard he worked to cultivate, he was always stuck at the peak of the late stage of qi refining, and he couldn't advance an inch.

In desperation, Liu Xiaoxu had no choice but to turn to his senior brother Song Li to ask the reason.

On this day, Liu Xiaoxu came to Song Li's residence, but after knocking on the door for a long time, no one opened the door. Apparently there was no one in the house, and there was no idea where they had gone.

Liu Xiaoxu hesitated for a moment, and then went to find Li Changshou again. Cultivation has not been able to break through, this problem is like a fish in the throat, if it is not solved for a day, he will not think about it for a day.

When he came to the bamboo forest, Liu Xiaoxu didn't understand the phantom array, so he had to call people outside the forest.

"Senior Brother Changshou, junior brother Liu Xiaoxu, encountered confusion in cultivation, and came to inquire and hope that senior brother would give him advice. ”

After not shouting for a long time, I heard Li Changshou's voice coming from the forest: "Senior Brother Liu, I have already lifted the phantom array, after you enter the forest, just keep moving forward." ”

When Liu Xiaoxu heard this, he was refreshed, straightened his clothes, and strode into the forest.