Chapter 453: Ambergris Burning Incense (I)
A row of stone mills is lined up, a total of eight, each two is a group, respectively used to correspond to the elixir of the four states, the left side is the positive herb, the right side is the cold herb, the incense is made first and the fragrance is blended, basically starting from the grinding medicine.
The Eastern Regions are divided into: three sections of incense, seven spiritual herbs, medicine as its name suggests, the elixir is divided into three sections, growing one section every fifty years, because the average life of mortals is about forty-five years, this incense is replaced by three lives and three lives, which is a very important part of ambergris.
The whole body of the three incense is pink and yellow, because it exudes a fragrance itself, often accompanied by a stinging spirit bee, this spirit insect is very fierce, so it is extremely difficult to obtain this incense, and its value is second only to the purple inkstone agarwood.
Purple inkstone agarwood, Dongzhou holy spice, because of its particularity, so classified as the top of the seven grades, if it is not its inability to enter the medicine, I am afraid that the value is not less than eight grades.
Its wood is like a purple sand inkstone, and the surface will secrete a layer of special oil, which is the spice of agarwood, but the purple wood is extremely hard, and it is desirable to be an unusual weapon, and once the oil appears, it will soon volatilize, so it is extremely difficult to collect, so the price is extremely expensive.
These are two of the most precious spices in Dongzhou, and an important part of ambergris, followed by Xizhou:
Beast Emperor Bone, Seven-Rank Top Spiritual Root, sounds like the bones of some kind of powerful demon beast, but in fact, this thing is not a beast bone, but a seven-grade top-grade elixir, it is shaped like a white beast bone, decorated with golden bone patterns, like the bones of the Xizhou Overlord Demon Beast Winged Heavenly Tiger, hence the name.
It grows in the wilderness, the fern root breeds a strange fragrance, often used to lure the prey to, and then it is stunned and killed, turned into the nourishment for its growth, this thing can be described as a double-edged sword, that is, it needs its aroma, and needs to be processed again, it is an extremely dangerous spice, the value is very high.
The reason why it is so named is because usually after the monk encounters it, there is almost no chance of survival, and it will bloom with the night, and the blue is like a ghost flame in the underworld.
When it is far away, it is impossible to find its existence at all, and some people say that this ghost fire is actually an illusion, an illusion caused by the fragrance emitted by this thing.
Its body resembles a cactus, and it looks extremely ordinary, but it faintly exudes a palpitating aura, and it is also an extremely dangerous thing second only to the Beast Emperor's bone.
Lou Yi also didn't understand, why he would use such a dangerous thing to make incense, could it really be that danger and benefit coexist, the more dangerous the better?
In spring and summer, they fly out of their habitat in search of moist and fertile spiritual veins to thrive, so named because their veins resemble the petals of lilac flowers.
In autumn and winter, they will shrink the leaf veins, bury their bodies deep in the ground, and enter the dormant period, only at this time the clove cordyceps has the purpose of making incense.
Therefore, if you want to find their traces, you must send people to follow them from spring and summer, and after the autumn and winter come, confirm their location, and then capture them, compared to tracking, it is much easier to dig them, but when they are buried deep in the ground, in order to prevent predators, they will emit a kind of incense, and this fragrance is the thing that refines incense, so you need to be cautious to avoid being stunned by it.
Giant Mouth Grenade Flower, Seven Grade Top Spirit Flower, an extremely terrifying Spirit Flower, this flower is extremely beautiful, the petals are the size of a wooden pot, and it looks really gorgeous on the outside, but it is extremely dangerous.
Only because of its most beautiful moment, but also its most dangerous moment, the reason comes from its fragrance of flowers, when this flower blooms, there is no grass around, birds and beasts are scattered, this flower is extremely smelly, will cause people to faint, and even death.
However, its stamens are the most indispensable thing for ambergris, so the danger is deadly, and it cannot prevent people from collecting it, and the great value makes many monks risk their lives, and the monks who die in its hands are probably more than the others combined, so it is also named Grimace Futu.
As for Beizhou, the two spiritual objects are not so dangerous, but it has become extremely difficult to find them, first of all, the first one is called Sunset Afterfragrance, Seven Spiritual Flowers, the name looks very peculiar, and it is poetic.
In fact, this is a true portrayal of this object, its appearance is like an ice pick hanging on the branches, the whole body is transparent, the flowers are unusually small, like rice grains, in this snowy Beizhou, it is really difficult to distinguish.
And the only way to find it is in the half hour of sunset, during which it releases a strange fragrance that people can follow to find its whereabouts, hence the name of the afterglow of the sunset.
The second is the golden stamen snow lotus, the seven-grade top spirit flower, born on the top of the snow mountain, this thing blooms once every hundred years, and when it is in full bloom, it will attract all the demon beasts around the snow mountain, and its flowering period is only one hour, so how to seize this thing is a hundred times more difficult than how to find it.
Only the blooming snow lotus has the value of making incense, which shows how precious this ambergris incense is, how difficult it is to make it, this is only the top material in each state, and there are more than 100 kinds of auxiliary spiritual flowers and spiritual grass spiritual roots.
And during the production period, it needs to be done in one go, not sloppy at all, which is not a big challenge for him at present, if he is still in the Dan stage of cultivation, to make this ambergris spiritual incense, I am afraid that it will be extremely difficult.
He was even thinking about how Master Yao, who was in the Soul Refining Valley, had refined the Five-Grade Spirit Pill and Nine Flowers Bodhi with the cultivation of the Dan Period, which was really incredible......
Moreover, Duanmu Qing, the alchemy master, was able to refine this ambergris spirit incense with the cultivation of the Dan period, and when he thought of this, he sincerely admired the other party, the alchemy family is indeed worthy of its reputation.
At this moment, the eight kinds of spirit flowers and spirit grasses were placed in the stone mill, and the spirit element drove the stone mill to rotate according to a very stable rotation, and you could see colorful flower juice and grass juice flowing out of the stone trough, and then falling into the container below.
The pungent smell volatilized from time to time, and Lou Yi's body was always shrouded in a layer of light made of wood spirit qi, isolating these smells, and now he is a Yuan infant stage cultivator, and the purity of the wood spirit vein has also been improved to the ninth layer, and the real wood vein is a small heavenly vein.
Not only has the power of the spell been greatly improved, but even the defense has risen by more than one notch, he is very pleased with this, and he is also looking forward to the moment when he enters the stage of transformation into a god, only at that time, his heavenly blessing can lift the seal, and can truly reflect its power.
An hour later, eight other materials were thrown into the stone mill, and in the time that followed, more and more containers around him filled with the juice of the ground flowers and grass, and even the juice of the spirit root.
The color of the sap of the positive spirit grass spirit flower is relatively mild, exuding a faint light gold, while the color of the sap of the negative spirit grass spirit root is relatively cold, and it tends to be a faint light blue.
At this moment, Lou Yi is carefully classifying them, one hundred and forty-four combinations, seventy-two processes, to deal with these one hundred and thirty-seven kinds of elixir, just in memory, it is a great challenge.
Fortunately, when he cracked the wordless abyss before, his spiritual power had made great progress, and for him, these were handy, and the medicinal juices of various elixirs and spiritual herbs were carefully mixed together.
Taking advantage of the gap between their fusion, he began to deal with the most tedious step, the three incense knots were taken out, and Lou Yi carefully used a spatula to peel off the orange-yellow fine hairs on its surface little by little.
When the pale golden tuber inside was revealed, a strange floral fragrance suddenly filled the entire alchemy room, and he quickly disintegrated and peeled it off, and then threw it into the six containers inside, sealing it at an extremely fast speed.
After that, he took out the purple inkstone agarwood, but a piece the size of his thumb, it cost him millions of medium-grade spirit crystals, every time he thought of this, he felt a little painful, and carefully scraped off the surface layer, this step he did very carefully.
The gum slowly oozing out of it was like grease, and the strange fragrance suddenly spread, and he quickly dripped it into the nine containers with lightning speed, and then sealed the containers as before.
Everything after that was also concocted in the same way, but when dealing with the Beast Emperor Bone and the Ghost Nightmare Flower, he was extremely careful, and the method was slightly different, he used the calcination method, because directly taking its juice was tantamount to killing himself.
The Chiyan Dan furnace swallowed the earth fire, calcined them inside, and the excess impurities were burned into ashes in one breath and discharged through the exhaust port, but Lou Yi was still extra careful, these things were also very dangerous to him, and he carefully put them away, because this thing was useless to him, but it was of great use to some people, such as Hua Yihai's master.
Any person who cultivates poison skills has an almost paranoid fondness for all kinds of highly poisonous things, and it is obvious that he is one of them, otherwise he would not have allocated such a domineering and terrifying poison source as the Ten Thousand Poisonous Blood Source for Hua Yihai.
Everything went smoothly after that, but this was just the beginning, when the flame of the Dan furnace was finally extinguished, there was some powder in the Dan furnace that exuded a faint aroma, Lou Yi carefully put them away, took them out and temporarily sealed them in the container.
This time he didn't mix it directly into the juice, because the processes are different, they can't be mixed up, which is also the most complicated and troublesome place, the whole seventy-two processes, all of them are indispensable, and they can't make mistakes, which is a huge test of mental power.
However, Lou Yi was doing these things tirelessly, looking a little excited, I have to say that Duanmu Qing's eyesight is too poisonous, and Lou Yi is really suitable for the skill of alchemy.