Chapter 104: Beginning
Since he had decided to practice alchemy, Yang Yan did not hesitate at the moment, took a deep breath, and the light blue 'Taiyin power' in the sea of qi surged, gathering on the two fingers of his right palm.
"Bang!"
A subtle explosion sounded, and the pain from the swollen right palm made Yang Yan take a sharp breath, and when he looked down, he saw that his fingers were already pitch black.
"The concentration of spiritual power you gathered just now was too large, so it exploded the moment the spiritual fire was generated, gather your mind, carefully sense that critical point, and do it again. β
Hearing Yang Lao's voice, Yang Yan also nodded slightly, a look of determination appeared in his eyes, and he once again used the spiritual power in his body.
"Poof!"
Although there was no explosion in this attempt, the moment the spiritual fire was generated, before he could make a surprise sound, the flame was directly extinguished after a few beats.
Yang Lao sighed lightly and said.
"You were too careful this time, and the spiritual power you gathered was not enough to support the spiritual fire, so it was extinguished before you could throw it into the furnace. β
Yang Yan also nodded slightly when he heard this, he also understood the problem, but he was not discouraged, if the alchemy technique was so easy to learn by him, it would seem a little too unrealistic, and he immediately cheered up and then condensed the spiritual fire.
"Poof!poof!poof!..."
For the next period of time, the flames were extinguished and the sound of explosions continued to sound, of course, mixed with Yang Yan's screams from time to time...
"Whew!"
A light blue flame rose from Yang Yan's palm, but it was flickering, like a candle in the wind, which would be extinguished at any time.
"Maintain the amount of spiritual power, yes, remember this feeling!"
Seeing Yang Yan's spiritual fire condensed, Yang Lao hurriedly reminded him.
Yang Yan was carefully controlling the amount of spiritual power injected into his right palm at this moment, but he had no time to pay attention to Yang Lao, his palm slowly moved to the top of the instrument tripod, and the gray spiritual fire between the palm flipping gently fell into the instrument like a blue snowflake.
Without the support of spiritual power, the pale blue flame was slowly getting smaller, and it seemed that it would be extinguished at any time.
Seeing this, Yang Yan hurriedly used the spiritual power in his body, and continuously transported it to the instrument through his right palm.
"Poof..."
The sound of the flame extinguishing came again, but Yang Lao smiled when he saw this, and said, "The spiritual power you injected into the furnace was too violent, and the spiritual fire was blown out. However, your little guy's talent is not bad, and he can condense into a spiritual fire in just a few hours. β
In Yang Lao's voice, there was some rare appreciation, but at this time, Yang Yan did not slack off at all because of his praise, and kept practicing over and over again...
Time passed slowly, and Yang Yan finally found the critical point of controlling the flame in the failures again and again, and now he has nearly half the chance of success condensing the spiritual fire, and after putting it in the furnace, it will not be extinguished again.
The next step is melting.
Smelting, to put it bluntly, is to melt and mix various materials together, and then condense them into the appearance of various magic weapons under the control of soul power, which sounds extremely simple, but when he did it himself, Yang Yan found that it was not the same thing at all.
First of all, due to Yang Yan's special physique, the condensed 'Taiyin Fire' was too domineering, when he first started smelting, Yang Yan did not grasp the temperature of the flame, and was directly burned into nothingness at the moment when the material was thrown into the furnace, and there was not even slag left, which made him extremely helpless.
You must know that the materials of these refining weapons were obtained only after Yang Yan fought desperately to kill the demon beasts, although their value was not too high, but for him, who can be regarded as poor and white now, it was obviously not to say that he threw it away, and it was destroyed by himself so easily, which made Yang Yan feel distressed for a while.
But fortunately, under the guidance of Yang Lao, Yang Yan finally slowly mastered the critical point of refining, and finally melted the two materials, the process was so difficult, compared to the previous smelting when Yang Lao controlled his body, without the slightest sense of stagnation, but it was extremely difficult!
The next step is when the three melts are mixed, and in Yang Lao's words, this moment is the key to determining the success of the refiner.
Although the fusion of the emerald scale snake scales and the fangs of the red feather hyena was not smooth, but after a few attempts, it was barely successful, because Yang Yan's control of the soul power was not in place, so the fusion was not uniform, but this was undoubtedly a milestone progress for the novice Yang Yan.
But the next most difficult thing is the 'soul refining' in smelting.
As Yang Lao said, if the magic weapon is compared to a human being, other materials can be called 'flesh and blood', and the energy contained in the inner pill is 'soul'.
At this point, Yang Yan was extremely careful, because once he made a mistake, a Neidan that he had worked so hard to obtain would be turned into ashes, even if he was lucky, but the things he refined could not be called a magic weapon, it could only be regarded as a relatively hard weapon, so that all the materials would be in vain.
But it turns out that sometimes being too careful is not a good thing, and Yang Yan is a living example.
At the beginning, because he was afraid that the fusion of Neidan's energy would not be perfect, Yang Yan held his breath and wanted to slow down and smelt carefully.
It's just that the 'Taiyin Fire' in the furnace is too strong, and when Yang Yan is slowly smelting, most of the Inner Dan energy has been scorched and evaporated, and Yang Yan has no choice but to lower the temperature in the furnace, but in this way, the liquid melted by the scales and fangs has signs of slowly solidifying, and it is even more difficult to melt the Inner Dan energy into it.
This situation made Yang Yan depressed, and he had no choice but to ask Yang Lao for advice, but the latter's words made him feel a little helpless.
"Practice a lot. β
It is only four words, but it expresses the essence of refining.
Let you be extremely smart and talented, and you want to get it for nothing without hard work, but you are too naΓ―ve, and in the end you can only ignore everyone.
How could Yang Yan not know this truth.
When he was called a 'waste' by others, he never gave up, and he never slackened off on the way to cultivation. What's more, this time is different from the past, after learning that he has the conditions and talents that surpass others, Yang Yan will not give up easily!
As soon as he thought of this, a trace of decadence in his heart was swept away, Yang Yan took a deep breath, and continued to start a boring but challenging refining journey....
Finally, the hard work paid off, and with his efforts in the past four days, he finally succeeded in refining the first magic weapon in his life.
Yang Yan looked at the somewhat 'weird' dagger in his hand, but his face was full of incomparable joy.
"Can this be regarded as a magic weapon, I'm afraid it's not even a mortal weapon..."
In Yang Yan's joy, Yang Lao's slightly percussive voice sounded.
Yang Yan also fixed his eyes on the 'dagger' he had refined!
Rather than a dagger, it is more appropriate to call it a serration, because the blade of the dagger is full of pits, and even its overall appearance is a little crooked, and its material smelting is also quite rough, and the various materials are not evenly fused, so the whole 'dagger' looks quite strange in color, and compared with the dagger that Yang Lao refined before, it is undoubtedly very different.
And the most critical step of soul refining obviously made Yang Yan quite dissatisfied, and the slightest chaotic faint red line that appeared on the dagger showed that Yang Yan did not integrate the energy of Neidan into it at all, that is, he did not endow it with spirituality, and the reason why the dagger refined by Yang Lao could reach the level of a low-grade spiritual weapon was that it had reached the point of perfection in this link.
Yang Yan's eyes were also slightly condensed at this moment, and he recovered from the joy of the success of the first refining.
The reason why the dagger he refined himself is so unsightly, the main problem is the 'condenser'.
As the last step of refining, it is also quite crucial.
A good refiner has extremely precise soul control, so whether it is the fusion of materials or the appearance of the magic weapon refined, it has an extremely high level, which is not only powerful, but also highly ornamental.
"It seems that I will spend a lot of effort and practice in the future!"
However, after a while, Yang Yan collected some of the depressed emotions in his heart, he was not in a hurry, youth was his greatest capital, he believed that under his hard practice, he would inevitably achieve something on the way to refining.
"Although the things you have refined are not too eye-catching, your refining talent is one of the best among the people I have met over the years, and it only took less than four days to successfully refine the magic weapon. β
There was also a slight vibration in Yang Lao's voice, these words were sincere, he didn't know how many thousands of years of existence, and the geniuses he encountered during that time were simply more than the stars in the sky, and to get such praise from him, Yang Yan obviously had a lot of talent in refining weapons.
"Tomorrow is the time to get started, Qingxuanmen, it's really desirable...."
Yang Yan glanced at the somewhat deep night sky and muttered.