In the next few days, Lu Yanning made corresponding preparations and began to start alchemy. However, although it is said to be alchemy, it is not really alchemy.

In the cultivation world, various auxiliary skills such as alchemy, refining, planting, and breeding are divided into levels, not simply and rudely divided into one, two, three, and four levels, but into seven levels: slave, apprentice, worker, craftsman, teacher, family, and saint.

This kind of occupational classification is actually the classification of various occupations in ancient China, and it is very rare to hear of such a division in the modern world, but it has been used in the cultivation world. Of course, although this division is continued, the specific definition has changed.

The original "slave" level refers to people who are involuntary and supervised by others, but in the cultivation world, the definition of their professional level is not the same, for example, in terms of alchemy, the slave level is actually not really started, and it is not a real alchemist, at most it is the so-called Dan made by "refining honey for pills", in fact, to put it bluntly, it is to mix various medicinal materials with powder, glue them together with honey or other things, and rub them out of a pill.

Lu Yanning hasn't rubbed a single ball yet, not even a slave, he has only mastered the skills of a slave in theory, and has not yet practiced it. And today, it is the day when he prepares to become a slave-level Dan Master.

It may seem like a simple thing, but it's not. An ordinary person, I am afraid that even a slave-level alchemist will not be able to achieve it in his lifetime. One of the most important points is purification! Refining and purifying medicinal materials is something that non-cultivators simply can't do, and they don't have that ability at all. Of course, a good physician may have a better effect on the treatment of the disease, but that is not the same thing. Even if it is a top-level physician who can dispense a medicine comparable to that refined by a saint-level alchemist, it is not a saint-level alchemist, because it is only the effect that has been achieved, not that the alchemy level has reached the saint-level.

In the past few days, Lu Yanning has not only been learning alchemy, but also communicating with Xiao Fengniao, and now Xiao Fengniao no longer calls him mother, but changes his name to master. Lu Yanning also named Xiaofeng Bird because of such a little bad taste, uh, called Lu Xiaofeng! Today he was going to make alchemy, and he was afraid that Lu Xiaofeng would make trouble, so he asked Li Ruer to take him out to play.

In the alchemy room, the iron pine wood used for the fire had been prepared by Ou Zhiyuan, and it was also split into small pieces to facilitate burning. This iron pine wood is a kind of wood commonly used by alchemists, especially at the primary level, which is resistant to burning, and the firepower is also good, the most important thing is that it burns quite steadily, and there will be no flames that fluctuate or fluctuate, and it is easier to control.

He was going to refine the Xiao Pei Yuan Pill, which was the first pill he had taken since he had practiced. Before, Master Tongwei Zhenren gave him the Xiao Pei Yuan Pill at the beginning, and what was given to him later was really refined, and the medicinal effects of the two were not the same.

Xiao Pei Yuan Dan needs to use common qi-replenishing herbs such as ginseng and astragalus, and there are a total of thirteen flavor medicines, but I heard the second senior brother say that adding some red lotus grass can better reconcile the medicinal properties, and the second senior brother has given a lot of these medicinal materials before. And yesterday, he had already purified all the medicinal materials he needed in advance, and now he took them out of the storage ring one by one and put them on the table next to him.

On the table, there were other things, such as a cutting board from the kitchen, which was intended to be used to rub meatballs.

Lu Yanning did not rush to light the fire and start refining honey, but first ground the medicinal materials into fine powder one by one, then weighed them according to the requirements of the formula, poured them into a bowl, and waited until the medicinal materials were weighed before stirring the medicinal powder in the bowl evenly.

There are still some benefits to practice, powdering medicinal materials, of course, ordinary people now use a powdering machine, but when there was no powdering machine before, it was not an easy job to grind the medicinal materials, and it was very laborious. However, for cultivation, it is much easier.

After powdering and mixing the medicinal materials, Lu Yanning cleaned the tripod with spiritual spring water, lit the fire, put a few iron pine trees in the furnace, installed the tripod back, and waited for the water in the tripod to evaporate, then poured in the honey and slowly stirred.

After a while, the honey slowly turned golden yellow, and it looked very beautiful, a bit like the color of amber, and when I poured it out, I realized, uh, it seemed too old to stick. But Lu Yanning felt that he could give it a try, so he slowly poured the medicinal powder into it, stirring while pouring, only to find that some of the medicinal powder was not stirred and saw that there were still many medicinal powders that had not been mixed in, and Lu Yanning knew that this was a failure.

Waste of honey, waste of herbs!

Fortunately, at the beginning, Lu Yanning was mentally prepared, so when he did it for the first time, he had already reduced the amount, and the loss was not big.

There is no way, put the failed products aside, have to clean the furnace again, and start over.

Rubbing the balls, in fact, the most important thing is not to rub, but to refine the honey, this honey is too old to be refined, it is definitely not good, the powder can't be melted, it is too tender, there is too much water in it, and it is easy to spoil.

After trying a few times, Lu Yanning found the right point, mixed the medicinal powder and the refined honey evenly, and kneaded it on the cutting board, as if kneading the dough, mainly to mix the medicinal powder more evenly, and at the same time, it also transported spiritual power to mix it in to stimulate the medicinal power of the medicinal materials, rather than simply kneading it well.

Feeling almost, Lu Yanning pressed the medicine noodles into a cake shape, then picked up a knife borrowed from the kitchen and cut the medicine noodles into strips, put them aside, and then cut the medicine noodles into small sections. Fortunately, this tripod is not big, there are not many things that can be contained, and there is not much honey refined, so there is naturally not much more of this medicinal surface.

Soon, after cutting it, Lu Yanning took a small section of the medicinal surface and put it in his palms, and rubbed it with spiritual power. Of course, it is not a simple rubbing, but also with the unique mental method mentioned in the "Imperial Void Heart Sutra".

Kneading all the medicinal noodles into pills, Lu Yanning counted them, forty-three pills. Some of the medicinal noodles became too hard after cooling because he didn't have time to rub them! In fact, if he used the Mighty Vajra Palm, it could be rubbed, but it didn't make much sense, and it was so hard that it was not easy to digest.

In this world, there are people who deliberately refine the honey very old, and then the pill is so hard that it is not good, and it is claimed to be refined by the real alchemy method, but in fact, it is just a fool and a deception to the layman. "Look, the hammer can't be smashed!" The buyer tried it, and sure enough, it would take another day to melt in the water, so he naturally thought it was amazing, so he believed it.

Lu Yanning picked up a small Pei Yuan Dan that had been rubbed and threw it into his mouth and swallowed it, well, the taste is okay, it is not about the same as what the master gave before.

After a little bit of refining the heart method, I felt it, uh, this medicine is effective, less than seventy percent!

However, no matter what, it can be regarded as refined.

In fact, he himself doesn't need Xiao Pei Yuan Dan anymore, it has no effect on him, refining this, one is to refine his hands, and the other is actually mainly for Lu Xiaofeng, this Xiao Pei Yuan Dan is just right for Lu Xiaofeng.

Although the effect is a little worse, Lu Yanning is still very happy, after all, he made it himself, the feeling is very different, and there is a sense of achievement.

Starting today, the Wudang faction has another slave-level alchemist, although at present, he can only refine Xiao Pei Yuan Dan, and he has only refined, which is also something that ordinary people can't do. Anything else is good to say, if you use spiritual power to reconcile in the kneading process, how to use spiritual power to excite and so on, it is impossible for ordinary people to do it at all.