Chapter 40: The Pursuit of Perfection
Humming a little song, Bai Xiaochun stepped into the sect very happily, and when he returned to the courtyard, he also sighed.
"Cultivating immortals is for immortality, these people are always fighting and killing, and they have something wrong with their heads. ”
In the courtyard, Bai Xiaochun sorted out the storage bags of Chen Fei and the others, these three people were not rich, their pockets were shriveled, Bai Xiaochun didn't gain much, but he didn't care too much, he took out the herbs he bought, took them in his hands and observed them carefully, each one of them looked very seriously.
Although he has a deep foundation of plants and trees, he does not have much opportunity to contact real herbs, and at this moment, as he observes, he gradually combines with the knowledge in his mind, and even gently cuts through the plants and trees from time to time to observe the internal structure in detail.
After confirming them one by one, Bai Xiaochun thought about it, and took out the two scattered prescriptions he bought, and he just glanced at the scattered prescriptions that replenished the spiritual energy, focusing on the prescriptions that could strengthen the body of mortals.
"Longevity incense ......" Bai Xiaochun muttered, this prescription does not require many herbs, only seven kinds, and there is nothing unique in the collocation, but the principle of mutual growth and restraint is used to stimulate the power of these seven herbs, turn them into powder, and condense them into incense.
In particular, there are two kinds of things in it, which are still poisonous, although they are not highly poisonous, and they can pull the stomach for half a month at most for monks, but for mortals, it is also fatal.
"There are many plants and plants in heaven and earth, some can be taken directly, some can be alchemy to make the effect better, but there are also many because they are poisonous, so they can only refine incense. Bai Xiaochun groaned, carefully observing the herbs for refining longevity incense one by one, until he understood the details of these seven herbs.
"It's still not safe, the focus of refining medicine is the probability of becoming a medicine, although it is the simplest first-order elixir, there is still a high failure rate. ”
"I only have ten copies of each of these herbs, and they should not be wasted. "Bai Xiaochun has a cautious personality, everything is stable, and when he recites the herbs and trees, he is already in the nuances, and at this moment, before refining the medicine, he is the same, he does not refine it immediately, but studies the prescription.
Time passed day by day, seven days later, when he had completely understood this prescription, he closed his eyes and continued to analyze and deduce in his mind, until dusk, he opened his eyes, and after thinking about it, he took out the prescription to replenish the aura and studied it again.
It wasn't until half a month later that Bai Xiaochun's eyes were bloodshot, and these two prescriptions and all the herbs needed had been completely understood by him, so he groaned for a moment, got up suddenly, and walked out of the courtyard.
Refining medicine requires a Dan furnace, but the price of the Dan furnace is expensive, Bai Xiaochun can't afford to change it, fortunately, there is a medicine refining pavilion specially equipped for disciples to refine medicine, and you can refine medicine in it for only a few contribution points.
The Medicine Refining Pavilion is in the east of Xiangyun Mountain, not too far from where Bai Xiaochun is, this place is not as crowded as the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion on weekdays, it is relatively quiet, after all, there are not too many people who are qualified to refine medicine, even on Xiangyun Mountain, and many of them have obtained their own Dan furnaces, so they don't need to come here.
After paying a certain amount of contribution points in exchange for a month in this Medicine Refining Pavilion, Bai Xiaochun walked in, and this place was divided into hundreds of individual rooms, each of which was surrounded by a formation seal, so that the person refining the medicine would not be disturbed in the slightest by the outside world.
Holding the wooden card in exchange, Bai Xiaochun walked to the room of sequence thirteen, and swept his eyes, this room is not big, the surroundings are empty, there is a Dan furnace in the middle, and there seems to be a flame burning slightly under the Dan furnace.
After sitting down cross-legged, Bai Xiaochun took a deep breath, his eyes fell on the Dan furnace, he carefully observed, and then looked at the flames below, trying to have an aura to urge, and suddenly the flames became stronger, and the heat in the whole room rose, and the Dan furnace was even reddish to the naked eye.
After many attempts in a row, Bai Xiaochun was able to condense the realm of purple qi and turn into a tripod, and soon he became familiar with the strength of controlling fire, and after feeling that he could flexibly control the flames, he slapped the storage bag and took out the grass and trees.
"Longevity incense is very important to me now, I can't refine it first, I need to be familiar with refining medicine before I can refine it, so now I can take the tonic pill to practice, this pill is a first-order, suitable for condensing qi below the fifth layer. Bai Xiaochun made a decision, his expression was extremely serious, and after recalling the prescription of the elixir in his mind, he began to refine the medicine.
He took out a medicinal herb needed to replenish the elixir, took it in front of him and waved it with his right hand, and immediately all the leaves of this herb fell, Bai Xiaochun's eyes were solemn, and the spiritual energy in his body was dispersed, forming a strong and fierce rub, and suddenly those leaves were squeezed together, squeezing out nine drops of juice, and falling into the Dan furnace.
At the moment when the mist appeared, both hands quickly peeled off the stems and veins of the herbs in their hands, threw them into the Dan furnace one by one, and controlled the flames from time to time, making the fog in the Dan furnace more.
But it didn't spread out, but condensed together, and when it kept tumbling, Bai Xiaochun took out the second herb and catalyzed it in his hand, so that the herb immediately bloomed, took off the petals and threw it into the Dan furnace.
Time passed, Bai Xiaochun devoted himself wholeheartedly, constantly taking out the herbs, until after putting down the eight kinds, his eyes showed a bright light, staring at the Dan furnace, manipulating the earth fire to slowly change the temperature, but the sweat on his forehead dripped down his cheeks under the high concentration of this spirit.
An hour later, a muffled roar came from inside the Dan furnace, and at the same time, the charred black mist spread, although it was quickly sucked away by the formation in this room, Bai Xiaochun was still choked and coughed, looking at the black residue in the Dan furnace with an ugly face, frowning.
"Failed......" Bai Xiaochun sat down with his chin on his lean, his eyes showed thought, carefully recalling all the details of alchemy, he did not continue alchemy, his character was cautious, so whether he was reciting herbs and trees or refining medicine, he pursued the greatest insurance.
This thought was three days, and after three days, he recalled the process of refining the medicine for the first time at least a thousand times in the back of his head, and found out no less than fifty problems, so he took a deep breath, took a short rest, and turned on the furnace again.
The time for real alchemy was actually not long, and two hours later, the Dan furnace roared again, and there was still mist dispersing, and the residue in the furnace appeared again.
Bai Xiaochun's persistence in his personality came up, he fished out those residues and studied them carefully, combined with the process of refining medicine in his mind, studied the prescription again, studied the plants and trees, and this time it took ten days of research before he opened the third furnace with red eyes.
It's just that this third furnace was very stable in the beginning process, but at the moment when it was about to become a Dan, it shattered again, and when the roar echoed in a muffled manner, Bai Xiaochun jumped up, stared at the residue of the Dan furnace, was silent for a long, long time, sat on the side, closed his eyes, and pondered again.
This time, he thought about it for almost half a month, and it was not until the time of this prescription was about to end that he opened his eyes, gritted his teeth, and opened the fourth furnace.
In the end, when the time in the alchemy room expired, this furnace still failed.
If this scene is seen by other medicine disciples, they will definitely feel incredible, in a month's time, with other people, at least dozens of furnaces can be refined, and no matter what, they can also refine the results.
Even if it is only refined into one grain, it is a harvest.
Because in the eyes of almost everyone, refining medicine is indeed very, very difficult, otherwise it would be impossible to be a real pharmacist, and there are only two in the entire Donglin Continent.
Even medicine disciples are not particularly numerous, and most of them often have no hope of becoming pharmacists in their lifetimes.
But in fact, the main reason for all this is...... There are not so many resources to allow a person to grow as a medicine apprentice, if the resources are enough, with continuous attempts, not to mention that he will definitely become a pharmacist, but at least the chances will be much greater.
Therefore, in the eyes of everyone, there is only one way to improve the success rate of alchemy, and that is to keep practicing and increase proficiency!
And what everyone is looking for is this kind of proficiency.
Only when you reach enough proficiency can you increase your grasp of success, so for the failure of refining medicine, medicine disciples feel that it is a normal thing, after summing up the lesson, refining again, will slowly improve, especially this ordinary elixir, the material is not expensive, it is the time to practice diligently.
But Bai Xiaochun here, although the path is the same as everyone else, but the speed is too much slower, every time he fails, he uses countless times the time of alchemy to constantly analyze and deduce.
This is related to his character, he has a cautious personality, but also a careful heart, this kind of carefulness is only partially reflected when he learns plants and trees, but after coming into contact with refining medicine, it is infinitely amplified, occupying the most important state of mind.
Because he is careful, he perceives more problems than others after failure, not even a little bit more, because he thinks more and sees carefully, even if others think that it is not a problem, in his view, he feels that something is wrong.
And because of his prudence, even a slight problem must be overcome before he can continue to alchemy, so his thinking time will be countless times longer than that of alchemy.
At the end of a month, Bai Xiaochun's hair was scattered, his face was black and gray, and he walked out of the Alchemy Pavilion tiredly, and after returning to the courtyard, he was silent for a long time, constantly recalling in his mind.
"There are still nine places where there are problems, and only when these nine places are solved can we continue refining medicine. Bai Xiaochun gritted his teeth, sat in the courtyard and closed his eyes and pondered, constantly analyzing in his mind, and sometimes taking out medicinal herbs to observe.
It wasn't until half a month later that he rushed out and spent his contribution points again to enter the Alchemy Pavilion.
Fifth ...... Fail!
He spent seven days analyzing the causes, finding out the problems, solving the problems, and refining them again.
Sixth ...... Fail!
Bai Xiaochun's eyes were red, and it took twenty days to finally feel that there was no problem anymore and opened the seventh furnace.
An hour passed, the roar did not appear, but the Danxiang came to his face again, Bai Xiaochun was excited, looking at the two cyan pills in the Dan furnace, he took a deep breath, this is the seventh time, he succeeded!
Then it was refined again, and the eighth ...... Success, three Dan pieces!
9th ...... Success, out of the Dan five!
10th ...... It's still successful, but there is only one Dan that appears for the tenth time, and the color is not green, but black, and there is no aroma coming out, and even smells weird......
When Bai Xiaochun was surprised, there was a sudden agitation in the entire Alchemy Pavilion.