Chapter 57: The Difficulty of Alchemy
There are no years of cultivation, and in the blink of an eye, three months have passed. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
During this period, the scarred young man Guo Fushan and the charming young woman Lin Xian'er came together once, of course, the two of them were for the iron essence, Xiang Qi did not hesitate to take out the piece of iron essence that he had picked up. After getting such a large piece of iron essence, the charming young woman was overjoyed, paid Xiang Qi more than a thousand spirit stones, and after saying a few words urging him to cultivate, she turned around and left with the scar youth.
In the past three months, Xiang Qi has not been idle for a moment, he has been exhaling and refining qi, and cultivating selflessly. With the assistance of pills such as the Zhuning Pill, just three days ago, Xiang Qi had raised his cultivation to the peak of the seventh layer of Qi refining.
During this period, Xiang Qi naturally practiced the technique of Changmu, and just a month ago, he finally cultivated this secret technique to the realm of Dacheng, and now, using the technique of Changmu, Xiang Qi can form a protective shield as thick as a city wall around his body, and the defensive power has increased by not a little bit.
Although Xiang Qi had also spent a certain amount of energy studying the Divine Mind Sacrifice Alchemy Technique, this secret technique was so unfathomable and obscure that he couldn't even get a half-understanding of it, let alone comprehend the method of removing the magic weapon imprint. This made Xiang Qi very distressed, and it also made him feel a faint feeling of regret in his heart, it seems that the ancient proverb "listen to people's advice to eat enough" is still very reasonable.
But then again, this secret technique only cost fifty spirit stones, which is only a drop in the bucket for his "huge net worth", who has the money and is not willful?
If you have money, spend it to your heart's content!
Xiang Qi thought to himself like this more than once in his heart. The reason why he is so ignorant of the earth and the earth is so loud is not only because he made a windfall in this trip to the Abrupt Mountain, but also for a more important reason, that is, he is very optimistic about the next alchemy career, relying on the extremely rare characteristics of the elixir in the world of cultivating immortals, as long as his alchemy skills are slightly successful, there must be countless amounts of money, and it will roll in!
What Xiang Qi, who couldn't support it, didn't know was that this was just his wishful thinking. The difficulty of alchemy, the difficulty of reaching the blue sky, is not something he can experience just by imagining!
Today was already the tenth day that he had begun to practice refining the Qi Condensing Pill, and the mess of waste pill residues and the broken half-broken Ding Furnace all confirmed the difficulty of alchemy from the side, and it was not without purpose.
And Xiang Qi, who was on the side, had a dark face, staring at the raging abyss rock fire, his face was full of complexity. There is anxiety, regret, unwillingness, and a hint of loss.
This was already the thirteenth furnace of elixir he had refined, and the previous twelve furnaces had all ended in failure without exception. What's more, he couldn't remember whether it was the seventh furnace or the eighth furnace, because he was anxious, the heat was not well controlled, and the Ding furnace burst out!
Fortunately, the power of the Ding Furnace explosion was not too great, and his reaction was not too slow, and he used the long wood technique that had been completed, which was able to withstand the great impact of the Ding Furnace explosion and avoid an oolong incident.
With the resistance of the Changmu Technique, he would not suffer much internal injury, but he was still hit by a wave of black qi, and he became the ragged and dark face he is now.
Xiang Qi, who put all his mind on alchemy, naturally did not leave any accidents in the image, and he was unaware of this, so he changed to a ding furnace and continued his alchemy plan.
If there is a mirror, he will be frightened when he sees himself with no clothes and blurred facial features like a savage!
According to the Dan Dao evaluation, this alchemy is roughly divided into seven steps, which are preheating, furnace, refinement, refining, fusion, condensation, and harvesting.
Taking the refining of gas condensing pills as an example, the Ding furnace is heated to a certain temperature with the abyss rock fire to preheat. Immediately followed by the furnace, and the furnace is three taels of twenty-year-old white spirit fruits, and one tael of thirty-year-old safflower grass. After three hours of high-temperature calcination, the essence melts, the impurities sink, and the impurities are removed for the purpose of extracting the essence. After adding five taels of yellow spirit sand, it is calcined at a high temperature for an hour to remove the miscellaneous essence and refine it again. Add two taels of immortal lotus water, and the essence of white spirit fruit, safflower grass, and yellow spirit sand is integrated, which is for integration. Then continue to heat and calcinate for two hours to condense the Dan body. Finally, remove the abyss rock fire, pour eight taels of immortal lotus water with a thin stream of hair from the top of the ding, raise the Ding simmering pill, and after an hour, open the furnace to collect the dan.
If it goes well, it will take about ten hours to refine a furnace of condensing pills. Although Xiang Qi also strictly followed the methods and steps described in the Dan Dao evaluation to refine the Dan, the control of the heat, the control of the temperature, and the removal of impurities and essences and other important contents can often only be understood but not spoken, and the slightest mistake is thousands of miles, which makes Xiang Qi unable to find the way and is very distressed.
However, there is no shortcut to the alchemy journey, except for hundreds of exploration and experiments, so even if Xiang Qi is desperate to succeed in alchemy, he can only follow the steps step by step, step by step.
After more than a dozen failures, he thought that he had completely mastered the steps of alchemy, such as preheating, furnace entry, refining and refining, but he was still at a half-understood level for the two most critical steps of fusion and condensation. It's not that these two steps are complicated and difficult to understand, but that the temperature during the fusion and condensation is too difficult to control, if the temperature is too low, the material is difficult to fuse and condense the Dan body; if the temperature is too high, the Dan melt will spontaneously combust, and the furnace will burst.
"Bang!" There was a loud bang, and the furnace burst into several pieces, mixed with alchemy waste, and flew in all directions. And Xiang Qi, who had been prepared for a long time, performed the Changmu technique, although he completely resisted the strong impact of the fragments and was not injured, but his face did not have the slightest bit of happiness, but was full of resentment and pain.
I saw him kick a piece of furnace shard, and squeeze out these words from his clenched teeth: "Fuck, failed again!"
However, Xiang Qi was not discouraged, and after a short silence, he took out the only remaining furnace ding, placed it on top of the abyss rock fire, and warmed it up.
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After about ten days like this, the cave where Xiang Qi lived was brightly lit, and of course, this was reflected in the burning abyss rock fire.
And Xiang Qi, who was sitting on the side, still looked ragged and darkened before, but his face was full of despair, which was very different from before.
However, who is it, more than 20 days of sleepless day and night alchemy, never tasted success, presumably the look on his face is no better than Xiang Qi to see where to go.
In front of him was the last furnace, and before, he had used up all the alchemy materials.
Every time he thought of the refining process of the dozen or so furnaces of pills before, he raised his eyebrows and was angry. His alchemy level had not improved in the slightest, wasting precious cultivation time and valuable raw materials in vain.
Sure enough, there was no accident, and the refining of this last furnace of elixir also ended in failure. Xiang Qi, who was full of loneliness, regretted practicing this alchemy a little.