After Ye Qin obtained the formula for the Dew Pill and the method of alchemy from Nan Tianba's hands, he immediately started to prepare for alchemy to increase his cultivation speed.

For the sake of prudence, he didn't plan to make alchemy in the Medicine Picking Hall, which would be very easy for his fellow disciples to see. If it was known that he was secretly refining medicines, it would cause a lot of trouble.

Of course, he didn't plan to go to the wilderness to find a place, which would be easy to be accidentally bumped into, and it would be equally unsafe. In the past, I went to the field to refine medicine because I had no money in my hand, so I had to go to the field to refine the Qingxin Pill. Now that he has dozens of gold leaves in his hand that he has exchanged from Elder Huang of the Treasure Gang from the Treasure Clan, he can completely pick a place in the county town and buy it as a place to live.

Ye Qin wore a hat in black, and spent more than ten gold leaves in a remote place in the alley of the southeast urban area of the county seat to buy a small courtyard from a down-and-out squire as his temporary residence and alchemy.

This small courtyard is not large, surrounded by a one-zhang high mud wall on all sides, and the innermost part of the small courtyard is a single blue brick house. Because the little squire did not usually live in the city, he neglected to take care of the small courtyard, and all the courtyards were overgrown with weeds and a little messy.

Next door to the small courtyard are the houses of some commoners, these civilians have no knowledge, and they will not disturb his alchemy.

Ye Qin is quite satisfied with this small courtyard, such a single-house courtyard is very common in the southeast of the county, people in the rivers and lakes hold their own identities, they will not come to such a small place, the more ordinary and ordinary it seems, the less people will pay attention here. After all, he often needs alchemy in the future, and it is best to hide in the small earth courtyard in the civilian area, which is not easy to be discovered.

After having this small courtyard to settle in, Ye Qin began to prepare the items needed for alchemy: main medicine, side medicine, alchemy furnace, and fire.

Refining the dewed pill requires one main medicine, as many as ten side medicines. Although he already has the main medicine Dew Grass in his hand, he still needs to spend time collecting the side medicines, although these side medicines are not spirit herbs, but they are all valuable herbs.

However, Ye Qin was not worried about these side medicines, because in the large pharmacy opened by the Zhuqi County Medicine Picking Hall, there were a wide variety of precious herbs for sale. As long as he spends a lot of silver leaves, he can buy the side medicine he needs directly in the pharmacy. Even if he doesn't go to the medicine shop in the medicine collection hall, he can still go to the trade market, where there are also a lot of scattered medicinal materials for sale, which are usually collected by people in the rivers and lakes.

If it was before, Ye Qin would probably be at a loss for this large amount of silver leaves that purchased side medicines. Now, in addition to buying a small courtyard, he still has twenty gold leaves in his hand, which is enough for him to use for a short time.

The main medicine and the side medicine are not a problem, and the most troublesome thing is to find an alchemy furnace.

The method of cultivating immortals and refining pills is completely different from the pharmaceutical methods in the rivers and lakes. The pharmaceutical methods in the rivers and lakes are all using slices, pot boiling, medicinal soups, and pills to make powders and pills.

And to refine the elixir, you must use a sealed alchemy furnace and smolder in the furnace.

This thing is usually not available to people, and it is almost impossible to find it in the shop, so it is naturally a little difficult to find.

Ye Qin searched all over the city, and almost searched all the shops in the entire Zhuqi County, before finally finding an iron alchemy furnace in a grocery store.

This iron alchemy furnace has a triangular seat as the base, and the fat iron furnace body has a belly that is only the size of a gourd, and an iron lid on top of it can seal the belly of the furnace. The shell of the furnace was covered with a large amount of rust, and it weighed thirty or forty pounds.

Ye Qin looked at the bulky and ugly appearance of this alchemy furnace, and was very skeptical that it could be used for alchemy.

The proprietor of the grocery store patted his chest and assured that it would be absolutely useful, saying that this iron alchemy furnace was a furnace in a broken Taoist temple outside the county seat, and it was specially used for alchemy. Later, the old Taoist chief died, and the Taoist boy in the Taoist temple sold it to the grocery store.

Ye Qin was skeptical.

He lifted the lid and sniffed it, and there was indeed a strong smell of medicinal stones inside, which was very bad, and he didn't know what pills had been refined in this furnace before. He couldn't find another stove, so he had to use it first.

After paying ten silver leaves, Ye Qin carried the iron alchemy furnace back to his private courtyard.

After purchasing all the side medicines and everything was ready, Ye Qin began to refine his first furnace of pills.

A serving of medicinal herbs is made up of a combination of a dew herb and a number of side medicines, which can be used to refine one pill of dew pill.

When alchemy, a separate medicinal herb can be refined in the furnace to produce a spirit pill. You can also refine several medicinal materials at the same time, and produce several elixirs at the same time. The requirements for refining this lowest-level elixir are actually not high, except for the main medicine, which is an incomparably precious spirit grass, the rest of the side medicines used, as well as fire and utensils, are all mortal.

All you need to do is grind all kinds of medicinal herbs, add pure water from the stream, pound them into a liquid medicine, pour them into the belly of the furnace, add a lid, make a fire to boil, and slowly burn the stove.

At the beginning of alchemy, the most important thing is to watch the fire.

Ye Qin sat by the stove, slowly added the dead firewood, and carefully stared at the size of the flame, staying for a long time.

The size of the flame was extremely demanding, and initially it had to be kept alive for up to half an hour using a slightly larger fire. The fire must be even, not big or small, otherwise the medicinal power of the furnace will not be able to fuse. Then use a small fire to raise Dan for an hour and carry out Ning Dan.

Only by alchemy with one's own hands can one realize the difficulty of this kind of alchemy.

The furnace burns for an hour or two, and it is necessary to add firewood and reduce ash, which will inevitably cause the flames to be of different sizes, how to maintain the same fire, which makes Ye Qin very nerve-wracking.

In order to make the firewood burn evenly enough, he simply split the large pile of firewood into small pieces of several inches and threw them into the fire little by little, so that the fire was as balanced and lasting as possible, which solved the problem of fire.

And the last step, and the most crucial, is to grasp the timing of the opening of the pill, which is an extremely difficult thing.

In the process of alchemy, the medicinal liquid in the alchemy furnace will automatically condense the pill.

If the furnace is opened early, the medicinal power of the liquid medicine has not been completely promoted, and the elixir has not yet completely condensed, it is a semi-finished elixir. At this time, the pill only has four or five points of medicinal power, or even two or three points of medicinal power, and the medicinal effect is seriously insufficient, resulting in waste.

If the furnace is opened late, the elixir is more likely to be coched in the furnace and directly become a waste pill, containing a lot of impurities and poisons. This kind of waste pill is not edible, and if you eat it, not only will it not help your cultivation, but it will cause great damage to your body, and you can usually only throw it away.

If you want to skillfully master the heat of the Ning Dan baking, you must go through a long period of alchemy operation.

Not to mention that it is difficult for a novice like Ye Qin to master the fire, even if Nan Tianba, the patriarch of the Nan family, has refined hundreds of furnaces of various pills and has "a lot of experience", he does not dare to guarantee that his Dan rate can reach more than three or four percent.

In the first few days, Ye Qin refined more than ten furnaces of pills in a row, either because the fire could not be controlled, or because he failed to grasp the time of opening the furnace and producing the pills, as a result, a large number of semi-finished products and waste pills were refined. As soon as the waste pill opened the alchemy furnace, a strong scorching smell bubbled out inside, choking Ye Qin to tears, and he could barely sit still in the room.

It wasn't until a few days later that he unexpectedly succeeded in refining a furnace of elixir by accident. When the furnace was opened, a warm and refreshing elixir fragrance filled the whole room, making people intoxicated and almost unable to extricate themselves.

Ye Qin was so ecstatic that he almost couldn't hold back and jumped up, and poured out the yellow elixir in the iron alchemy furnace that was scattered in all directions, and the whole body was round and full, and took it in his hand regardless of the heat.

The hard work of the past few days has finally not been in vain, and I finally refined a pill of Deludan, and see how effective it is.

The method of taking the low-grade elixir is very simple, swallow it directly, and then spend about half a day meditating, slowly refining the elixir in the abdomen, absorbing all its medicinal power, and transforming it into immortal vitality.

Ye Qin sat cross-legged on the grass mat in front of the alchemy furnace, and after the elixir cooled, he swallowed the whole elixir directly and began to absorb the medicinal power in it.