Chapter 14: The First Alchemy
"What kind of place is this," Standing by the river, how could it still be a cave, Fan Xiaodong twisted the water on his clothes, swept everything in front of him, and muttered to himself with a wrinkle between his two eyebrows on his forehead.
Looking back, the whole cave except for a stone table and a stone bench in the middle, the whole cave is empty, and there are three small holes side by side at the bottom of the cave. A wooden cabinet, a low desk not far from the bed, and a straw mat on the side of the table, when he saw the layout here, Zhong Yuan knew that this must be the bedroom of the owner of the cave, which made Fan Xiaodong a little strange, there was no dust in it, could it be that there were still people here?
"Is there anybody? shouted loudly, but no one answered for a long time, who would open a cave here, looking at the smooth traces on the stone wall, it was obviously artificially carved, and looked at the entire cave seriously, even the other two small holes did not let go of the serious inspection, there is indeed nothing else, the other two holes are empty and nothing, so that Fan Xiaodong is very strange, who would be so stupid, and dig out two more holes for no reason, but this is just a flash.
"Since there is no one, wouldn't it be exactly what I want, so that I can ensure that nothing goes wrong and I can refine the pill with peace of mind. ”
The general took out the alchemy tripod he had bought before he came out from the Qiankun Ring. The current Fan Xiaodong doesn't have mana, so he can't use the Qiankun Ding now, and the Qiankun Ring can only be controlled by consciousness, so he had to spend two hundred gold coins to buy a Medicine Refining Ding. There are alchemists on the Heavenly Dragon Continent, that is, healers, who sometimes refine some pills. However, the number of alchemists was very small in the entire Heavenly Dragon Continent. And it will only refine some healing pills.
When refining medicine, the severity of the fire is the most important, sometimes as long as the fire is slightly focused, the whole furnace of elixir will be turned into ashes, resulting in the abandonment of previous efforts, therefore, controlling the fire is what the alchemist must learn, but if you want to control the fire well, then you must need strong perception, lose this, even if you do the first two points well, it is just useless!
Moreover, the generation of each alchemist requires a large amount of medicinal materials to be piled up. Only in this way can you accumulate alchemy experience.
Under these harsh conditions, people who are qualified to become alchemists are of course rare, and if there are fewer alchemists, those magical pills are naturally very few, and things are rare and expensive, and because of this, the noble and even somewhat deformed identity of the alchemist has been created.
Moreover, the appearance of every pill will cause a large number of martial artists to rush to buy it. Because alchemists also need to refine the medicine tripod for alchemy, there are many places on the mainland that have the alchemy tripod, so it is also very easy to buy it.
Looking at this gorgeous-looking medicine pod, Fan Xiaodong nodded with satisfaction, and said that the two hundred gold coins were not spent at a loss, it was really a penny for the price. I just don't know if it's applicable or not.
Fan Xiaodong took out some dry wood from the Qiankun ring. Because Fan Xiaodong can't make a fire out of thin air without mana. So it's all about stupidity.
Fan Xiaodong slowly lit the fire, carefully controlling the fire, and waited until the temperature of the alchemy tripod was constant.
Squinting his eyes slightly, sensing the information of the myelin-washing pill in his brain, Fan Xiaodong nodded slightly.
"Ice condensation, one exquisite grass, one red blood fruit, two Heavenly Buddha flowers......"
After memorizing the number of medicinal herbs in his mind, Fan Xiaodong struggled to control the size of the flames.
His fingers flicked on the Qiankun ring, and a slightly dark red delicate grass appeared in his palm, and after a little hesitation, Fan Xiaodong threw it from the entrance at the top of the medicine tripod that was entrenched in the snake's head.
As soon as the Linglong Grass entered the medicine pod, Fan Xiaodong didn't have time to control it, the flames fluttered up, and in an instant, a Linglong Grass worth fifty gold coins turned into pitch-black ashes, "Damn" What's going on. Before I could even make a move, the fifty gold coins were gone. Helpless, I had to take a heavy breath and start my alchemy business again.
So, Fan Xiaodong once again threw in a Linglong grass, this time the Linglong grass rolled in the medicine pod for a while, but it still turned into pitch-black ashes.
wiped a handful of cold sweat, and the color of regret resurfaced. The corners of his mouth twitched.
After unremitting efforts, God finally stopped joking with Fan Xiaodong, and finally reluctantly touched the law of Linglong grass refining.
Throwing in a delicate grass again, Fan Xiaodong's face was solemn, and his eyes looked through the special device in the middle of the medicine tripod, staring at the exquisite grass suspended on the flame without squinting.
After churning in the flames for a while, the Linglong grass finally began to gradually shed its turf, and the juice contained in the grass blades was also smoked into a little white powder, and the essence of the medicinal power in the Linglong grass was finally successfully refined by Fan Xiaodong, a rookie.
"Rely on" Fortunately, the Linglong grass was refined, and if it couldn't be refined, there wouldn't be so much Linglong grass to use.
Immediately afterwards, Fan Xiaodong threw the red blood fruit into the Dan furnace without stopping.
After about three hours, he felt that the red blood fruit had completely melted, and he did not hesitate to throw in a hundred-year-old ice condensation. Ice condensation is the best material for refining pills, and it is overused to refine the "Cleansing Pill". But there's no way around it.
As soon as the ice condensed and came into contact with the flames, it immediately emitted a pungent fishy smell that filled the entire cave. Fan Xiaodong held his breath. Quietly waiting for the ice to condense and change, after about a cup of tea, the fishy smell gradually turned from strong to light, until it completely disappeared, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, the ice condensation had already fused with the red blood fruit and the delicate grass, and only a puddle of yellow liquid in the Dan furnace shone brightly. According to the method of "Danbao Decision", Fan Xiaodong put other auxiliary medicinal materials into the Dan furnace one by one, and began the long and boring alchemy process.
After several dangerous situations, Fan Xiaodong finally calmed down from his hurry, touched the cold sweat on his forehead, took a deep breath, and became engrossed again.
Inside the medicine pod, the fine black particles finally burst unbearably at the ever-increasing temperature, and a pinch of jet-black powder slowly floated into the pale red paste, dyeing the latter's color even deeper...
When the last pinch of jet-black powder floated into the paste, Fan Xiaodong breathed a long sigh of relief.
Fan Xiaodong, who couldn't stop panting, extinguished the fire.
Glancing at the clump of crimson paste that exuded a strong medicinal smell, the constantly flowing clump of crimson paste automatically split into at least hundreds of small pieces of paste liquid. Fan Xiaodong quietly waited for the residual heat to solidify the liquid. About ten minutes later.
Fan Xiaodong held the Qiankun ring in one hand and a small jade bottle in the other, hundreds of small jade bottles, which suddenly filled the narrow cave.
After placing the jade bottle, Fan Xiaodong put all the thumb-like round particles in the tripod into the jade bottle.
Couldn't wait to take a jade bottle, Fan Xiaodong looked at the round particles that were not too pure in color, but his heart couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and pride.
"Hehe, from now on, I will also be an alchemist!"
"Although he is an alchemist who can only refine the Fan Dan, it is not bad. Fan Xiaodong muttered to himself.
After half a year, Fan Xiaodong devoted all his mind to the great cause of alchemy, which may be unbearable alchemy for some people, but he found fun in it, in less than half a year, Fan Xiaodong learned the refining of a variety of pills, but when Fan Xiaodong learned the fifteenth and the sixteenth, he encountered a problem, and the time for each of the later pills to be successfully refined was more than ten times that of the first twenty, and the success rate was only less than one-tenth of the first sixteen in the early stage, which was too great, so that after half a year, the medicinal materials that seemed to be a lot in the original Qiankun Ring were consumed in a blink of an eye。
Fan Xiaodong, who had no medicinal materials, had no choice but to stop his alchemy.
Fan Xiaodong stood up, stretched lazily, and shouted, finally finishing the practice.
"Now let's try the effect of the elixir. Hehe, I immediately knew the effect of the Dao pill, and I was really a little excited. ”