Chapter 38: Alchemy
Robbing the grass, crossing the snake molt, and Shen Tu Fu money, these three things Qian Chuan handed over to Zhao Gongming to choose, and in the end, Qian Chuan only left the snake molt, and he planned to refine it into a Qiling Pill in his remaining days. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Now that his disciples have embarked on the path of cultivation, it is inevitable that they will deal with fellow cultivators in the future. The cultivation world is different from the mortal world, except for a very few barter, most monks trade with spirit stones, and the talisman money is only used as a talisman paper for casting spells in the cultivation world.
After all, it is much more efficient for a cultivator to absorb the spiritual power contained in the spirit stone than to absorb the spiritual energy scattered between heaven and earth.
The spiritual power contained in the spirit stone is divided into five elements, and the value of the spirit stone with different attributes is naturally different in the eyes of monks who practice different exercises.
For example, a monk who practices fire-based exercises is more willing to accept the fire-walking spirit stone as a trading object when trading, and the same water-based spirit stone will naturally not become the monk's first choice object.
In addition, the spirit stones circulating in the cultivation world are all mined from the mineral veins of the world, and in the process of mining, it is necessary to try to avoid the spirit stones from breaking, resulting in the loss of the spiritual power contained in them.
Therefore, in terms of the shape, size, and amount of spiritual power contained in the spirit stones that were originally mined, it was almost impossible for two identical or similar spirit stones.
If these spirit stones are only used for the cultivator's own cultivation, but if they are used for trading, the possibility of failure of the transaction will be greatly increased due to the difference in the judgment of the quality of the spirit stones between the two parties in the transaction, and it may even lead to a direct conflict between the two parties in the transaction.
If the mined spirit stone is cut and processed in the later stage, the spiritual power contained in it will be lost, and even the original spirit stone may become a waste stone without the slightest spiritual power, which makes the standardization of the spirit stone a utopian dream in the cultivation world.
Despite these inherent drawbacks, until the spiritual world finds another currency for transactions that is recognized by monks, practitioners can only continue to use spirit stones as a general equivalent for transactions between monks.
In addition to spirit stones, there is another thing in the cultivation world that can be traded as an equivalent on some occasions, that is, some widely used elixirs, which can be accepted by some monks, but it is still not as versatile as spirit stones.
This is because there is always a certain limit to the effect of the elixir, and the monks who take the elixir will more or less leave residual toxins in their bodies, and even adversely affect the cultivator's subsequent cultivation.
The Enlightenment Pill that Qian Chuan intends to refine is specifically aimed at pet beasts that have not yet opened their spiritual intelligence, in addition to being able to open some spiritual wisdom of pet beasts, the main reason is that this elixir can increase the probability of ordinary pet beasts advancing spiritual beasts.
In the cultivation world, it is also very difficult for ordinary monks to have a spirit beast as a pet beast.
Because the psychic beasts in the world have a certain amount of spiritual wisdom after surviving the psychic tribulation, and they also have unique spell attack methods, and their lethality is not weaker than that of the foundation building monks.
There are also a very small number of spirit beasts that have evolved and mutated after the tribulation, and they can even threaten the lives of the foundation building monks.
This makes monks below the realm of Jiedan often have to risk their lives to subdue spirit beasts. Therefore, most monks first subdue an ordinary pet beast that has not yet opened their spiritual intelligence, and then use various means to advance it to a spiritual beast.
And it is recognized by the cultivation world, among the many advanced methods, the most effective is the Qiling Pill.
Although an ordinary pet beast can only take one Enlightenment Pill at most before it advances, this pill is enough to increase the success rate of fifty percent of the advancement.
Since the main material for refining the Spirit Pill, it can only appear after the spirit beast successfully survives the psychic tribulation, such as the Tribulation Snake in Qian Chuan's hand.
Spirit beasts that can successfully survive the psychic tribulation are inherently rare, and they often choose a hidden place that is inaccessible to survive.
This makes the main material of the Enlightenment Pill an extremely scarce thing, and at the same time, it also makes the Enlightenment Pill become a rare pill with no price, once this kind of pill appears on the market in the cultivation world, it is often snapped up by the monks who have pet beasts.
Qian Chuan's refining of this elixir was to facilitate Zhao Gongming, who had just entered the cultivation world, in exchange for the initial cultivation resources, and not to embark on the road of stealing cultivation by force, killing people and stealing goods because of the lack of cultivation resources.
When Qian Chuan was in Middle-earth, he not only heard of these acts of stealing and repairing, but even saw the scene of stealing and repairing people and stealing goods.
Almost all of them are from casual cultivation, and they use all kinds of means to obtain cultivation resources. These people are the public enemies of the cultivation world, and they often hide their true identities when they make a move.
The major cultivation sects have adopted a murderous attitude towards stealing cultivation, and once discovered, they will never let go, which is a tacit understanding that all cultivation sects have reached a consensus.
There are not many materials needed to refine the Qiling Pill, in addition to the snake molt as the main material, there are also two other auxiliary pill materials.
Fortunately, in the more than ten years that Qian Chuan has been in Caoxu Town, the pharmacy has finally not opened in vain, and some Dan materials have been accumulated more or less.
One of the two auxiliary pill materials needed to refine the Enlightenment Pill, the Fifty-Year-Old Star Soul Flower, can be found in Qian Chuan's private collection.
Another auxiliary material is seventy-year-old ambergris, which requires another way.
In Qian Chuan's memory, the Qian family pharmacy had purchased a lot of ambergris, but among those ambergris, the oldest was less than fifty years old, which was too far from the seventy years of ambergris required for alchemy.
However, since the town's herb pickers were able to harvest ambergris in the mountains, there was a possibility that seventy years of ambergris grass existed in the mountains.
Qian Chuan considered that if the method of high-price acquisition was adopted, there would be no guarantee in terms of time limit, and no one knew when it would be acquired.
There is not much time left for him, and completing the refining of the Enlightenment Pill before he dies is already Qian Chuan's last wish.
In addition to the passive waiting method of buying at a high price, the only way left is to actively go into the mountains to find this way.
With Qian Chuan's current physical condition, it is obvious that he cannot enter the mountain in person, so Zhao Gongming should make due contributions to his future, after all, the Qiling Pill was originally prepared for him.
What Qian Chuan can be sure of is that once he dies, the Zhao family, who has no scruples, will definitely not let go of the Qian family pharmacy, and the best way out for his apprentice is to leave Caoxu Town.
For Zhao Gongming, this may be a good thing, because since he has embarked on the path of cultivation, if he wants to continue, it is impossible to stay in this remote town without any cultivation resources.