"Okay, warm-up done! Seeing this, Lin Quan secretly praised in his heart.

Then he calmly pointed at a spiritual grass beside him again, and the spiritual grass set off by the spiritual power flew into the body of the ding very smoothly, but unfortunately after only listening to the soft sound of "snort", a terrible smell of burning suddenly appeared in the ding.

After the corners of Lin Quan's mouth twitched slightly, he directly extinguished the flames, and after the ding body cooled down a little, he directly flipped the ding body, and poured out the black slag that had been completely smelted into charcoal without looking at it.

Immediately, Lin Quan cleaned his body again, measured the temperature of the flame just now in his mind, and then started the steps again. This time Lin Quan was relatively smooth, he strictly controlled the temperature of the flames and put three spirit grasses into the Dingzhong without any accidents, and soon the medicinal power and essence of these spirit grasses were refined by the flames.

At this point, the first step of alchemy, 'quenching the essence of plants and trees', has been completed. Lin Quan pointed at a small jade bottle beside him, and added an appropriate amount of spiritual spring water to Dingzhong according to Danfang's requirements. Then he pinched the spirit trick again and re-closed the lid of the tripod, officially starting the second step of 'melting'.

This one step takes a little longer. During this period of time, Lin Quan kept pinching the spirit trick and adjusted the size and temperature of the flame from time to time, and after a whole cup of tea, Dingzhong gradually exuded a burst of tempting fragrance.

After smelling this refreshing medicinal fragrance, Lin Quan was also shocked, and his spiritual sense was also slightly stunned inadvertently. It's a pity that it was this small negligence that caused Lin Quan's ongoing third step, 'Ning Dan', to have an accident. After a muffled sound came from Dingzhong, an unpleasant scorching smell came out again.

"Alas, it failed again!" Lin Quan sighed helplessly.

However, he naturally would not be discouraged by this small failure, and after a little groaning, he returned to the state of Gujing Wubo. There was no sadness or joy, and he did it again after cleaning up.

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Alchemy was indeed very difficult, and in the following ten days, Lin Quan failed fifty or sixty times in a row. And the many failures that followed were all stuck on the fourth step, 'Collecting Dan', and it wasn't until Lin Quan was about to suspect that there was something wrong with this Qingdan prescription, and he finally succeeded once.

However, it was precisely after this successful experience that Lin Quan finally found the intuition of the alchemist mentioned in "Qingdan Fangyao". Then, Lin Quan relied on that kind of intuition and superior spiritual sense to gradually master the refining method of this remote valley pill.

Two months later, Lin Quan was already able to start refining the 'Qi Gathering Pill'. Of course, in the past month or so, nearly one-third of the large amount of manna grass accumulated in the Tai Chi space has also been consumed.

Five months after he officially started refining the 'Secluded Valley Pill', Lin Quan had already been able to skillfully refine the mid-stage Qi Condensation Pill contained in the Qingdan Fangyao.

Moreover, in the past five months or so, in addition to diligent alchemy, Lin Quan has not relaxed his cultivation for a moment. In addition, he still used his identity as a talisman maker as a cover in Ironwoodfang City, regularly going to the main square to set up a stall every month to sell some talismans, and also selling one or two intermediate talismans from time to time. The obtained spirit stones were all spent in the Qingdan Workshop, and after having an appropriate amount of solid qi pills, Lin Quan's cultivation was also steadily increasing.

The reason why Lin Quan still wanted to buy the Solid Qi Pill was also a matter of no choice. Because the spirit grass seeds that Lin Quan had purchased were only less than five months old. If you want to refine the Qi Solid Pill, its main medicine, the Five-Leaf Lotus, must have fifty years of fire, even if the Yin-Yang Pagoda can accelerate the growth rate of the spirit grass by a hundred times, it will take at least five months from seed planting to maturity. Therefore, Lin Quan would have to wait at least half a month before he could start refining the Qi Solid Pill.

Fortunately, at the same time as the acquisition of the five-leaf lotus seeds, all the seeds of other auxiliary medicines for refining the Qi Solid Pill were also received, and what made Lin Quan most happy was that all the main medicines and auxiliary medicines of the 'Qi Condensing Pill' mentioned in the "Qingdan Fangyao" Lin Quan had also been collected, you must know that the Qi Condensing Pill was suitable for the Great Perfection monks of the Qi Condensation Period, and ordinary monks could not afford it at all and were reluctant to buy it. They don't buy one until they break through a small bottleneck. In this way, when Lin Quan suddenly reached the Great Perfection of the Qi Condensation Period, the raw materials of the Qi Condensing Pill would have already matured, which could help Lin Quan save a lot of time. According to the Lingcao chapter of "Qingdan Fangyao", the main medicine for refining the Qi Condensing Pill must be at least eighty years old before it can be formed.

During the five months of waiting for the five-leaf lotus to mature, Lin Quan would also spare some free time every day to study the texts and experiences on the way of the puppet that he had traded from the Doujia Monk, and practice the control of the newly acquired humanoid puppet.

There is not much to note about the texts and experiences of the way of the puppet, but only some of the most basic contents. Lin Quan just used this to learn more, and didn't do much research.

As for controlling the puppet, it is even simpler, according to the introduction of the classics obtained from the Doujia monk, Lin Quan first endured severe pain and used the method of distraction to split his Yuan Shen into two small wisps of distraction, and then carefully attached them to the core of the two humanoid puppets. In this way, the preliminary work is completed, and in the future, it is only necessary to use the spiritual sense to control it remotely.

With the support of sufficient spirit stones, it only took Lin Quan about two months to fully master the control of this puppet, and he could accurately control the movement of every joint. Of course, this was not to say that Lin Quan's strength was stronger than that ninth-layer cultivator. The main reason is that Lin Quan made a wisp of divine consciousness appear in his spiritual consciousness when he entered the state of unity of heaven and man last time, so he is more meticulous and subtle than others in the use and control of spiritual consciousness.

And judging from Lin Quan's practice for such a long time, it is actually not too difficult to operate this kind of humanoid puppet. As long as the monk's spiritual strength can meet the basic requirements, the next step is to practice a lot, to put it bluntly, this is a kind of skilled work, as long as you are willing to spend a lot of spirit stones to provide the spiritual power required by the puppet and can endure it, and spend a lot of time every day to practice repeatedly. Even the stupidest person will always get used to it one day. The reason why other Qi Condensation Stage cultivators felt that they were weak was that they didn't have so many spirit stones for puppets to squander, and secondly, they didn't have such a powerful spiritual sense, and they didn't have so much spare time to practice.

After all, it is better to buy pills to increase mana with those spirit stones, and time is the biggest enemy of monks, so it is better to meditate and cultivate more if you have that time. Even practicing spells or fighting monsters or something is much stronger than practicing golems.

The dull days passed day by day.

Until one day, when Lin Quan, who had a whim, used a puppet to perform a complete set of "Cloud Dragon Seven Peerless Swords" and "Drifting Wind Steps", Lin Quan himself was stunned by his own invention. Thinking of the terrifying expressions of the two melee humanoid ancient puppets equivalent to the strength of the ninth layer of Qi Condensation, who were already incredibly fast and flexible, when they were equipped with good magic weapon swords and suddenly used the "Cloud Dragon Seven Peerless Swords" and "Drifting Wind Steps" to kill, Lin Quan's heart was on fire. This is definitely one of Lin Quan's strongest hole cards.

From then on, controlling two humanoid puppets to fight against the "Cloud Dragon Seven Peerless Swords" and "Drifting Wind Steps" in his free time became an indispensable entertainment activity for Lin Quan, and he also enjoyed it.