Chapter Twenty-Six: Alchemy I

"There is an old man's experience in cultivating elixirs over the years, you have to take a good look, after all, although you know the medicinal properties of most elixirs, you are still not familiar with the cultivation methods, don't let me die!"

"Thank you Uncle for reminding me, disciple keep it in mind!" Lu Xu said respectfully.

"Hmm. From this day onwards you will live in this medicine garden. Although this Surabaya Medicine Garden belongs to the sect, it is actually the old man's private medicine land, so if you are really qualified for this job, the old man will never treat you badly. But the ugly words are in the front, if it doesn't work, then get out of the way as soon as possible, and then change to someone else, understand?" said the white-haired old man with grace and grace.

Lu Xu naturally nodded hurriedly yes.

After explaining a few precautions for managing this garden, the white-haired old man left the medicine garden without looking back and flew away.

After Lu Xu watched this uncle go away, he randomly chose a clean hut and cleaned it up, taking it as his future living room. Then he went to his former residence, packed up his belongings casually, said hello to Guo Huai, and officially lived in the Surabaya Medicine Garden.

At this moment, it was already late, and after Lu Xu took a pill of Bigu Dan, he also felt a little tired, so he climbed into the bed and fell asleep first.

The first step of Lu Xu's alchemy plan to take over the medicine garden was completed without twists and turns. When Lu Xu woke up energetically on the second day, his path of cultivating immortals officially began.

In the following days, Lu Xu was not in a hurry to alchemy, during the day he studied the experience notes left by the white-haired old man to familiarize himself with the elixir he didn't know, and at night he took out the alchemy experience secretly copied in the alchemy room and pondered every step and detail repeatedly. At the same time, according to the elixirs needed in several pills that he secretly wrote down when he was a disciple of the furnace from the alchemy room, a batch of seeds were selected and planted into the Linglong Secret Realm.

It is said that Dan Fang is one of the most precious things of an alchemist, but these Dan Fang were randomly placed in a brocade box by that Uncle Zhu. At first, Lu Xu also felt a little strange, until he pretended to ask Chen Ziwen casually during a chat, and he knew the reason.

It turns out that these pills are all pills and pills in the Qi refining period, and they are chicken ribs that can't be chicken ribs anymore. There are only a limited number of natural treasures in this world, and it takes hundreds or even thousands of years for each of them to grow. However, the number of immortal cultivators has never decreased, and is even increasing year by year. As a result, the various raw materials recorded in the Danfang formula gradually became scarce, and even slowly and completely extinct. By the time the people in the Immortal Cultivation Realm noticed the seriousness of this problem, the heavenly treasures in this world had already been excavated, and only a little bit of some special places remained, but these places were extremely dangerous even for immortal cultivators who had achieved cultivation, and they would not take this danger easily.

And if you cultivate the elixir by yourself, it will take thousands of years, and before the elixir grows, I am afraid that people will die first.

And the elixirs needed in these pills often take thousands of years, and such a high-level cultivator of heaven and earth treasures can't ask for it, how can it be used in refining the pills of the Qi refining period. Over time, these pills become worthless, and no one will pay attention to them?

But these pills are worth a thousand gold to Lu Xu, and the last thing he lacks is thousands of years of elixir.

In this way, Lu Xu is regularly busy with his own affairs every day. As for the medicinal materials that Lu Xu had to hand over in half a year, he didn't have to worry about it. All that is needed is some elixir of two or three hundred years, and with the Linglong Secret Realm, it will only take a few days to grow into hundreds of years, which is a complete trivial matter.

During this period, the white-haired old man came to the medicine garden to check a few times, and when he saw Lu Xu honestly staying in the medicine garden every day, he was relieved not to come over. After a while, after reading the white-haired old man's experience notes, he began to practice the practical formulas of primary spells again, and studied and comprehended them by himself in the medicine garden every day.

One day a month later, Lu Xu stood in front of the alchemy hall where he had been a disciple of the furnace for nearly two years, and after thinking about everything in his mind, he walked in calmly.

"Yo, isn't this Senior Brother Lu" As soon as he came in, he ran into Chen Ziwen, an alchemy disciple who was walking towards him.

"Hehe, Senior Brother Chen, it's been good lately. Lu Xu smiled slightly and stepped forward to greet him.

"Haha, it's not like that, by the way, is there something wrong with Senior Brother Lu coming to the alchemy room. Chen Ziwen welcomed Lu Xu in very enthusiastically.

"Oh, I'll come here to use the alchemy room and see if I can refine some pills. Lu Xu didn't say much, and directly explained his intention.

"Senior Brother Lu, do you want to refine the pill?" Chen Ziwen was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and said in surprise.

"Hehe, I have also learned a lot of things in the alchemy room in the past two years, and I have also accumulated some raw materials when I visited the medicine garden, so I want to try my luck here to see if I can refine some elixirs to improve my skills, after all, my spiritual root qualifications are really not good, and I can only rely on some external forces. The content of Lu Xu's answer is half-true and half-false.

But your hope is not very great, alchemy is not such a simple thing, it is difficult to succeed without hundreds of failures. Chen Ziwen shook his head lightly, not optimistic about the purpose of Lu Xu's trip.

"Hehe, little brother, I'm just trying, Senior Brother Chen, you go get busy, I'll go by myself." Lu Xu pretended to be a little embarrassed and said.

"Okay, then I'll go first. Chen Ziwen nodded and left the hall of the alchemy room.

After Chen Ziwen left, Lu Xu walked along a deep passage inside.

In less than a moment, a huge stone gate appeared at the end of the passage to block the way, and the colorful light on the stone door flowed non-stop.

There was another small stone house next to the stone gate, and there was a young man in his twenties with a pimple on his face. After hearing Lu Xu's intention, this young man showed a look of disdain and arrogance on his face, which made Lu Xu very unhappy in his heart!

But although Lu Xu was disgusted in his heart, he looked free on the surface, and after handing over the five spirit stones, he didn't care about the other party's rudeness, so he passed through the master door and walked to the front of an alchemy room inside. But before he could enter the door, he heard the young man behind him muttering.

"A kid at the first level of the Qi refining period also wants to learn from others to come to alchemy? ”

Hearing this, Lu Xu's figure paused slightly, but there was no difference on his face, but the murderous intent in his slightly narrowed eyes flashed.

Lu Xu took out a white jade plaque he got from the young man and pasted it on the door. The closed stone door in front of the alchemy room automatically opened, and then, Lu Xu entered the room.

This house is a square building, the area is average, only seven or eight zhang in size, but in the center of the house there is a round dun with a width of a zhang, and there is a yellow futon in the corner not far away.

The round is made of metal, and is very flat, only half a foot high. But on the outside of Yuandun, there are four fiery red miniature unicorn statues, which are lifelike. Moreover, the mouth of the unicorn is slightly raised, which is just aimed at the air above the center of Yuandun, and the spitting posture is very realistic.

After seeing the situation in the room clearly, Lu Xu knew that this was the ground fire mouth of this house, and the earth fire needed for alchemy was spewed out from the mouths of these four unicorns. And according to the need, you can also adjust the size and height of the flame by yourself, and Lu Xu has already understood the specific driving method in the past two years.

The stone house was forbidden, and once the door was closed, it was cut off from all contact with the outside world. Unless it was the joint efforts of several Jindan stage monks, no one would be able to enter from the outside, and no one would disturb them. At that time, when Lu Xu just learned about these situations, he was also extremely shocked.

In such a completely closed environment, he didn't have to have any scruples about using the elixir, which was exactly what he needed.

After Lu Xu looked at it, he immediately drove the jade plate and sealed the stone gate again. Then he walked up to Yuandun excitedly, and after circling around it several times, he carefully looked at the four spitting unicorn statues.

In the past two years that Lu Xu was a disciple of the furnace, in order to refine the pill by himself in the future, he deliberately spent a lot of time observing and studying the art of alchemy. Therefore, I am very familiar with the way of alchemy, and I know that the success of the pill mainly lies in the control of the heat during alchemy, and the time to open the furnace to take the pill.

As for the amount and quantity of raw materials put in, after countless practices of the ancestors, it has already been clear in the formula, so there is no need to consider it. Of course, it is okay to increase or decrease the number of Cheng Dan at one time. As long as the number of raw materials is increased or decreased in a fixed proportion, the same amount can be increased.

But it's easy to say, but it's hard to do!

Accurately controlling the heat of the Dan furnace and grasping the opening time of the furnace are these two major problems that have stumped many so-called alchemy masters.

Even the most prestigious alchemists of Danyang Peak had to admit that even if they took action in person, the probability of being able to become a pill would not be too high, only about half, and this was still the best pill for refining them. So let alone other ordinary alchemists!

Therefore, whether the pill can be successfully refined depends on whether the alchemist has rich experience. The more alchemists who have alchemized more times, the greater their chances of becoming a pill. Therefore, alchemist is the most money-burning profession in the immortal cultivation world, and of course it is also the most popular profession.

Lu Xu already knew these things, and knew that with himself, a rookie, it was purely a dream to be able to refine the elixir at once. So he had planned it from the beginning, preparing to refine the pills one by one!

That way, it doesn't matter how many times you fail in the past. What's more, he has a steady supply of elixir in the Linglong Secret Realm, and he has no scruples.

Lu Xu, who had made up his mind, first familiarized himself with the driving method of the unicorn statue, pinched the method with his hand, and shot out four red lights in a row on the beast's mouth, and the beast's mouth immediately absorbed the red light, and then opened slightly, spewing out red flames of chopsticks and thickness respectively. Suddenly, the air in the room was filled with a scorching heat.

Subsequently, Lu Xu tried to change the thickness of the flames, as well as the height of the beast's mouth spray and other subtle operations, until he was able to manipulate it freely, and then extinguished the ground fire. Then he went to the futon and crossed his knees to recuperate.