Chapter 138: Alchemy (I)

As mentioned above, Wang Yu was blessed by misfortune, not only treated his injuries inside the sun, but also broke through to the late stage of the Chaos Pill, and unexpectedly "picked up" the super divine beast Fire Qilin "Xiao Zi" in the sun, and the arrival of "Xiao Zi" surprised everyone, and during the period of getting together with everyone, it really added a lot of fun to everyone.

It is precisely because of the addition of "Xiaozi" that everyone got together for five days, and only said goodbye after five days.

After everyone left, Wang Yu spent a quiet and comfortable time with his family as usual. During this period, Wang Yu did almost nothing except instruct his family members on their cultivation, neither cultivated, nor met other characters, nor arranged other affairs, but just accompanied his parents, wife and son to wander among the famous mountains and rivers of the motherland, and accompanied them to feel the strong family affection, the magic and greatness of nature, and the meaning of life.

Wang Yu knows that sometimes relaxing one's mood is more important than cultivating, and in the final analysis, the most essential thing in cultivation is to cultivate the mind. For his family, the most important thing at the moment is not to cultivate, but to relax the tense mood because of himself.

Happy times always pass very quickly, it seems that in the blink of an eye, half a year has passed in a flash. Wang Yu first accompanied his family back to his home in Shanghai, and then Wang Yu came to the Ouyang family again. The main purpose of coming to the Ouyang family this time was to discuss the matter of the catastrophe with everyone in the Ouyang family.

Since the day he returned last time, Wang Yu has been very concerned about the cultivation of everyone in the Ouyang family. Wang Yu found that among the Ouyang family, fifty-three people had reached the realm of consummation in the late stage of the tribulation, and thirty-two of them had reached the realm of super consummation that could hardly compress the true yuan, which meant that if these thirty-two people did not cross the tribulation again, they might be in danger of exploding themselves at any time. This means that it is imperative for these thirty-two people to cross the catastrophe.

Suppressing cultivation, compressing the true yuan, and delaying the tribulation are Wang Yu's actions against them. Since Wang Yu told the Ouyang family to compress the true yuan, the tribulation was delayed. It can increase the purity of the true yuan, thereby increasing the success rate of the tribulation and the strength after the tribulation, and everyone in the Ouyang family strictly follows Wang Yu's instructions. As a result, the people who could have survived the tribulation many years ago have been delayed until now and have refused to do so. It wasn't until not long ago, when they found that their true essence had almost been compressed to the extreme, that they realized that the time for the tribulation was not far away.

It's just that Wang Yu once instructed him to notify him when he crossed the catastrophe. But they considered that Wang Yu had just returned and needed to accompany his family for a while, so they were still trying to suppress their cultivation and did not immediately start the tribulation.

At this moment, Wang Yu's arrival. At this time, they were both excited and a little worried, after all, there had not been a single cultivator in their family who had successfully crossed the tribulation in the past thousand years, so they did not know much about the power and form of the Heavenly Tribulation, and they were also a little worried about whether they could successfully cross the tribulation. However, the thought of being able to get Wang Yu's help and the superb immortal weapon that Wang Yu gave to the family for the tribulation increased his confidence a little more.

However, to their surprise, Wang Yu's arrival did not let them cross the tribulation immediately, but after explaining to them first, he sealed their cultivation and then took them to a magical place. Let them begin the process of cultivating their state of mind.

This magical place is actually the Reincarnation Mystery Array. Wang Yu knew that due to the Five Elements Time Array, the skill cultivation speed of everyone in the Ouyang family was too fast, except for a few old ancestors, the other people's state of mind cultivation did not keep up with the skill cultivation. Therefore, for this part of the people, the success rate of the tribulation is not high now, especially the most difficult is the last heart demon tribulation, and there is only one end for this heart demon tribulation. That is to blow up and die, and the soul is scattered. Therefore, the best way to increase their success rate of crossing the tribulation now is to use the Reincarnation Mind Circle to cultivate their state of mind and enhance their state of mind cultivation.

Of course, Wang Yu didn't tell them that this place was a reincarnation fancy array arranged by himself. And just told them that this was just a place where he could cultivate his state of mind by accident.

But Wang Yu also knew in his heart that if he only relied on the Reincarnation Confusion Array to cultivate the state of mind of everyone in the Ouyang family, it would not be possible to ensure that everyone would be able to survive the Heavenly Tribulation, and if everyone in the Ouyang Family wanted to survive the Heavenly Tribulation 100%, they had to have other means.

Wang Yu knew that with the best immortal weapon he had given and the defensive divine array he was going to arrange for them to cross the tribulation, it would not be difficult to survive the early thunder tribulation, and the difficulty would be in the last heart demon tribulation, so if he wanted to ensure that they survived the heavenly tribulation 100%, in addition to improving their state of mind cultivation, he also had to prepare some magic weapons or elixirs for them to prevent the invasion of the demons. Only in this way can they be sure that they will be safe when they cross the catastrophe. So the next task is to find a way to prepare these magic weapons or pills.

Wang Yu still doesn't know anything about the magic weapon that can help the person who should be robbed to prevent the invasion of demons during the catastrophe, but he knows a lot about the elixir that can play a similar function, and there are three of the most effective ones, namely the Protector Pill, the Soul Solidifying Pill, and the Douer Dan.

The Protector Pill is an elixir specially prepared for the people of the Tribulation, and its main function is to help the people of the Tribulation protect their minds and prevent the invasion of demons.

The main function of the Soul Solid Pill is to temporarily strengthen the power of the soul, so as to have the effect of preventing the invasion of demons in a short period of time, but this Pill has two obvious shortcomings, one is that the effect time is relatively short, and it can only be taken after the person who should be robbed has passed all the thunder tribulations;

The principle of action of this pill is somewhat similar to the effect of hormones in the human body, which is to stimulate and overdraw the energy of the soul to temporarily strengthen the defense of the soul, so as to achieve the effect of preventing the invasion of demons.

The main function of Doerdan is to reduce the power of the Heavenly Tribulation, including reducing the power of the Thunder Tribulation of the Raider, and reducing the power of the Demon Tribulation of the Availer. Therefore, this pill has the effect of indirectly preventing the invasion of heart demons. However, the biggest disadvantage of taking this pill is that the corresponding strength of the person who takes this pill after successfully crossing the tribulation is much weaker than that of a normal person crossing the tribulation.

Judging from the effects of the above three pills, the most ideal pill is the Protector Pill, which has the best effect when taken without any side effects. It's just that the raw materials used to refine this pill are the most precious and difficult to find. Among them, there are two kinds of top-grade immortal-grade materials, eight kinds of ordinary fairy-level materials, and sixteen kinds of spirit-level auxiliary materials.

The rarest of these materials are two of the best immortal-grade materials. They are the thousand-year-old ice lotus and the 10,000-year-old chalcedony, and Wang Yu estimates that these two materials should be extinct on the earth today. Fortunately, Wang Yu found that there were these two materials in the materials he had obtained from the Kunlun Sect's storage space before, three thousand-year-old ice lotuses, and five catties of 10,000-year-old chalcedony. Of course, there are many other twenty-four materials. In other words, using the existing materials, Wang Yu can refine up to three furnaces of the Protector Pill.

It's just that Wang Yu has never refined the pill, nor has he studied alchemy, so if he wants to obtain the Protector Pill, there are two ways, one is to ask the contemporary head of the Kongtong Sect, Dan Shengzi, to help refine it, and the other is to learn alchemy from now on, and when he reaches a certain level, he will refine the Protector Pill by himself.

Both methods have their own advantages and disadvantages, and let the contemporary head of the Kongtong faction, Dan Shengzi, help refine it. The advantage is that Dan Shengzi is an expert in alchemy, and the pill rate must be relatively high, and he can obtain the Protector Pill in a short period of time; the disadvantage is that he can't grasp how many pills he can get, and he has to pay a lot of price, and he has not learned to refine pills, and the pills needed for the development of the sect in the future will be subject to other sects.

And learning to refine the pill by yourself is advantageous because you have learned a very practical technique, and you can fully master your own materials, and you don't need to pay a price other than the materials. In the future, you can also train your own alchemists to lay a good foundation for the development of the sect. Of course, it is not good to learn alchemy techniques by yourself, you have to waste a lot of materials and time, and you can't be sure whether you have the talent for alchemy.

But. After some consideration, Wang Yu decided that it was better to learn alchemy skills by himself. There are three reasons for this: first, I can now arrange a 70:1 Five Elements Time Array, so I don't have to worry about time at all; second, I have a very comprehensive and systematic alchemy knowledge and alchemy tools in my Qiankun Ring, which I can use to learn alchemy; third, I have a strong Divine Mind and Chaos Element, and I also have a high level of formation cultivation. All these have laid a good foundation for me to learn alchemy.

Seeing that he has so many innate advantages, Wang Yu knows that if he doesn't make good use of it, then he will not be able to forgive himself.

Wang Yu once read the introduction to alchemy in the "Dan Jing". I have a general understanding of the process and principle of alchemy. The alchemy process is roughly divided into four steps, namely: the first step is to dissolve the herbs and remove impurities, the second step is to reorganize the essence and amplify the medicinal effect, the third step is to depict the formation and shape the Dan embryo, and the fourth step is to absorb the aura and conceive the embryo into the Dan.

The first step is to dissolve the herb and remove impurities. Alchemists are required to be able to accurately control their own flame intensity and smelting time according to different materials, so as to control the temperature in the furnace and the process of removing impurities. Because the essence of different materials is different, the impurities are also different, so the temperature and time required to melt the material and remove the impurities are also different, the temperature is too low or the time is too short for the impurities can not be removed, which affects the success rate of the later Ning Dan and the quality of the pill, the temperature is too high or the smelting time is too long, while removing the impurities, the essence of the medicinal materials will also be lost, affecting the number of Dan in the later stage. Therefore, whether you can accurately control your own flame is the premise and foundation of the success of alchemy and the rate of alchemy.

And in order to properly control their own flame strength and smelting time for different materials, the alchemist must have a strong sense of knowledge. First of all, an alchemist can only distinguish the essence and impurities in the medicinal materials if he has a strong mind, so that he can judge the flame strength and smelting time required for smelting according to different essences and impurities. Secondly, only with a strong sense of dominance can one be multitasking, and only then can one pay attention to the smelting of medicinal materials while controlling the intensity of the flame, and then make adjustments according to the specific situation.

Part of the reason why there are relatively few alchemists in the cultivation realm, especially high-level alchemists, is that in order to become a high-level alchemist, one must have a strong sense of consciousness that is far higher than one's own cultivation realm.

The second step is to restructure the essence and amplify the efficacy. This step also requires the alchemist to use his strong mind to control the essence of various medicinal materials to optimize the combination, and to optimize and reorganize the various essences through guò to promote each other, so as to maximize the stimulation and amplification of the medicinal effects in the essence of each medicinal material.

The third step is to depict the formation and shape the Dan embryo. This step not only requires the alchemist to have a strong sense of knowledge, but also to have superb formation cultivation.

In order to succeed in condensing the pill, the alchemist must learn the "five basic formations of alchemy", namely the solid array, the bundle spirit array, the spirit gathering array, the space array and the spirit release array. These five formations are the guarantee of the formation of the pill and the timely release of the medicinal effect after taking it. The solid array, as the name suggests, is a formation used to fix the shape of the pill embryo; the beam spirit array is of course the guarantee of maintaining the effect of the medicine for a long time; the function of the spirit gathering array is to continuously absorb the spiritual energy from the surroundings to maintain the normal operation of other formations; the space array is to create a space within the pill to store the medicinal effect and spiritual power; and the spirit release array is a kind of formation that prompts other formations to release and release the medicinal effect when the monk takes the pill.

These five formations are not only completely arranged in a small pill, but also require them to be organically combined, not only to operate separately without interfering with each other, but also to cooperate with each other to form a unified whole within the pill, so it is impossible to do this without advanced formation cultivation and strong awareness. What's more, these five formations are not static, but are directly proportional to the level of the elixir, the higher the level of the elixir, the more complex their complexity will increase correspondingly, and of course, the difficulty of the arrangement will increase exponentially. This is also the main reason why in the cultivation realm, the immortal realm, and even the god realm, high-level cultivators are extremely rare.

The fourth step is to absorb the aura and conceive the embryo into a pill. This is the last step, which is relatively simple, but it is also a key step related to whether the Dan embryo can be successfully transformed into a pill and the quality of the pill grade. This step only requires the alchemist to concentrate, control and adjust the balance of the operation of the Gathering Spirit Array and the other three formations (i.e., the Solid Array, the Bundle Spirit Array, and the Space Array, except for the Spirit Release Array, which is a trigger-type formation that only starts to operate after being taken), until the rate of the spiritual energy absorbed by the Spirit Gathering Array is completely equal to the rate at which the other three arrays consume the spiritual energy, so that the Dan embryo can be transformed into an elixir, and the entire alchemy process can be truly completed.

In this process, if it is disturbed by the outside world, the balance of the four arrays is out of balance, which will cause the explosion of the elixir. The reason why Dan Shengzi failed to refine the Protector Pill before was that in the process of adjusting the four formations, due to the interference of Yuanyangzi's sound waves, the balance of the four formations was out of balance, which led to the failure of alchemy.

From the above four alchemy steps, it can be seen that in order to become an alchemist, especially a senior alchemist, in addition to constantly performing alchemy to master the techniques and processes of alchemy and accumulating experience, the most important and most difficult thing is to have a profound formation cultivation and strong awareness.

For Wang Yu, what is lacking is not the profound formation cultivation and strong divine thoughts, but the former. In other words, Wang Yu already has the potential to become a high-level alchemist, and what he lacks is just practice.

After figuring this out, Wang Yu was very happy. Now that he already has the potential to become a high-level alchemist, and he still has alchemy knowledge in his Qiankun Ring for him to learn systematically, what reason do he have not to learn alchemy!

Moreover, he has long realized the importance of the elixir. Strictly speaking, wars between monks are the same as wars between secular countries, and if secular states compare weapons and resources, then monks compare with magic weapons and elixirs.

A monk with high-level magic weapons and elixirs not only has an advantage in war, but is even able to defeat people who are higher than his own realm. Therefore, I not only have to learn to refine pills and high-level pills, but also learn to refine magic weapons. Wang Yu believed that with his divine thoughts and advanced formation cultivation, he would not only be able to become a high-level alchemist, but also a high-level refiner. (To be continued......)