As mentioned above, Wang Yutong's study of the "Dan Sutra" found that because he had divine thoughts, had a good formation cultivation and the element of chaos, and he also had a complete set of alchemy knowledge and alchemy tools in his Qiankun ring. Therefore, he already had an excellent foundation for learning alchemy, so he made up his mind to learn alchemy by himself, and he also had to refine the incomparably precious elixir in the cultivation realm by himself: the Protector Pill.

The Protector Pill is a relatively high-level pill, so the refining process is much more complicated than the vast majority of pills in the cultivation realm, and of course, the requirements for alchemists are also much higher. Moreover, even an alchemist of the Grandmaster level like Dan Shengzi could not achieve a 100% success rate.

Generally speaking, the success rate of a high-level alchemist refining a Protector Pill-level pill is only about 40% at most, while a grandmaster-level alchemist can only reach about 60%. Therefore, high-grade pills are often more expensive in the cultivation realm, and the prices of the best elixirs used in the catastrophe such as the Protector Pill are even more outrageous, and their prices can only be described by the word "sky-high", and they are often priceless.

It is precisely because of this that Wang Yu is really determined to train himself into an alchemist. Only in this way can you ensure that your future sect will not be controlled by others. In order to maximize the use of existing materials and resources.

Learning alchemy, like learning other knowledge, must start with the most basic knowledge and skills. Only by learning the basic knowledge and skills well can we lay a good foundation for learning to refine high-grade pills in the future. The basic knowledge or skills that an alchemist must learn are roughly five aspects:

First, it is necessary to learn a kind of exercise that specifically improves one's consciousness, and only by learning such exercises and cultivating unremittingly can one's consciousness be continuously strengthened and meet the needs of alchemy. In addition, it is also necessary to learn some methods of understanding and using them, and continue to practice them, so as to create conditions for learning fire control skills, learning to reorganize the essence of medicinal materials, learning to carve formations in the pill, and learning to adjust the balance of the five formations of the foundation of the pill.

Therefore, this knowledge and skill is the premise and foundation for whether a monk can become an alchemist.

The second is. Learn to distinguish the type, year and efficacy of medicinal materials according to the color, form, taste, breath and other characteristics of medicinal materials, so as to lay a good foundation for the reasonable configuration of Danfang.

A qualified alchemist knows that the Dan prescription should not be static, but should be adjusted accordingly according to the year and efficacy of the medicinal materials, and the ratio of each ingredient in the Dan prescription, otherwise the success rate of alchemy is low, not to mention, even if the pill is successfully refined, its quality cannot be very high, and there is even the possibility of refining the poison pill.

Therefore, this basic knowledge and skill is the key and mark related to whether a monk can become a qualified alchemist.

Third, to learn the knowledge of formations, we must learn to arrange the five basic arrays of alchemy in the elixir, namely the solid array, the space array, the beam spirit array, the spirit gathering array and the spirit release array.

These five formations are very special. They are very different from other formations.

First of all, the materials used to arrange the formation are different. The materials used in the arrangement of other formations are often magic weapons and energy stones (spirit stones, fairy stones, fairy crystals, divine stones, divine crystals, etc.), while the materials used in the arrangement of these five formations are the combination of the spiritual power of the medicinal materials themselves, the alchemist's consciousness and the energy in the alchemist's body;

Secondly, the factors that distinguish the level and power of the formation are different. The level and power of other formations are mainly determined by two factors, one is the structure of the formation itself, and the other is the materials and energy used in arranging the formation. The more complex the formation, the more advanced the materials and energy used in arranging the formation, and the higher the level and power of the formation. Vice versa.

However, the factors that differ in the level and power of these five formations are the level of consciousness used when arranging the formations and the superimposed repetition of each formation.

The higher the level of consciousness used when arranging the formation, the higher the level of the formation, and the greater the power of the formation. For example, using immortal consciousness to set up an array is higher than spiritual sense. The use of divine consciousness is higher than the use of immortal consciousness, and the use of divine thoughts is higher than the use of divine consciousness.

Similarly, the level of these five formations also depends on the number of stacks of this set of formations, and the more advanced the refining of the pill, the more the alchemist is required to arrange this set of formations in the pill. Of course, the more difficult it is. For example, a low-grade elixir only needs to use the spiritual sense of a cultivator to arrange a basic five arrays in the elixir, while a medium-grade elixir requires an alchemist to use his spiritual sense to arrange a double basic five arrays in the elixir, a high-grade elixir requires spiritual sense and a triple basic five arrays, and a top-grade elixir requires spiritual sense and a quadruple basic five arrays. The low-grade elixir requires immortal consciousness plus five basic five arrays; Immortal consciousness is required to add six basic five formations, and so on, as the level of the elixir increases, not only the level of consciousness required continues to increase. Moreover, the superposition of the basic five arrays arranged in the pill will also continue to increase.

The reason why high-grade pills are difficult to refine is mainly because it is difficult for ordinary alchemists to make multiple stacks on this set of formations. The arrangement of the five formations of one foundation is relatively simple, even monks who do not have many formation foundations will also arrange them, but with the increase of the number of repetitions of this set of formations, the difficulty will increase by five times for each additional layer, therefore, if you want to refine the elixir above the top grade elixir, the alchemist is required to have a profound formation cultivation.

Finally, the size of the formation is different. The size of the formations in the cultivation realm is generally between 500 square meters and 5 square kilometers, and if the formations are too large or too small, they will increase the difficulty of the arrangement. In particular, the difficulty of arranging all five formations in a small pill like an alchemist can be seen.

Fourth, learn various fire control skills and continuously enhance fire control capabilities. In the process of alchemy, the strength of the flame and the smelting time used in the smelting of different medicinal materials are different, and the accuracy of this step is the key to determining whether the pill can be successfully refined, and it is also an important link to determine the quality of the pill. Therefore, superb fire control skills and fire control ability are one of the abilities that an alchemist must have. It is also one of the conditions that determine whether he can become a high-level alchemist.

Fifth, learn the techniques and skills of harvesting Dan. After the pill is refined, the collection of the pill is also an important link. The correctness of this link will directly affect the quality and quantity of the pill. The correct method of collecting the pill can ensure that 100% of the alchemy pill is collected, and can ensure that the medicinal effect in the pill will not be lost. On the contrary, if the technique is not correct, it is not only possible to lead to the loss of the efficacy of the pill, but also to cause the pill to collapse directly, thus reducing the number of pills obtained. Therefore. Learning the correct techniques and techniques for collecting pills is also one of the most basic skills that an alchemist must master.

Among the five basic skills of an alchemist, Wang Yu already possessed the two most important and difficult ones, namely strong awareness and superb formation cultivation. The other three are much simpler. Therefore, for Wang Yu now, learning alchemy is not a difficult thing. The other three skills will naturally make perfect as long as you take the time to practice them consistently.

After understanding the basic knowledge and skills required for alchemy, Wang Yu really began the process of learning alchemy.

However, before starting alchemy, Wang Yu first arranged a five-element time array with a time ratio of 70:1 at his home in Shanghai. After entering the formation, he transferred a high-grade immortal-level alchemy furnace from the Qiankun Ring, and spent ten years (time in the formation) to completely refine it.

After that, he retrieved all the jade slips that recorded alchemy knowledge or alchemy understanding from the Qiankun ring, and began to read the relevant contents recorded in each jade slip one by one. This process took Wang Yu a whole year.

After reading all the content, Wang Yu spent more than two years memorizing and sorting out the knowledge he had gained. This knowledge was reclassified and systematized, and then this alchemy knowledge was re-engraved in the jade slip according to the new classification.

After doing the above qiē, Wang Yu really began the process of alchemy.

Like everyone else, the pills that Wang Yu refined at the beginning were the simplest and lowest-grade pills, such as Compound Body Pill, Pei Yuan Dan, Hui Yuan Dan, etc.

The requirements for refining low-grade pills are the simplest, not only the materials used are relatively low-grade, the smelting is relatively easy, the requirements for flame control are also relatively low, and the requirements for the five basic formations arranged in the pill are only one heavy. So after a few days of practice. Wang Yu quickly mastered the technique of refining low-grade pills.

In the course of the trial in the following days, Wang Yu was pleasantly surprised to find that except for the first few failures due to small differences in the strength of the flame or the reorganization of the essence of the medicinal herbs, the subsequent refining process was a complete success. The elixirs that were refined were all top-grade elixirs. And it is the best of the high-grade elixir.

This made Wang Yu feel very surprised, but after careful analysis, Wang Yu also knew the reason. That is, although he only arranged a basic formation in the elixir, he used the consciousness when arranging the formation. However, it is the Divine Venerable and his own unique divine thoughts, and the energy used in alchemy is the Element of Chaos, because the level of the Divine Thoughts and the Element of Chaos is too high. Therefore, even if he arranged a basic five array in the elixir, it also made the originally low-grade elixir become a top-grade elixir. Realizing that his divine thoughts and the element of chaos had such an advantage in alchemy, Wang Yu was even more overjoyed.

Seeing that the success rate of refining low-grade pills was close to one hundred percent, Wang Yu began the process of refining middle-grade pills again. There are only two differences between refining an intermediate pill and refining a low-grade pill, one is that the materials used are more advanced, and it is more difficult to refine and reorganize the essence of the pill; For other alchemists, the difficulty of refining the intermediate pill was not in the materials used, but in the arrangement of the double foundation five formations. After all, it is five times more difficult to arrange the five formations of the double foundation than it is to arrange the five formations of the first foundation.

But for Wang Yu, who was able to arrange the primary god array level, it was simply a breeze to arrange the double foundation five formations. Therefore, in the process of trying the intermediate elixir, except for one failure to guide the alchemy due to a mistake, more than 100 furnaces were successfully refined one after another. Moreover, the amount of pills produced in each furnace far exceeded the records of the predecessors, and these intermediate pills have reached the level of the best elixir, and they are also the best of the best elixirs.

Seeing that he had successfully refined a large number of intermediate-grade pills, and the success rate was close to one hundred percent. Next, Wang Yu naturally began to learn to refine high-grade and super pills again.

Whether or not they can refine high-grade pills is an important watershed in the group of alchemists, and for most alchemists, limited to their formation cultivation, they can only refine medium-grade pills at most. Therefore, in the current entire earth cultivation realm, there are only ten people who can refine high-grade pills and reach the realm of high-level alchemists. Among them, seven are people from the Kongtong faction of the alchemy sect, two are people from the Kunlun faction (who are now cultivating in the Kunlun Secret Realm and have become Wang Yu's disciples), and one is the Feihua Fairy, the sister of the Ethereal Fairy of Penglai Immortal Island.

For high-grade pills that were difficult for others to refine, for Wang Yu, it was not much more difficult than refining mid-grade pills. Therefore, Wang Yu soon mastered the refining skills of high-grade pills, and the success rate was close to one hundred percent. And it was almost as expected, the high-grade elixir he refined was also a top-grade low-grade elixir.

However, the difficulty of refining top-grade pills was beyond Wang Yu's expectations, and refining three furnaces in a row ended in failure. In desperation, Wang Yu could only stop the process of alchemy and carefully analyze the reasons for the failure.

After Wang Yu's review and analysis, Wang Yu found that there were two main reasons for his failure, one was that in the process of smelting medicinal materials, his grasp of the strength of the flame was not accurate enough, the separation of the essence and impurities in the medicinal materials was not thorough enough, and a small amount of impurities were mixed in the Dan embryo, which affected the reorganization process of the essence of the medicinal materials later. The second is that the ratio of the Danfang Chinese medicinal materials is not allocated to the most reasonable process, so that the reconstituted Dan embryo of the medicinal materials cannot withstand the fourfold basic formation and bursts, and the alchemy fails.

For the above two shortcomings, Wang Yu quickly found out the reason, that is, he still lacks alchemy experience, in the final analysis, it took less than twenty years for him to start refining super pills from learning alchemy to now, and the alchemy pills are less than five hundred furnaces, and other even if they are geniuses, it will take at least two hundred years for them to reach the realm of super alchemists, and the alchemy pills will take at least more than 10,000 furnaces to complete.

After understanding his flaws and shortcomings, Wang Yu began a new round of alchemy. This time, Wang Yu still started with a low-grade pill, and continued to refine it repeatedly, from which he experienced every detail of alchemy, until he felt that there was no flaw in refining this level pill, and then he changed to a higher-level pill.

After refining various levels of pills year after year, it was not until a hundred years later that Wang Yu almost exhausted all the materials obtained from the Kunlun Sect's storage space and stopped the alchemy process, and it was only at this time that Wang Yu found that he had reached the level of perfection in terms of both his ability to control fire and his grasp of the blending of medicinal materials.

After stopping alchemy, Wang Yu found that he had refined a large number of pills in the past hundred years, including more than 10,000 pills of the high-grade elixir-level Compound Body Pill, Peiyuan Pill, and Huiyuan Pill, more than 6,300 of the Zhuji Pill, Soul Solidifying Pill, Soul Rejuvenation Pill, and Condensing Divine Pill of the top-grade elixir level, more than 3,000 of each of the Lower-grade Immortal Pill of the Cutting Pill and the Crossing Tribulation Pill, and more than 300 of the Middle-grade Immortal Pill of the Dou'er Pill and the Creation Pill of the Middle-grade Immortal Pill.

Unconsciously, Wang Yu found that refining top-grade pills was no longer difficult for him, and the success rate was close to one hundred percent. At this point, Wang Yu knew that it was time for him to refine the Protector Pill.

The refining process of the Protector Pill was almost no different from the refining system Erdan and Creation Pill, and Wang Yu only spent one hundred and forty-seven days successfully refining three furnaces of the Protector Pill, and obtained a total of three hundred and twenty-four medium-grade Immortal Pills.

So far, Wang Yu has spent a total of one hundred and forty-two years in the Five Elements Time Array (the time outside the formation is just two years. Finally, not only did he cultivate himself as an alchemy master in the cultivation realm, but he also successfully refined a large number of pills of various levels, which solved his urgent need. (To be continued......)