Chapter 27: The First Alchemy
Lin Zhuowen's wish to have a spirit stone to buy a flying magic weapon first failed to come true.
The rewards for three alchemy assistant tasks are not much, barely enough to pay the deposit for three lowest-level alchemy tasks, and it is not enough to even issue one alchemy guidance task.
The so-called alchemy guidance task is to ask a person with alchemy experience to guide you when you are a novice in alchemy, so that you can familiarize yourself with the alchemy process and reduce the chance of failure.
Lin Zhuowen couldn't help but be glad that when he was an alchemy assistant, he could meet a rare enthusiastic person like Qiu Guanghao in the immortal cultivation world, with the alchemy experience and skills taught by Qiu Guanghao, Lin Zhuowen was much stronger than ordinary alchemy novices, and he was confident that even if there was no one to guide him, he could successfully refine it by groping a few times.
Because the alchemy tasks of the sect need to be adjusted at any time according to the amount of pill reserves, the management point of this kind of task is directly set in the Dan Cave of Swallowing Cloud Peak.
There is not only an independent alchemy room separated in the Dan Cave, but also a hall, where hundreds of Dan furnaces are placed large and small, and the alchemy task management point of the sect is set here, and the rent of the Dan furnace in the hall is naturally cheaper than the alchemy room, and if you are doing the alchemy task of the sect, you can use the Dan furnace here for free.
Lin Zhuowen was quite confident, and handed over all the spirit stones on his body as a deposit, took three lowest-level alchemy tasks and received the corresponding Danfang at the same time, which is another benefit of receiving the sect's alchemy task, you can get the Danfang for free.
As long as the sect's resource reserves are needed, the alchemy task is generally not limited to the number of times it is taken, and each alchemy task will provide several alchemy materials according to the difficulty of refining the pill level refined, etc., and at that time, as long as the number of pills required by the task is handed over, of course, the specific result will be affected by the quality of the pill, but this will depend on the specific situation.
For example, the alchemy task that Lin Zhuowen took over requires refining the lowest-level "Bigu Dan", and each task can receive two alchemy materials, and the task requirement is one Bigu Dan, that is to say, as long as the success rate is guaranteed to be 50%, there will be no loss, of course, people who are skilled in alchemy can take over multiple tasks at once, and then use a large furnace or medium furnace to refine, which will be very efficient.
There are three types of Dan furnaces in the Dan Cave Hall, small Dan furnaces can refine up to two pills at a time, medium-sized Dan furnaces can refine up to ten pills at a time, and large Dan furnaces can refine up to thirty pills at a time, as for the larger Dan furnaces, they need to rent a separate alchemy room, among which the small Dan furnaces are easier to control because of their small size, the small amount of materials invested each time, etc., so they are most suitable for alchemy novices like Lin Zhuowen.
Of course, if you refine a medium-grade or high-grade pill, the sect will also convert it according to the price, such as Bigu Dan, the price of the middle-grade Bigu Dan is twice that of the lower-grade Bigu Dan, and the high-grade Bigu Dan is three times that of the lower-grade Bigu Dan, so Lin Zhuowen took over the refining task of the Bigu Dan three times, if he practiced the high-grade Bigu Dan, then he only needs to hand over a high-grade Bigu Dan to complete the three tasks.
Lin Zhuowen was alchemy for the first time, although he was a little confident, he still chose the trumpet Dan furnace that was most suitable for novices.
Of course, before alchemy, Lin Zhuowen first studied the Bigu Dan Dan Fang he received, and found that this Dan Fang was really rough written, the weight of each material was written in detail, and the processing steps in the refining process were also explained clearly, but the description of some time and temperature in the specific refining process was extremely vague, probably because the world has not clearly quantified the reason in this regard.
For example, the temperature is low temperature, normal temperature, high temperature, ultra-high temperature, and time is one breath, two breaths, ten breaths, and eight breaths, such words should not appear in Danfang at all in Lin Zhuowen's opinion, the role of Danfang is similar to textbooks, it should be rigorous and standardized, so that it is impossible to scientifically clarify and refine the concept, so that Lin Zhuowen, a person who has received scientific education since childhood, really has no way to start.
In this regard, Lin Zhuowen can only rely on himself to slowly explore, this is a helplessness, but it is also an inevitability, after all, immortal cultivators are only a few people in this world, and the inheritance of cultivators is relatively closed, in such a world where knowledge cannot be widely circulated, it is difficult to form immaterial concepts such as time and temperature, which need to jointly formulate standardized units of measurement, even if someone thinks of formulating a standard unit of measurement, but if this standard cannot be widely disseminated and recognized, then it will soon be drowned in the long river of history.
However, Lin Zhuowen believes that with the scientific education he has received and the use of scientific methods to re-record and improve the alchemy process, he believes that he will soon succeed.
Self-confidence is not necessarily equal to strength, "Bang-bang-bang-" three times in a row not only took away Lin Zhuowen's six alchemy materials, but also took away his self-confidence.
Damn, isn't alchemy a life skill in the game? Isn't it supposed to make money? Why did you make my brother bankrupt?
Lin Zhuowen was devastated, but he was soon relieved, most of the life skills in the game are to burn money in the early stage and make money in the later stage, what is his own investment, a little drizzle, and from the perspective of game experience, the skills that burn more money in the early stage tend to make more money in the later stage.
Lin Zhuowen regained his confidence and sold the Huiqi Pill given by Qiu Guanghao directly to the sect at a discount, as a reserve resource, the sect had purchased these pills for a long time, of course, the price was naturally not as good as selling them in the market.
The fang market is also the bazaar of immortal cultivators, most of them are located in the dangerous mountains, it is difficult for mortals to get in touch, Lin Zhuowen has only heard that there is a fang market set up and managed by the machine spirit sect in the north of the Seven Flames Mountains from a day and a night away, of course, this day and night distance or so refers to the distance of the monk's imperial weapon flight during the foundation building period, if Lin Zhuowen's pair of fleshy feet rush over, but I don't know what year and horse month to go.
The Returning Qi Pill is worth a lot of money, at least for Lin Zhuowen, who is currently penniless, and the spirit stones sold by the Returning Qi Pill are enough for him to approach twenty Bigu Pill refining tasks.
Lin Zhuowen did not hesitate at all, and all of them were used as deposits for the Bigu Dan task, and for the benefit of the later stage, the investment in the early stage was necessary.
Of course, Lin Zhuowen is not brainless to spoil the spirit stone and indiscriminately alchemy, Lin Zhuowen no longer refines two pills per furnace this time, but separates, and only practices one in each furnace, so that he has twice the opportunity to practice, and Lin Zhuowen will record the alchemy process in detail in the computer every time he alchemy, and after the alchemy fails, he will also analyze the reasons for the failure and summarize the experience according to the experience taught by Qiu Guanghao and the knowledge stored in his computer.
As the number of failures increased, Lin Zhuowen gradually found that he was too blindly confident, as a novice, the first time in alchemy, no one to guide, just like a person learning to drive, memorized a brain of theoretical knowledge, but the first time to get in the car without a coach beside him, it is inevitable to make all kinds of mistakes, knowing what is wrong, and knowing how to avoid mistakes, are completely different things, just like when the teacher writes on the blackboard, everyone knows, and when it is their turn to do the question, they are blind, the so-called eye master is nothing more than that.
Lin Zhuowen's luck is that the computer can record the alchemy process in detail, and find out the errors or deficiencies through guò video playback, so as to gradually improve.
The others watched Lin Zhuowen frying the furnace again and again, performing the cleansing technique again and again, and the black ash on his face was clearly covered, and they would subconsciously leave the vicinity of his Dan furnace, and quietly discuss that this person either has a problem with his brain or has too many spirit stones to use, and he is purely here to listen.
Lin Zhuowen didn't care about other people's eyes and discussions, just alchemy again and again, and then gradually optimized the refining process in the computer again and again, when the spiritual power consumption was too much, Lin Zhuowen meditated and rested on the spot, played a few games to relax, and continued after the offline plug-in automatically replenished the spiritual power.
Finally, when there were still twenty alchemy materials left, Lin Zhuowen did not continue to fry the furnace although he had not succeeded, which disappointed those who were waiting to continue listening for free.
After that, Lin Zhuowen continued to improve and improve, and finally when there were only the last three parts of the alchemy material left, Lin Zhuowen opened the Dan furnace again, and did not continue to smell the pungent smell of the material, but instead of a faint fragrance, although it was not obvious, but for Lin Zhuowen's long-standing nose, it was like a white swan falling in a flock of crows, and it was difficult to notice it, and then looked, sure enough, there was a pale yellow pill lying in the Dan furnace, what else could it be if it wasn't Bigu Dan?
The lower grade of Bigu Dan is light yellow and has a light fragrance, which can make the user not hungry or thirsty within one month; the middle grade is pure white and has a strong fragrance, which can make the user not hungry or thirsty within two months; the upper grade is milky white and full of aroma, which can make the user not hungry or thirsty within three months.
Lin Zhuowen inquired about the knowledge of Bigu Dan, and then put away this low-grade Bigu Dan.
Lin Zhuowen did not rush to refine the following three Bigu Dan materials, but closed his eyes and sank into the life weapon computer, what he has to do now is not alchemy, but to program the alchemy process just now, of course, the programming here is not automated, because many steps in the alchemy process cannot be completed by the computer alone, such as when to add what materials, adding techniques, etc., what Lin Zhuowen can do is to remind at each point in time, what should be done next, what to do, what should be paid attention to.
Lin Zhuowen's programmed alchemy process can be accurate to the second, but it is powerless for the important factor of temperature, for the simple reason that the computer has its own clock, but does not carry a thermometer.
Lin Zhuowen knows the principle of making ordinary thermometers, which is nothing more than the thermal expansion and contraction of some liquid in the glass tube, these liquids are secondary, only this high-temperature resistant glass tube, Lin Zhuowen has nowhere to find it, and the temperature of the Dan furnace during alchemy is not something that ordinary glass can bear.
But if you can't measure the temperature accurately, then it will be difficult to optimize the alchemy process, at least it is difficult to optimize to a better effect, the reason is very simple, some small changes in alchemy, it is difficult to determine whether it is caused by temperature changes or other reasons, there is no thermometer, maybe after a lot of repeated attempts, you can optimize this alchemy program to a certain extent, but it is absolutely impossible to optimize to the best, and the time and cost spent in this is not just a few times the ordinary one, but the higher the cost of the later optimization, because even a little bit of improvement, all need to be tried and tested to calculate the elimination of temperature interference, and most importantly, they can't make a more detailed optimization of the temperature.
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