Half an hour later, Ning Qian put down the Baicao Gangmu, looked at Longcheng, and said: "Dragon Master, please ask me."

Long Cheng looked at Ning Qian's confident look, a hint of displeasure flashed in his eyes, and asked: "Licorice."

"The smell is sweet, flat, non-toxic..."

Ning Qian started to talk eloquently and recited all the contents about licorice in the Compendium of Baicao.

Even some of the above prescriptions involving licorice were memorized one by one.

A hint of surprise flashed in Long Cheng's eyes, and he asked again: "Astragalus?"

"Astragalus has a sweet smell, is slightly warm, and is non-toxic..."

"Ginseng?"

"The smell is sweet, slightly cold, non-toxic..."

Then Long Cheng asked a few more questions, and Ning Qian answered fluently. It was obvious that he remembered the contents of this book very clearly, word for word.

"You actually have a photographic memory?"

Looking at Ning Qian who was answering questions fluently, Long Cheng couldn't help but ask.

Ning Qian smiled and said modestly: "It's just that my memory is relatively better."

Long Cheng's eyes lit up. For an alchemist, a strong memory is definitely a good ability.

After all, the alchemist needs to memorize countless medicinal materials, the restraint relationship between various medicinal materials, and the most important alchemy technique.

Without a good memory, it is impossible to complete this kind of task.

"Then I'll consider you to have passed my test." Long Cheng said immediately.

In addition to memory, other talents can only be seen later in the study.

With memory, you can at least get started.

"Thank you, Master Long."

A smile appeared on Ning Qian's lips, and he stood up and bowed.

"You don't have to be too happy. What I can do is teach you to get started and be able to refine elixirs independently." Long Cheng said, "As for the deeper techniques, they are secrets that are not passed down to the disciples.

, cannot be taught."

As he said that, he sighed again: "If I hadn't announced that I wouldn't accept you as a disciple, I might actually be willing to accept you."

"This is enough."

Ning Qian nodded, not disappointed.

The Luck and Transformation Pill is not a difficult pill, and can be made by just getting started with alchemy.

As for what Long Cheng said about recruiting disciples, it was obviously just prevarication. Ning Qian, who only had a good memory and showed no other qualities, might still find it difficult to fall into Long Cheng's eyes.

Having said that, Ning Qian is not very enthusiastic about becoming a disciple. He will definitely gain the memory of a strong alchemist in the future, which is much more reliable than Longcheng's teachings.

Having said this, Long Cheng also showed a smile on his face and said: "Let's do this, you take an hour every day to come to my place to learn a class, and how about giving me one hundred taels for each class? Until you can practice it

The first pill."

"Okay."

One hundred taels per class is not expensive.

After all, it is one-on-one teaching. If Ning Qian really gets started in alchemy, he will get more than just this little money.

"Then let's start today." Long Cheng nodded and said.

Then Long Cheng began to teach Ning Qian the basic knowledge of alchemy. In addition to the Baicao Compendium, he also took out several large books.

According to what he said, Ning Qian had to memorize them all.

As for Wu Di, he is coaxing Longcheng’s granddaughter. I don’t know what means he used. This little girl is quite happy now.

……

In the blink of an eye, I have been studying here in Longcheng for a month.

Ning Qian learned a lot.

Alchemy is a completely different skill from blacksmithing.

Before there was Zhenqi, if Ning Qian wanted to refine the elixir, he would have to go through a series of complicated steps to extract the essence from the medicinal materials.

Although this process is assisted by the earth fire, because the flames of the earth fire are severe, Ning Qian needs to use some mechanisms to reduce the heat of the earth fire in order to meet the process of extracting the essence of the medicinal materials.

Similarly, because of different medicinal materials, the required temperatures are also different.

There is no such thing as a thermometer in this world, so the process of alchemy requires trying and learning from constant failures.

And this experience comes from money.

Just the entry-level elixir that Longcheng brought out for him to practice, Baicao Dan, cost Ning Qian tens of thousands of taels of silver to purchase the medicinal materials.

In fact, the price of medicinal materials is not expensive, which is about ten taels of silver.

In other words, Ning Qian failed thousands of times.

He knew that to find the right temperature, he needed to keep trying. It can only be said that he was not very lucky.

"This time, it should be fine."

Ning Qian was sitting in the alchemy room of Baiyimen, with a trace of determination in his eyes.

Although the entry-level elixir Baicao Dan is called Baicao, it only requires three medicinal materials, licorice, astragalus, and Codonopsis pilosula.

The effect is to restore a certain amount of injuries.

Of course, it’s not like the red pill in the game, where you’ll be resurrected with full blood as soon as you drink it.

Because it takes time to digest elixirs, using them in battle does not have that obvious effect.

So it is an entry-level elixir.

Ning Qian has summarized so many failures and is very confident this time.

He opened the alchemy furnace in the alchemy room and threw the three medicinal materials into three different entrances.

Each entrance represents a secret compartment, and three medicinal materials are brought into the three secret compartments.

Then, he manipulated the mechanism to trigger the ground fire and introduced the ground fire into the three separated secret compartments. Then he manipulated a mechanism next to it and began to control the power of the flame.

This alchemy furnace is transparent, and Ning Qian can easily see what's going on inside.

After a slight lick of flames, the three medicinal materials withered instantly!

Seeing this situation, Ning Qian's eyes showed a hint of joy, and then he controlled the flame and licked it!

This time, the stay was a little longer.

The medicinal materials turn yellow and begin to wither, and you can see black smoke coming out of them!

These are all impurities in medicinal materials!

Ning Qian needs to ignite these impurities and leave the purest medicinal essence!

As he continued to control the flame, more and more impurities in the medicinal materials were burned, and soon the medicinal materials turned into green liquid.

His eyes lit up, then he stopped controlling the flames, swung the mechanism, and put the three secret grids together before the medicinal materials cooled down!

The essence of Santan medicinal materials seemed to be attractive, and they slowly merged together to form a pool of black gel!

Ning Qian saw this and controlled the flames to bake again. Soon, steaming water was baked out and the glue shrank a bit.

Seeing the eye color of the medicinal essence gradually turning brown, he stopped his hand, withdrew the flame, and waited for the colloid to slowly cool down.

In fact, at this point, the Baicao Pill is already completed.

But for Ning Qian, there is still one thing that needs to be done, and that is to roll it into pills!
Chapter completed!