Having said this, Zhi Lingqi temporarily stopped to explain, took out drinking water from the life gate space in his body, drank several sips in a row, then put down the water glass, and raised his eyes to look at Yiyi who was staring at him hungrily.
He Linglao then continued:
"According to my understanding of alchemy, even if you want to refine the simplest elementary elixir, according to the old method, you will have to study for at least a year and a half before you can make any achievements. If you want to refine a simple mid-level elixir
, it will take at least three to five years.
Refining high-grade finished elixirs is currently not within our reach, at least the high-grade drugs required for a single recipe are not easily available in our current realm, let alone refining high-grade elixirs."
"Brother Qi, I hear what you mean. Have you improved the elixir refining method in the "Elixir Sutra"? Moreover, the improved method is simple and easy to learn. Then Grandpa Ling and I can also use this method.
Want to learn?"
"Yimei, you are so smart. I just said it briefly, and you will know that I have improved the ancient method of refining elixirs. This method is indeed useful for ordinary people with low cultivation levels.
Difficult to learn and operate.
But for people like you and Ling Lao who have the cultivation of body shaping realm, it is not that difficult. As long as you are under the control of powerful spiritual consciousness and cooperate with the method I have explored, it can be completed easily.
one thing.
However, the elixir refining method I invented only plays a trick role in extracting the active ingredients of the medicine and refining the final elixir, but it has almost no significant effect in the selection and matching of medicines."
"Great, Brother Qi, please hurry up and tell us these methods, so that Grandpa Ling and I can get some happy feelings from the boring rote memorization of pharmacological knowledge, and relax our tense nerves.
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"Okay, but the method I invented is targeted, so I will explain it one by one according to the specific improvement methods, procedures and steps of each stage! Otherwise, it will be easy to disrupt your ideas.
First of all, I extracted the most effective and most obvious drug ingredients and gave a comparative explanation. This way, I can explain from the pros and cons, so that I can have an intuitive understanding and make it easier to remember the drug handling methods and operating procedures.
Whether it is the refining method of elixirs in Laozi's "Alchemy Classic" or other ancient elixir refining methods, the extraction of active ingredients in medicines is accomplished by high-temperature extraction using elixir furnaces.
Because the temperature is high, it is easy to destroy the medicine.
Therefore, the success rate of extracting effective medicinal liquid by roasting in an alchemy furnace is not as high as in the legend. How can there be an 80% or 90% success rate? These are not recorded in Laozi's "Alchemy Classic", so
Of course you don't know.
But in the alchemy records I got from the small tribe in the original Green Valley, there are detailed explanations and records. The average alchemy rate of alchemists outside this tribe is only about 30%, and the strongest one can only reach 40%.
That's all.
Because this tribe has unique elixir recipes and unique alchemy techniques, and what is more worth mentioning is that they are much stricter in grasping key details, so their elixir-making rate can reach 50%. An experienced alchemist can even
It can reach more than 60%.
If you think about it, you will know that the ancient high-temperature extraction method of medicinal liquids, not to mention that high temperature can easily destroy the medicine, even when the active ingredients of the medicine are extracted at high temperature, the loss of the active ingredients of the medicine is also difficult to control. As for the rate of elixir formation,
You can imagine.
This is not only true for the extraction of active ingredients, but also for the subsequent boiling and baking of the elixir. During the juice collection stage, there will be three types of loss of medicinal efficacy. The first is the volatilization loss during the heating and boiling process.
, which is also the largest part of the loss.
Secondly, during the heating process of the medicinal solution, impurities will inevitably boil and precipitate, which requires salvaging and discarding. This process will also take away a small amount of active ingredients. Finally, the heating process of baking and rounding will also cause part of the medicinal effect to be lost.
of.
There is another biggest drawback to refining elixirs using the ancient method, and that is the purity of the elixir, or the problem of removing impurities during the elixir refining process. The elixir that is regarded as a treasure by a small alchemy tribe has a high content of impurities.
About thirty percent.
At that time, I also used ancient methods to refine the detoxification pill, and I also made it with the help of my heavenly vision. As a result, the impurities of the detoxification pill were infinitely close to 30%. Such a pill
After taking it, its effects and functions can be imagined.
As the saying goes: Medicines are inherently poisonous, and the same is true for elixirs in the cultivation world. However, the poison referred to here should refer to the impurity content in the elixirs. If the elixirs are 100% pure, I think
There should be no such statement.
The fewer impurities contained in the elixir, the better the quality of the elixir, that is, the better the elixir effect. On the contrary, the more impurities, the worse the color, and the corresponding lower efficacy. If the impurity content exceeds half,
Then it is not an elixir but a poison elixir.
At that time, when I was using ancient methods to extract the active ingredients of medicines, if the firepower was not well controlled, it would cause the medicine to be destroyed and fail. I struggled with how to easily extract the active ingredients of medicines without damaging the medicines to ensure the success rate.
Got the brain juice.
Later, I thought of the oil press in the human world. This product of modern science and technology will not only not destroy the medicine, but also prevent the medicine from losing its efficacy to a large extent, and the success rate is almost 100% guaranteed.
But under the circumstances, there was no oil press anywhere! So based on the working principle of the oil press, I used my own rotating psychic layer to squeeze and grind the medicine from both sides, thus replacing the oil press to extract the effectiveness of the medicine.
Element.
Through physical experiments, the active ingredients of the medicine were extracted without any loss. I still boiled, fused, baked and rounded the extracted liquid according to the ancient fire refining method, and successfully refined it.
Got the finished elixir.
When I randomly selected one pill from the finished elixir and used my celestial vision to investigate it, I found that the elixir refined this time was different from the elixir I refined earlier and the elixir refined by the small alchemy tribe.
, there is not much difference in texture.
There was still about 30% impurity content, and I was confused at that time. The effective liquid extracted in this way had no reduction in impurity content, but the success rate was almost perfect, but the purity could not be changed at all.
For this reason, I had no choice but to once again explore and analyze the newly refined elixir. Through my Celestial Eye consciousness exploration, I found that the organizational structure of all impurity items is generally much larger than the organizational structure of the active ingredients.
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Seeing this situation, I relaxed a little, because from the knowledge I learned in my previous life, I knew that as long as the organizational structures of two or more substances are different, it is completely feasible to separate them from each other.
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And the greater the difference in organizational structure, the easier it is to separate. On the contrary, if the organizational structure of these substances differs very little, or there is no difference at all, it is basically impossible to separate each other.
This separation method based on differences in tissue structure size did not exist in ancient times, but the modern scientific filtration technology in the human world is very easy. You only need to perform filtration while extracting the active ingredients of the drug by squeezing, and you will be successful.
So I changed the psychic layer of the squeezed medicine from a completely closed state to a mesh psychic layer that can secrete active ingredients in the inner layer, and added an effective juice collection layer on the periphery. In this way, what is squeezed out is
Pure liquid and moisture.
This pure medicinal aqueous solution, the elixir obtained by boiling the juice and baking it into a round shape, has been inspected by my celestial eye consciousness and there is no longer any impurity in the elixir. Of course, if it is the celestial eye consciousness,
If it cannot be found, then it is a different matter.
But after this, a new problem appeared again. The number of elixirs produced was reduced by nearly two-fifths. That is to say, the elixirs produced were only three-fifths of the original ones. According to my analysis and inference, there should be at least the original ones.
Four out of five is considered normal.
After analysis, the loss of these active ingredients should be caused during the process of boiling juice and baking and rounding. To solve this problem, the best way is to use as little or no fire refining as possible. Only in this way can we
Reduce the loss of effective drugs.
This method is very easy to solve, because I have known for a long time that the molecular structure of water is very small, so small that it cannot be compared with the organizational structure of the active ingredients of drugs, so it is naturally easier to separate.
This separation method is to change the outer closed psychic layer used to collect effective medicinal liquid to a filter layer that only allows water molecules to pass through. The ointment or powder obtained between the inner and outer layers is basically free of impurities.
Pure active ingredients and moisture.
The pure ointment or medicinal powder obtained by this extraction does not need to be boiled to collect the juice. Naturally, there is no loss of the active ingredients of the medicine. It only needs to be slightly heated to allow the various medicines to combine and fuse.
After being processed in this way, the finished elixir obtained by baking and rounding did not meet my expectations. Its elixir yield rate reached four-fifths of the elixir yield rate with impurities, and it was also extremely pure.
Elixir without impurities.
This is my knowledge and experience in alchemy. With these inventions of mine, you can save a lot of energy, and it will also be very helpful to improve your alchemy level. With my experience and methods, I believe you can all become alchemists.