The messenger eagle is a first-class spiritual bird purchased by the family from the Lingguo Bird Control Pavilion. This eagle has some understanding of human nature and can travel three thousand miles a day. It is usually used by Qingyuan Mountain as a medium to communicate with other parts of the family.
This time the messenger eagle came to Linghuzhou, obviously because the family had something to send a message to him.
Chen Nianzhi took out a handful of spiritual rice to feed the messenger eagle, and then found a letter from its paw.
After reading it, his expression moved slightly, showing a little joy.
"Looks like I have to go back to Qingyuan Mountain."
Early the next morning, Chen Nianzhi tidied up, left Linghu Continent to let the formation activate on its own, and headed for Qingyuan Mountain.
Only five days later, he arrived at Qingyuan Mountain. The third elder, Chen Qinghao, showed joy when he saw him.
"Okay, okay, okay." He held Chen Nianzhi's hand and looked very excited: "Your cultivation progress is even more amazing than Qingyuan."
"The Thirteenth Uncle is too praised."
Chen Nianzhi said humbly that Chen Qinghao ranked thirteenth in the Qing generation, so Chen Nianzhi usually called him Thirteenth Uncle.
"Compared to Uncle Qingyuan, I'm still far behind."
The seventh elder, Chen Qingyuan, has been a member of the Qingyang Sect for a long time. He is thirty-four years old this year and his cultivation is said to have touched the threshold of foundation building.
If the Qingyang Sect monks exchanged the Foundation Establishment Pill internally, one would only cost 10,000 contribution points, which is 10,000 spirit stones. It is much more promising than the Chen family spending tens of thousands of spirit stones to buy one.
And because of the cause and effect left sixty years ago, Chen Qingyuan's hope of breaking through the foundation building is much greater than that of his family's ninth-level Qi training monk.
"No need to be modest, your talent is indeed much stronger than Qingyuan."
"It's a pity that the family cannot afford to buy the Foundation Establishment Pill for you now."
The third elder sighed, and then got down to business.
"The main reason why I asked you to come back this time is to refine the Qi Nai Dan."
As Chen Qinghao told, Chen Nianzhi nodded. Among the Chen family's seventeen acres of spiritual land, five acres were specially used to grow Qi-accumulating grass.
Qi-accumulating grass is a first-level mid-grade spiritual grass. This spiritual grass is the main medicine for refining Qi-receiving pills.
The Naqi Pill is a spiritual elixir for Qi practitioners to practice. Because it can help Qi practitioners break through bottlenecks, it has been selling well.
The Chen family matures a batch of Qi-accumulating grass every five years, and the harvested Qi-accumulating grass can be used to refine fifty furnaces of Qi-accumulating pills. This is the most stable source of spiritual stones in the Chen family's spiritual medicine garden.
The task of refining the Qi-Napping Pill has always been the responsibility of the Sixth Elder Chen Qingmeng. He is a first-class high-grade alchemist. The success rate of refining the first-class mid-grade Qi-Napping Pill has exceeded 60%, and every time he can bring extraordinary results.
Less profit.
However, because Chen Qingmeng failed to build the foundation and his future potential is limited, the family plans to train new alchemists to avoid having no successors to the family's alchemy skills after Chen Qingmeng's death.
Although Chen Qingmeng is still in charge of refining the Qi-Refining Pill this time, Chen Nianzhi will also participate in it, helping the Sixth Elder and generally learning alchemy skills.
"This time you follow the Sixth Elder and learn alchemy."
Chen Qinghao warned while taking Chen Nianzhi to the family alchemy room.
As soon as he entered the alchemy room, Chen Nianzhi saw the Sixth Elder. In the past two years, Chen Nianzhi had spent most of his time in Linghu Continent and had basically never met the Sixth Elder.
But it seems that the Sixth Elder is much older at this time, and it seems that the failure to break through and build the foundation has dealt a big blow to him.
The blow of the failure of foundation building was too great for him. He owed his family 30,000 spirit stones. This was a debt that would take several lifetimes to repay. It would only become a bad debt for the family, which gave him an extremely huge loss.
Pressure.
Chen Qingmeng also saw Chen Nianzhi. When he saw Chen Nianzhi, he was stunned for a moment, and then showed a frustrated look.
"Come in, I've been waiting for you for a long time."
As soon as Chen Nian arrived, Chen Qingmeng began to refine the elixir.
Because there are a large number of elixirs to be refined this time, it is relatively busy.
Chen Nianzhi is responsible for sorting the elixir, and also pre-processing the Qi-accumulating grass and auxiliary medicines. He is now a first-level high-grade spiritual planter, and his understanding of the medicinal properties of the elixir is no less than that of an alchemist of the same level, so it is very easy to handle it.
Fast.
Chen Qingmeng originally made the elixir very quickly, but seeing him carefully observing his own elixir refining, he simply slowed down and patiently explained to him.
At first, Chen Nianzhi only seemed to understand, but gradually he was able to answer back and forth, which made Chen Qingmeng couldn't help but nod his head.
"It seems that you also have some talent in alchemy."
When Chen Qingmeng was in his forties, he broke through to the first level of high-level alchemy master, and his talent in alchemy is considered to be top-notch.
To be recognized by him, it can be seen that Chen Nianzhi is indeed talented in elixirs and alchemy.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that Chen Nianzhi is a first-level high-grade spiritual planter. After all, he has a certain knowledge of the medicinal properties of elixirs. If he then learns alchemy, he has already lowered the threshold by more than half.
Not long after, the first furnace was finally successfully refined, and five Qi-Napping Pills were produced in this furnace.
"Not bad."
After putting the elixir into the prepared porcelain bottle, Chen Qingmeng showed a satisfied look.
The first furnace of elixirs is regarded as a furnace, and generally the elixir-formation rate is not high. A 50% elixir-formation rate is considered quite good.
Sure enough, in the subsequent refining process, the elixir yield rate finally increased steadily, and six elixirs were produced in the second batch.
After working for six or seven days, the two of them finished refining fifty furnaces of Qi-napping pills, and made a total of 336 pills.
"Finally done."
Looking at the prepared elixir, the two finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Chen Nianzhi also praised: "This rate of alchemy is close to 70%. Uncle Twenty-six may be able to challenge the second-level alchemy master."
Generally speaking, if the first-level middle-grade elixir is refined to a 60% yield rate, then the first-tier high-grade elixir should be refined with a 30% yield rate.
There is a 30% chance of refining a first-level high-grade elixir, and you are indeed a little sure of hitting the second-level alchemy master.
"It's not that simple. I'm still far away."
"It's just that I have refined hundreds of furnaces of Qi-Natifying Pills over the years. Practice makes perfect."
Chen Qingmeng shook his head, but still smiled happily.
"There are only 336 completed pills, which is more than 30 pills more than in previous years. This is the most the family has produced in the past sixty years."
"It seems that although the foundation building failed, it can break through the tenth level of Qi refining, which is of some benefit to alchemy."
After the two of them finished refining the pills, the third elder who had been waiting for a long time counted the Naqi Pills again.
The Qi-Napping Pill can slightly increase the probability of a Qi-training monk breaking through a small bottleneck, and it has been selling well among Yujun, with each one costing more than five spirit stones.
If you sell these 336 pieces now, you can probably get back more than 1,600 spiritual stones, which can bring back a lot of blood to the family in one go.
Thinking of this, the third elder couldn't help but said with joy.
"It's been a good year."
"It's the end of the year, and Nianzhi is back. Let's hold a clan meeting."