Knowing the medicinal properties of the fifth-grade Hunyuan Pill, and with Shen Mo's attainments in alchemy, he was able to deduce the types of elixirs needed to refine this pill.
Of course, refining elixirs does not mean just piling up all the elixirs in one go.
Among them, the ratio of raw materials, the order of melting, the temperature of quenching the essence, the timing of elixir condensation, the refining technique, etc., all require a lot of in-depth study... If every step is missed, the final result will be vastly different!
After collecting all the elixirs, Shen Mo still needs to go through a lot of trials, changes and improvements, and may even have to overturn the types of raw materials and then draft them again.
It can be said that if Shen Mo has a complete recipe for Hunyuan Dan, he only needs to prepare ten raw materials to refine a qualified elixir;
As for now, just for the trial, hundreds or even hundreds of medicinal materials have to be consumed. If bad luck occurs or something goes wrong during the process, the loss may be doubled several times!
Forget it if it were a second- or third-grade elixir, but Hunyuan Dan is a fifth-grade elixir...
The expenditure on raw materials alone is enough to bankrupt a middle-class sect, second only to the five great immortal sects!
After some calculations, Shen Mo initially drew up a list of elixirs.
"Thousand-year-old ice lotus, nine-leaf glazed tree roots, Golden Tears Bamboo juice, fire lotus seeds, the whole fairy grass..."
There are a total of thirteen kinds of medicinal materials, eight of which can be determined directly, while the remaining five are not sure, and may need to be replaced by other elixirs.
Immediately, Shen Mo listed various alternative elixirs one by one, directly expanding the types of elixirs on this list to thirty-one!
"It's a bit troublesome! There are so many kinds of elixirs and spiritual materials, but I only have four kinds of them, and the quantity is not enough."
Shen Mo rubbed his eyebrows, looking a little sad.
After thinking for a while, he quickly thought of Linjiang Sect's secret realm of Yaochi.
When he first entered this retreat, he identified and wrote down all the medicinal materials out of the instinct of an alchemist.
Among them, in the list he initially drafted, there are a total of twenty-one elixirs that can be collected in Yaochi; the remaining ten are substitute options and may not be useful.
What's more important is that time passes faster in Yaochi, so the spiritual medicinal materials grown there are of sufficient vintage and quantity!
If he could collect and squander the spiritual herbs and elixirs in the secret realm, most of the obstacles blocking Shen Mo would be gone... He was 60% sure that he could reproduce the Hunyuan Dan recipe, even though the medicinal properties were not as good as the original.
It won’t be any worse!
"Old Ancestor Zhou needs to stay in the Chong'ashan Villa and cannot go to the Yaochi Secret Realm in person."
"During this period, he has been troubled by the fact that he cannot contact Elder Li, who is stationed in the secret realm, so that he can obtain the elixir to subsidize the other hospital..."
"In that case, I'll go there myself!"
"Just in time, I can take advantage of the situation to find a blessed land suitable for my breakthrough, as well as the Hunyuan Fruit, Qingling Fairy Qi and other heavenly and earthly treasures."
Shen Mo put away the jade slips in his hands, stood up, opened the door and walked towards Zhou Zhiwei's bedroom.
The entrance to the Yaochi Secret Realm is not in the Linjiang Mountains, but at the bottom of an abyss south of the Xutian Mountains in the Northern Territory!
This abyss is called the Falling Dragon Abyss. According to legend from ancient times, a real dragon fell to his death here and created a huge chasm. After the death of the real dragon, his resentment lingered. The powerful spirit often lingered in the Falling Dragon Abyss, causing trouble and causing harm and straying into it.
life of a monk.
Hundreds of years ago, Linjiang Sect had a Yuandan Realm Supreme Elder who entered the bottom of the Falling Dragon Abyss and discovered the entrance to the secret realm of Yaochi.
Therefore, the theory of chasing the dragon is pure nonsense!
However, it is worth mentioning that the Falling Dragon Abyss is indeed extremely dangerous;
It is shrouded in black mist and miasma all year round, filled with soul-crushing sinister winds, and killing attacks that originate from nowhere appear out of thin air from time to time.
In addition, after Linjiang Sect took control of the entrance to the Yaochi Realm, in order to prevent outsiders from discovering this treasure land and causing endless trouble, they also deliberately set up a large number of prohibitive killing arrays, which greatly increased the danger level of this place.
Immortal cultivators who mistakenly fall into the Falling Dragon Abyss will indeed easily die in it if they do not have the cultivation strength of the Yuan Dan Realm!
It is relatively safe to enter the abyssal hall only through the teleportation formation.
However, now the entire Red Flame Realm teleportation array has failed. Even if there are the imprinted coordinates of the large array in the palace and the teleportation altar is rebuilt in the Chong'ashan Courtyard, no one dares to teleport.
With the current situation, who knows where you will be teleported to after traveling through the teleportation array?
Anyway, the immortal cultivators who did not discover this point two years ago were teleported away by the formation, and there is still no news, and none of them has returned!
Because of this, Zhou Zhiwei was in a bit of a dilemma.
On the one hand, the Red Flame Territory is now surrounded by dangers, and he wants to take charge of the Chong Ashan Villa to ensure that the Linjiang Sect's final orthodoxy remains intact.
On the other hand, a large number of spiritual plants and herbs are planted in the secret territory of Yaochi. If we can contact Elder Li and go in to collect a wave of spiritual medicine, it can greatly alleviate the urgent needs of other courtyards.
At the very least, the monthly salary of the elders and inner disciples can be distributed.
But the current situation in the Scarlet Flame Territory means that even if he is a powerful person in the Yuan Dan Realm, he has to be careful on his way, trying to avoid taboo places, alien beings, and messy evil spirits.
It will take at least three or four months to come and go. During this period, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no accidents in other hospitals!
Apart from Patriarch Zhou, perhaps Shen Mo is the only one left in the entire sect who has the strength to enter the bottom of the Falling Dragon Abyss unharmed and contact Elder Li.
After two years of seclusion and hard training, his realm reached the ninth level of the spiritual sea realm as he wished.
With the blessings of destiny, magical attainments, supernatural powers and other aspects, his combat power has also been raised to an extremely terrifying level, surpassing Zhou Shili, Tang Lu and other peak master-level figures.
Even though he is still a half-step Yuan Dan, he is still capable of fighting against a strong Yuan Dan in the early stage!
Even if you are defeated, you can easily save your life in its hands.
Moreover, Shen Mo's defense methods, physical strength, recovery ability, etc. are all extremely amazing.
No matter how dangerous it is to fall into the Dragon Abyss, Shen Mo can force his way through it as long as he doesn't run into indescribable evil spirits that cannot be understood by common sense; even if he is seriously injured and only a piece of flesh and blood is left to fall to the bottom of the abyss, he still has magical powers to protect his life!
Zhou Zhiwei was extremely happy that Shen Mo took the initiative to ask for a job.
Being able to contact Elder Li and enter the Yaochi realm to collect elixirs is a big gain; not to mention, Shen Mo's purpose is to collect elixir resources and try to form elixirs!
If Shen Mo successfully forms the elixir, the sect's other courtyard will be able to add another Yuan Dan realm powerhouse...
Even if it is no longer as prosperous as before, Zhou Zhiwei's pressure will be much less; at the same time, he will be able to free up more energy to spend on his own cultivation and other matters.
After obtaining the order from Patriarch Zhou as he wished, Shen Mo left Chong'a Mountain.
However, he did not immediately flee north to Falling Dragon Abyss, but flew directly to the forbidden place where the Flower Fairy haunted!