I asked Yi Chenzi for advice on the alchemy technique. Unfortunately, this veteran didn't know much about it himself, but he was still good enough and understood a few basic principles. So he tried his best to teach Shi Zhong the knowledge of alchemy that he had heard from his master.
One day later, Yichenzi left a message: "Junior brother, the great cause of alchemy can only rely on you. All the reformers have taught you, don't let senior brother down!" Then he drifted away, leaving Shi Zhong alone.
I was meditating hard in the back mountain.
Alchemy, alchemy, alchemy...
For three days, Shi Zhong's mind was all about how to make elixirs and how to control fire, but as the saying goes, reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. On the fourth day, Shi Zhong regretted that he should practice it himself. Only in practice can he do it.
will progress.
The first thing I need to make an elixir is the prescription, which I already have. The second is the alchemy furnace, which is already available in the Sanqing Taoist Temple. It is said that it belongs to the cheap master, who used to refine the chalcedony sinew and bone elixir.
It was also a decent elixir furnace, but it was a pity that it was supposed to produce more than a dozen pills. However, due to the sudden change in the weather at the end, the elixir fused inside was almost destroyed. Although it was saved by the master in the end, it still failed.
I only got one Chalcedony Muscle Pill. Otherwise, for elixirs like Chalcedony Muscle Pill, you should be able to get 11 to 19 pills depending on the medicine.
As for the stove fire, it is simply too simple. In the past, you still needed to light a fire and burn charcoal, so the heat would be a bit difficult to control. But now that technology is so advanced, we don't require anything else, just use a gas stove.
Although the Sanqing Taoist Temple is said to be a Taoist temple, in the 21st century, how can the world lack high-tech products? The Taoist temple has everything. The gas stove where the Taoist priests usually cook was moved to the back mountain by Shi Zhong. Those Taoist priests
Although they didn't know what Shi Zhong wanted to do, they had been informed a long time ago. This was the level of the master's uncle. How could they dare to neglect and help carry it.
Everything was ready. Looking at the alchemy furnace set up on the gas stove, Shi Zhong smiled slightly and used the gas stove to make elixirs. He could figure it out. Yichenzi stood in the distance and shook his head.
Gas... the medicinal material belongs to wood, so naturally we have to use the fire of the wood spirit. The fire that burns wood will do. But what kind of fire is this gas? Can it be used to make elixirs?"
Shi Zhong ignored it and looked at the structure of the alchemy furnace. It was very strange. There was no hollow at the bottom. Why did flames appear in the alchemy furnace when the gas was turned up? Also, the inside of the alchemy furnace looked like a teapot.
Dongdong, according to Senior Brother Yichenzi’s introduction, it seems to be polished with a special and rare stone. There is also a lid on it. Is it used to hold elixirs?
I don’t understand, I don’t understand!
Generally speaking, the internal structure of a dansha furnace is divided into two parts. The lower part is a heating furnace, which causes the melting reaction or sublimation of the medicine. The upper part is a sealed container that holds dansha and other medicines. There is a pipe running next to it, so that the inside of the container
The evaporated mercury vapor can flow into the condensation tank placed next to it, and then become elixir.
But obviously this alchemy furnace is not an ordinary alchemy furnace. It does not have such a complicated structure. It is very simple. The stone bell is not intended to contain the hardware, eight stones, three yellows and other raw materials usually required for alchemy. You must know how much it is made.
It is a preparation of arsenic, mercury and lead, which can kill people if eaten.
Shi Zhong shook his head, who cares, he just needs to follow the steps of alchemy. He will know when the time comes. Well, it is naturally impossible to use those precious medicinal materials for the first alchemy. He opened the box on the ground beside him. There were more than a dozen inside.
Each one is filled with dried medicinal materials, and a strong medicinal smell assaults the nose, some are fragrant, some are pungent, and some are smelly.
Just try your hand at these cheap guys!
Shi Zhong had people go down the mountain to buy these medicinal materials in a pharmacy. This box is only one-tenth of it. There are several more boxes in his bedroom in the Taoist temple. It is said that refining medicinal materials is the most difficult step.
Then, practice using these herbs yourself.
Glancing at the brocade box next to the big box, Shi Zhong picked it up and opened it. A strange fragrance drifted into his nose. Senior Brother Yichenzi said that this strange fragrance was emitted from a kind of powder, which was used to protect the medicinal materials from being eaten by insects.
He put the brocade box into the space ring and geared up.
"Bata!"
Turn on the fire of the gas stove. Fortunately, the alchemy stove is not very big, only half a meter high and three feet short. The fire of the gas stove is just enough to burn it. I saw a faint blue flame rising from the alchemy stove.
started, but most of the flames were still burning and heating at the bottom of the transparent stone pot. Shi Zhong looked into the alchemy furnace, picked up a medicinal material with an unknown name, and threw it into the bowl in the alchemy furnace.
"Tsk!"
Before the medicinal materials fell into the stone pot, they were burned into coke by the blue flames. Helpless, Shi Zhong had no choice but to turn off the gas, put the medicinal materials into the stone pot, then turn on the gas, and then Shi Zhong covered the alchemy furnace.
Shi Zhong took out a bag of powder and sprinkled it on the flame. There was a sudden roar, and the flame became several times stronger and the temperature was much higher.
I don’t know what this packet of powdered stone bells is, but Yi Chenzi Lao Dao gave it to me, saying it was used to heat it up, otherwise it would be difficult to melt the medicinal materials.
Then he turned off the gas again, added some medicinal ingredients, and continued to light the fire.
Half an hour later, the soaring flames continued to burn. Shi Zhong felt that it was about the same, so he poured a little water into a small sealed hole in the alchemy furnace to speed up the fusion of the medicinal materials.
An hour later, Shi Zhong has been standing quietly next to the alchemy stove, adjusting the flame according to his own understanding. When he felt that it was almost done, he turned off the gas stove. The copper alchemy stove was already boiling hot, and Shi Zhong did not dare to
Go and lift the lid.
After a while, I used a wooden stick to lift the lid, and suddenly a burst of fire came out from inside, almost suffocating Shi Zhong. The hot temperature hit my face, and Shi Zhong would have been disfigured if it had been anyone else.
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Opening the lid of the stone pot, there were indeed two pills lying inside. They were gray-brown and slightly oval in shape. He didn't know how this pill furnace was made. He didn't even do it himself. How could he fuse the medicinal materials into it?
What about round meatballs? But obviously the fusion of this meatball was not successful, and it turned out to be oval!
But Shi Zhong didn't know that this was the secret of the alchemy furnace. Using the stone pot inside the alchemy furnace and the airflow formed by the heat of the flame, coupled with the special design, it would naturally be able to automatically form round pills after the medicinal materials were sublimated.
, otherwise ordinary alchemy requires the alchemist to shape the elixir into a round shape.
The two steps of refining an elixir are the most important. The first is naturally when refining the medicinal materials, and the second is the moment when the medicinal liquid condenses into the elixir. If you are not careful, the consequences of the elixir will be destroyed, and the work will fall short.
Holding two pills the size of your little finger, are these pills?
He put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed, and a smell of odor assaulted his nostrils. Shi Zhong quickly took the elixir away. This was not an elixir at all. It was clearly a mixture of medicinal powders randomly mixed together. However, he remembered that he had thrown it into the stone.
The medicinal materials of the pot include Coptis chinensis, so Shi Zhong knew it.
Such haphazard alchemy is naturally very simple, and there is no need to control the heat. For real alchemy, each medicinal material requires different temperatures when refining, which poses a challenge to the alchemist's ability to master the heat.
Even masters of alchemy dare not say that their success rate in refining medicinal materials is 100%.
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