I asked Yichen for advice on how to make alchemy. Unfortunately, this veteran didn't know much about it himself, but he was still okay. He understood some basic principles, so he tried his best to teach Shi Zhong the alchemy nonsense he had heard from his master.
One day later, Yichen left a message: "Junior brother Ai, the great cause of alchemy can only rely on you. Ai Gao has taught me all the old ways. Don't let senior brother down." Then he left in a hurry, leaving Shi Zhong to think hard in the back mountain alone.
alchemy, alchemy, alchemy
For three days, Shi Zhong's mind was all about how to make elixirs and how to control the heat, but as the saying goes, traveling thousands of miles is worse than thousands of scrolls. On the fourth day, Shi Zhong regretted that he should practice it himself. Only through practice can he make progress.
The first thing you need to make an elixir is the prescription. Now you have it. The second is the alchemy furnace. It is available in the Sanqing Taoist Temple. It is said that it belongs to the cheap master. It is also the Danlu Ai family who refined the chalcedony sinew and bone elixir.
It was 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 elixirs fused inside were almost destroyed. In the end, although the master rescued them, they had no choice but to
I got a 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 ask for anything else, just use a gas stove.
Although Sanqing Taoist Temple is said to be a Taoist temple, in the 21st century, there will be no shortage of high-tech products in the Ai Taoist Temple. Everything is available in Ai Taoist Temple. The gas stove where the Taoist priests usually cook was moved to the back mountain by Shi Zhong. Although those Taoist priests did not know
What Shi Zhong wants to do, but they have been informed a long time ago. This is the level of master uncle. How dare he neglect it? Help him to 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. Yichen stood in the distance and shook his head when he saw it: "Using gas medicinal materials."
Since it belongs to wood, it is natural to use the fire of the wood spirit. The fire that burns wood is sufficient, 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 on? Also, there was something like a teapot in the alchemy furnace.
Dong, according to senior brother Yichen's introduction, it seems to be ground with a special rare stone and there is 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 for holding dansha and other medicines. There is a pipe running next to it, so that all the medicines in the container are contained.
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 does not include the five metals, eight stones, three yellows and other raw materials required to release the elixir. You must know that most of the materials are made of
Preparations of arsenic, mercury and lead will poison people if eaten.
Shi Zhong shook his head, who cares, he just needs to follow the steps of alchemy, and he will know when the time comes. Well, it is naturally impossible to use those precious medicinal materials for the first alchemy. Open the box on the ground next to it, and there are more than a dozen inside.
Each one is filled with dried medicinal materials, and a strong medicinal smell comes to your nose, some are fragrant, some are pungent, and some are smelly.
Just try these cheap guys!
Shi Zhong had people go down the mountain to buy these medicinal materials in a drugstore. This box is only one-tenth of it. I still have several boxes in my bedroom in the Taoist temple. They say that refining medicinal materials is the most difficult step.
Then, practice using these medicinal materials yourself
Glancing at the brocade box next to the big box, Shi Zhong picked it up and opened it. A strange fragrance floated into his nose. Senior Brother Yichen said that this strange fragrance was emitted from a kind of powder, which was spread to protect the medicinal materials from being eaten by insects.
Yes, put the brocade box into the space ring and gear up.
"Bata!"
Turn on the fire of the gas stove. Fortunately, this alchemy stove is not very big, only half a meter high and three legs 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 an unknown medicinal material, 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, and then turn on the gas again. Then Shi Zhong covered the alchemy furnace.
He took out a packet of powder and sprinkled it on the flame. There was a sudden roar. The flame was several times stronger and the temperature was much higher.
I don’t know what this packet of powdered stone bell is. Yichen Laodao gave it to me, saying it is for heating, otherwise it will be difficult to melt the medicinal materials.
Then he turned off the gas again, put in some medicinal ingredients, and continued 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 stood quietly beside the alchemy stove, adjusting the flame according to his own understanding. When he felt it was almost done, he turned off the gas stove. The copper alchemy stove was already boiling hot, and Shi Zhong didn't dare to
Go and lift the lid
After a while, I used a wooden stick to lift up 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.
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 move it. How could he fuse the medicinal materials into it?
What about round pills? But apparently the fusion of this pill 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 knead 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 solution condenses the elixir. If you are not careful, the consequences of the elixir will be destroyed, and the result will fall short.
Holding two pills the size of your thumb, 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. It was clearly a mixture of medicinal powders mixed together randomly, but he remembered that he threw it into the stone pot.
The medicinal materials include Coptis chinensis, and Shi Zhong will understand.
Such haphazard alchemy is naturally very simple, and there is no need to control the heat. For real alchemy, each medicinal material requires a different temperature 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 when refining medicinal materials is 100%. To be continued
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