After Jin Ming finished teaching, he didn't stay in the Earth Fire Room for long. He only left six portions of the fish marrow elixir ingredients with Zhao Sheng, and then left here on the pretext that something happened.
When Zhao Sheng was the only one left in the fire room, a light flashed in Zhao Sheng's eyes, and uncontrollable excitement appeared on his face.
He turned back to the futon and sat down cross-legged, and began to refine the fish marrow elixir for the third time.
This time, he will go all out.
Half an hour later, black smoke curled up from the alchemy furnace, and the light in Zhao Sheng's eyes skyrocketed. Two blue lights shot out of his eye sockets for more than three inches, and the afterimages of the alchemy formula in his hand flashed out.
"Condensation!"
With a low shout, three fish marrow pills suddenly rushed out of the pill furnace, flew quickly in front of Zhao Sheng, and stopped in the air.
Zhao Sheng narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at the elixir in front of him that exuded a strong fragrance of elixir.
Refining alchemy is not as simple as imagined.
Even with the blessing of talent, Zhao Sheng still underestimated the complexity of refining the elixir. Several other elixirs either failed to reach the elixir-condensing standard due to the fusion of medicinal properties, or the elixir formation reaction was insufficient, resulting in the final elixir-condensing failure.
"Come again!"
Zhao Sheng put away the fish marrow pill and moved away the silver-white pill furnace that Jin Ming had left specially with a wave of his hand.
The next second, the Nine Dragon Alchemy Cauldron flew out, rose to the height of a person, and landed steadily on the alchemy table.
boom!
As the eight red clam fire outlets spurted out blazing pure green fire, the Nine Dragon Cauldron quickly became scalding hot.
The Jiulong Cauldron is indeed a spiritual weapon-level alchemy cauldron. Zhao Sheng can operate it like a wave of his arms, ten times smoother than the silver-white alchemy furnace.
The fourth time he refined the Fish Marrow Pill, with the help of the Nine Dragon Cauldron, Zhao Sheng clearly felt that this time the elixir was refined faster, and the medicinal properties were extracted more thoroughly and in a more balanced manner.
When it comes to the step of smelting medicinal properties, it becomes even more obvious. The bubbles on the elixir liquid are denser and the volume shrinks three points faster. The temperature changes of elixir refining are also easier to control than the silver-white elixir furnace, and the precision and accuracy are an order of magnitude higher.
This fourth time of refining alchemy immediately gave Zhao Sheng a big surprise.
There were actually five pills produced this time, four of which were of high quality, and only one was slightly defective, but it was still of good quality.
Zhao Sheng was very excited and took the opportunity to start refining the fifth furnace.
Half an hour later, the refining failed, and the reason for the failure is unknown.
…
In the sixth furnace, three elixirs were produced. The reason was that the quality of the medicinal materials was not good.
The seventh furnace produces seven elixirs!
After seven furnaces of refining, all the medicinal materials left by Jin Ming were exhausted, and the number of fish marrow pills has reached as many as seven. The most important thing is that he only failed to refine it once!
If other alchemists knew his alchemy success rate, they would be stunned immediately.
This guy is simply inhuman!
Zhao Sheng was satisfied with the result, but it was not good enough. He felt that he still had a lot of room for improvement.
When Zhao Sheng came out of the Earth Fire Room and left Wanxia Peak, it was getting late and the sun was setting in the west.
The dim sunlight shines on the Sunset Peak, and the large white clouds and smoke floating above the peak are suddenly reflected into a blood-red color, just like the red clouds hanging all over the sky.
At this time, the smoke column rising from the top of the Sunset Peak is dyed pink. From a distance, it looks like a red silk falling down for nine days, which is extremely beautiful.
But such beautiful scenery could not attract Zhao Sheng's attention.
As soon as he left Sunset Peak, he went straight to Danhuofang City.
When he arrived at Fangshi, he didn't go directly to the Treasure Medicine Pavilion and bought many spiritual medicinal materials for refining Water Spirit Pill and Fish Marrow Pill.
Not only that, he also purchased several other elixirs for refining first-level elixirs, and planned to let Jin Ming teach him how to make elixirs in the future.
The next day, in the underground fire room, there was a dull explosion from the Nine Dragon Cauldron. Although the sound was not loud, it made Zhao Sheng's heart sink and his face became a little ugly.
After hesitating for a moment, Zhao Sheng sighed and stopped the fire. Then he stepped forward, raised the lid of the cauldron with a wave of his hand, and looked inside. Sure enough, there was only a pile of pill slag left in the furnace.
Zhao Sheng shook his head, and with a flick of his finger, a water dragon condensed out of thin air and flew into the alchemy furnace, quickly and repeatedly washing the inner wall.
This was his fifth time refining Water Spirit Pill, and it was also his second failure!
In terms of success rate, Water Spirit Pill is really more difficult than Fish Marrow Pill.
After rinsing the alchemy furnace, Zhao Sheng had escaped from the shadow of failure and his mood returned to calm.
He returned to the futon and sat down with an expressionless expression. He pondered a lot. After summing up the experience and lessons from the failure, he began to refine the sixth furnace of water elixir.
Sometimes when refining elixirs, practice makes perfect, just like playing a game to increase your level. The more you play, the more proficient you become.
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Seven days later, Jin Ming and Zhao Sheng met again.
Without waiting for Jin Ming to ask, Zhao Sheng immediately showed the results of the seven days of special alchemy training.
A furnace of fish marrow pills yields three pills.
A furnace of water elixirs yields two elixirs.
The best thing is that I didn’t fail twice!
Seeing Zhao Sheng's humble and eager expression, Jin Ming took a deep breath and could not say any critical words.
Seeing this situation, Zhao Sheng took the opportunity to propose: "Fellow Taoist Jin, I heard that you are also proficient in refining Jade Yellow Pill. I happened to have prepared twenty medicinal materials. Why don't you teach me how to refine Jade Yellow Pill today?"
After hearing this, Jin Ming couldn't help but take a deep breath. He didn't know why, but he felt like something was pressing against his lungs, which made him feel very depressed.
He covered his chest and agreed painfully: "...Okay!"
Zhao Sheng was overjoyed when he heard this and turned a blind eye to Jin Ming's pain. He held his hand and thanked him: "Fellow Taoist is indeed very generous. Zhao admires him very much!"
As he spoke, Jin Ming felt something solid in his hand. When he looked down, he saw a medium-grade pure Yin spirit stone leaking out a little halo of light from between his fingers.
Seeing this, Jin Ming immediately felt much better and said loudly: "You are so polite, fellow Taoist! Since you are sincere, I will give you everything I have to make sure you are satisfied!"
Zhao Sheng patted his hand knowingly and said with a smile: "I don't dare to say anything else. My fellow Taoist will see my sincerity in the future."
"Okay, Jin will start refining a furnace of jade yellow elixir right now." Jin Ming said very cheerfully.
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Two years have passed by in a flash.
On Chunqiu Island, the core spiritual island of Jiuzhen Island, there is a three-story palace-shaped building covering a large area in the east of the island. On the entrance of the main hall on the first floor are three gilded characters "Gongdetang".
The interior of this building is very spacious. The main hall on the first floor is five to sixty feet wide. The hall is divided into many areas, separated by jade counters.
A huge white light wall stands in the center of each area. Lines of black, red, yellow, green and white text appear on the surface of the light wall, corresponding to the five task levels.
The Merit Hall is where the Spring and Autumn Alliance issues various tasks to its own allies, the island's casual cultivators, and a group of guest elders.
Due to the different functions of the areas, the corresponding tasks can be said to be diverse, including ordinary tasks such as hunting monsters and beasts, searching for spiritual herbs, medicinal materials, etc., as well as professional tasks related to refining alchemy, weapon refining, and talisman refining, as well as employment, assassination, guarding, etc.
For special tasks, there are even those of recruiting a son-in-law or a disciple.
It can be said that as long as you dare to take on the task, Merit Hall will dare to take it on, provided that you can afford the remuneration and task commission.
In the world of cultivating immortals, special places like Merit Hall are actually very common. Any larger sect and family of cultivating immortals will have similar places. For example, the Guiyuan Sect where Zhao Sheng stayed in his previous life has established good deeds.
The function of the Hall of Merit is very similar to that of the Hall of Merit, except that unlike the Hall of Merit, it dares not to mention any tasks openly.
At this moment, in front of a huge wall of light
Zhao Sheng, who was dressed in black, was standing there, his eyes flickering as the text on the wall changed.
After a moment, his consciousness suddenly moved, and he raised his hand to reveal a jade plaque.
"Level C Mission No. 11"
As he shouted, a white light suddenly shot out from the surface of the light wall, and the white light flashed into the jade tablet in his hand.
After a burst of white light appeared on the surface of the jade plaque, a row of small characters suddenly appeared:
"Twenty water-proofing pills, one thousand points of merit!" Zhao Sheng took a quick look and understood the situation of this mission.
It turns out that this water-repelling elixir is a special type of elixir that is quite difficult to refine among the first-level elixirs.
Immortal cultivators who take a water-proofing pill can breathe freely underwater for up to three days.
Alchemy is really a very expensive skill, even if Zhao Sheng was rich, he still couldn't afford it.
Especially when he was trying to learn to refine the second-level elixir in "Essence of Alchemy: One Hundred Alchemy Prescriptions", the cost of any refining failure was more than three digits of spiritual stones.
It's not that he is restless in refining the first-level elixir, it's that his progress is too fast. Jin Ming was already wiped out half a year ago.
All the twenty-one first-level elixir refining methods he mastered were learned by Zhao Sheng.
As for the second-level elixir?
Unfortunately, Jin Ming can only refine a second-level Jin Yun Dan, and the success rate is pitifully low.
It takes ten refining attempts to succeed only once or twice. The maximum number of elixirs produced each time is two, and the quality is not to be mentioned.
It was not that Zhao Sheng had never thought about becoming a disciple of other alchemists, but ever since he occasionally heard rumors that he was an "alchemy genius" and was visited many times by some fellow foundation builders.
In order to avoid more trouble, Zhao Sheng had to give up the idea temporarily.
At the same time, Zhao Sheng also secretly reduced the number of visits to the Earth Fire Room, as well as the quantity and frequency of elixirs sold.
Regarding Merit Hall, Zhao Sheng has been more diligent in the past two months.
First, I took on a few alchemy tasks and earned some spiritual money to repay my capital.
But he came mainly for the spiritual fire of heaven and earth.
It's a pity that the spiritual fire of heaven and earth suitable for alchemy can only be found but not sought.
In the past few months, Zhao Sheng visited Daofang City and Gongde Hall and saw several types of heaven and earth spiritual fires, but none of them met his requirements.
Finally, I saw a golden flame in the center of the earth, suitable for alchemy.
However, before he could take action, the Earth Core Golden Flame was bought by the upper echelons of the Alchemist Guild.
Zhao Sheng is just an alchemy apprentice, not in the eyes of others at all.
Although no one in the entire Jiuzhen Island knew that he was a first-level alchemist, except Jin Ming who vaguely guessed it.
…
After Zhao Sheng accepted the alchemy task, he looked at the light wall of other tasks and found no clues about the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire task.
After thinking for a while, he immediately stepped out of the Merit Hall, threw the golden flying sword, and turned around his body at the same time. His whole body suddenly turned into a sword rainbow and flew straight to the cave on the island.