Chapter 1,488 February 2, the dragon raises its head
Bang!
The first furnace failed.
The furnace lid blew up ten feet high.
But instead of feeling frustrated, Zhang Xiaozu had a smile on his face.
Because although this furnace failed, it allowed him to find the feeling of controlling fire, as well as the perception and control of the air flow in the alchemy furnace.
The second furnace did not explode, but a pungent burnt smell wafted out of the alchemy furnace.
All the pills were burnt and failed.
The problem lies in the last step of condensing the elixir.
At the last moment, Zhang Xiaozu used the same fire-gathering talisman as the old beggar, but the firepower was too strong and burned all the pills.
He was still not discouraged because he knew very well that success was just around the corner.
Sure enough, with the experience of the first two furnaces, the third furnace was a perfect success.
Not only did he produce thirty pills, not one of them was sticky, but the quality of each pill was of the highest quality, better than what he had made before.
Any Broken Star Pill is good.
Zhang Xiaozu sat beside the alchemy furnace and meditated for a while, then continued to refine the elixir.
The fourth furnace failed and there were only twelve good elixirs.
The fifth furnace failed.
The sixth furnace was successful.
The seventh furnace failed.
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One after another, there are few successes and many failures.
Ye Mingyue, who was watching from the sidelines, was surprised at first and didn't understand what happened to Zhang Xiaozu, why he failed one after another after succeeding. However, after observing for a while, she understood that Zhang Xiaozu was constantly practicing and studying the skills of alchemy.
If any cultivator in the world of martial arts found out that Zhang Xiaozu actually used the Broken Star Pill to practice alchemy, they would definitely scold him and call him a prodigal.
Although Zhang Xiaozu's squandering of alchemy in this way is just an example, one thing is true, every high-level alchemist is fed with money.
Unless you're the kind of genius who can get things done in just one click.
It took more than 30 rounds of Zhang Xiaopu practice before I stopped.
I sat there thinking for more than an hour and then continued.
This time he no longer used wood and ordinary fire, but started to use Taoist real fire.
boom!
The first furnace was used to offer sacrifices to heaven as usual.
The furnace lid blew up more than thirty feet high.
Obviously, Taoist real fire is much stronger than ordinary fire.
The second furnace is fully cooked.
The third oven was more than half burnt.
The fourth furnace offers sacrifices to heaven again.
think, continue
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This cycle repeats.
It wasn't until the fortieth time that his frown gradually relaxed.
By furnace sixty-three, a smile gradually appeared on his face.
Already able to master Taoist true fire elixir refining skillfully.
The next one is better than the last.
Two days had passed without him realizing it.
When Su Zheng was the first to come out of seclusion and reach the cliff, he looked at the pile of Broken Star Pills piled high next to Zhang Xiaozu and was stunned on the spot.
He knew that Zhang Xiaozu had bought a lot of medicinal materials for refining the Broken Star Pill, but he never imagined that he could refine so many.
There are four to five thousand in a tall pile.
Zhang Xiaozu finished refining the last furnace of Broken Star Pills and took out thirty perfectly fine Star Broken Pills from the furnace with a very satisfied smile on his face.
Then he looked at Su Zheng, who was standing stupidly aside, and praised: "The late stage of the Traveling Realm is very good."
Su Zheng said modestly: "It's just average."
But the corner of his mouth, which reached right under his ears and could not be closed back, completely betrayed his inner pride.
His mouth was grinning like this, and the huge scar that stretched across his entire face was distorted, making him look very hideous.
If any children saw it, they would definitely be frightened and cry.
Zhang Xiaozhu offered to help him remove the scar, but he refused, saying that he wanted to keep the scar as a souvenir.
Su Zheng punched the air a few times, raised the corner of his mouth and smiled: "Although I am only in the late stage of the Traveling Realm, I feel that I should be able to give it a try with the Star Reaching Realm."
"Don't overestimate yourself and underestimate the enemy, otherwise you will suffer." Zhang Xiaozu warned.
Then he raised his finger and pointed at the Broken Star Pills beside him and said: "You can deal with these Broken Star Pills and give some to your subordinates to help them improve their combat power."
"Ha ha…"
"Then they must be stunningly beautiful."
When Su Zheng heard that Zhang Xiaopeng was asking for these Broken Star Pills, he was so happy that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear.
He was not polite to Zhang Xiaozu and took them all.
The decisive battle with Li Da Mazi was imminent, and he immediately flew to the village to distribute Broken Star Pills.
With these Star-Breaking Pills, battle losses will be greatly reduced.
Zhang Xiaozu struck while the iron was hot and continued to refine the Star Pill.
This time, we broke the tradition of offering sacrifices to heaven in the first furnace. For the first time, there were twenty pieces in single order, and the quality was acceptable.
But it is still far from the one made by the old beggar.
Zhang Xiaozu was quite satisfied with the results of this first round.
Then continue.
Each furnace is better than the last, very smooth.
This is not only because the old beggar has explained the refining of Star Pills, but also because of his experience in practicing more than a hundred batches of Star-Shattering Pills.
By the sixth furnace, the quality has reached the top grade, surpassing that of the old beggar.
In the next three days, Jiang Huailong and five others came out of confinement one after another.
The level of cultivation has been greatly improved.
Jiao Kaixuan reached the perfection of the Traveling Realm, while Jiang Huailong and Li Qiaoyan reached the perfection and early stage of the Star Reaching Realm respectively.
Dong Zilong broke through the shackles and successfully promoted to the realm of destruction. He also broke through a small realm and reached the middle stage of the realm of destruction.
Qiu Liang had accumulated a lot of experience and was able to break through the shackles from the early stage of the Star Reaching Realm and advance to the Destruction Realm in one go.
In fact, the substantial improvement in their cultivation realm is not their biggest gain from this retreat. The biggest gain is that their understanding of the law of power has been qualitatively sublimated, which has laid a solid foundation for their future cultivation, and even to break through to the holy realm.
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They suddenly had two people in the realm of destruction, and they couldn't help but begin to look forward to the arrival of Li Da Mazi, and were even eager to take the initiative to attack Li Da Mazi.
Zhang Xiaozu refined all the star pills in one go.
There were a total of ninety-six furnaces, not a single waste elixir, and a total of one thousand nine hundred and twenty star elixirs were refined.
He probably calculated that it cost nearly a thousand star pills to purchase the ninety-six furnaces of medicinal and spiritual materials, which means an extra nine hundred
If you have more than one, you will earn it.
Such huge profits surprised him.
However, this is not the case.
The huge profit calculated by Zhang Xiaozu is because his elixir success rate is 100%.
But in fact, the elixir success rate of a qualified alchemist is only 70 to 80%. An elixir success rate of more than 80% is called excellent, a rate of 90% is called outstanding, and a rate of 100% is called extraordinary.
No alchemy master in the world can guarantee that his success rate will always be 100%. At most, he only has experience in refining one or a few of his best elixirs.
For example, this is the case when Zhang Xiaozu refines the Star Pill.
If he were allowed to refine the Tongxuan Pill, the rate of success would obviously not reach 100%.
At least not yet.
Therefore, if the elixir success rate is calculated as 70% to 80%, although the profit is considerable, it is not as huge as Zhang Xiaozu thought.
Zhang Xiaozu kept 300 star pills for himself, and let Su Zheng and the others share the rest.
Su Zheng and the other six people felt like they had suddenly become rich overnight, and they felt ecstatic and full of unreality.
Zhang Xiaozu did not continue to refine alchemy, but taught the six Su Zheng some advanced physical and combat skills, sword skills, knife skills, etc.
The physical combat skills are his own, and the sword skills and knife skills are what he searched for from the ingested memories.
He chose those martial arts that have no sect and no sect, but he did not dare to teach the martial arts that are not taught to outsiders in Liujiabao, Longfeng Villa, and Shuanglong Academy to Su Zheng and the others, because if they use them, if they happen to be used by people from these three forces,
Recognition will inevitably lead to death.
On February 2, the dragon raises its head.
Li Da Mazi came from the east with a silver gun and more than two thousand men.