After sending away his fourth uncle, Zhang Menglong, Zhang Zhixuan had another task, which was to start learning alchemy.
Qingchan has simply practiced Qi to the first level and is able to do a lot of work. Whether it is weeding, plowing fields, or taking care of the white jade beehive, Qingchan has already learned how to do it.
If two people work together to do one person's work, Zhang Zhixuan will have some free time.
Every morning, as soon as the sun rises, Zhang Zhixuan begins to practice the Qi Accumulation Technique, refining the purple energy of the morning sun every day, and making plans for future foundation building.
Recently, Zhang Zhixuan has taught this magic to Qing Chan.
This spell is said to be very difficult. No matter how talented you are, you cannot practice it. However, it is said to be very simple. Even a mortal without spiritual roots can practice it.
To practice this spell, you need to visualize the purple sun in your mind. If you can succeed, you can refine the innate purple energy every morning, and then store the purple energy in the Dantian.
When monks refine their magic power, it usually exists in the middle Dantian.
Although the upper and lower dantian can also store mana, it is quite fragile, and the energy of mana is quite violent. If you are not careful, it will break through the upper and lower dantian, causing the monk to die on the spot.
Therefore, except for some crazy monks, no one will develop the upper and lower Dantian, and there are very few miraculous techniques involving the Upper and Lower Dantian.
Although Qingchan couldn't speak, she was very spiritual and very smart. Under Zhang Zhixuan's careful explanation, she quickly successfully visualized the purple sun and refined the first ray of purple energy to enter the Dantian.
After being fully introduced to Qing Chan, Zhang Zhixuan began to read various elixir prescriptions and pharmacology, and began to learn alchemy.
The first-level elixirs are very simple. They are some of the most basic elixirs in the world of immortality. Most of them are suitable for monks in the innate stage to strengthen their foundation and cultivate their abilities.
This level of elixir contains only a trace of spiritual energy and is of little use to monks in the Qi training stage.
The first thing Zhang Zhixuan refined was the first-grade high-grade Bigu Pill.
There are countless formulas for the elixir of Bigu Pill, and the highest level of Bigu Pill is the third level. Even if a monk in the Foundation Establishment Stage takes one pill, he will be full for a year.
The simplest Bigu Pill is only a first-level low-grade pill. Even if ordinary mortals take it, it can last for up to seven days.
The main ingredient of Bigu Pill is Lingmi, and there are seven or eight kinds of auxiliary drugs, all of which are common ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum and other medicinal materials. They can not only fill the stomach, but also have some effects on strengthening the body and strengthening the body.
The Bigu Pill recipe in Zhang Zhixuan's hands is a first-class top-grade recipe. The main ingredient is fine chalcedony rice, the auxiliary ingredient is a ginseng plant that is more than a century old, and there are seven or eight other precious medicinal materials.
Zhang Zhixuan first soaked the chalcedony rice in well water, and then used a flying knife weapon to chop the xuanyang wood into small sections more than an inch long.
Then he lit the Xuanyang wood and placed the alchemy furnace on top of the fire.
Zhang Zhixuan carefully controlled the temperature of the spiritual fire, then added well water with sufficient spiritual energy into the alchemy furnace, and put each herb into the alchemy furnace.
The burning temperature of Xuanyang wood is extremely high, far exceeding that of ordinary flames. Although it is not as good as earth fire and not as good as the true fire in the body of a foundation-building monk, it can also be used to refine low-level spiritual elixirs.
Some first-level elixirs don't even require spiritual fire, and can be made with only ordinary fire.
Zhang Zhixuan refined the Bigu Pill because the first-level chalcedony rice was difficult to be melted by ordinary fire, so he lit the Xuanyang wood and used the Xuanyang wood with a higher burning temperature to make the elixir.
The previous few times of elixir refining ended in failure due to unreasonable temperature control of the spiritual fire, and a lot of chalcedony rice was wasted, which made Qing Chan complain for a while.
Every time the alchemy failed, Zhang Zhixuan would record the experience of the failed alchemy in detail. After more than ten summaries, Zhang Zhixuan became more and more skilled in controlling fire, and finally succeeded in refining the first furnace of Bigu Pill two months later.
After refining the first-level elixir, Zhang Zhixuan was considered an alchemy apprentice, and soon he told the mountain gate the news.
Not long after, the fourth uncle went down the mountain again. This time he brought some common spiritual herbs and increased the resources invested in Zhang Zhixuan.
In the next year and a half, Zhang Zhixuan successively learned five or six low-level elixirs, including the first-level low-level Yangyuan Pill, the first-level high-level Bone-Jiewan Pill, the first-level middle-level Bear Bile Pill, and the first-level high-level Xuanyu Ointment.
Zhang Zhixuan possesses the fire spirit root and is relatively sensitive to the temperature changes of the spiritual fire. In addition, he has good understanding and is good at summarizing experience.
Therefore, he learned alchemy very quickly. In just two years, he became a good alchemy apprentice, which made the elders in the family very happy and increased the resources invested in him.
Time flies, and two years later, with the family's large investment of resources, Zhang Zhixuan's alchemy skills have advanced by leaps and bounds. In just a few years, he has successfully refined four or five types of second-level elixirs, and successfully advanced to the second-level elixir.
Level alchemist.
Although his ability to refine elixirs is far inferior to that of Jiu Bo Zhang Mengquan, his success rate in refining second-level mid-grade elixirs is also lower than that of third-level elixirs.
If converted into spiritual stones, it would barely make a loss, and it would not be able to earn much spiritual stones for the family.
Even so, the patriarch Zhang Leqian was still alarmed. Seeing that Zhang Zhixuan learned alchemy so quickly, which greatly exceeded the expectations of the family elders, Zhang Leqian was also very relieved and gave Zhang Zhixuan a magical weapon from his collection.
The grade of this magic weapon is even higher than the second level. It is a one-time magic weapon, a low-grade third-level fire thunder bead.
Although this Fire Thunder Bead can only be used once, its power is far greater than the Fire Thunder Wood Talisman in Zhang Zhixuan's hand.
Even monks in the foundation-building stage may be plotted by this disposable magical weapon if they are not prepared.
In the past four years, Zhang Zhixuan not only became a second-level mid-level alchemist, but also improved in cultivation, breaking through two levels in a row and entering the eighth level of Qi training.
With the assistance of the Water Spirit Pot, Zhang Zhixuan no longer lacks resources for practice.
With the help of sufficient spiritual energy, Zhang Zhixuan's cultivation has not encountered any bottleneck. Within five years, he has broken through two levels of bottlenecks and entered the eighth level of Qi training.
At this point, his cultivation level is second only to the five elders of the family, and he can be regarded as the little master in the family.
In the past few years, he has also completed the ritual refining of most of the magical weapons seized in the market.
During a fierce battle in Fangshi, he beheaded an elderly monk who was at the eighth level of qi training. Not only did he take away the elderly monk's storage jade box, he also obtained a second-level mid-grade magic weapon gourd.
After several years of refining, the restrictions placed by the elderly monks in the storage jade box have been broken by Zhang Zhixuan.
There are not many good things in the jade box, only a few spiritual stones, seven or eight low-level spiritual talismans, and not even a spare magic weapon.
Later in the cave, he killed a man in black who was at the seventh level of qi training, and obtained a second-level mid-level flying knife and a broken second-level mid-level shield.
After returning to the mountain gate, he gave the broken shield to his fourth uncle Zhang Menglong and took it back to the mountain gate, and brought it to his eighteenth aunt Zhang Mengqin to repair it.
The eighteenth aunt Zhang Mengqin is less than fifty years old and has been practicing to the ninth level of Qi training for almost ten years. She possesses the fire spirit root, but she did not choose to make alchemy. Instead, she chose the profession of weapon refining.
The green bamboo sword in Zhang Zhixuan's hand came from her hand.
Zhang Zhixuan spent an additional twenty spirit stones and finally asked Eighteen Gu to take action. She used several second-level spiritual minerals to completely smelt the wooden shield inside and repair the shield artifact.
What is even more surprising is Xiao Qingchan. She has only practiced for four and a half years in the spiritual field, and her cultivation has reached the sixth level of Qi training. In another three to five years, she may be able to catch up with Zhang Zhixuan.
Because Qing Chan had already cultivated well, Zhang Zhixuan handed her the shield magic weapon, the Fire Thunder Wood Talisman, the Golden Sword Wood Talisman and other magic weapons in her hand, along with a dozen low-level spiritual charms.
Because the progress of Qingchan's cultivation was extremely alarming, Zhang Zhixuan had not dared to take her to see the family monks in the past year or two, lest the news leak out and leave any hidden dangers.