Three days later, Xu Chen came back with a pale face.
His whole body seemed to have lost weight, his eyes were darkened, his face was dry, his head was covered with red dust and there was a smell of smoke, and he looked extremely decadent.
After drinking a gourd of cold water in one breath, Xu Chen sat down on the ground, hugging Xiao Baibei who jumped on his lap, and said:
"Xiao Bai, alchemy is really not something humans do. I finally know why the ninth senior brother has never been able to learn it, and why the third elder has lost so much weight. He has been sitting here for three days, and even a donkey can't hold it."
"Whoa whoa whoa..."
Xiaobai seemed to understand, nodding his head, and gently licked his fingers to comfort him.
Xu Chen was very depressed. He wanted to learn alchemy and weapon refining. He just wanted to have a skill so that he could be self-sufficient in elixirs and magic weapons in the future.
After all, his situation is very special. He has a cultivation base at the Kaiyuan Realm, but has the strength of his spiritual consciousness at the late stage of the True Yuan Realm, and even has a vitality reserve no less than that of the middle stage of the True Yuan Realm.
In fact, his strength should have reached the middle to late stage of the True Yuan Realm.
But if he wants his cultivation level to continue to improve steadily, he must not only have second-level magic weapons suitable for his use, but also need a supplement of elixirs that are ten times more than those of monks of the same realm, so that he can keep up with the speed of cultivation.
But he never thought about using these skills as a career, let alone becoming an alchemy machine serving the mountain sect, working as a disgraced fireman every day.
Of course, this time he successfully refined a furnace of second-grade Qi Gathering Pills, and the harvest was good. He also got two Qi Gathering Pills, and one Qi Gathering Pill was worth at least five spiritual stones. He made a profit in three days.
Ten pieces of spiritual stones are much higher than the income from refining first-grade pills before.
But even so, Xu Chen was still very depressed.
Obviously being a fireman is worse than being a dung picker.
Last time I picked up excrement, I got a blue jade bead, which was of the level of a fairy treasure.
Therefore, Xu Chen began to feel anxious and wanted to find an excuse to go down the mountain to practice.
It is much faster to get rich outside than in the mountains.
Although refining alchemy and refining weapons is a safe way to make money, it is time-consuming, energy-consuming, and energy-consuming. I feel that the effort is not proportional to the income.
However, many senior brothers and sisters have not returned from the mountain. In addition to taking care of the mountain gate, those who stay on the mountain also have the task of patrolling the Linghu Canyon, so there is no chance to leave.
Time flies, and another month passes in the blink of an eye, and it’s late winter.
Xu Chen refined the second-grade pill several times. Although they were all the most common pills such as Qi Gathering Pill and Qingshen Pill, their success still surprised the third elder. He loved him even more and wished he could tie him up.
The Alchemy Academy gave him all his alchemy skills and knowledge.
It's a pity that Xu Chen spent three days fishing and two days drying nets. He was obviously more interested in refining weapons than refining elixirs.
In the past month, Xu Chen's cultivation has slowed down, but alchemy and weapon refining have made his character much calmer. What makes him most satisfied is that he finally completed a first-class product from start to finish by himself.
The making of flying swords.
The sword base is made of a piece of green snow wood.
Green snow wood is a first-level spiritual material of the wind system, but it has ice properties, making it a very low-level dual-property material.
There is a brief introduction in the jade slip given by Senior Brother. It ranks around 100 in the ranking of spiritual materials. It is indeed a very basic spiritual material.
Because of the basics, it is relatively easy to process. The hardness is not high and the properties are not strong. It can be processed simply with the tools given by the senior brother. Moreover, this material basically cannot be combined with other spiritual materials, so the flying sword can be made as large as it needs to be.
How big.
It took three days to process the shape, one day to polish and inlay the spiritual stones, two days to carve the four formations, and one day to polish and trim.
During almost a month's rest, most of it was spent on this flying sword.
In addition to the most basic flying formation, the flying sword also has a basic soul locking formation, a wind attack technique, and an ice auxiliary attack technique.
Because it was his debut work, Xu Chen still carefully made a sword box for this flying sword, and also carefully named the workmanship.
"Green Snow Sword. Made in the 38th year of Song Dynasty, Taiyuanmen. Xu Chen."
But when Thirteenth Senior Sister Zhao Xuan saw his flying sword, she laughed for three days.
Xu Chen neither rejoices in things nor feels sad about himself. Although he is embarrassed, he is more interested in refining weapons and slowly tries to learn how to fuse spiritual materials and fuse formations.
However, both of these are very difficult. Even if he has the strength of his spiritual consciousness in the late stage of the True Yuan Realm and the calm mind accumulated through continuous alchemy and weapon refining, he still failed several times in succession and destroyed several spiritual materials. The losses added up.
It will not be less than thirty spiritual stones.
Only then did Xu Chen understand that weapon refining was really not a skill that ordinary casual cultivators and small immortal sects could afford. It was more terrifying than the consumption of alchemy.
Even though he now has a lot of spiritual stones, he still feels physical pain.
And he finally understood why every time he went to see his senior brother, he was always in a daze with different materials.
The main reason is that the materials are too expensive and cannot be consumed, so I can only think over and over again about one spiritual material, and strive to design the most complete and perfect device shape, so that the formation and attributes can be harmoniously matched, and then I start to make it.
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After having this understanding, Xu Chen began to reduce his hands-on skills and focused on observing the structure of the magic weapons he already had. At the same time, he repeatedly figured out each spiritual material in his mind.
Design, then simulate the matching formations, and then speculate on the effect of the magic weapon output after the integration of these formations.
Unexpectedly, after such a period of time, he benefited a lot and felt that his experience in weapon refining had greatly improved.
For this reason, he went to ask his senior brother for advice and confirmation. As expected, he received his approval, saying that only with this level of understanding could he truly get started.
However, the senior brother was still thinking about Xu Chen's promise to refine the elixir. After learning that he was now able to skillfully refine common second-grade elixirs, he hoped that he could use the soul beads to refine a furnace of elixirs as soon as possible to try the effect.
Xu Chen also felt that this matter was almost done, so he took his senior brother to find the third elder.
Unexpectedly, the third elder was more excited than the senior brother. Just in case, he even summoned the second elder Xuan and Zhenren, who were still in seclusion, to come with him to observe and help protect the law.
After all, the last time Xu Chen just refined a furnace of Xiaoyuan Dan and caused a strange phenomenon in the Danyun. If he hadn't rushed to help suppress the furnace quickly, he might have destroyed the furnace and killed everyone.
Xu Chen was naturally frightened. The last time he rashly introduced the white energy from the blue light vase into the elixir, he almost emptied his Dantian several times. He took three Dayuan Dans before and after to hold on. The three elixirs he finally made were his own.
I didn't even drink a single grain, and I don't even know what it tastes like.
Therefore, this time Xu Chen decided to use the most familiar Dayuan Dan for a new test first. If successful, he would then use the second-grade Qi Gathering Pill for the test.
When they learned that Xu Chen was going to use soul beads to enter the elixir again, all the senior brothers and sisters who were still at the mountain gate came after hearing the news and gathered outside the elixir room to watch the excitement.
But there are only four of them in total, the careless Seventh Senior Sister, the withdrawn Eighth Senior Brother, the out-of-touch Ninth Senior Brother, and the tenth Senior Sister who lives in seclusion and is like an invisible person.
Among them, the seventh senior sister Qu Mei was especially excited.
Because Xu Chen's cultivation level was too low, the furnace almost exploded the last time he refined Xiao Yuan Dan. Therefore, although she had begged Xu Chen, she also knew that it was very difficult to enter the elixir with soul power, which far exceeded Xu Chen's cultivation ability.
The elixir is probably more difficult to control, so I never urged it.
In fact she was very anxious.
Now that she is in the late stage of the Kaiyuan Realm, she has been preparing for a long time to attack the Foundation Establishment, and has already obtained a Returning Pill, but the strength of her soul is not strong enough, so she does not have much confidence in wasting a Returning Pill. After all, Taiyuan
The family background is too shallow, and now there are only three Guiyuan Pills in total. They were all obtained last time when Xu Chen and the others went to the capital. No one can afford to waste it. If it doesn't work this time, she doesn't know how long she will have to wait to get the third one.
Two Returning Pills.
As for the Aiki Pill, she had never thought about it.
Basically, in the entire Immortal World of the Great Song Dynasty, with the exception of the two established immortal sects, Yuqing Palace and Longmen Mountain, where the two great spiritual realm monks are stationed, and may provide a small amount of Heqi Pills to the inner sect elite disciples and direct disciples, all other monks build
Basically, it relies on Guiyuan Dan.
However, the success rate of Guiyuan Dan's foundation building is closely related to one's own qualifications.
If it is a Heqi Pill, as long as it is in the late stage of Kaiyuan Realm and has reached perfection, there is basically an 80% chance of success.
But Guiyuan Dan only has a 10% chance at most.
And this opportunity is almost concentrated among those monks with strong souls. They use their powerful spiritual consciousness and powerful comprehension ability to seize the moment of breakthrough opportunity, and use the Guiyuan Pill to stimulate the tide of vitality to open up the life points.
Then penetrate the body's acupuncture points, communicate with the three souls and seven souls, and create the Tao foundation.
Precisely because it is difficult to build a foundation, the ratio between the Kaiyuan Realm of the Immortal Realm and the True Yuan Foundation exceeds ten to one.
Qu Mei urgently needs elixirs to increase the strength of her soul, but these elixirs are either third-grade elixirs or above, or elixirs are extremely rare and rare, and are simply not something she can get.
She also tried to practice with soul beads, but failed.
Moreover, none of the three elders could copy Xu Chen's method of absorbing soul power into the elixir.
Therefore, the only option she had now was to hug Xu Chen's thigh.
Of course, the two elders and other senior brothers and sisters were all thinking the same thing and were very nervous and excited.
Soon, the third elder personally prepared all the elixirs for refining the Great Yuan Dan, and each elixir was a carefully selected sample of a sufficiently spiritual year.
After everything was ready, Xu Chen sat down on the futon, activated the alchemy furnace, put in the spiritual stones, activated the Five Elements Formation, lit the spiritual fire and started to refine the elixir.
He was already very familiar with the refining of the Great Yuan Dan, so he was familiar with the previous stage of refining the medicine. Under the eyes of two elders and a group of senior brothers and sisters, he methodically put the elixirs into the elixir furnace one by one, and used them almost like a stick of incense.
The speed of refining.
An hour passed in the blink of an eye, and all the more than ten elixirs were refined and began to enter the combined elixir stage. At this time, the test really began.
Because according to his original experiment, white gas was introduced at this time, and then the fire began to get out of control.
There are still ten updates today, four in the morning and three at noon and evening.