After activating the alchemy furnace and observing the skill of burning incense, Xu Chen almost understood the formation and the steps of refining the elixir. The next step was to actually operate it, get some herbs, and test it for a few furnaces to see the effect.
Of course, don't even think about magic elixirs. You can only get some common herbs and refine some magical elixirs to try.
Now that the medicine garden was destroyed, the elixir and herbs for refining elixirs in the mountains near Taiyuan Gate would definitely not be available, so Xu Chen put away the elixir furnace and went down the mountain with his sword.
An hour later, he returned to the hut and poured out a lot of messy medicinal materials from the storage bag.
To the Immortal Sect disciples, these medicinal materials are completely rubbish among rubbish, without any spiritual energy at all.
But if you get the mortal realm, everything is worth a lot of money.
Dancao that is ten years old, Scrophulariaceae that are twenty years old, Blood Seed that is thirty years old, Polygonatum sibiricum that is more than one hundred years old, etc. In addition, there are also various dangerous medicinal materials such as poisonous insects and snakes that only grow on steep cliffs or even hidden in deep caves.
These things are everywhere in the deep mountains and forests near Taiyuan Gate, but for ordinary people, picking them requires facing great dangers and even paying their lives.
Xu Chen compared the jade slips, slowly dug out seven medicinal materials, and placed them one by one on the stone slab.
There are only two kinds of elixirs that the Immortal Sect usually refines. One is the Qingshui Dan, which is used to cut hair and cleanse the marrow, and the other is the Peiyuan Dan, which is used to open up the meridians.
However, the Peiyuan Pill already has a hint of a spiritual elixir, and one or two of the medicinal materials are not easy to find, so Xu Chen must not have enough at the moment, so he can only practice with the Qingshui Pill first.
After the preparations were completed, Xu Chen activated the alchemy furnace again and carefully looked at the method of refining the Qingshui Dan. Then he placed a hand on the energy channel of the alchemy furnace, continuously input the energy, and used his spiritual consciousness to impact the concentration at the bottom of the furnace.
Fire formation method.
Soon a blazing white flame was burning brightly in the alchemy furnace. When the fire was almost ready, he put the collected medicinal materials into the alchemy furnace one by one according to the order of alchemy.
There are two methods for refining elixirs, one is to use the monk's Yuanling Qi to light a furnace fire for refining, and the other is to put in spiritual stones as fuel.
Generally speaking, when refining spiritual elixirs, spiritual stones will definitely be used, but this is just a furnace of mortal elixirs and cannot be used at all.
Xu Chen was confident that a pot of Qingshui Dan would be a piece of cake for him.
After several medicinal materials entered the alchemy furnace, the furnace lid was closed. Under the guidance of spiritual consciousness, these medicinal materials were wrapped in different formations of light and shadow according to the five elements' attributes for calcining and refining, and finally the useless components were burned to ashes.
What remains is the essence of the synthetic elixir.
Xu Chen felt very relaxed during the entire refining process. Even though he was a little fussy and even almost made a mistake, and he read the elixir prescription jade slip again in the middle, he finally successfully refined all the medicinal materials in one go.
The next step is to combine the elixirs. This step is particularly critical. If you make a mistake, all the medicinal materials will be destroyed in one go.
The more precisely the process of combining the elixir is controlled, the more uniform and appropriate the ingredients of the elixir will be, and the better the effect of the elixir will be.
Fan Dan does not have very precise requirements for He Dan. Generally speaking, just so-so is fine.
However, Xu Chen was still very careful. After all, it was his first time making alchemy, and he was actually a little excited inside.
He never thought that he would successfully refine all seven medicinal materials at once.
He has heard from Brother Ninth before that refining alchemy is hard, consumes spiritual energy, and is very troublesome. Especially in the refining stage, so many medicinal materials must be baked one by one according to different methods, using different formations and temperatures.
Refining, in order to retain the maximum efficacy, there must be no carelessness and mistakes, etc.
But today it seems that Brother Ninth is exaggerating a bit.
Xu Chen was a little disapproving in his heart. In fact, he had forgotten the reason why the powerful spiritual consciousness brought to him after adding a blue jade bead in his head made him feel so relaxed.
Any monk who is new to qi training can refine Fandan, but it is just a matter of success rate and the number of pills produced.
Only in the late stage of Kaiyuan Realm can you truly refine first-grade pills more easily, but for second-grade pills, it is still very difficult.
For example, Brother Ninth, although he has reached the late stage of Kaiyuan Realm, he still does not have the skills to refine first-grade pills. He can still only refine ordinary pills such as Qingshui Pill and Peiyuan Pill.
In addition, he can also refine Xiaoyuan Dan, but because the medicinal materials are precious, it is difficult to refine it only a few times a year, and there is a high chance that it will break during the process. Therefore, the alchemy level is naturally in a mess, and there is no way to increase it quickly.
If in a large fairy sect, low-end elixirs are abundant, the alchemy apprentice will naturally have a large amount of medicinal materials to practice, and the level of alchemy will increase very quickly, and he may become a qualified first-grade alchemist in half a year.
But for Taiyuan Sect, the growth of disciples is too difficult.
It is far better to spend time on refining alchemy than to meditate and practice, let alone go down the mountain to practice robbery.
This is also the reason why Brother Ninth is unwilling to refine elixirs on the mountain.
Xu Chen's consciousness was fully immersed in the alchemy furnace. This was the critical moment for the elixir to be combined.
In the center of the alchemy furnace, a spiral formation appeared, and then a faint whirlwind of Yuanli began to roar and rotate. The seven refined medicinal materials fell like a whirlwind under the guidance of his spiritual consciousness, and were finally mixed together.
, after more than ten breaths, waiting for the whirlwind to slowly stop, a ball of gray paste appeared in the center of the alchemy furnace, and then the consciousness continued to activate the elixir dividing formation, and soon the paste was broken down into more than ten mud balls of uniform size.
Then the whirlwind started again, and these mud balls rotated in the whirlwind and soon turned into projectiles the size of mung beans.
The final steps are to raise and release the elixir.
However, for Fan Dan, raising the elixir is basically a waste of time. If this thing is kept warm in the elixir furnace for a year, it will still be a Fan Dan and will not have any spirituality. Therefore, after Xu Chen activated the fire to roast the elixir,
With a gentle tap on the alchemy furnace, the lid popped open, and more than a dozen gray elixirs rose up with a thick scent of medicine. He rolled them up and put them in his hands.
Xu Chen took the freshly baked elixir and looked at it carefully. He found that it was uniform in size, had a strong fragrance, and the color seemed to be much better than the Qingshui Dan that Brother Ninth took as a gift when he went down the mountain. It even had a hint of grayish-white luster.
"Oh..."
Smelling the aroma of the medicine, the little fox excitedly jumped onto Xu Chen's lap and cried.
Xu Chen directly pinched one and stuffed it into the little fox's mouth. He couldn't help but knock one, and then smacked his mouth. He found that except for the scent of medicine, it had no effect at all, not even as good as jelly beans.
Xu Chen put the remaining Qingshui Pill into a small porcelain bottle with regret on his face.
Then start refining the second furnace.
This time the elixir refining process was much better and faster than the first one. It only took two seconds before it was time to combine the elixirs.
Xu Chen's original purpose was to test whether he could integrate the white energy released from the jade bottle in the sea of consciousness into the elixir. Therefore, when combining the elixirs, he concentrated on using his spiritual consciousness to penetrate into the jade bottle, touch the jade beads, and then release them.
I came up with the idea of inducing white energy.
Although he did not get any similar feeling of resistance or cooperation from Yuzhu, under the touch of this consciousness, Xu Chen actually felt that a wisp of white air released from the mouth of the jade bottle actually appeared in the pill along with his spiritual consciousness.
In the furnace.
Xu Chen was overjoyed and thought that it was indeed an immortal weapon that could actually communicate with consciousness, so he used his spiritual consciousness to pull the white air and try to blend it into the medicinal mud.
However, at the moment when the white energy merged, a ball of gray mud that had been completely integrated was instantly ignited by the spiritual fire, and in less than two breaths, it was completely burned to ashes.
Xu Chen had no choice but to activate the formation to clean the alchemy furnace, discharge the ashes from the bottom of the furnace, and then conduct the third alchemy test again.
However, the next two consecutive times, the white energy could not be integrated into the elixir, causing the elixir to fail.
So Xu Chen knew that maybe it was because the level of Fandan was too low to merge with the white energy.
Or maybe this white energy cannot be integrated into the elixir at all.
But he still didn't give up yet.
If ordinary elixirs don't work, maybe spiritual elixirs will.
So he began to think about where to get some high-end medicinal materials to try to make a furnace of Xiaoyuan Dan.
Although the Xiaoyuan Dan has not yet entered the market, it is an elixir containing spiritual energy after all, and can barely be regarded as a spiritual elixir. Moreover, the materials are not particularly precious. Even if it is refined in one or two furnaces, it can still be tolerated.
Just when Xu Chen was scratching his head and trying to think of a solution, a ray of cyan light came from Chaoyang Peak and landed in front of the cabin in an instant.
"Senior sister, why are you here?" Seeing Zhao Xuan sheathing her sword and landing on the ground, Xu Chen quickly stood up and saluted.
Zhao Xuan's cheeks turned slightly red and she said coquettishly: "You're not an outsider, junior brother, you don't need to be polite!"
Xu Chen touched the back of his head and laughed dryly: "I'm used to it. If I don't make a bow, it feels like it's not a formal greeting."
"Hehe, you are obviously being perfunctory when you say this!" Zhao Xuan covered her mouth, then smelled the scent of the medicine that was still lingering in the air, looked at the alchemy furnace on the ground and said, "I just heard from Ninth Senior Brother that you want to learn alchemy.
, I want to take away his alchemy furnace, and I came here specifically to see what kind of elixir you can make."
Xu Chen's face twitched and he said: "I think it's good to learn alchemy, but the alchemy furnace was forced on me by the Ninth Senior Brother!"
Zhao Xuan was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but smile. She arched her eyebrows and said, "I just feel like something is wrong. It turns out that he wants to leave the task of refining alchemy to you."
Xu Chen was also stunned and said with a strange face: "What kind of alchemy task?"
Zhao Xuan smiled and said, "You don't know yet, but the Ninth Senior Brother has already told the Third Elder that you want to learn alchemy and wants you to take his place in the Alchemy Academy and follow the Third Elder to make alchemy. He can come down the mountain at any time from now on."
Xu Chen's face suddenly darkened, but in the end he could only smile bitterly and said: "It seems that Ninth Senior Brother has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, and I am the only one who has thrown myself into the trap."
Zhao Xuan nodded happily: "No, but junior brother, you are good at learning alchemy. I can help you when the time comes. In fact, I am also quite interested in alchemy. I occasionally go to the Alchemy Academy to help the third elder organize medicinal materials."
"That's just right. Take a look, Senior Sister. This is the Qingshui Pill I made today. It seems pretty good!"
Xu Chen handed over the Qingshui Pill that was placed on the stone. Zhao Xuan took the medicine bottle and pouted, "It's just a furnace of Fandan..."
But when she poured out a pill and looked at it, her face instantly became extremely surprised and said: "You just made this, little junior brother?"
Xu Chen nodded and said: "Freshly baked and still hot!"
The smile on Zhao Xuan's face had become much more serious at this time. Feeling the residual warmth and fragrance emitted by the elixir, she carefully looked at them one by one and said: "Although Qingshui Dan is an ordinary elixir, it can be refined to such a fine quality.
It’s still not easy, I’ve made some Qingshui Pills before, but they’re not as good as yours.”
Xu Chen shook his head and said: "It's just an ordinary pill, what's the use? Senior sister took the time to help me collect some medicinal materials for refining the Xiaoyuan Pill. I want to try it."
Zhao Xuan nodded and said: "Okay, but although Xiaoyuan Dan is not in the top grade, it is much more difficult than Fan Dan. Some of the medicinal materials are also hard to find at a competitive price. It feels a little sad if you fail to practice it."
Xu Chen said helplessly: "Then what's the solution? If you want to learn, then you have to practice no matter how difficult it is. Otherwise, like Ninth Senior Brother, who can't refine a furnace of elixir for several years, it's better not to learn."
Zhao Xuan covered her mouth and said with a smile: "Don't say it. Brother Ninth Brother doesn't know where to hide and be happy right now. I still have a few medicinal materials for refining Xiaoyuan Dan. I will get them for you later. Don't
My senior brothers and sisters should have some more or less there, maybe I can get them all for you soon."
Xu Chen's eyes suddenly lit up and he said: "Why didn't I think of it? Let's go find other senior brothers and sisters."
Zhao Xuan nodded, then with some trepidation, she took out a green jade bottle the size of a thumb from her arms and handed it to Xu Chen: "Junior brother, this bottle of spiritual liquid is for you."
Xu Chen was stunned for a moment and shook his head: "How is this possible? The three of us were divided up at the beginning..."
"Just take it for you. I can't go down the mountain now. Maybe I will stay on the mountain for a few years to cultivate. It's a waste to keep such a good thing on me. Yours was already used in the Linghu Mine last time. You can still use it when I go down the mountain in the future.
Get it."
Looking at the jade bottle that was forced into his hand and feeling the residual warmth on it, Xu Chen thought for a moment and put the spiritual liquid into the storage bag and said: "That's okay. I can return it to my senior sister when I get the spiritual liquid next time."
A big bottle!”
Zhao Xuan immediately smiled with crooked eyebrows: "You said it, don't forget it when the time comes, let's leave now!"
"good!"
As they spoke, the two threw their flying swords at the same time, soared into the air and headed towards the top of Chaoyang Peak.