Half an hour later, the two of them went back and forth to rob the residence of a group of senior brothers and sisters. When they returned to the cabin, the storage bag already contained hundreds of various elixirs and herbs for refining Xiaoyuan Dan, and even large amounts of elixirs.
Among the medicinal materials given by senior brother and second senior sister, several have reached the level of refining the Great Yuan Dan.
Xiaoyuan Dan is the most commonly used Qi-tonifying elixir for monks in the early stages of the Kaiyuan Realm.
This is true regardless of whether it is a large or small immortal sect or a private cultivator.
Because it has not yet entered the market, the demand for the quality of the medicinal materials is not high. Generally, it only needs to be rich in a certain amount of spiritual energy, and the vintage is not very demanding.
Xiaoyuandan and Dayuandan have many overlaps in medicinal materials, but Dayuandan, as a first-class elixir, is very strict about the quality and age of the medicinal materials. If it does not meet the standards, it cannot be used, otherwise the final potency will not be direct enough.
Not only will the quality of the elixir be reduced, it may also be refined into useless elixirs.
Looking at the large number of various spiritual medicines and herbs that he received, Xu Chen was very excited and didn't know where to start.
Zhao Xuan was quite familiar with it, so she quickly helped him sort it into several piles, and then jumped out eight medicinal materials from among them and said: "These are the eight medicinal materials used to refine Xiaoyuan Dan, including five elixirs and two preparations."
, introduce a kind of medicine."
Xu Chen said with great joy: "Sure enough, it is the senior sister who has to take action. I am dazzled by this bunch of medicinal materials!"
Zhao Xuan said proudly: "That's right, you don't even know who the senior sister is!"
At this time, Xu Chen found the jade slip of Xiaoyuan Dan and began to look at it carefully.
In fact, the steps for refining any elixir are similar, but the refining speed of elixir is much slower than that of ordinary medicine. In addition, in order to ensure the spiritual energy component in the elixir, the refining requirements and precision are also much higher.
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If too much spiritual energy is lost during the refining process, the alchemy will eventually fail.
Therefore, Xu Chen's focus was on how to control the refining process to ensure that the spiritual power of the elixir would not be lost too much.
After reading the elixir prescription, Xu Chen went over the steps of refining the elixir.
After a full stick of incense passed, Xu Chen put down the jade slip, reactivated the alchemy furnace, then took out a piece of spiritual stone and put it into the furnace of the alchemy furnace. Then he pressed his hands on the vitality channel and began to input vitality and control his spiritual consciousness.
Inspire the Five Elements Formation inside.
Soon, all the formations in the alchemy furnace lit up. Under the constant impact of vitality, the spirit stones were also ignited. A ball of blazing white fire burned in the furnace. The alchemy furnace soon released a soul-stirring aura.
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What the spiritual fire releases is not the high temperature of the body, but the temperature of the soul.
This kind of temperature can only be felt by monks. If a mortal is within the scope of the spiritual fire, his soul will be shattered instantly.
Zhao Xuan felt a little uncomfortable and took two steps back slightly, but Xu Chen didn't feel any change due to his strong spiritual consciousness and was quite stable.
In the final analysis, this alchemy furnace is still relatively rubbish and of too low a grade.
In fact, a good alchemy furnace will completely bind the spiritual fire in the furnace and will not escape at all.
But this alchemy furnace obviously cannot do this.
The refining temperature and refining time of each elixir are different.
Xu Chen naturally did not dare to be careless. After all, these elixirs were collected by his brothers and sisters when they went down the mountain to practice or exchanged them for spiritual stones and spiritual materials. Although they were not too expensive, the loss still hurt, so he was very careful.
Xu Chen had the experience of refining several furnaces of ordinary medicines in the past, and he was already familiar with the refining steps. Therefore, with full concentration, the first elixir was successfully refined after half a stick of incense.
Xu Chen breathed a sigh of relief, but there was a slight drop of sweat on his forehead.
He has to carefully control the temperature of the furnace where the spiritual stone burns, and he also has to carefully control the calcination of the elixir by the formation. In addition, he has to constantly recall the refining steps. Even if his spiritual consciousness is strong, his vitality is still too weak after all, so this blindness
After the refining of the elixir was completed, he felt that a lot of energy was consumed in his body, but this consumption was still within his tolerance.
The next second elixir was also successfully refined after about half a moment.
After two consecutive successes, Xu Chen's confidence skyrocketed. He then refined all the remaining three elixirs in one breath. They were all successful in one go. However, it took more than half an hour. At this time, the vitality in his body was almost
After bottoming out, I even felt a slight tingling sensation in my Dantian.
This was because the injuries caused by the last battle with Xuanshui Youlian had not fully recovered, so he did not dare to be careless and took out a small Yuan Dan and stuffed it into his mouth.
Next to her, Zhao Xuan wanted to laugh but didn't dare. She covered her mouth and turned her head to the side, eating and eating, and her body was shaking wildly.
Xu Chen didn't dare to be distracted at this time, so he could only pretend not to know. While running his exercises to absorb vitality, he threw the remaining three-flavor auxiliary medicinal materials into the alchemy furnace and continued to refine it.
Compared with elixirs, the refining of these three ordinary medicines is much easier. It only takes half a stick of incense to complete the refining, and then activate the elixir combining formation to start combining elixirs.
Compared with Qingshui Dan, it is much more difficult for the five elixirs to be fully integrated. If the integration is insufficient, the efficacy of the medicine will be lost. Even if it is not a waste elixir, it will basically have no effect.
Therefore, Xu Chen did not dare to be careless, and did not even dare to merge the white energy released by the blue light bottle into it in a hurry.
At least he had to ensure that he could successfully refine the Xiaoyuan Dan.
After he has fully matured experience, he can then conduct his experiments.
The synthesis time of the elixir was much longer than that of the ordinary elixir. It took nearly an hour before and after, and finally the essence of the five elixirs and three auxiliary medicinal materials were integrated into one. When Xu Chen felt that he had swallowed a small yuan elixir,
The vitality was almost exhausted again, and the combined alchemy formation slowly stopped, and a ball of blue-gray ointment appeared in the center of the alchemy furnace.
At this time, you cannot rush to separate the elixirs, but use spiritual fire to slowly bake them at low temperatures to allow the various elixirs to penetrate more closely and fully integrate their potency.
This process takes longer than combining elixirs, and generally takes at least an hour.
If it is the Great Yuan Dan, this process will take at least half a day.
To maintain spiritual consciousness for a long time to precisely control the state of the spiritual fire and elixir furnace requires extremely strong spiritual consciousness and vitality support.
Xu Chen's spiritual consciousness was strong enough, but his vitality was weak, so he had to take another Xiao Yuan Dan.
Zhao Xuan was sitting next to meditating, but her mind was not on cultivation. Instead, she had been observing Xu Chen's alchemy process. Watching him take another pill, she couldn't help but slump her shoulders and shake around, almost suffocating.
The child fell to the ground.
Xu Chen's face was filled with embarrassment, and he said with a sneer: "Sister, you can laugh if you want, why bother?"
Zhao Xuan covered her mouth and stood up, Kuku said with a smile: "It will take at least an hour to raise the elixir. I'm afraid it will be dark when the elixir comes out, so I'll go make some food for you first."
Seeing Zhao Xuan turning around and smiling all the way into the cabin, Xu Chen had no choice but to wipe the sweat from his forehead and continue.
At this time, he finally understood why Brother Ninth was unwilling to make alchemy, or why there were so few alchemists in each immortal sect.
One is that it is too boring, and the other is that it consumes a lot of money.
He was only halfway through refining the elixir, so he took two elixirs to replenish his vitality. Therefore, it was enough to complete the elixir. If it failed, he would definitely lose his pants.
And this is just a batch of low-grade Xiaoyuan Dan. It will take at least half a day to successfully refine it from start to finish.
I heard that the second-grade and third-grade elixirs often take several days or even ten days and a half.
For elixirs of level 4 and above, calculations are based on months and years.
The step of raising the elixir alone takes a long time, and can drain the energy of a monk in the elixir realm several times. It is not that a great monk in the spiritual realm will never be able to persist, let alone a long period of high-intensity concentration of spiritual consciousness, which is enough to make the elixir.
The soul of the monk in the realm was confused and collapsed.
Xu Chen was very lucky that after he obtained the blue jade beads, his consciousness had become so powerful that he reached the True Yuan realm. Otherwise, he would probably not be able to hold on just by refining a few elixirs.
Time passes slowly.
The sun is gradually setting in the west.
Under the setting sun, Xu Chen remained motionless, sitting cross-legged in the open space on the cliff in front of the cabin on the mountainside, concentrating on taking care of the alchemy furnace.
A dense aroma of elixir slowly began to drift out with the evening breeze as time went by.
The fragrance of elixirs begins to appear, indicating that the medicinal effects of the elixirs have begun to be integrated and released.
Zhao Xuan simmered rice porridge in the kitchen and made two simple side dishes from the mountains. Then she was seduced by the aroma of the medicine and knew that Xu Chen's virgin elixir was about to succeed, so she ran out to observe it happily.
Slowly another stick of incense passed by, and it had been almost an hour since the elixir was raised. She felt that the fragrance of the medicine was strong enough, so Zhao Xuan reminded softly: "Junior brother, too much is not enough, it's almost time to release the elixir!"
Xu Chen breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and quickly activated the pill-splitting formation. Soon a piece of ointment was divided into more than ten mud balls in the pill furnace, and then was driven by the vortex of vitality for a while and turned into more than a dozen little finger-sized balls.
The light cyan pills were baked again with spiritual fire for a moment to take shape. After the medicinal fragrance had completely subsided, the pill furnace was gently tapped. The lid of the furnace popped open, and more than a dozen pills were sprayed out along with a thick churning mist of pills.
Coming out of the furnace, Xu Chen took a roll of energy and put all the elixirs in his hands.
Zhao Xuan came over to take a closer look, and suddenly said with surprise on her face: "Junior brother really has the talent for alchemy. Not to mention that he succeeded this first time, and the quality of the elixir is also very good!"
Xu Chen also carefully observed each pill, and found that it was indeed very successful. Basically, it reached the upper-middle quality. It was indeed a good Xiao Yuan pill, so he happily took out a medicine bottle, filled it and handed it to
Zhao Xuan said:
"I have troubled you, senior sister, to spend most of the day today looking for medicine and cooking. I will give this furnace of Xiaoyuan Dan to my senior sister as a thank you gift!"
Zhao Xuan immediately smiled with her eyebrows curled up, and took it without any courtesy: "Then I won't be polite, I don't have any use for the Great Yuan Dan, the Little Yuan Dan is just right for me, I will have to trouble my junior brother for help in the future.
Woolen cloth!"
Xu Chen stood up, stretched and smiled: "Senior sister, why should you be polite to me? Apart from the fact that the medicinal materials are not easy to get and the refining of this Little Yuan Dan is really not that difficult, feel free to come to me if you need it in the future.
Come on, let’s go eat first, I’m almost hungry!”
The two of them quickly packed up the alchemy furnace and the remaining medicinal materials, then carried the food to a flat stone outside the door. They smelled the fragrance of the elixir gradually drifting under the evening breeze and the setting sun, chatted and laughed, and started eating.
, the little fox picked up a brightly colored toad the size of a fist from nowhere, and lay down next to the two of them, eating it with gusto.
The life of cultivating immortals is so simple and simple most of the time.
There is no fighting, no scheming, and you can't even feel the passage of time.
There are no Jiazi in the mountains, and it is so cold that I don’t know the year.
As long as you can endure loneliness, you can live a happy life here, just like the trees in the mountains, withered and flourishing, knowing that you are happy.
After the two had a simple dinner, Zhao Xuan left with her sword.
Watching the cyan light disappearing at the top of Chaoyang Peak, Xu Chen calmed down and sat down on the edge of the cliff with his legs crossed, and began to meditate with his eyes closed, practicing exercises.