After the problem of controlling flames is solved, there is still the mastery of alchemy.
The most important of these is the fusion of medicinal power in elixirs.
This is a process that is difficult to describe. Simply put, it depends on the monk's personal talent and understanding. Generally speaking, fire-attribute spiritual roots and wood-attribute spiritual roots will have relatively advantages when refining elixirs, because according to experience,
With these two spiritual roots, you will have a higher perception of the fusion of medicinal power.
Of course, this process is difficult to tell.
Because most alchemists cannot explain how this process is carried out.
More often than not, it depends on experience.
The more experience you have in alchemy, the more confident you will be.
And this uncontrollable place is the biggest trouble in alchemy.
Finally, when the medicinal power is almost fully integrated, it becomes a pill.
Generally speaking, when refining elixirs, if one batch of elixirs is completely refined, there will be more than fifty elixirs, but this is impossible.
Even for very famous alchemists, the success rate of elixirs is less than 70%.
To be close to six is extremely impressive.
The elixir formula for forming an elixir and the experience of the alchemist are particularly important at this time.
The fusion of medicinal power will definitely cause a lot of trouble.
But in the end, it takes a lot of experience to disperse the parts that failed to fuse and condense the parts that successfully fused into elixirs.
This place is also the largest part that the alchemist can control.
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When Hong Ming made elixirs for the first time, he made water dew pills.
This elixir is equivalent to the poor man's version of the water spirit elixir. Monks in the early stages of Qi training can take this elixir to refine their spiritual power and increase their cultivation speed. It is also one of the common elixirs.
Relatively speaking, the difficulty of refining this elixir is the least.
With a pinch of the hand trick in his hand, Hong Ming's spiritual power output turned into a handful of red flames.
This is the spirit fire technique among the Nine Flame Alchemy Techniques that is most suitable for novices to make alchemy. Attacking with this spirit fire is simply a disaster. Even in the early stages of Qi training, you can easily defend against this spirit fire. However, for alchemy, it is quite good.
function.
Under Hong Ming's control, the red flames slowly grew in size and began to burn thickly at the bottom of the alchemy furnace.
After half a stick of incense, the alchemy furnace was already hot.
Hong Ming took out the elixir he had prepared and began to throw it into the alchemy furnace.
One kind after another.
There is one main drug and six auxiliary drugs in Shuilu Pills. It is very simple to make. First add the two auxiliary drugs, then add the main drug, and then add the three auxiliary ingredients. The whole process is completed in one stick of incense.
But when all the elixirs were added, Hong Ming became a little panicked.
How is it inside the alchemy furnace?
I don't know at all.
Hong Ming couldn't feel anything. It seemed as if what was happening inside was so he could only resign himself to fate.
In fact, we can only leave it to fate.
When the time was almost up, Hong Ming opened the alchemy furnace and formed the elixir formula.
Then……
What I got was seven or eight black waste pills.
Seeing this scene, even though Hong Ming had been prepared, his face darkened.
This elixir was worth about 180 spiritual stones, and it was wasted in half an hour.
Even though Hong Ming knew that Sun Moon Gourd could cultivate thousands of pearls in two to three months, he still felt a little distressed in his heart.
After the first alchemy was completed, Hong Ming was recovering his spiritual power while thinking about his experience in the alchemy just now, especially what he had done wrong.
But after thinking about it, Hong Ming felt that the tragedy was...it seemed that he had done nothing wrong.
Not much spiritual energy is consumed.
In fact, this kind of elixir in the early stage of Qi training is more than enough for even a third-level Qi training monk to persist.
Whether it is an alchemy furnace or a spiritual fire, they require very little spiritual power, but they are a bit troublesome to control.
After resting for half an hour, Hong Ming started refining alchemy again.
This time, Hong Ming thought of the old man's experience in alchemy.
Preheat, control the spiritual fire, and add the elixir.
Once here, Hong Ming slowed down.
Every time after adding the elixir, Hong Ming placed his spiritual consciousness completely in the alchemy furnace. The alchemy furnace was a magic weapon used by Hong Ming for sacrifice, and the spiritual fire was also controlled by Hong Ming, so there was no problem with his spiritual consciousness entering it.
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In the alchemy furnace, the elixir is slowly melting.
Hong Ming was thinking about it.
It's time to add the next elixir.
But the last elixir has not completely melted yet.
Hong Ming hesitated and waited for another ten breaths. After more than ten breaths, Hong Ming added the second elixir again. After the second elixir was completely melted, Hong Ming added the main elixir.
After the main ingredient is added, the melting speed suddenly slows down.
Even when the time was up, the main part was only half melted.
This time Hong Ming hesitated slightly and continued with other auxiliary medicines.
This decision was undoubtedly correct. After other auxiliary drugs were added, the main melting speed suddenly accelerated. The six elixirs melted quickly, forming a hodgepodge in the alchemy furnace.
This hodgepodge looks a bit messy.
Some places are light, some places are dense.
Hong Ming carefully controlled the spiritual fire, trying to melt all the medicinal power evenly.
But Hong Ming obviously didn't have that much experience and didn't do well.
But the time is coming soon.
Hong Ming opened the alchemy furnace and formed the elixir formula.
This time, fifteen or six pills flew out, most of them were dark in color, only one emitted a water-blue light, and a delicate fragrance emerged from the pill.
Hong Ming reached out and took it, with a hint of joy on his face.
"Finally a pill!"
After carefully inspecting the water dew pill, the color of the elixir was average, and the fragrance was not strong enough. It was just an ordinary low-grade elixir, no different from the one Hong Ming bought in the store.
"Keep on working hard. The elixir has been refined. It won't take long before you can refine a middle-grade or even high-grade elixir."
Hong Ming encouraged himself.
After resting for a while, continue.
but……
The last time the refining was successful, it was just a coincidence.
Hong Ming started again, and all the pills were useless.
The fourth time, all pills were useless.
The fifth time, all pills were useless.
After five times, Hong Ming put away the alchemy furnace and stopped making alchemy for the time being.
Refining alchemy is a technical job that consumes energy. In addition, almost all of them failed today. Hong Ming needs to take a rest and think about it before making plans.
After resting, Hong Ming took out the old man's alchemy experience.
The old man who sold the Nine Flames Alchemy Technique, in addition to giving him the animal skin, also gave Hong Ming a jade slip in which he recorded his experience in alchemy.
Hong Ming had also read this experience in alchemy, but some of the writing was ambiguous. At first glance, it was completely irrelevant, and Hong Ming didn't care at all.
But when the refining failed, Hong Ming looked at it again and found great gains.
"I see, there is still such a thing."
"The refining method of each kind of elixir is rarely spread by outsiders. The things on the elixir recipe are only superficial. It is more up to the alchemist to explore it himself."
"When melting elixirs, some need to be completely melted, while others need to melt only a small part. As for how much to melt, it depends on the alchemist's own understanding."
"After all the elixirs are melted, they do not need to be completely integrated. This is the stupidest thing. As for how much fusion is required, each elixir is different, and the alchemist needs to understand it himself."
"No matter how skilled an alchemist is, it is impossible to be good at refining all elixirs, so try to refine elixirs that you are familiar with. Once you become proficient, your success rate will increase significantly."
Hong Ming realized bit by bit.
I feel like I have gained a lot.
Although there is actually nothing said here.
The recipe of each elixir is different, the degree of smelting required for the elixir is different, and the final degree of fusion of the elixir is also difficult to control. Therefore, the old man's experience in elixir refining was very vague.
Even according to the old man's own inference, there are subtle differences in the years of the main and auxiliary medicines, and these differences will also affect the refining of the elixir.
Therefore, it can be said that the refining of the elixir is completely different every time.