Although he had decided to try alchemy, Li Xuangang did not start immediately. Instead, he picked up the jade tube that recorded the Yanggu elixir formula, immersed it in with his spiritual consciousness, and combined it with the explanation given by his eighth uncle Li Changji before, in detail.
Study it carefully.
After studying for about an hour, Li Xuangang put down the jade tube and felt that he had understood the process and the things to pay attention to.
So he first put the jade tube back into his storage bag, then picked up the spiritual wood charcoal that had been prepared nearby and placed it under the alchemy furnace, and finally cast a fire spell to ignite it.
Li Xuangang did not have such a precious item as the fire source stone, so he had to use spiritual wood charcoal instead. Fortunately, this kind of charcoal was extremely cheap. A low-grade spiritual stone could buy several kilograms, so he did not worry about spending too much.
After carefully controlling the size of the flame and heating the alchemy furnace, Li Xuangang threw the spirit grain into it and tried to turn it into liquid.
Half an hour later, Li Xuangang looked at the pile of white ash in the alchemy furnace with a wry smile on his face.
Refining alchemy is indeed not that easy, but Li Xuangang did not lose heart. He summed up the reasons for his failure and now knew the key, so he could just try again.
Another half an hour passed, and what greeted Li Xuangang was still a pile of white ash made from spiritual grains.
The second time still failed. Although Li Xuangang was a little disappointed, the result was still within the range of his expectations. Li Xuangang was a perseverant person. Although he failed in the first step of both attempts, it did not dampen his desire to make alchemy.
idea.
However, Li Xuangang did not immediately start the third attempt. Instead, he extinguished the flame first, stood up and walked around the cave, thinking carefully about what went wrong with him.
After thinking for a moment, Li Xuangang finally attributed the problem to his insufficient control over the intensity of the flames.
Although he understood the problem clearly, Li Xuangang did not have a better solution. His spiritual consciousness was not outstanding. The only way to solve this problem was to summarize the rules through continuous practice.
Knowing this, Li Xuangang started refining the furnace again, but this time, he did not think about all the steps of refining Yang Gu Dan, but concentrated on the process of converting the spirit valley into liquid, feeling the power of the flame in a matter of millimeters.
Subtle difference.
Time kept passing by in his attempts like this. After eight consecutive failures, Li Xuangang had exhausted all the spiritual grains in the materials. Although he still had some on his body, he decided to put the alchemy matter aside for now.
, slow down for a moment.
So after cleaning up the cave, Li Xuangang took out the Spring Dew Pill, drank it, and began to practice in conjunction with the spiritual energy in the cave.
In the next three months, Li Xuangang went to Baicao Pavilion at the end of each month to collect the materials for alchemy for that month, and then returned to the cave to continue trying to refine alchemy. After using up the alchemy materials, he spent the rest of the time meditating and practicing.
In the last month, Li Xuangang not only consumed all the spiritual grains he received from Baicao Pavilion, but also the spiritual grains in his own body. Finally, with his unremitting efforts, he successfully mastered turning the spiritual grains into liquid.
skills.
When these three months passed and Li Xuangang met Li Changji again in the underground cave of Baicao Pavilion, he had already completed the steps of converting all the materials of Yanggu Pill into liquid, but the problem of condensing the pill had not yet been solved.
This speed of progress surprised Li Changji. He originally expected that it would take Li Xuangang at least half a year to a year to reach the threshold of condensation. Unexpectedly, he reached it in three months. This was the apprentice he had led before.
A speed that no one has reached in China.
Perhaps, this clansman of the Xuan generation is really a good candidate for alchemy.
Despite this thought, Li Changji did not praise Li Xuangang too much, but continued to encourage him.
Then he guided Li Xuangang's alchemy techniques more seriously, and even asked him to make an elixir himself once, while he observed and pointed out any shortcomings.
This time, Li Xuangang felt that his eighth uncle's attitude towards him was a little different. He was faintly stern, with a hint of earnestness in his sternness.
Li Xuangang was a smart man, and he figured out the reason after just a few moments of thinking.
"It seems that my alchemy talent is not bad, and it has attracted the attention of my eighth uncle."
Although he already knew from Li Changji's attitude that his alchemy talent was not bad, Li Xuangang still treated every alchemy session with caution, especially in front of Li Changji, a second-level alchemist.
There are not many opportunities for face-to-face guidance, and the progress is much faster than practicing alone.
After staying in Baicao Pavilion for two days, although he still failed to condense the elixir in the end, he had some clues. Li Xuangang felt that as long as he tried a few more times, he should be able to complete the final step of condensing the elixir.
When leaving Baicao Pavilion, Li Changji seemed to have remembered something, and ordered the tribesmen of Baicao Pavilion to mention twenty copies of Li Xuangang's alchemy materials every month, and considering that Li Xuangang had to come to Baicao Pavilion every month, it would be too much.
Please, let Li Xuangang directly take sixty alchemy materials for three months at a time.
In this way, Li Xuangang no longer has to make a trip to Baicao Pavilion every month.
After returning to the cave from his eighth uncle Li Changji, Li Xuangang entered a state of frantic alchemy refining, not caring at all about the consumption of his spiritual power and consciousness while refining elixirs.
When your spiritual power is used up, you can meditate to recover. If your spiritual consciousness is not enough, you can put on your clothes and lie down to take a nap.
After the spiritual power and spiritual consciousness are restored, continue refining the elixir.
After consuming forty-seven parts of Yanggu Pill, Li Xuangang finally refined his first pill, a first-grade low-grade Yanggu Pill.
Although the elixir formation rate is only the lowest 10%, it means that Li Xuangang has stepped into the threshold of an alchemist. As long as he increases the elixir formation rate to 40% in the future, he will be a genuine first-level alchemist.
When Li Xuangang told Li Changji the news that he had successfully refined Yanggu Pill, Li Changji was also very happy. In order to reward Li Xuangang, he rewarded him with three bottles of Spring Dew Pill on the spot.
Li Changji thought: Although Li Xuangang's current elixir-forming rate is still at a loss compared to the materials consumed, with his quick comprehension, he should be able to increase the elixir-forming rate to 40% soon. At that time, every time
You can balance your expenses by refining elixirs. Once you become familiar with it in the future and the elixir-making rate increases again, you will be able to produce output.
So in the next two years, Li Xuangang practiced step by step in Binhaifang City. As the spiritual stones in the storage bag continued to disappear, his cultivation and alchemy skills also continued to improve, and finally Yang Gu Dan became an elixir.
The rate increased to 50%.
Moreover, when the news that Li Xuangang successfully became a first-level alchemist was passed back to Taiqiu Mountain by Li Changji, it caused a sensation in the family.
You must know that there are three hundred monks in the entire Li family, but there are only three alchemists, two of whom are only first-level alchemists. Every alchemist is precious to the Li family, and Li Xuangang is the first Xuan generation.
The alchemist is very likely to go further in the process of alchemy in the future, and may even become the second second-level alchemist of the Li family.
When Li Changqing, the patriarch of the Li family, heard the news, he asked the Li family's caravan to travel to Binhaifang City to bring Li Xuangang the family's reward and a jade tube of his own.
The person who brought Li Xuangang the reward was Li Xuangang's tenth brother Li Xuankun, whom he had not seen for a long time.
After receiving the storage bag containing the family's rewards and the clan leader's jade tube, Li Xuangang took Li Xuankun for a stroll in Binhaifang City.
Although he has been addicted to cultivation and alchemy for more than two years, and has not often left the cave, and is not very familiar with Binhaifang City, he is still much better than Li Xuankun who came here for the first time.
"Brother Ninth, I didn't expect you to become an alchemist so quickly. When I heard that you came to Binhaifang City to learn alchemy from Uncle Eighth two years ago, I thought it would take at least four or five years."
Li Xuangang and his tenth brother Li Xuankun were very close in age. They met almost after Li Xuankun was taken to Taiqiu Mountain by his family from the city of the mortal tribe. They had grown up together since childhood, so their relationship was close to that of Xuan Gang.
Among the clan members of this generation, they are also the latest to leave.
Hearing Li Xuankun's words, Li Xuangang couldn't help but smile:
"You kid actually dare to look down on your Ninth Brother."
"Then Brother Ninth has wronged me. I am very supportive of you becoming an alchemist. If I need to refine elixirs in the future, it will be much more convenient to go directly to Brother Ninth."
While talking to Li Xuankun, chatting about some family affairs in the past two years, he walked towards a shop.
Finally, the two brothers stopped not far from a shop selling corpse refining materials.
This is a shop run by the Yu family near Binhaifang City. Their family specializes in corpse refining.
While walking towards the store, Li Xuangang introduced some information about the Yu family to Li Xuankun.
A year ago, Li Xuangang's corpse refining finally recovered from its injuries, and it also broke through to the fourth level of Qi refining. In order to continue cultivating it, Li Xuangang bought several more evil spirits, and they were all bought from Yu's shop, so for his family
The situation is somewhat understood.
"The Yu family in Yulin Mountain is also a foundation-building family, but it was only established in the past fifty years. Their first-generation patriarch was a foreign affairs elder from the Corpse Ghost Sect. When there was no hope of forming pills on his own, he asked the Corpse Ghost
Zong resigned, and then led his tribe to establish his own family in Yulin Mountain near Binhaifang City. However, in the tenth year after establishing the family, he was seriously injured in a fight with others and died soon after returning to the family residence. He is now in
The patriarch of the family is his third brother Yu Songhe."
"Because the Yu family is an orthodox disciple of the Corpse Ghost Sect, the main method of inheritance in the family is corpse refining. Moreover, because the Yu family established the family for a short period of time, the foundation is a bit weak. Now there are only two disciples of Yulin Mountain.
I have one lower-grade spiritual vein, dozens of Qi Refining monks, and one Foundation-building monk, and I only open this shop in Binhaifang City."
"When the first-generation patriarch of the Yu family founded the clan, he also invited the second-level formation master of the Corpse Sect to help him build two corpse fields around Yuling Mountain. Most of the materials sold in this shop come from here."
The Ghoul Field is a unique corpse-raising place of the Ghoul Sect. It is necessary to arrange a special third-level ghoul array on a first-level spiritual vein, and then continuously put corpses and other Yin-attribute materials into it. Over time, it can
Produce a lot of corpse refining materials and ghost materials.
Within the scope controlled by the Ghoul Sect, there are many such ghoul fields, but their scale is much larger than the two of the Yu family.
Before entering the shop, Li Xuangang asked again:
"Xuan Kun, are you sure you want to practice corpse refining?"