Regarding the Diyuan Dan, Elder Zhao didn't know how many times he had refined it.
After all, with Elder Zhao's alchemy skills, he should have been able to easily refine the Earth Yuan Dan, but for some unknown reason, he could not refine it.
Regarding what Liu Pan said about the roots of Gan Ling Cao, Elder Zhao never thought of adding them to the refining of the Earth Yuan Dan. Because although he had not refined the Earth Yuan Dan, he had seen the elders of the sect's fire method refining the Earth Yuan Dan refine the Earth Yuan Dan.
Dan.
When refining Diyuan Dan using the fire method, even if the entire Gan Ling Cao plant is put into the alchemy cauldron, the roots will be directly refined into ash when the medicine is being smelted, and the medicine in the roots will not be used.
Regarding this situation, the elders of fire alchemy also explained the reason. The root of Lixincao is yang. If its medicinal power is integrated together, the overall medicinal power will be too strong and yin will be weak, making it impossible to condense the medicine into an elixir.
There is a big difference between water-based alchemy and fire-based alchemy. If there are impurities in fire-based alchemy, they can be directly refined into ash at high temperature. However, water-based alchemy does not have such convenience. If there are impurities, you can only allocate part of your energy to remove them.
It is very troublesome to be isolated from the medicinal power of the condensation pill.
Therefore, in order to avoid trouble, Elder Zhao intercepted the roots of the Gan Ling Cao before refining the Earth Yuan Dan each time to prevent them from entering the Dan Cauldron.
Elder Zhao was really angry when Liu Pan asked him questions when he was refining alchemy. If he hadn't felt that this refining of elixirs was hopeless, and what Liu Pan asked about was related to the Diyuan Dan that he had a headache for, he would have told Liu Pan to get lost.
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After that, he only answered Liu Pan's questions casually. As for why he suddenly stopped talking, it was because when he answered the question casually, the scene when the fire method alchemy elder was refining the Earth Yuan Dan appeared in his mind, and then he unconsciously
I compared it with my own water method for alchemy.
One is fire and the other is water.
In the world of cultivation, almost everything has yin and yang attributes. Among the eight spiritual roots, metal, earth, thunder, and fire are yang, and wood, water, wind, and ice are yin.
Fire belongs to yang, and water belongs to yin. This means that fire alchemy itself provides the yang attribute to the elixir, and water alchemy itself provides the yin attribute to the elixir.
In this way, when refining Diyuan Dan using the fire method, the yang attribute in the medicinal power of the roots of licorice can be used to meet the requirements. When refining the elixir using the water method, the roots are not used, which means that the yin is strong and the yang is weak, and the two medicinal powers are natural.
Cannot be fused.
Because he realized this, Elder Zhao suddenly felt that adding the roots of the Gan Ling Cao might actually make it successful. So after hesitating for a while, he did not let Liu Pan roll down the mountain, but let him roll out of the basement.
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Liu Pan didn't know what Elder Zhao thought of from his words, but when he heard that Elder Zhao just asked him to get out of the basement instead of rolling down the mountain directly, Liu Pan understood that he shouldn't be able to do it in a short time.
Was driven down the mountain.
He ran out of the dilapidated Alchemy Palace as if he was running away, and met the slightly sympathetic eyes of the two disciples guarding the palace. However, Liu Pan just smiled at the two of them and did not take the initiative to say anything.
"Senior brother, there is no need to be discouraged. Many senior brothers who came to Cangyun Peak to work as medicine boys were like this. You are still cultivating in the martial arts realm. When you break through to the martial arts master realm, you can take on this task again and you will still have the opportunity.
I have the opportunity to learn alchemy from Elder Zhao." One of the disciples spoke, his words full of comfort.
"Yes, senior brother. Under normal circumstances, the medicine boy's mission can be accepted. You don't have to worry about anything. There will definitely be a chance." Another disciple also stepped up his words of comfort.
Liu Pan was a little speechless. What does this mean? Does he look like a loser?
"Thank you both for your concern, but I won't leave here just yet. I'll wait until I actually leave to say these words."
Liu Pan smiled and thanked the two of them. Then he walked towards a stone table on the left side of the square outside the hall.
Hearing Liu Pan's words and seeing Liu Pan's actions, the two temple guarding disciples were obviously stunned. After a while, they came back to their senses and looked at each other, both seeing the incredible look in each other's eyes.
"He..." One of the disciples opened his mouth, but suddenly stopped after saying a word.
He turned around and looked at the main hall behind him. After a long while, the man said inexplicably: "Brother Yu, you have been guarding the hall here for a long time. In your memory, there are several medicine boys in the martial arts realm who can enter twice.
Alchemy Palace?”
The man known as Brother Yu was stunned when he heard this, and after a long time he said with some uncertainty: "It seems... not."
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Liu Pan didn't pay much attention to the accident of the disciple guarding the palace. Although he had left the basement now, his mental power was still locked on Elder Zhao and the alchemy cauldron.
Under the mental scan, Liu Pan saw that Elder Zhao picked up a few roots of Lilac Grass after he came out of the basement, seemed to think about it, then selected one of them and put it into the elixir.
tripod.
Soon, the medicinal power in this section of Gan Ling Cao roots was extracted and integrated into one of the medicinal powers.
Then, the two remaining medicinal powers began to fuse again.
There was no big reaction, and the two medicinal powers merged quietly at the moment of contact. At this moment, Liu Pan clearly felt Elder Zhao's excitement.
Because the medicinal power did not produce a violent reaction as before, Elder Zhao also increased the weight of the contact and fusion of the two medicinal powers.
After about half a stick of incense, the two remaining medicinal powers in the cauldron were integrated. Perhaps due to insufficient medicinal power, the medicinal power finally condensed into half a residual pill.
The moment the elixir was ready, Elder Zhao quickly opened the cauldron and held the half of the residual elixir in the palm of his hand as if he had found a treasure. Then he seemed to hesitate for a moment, scraped some powder from the residual elixir with his nails and put it into his mouth.
, and then closed his eyes, seeming to feel something.
After a while, Elder Zhao opened his eyes, his eyes even more excited. He quickly took out a small jade bottle from the storage ring and put half of the residual pill in it. Then he moved out of the basement.
Just when he was looking for the elder to put away the half of the residual pill, Liu Pan felt that Elder Zhao's mental power was locked on him again, but he did not move.
Soon Elder Zhao left the hall and looked up at Liu Pan who was not far away.
Suddenly seeing Elder Zhao, Liu Pan was excited, quickly got up and ran to Elder Zhao, bowed respectfully and said: "Master."
"Yeah." Elder Zhao looked indifferent, and the excitement in the basement could no longer be seen at all. He said without any emotion in his words: "Go down and wash the alchemy cauldron. I will make alchemy when I come back later!"
After Elder Zhao finished speaking, without waiting for Liu Pan to respond, he shook his hand and summoned a long sword from the storage ring, and flew directly towards the "primitive forest" with the sword.
"I have to wash again, but my life is still miserable..." Looking at Elder Zhao's back, Liu Pan sighed silently in his heart, then without saying anything else, he turned and entered the main hall.
Compared with Liu Pan lamenting the hardship of his life, the two disciples guarding the temple were really confused at this moment, because they were shocked to find that Elder Zhao only ordered Liu Pan to wash the alchemy cauldron, but did not say that mantra -
- "If so, then get out!"
Entering the basement again, Liu Pan did not delay anything. Because he had already cleaned the alchemy cauldron once, he was even more familiar with it this time. He used the ice element power of Xuan Bingjue appropriately, and it only took half the time to clean the alchemy cauldron last time.
The tripod was cleaned.
Then Liu Pan didn't bother to pay attention to when Elder Zhao would return, and rushed directly to the bookshelf. He quickly scanned the book titles with his mental power. If he felt that the book was useful, he would just use his mental power to scan through it.
And the books on this bookshelf really did not disappoint Liu Pan. Most of them introduced the basics of alchemy, which was what he needed to know and learn most.
Thinking about it, so many books on the basics of alchemy are of no use to an alchemist who already has certain abilities, so Elder Zhao threw them in the basement.
After a while, Liu Pan's mental power swept over the returning Elder Zhao. After a slight hesitation, Liu Pan did not walk away from the bookshelf. He still used his mental power to scan the books in front of him crazily, but the expression on his face was...
He looked at the book in his hand seriously.
Soon Elder Zhao entered the basement. When he heard the noise, Liu Pan seemed to be startled. He suddenly put the book in his hand back on the bookshelf, then quickly ran to Elder Zhao and bowed respectfully, a little nervously.
Said: "Master."
Elder Zhao frowned, looked at Liu Pan, and then at the book that Liu Pan had just put back on the bookshelf. Then his eyes flashed and he said: "Since you have accepted the mission of the medicine boy, you can use the books here.
Feel free to read it, but I want to remind you, don’t do anything that makes me uncomfortable, otherwise get out of here!”
After Elder Zhao finished speaking, he still didn't wait for Liu Pan to answer. He walked to the alchemy cauldron, took out a number of elixirs from the storage ring and placed them on the white jade table beside him, and then began to refine the elixir.
Liu Pan swept away his mental energy and discovered without any surprise that the medicine Elder Zhao took out was still the medicinal material for refining the Diyuan Dan.
Seeing Elder Zhao minding his own business with the elixir, Liu Pan hesitated for a moment, then looked at the bookshelf beside him. He seemed to be struggling for a while, and then he quietly walked to the bookshelf and picked up the elixir he had put back before.
The book on the bookshelf.
Elder Zhao naturally felt Liu Pan's movements, but he didn't care about anything. Most of his attention was focused on the cauldron of elixir he was about to refine.
Process medicinal materials, clean medicinal materials, and do not remove the roots of Licorice...
Soon, the water filled three-quarters of the alchemy cauldron, and then each medicinal plant was put into the alchemy cauldron by Elder Zhao.
After sealing the cauldron, Elder Zhao had some excitement in his eyes. He exhaled slightly, sat down cross-legged, stretched out a hand and pressed it against the cauldron wall, and closed his eyes.
Liu Pan carefully observed the series of steps Elder Zhao took to refine the elixir. Although he felt that Elder Zhao would not have much problem refining the Earthly Pill this time, in the final analysis, he still did not know how the roots of the Lilac Grass grew.
thing.
After all, Elder Zhao was really full of energy when he said those words before. And he really couldn't understand why Elder Zhao cut off the roots of the Gan Ling Cao when he refined the Diyuan Pill before.
In the alchemy cauldron, the medicinal materials were decomposed into traces of medicinal power, and then the medicinal powers merged with each other. Two quarters of an hour later, as if water came naturally, pills began to condense out...
The cauldron was opened, and six purple-brown Earth Yuan Pills were taken out. At this moment, Elder Zhao was really excited, and the hand holding the jade bottle was trembling slightly.
Soon, Elder Zhao calmed down, took out a jade bottle from the storage ring, and mixed a piece of Earth Yuan Dan into it.
Then, Elder Zhao raised his eyes and looked at Liu Pan. Without saying anything, he moved out of the basement and left with his sword...