After settling down, Lu Xiaotian took out the alchemy furnace again, cleaned the impurities and waste in the cauldron, and started the fire again to refine the elixir.
The most difficult thing to control in alchemy is the fire, and the time to open the furnace is extremely difficult to control. It usually takes nearly two hours to make a Qi Gathering Pill. Lu Xiaotian must always pay attention to the size of the firepower. When the firepower is too strong, remove a little spirit.
Wood charcoal, add charcoal when the firepower is low.
However, these two points all depend on the experience of the alchemist. It is not possible to easily refine elixirs with just a single elixir.
Even junior alchemists are very popular in Wangyue City, because alchemy is not only difficult, but also a profession that consumes a lot of spiritual stones. For people who have just learned alchemy, the rate of elixir production is often ridiculously low, often after several furnaces.
, even dozens of furnaces may not be successful once. Increasing the rate of elixir production requires long-term practice and accumulation of experience.
Ordinary casual cultivators are simply unable to bear such a heavy burden in the early stages. Most of the alchemists in Wangyue City are trained by the families that control each alchemy workshop and use family resources.
After being trained, the alchemists need to work for the alchemy workshops of each family. Usually the elixirs sold to the outside world are low-grade elixirs, while the better-quality mid-grade and even top-grade elixirs are all bought by talented people from the cultivating families.
They take it, or appear in the auction house, and sell it for an astonishing price. Therefore, people from cultivating families are often stronger than ordinary cultivators.
Excluding the time for daily practice, Lu Xiaotian stayed in the yard and practiced Tiandan for nearly ten consecutive days. He refined seventeen batches of elixirs and almost used up the remaining spirit stones. Such a high failure rate made him a little discouraged.
If it weren't for the space within the barrier that could cultivate purple spirit grass, the alchemy of this intensity would have been impossible to carry out long ago.
The value of seventeen purple spirit grasses alone in Wangyue City is as high as nearly forty spirit stones. If auxiliary medicines are included, the spirit stones that Lu Xiaotian has wasted in the past ten days are very valuable for a monk in the Qi refining stage.
Astonishing.
However, after so many failures, Lu Xiaotian summed up a set of methods for refining Qi Gathering Pills. He also had a certain understanding of the heat and furnace opening time. Lu Xiaotian was concentrating on the hot carbon fire under the cauldron.
At this time, he no longer took out the spiritual wood charcoal when the carbon fire was too strong, as he did when he first started making alchemy. His previous failed experience gave him a rough idea of how much spiritual wood charcoal was needed to increase the firepower. This is the long-term practice of an alchemist.
Dan's experience.
Nearly two hours later, the familiar fragrance came again, and Lu Xiaotian felt nervous. If he failed again this time, he would have to sell all the twenty magic talismans in his hand before he could continue to make alchemy.
Stay calm and turn on the furnace!
As he opened the lid of the cauldron, a warm and familiar fragrance of elixirs came to his nostrils. Two milky-yellow elixirs lay quietly inside the small cauldron. One of them had a particularly strong fragrance, and its milky-yellow surface turned out to be...
There are two small red lines.
"I actually refined a middle-grade Qi Gathering Pill!" Lu Xiaotian was suddenly pleasantly surprised. After more than ten days of hard work, it finally paid off. This kind of reward after going through all the hardships is far more meaningful than the two pills.
Bigger.
After the heat on the surface of the two round and full elixirs dissipated, Lu Xiaotian put them into small bottles respectively.
When forging iron, you need to take advantage of the heat. Now that you have successfully refined a batch of Qi Gathering Pills, you will refine them a few more times today.
With enough seeds left in his hand, Lu Xiaotian refined it seven times in succession, consuming all the purple spirit grass in the barrier. He succeeded three times, but only one elixir was obtained, instead of two as before.
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However, he was quite satisfied with this result. Even among the Wangyue City family alchemists, some veterans with decades of experience in alchemy, being able to succeed three to four times out of ten is already a very good result.
Alchemy is a skill that pays great attention to realm, and fire control and furnace opening are not static. Different purple spirit grasses have different growth levels and states.
A skilled alchemist will have a pre-judgment of the spiritual grass in his hand, and roughly what kind of heat should be used. This judgment may also have errors, so during the refining process, the alchemist will also adjust the firepower and release time based on changes.
A slight adjustment. However, no matter how powerful the alchemist is, he cannot guarantee that his judgment is 100% correct. A slight error in the process will cause the pot of elixir to be scrapped.
Therefore, experienced alchemy veterans can only maintain a certain success rate.
The reason why Lu Xiaotian was able to achieve such a high rate of elixir production in such a short period of time was not only due to the improvement of his alchemy skills. More importantly, he refined the same elixir for so many times in a row. This was the result of other alchemists.
If not, in addition, the Purple Spirit Grass growing within the barrier is not disturbed by external conditions such as wind and rain, and its growth is relatively consistent. This also increases its elixir production rate.
After refining the last purple spirit grass, Lu Xiaotian put away the small cauldron with satisfaction. He took out the middle-grade Qi Gathering Pill, and naturally kept the good pill for himself. Now is the time to try the effect of the pill.
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Lu Xiaotian sat directly on the stone chair in the small courtyard and took the middle-grade Qi Gathering Pill. The Qi Gathering Pill slowly melted in his body and turned into a gentle heat that traveled through his limbs.
It used to take nearly six hours to refine the power of the Qi Gathering Pill, but now it only takes less than two hours to refine the fifth level of Qi.
The spiritual energy that could not be accommodated in the meridians still appeared in the barrier. After absorbing the medicinal power in the meridians, Lu Xiaotian's soul chased after eating the energy in the barrier. Then he sowed the seeds of purple spirit grass and put a piece of spiritual stone into it.
Grind it into powder and sprinkle it on the soil next to the seeds of purple spirit grass.
When he was refining the elixir before, he was so anxious when he used up the purple spirit grass and cultivated it, because the spiritual energy escaping in the air was floating around, and it was difficult for it to float directly to the seeds of the purple spirit grass and be absorbed by it. Later, he was forced to do nothing.
, he used spirit stones, and he discovered that he could control these spirit stones with his thoughts and crush them.
When using spirit stones, he also pays attention to it. After all, he has five kinds of spirit stones in his hand: metal, wood, water, fire and earth. Only the rare ice wind and thunder stone is not on his hand. Water is the source of life, but don't use too much, otherwise the soil will
Excessive warmth and moisture are not conducive to the growth of purple spirit grass.
Earth spiritual stones can enhance the spiritual power of the land. Wood spiritual stones are also descendants of Purple Spirit Grass. You can use these three spiritual stones as fertilizers. However, generally speaking, the Wood Spirit Stone corresponding to Purple Spirit Grass has the best effect.
, earth spirit stone secondly, water spirit stone again.
He also tested the gold element and the fire element, but it didn't work at all. After absorbing the aura of the gold spirit stone, the purple spirit grass quickly withered, and the fire spirit stone directly burned the purple spirit grass into black ash.
In general, one spirit stone can cultivate almost three purple spirit grasses. According to his previous pill-making rate, it is close to 40%. In other words, the waste refining part of the pill is removed. According to the price of the Qi Gathering Pill, once it is sold, a piece of spirit stone will be cultivated.
Stone can get four pieces in return.
Although the Qi Gathering Pill is less effective for monks in the middle stage of Qi refining, the advantage lies in its large quantity. After having enough pills, his cultivation speed began to rise linearly, which was several times faster than practicing meditation alone.
More than doubled. Within half a year, when I had just entered the fifth level of Qi Refining, the energy accumulated on the fifth level of Qi Refining had almost reached half.
At this time, Lu Xiaotian, who was dressed in Tsing Yi, had grown much taller than before. His figure was still a little thin, not very handsome, but he still had a somewhat delicate face. Because he had been alone for a long time and had experienced life and death hardships in the past few years, Lu Xiaotian
He has a cool and distant temperament about him.
Roar...The leopard's senses are more sensitive than ordinary monks, and it quickly noticed the strange movement outside the yard. It was lying lazily in the yard basking in the sun and suddenly stood up.
There was a knock on the door.
"Is Brother Lu here?" Luo Qing called out softly outside the house.
Hearing the voice of the visitor, Huabao lay down back to his original place. In the past six months, the Luo brothers and sisters would come and jump at the door from time to time. After one or two times, Huabao also remembered them.
"Hey, the smell of this Qi Gathering Pill is different from usual." Luo Qing said after walking in the door and sniffing hard a few times.
"Why did you come here so early today?"
Lu Xiaotian smiled when he heard this and avoided talking about the pill. He was lucky just now and actually refined a high-grade Qi Gathering Pill. In the past six months, he has been refining the Qi Gathering Pill and started refining it countless times.
I'm afraid other alchemists can't compare to him in decades. After all, even if you plant purple spirit grass in a spiritual field, you can only harvest it once a year. It's impossible for him to be able to continuously harvest spiritual grass as long as he has spiritual stones.
Luo Yuan said, "It's like this. In four months, the major immortal sects will start their annual recruitment of disciples. We, brothers and sisters, and a few other close friends plan to go to the Moon Mountains to find some spiritual objects.
If you are lucky, you can also encounter items from other sect missions. Brother Lu is quite strong. I would like to invite Brother Lu to form a team. With one more person, we will be safer in the Moon Mountains."
"What, is it dangerous in the Wangyue Mountains?" Lu Xiaotian said in surprise.
"Brother Lu doesn't know that not only monsters are rampant in the Wangyue Mountains, but the more dangerous ones are from other monks. I have been to the Wangyue Mountains several times, and the teammates who died in ambushes by other monk teams are more likely to die than those who died from the attacks of monsters.
More." Luo Yuan said in a deep voice.
Lu Xiaotian was horrified. He stayed in the small courtyard for half a year refining alchemy, but he was a little indifferent to the bloody killings among the immortal cultivators.
"Who else are there among those invited by Brother Luo? Who has the highest cultivation level?" Lu Xiaotian asked, without directly agreeing.
"Including us brothers and sisters, there are five other people together. Among them, the one with the highest level of cultivation is the same as me, at the sixth level of Qi refining. But Brother Lu is an extremely skilled alchemist. If he joins our team, he will get the spirit
Inside the grass, Brother Lu has certain priority."
Luo Qing said expectantly, in the past six months, they have also gotten to know Lu Xiaotian a little bit. Being able to rent such a large courtyard and complete daily practice by refining alchemy alone is already quite impressive in their eyes.