Chapter 34 Alchemy, Expelled

hiss! Lu Xiaotian felt a tingling pain in his brain, and quickly withdrew the consciousness that was acting on the storage bag.

Lu Xiaotian looked at the black storage bag in amazement. It stands to reason that at this time the old man in black robes had been killed by him. It should not be a problem to open this storage bag, but when he opened it with his spiritual sense at this time, he still encountered difficulties. To the cold mental attack attached to the storage bag like a poisonous snake.

Maybe there is still some unsolved secret on the old man in black robe, but now that the other party has lost his soul, I am afraid that this secret will be silenced forever.

It's a pity that the golden flying sword. Lu Xiaotian smacked his lips, but he was satisfied with today's battle.

At this time, the black-robed old man had been removed, and he could use the mysterious space in his body rationally. Apart from leaving an empty storage bag on his body for display, the remaining spiritual objects were sent to the barrier.

After finishing these, Lu Xiaotian rested his chin. Before that, he was only on the second level of Qi Refining. Even if there is a sufficient supply of pills, it will take a few years to reach the fifth level.

But now he is already at the fifth level of Qi Refining. The "Hunyuan Jing" in his hand can only be cultivated to the middle stage of Qi refining, so it is imminent to obtain the exercises in the late stage of Qi refining.

It's just that a book of late-stage exercises is basically priced at forty low-grade spirit stones in the store. Ordinary Qi-refinement stage monks can barely buy a book of late-stage Qi-refinement exercises by relying on their usual income. Luo Yuan even paid for it. a certain amount of debt. Now he only has eight low-grade spirit stones in his hand, and only a dozen vitality pills on his body that can be sold. Although it is a windfall, it is easy to be targeted by some people who are in the late stages of qi refining, or even those who have completed qi refining. This is extremely unfavorable for the future adventures in the Mochiyue Mountains and the collection of spiritual objects needed to join the sect. What's more, in the future, we will need to collect the mid-stage and late-stage pill formulas, which will require a lot of spirit stones.

Going out to find a job, the spiritual stones earned in a month, excluding all kinds of expenses, are also used for cultivation. It is estimated that it will take a long time to raise, which will undoubtedly affect the cultivation.

But Lu Xiaotian thought that in Wangyue City, people who can refine weapons, raise spirit beasts, or make alchemy, know how to plant low-level spirit grass, or can make talismans, all the workshops and shops offer good prices.

It just so happens that there are more than a dozen purple spirit grasses in the barrier, which can also be regenerated and can be used to refine Qi Gathering Pills. After much deliberation, Lu Xiaotian decided to start with alchemy.

Immortal cultivators spend a lot of money on pills, and they can still meet their own needs. Even if the effect of using Qi Gathering Pills is not as good, it is better than nothing. Moreover, as a mid-stage Qi refining and junior alchemist, selling Qi Gathering Pills would not attract too much attention from others.

After figuring this out, Lu Xiaotian went out again to buy all the other herbs needed to refine the Qi Gathering Pill as supplementary materials, and also bought a batch of charcoal. Except for purple spirit grass, the prices of these accessories are not expensive. It only cost two low-grade spirit stones together.

Charcoal is made by burning low-level spirit wood. Refining the elixir can also use the vitality in the monk's body to directly condense the fire of Yuanyang, but this will consume too much energy. Once the energy in the dantian is exhausted and the fire cannot be connected, the elixir may become a waste pill.

After preparing the materials, Lu Xiaotian looked at the environment of the room hesitantly. The room was too small and not suitable for alchemy. But apart from this room, he has no other place to use.

I can't control that much anymore, let's practice first and then talk, thinking of this, Lu Xiaotian's heart swayed.

Take out the alchemy stove that I bought from Luo Qing earlier, there are purple and yellow stripes on the alchemy stove, this is a unique pattern made of purple black copper, it has a cold texture when touched by hands, three arcs The shaped feet support the small tripod on the ground.

He had already memorized the formula of Qi Gathering Pill, and followed the steps to light the fire. The temperature of the spirit wood charcoal burned was very high, and the small cauldron was quickly burned red. According to the steps, Lu Xiaotian first put several auxiliary ingredients into it one after another, reducing the amount of charcoal put in, and when there was a faint fragrance coming from the small hole in the lid of the small tripod, Lu Xiaotian took out another purple spirit grass and put it into it.

After a while, a strange fragrance rose from the cauldron, and Lu Xiaotian was shocked, which was exactly the same as the fragrance of Qi Juqi Pill, but according to the prescription of the Pill, it was just the purple spirit grass in the furnace turned into juice at this time, and the time to turn on the furnace must be If it is done properly, if the pill is prescribed early, its properties will dissipate before it takes shape. The potency of the refined elixir is greatly reduced. If it is opened late, and the refining time is different, there is a high probability that it will be refined into a useless elixir.

Chi--

Suddenly, the smell of medicine in the small cauldron stopped abruptly, and a choking smell emerged.

Oops, just now I was only paying attention to the time to turn on the furnace to release the pills, and forgot to control the temperature of the fire. The firepower was too high, and the temperature inside the cauldron was too high, so the unformed pills were directly burned to waste.

bang bang

The door was slammed loudly. "Open the door, open the door! What are the people inside doing?"

"This smell is like alchemy refining waste."

"It's really ignorant. If you practice alchemy in such a small space, you will be a ghost if you don't practice it."

Several monks who lived in this inn together at the early stage of Qi refining talked sarcastically.

"Cough cough."

Lu Xiaotian opened the door, there was a stench, and the high temperature of the spirit wood charcoal burning made the waiter in the inn choke, coughing violently, and it took a while to recover, before he had time to see Lu Xiaotian's appearance clearly, Then he accused loudly, "The inn is for people to live in, not a place to mess around. What did you do in it? If the whole inn is burned down, can you afford it?"

"Go, you are not welcome in our inn, and you are not allowed to come to our inn again!"

The movement in the inn soon alarmed the shopkeeper. In view of the bad influence brought by Lu Xiaotian, he almost burned down the inn. The shopkeeper drove Lu Xiaotian out in surprise and anger, because Lu Xiaotian was already a monk in the mid-stage of Qi refining, so he didn't say a word. But the meaning of the words is more or less the same.

Lu Xiaotian put away the alchemy stove, came out of the inn in embarrassment, and looked at the inn angrily, what's so great, and didn't really burn the inn down. He thought resentfully in his heart.

"It's just an ordinary casual cultivator who wants to become an alchemist. It's really ambitious." There were other monks on the side of the road who saw the smoke staying in the inn. After knowing what happened, they shook their heads and left.

"Hey, isn't this Brother Lu?"

A familiar voice came from the crowd, and Lu Xiaotian heard it, and saw that it was the Luo brothers and sisters walking towards this side.

"Brother Lu, what's going on, this store is so unreasonable, I'll go and argue with him." Luo Yuan said very righteously, but soon Luo Yuan realized it, and said in surprise, "Brother Lu, your cultivation how?"

"This is my fault first." Lu Xiaotian held Luo Yuan awkwardly, and seeing his shocked expression, explained, "I used some tricks before, but now is my real cultivation base .”

Then Lu Xiaotian briefly talked about the inn.

"So that's it. So Brother Lu has no place to go now, why not move to our residence and come with us?" Luo Qing said enthusiastically after hearing this.

"Together with you?" Lu Xiaotian hesitated for a while.

"That's right." Luo Qing continued.

It turns out that it is very troublesome to rent a place for casual repair in Wangyue City, and it is very disadvantageous to rent an inn alone, so I rented a small courtyard together with a few other good friends, with four rooms together, and only ten spirit stones a month. It is bigger than the inn, and has a small courtyard. It happened that a friend entered the Mochizuki Mountains last time, and unfortunately died, so a room was vacated. Although the price is a little higher than staying in an inn, it is more comfortable to live in. And there are not so many people in the inn.

Lu Xiaotian was a little moved, but after thinking about it, he still felt that something was wrong. He had some secrets that he didn't want outsiders to know. Even breeding shadow ants is the same, in order to unexpectedly defeat the enemy at critical moments. I thought about it secretly in my heart, I still have a lot of talismans in my hand, and selling some can solve the immediate crisis of spirit stones. So he refused, "No, I still have some spirit stones in my hand, and I want to rent a small courtyard alone."

"Brother Lu is really generous to rent a small courtyard alone. I know there is a courtyard not far from us. Brother Lu can go and have a look if you want to." Luo Qing clicked her tongue coquettishly, and then said.

In Wangyue City, except for some high-income alchemists, tool refiners, or people in the late stage of Qi refining stage, people in the Dzogchen realm would rent a courtyard alone. Even in the later stages of qi refining, they are rented together with others.

"Thank you very much." Lu Xiaotian no longer refuses, and it will take a lot of effort to find it by himself.

Several hours later, Lu Xiaotian moved into the new courtyard. It has three rooms less than Luo Yuan's, but it only needs seven spirit stones a month. The size is more than enough for him.

After not raising shadow ants for a while, Lu Xiaotian took out the Yuchi and sprinkled dozens of Beast Spirit Pills. Get out the shadow ants in the jade gourd. The shadow ants are in a dormant state in the jade gourd, but they haven't eaten for a long time.

The awakened shadow ants were eating anxiously, and some of them even bit each other because they ate the same beast spirit pill, it seemed that they were hungry. Lu Xiaotian quickly separated the biting Shadow Ants.

After feeding the shadow ants, Lu Xiaotian released the leopard from the spirit beast bag.

"Wow." The leopard was also held in the spirit animal bag for too long, and when it came out, it let out a cry of complaint, and then tamely rubbed its head against Lu Xiaotian's trouser leg.

"Okay, let's go play and don't go out of the yard." Lu Xiaotian patted the leopard's head and let it move on its own. The leopard has little effect on him now, but before when he was weak, if it wasn't for the leopard At this time, I am afraid that he is already a pile of dry bones. Therefore, even if he is idle, he will not sell the useless spirit beast like some other monks.