Chapter 35 Alchemy 2

After settling down, Lu Xiaotian took out the alchemy furnace again, cleaned the impurities and waste in the cauldron, and started the alchemy again.

The most difficult thing to control in alchemy is the fire, and the time to start the furnace is extremely difficult to control. Usually, it takes nearly two hours to refine a Qi Gathering Pill. Lu Xiaotian must always pay attention to the size of the firepower. When the firepower is too high, remove a little spirit Charcoal, add carbon when the firepower is low.

However, these two points are all mastered by the experience of alchemists, and it is not easy to refine pills just by relying on one pill.

Even junior alchemists are very popular in Wangyue City, because alchemy is not only difficult, but also a profession that consumes a lot of spirit stones. For those who are just learning alchemy, the rate of alchemy is often ridiculously low, and often a few or even a dozen furnaces may not be successful once. To improve the rate of alchemy requires long-term practice and accumulation of experience.

Ordinary casual cultivators are simply unable to bear such a burden in the early stages. Most of the alchemists in Wangyue City were cultivated by the families that controlled the alchemy workshops using family resources.

After being cultivated, the alchemists need to work for the alchemy workshops of each family. Usually the elixirs sold to the outside world are all low-grade elixir, while the middle-grade and even high-grade elixirs with better quality are taken by talented people in the Xiuxian family, or appear in auction houses, and sell for astonishing prices. Therefore, people from the Xiuxian family are often stronger than ordinary casual cultivators.

Excluding the time for daily practice, Lu Xiaotian stayed in the yard and practiced pills for nearly ten days in a row, refining seventeen furnaces of pills one after another, and the remaining spirit stones were almost used up. Such a high failure rate made him a little discouraged. If it weren't for the space in the barrier to cultivate purple spirit grass, alchemy of this intensity would have been impossible.

The value of the seventeen purple spirit grass alone is as high as nearly forty spirit stones in Wangyue City. If the supplementary medicine is counted, the spirit stones that Lu Xiaotian wasted in the past ten days are very valuable for a monk in the refining period. Astonishing.

However, after so many failures, Lu Xiaotian summed up a set of methods for refining Qi Gathering Pill. I also have some experience with the temperature and the time of opening the furnace. Lu Xiaotian was concentrating on watching the fiery carbon fire under the tripod.

At this time, he was no longer like taking out the charcoal of the spirit wood when the charcoal fire was too big like when he first started alchemy. The previous failure experience let him roughly know how much firepower needs to be added. This is the experience that alchemists have gained from long-term alchemy practice.

Nearly two hours later, the familiar scent came again, and Lu Xiaotian's heart tightened. If he failed again this time, he could only continue alchemy by selling all the remaining 20 talismans in his hand.

Keep calm and turn on the furnace!

As he lifted the lid of the cauldron, a warm and familiar scent of elixir came out, and there were two milky yellow elixirs lying quietly in the small cauldron, one of which had a particularly strong fragrance, and the milky yellow surface There are two small red lines.

"He even refined a middle-grade Qi Gathering Pill!" Lu Xiaotian was suddenly pleasantly surprised, and the hard work of more than ten days finally paid off. This kind of reward after all the hardships is far more meaningful than the two pills.

After the heat on the surface of the two round and full panaceas dissipated, Lu Xiaotian put them into small bottles respectively.

You have to take advantage of the heat to forge an iron. Now that you have successfully refined a batch of Qi Gathering Pills, you will refine a few more times today.

With enough seeds left in his hand, Lu Xiaotian refined it seven times in a row, consuming all the purple spirit grass in the enchantment. He succeeded three times, but there was only one elixir, and he did not refine two as before. .

However, he was quite satisfied with this kind of result. Even for some veteran alchemists of the Wangyuecheng family who had decades of experience in alchemy, it was already a very good result to succeed three to four times out of ten.

Alchemy is a skill that is very particular about realm, and the control of the fire and the opening of the furnace are not static. Different purple spirit grasses have different growth degrees and states.

A good alchemist will have a prediction on the spirit grass in his hand, roughly what kind of heat it will use. There may also be errors in this judgment, so the alchemist will also slightly adjust the firepower and release time according to the changes during the refining process. But no matter how powerful an alchemist is, he can't guarantee that his judgment is 100% correct, and if there is a slight difference in the middle, it will cause this batch of pill to be scrapped.

Therefore, experienced alchemists can only maintain a certain success rate.

The reason why Lu Xiaotian was able to achieve such a high alchemy rate in such a short period of time was not only the improvement of his own alchemy skills. What's more important is that he has refined the same elixir so many times in a row, which is not available to other alchemists. In addition, the purple spirit grass that grows in the barrier is not disturbed by external conditions such as wind and rain. relatively consistent. This also increases his pill rate.

After refining the last purple spirit grass, Lu Xiaotian put away the small cauldron with satisfaction. Take out the mid-grade Qi Gathering Pill, and naturally keep the good one for yourself. Now is the time to try the potion effect.

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, turning into a gentle stream of heat that traveled through his limbs and bones.

In the past, it took nearly six hours to refine the medicinal power of Qi Gathering Pill, but now it only takes less than two hours to refine the fifth level of Qi.

The aura that couldn't be accommodated in the meridians still appeared in the enchantment. After absorbing the medicinal power in the meridians, Lu Xiaotian's primordial spirit chased after eating the vitality in the barrier. Then the seeds of the purple spirit grass were sprinkled, and a piece of spirit stone was ground into powder and sprinkled on the soil next to the seeds of the purple spirit grass.

When the purple spirit grass was used up in alchemy before, he jumped anxiously when he cultivated it, because the spiritual energy escaping in the air was floating around, and it was difficult to float directly on the seeds of the purple spirit grass to be absorbed by it. Later, he was forced to use spirit stones, and he found that he could control these spirit stones with his mind and crush them.

When using spirit stones, he was also particular about them. After all, he had five kinds of spirit stones: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Only the rare Bingfenglei was not on hand. Water is the source of life, but it should not be used too much, otherwise the soil will be too moist and not conducive to the growth of purple spirit grass.

Earth spirit stones can enhance the spiritual power of the land. The spirit stones of the wood system are also a branch of purple spirit grass, and these three kinds of spirit stones can be used as fertilizers. But in general, the wood system corresponding to the purple spirit grass has the best effect, followed by the earth spirit stone, and the water spirit stone again.

He also tested the metal and fire elements, but it didn't work at all. After absorbing the spiritual energy of the gold spirit stone, the purple spirit grass withered quickly, and the fire spirit stone directly burned the purple spirit grass into black ash.

In general, one spirit stone can almost cultivate three purple spirit grasses. According to his previous alchemy rate, it was already close to 40%, that is to say, alchemy excluding the waste of refining, according to the price of Qi Gathering Pill, once you sell it, you can get four rewards for one spirit stone.

Although Qi Gathering Pills are less effective for monks in the mid-stage of Qi refining, they are better in large quantities. After having enough pills, his cultivation speed began to rise linearly, which is several times faster than relying on sitting alone. More than double. Within half a year, he had just entered the fifth level of Qi Refining, but at this time 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 a lot taller than before, and his figure was still a little thin, not very handsome, but there was also a somewhat delicate face. There are a few more people who have a cold and distant temperament.

Roar. The leopard's senses are more sensitive than ordinary monks, and it quickly sensed the changes outside the yard. It suddenly stood up while lying lazily lying in the yard basking in the sun.

There was a bang on the door.

"Brother Lu is there?" Luo Qing called out softly outside the room.

Hearing someone's voice, Leopard went back to its original place. In the past six months, the Luo brothers and sisters would come and rush through the door from time to time. After one or two times, Leopard also remembered them.

"Hey, the smell of this Qi Gathering Pill is not the same as usual." Luo Qing said after walking into the door and sniffing vigorously a few times.

"Why did you come here so early today?"

Lu Xiaotian smiled when he heard the words, and avoided talking about the elixir. He was lucky just now, and he actually refined a top-grade Qi-gathering pill. In the past six months, he has been refining the Qi-gathering pill, and the number of times he opened the furnace to make alchemy I'm afraid other alchemists can't compare with decades. After all, even if purple spirit grass is planted in the spirit field, it takes only once a year to harvest it. It is impossible to harvest spirit grass continuously as long as there are spirit stones like him.

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-Watching Mountain Range to find some spiritual objects. If you are lucky, you may 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 safe in the Moon Mountain Range."

"Why, is it dangerous in the Mochiyue Mountains?" Lu Xiaotian said in surprise.

"Brother Lu doesn't know that there are not only monsters rampant in the Moon-Watching Mountains, but also other monks. I have been to the Moon-Watching Mountains a few times, and the teammates who died in the ambush of other monk teams are more dangerous than those who died under the attack of monsters." There are more." Luo Yuan said in a deep voice.

Lu Xiaotian was terrified. He spent half a year refining alchemy in the small courtyard, but he was somewhat indifferent to the bloody killings among immortal cultivators.

"Among the people invited by Brother Luo, who else is there? Who is the one with the highest cultivation?" Lu Xiaotian asked, but did not directly agree.

"Including our brothers and sisters, there are five other people. Among them, the one with the highest cultivation level is the same as me, the sixth level of Qi Refining. But Brother Lu is an extremely brilliant alchemist. If you join our team, you will get the spiritual power at that time." In the grass, Brother Lu has a certain priority."

Luo Qing said with anticipation that in the past six months, they have gotten to know Lu Xiaotian a little bit, and they are already quite powerful in their eyes to be able to rent such a large courtyard and complete daily cultivation by relying on alchemy alone.