Chapter 10 Golden Bud Pill

The elixirs used by immortal cultivators are divided into several types: elixir, tao elixir, and immortal elixir. Immortal elixir can only be taken by immortal cultivators. It may take thousands of years to refine a furnace of elixir.

Tao elixir contains innate spiritual light. After taking it, one can comprehend the laws of heaven and earth. It is more precious than elixir. The elixirs taken by mortal cultivators are all elixir.

Elixir is divided into nine grades. Elixir above the fifth grade has been rare for a hundred years. Every bottle that appears will trigger a fight among Jindan cultivators. The sixth grade elixir is more likely to cause a melee among super sects, bringing chaos to cultivators in dozens of countries.

The higher the grade of elixir, the more difficult it is to refine, the more materials are required, and the more stringent the refining conditions are. According to legend, it takes thousands of years for immortals to refine a furnace of elixir.

The ancestor of the Zhang family inherited the mantle of a casual cultivator and had the ability to refine elixir. When he was alive, he could already refine the fourth grade elixir.

Unfortunately, after the ancestor passed away, the family has not cultivated a high-grade alchemist.

Although the Chuyun Patriarch has a higher level of cultivation, he is not good at refining pills and tools. His best skill is to refine magic talismans.

Although the family has not been able to inherit his magic tools, he also left three fourth-level spiritual talismans to the family.

Unfortunately, in the past hundred years, the family has not developed smoothly and has repeatedly encountered powerful enemies. Two of them have been used up one after another, and the remaining one has been left in the Patriarch Pavilion in preparation for possible future wars.

Now the highest-grade alchemist in the family is Uncle Nine Zhang Mengquan, who is only a second-level upper-grade alchemist. He can skillfully refine more than a dozen spiritual pills, and his best one is the second-level middle-grade Golden Bud Pill.

The Golden Bud Pill is made of yellow bud grass as the main medicine, and Jin Yuzhi and Qingling Ginseng, two first-level spiritual medicines, are used as auxiliary medicines. It is suitable for cultivators in the middle and late stages of Qi training. It can improve the cultivator's mana and can also be used with the barrier-breaking pill to break through the bottleneck.

The refining process of the Golden Bud Pill is much more difficult than that of ordinary first-level pills. Although the medicinal materials of ordinary first-level spiritual pills are rich in spiritual energy, they can also be refined with ordinary fire.

The Golden Bud Pill is a second-level spiritual pill. Ordinary fire can no longer refine spiritual medicines, and only spiritual fire can be used to refine pills.

With the participation of seven or eight people including Zhang Mengquan, the progress of picking yellow bud grass was several times faster. In less than one morning, everyone had picked all the spiritual herbs.

Alchemist Zhang Mengquan had no time to rest and immediately took out a jade box from his body. He hit the jade box with a spiritual power, and the jade box flashed with inspiration. A brass alchemy furnace more than one foot high appeared on the open ground.

This jade box is also a second-level top-grade storage magic tool. This type of storage magic tool is refined with Kongming Stone. The space inside the second-level top-grade storage jade box is already three feet square, which is enough to store a lot of things.

Storage magic tools are more precious than ordinary magic tools, and the price in the market is also a little higher.

A second-grade upper-grade storage jade box like Zhang Mengquan's is worth at least four or five hundred spirit stones.

There are more than a hundred cultivators in the Zhang family, but only six elders have storage instruments.

Even a cultivator with a small fortune like Zhang Zhixuan can't afford a second-grade lower-grade storage jade box with a storage space of only one foot square.

Zhang Mengquan took care of his internal breath, first used a paper talisman to ignite the Xuanyang wood, then took a bucket of well water from the spirit well, and slowly put the spiritual medicine into the alchemy furnace in order, pinching the alchemy spell in his hand to strictly control the temperature of the spiritual fire.

After the spiritual medicine was completely dissolved and the fragrance of the medicine could be smelled, he took out a yellow bud grass from the sandalwood box, his face gradually became serious, no longer relaxed before,

After the spiritual medicine was completely melted into liquid, he added a trace of spiritual water, and then cast a spell.

Soon, five pills were successfully condensed in the cauldron, and the remaining pill liquid evaporated, emitting bursts of white steam from the top cover, giving off a strong medicinal fragrance.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the liquid completely evaporated, and five elixirs flew out of the medicine mouth and shot at the people around.

When the elixir comes out of the furnace, it cannot be contaminated with acquired qi, and a special pill collection method is required to isolate the air.

It is best to use gold and jade objects to collect the elixir to prevent the elixir from being contaminated with vulgarity.

Zhang Mengquan quickly took out a jade bottle and cast a pill collection method.

Among the five elixirs, two of them turned into a pure spiritual energy and scattered on the ground before they flew out of the elixir furnace. The remaining three flew towards the jade bottle. The first two were golden in color, and the last one had a trace of gray.

Zhang Mengquan put the first two into the jade bottle and pinched the last one with his hand. There were a few small gray dots in the golden elixir.

This kind of elixir has been tainted with vulgarity and has become a waste pill. It is poisonous and can no longer be taken.

Zhang Mengquan poured out a elixir from the jade bottle. The elixir was golden in color, the size of a baby's thumb, exuding a light golden luster and a strong fragrance.

When a cultivator refines an elixir, he usually refines ten pills in one furnace. Some special alchemy masters can use special alchemy formulas to refine the materials that were originally used to refine ten pills into twelve pills, and the efficacy will not decrease.

But low-level alchemists like Zhang Mengquan are far from being able to do this.

"This is the first furnace of pills today. The smoke from the alchemy furnace is still relatively large, and the number of pills is also less. This furnace is used to warm up the alchemy furnace." Zhang Mengquan said a few words to himself, rested for half a quarter of an hour, and continued to refine the elixir.

It takes about a quarter of an hour to refine a furnace of golden sprout pills, and then the alchemy furnace must be cleaned to completely remove impurities.

In about an hour, four furnaces of golden sprout pills can be refined.

Starting from noon, Zhang Mengquan continuously refined 24 furnaces of elixirs until his power was exhausted.

While he was refining the elixir, he would explain it from time to time, and he was not afraid of others learning to make elixirs.

When he saw that everyone didn't understand, he would demonstrate it himself.

To learn the profession of alchemist, it takes a lot of resources. Even a family like the Zhang family can only support three or four cultivators to learn alchemy.

These three or four alchemy apprentices can often only train one or two alchemists.

Therefore, most old alchemists have some sense of crisis, hoping that the younger generation of cultivators in the family can learn alchemy and inherit their own mantle.

If a family does not have its own alchemist, the supply of elixirs is almost completely controlled by others. If other alchemists play tricks in the elixir, they may face greater trouble.

Three thousand years ago, there was a casual alchemist who was outstanding in talent and was able to refine the sixth-level high-quality elixir.

This person was a casual cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage, famous in the world of immortal cultivation for his superb alchemy.

Even many great cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage relied on him to refine elixirs.

Such a great monk who is respected by everyone actually mixed a demon into the elixir. Any monk who took the elixir he refined would be infected by his evil thoughts and controlled by him to become a demon controlled by him.

Overnight, thirteen Yuanying monks and hundreds of high-level Jindan monks were controlled by him, causing the famous Danmo chaos in the world of cultivation.

In this chaos that spanned a hundred years, nineteen Yuanying monks and hundreds of Jindan monks died one after another.

For more than a thousand years, most monks were scared and dared not take elixir refined by others.

After more than a thousand years of joint rectification by dozens of major sects, especially the five major sects of the alchemy sect Changqing Sect, Yaowang Mountain, Qingdan Pavilion, Xuandan Sect, and Danfa Sect, the Dan League was formed. The whole world of cultivation gradually restored its trust in alchemists and began to buy elixir from outside.

Even if the monks of the five major sects jointly guaranteed, most monks would not take elixir of unknown origin until now.

The Zhang family's customers in the market are also local cultivators who have practiced for many years, and they know each other well.

Relying on the credit of being rooted in Lushan for hundreds of years, they can use the elixir they refine to exchange for various resources for cultivating immortals.