Chapter 142 Refining Sanyang Pill

After obtaining the recipe of Sanyang Pill, the Zhang family has collected two third-level recipes.

The recipe of Wangyue Pill mainly focuses on Wangyue Fruit. The value of this main ingredient is almost several times that of the auxiliary spiritual medicine. As long as you have Wangyue Fruit, it is easy to collect the auxiliary spiritual medicine in the recipe.

Although the main ingredient of Sanyang Pill, Sanyang Grass, is also a precious spiritual grass, its price is only half of Wangyue Grass. The auxiliary spiritual medicine in it is far more complicated than Wangyue Pill. Zhang Zhixuan sent people to collect all the spiritual medicines in various places for more than a year before collecting all the spiritual medicines.

After collecting all the spiritual medicines and sending Chen Hongyuan away, Zhang Zhixuan prepared to start refining the pill.

The Zhang family did not have the fire cave of the earth fire, so naturally they could not build an alchemy room.

The earth fire alchemy not only has a more stable flame, but also lasts for a long time. If the family wants to refine spiritual pills on a large scale, they still have to find a way to open the fire veins and transform the fire eyes.

However, for this kind of thing, not only do you need to hire a third-level or higher formation master, but you also need a Purple Mansion cultivator to block the erupting magma, otherwise the magma will spray out and destroy the Lingshan on the spot.

Zhang Zhixuan can only use the true fire in his body to refine the elixir.

Fortunately, he has now reached a good level of cultivation, and it only takes three days to refine the Sanyang Pill. According to his magic power, he can still persist.

It has been three years since he got the recipe of the Sanyang Pill. During these three years, Zhang Zhixuan has repeatedly pondered and has a very good understanding of the pharmacology of this elixir.

After all the spiritual herbs have been collected, Zhang Zhixuan went to Qingxuan Sect again to buy a third-level alchemy furnace. Unfortunately, although Han Yan helped this time, he still returned empty-handed.

Even in Baoguang Pavilion, there has been no third-level alchemy furnace in the recent period. Zhang Zhixuan had no choice but to buy a second-level superior copper furnace in Qingyang Market and replace his fine iron furnace.

The family used to have a second-grade high-quality alchemy furnace, which had been kept in the hands of Uncle Jiu Zhang Mengquan. Unfortunately, Uncle Jiu was killed by Hu Boren in Xihefang, and the alchemy furnace also fell into the hands of the Hu family.

After Zhang Zhixuan killed Hu Boren, he searched his storage bag, but did not find Uncle Jiu's alchemy furnace.

This time, in order to increase the chance of refining Sanyang Pills, Zhang Zhixuan spent 300 spirit stones to buy a high-quality copper furnace, although he estimated that this alchemy furnace would not last too long.

After returning to Lingjing Mountain and making all preparations, Zhang Zhixuan did not hesitate and immediately started to refine the furnace.

Because the alchemy furnace was newly bought, in order to warm up the alchemy furnace, Zhang Zhixuan first refined several furnaces of second-grade spiritual pills and familiarized himself with the characteristics of the alchemy furnace.

After warming up the alchemy furnace, he began to refine Sanyang Pills.

He had memorized the Sanyang Pill formula by heart, and Zhang Zhixuan put the spiritual herbs into the alchemy furnace in a strict order. The spiritual consciousness in his mind strictly controlled the flame in the alchemy furnace.

His mana was already good, and his spiritual consciousness was stronger than that of ordinary cultivators. He also had a deep understanding of the pharmacology and medicinal properties of Sanyang Pills.

Although it was the first time to refine a third-level spiritual pill, Zhang Zhixuan was not in a hurry, very steady, and successfully refined the Sanyang Pill without making any mistakes.

However, after all, it was the first time to refine the pill, and his success rate was only 20%, and he only refined two spiritual pills.

Including the investment in the alchemy furnace, Zhang Zhixuan invested 800 spiritual stones in Sanyang Pills. If the Sanyang grass worth 300 spiritual stones is included, the cost of refining a furnace of Sanyang Pills is 800 spiritual stones.

The price of a Sanyang Pill is lower than that of the Moon-Watching Pill that assists in foundation building, which is only about 200 spiritual stones. Zhang Zhixuan only refined two spiritual pills, and actually lost some spiritual stones.

But the account cannot be calculated in this way. Although some spiritual stones were lost, Zhang Zhixuan's alchemy skills have finally been upgraded to the third level.

With this experience, it will be easier to refine the third-level elixir in the future.

Sanyang Pill can help foundation-building cultivators break through the realm. Zhang Zhixuan has been practicing to the third level of foundation building for more than three years and is about to touch the bottleneck of the early stage of foundation building.

In the previous levels, Zhang Zhixuan hardly encountered any troubles. He broke through the realm naturally when he had enough mana.

This time, Zhang Zhixuan intuitively thought that he might encounter some troubles.

Although Sanyang Pill is not very helpful for breaking through the middle stage of foundation building, Zhang Zhixuan has not taken any elixir to increase his cultivation after building his foundation.

This is the first time he takes the elixir after building his foundation, and he will definitely be able to exert the maximum effect of Sanyang Pill, and he will have a greater chance of breaking through the third level of foundation building.

The third-level elixir is the foundation of a family in the foundation-building period. Zhang Zhixuan kept one Sanyang Pill for his own use, and gave the other Sanyang Pill to Zhang Mengling to put into the family treasury to exchange for 300 family good deeds.

Since the patriarch set the rule of distinguishing between public and private, Zhang Zhixuan has always strictly abided by this.

The resource exchange between him and the family has always been handled impartially using the family's good deeds.

This is a good thing for both parties. The family does not need to directly take out the spirit stones, but can use the family's good deeds to get the precious third-level elixir.

Zhang Zhixuan can also get good deeds. Although the family's good deeds can no longer exchange for too many resources that are useful to Zhang Zhixuan, he still has to give good deeds to the family monks to serve him.

Zhang Zhixuan's becoming a third-level alchemist is great news for the family.

Since the fourth uncle passed away, there is only one third-level middle-grade talisman maker Zhang Leqian in the family.

After the breakthrough in alchemy, Zhang Zhixuan will feel like he is looking down from a high place when refining the second-level elixir, and the success rate will also be improved.

To refine the second-level middle-grade elixir, the success rate of refining the Golden Bud Pill will reach a terrifying 90% as long as the mana is sufficient.

The family plants 100 yellow bud grasses every five years, and each time they refine 100 furnaces of Golden Bud Pills, the success rate is 40% higher than that of Uncle Jiu, and almost 400 Golden Bud Pills have been added.

400 Golden Bud Pills are worth more than 1,200 spiritual stones. For a family in the foundation-building period like the Zhang family, earning an extra 1,200 spiritual stones every five years is also a very important source of income.

In addition to the five major families, there are more than a few thousand casual cultivators in Taicheng County. Even if the supply of Golden Bud Pills has more than doubled, the sales volume is still very good. They can all be sold out within a five-year cycle.

In recent years, the Baicaoxuan opened by the Zhang family in Xihefang has added two more specialties in addition to Golden Bud Pills.

One is spiritual wine, especially the tiger bone wine that was launched this year, which is sold at a sky-high price.

This spiritual wine has the effect of strengthening bones and setting bones, which is equivalent to the second-level lower-grade bone strengthening pill and bone setting powder combined into one. The price of a jar of tiger bone wine has exceeded sixty spirit stones, but it is still in short supply.

Many casual cultivators, because they cannot afford sixty spirit stones, crowdfund to sell a jar of tiger bone wine, and then keep it separately by one or two kilograms.

Unfortunately, this batch of tiger bone wine is a one-time deal, and Zhang Zhixuan cannot kill tiger monsters continuously, so it can only be popular for one or two years.

Another kind is the Youhuan Pill. The main ingredient of this elixir, Xuanyou Grass, can only survive for eleven or twelve years.

Because the interval was too long, Zhang Zhixuan only refined it twice. The first time was in Black Mountain. At that time, he had just broken through to the second-level alchemist, and the success rate was only 20%.

The second time he refined the pill was seven years ago. This time he had already established his foundation, and his alchemy skills also made great progress. The success rate exceeded the fifth level, and he refined thirty or forty Youhuan Pills.

With the communication and exchanges with the Southern Wilderness over the past twenty years, the characteristics of this elixir have been fully understood by the cultivators of Taicheng County in the past twenty years.

In the past one or two years, all the Youhuan Pills placed in Baicaoxuan by the Zhang family have been sold out.

Even the Youhuan Dan purchased from Liang Hanyang that year had long been sold out by the clan leader. A considerable portion of this batch of spirit stones was exchanged for various resources and used to build the spirit testing platform.