Chapter 9 Practice

After Li Zhirui returned to the small courtyard, he couldn't wait to take out the recipe for the Jade Spirit Pill. He planned to thoroughly understand the recipe in a short time, and then start refining the Jade Spirit Pill!

So much so that for the next few days, Li Zhirui locked himself in the yard, never leaving the door or taking a step back, either trying to figure out the elixir recipe or practicing the magic formula.

It was not until ten days later that Li Zhirui felt that he had thoroughly understood the elixir recipe, had some ideas about refining it, and was ready to start refining the Jade Spirit Pill.

Li Zhirui first went to the warehouse to borrow an alchemy furnace and washed it with clean water to remove the fire and avoid conflicts between water and fire during the alchemy process.

Then pour one-tenth of the spiritual water in the gourd into the elixir furnace, take out several elixirs needed to refine the jade elixir, and use magic power to initially extract the elixirs and remove impurities according to the elixir description.

This step is the basis for the water method of alchemy. Unlike the fire method, water refining requires monks to extract it from the outside world instead of baking it with the help of spiritual fire.

Soon, five groups of elixir essence were suspended in front of Li Zhirui, and then he put them into the spiritual water in order, and finally closed the furnace lid.

Li Zhirui put his spiritual consciousness into the alchemy furnace, and while observing the changes in the essence, he pinched the magic formula to activate the fusion of the five essences.

This method is the so-called alchemy technique. Li Zhirui only learned the four alchemy techniques of combining, fusing, dividing and condensing from his family's "Basics of Alchemy".

As for some advanced alchemy techniques, in addition to these four most basic techniques, there are also techniques that can further extract, amplify the efficacy, and reduce erysipelas.

This is also the reason why the refined elixir is obviously the same elixir, but there is a huge difference in terms of efficacy and erysipelas!

When the five groups of essences were completely combined into one group, Li Zhirui's magic formula changed, as if there was an invisible hand stirring the elixir essence and integrating different medicinal effects.

And this process determines the effectiveness of the Jade Spirit Pill.

As time passes, when the essence shows a hint of jade color, it means that the essence is almost fully integrated.

Li Zhirui felt happy, but before he could take any further action, the essence suddenly disappeared!

Li Zhirui's face froze. Although he never thought that he would succeed in refining alchemy for the first time, he still felt a little unhappy when faced with failure.

After his mood calmed down, Li Zhirui stood up and activated the photo stone that he had placed long ago, and began to check what went wrong with him.

After several times, Li Zhirui finally found out what went wrong. He was a beat too slow when performing the Pill Splitting Technique, and then failed.

"Huh..." Li Zhirui let out a long breath and put the mixture in the alchemy furnace away with an empty gourd.

Just because these mixtures were failures doesn't mean they were trash.

And this is also the difference between water refining and fire refining. If the water refining fails, the essence will be merged with the spiritual water, but if the fire refining fails, it will only turn into a pile of ashes.

Although these mixtures have not been further extracted and contain certain toxins, they contain spiritual energy. Although they are harmful to monks, they can be fed to spiritual beasts with good physiques or used to pour elixirs.

Li Zhirui, who is in the space, will naturally not give this kind of food to Daqing, but it is excellent for watering the elixirs in the space.

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Li Zhirui completed all the previous steps of cleaning the alchemy furnace, adding spiritual water, removing impurities, synthesizing the essence, and integrating the medicinal effects.

The moment he saw the jade color appear, the magic formula changed, and the pill-splitting formula was instantly activated. The essence, which was originally the size of a baby's fist, was immediately divided into ten parts, but before Li Zhirui could continue to take action, the essence dispersed again.

After getting started personally, Li Zhirui knew that the difficulty of refining alchemy was far greater than he imagined, so that after he failed again, his mentality became very peaceful.

"Didn't some people always say in previous lives that failure is the mother of success?" Li Zhirui comforted himself, and then began to look at the photo stone to find where he had made mistakes.

Soon, he found the problem. He pinched the magic formula a little wrong, resulting in the essence of the separated elixir not being condensed enough!

This time, Li Zhirui did not continue to make alchemy. Instead, he recorded the mistakes he had made and the problems he encountered one by one, and prepared to find an opportunity to ask the family's alchemist.

At the same time, he took out the "Basics of Alchemy" and the elixir recipe, and carefully compared it to make sure that he had not remembered anything wrong or forgotten, and then started refining the elixir again.

But unfortunately, until the moon lifted into the sky tonight, Li Zhirui had not refined the Jade Spirit Pill. The closest he came to success was because he had refined the pill too many times and had insufficient mana, which resulted in the final elixir condensation technique not being performed smoothly enough.

"The fiftieth alchemy failed. Reason for failure: insufficient mana." Li Zhirui wrote down the reason for the final failure, but a smile couldn't help but appear on his face.

Because this failure was not due to a problem with his technique or timing, but because of a lack of magic power! If he has enough mana in the end, he is likely to succeed!

"It seems that I still have some talent in alchemy." Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to succeed after only practicing fifty times.

but……

Li Zhirui felt distressed and helpless when he saw that most of the elixirs he had accumulated over the years had been lost in just one day.

The space appeared on the day Li Zhirui broke through to the first level of Qi training, and it has been ten years now.

Most of the elixirs he planted were the most common and common first-level elixirs that could mature in just one or two years, so he had accumulated a lot of common elixirs.

Several elixirs for refining jade elixirs were grown in Li Zhirui's space, but there was one elixir that he got too late and didn't have much in stock.

So he was able to collect almost 70 or 80 pieces of materials, but after a day of squandering, he only had more than 20 pieces left.

As for why Li Zhirui doesn't sell elixirs? That's because the market in Bailang County is too small, and the shops that buy elixirs are either run by families or by the Beast Control Sect. The prices are lower than the last, and he really doesn't want to sell them at a low price.

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Li Zhirui dragged his tired body, rarely practicing, but fell directly on the bed, and soon fell into a dream.

Early the next morning, Li Zhirui got up energetically, spent half an hour feeding Daqing, spreading the spiritual liquid in the spiritual field, and then hurriedly exited the space and sat cross-legged in front of the alchemy furnace.

"call--"

As he exhaled a breath of turbid air, Li Zhirui's state of mind became extremely calm. He poured in the spiritual water, collected the five elixirs, extracted them one by one, blended the essences, separated the elixirs, and finally used the elixir condensation formula!

A scent of medicine that Li Zhirui had never smelled before filled the air from the alchemy furnace. Li Zhirui couldn't wait to open the alchemy furnace and saw five round jade-colored elixirs floating in the clear spiritual water!

"Successful!" Li Zhirui's bright eyes were full of joy, and the smile on his face was even brighter.

A furnace of elixirs can produce at most ten elixirs, and Li Zhirui succeeded in getting five elixirs the first time, which was a very good result.

Li Zhirui took out the jade bottle that he had prepared and used his magic power to extract the jade elixir. He carefully put the elixir into the jade bottle as if it were a supreme treasure.

Xu had some successful experience, but in the following time, Li Zhirui only failed five or six times.

After consuming all the elixir, Li Zhirui's face turned slightly pale, and there was a trace of fatigue between his brows and eyes, but his energy was extremely full.

"One Jade Spirit Pill sells for three Spirit Stones in the market. Even if there are ten pills in a bottle, it will still be cheaper than two Spirit Stones. And with the number of pills I have now, not only will I not lose money, but I will also start to earn Spirit Stones! "Li Zhirui said to himself excitedly.