Chapter 98 Alchemy Success

In the business car, Chu Yang smelled the faint aroma of medicine and asked Xu Jingyi beside him: "Have you bought all the herbs I asked you to buy?"

Xu Jingyi hurriedly replied: "Master, I prepared a lot, all in the trunk."

"That's good."

Chu Yang nodded. This was also his first time to make an elixir, and he didn't know how many times he would fail. It was necessary to prepare more herbs.

Lin Caiwei sat in the co-pilot, glanced at Chu Yang through the rearview mirror, and asked curiously: "Master, why did you ask us to prepare so many Chinese herbs? The junior sisters are not sick?"

"Make an elixir."

Chu Yang replied lightly.

"Ah?"

Everyone in the car looked at Chu Yang in surprise, and even Xu Jiaqi, who was driving, couldn't help but step on the foot brake.

Chu Yang explained, "It was by chance that I got a book on alchemy. I wanted to try to make some pills, which would make it easier for you to forge your body."

Several female disciples were very excited and couldn't help discussing:

"If the master can really make pills, then we will be blessed."

"I heard from Master that there are only a handful of people who can make pills now, and the pills they make are in short supply!"

"That's right, have you heard of Taoist Lingyun? He relied on alchemy to develop Fuyun Temple into a famous temple in Jiangnan."

"..."

Chu Yang also had some expectations in his heart. If he could really learn alchemy, it would be much easier to develop his own power in the future.

After an hour of bumpy ride, the car finally arrived at the Pear Garden. Before Chu Yang and his friends got off the car, a group of female disciples rushed out of the Pear Garden and surrounded the car, calling "Master, Master" non-stop.

"It seems that they like Master very much!"

Xu Jingyi said with a smile.

Chu Yang opened the car door and jumped out. He picked up Wu Xiaoxin and scratched her nose, saying, "Hurry up and meet your senior sister. She will be jealous, haha."

The female disciples heard this and hurried to greet Xu Jingyi.

The Pear Garden had already prepared food. Chu Yang heard that they had not eaten yet, so he took them to the dining hall to eat first.

After eating and drinking, Chu Yang asked people to take the medicinal materials from the car and began to sort them out.

Because the medicinal materials are of different lengths, thicknesses and sizes, it is not convenient to use them when refining the pill, so they need to be processed first.

Xu Jingyi bought a lot of medicinal materials, which were placed on the ground in a large pile.

Fortunately, the Pear Garden is full of female disciples, who are quick and careful. It took an hour to finally finish processing these medicinal materials.

Chu Yang asked Xu Jingyi to prepare a clean and spacious room as an alchemy room and arranged people to guard the door.

After entering the room, Chu Yang sat cross-legged and took out the alchemy furnace he had bought earlier from his backpack.

This furnace is completely black and only the size of a watermelon. It has a lid that can be opened, three legs at the bottom, and a hollow interlayer under the furnace wall, which is where the fuel is placed.

Chu Yang cleaned the inside of the furnace and recalled the steps of refining the body-building pills again, and then placed the medicinal materials around him in the correct order.

After finishing, he put the silver frost charcoal that came with the furnace into the interlayer and ignited it with the three-flavor true fire.

After burning, this silver frost charcoal can produce a very high temperature, which can quickly liquefy the medicinal materials without burning them, making it most suitable for refining primary elixirs.

For the first time refining elixirs, Chu Yang didn't know whether the fire was right or not, and could only estimate the temperature before putting the medicinal materials into the furnace.

Because the furnace had been heated to a very high temperature in advance, the first plant of Astragalus membranaceus melted into liquid as soon as it fell into the furnace.

Seeing this, Chu Yang hurriedly put in the remaining medicinal materials according to the recipe. After all the medicinal materials were melted, he quickly covered the furnace and started counting the time.

After about a quarter of an hour, Chu Yang cooled the furnace and waited for it to cool down before taking out the condensed pill inside.

"Why is it dark red?"

Looking at the large piece of maltose-like thing in his hand, Chu Yang felt something was wrong, so he sent a photo to the seller of the pill recipe.

Fortunately, the seller's after-sales service was good, and he pointed out the mistake to him at once: "This furnace is useless. When making medicine, some medicinal materials need high temperature, and some need to be cooled. It is obvious that the furnace temperature is not high enough when you put the mist medicine!"

After asking for advice humbly, Chu Yang opened another furnace. This time he added more silver frost charcoal and estimated that the temperature was about right.

Who knew that when he opened the lid of the furnace, there was only a ball of black ash under the furnace.

Needless to say, the temperature was too high this time, and the medicinal materials were burned directly!

Chu Yang failed several times again and began to think about the reason.

When refining pills, the most difficult thing is to control the furnace temperature. Sometimes the heating is not timely, and the pill liquid is refined into a semi-finished product. If the temperature is cooled down slowly, the pill liquid will be directly burned, which is very troublesome.

Finally, when discussing this problem with the seller, the seller gave him a tip, asking him to put in an appropriate amount of silver frost charcoal first, and use the three true fires to increase the temperature when high temperature is needed, and remove it when low temperature is needed, so that it can be more flexible.

This method is indeed very effective. After Chu Yang tried this method several times, he really refined a furnace of qualified body-building pills!

"Master, aren't all pills round? Why are the ones you refined flat?"

Lin Caiwei looked at Chu Yang who was showing off the body-building pills to them, and asked with a puzzled look.

Chu Yang's old face turned red, and he said unhappily: "It's amazing that you can make such a pill for the first time. Why do you have so many requirements!"

After being scolded, Lin Caiwei stuck out her tongue and shrank to the side.

Xu Jingyi picked up a pill and smelled it, and asked curiously: "Master, how effective is the body-building pill you refined?"

After successfully refining, Chu Yang tried one pill and found that the efficacy of the self-produced pill was only 70% of the one sold in Tushita Palace.

However, this was not a problem with his refining technique, but caused by the difference in the pill formula.

"The efficacy is still good, although it is not as good as other companies, but the advantage is low cost and can be refined in large quantities. Even if you all use it, it can be afforded!"

The three bottles of body-building pills just refined cost at most one thousand yuan, which is only 30 spirit stones per bottle.

And the body-building pills he bought in Tushita Palace cost 500 spirit stones per bottle, which can be said to be more than ten times lower in cost!

Of course, this does not count the investment in buying alchemy techniques, alchemy furnaces and pill formulas. If it is counted, it would be ridiculously high.

However, the initial investment will be slowly recovered in the future. At the very least, the body-building pills that are refined can be sold, and the cost will be recovered sooner or later.

After mastering the alchemy skills, Chu Yang's success rate in refining body-building pills is getting higher and higher.

It was not until after ten o'clock in the evening that Chu Yang left the alchemy room with a smell of fireworks.

Refining pills is also a very hard job. It not only consumes energy, but also consumes spiritual power.

The spiritual energy in the mortal world is thin, and relying on absorbing external spiritual energy to restore spiritual power is like a drop in the bucket.

Chu Yang had no choice but to use the spirit pill to replenish his spiritual power, and only then did he barely refine more than 30 bottles of body-building pills.