Chapter 335 Could it be that I met the legendary ‘expert’?

Unexpectedly, after hearing his question, the master did not rush to answer it, but smiled calmly and waved the whisk in his hand.

He glanced around and said encouragingly:

"The question raised by this young friend is the most interesting one I have encountered when I explained the alchemy here in the past ten years.

I already have an answer to this question, but I want to hear what you think first. Don't worry, you can speak freely."

Hearing Master Lin throw the question to everyone on the stage, Xu Feng began to look around, hoping that someone would answer the question he raised.

"Master, I have an idea.

Doesn't this Taoist friend need a living mayfly to make an elixir? He can prepare all the other medicinal materials he needs, and then take the alchemy furnace to the place where the mayfly exists, and open the furnace to make an elixir on the spot, right?"

A female cultivator in a lavender gauze dress expressed her thoughts.

"My fellow Taoist, I don't think your solution is very good. Mayflies are very rare in places where they live, and they are all near water and humid places, which are not good places for alchemy.

Besides, from the fact that my fellow Taoist needs second-level mayflies as medicine, the grade of the elixir he wants to refine must not be low. High-quality elixirs cannot be refined in a day or two.

My fellow Taoist is also an alchemist, and I believe he knows that the order in which each spiritual medicine is put into the alchemy furnace cannot be changed.

What if the mayfly is the last one to be put into the alchemy furnace? Even if the mayfly is caught before alchemy, it will still die when it is refined. In this way, isn't it in vain?"

Xu Feng nodded his head after hearing these words. The recipe of the 'Jiamu Longevity Pill' records that the last spiritual medicine to be put in is indeed the second-level mayfly.

He had also considered the method proposed by the female cultivator just now, but it was rejected in the end because of this reason.

They are alive when they are caught, but they become dead when they are used to make pills, so they cannot be used to make pills.

"This problem is easy to solve. When this Taoist friend goes to the mayfly growth area to make pills, can't he bring a helper with him?

He is responsible for concentrating on making pills, and when the mayflies are needed, can't he let his companions catch them for him?"

The female cultivator was very persistent. She tilted her head, rolled her eyes, and came up with another solution.

As soon as she finished speaking, the people around her began to whisper to each other, saying that the problem had been solved satisfactorily.

"This Taoist friend said well, wouldn't it be solved by bringing a helper?"

"Yes, yes, I think so too."

"..."

But gradually, the voices of the crowd became smaller, because they found that Master Lin, who was sitting on the top of his head, seemed not very satisfied with this answer, and did not give his approval for a long time.

"I've figured it out, fellow Taoist, your method just now is not feasible."

A seventh-level male cultivator sitting in front of Xu Feng had been thinking hard with his head down. At this time, he seemed to have an idea and refuted the previous female cultivator.

"Oh, I would like to ask this fellow Taoist, what is wrong with my method?"

The female cultivator's expression was still calm, she felt that there was nothing wrong with her method.

"Think about it, if there is only one spiritual medicine like mayflies in the recipe, it's fine, but what if there are two at the same time?

For example, among the spiritual medicines needed by this Taoist friend, there is also a taste of fire rock grass, what should be done?

Everyone knows the habits of fire rock grass. It is roasted by magma all year round. Once it leaves that environment, it will turn into a handful of black ash in a very short time.

In this case, how should this Taoist friend refine this furnace of medicine? Should he go to the volcano, or go to lakes and swamps where mayflies are present?"

Hearing this question, the alchemists who just echoed the voice lowered their heads and began to think seriously. They realized that they had just thought about the problem too simply.

In the end, after everyone discussed for a long time, many alchemists proposed solutions one after another, but they always felt unsatisfactory. Either the operation was too difficult, or it could not fundamentally solve the problem.

However, the heated discussion atmosphere made Master Lin, who was sitting in the air, very pleased. He liked to see the audience express their opinions, rather than listening to him talk endlessly like a clay puppet.

Seeing that the time was almost right, Master Lin moved the whisk in his hand slightly, and everyone immediately shut up.

"Just now, everyone has given a lot of insights on the questions raised by this young friend. Now I will also talk about my opinion.

Refining pills with scarce spiritual medicines has always been a major problem in our alchemy industry. The most common ones are the growth years and the number of spiritual medicines in existence.

Under normal circumstances, these two problems exist separately, but what this young friend encountered is a combination of these two problems.

Not to mention the growth years of mayflies, except for the third level and above, they are born and die in the morning, and there are not many of them in existence. This kind of spiritual insect cannot be raised artificially, which further increases the difficulty of refining pills with them."

Hearing that the master didn't get to the point for a long time, Xu Feng was so anxious.

"Don't just talk about theories, tell me the solution. What's the point of just talking about these unrealistic things?"

Wait, this master is not like the so-called experts who can only talk but don't know anything in practice, right?

Just when he was suspicious, Master Lin finally ended his long speech and started to give a solution directly.

"Look, what is this?"

Looking at the seven jade boxes floating above their heads, which were made of different materials and flashing with colorful rays of light, everyone began to speculate.

"Such a pure fire spirit, is this one above my head made of pure and top-grade fire spirit materials? I can't feel the presence of any other spirit on it, it's really weird."

After Xu Feng used his spiritual sense to scan a jade box just above his head, he couldn't help but be surprised.

He had only heard of such a pure single-attribute magic weapon before, but had never seen it in reality.

As far as he knew, even the various single-attribute magic weapons circulating on the market were never made of such a single attribute.

For example, a cultivator's water attribute spiritual root was the most prominent, and the magic weapon he needed to make was naturally a water attribute that was extremely compatible with his own attributes.

But even so, it doesn't mean that this water-attribute magic weapon is purely made of water-attribute spirit materials without any other attribute spirit materials. That is impossible. It's not that such a magic weapon can't be made, but it can't be used even if it is made.

The refining of magic weapons also pays attention to the matching of the five elements.

"The seven jade boxes above your heads, although they are also magic tools, are not used to assist in combat, but to store spiritual medicines.

From left to right, they are gold, wood, water, fire, earth, ice, and thunder attributes, respectively, and are made of the purest seven spiritual materials mentioned above. They are specially used to store various spiritual medicines that have special requirements for the living environment.

The problem of alchemy with living mayflies that you just raised can be solved with it. These boxes are made of third-level spiritual materials, and there is no problem in storing second-level spiritual objects."