"yawn!"
The disciple on duty, who was wearing short clothes and short hair, yawned, took a sip of the ice tea in his hand, and then leaned lazily on the wooden chair.
"Oh, this damn place is getting hotter and hotter. The sect doesn't even know how to consider us and build a cooling circle." The short-haired disciple ticked.
Danxia Peak is not natural, but was built by the Jindan Patriarch inside the gate with great magic power.
There is not only a second-level spiritual vein located underground, but it is also connected to the earth fire. It is even rumored that the depths of the lava are the birthplace of the sect's fundamental spiritual plant [Indestructible Wood].
The combination of various reasons makes this place very hot, and it can be said that it is very difficult for the disciples stationed there. If it weren't for the high pay, few would be willing to come here.
There is no way, after all, the harsh environment can be tolerated, but poverty cannot be tolerated.
"But having said that, why are there so few senior brothers coming to refine pills during this period?" The short-haired disciple was a little confused.
"Open an alchemy room for me."
"who?!"
The sudden sound scared the short-haired disciple and jumped up from his chair.
"It's me." He followed the call and saw a young man standing in front of him at some point.
He was dressed in a simple white robe, with only a simple green wood hairpin on his head. The broad robe had large sleeves, and was not stained by dust. His whole person's temperament had an indescribable calmness and tranquility.
The short-haired disciple couldn't help but be stunned before he realized what was happening and asked incoherently: "How come you don't make any sound when you walk?"
Lin Chen was stunned by this question, and then smiled to himself: "I'm used to it."
Except in the laboratory or at home, Lin Chen has always been accustomed to walking silently in the outside world. Especially when he is close to people, he not only walks silently, but even hides in the blind spot of the other person's sight unconsciously.
Of course, this was just to better protect himself. Regardless of whether the person being attacked believed it or not, that was what he thought anyway.
"I want to open an alchemy room." Lin Chen continued.
"Okay, okay!" The short-haired disciple nodded quickly.
"Wait a minute, are you the senior brother Lin who won the outer sect competition?" While recording the information, the short-haired disciple reacted belatedly and said in surprise.
"Oh? You know me?"
"Of course, the spiritual bullet technique that senior brother performed in the outer sect competition was so handsome. Compared with those barbarians who only know how to use their hands, the guys who have no brains to use spiritual weapons to hit people are much more handsome!" The short-haired disciple said with admiration.
'I didn't expect that I would have fans...' Lin Chen smiled slightly and nodded.
"Senior brother, what do you think of this underground fire room? Not only is there sufficient fire energy, but the location does not face the fire outlet. The spiritual fire is relatively stable, easier to control, and easier to refine elixirs." The short-haired disciple asked respectfully.
"Huh?" Lin Chen took a look, looking a little surprised.
This kind of alchemy room is often booked in advance, but I didn't expect that the other party would schedule it for me.
'Am I so charming? 'This thought flashed through Lin Chen's mind.
Then he smiled and nodded: "I'm determined."
"You're welcome, senior brother. I would like to wish you success in refining the alchemy."
After saying that, Lin Chen turned around and walked towards the alchemy room under the gaze of the short-haired disciple.
What he didn't know was that his fluent fighting skills in the outer sect competition had attracted many fellow monks to him.
But even if he knew it, Lin Chen wouldn't care. To him, the comments from the outside world were like a breeze blowing on his face, so he wouldn't care.
Creak!
As the door opened, Lin Chen walked into the alchemy room.
The room was very empty, with only a huge alchemy furnace placed in the center. There were restrictions on the ground that were shining with spiritual light. There was a small pit directly under the alchemy furnace, and there was a faint glow of fire.
"Let's get started." Lin Chen observed the surroundings and then directly activated the formation.
The ground fire instantly rose up under Lin Chen's control. The entire alchemy furnace quickly became fiery red, and layers of heat waves rolled out of the air!
Lin Chen took out Chaoxia Yunzhi and threw it into the alchemy furnace. Then he took out various auxiliary medicines such as spiritual liquid and chalcedony, and threw them directly into the fire.
This situation will definitely make most alchemists look like a clown and think it's a joke.
Alchemy pays attention to the weight of the medicinal materials, when to use them, and how to heat them? Such crude refining of medicine will only end up wasting the best spiritual materials.
But in Lin Chen's view, this guy who spent a lot of time trying out materials and summarizing the appropriate method of changing the temperature can only be regarded as a master craftsman, and he has not even touched the threshold of alchemy!
Alchemy, or elixir refining, is the extraction of medicinal properties from elixirs and condensing them into elixirs.
Blindly pursuing the weight of medicinal materials and the temperature of the heat, rather than the content of medicinal properties, is completely the opposite and goes in the opposite direction!
For example, how are the medicinal properties of nine-year-old ginseng and ten-year-old ginseng the same? What is the difference between a Juyuan flower growing in a place with abundant spiritual energy and a flower growing in a place with poor spiritual energy? How to mix the elixirs that grow with sufficient rain and dry weather with the heat to remove excess water?
When the brainless craftsman saw the alchemy master adding medicinal materials and adjusting the fire like this, he thought he had mastered the trick and applied the same method. The important thing is that every detail should correspond to the master's standards. Little did he know that this was the final result based on the changes in the properties of the medicine. Just the best choice!
"The art of alchemy is vast and profound, and I don't understand it. But one thing I understand is that the essence of alchemy is to use various means to extract medicinal properties that are easy for the human body to refine, and to eliminate those that are difficult to refine!"
The medicinal properties are the manifestations of the various attributes of heaven and earth in the elixir.
Although there are many kinds of spiritual roots in the human body, the body is made of water and eats wood for a living. Therefore, monks who want to refine spiritual energy of different attributes often swallow elixirs with corresponding attributes instead of directly swallowing magma, metal, etc. iron.
However, among the elixirs, even those with corresponding attributes, such as Huo Yuan Zhi, may easily have negative, earthy and other medicinal properties due to environmental factors. These properties do not meet the other medicinal properties required by the monks, so they will be rejected. collectively called impurities.
The alchemist is one who extracts the medicinal properties needed by the monks and eliminates the unnecessary ones. If they are not extracted cleanly, they will remain in the human body and form so-called erysipelas, which will affect the progress of cultivation.
Based on this theory, even if Lin Chen did not understand the four principles of alchemy: 'yin and yang', 'rise and fall', 'clear and turbid', and 'movement and stillness', he still understood a key point. There are so many changes in alchemy, in the final analysis, it is to combine what a monk needs Substances are extracted.
When talking about the extraction of substances, Lin Chen's first reaction was the chemistry he learned in high school in his previous life!
"The change in medicinal properties lies in yin and yang. It is not just the yin and yang medicinal properties, but the combination of one thing with another thing, the exchange of one thing with another to form two things; or even the synthesis of one thing and one thing with the participation of a third thing. One thing may be exchanged for two things, but the third thing remains unchanged..." Lin Chen silently recited the discussion on alchemy recorded by the ancients found in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and his eyes gradually brightened.
It sounds so complicated, but in the final analysis, isn't it similar to decomposition reactions, combination reactions, substitution reactions, etc. in chemistry in previous lives?
It's just that the particles are replaced by spiritual energy, and the extraction methods and methods are changed, but the fundamental theory is similar!
And with the spiritual sense of the foundation-building stage, Lin Chen can distinguish the properties of the medicine, which also provides the possibility for his experiment of non-toxic Qi pill to be successful!
"In my opinion, the first step in refining elixirs is to use the method of fire refining to break down the complex medicinal properties!"
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The tongues of fire kept licking the spiritual materials and Yunzhi in the alchemy furnace, gradually melting them into a medicinal liquid mixed with various spiritual energies.
Lin Chen controlled the spiritual flames in the furnace fire, smelting the liquid medicine with silk threads. Under the double tempering of the true energy and flames, the various medicinal properties originally mixed in the liquid medicine began to decompose, and the already inert spiritual energy sank to the alchemy cauldron. At the bottom, the active spiritual energy that can be refined by monks rises to the upper alchemy room.
In elixir prescriptions, this phenomenon is also called the rising of clear Qi and the falling of turbid Qi!
"The second step is to use water refining to extract the medicinal properties that the monks need!"
Lin Chen's spiritual roots are water, fire and earth, so he needs medicinal properties with corresponding attributes. The rest of the medicinal properties will not only not improve Lin Chen's cultivation, but will form erysipelas in his body and affect his advancement.
If he wanted to extract what he needed from this spiritual liquid that contained complex medicinal properties, Lin Chen's first reaction was to extract it with water!
The alchemy energy slowly rose under Lin Chen's control. After contacting the clear ice stone, it condensed when it was cold, turning into alchemy liquid and dripping along the orifices.
Lin Chen collected them and used several methods to extract the medicinal properties, including melting, refining, and chemicalizing, to extract the three medicinal properties of water, fire, and earth from the medicinal solution!
"The third step is to use the soil refining method to mix the medicinal properties!"
Lin Chen is not a monk with a single spiritual root. If he simply absorbs one type of spiritual energy to practice, it will lead to an imbalance of the true energy in the body, so he must mix the medicinal properties of the three attributes!
While thinking, Lin Chen took out a culture medium, but the soil inside was not brown, but as bright red as blood. This was the culture medium Lin Chen made from his own flesh and blood.
Lin Chen reached out and made a move, and the three medicinal liquids flew out separately, mixed into one, and flew directly into the blood soil under the aura of spiritual light.
"The fourth step is to use the wood refining method to condense it into a pill!"
Lin Chen took out a dry and lifeless spiritual plant branch, injected the true energy into it, and then inserted it directly into the blood soil.
Not long after, the dead branches seemed to be rejuvenated, and a bud emerged from the branch. Then, it directly absorbed the blood in the soil and grew rapidly.
In just a short moment, a lush green plant was formed. In an instant, the flowering and breeding produced elixirs as big as longan eyes!
The strange thing is that these elixirs seem to be physical, but upon closer inspection, they appear to be a bit illusory. Obviously, these are not actual elixirs, but wisps of condensed elixir energy without any impurities!
Non-toxic gas pill!
Moreover, this Qi Pill absorbs Lin Chen's blood to grow, and is itself contaminated with Lin Chen's aura, so he doesn't even need to refine it, he can increase his cultivation level by swallowing it directly!
"The fifth step is to store the elixir using the method of gold refining!"
Lin Chen took out a spirit-containing jade stone and gently tapped it on the green plant. The pills on it fell one after another, turning into wisps of gas and flying into the jade, forming a spiritual pill that exuded a faint green light. .
Using the method of storing elixirs with gold and jade spiritual stones, not only can they be stored for a long time, or even put into the spiritual veins, but they can also be continuously assimilated with the same kind of spiritual energy. After being placed for hundreds of years, they can be taken out, and after being consumed, a newly practicing monk can complete the refining process. Qi period practice!
"The way to make alchemy is to extract and preserve the required medicinal properties. As long as you can do this, there is no need to stick to fire methods to make alchemy!"
"Using the Five Elements method to refine and preserve elixirs, remove impurities and preserve their essence. This is my way of cultivating immortality and elixirs!"
Seeing the illusory Qi Pill in his hand, Lin Chen's face showed a hint of joy.
He has been researching for so many years and finally completed the experiment of [Non-Toxic Qi Pill] with the help of his spiritual sense!
From now on, another obstacle will be removed from the long road of cultivation, allowing him to move towards a more distant future!
