"Sir, the furnace exploded again. This time the furnace was too powerful and almost injured two people."
"What, this is so good!"
Jiang Tuo just showed an excited look, but saw Zhang Jing's puzzled face, and said quickly: "Oh, this is so tragic. I am very worried, and I need to properly arrange for those two Taoist priests."
Zhang Jing asked again: "Sir, what kind of elixir are we going to refine? Why do we explode the furnace again and again, and the power of each explosion becomes more and more powerful?"
Jiang Tuo said seriously: "This elixir contains the essence of heaven and earth, and ordinary elixir furnaces cannot carry it. So, let your fifth senior brother try to make a detonator, which is as thick as an arm..."
Jiang Tuo made a gesture to Zhang Jing, and then explained to him in detail how to purify saltpeter, as well as the effects of charcoal and sulfur.
Jiang Tuo even organized a caravan to transport sugar from far away, and suggested that the Taoist priests add sugar when refining the elixir.
"Sir, how can this elixir be considered ready?"
"When the alchemy furnace explodes completely and can explode twenty steps away, it will be considered complete!"
"oh."
Zhang Jing nodded.
With Jiang Tuo's guidance, the development of gunpowder was very fast. Jiang Tuo even divided the seventy or eighty people into four groups in order to improve efficiency. Each group was preparing gunpowder and recording the proportions of various materials.
Mononitrate, disulfide, and charcoal, add some sugar to the Da Yiwan.
The first three substances can easily synthesize black gunpowder, and by adding a certain amount of white sugar, the power of the gunpowder will be increased several times or even dozens of times.
Because sugar is a flammable substance, it will quickly dehydrate and burn when exposed to high temperatures, releasing a large amount of air.
It is actually very easy to know the process of inferring the results. No one in the entire Taoist team dares to disobey Jiang Tuo's orders. He does whatever he says and conducts different experiments every day.
The power of the explosion is also becoming more and more powerful.
However, what makes Jiang Tuo feel helpless is that these crude production materials still contain a lot of impurities, and there is basically no room for improvement.
If you want to increase the power, you can only purify these substances, but how to purify them?
This is another big problem.
Jiang Tuo rubbed his chin. Since it can't be purified, if you want it to be more powerful, then you should change your thinking and prepare more gunpowder.
So Jiang Tuo ordered people to grind sulfur and saltpeter into powder and put them in two clay pots respectively.
Then he ordered people to dig a pit, place an iron pot in the pit, and tamp the surrounding area with loess.
"Sir, do you want to cook?" Lu Qing asked.
"No, this cauldron will explode soon!" Jiang Tuo reminded with a serious expression: "Lu Qing, you'd better stay away, otherwise it might hurt you when it explodes!"
"Too dangerous!"
When Lu Qing heard this, instead of retreating, he stood beside Jiang Tuo and reminded: "Sir, how can you do such a dangerous thing with your body of gold? Let those Taoist priests do it!"
Zhang Jing: Thank you to your whole family!
Zhang Jing asked suspiciously: "Sir, the power of this explosion should not be great, right?"
"Don't worry. Look, if I bury these gunpowder in the ground, even if it explodes, won't it still blow up the ground? So don't worry!"
"That's good, that's good!"
Zhang Jing never expected that refining elixirs would be dangerous. In the past ten days, several people had been injured. Fortunately, they were sent to the hospital in time, otherwise they would have met the Second Saint Fairy.
Jiang Tuo was still greeting the Taoist priest.
"You, that thin man, are so stupid for adding sugar to those saltpeters. Couldn't you weigh it first and record the ratio between the two before adding it?"
"That fat man, take the charcoal, grind it up and throw it into this hole. Stir it evenly and plug in the lead."
"Everyone else, please stay away. If there are any torches, sparks, etc., be sure not to ignite them, otherwise it will be dangerous!"
After everything was ready, Jiang Tuo took a few steps back and looked at them from a distance.
It didn't take long for the Taoist priests to prepare the gunpowder.
According to Jiang Tuo's requirements, sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal were put into the iron pot in a certain proportion, and then the opening was sealed and connected by a lead.
Perhaps realizing that this alchemy method was different from before, Zhang Jing looked at Jiang Tuo in astonishment and asked, "Sir, how do you do this?"
"It's very simple, just light the fuse." Jiang Tuo asked someone to hand over a fire stick, and then said: "Zhang Jing can stay alone. The others should stay fifty steps away and find a bunker to hide!"
Hearing this, many Taoist priests were stunned for a moment, and then moved away one after another.
Suddenly, the open space in the middle was empty, leaving only Zhang Jing and a drum bag.
Zhang Jing pursed his lips and became the focus of the audience for a while. Why was he a little uncomfortable and the feeling of uneasiness in his heart became stronger?
This elixir...is it serious?
"Sir, can you cover me and get closer?"
Jiang Tuo poked his head out from behind the bunker and said loudly: "Don't worry, we have so many people here to protect you. If something goes wrong, we will immediately send someone to find the doctor."
"Ah? Isn't that poor Taoist going to die?"
"Idiot, you're seriously injured. How can it be so easy to die?"
"Why don't you light the fire quickly?!"
Jiang Tuo ordered loudly.
Zhang Jing gritted his teeth and put the fire stick in his hand close to the fuse. Suddenly, he saw the fuse burning and smoking.
Sizzsssssssssss...
Sparks flew from the lead.
Zhang Jing was at a loss for a while.
Jiang Tuo's expression changed drastically and he shouted loudly: "Get away!"
The fuse is about to burn out, getting closer and closer to the position of the gunpowder.
When Zhang Jing heard Jiang Tuo's curse, he immediately became alert and ran away like crazy in the distance.
Just at this moment.
Boom!
A deafening sound, like a landslide and tsunami, rolled in with powerful sound waves. Zhang Jing felt that his ears instantly lost hearing, and his body was like a boat in the stormy waves, being overturned instantly.
This... is this the Earth Dragon turning around? !
no!
This is actually the elixir that the governor wants to refine? !
Zhang Jing couldn't think for a while. Do you call this a pill?
He has been a Taoist priest for more than 20 years, and he has never seen any kind of elixir.
But he had never experienced such a powerful elixir.
By some strange mistake, Zhang Jing turned his head and saw a huge flame rising from a dozen steps away, like a white-gray mushroom.
Zhang Jing's whole body trembled and he felt like he was suffocating.
He rubbed his eyes and seemed to see his long-dead grandmother in the rising mushrooms.
