Now that we have the alchemy furnace and the materials, we have to find a place with earth fire.
A quiet room with an earth fire is not cheap. There are still forty-two spiritual stones. Nearly half of them were gone at once. Zhou Yang shook his head with a wry smile. But he didn't feel bad. He couldn't bear the capital, so how could he make a big profit?
He wandered around Free Square City again, bought some dry food, pens, paper, cinnabar and other items, and then walked towards the store area.
There are much fewer people in the store area. After some inquiring, he found a shop that rented out rooms and walked in.
A quiet room with a ground fire costs 60 yuan of first-grade spiritual stones per month. It is indeed very expensive. Usually, it is rented for at least one month, but how can he have 60 yuan of spiritual stones!
"Brother, how about we discuss it? If I have to leave Tuyan City in an emergency in the next ten days, can I rent it for half a month first? If something happens, I can renew the lease. Please make it easier, brother!" Helpless, Zhou Yang could only Can make up lies.
"Sorry, there is no such rule." The fat guy said expressionlessly.
It was inconvenient for Zhou Yang to mention Ziyuanzong at this time, so he said to the waiter with a smile on his face: "Brother, please be accommodating. There will be something urgent in the second half of the month." After saying that, seeing no one paying attention, he took the two pieces of spirit. The stone was secretly stuffed into the waiter's hand.
The fat guy's eyes lit up, he hesitated for a moment and said: "I'll ask, please wait a moment." After saying that, he pretended to walk to the back, and walked out after a while, showing off: "I asked the steward for a favor. , saying that it was rented by a friend, the manager agreed, please come with me."
"Thank you, brother!" Zhou Yang felt relieved.
He followed the boy to the back of the store, and then walked back along a street.
After another half cup of tea, they came to a place where the fog was very heavy and hazy. The clerk took out a token and looked into the fog. The fog dispersed, revealing dozens of pavilions, all three-story buildings. There should be many houses.
These fogs are obviously formations, and others must not be able to enter.
The clerk took him to the door of a quiet room and said, "This is it. This is the token to enter and leave the quiet room. You can use this quiet room for now. I will come back in half a month."
"Okay, this is the spirit stone, please keep it." Zhou Yang took out thirty pieces of first-grade spiritual stones and handed them to the clerk. The clerk took them and turned around and left.
Zhou Yang pushed the door open and looked around.
The quiet room is very spacious, facing north and south, has no windows, and is very hot. The surrounding walls are embedded with luminous stones, and there is a square bluestone platform to the north, where it is hotter. The platform is very large, and there is a clock on it. He has seen this object and knows that there is a strange second formation inside, which can tell the sun, moon and time. There is a bronze object in the middle of the platform, which is shaped like a pot, with eight toads protruding from the periphery. The mouth of the toad is not large, and after bending, it converges to the bottom of the pot. A furnace or tripod can be placed inside the pot-shaped object for practicing weapons and elixirs.
According to the essentials of alchemy, earth fire is spit out by dragon heads, and there are dozens or even hundreds of dragon heads. There are only eight here, and they are still toad heads. Some are too shabby. They should be low-level, but they can be made by training. One level of elixir is enough.
There was a futon on the platform. Zhou Yang sat down and took out a lot of bark from the skin bag. He also took out paper, pen and cinnabar, closed his eyes and meditated, and then wrote urgently.
After three days of sweating like rain, a book was completed. He did not give the title of the book. It started with the chapter on Talisman Array, followed by Lingzhi, and then Danhuo. The Danfang and Danhuo chapters were combined, making the whole book three chapters.
He put this book into his arms with great care, and then continued to meditate.
The art of alchemy is very mysterious and requires a lot of attention. It is not enough to just have the elixir recipe. You also need to have the talent for alchemy and suitable attributes, as well as an understanding of the medicinal properties of various spiritual herbs, mastery of heat, etc.
Of course, the most important thing is the alchemy materials. A good alchemist is made by using a lot of materials and accumulating countless alchemy times. The cost is huge, and even a small sect may not be able to train a junior alchemist.
After two full hours, Zhou Yang placed the alchemy furnace in the center of the pot-shaped utensil, and then placed the materials required for Huang Yandan on the platform one by one.
He took a deep breath, poured the mountain boar's blood and ore into the alchemy furnace, and directed his energy towards the toad. A toad spit out earth fire. The earth fire was purple-red and glowed with a faint purple light.
Mountain boar blood and ore combine to form a thick paste. After three breaths, Zhou Yang put two Huangyancao plants into the alchemy furnace. The Huangyancao melted immediately after entering the furnace. After another three breaths, another bell-red plant and a rock grass were put in. Then the furnace lid was tightly closed, and then a toad mouth was opened, and then Yuanli was slowly poured into the furnace. This is the established sequence in the Danhuo Jue. .
After a stick of incense, he stopped injecting Yuanli and closed a toad's mouth.
After another stick of incense, a "pop" sound came from the furnace. Zhou Yang felt nervous. He hurriedly turned off the ground fire and opened the furnace lid with Yuanli. A burnt smell floated out, leaving only a black mass in the furnace. Damn it, this is an elixir explosion, the elixir refining failed.
Zhou Yang's expression remained unchanged, everything was difficult at the beginning.
He used Yuan Li to clean the alchemy furnace. After the alchemy furnace was completely cold, he put in various materials again and continued refining. There was a "pop" and the elixir exploded again, which failed.
Then there were three consecutive failures. Zhou Yang didn't dare to continue. He had plenty of other materials, but he needed one plant less for Ling Dang Hong. Moreover, he found that his energy was being lost very quickly, so he might be in trouble and needed to recover a little.
Now there are only three spiritual stones left, and you have to think carefully before practicing again.
The refining procedure should be correct, but which link is wrong?
He recalled the previous five elixir refining processes. The fourth and fifth elixir explosions seemed to be later in time. It was because his Yuan Power was a little weak. Was it difficult to control the use of Yuan Power as the days went by? To what extent can we control it?
Dan Fire Jue shows that you can practice elixirs in the middle stage of Kaiyuan, but it is best to try it in the later stages, because the control of Yuanli is more precise in the later stages.
It must be that the control of Yuanli is unstable and the elixir explodes. As for furnace explosion, it rarely occurs when refining low-level elixirs, because Yuanli and firepower are small and not enough to cause furnace explosion.
After thinking about this, Zhou Yang recovered for a while and started refining again.
In the last step, he reduced his energy and firepower by 20%, and sure enough, there was no pill explosion. When the time comes, a scent of medicine comes out of the furnace. Is it possible? Zhou Yang felt excited.
After turning off the ground fire, open the furnace lid. Where can I find any elixir? It was just a few light yellow pills, but the smell was very strong, so it still failed. But this time it was much better than the previous five times, and his confidence also increased a lot.
This time the elixir failed, the power of the medicine could not be condensed, and the elemental power or firepower was not enough? Then try again. He gritted his teeth and took out another bell-red plant. This was already the seventh one.
With the protection of the gods, it must come true! He thought silently in his mind, and the seventh alchemy began.
This time, he reduced the energy and fire power by 10%, and controlled the time when the earth fire turned on and off.
It didn't explode, and it had a medicinal aroma. After opening the furnace, a small light yellow elixir appeared in Zhou Yang's hand!
No, the small one was a bit too small. This one was more than half the size of the other pills he had seen.
Still not right, the herbs he put into the furnace were the starting materials for refining Huang Yandan, and they were also the minimum requirements. According to the secrets of alchemy, two elixirs can be refined at a time. He did not expect to produce two elixirs at a time, just one. However, the elixir produced this time was too small. After half a cup of tea, the small elixir suddenly cracked and then shattered.
"Damn it!" Zhou Yang was a little confused and couldn't help but swear.
He took a deep breath and began to close his eyes and think hard. There must be a problem in which link. The seventh-dimensional power and firepower are well controlled. There is no problem with the program and there should be no problem with the materials.
He understood every aspect of alchemy in detail, focusing on the use of each elemental power and firepower. After a moment, there was a thought in my heart. The last step of firepower needs to be used in waves, that is to say, it must be used slowly and then urgently. The urgent time should be short, and then slow down. If the firepower is not enough, the elixir cannot be condensed.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yang no longer hesitated, took out the materials and prepared to refine it again. But just as he was about to use his Yuan Power, a feeling of powerlessness came over him. The Yuan Power was actually exhausted! What follows is hunger. When I looked up, I saw that two days and nights had passed.
It took two days but it still hasn’t become a pill!
Zhou Yang couldn't help but feel a little anxious. Five days had passed and there were only ten days left. But it was useless to be anxious. He ate something casually and began to meditate to recover.
An hour later, Zhou Yang woke up and said, "This won't work, recovery is too slow!"
He looked at his shriveled spirit stone bag. There were only three pieces left. He absorbed them with all his strength. They would be used up in more than a day. If the elixir had not been completed by then... However, recovery from meditation was too slow.
Zhou Yang is not an indecisive person. He can think of another solution after using up the spiritual stones. This is a critical moment and must not be delayed in meditating. He took a deep breath, took out a piece of spiritual stone that glowed with light green light, held it in his hand and began to absorb it with all his strength. After the spiritual power entered his body, it was converted into his own energy. He felt that the pores in his whole body were opened and he was trying to absorb it.
Nearly four hours later, with a "wave!" sound, the spirit stone in his hand turned into a pile of gray-white powder. After one piece of spiritual stone was used up, Zhou Yang felt that his body was not full yet and should have returned to 70% to 80% of its peak strength. However, he could not eat any more. There were only two pieces left, so he had to use them sparingly. After adjusting his spirit and energy, Zhou Yang once again devoted himself to refining the elixir.
The eighth time, it was still a little bit worse, but the elixir became bigger. The ninth time, he thought it was okay. After the tenth refining was completed, another spiritual stone turned into fly ash. However, he looked at the elixir in his hand with a satisfied smile on his face.
It’s exactly the same shape as recorded in the Alchemy Tips, it’s done!
Ten times, twice the energy was exhausted, and finally the elixir was obtained. It was not easy, it was really not easy! No wonder there are so few alchemy masters in the world. This is not something humans do.
However, if an alchemist really heard what he said, he would blow his beard and stare in anger. In his first attempt, he made the elixir in just ten attempts. The materials were only a few spiritual stones. Compared with other alchemists who made elixirs for the first time, the success rate was ridiculously high! This also shows that Zhou Yang’s understanding of alchemy is amazing!
