At night, there were still many people in Nanyu Hall.
Most of the people in Nan Yutang at this time like to be quiet. After all, even if there are people in Nan Yutang after night, they are doing their own things quietly, and there is very little conversation or movement. Some disciples who practice alchemy in Qixia Mountain especially like to go to Nanyu Hall at night because of the purity at this time. This is somewhat similar to Jiuxuan's Chengqi Hall. Qian Chao found that some senior brothers can only be seen at night and not during the day. It is rare to see them here, and these people only go to refine weapons at night when they are clean.
Although Nan Yutang is very famous, it doesn't look very big from the outside. There is only one courtyard, and there is just a main hall in the courtyard. There are no second and third floors, which makes it look like a larger school.
But when you walk in under the plaque of "Nanyutang" at the main entrance, you will find the mystery inside.
Just like the bronze carriage that Tang Ping rode in when she went to Youming Valley, after walking into the main entrance, she walked around a screen with the "Painting of the Patriarch's Alchemy" and then opened a bead curtain that seemed to be made of various elixirs strung together with medicinal fragrance. Finally, it suddenly became clear that the space inside the hall was extremely vast, and both the depth, width and height of the hall were far beyond what was seen outside the hall.
As a cultivator and having been here a few times, Yanxuan was already used to this.
I found a deserted place, where there was a fire eye, and a black alchemy furnace was placed on the fire eye. It was surrounded by a screen as high as one person to isolate it from the outside. This was true for every alchemy furnace to protect the process of refining the elixir. will not interfere with each other.
This alchemy furnace is about the same size as the large jar Tang Ping uses to make wine, except that the mouth at the top is larger. I don't know what material the alchemy furnace is made of, but when I tap it with my fingers, it makes a "dang-dang" sound. It looks dark, with complicated cloud patterns on the surface. There is a strange beast that is neither a dragon nor a snake on each side, in a bowing and climbing shape. The lid of the alchemy furnace is directly shaped like an animal head. , but I can’t tell what kind of beast it is.
In fact, this alchemy furnace also comes from the art of refining weapons. The alchemy furnaces used by many disciples in Nanyu Hall are not of high quality. In Qixia Mountain, not to mention the monks who have already established the foundation, even the higher-level Qi refining disciples, if they have the conditions and means, they will find Jiu Xuan's weapon refining masters to tailor a suitable one for themselves according to their own wishes. The alchemy furnace is used to make elixirs. Yanxuan himself also used the alchemy furnace here in Nanyutang when he first learned the art of alchemy. Later, after Qian Chao improved his weapon refining skills, he specialized in the refining of the alchemy furnace. After gathering the materials, he made it for Yanxuan. After making several good alchemy furnaces, Yanxuan never used the alchemy furnace in Nanyu Hall to make elixirs again.
But now we still have to use this big guy to make pills.
Opening the animal head cover on the alchemy furnace, you will see several thin chains hanging on the inner wall of the alchemy furnace. When refining the elixir, Yanxuan must place different spiritual herbs in a plate that can withstand high temperatures according to the requirements of the elixir recipe, and then fasten those plates to the rings in the furnace. There is also a larger, deeper vessel like a big bowl hanging at the bottom of the alchemy furnace. When you turn the animal head on the furnace lid when refining alchemy, the plates in the furnace that are fastened to the rings will tilt sideways, and the souls will be moved. The elixir liquid formed by heating the grass is poured into the large bowl below and merges into elixir. Therefore, on which rings the spiritual grass should be placed in the furnace and how to turn the animal's head so that the heated elixir liquid can be poured into the big bowl in sequence and mixed with each other, these must be clearly understood by the alchemist. If you make a mistake, it will be a waste of elixir.
Place the spiritual herbs, fasten the lid, and then use the heat in the eye of fire to refine the elixir. If every step is correct, the elixir can be made. After opening the furnace, take out the big bowl, which contains the elixir favored by the monks.
Generally speaking, after the lid of the alchemy furnace is buckled, it is not allowed to be opened again before the elixir is completed, unless something goes wrong in the process and all the spiritual herbs in the furnace are destroyed.
Yanxuan had experienced this kind of thing several times, so after putting the spiritual grass into the plate and putting it into the alchemy furnace, she still felt quite uneasy. After carefully confirming that the spiritual herbs in the furnace were correct several times, Yanxuan gritted his teeth and fastened the lid of the alchemy furnace.
Try it once!
Yanxuan thought, and with a flick of his finger, he used the fire control technique to draw out the heat from the fire eyes. Suddenly, her delicate eyebrows were reflected in the red flames from the fire eyes.
At this time, Qian Chao was also burned by the heat rushing out of the fire eyes. Above the fire eyes, a ball of bright white green copper juice illuminated his facial features like a lamp.
He arrived at Chengqi Hall earlier than Yanxuan arrived at Nanyu Hall. He had already tried to refine it twice, but both times failed when engraving the fifth rune.
Qian Chao felt that he could carve most of the fifth rune, but he had to stop due to his own lack of spiritual energy, so all he got were four-rune spiritual swords.
But whenever he had to stop, he could feel that there was still some remaining power in his body, but he just couldn't use it. If those remaining powers, that is, spiritual energy, could be used, this five-talisman spiritual sword would definitely be refined. It's just that he couldn't find a way to fully utilize his remaining energy several times.
At this time, the fourth rune had been neatly engraved on the sword embryo. The fifth rune Qian Chao chose was the Bird Rune. The spiritual power in his body was still weak, but the sad thing was that it was only at this time that he could faintly see it. Aware of the remaining energy hidden in his body, Qian Chao was extremely nervous at this moment. He wished that a big hand would grab him and squeeze him hard to squeeze out all the hidden spiritual energy for his own use.
At this time, the energy in his Dantian was almost dry, and he really didn't know where the vaguely detectable spiritual energy was hidden.
It failed again. Qian Chao looked at the red sword embryo. After quenching, it became a four-talisman sword. If you give it to the senior brother in the inner hall, you can exchange it for a few pieces of ore. However, Qian Chao only needs the four-talisman sword if he wants it. He could refine it, and he didn't care. He only came here tonight for the five-talisman spiritual sword, so every time he failed, he would re-melt the four-talisman spiritual sword he got and continue to use it to refine it.
Instead of tempering it with potion, Qian Chao directly threw the sword embryo into a large bucket to cool down, then closed his eyes and meditated to restore his spiritual energy.
Come again!
Qian Chao thought to himself.
Different from the situation of Qian Chao and Yan Xuan, although Tang Ping, Li Jian and Lu Pingchuan were in different sects at this time, they were each meditating quietly.
Whether inside or outside the house, the three people were sitting still.
Next to Li Jian lay his spiritual sword, glowing with a subtle fluorescence.
Lu Pingchuan's whole body was radiating heat like a furnace. At some point next to him, Kang Fu was still sitting there with a pipe in his mouth, puffing on smoke while looking at his apprentice.
Xiaobai was lying between Tang Ping's legs and in front of her belly, curled up comfortably as if she was asleep, while Tang Ping was silent.
