In fact, things like those senior brothers who are on duty in the inner hall of Chengqi Hall sell spiritual weapons to the sect not only in Jiuxuan, but also in Qixia Mountain. The various pills and medicines produced in Qixia Mountain are not only outside the sect but also in the sect Both are highly sought after.
Nanyutang, where Yanxuan refines the elixir, and Baicaoyuan, where the elixir is prepared, both have people doing the same business. It's just that the number of people in Qixia Mountain is much smaller than that of Jiuxuan. The refining of elixirs is more difficult than refining weapons. The elixirs used by foundation-building monks are even more difficult to refine, so their scale is smaller than that of weapons. It's very small for a church. Secondly, there are a large number of monks in the Wuling Sect, so the elixirs produced in Qixia Mountain will not be sold within the Wuling Sect. The spiritual grass used to refine high-level elixirs is even more difficult to find, and most of them are those who do not know how to refine elixirs. The monks worked hard to get the spiritual grass, and then prepared the spiritual stone to find the alchemist in Qixia Mountain to refine it for themselves. What the alchemist himself has is mostly the skill of alchemy.
Therefore, there are very few elixirs that can be sold outside the sect, much less than the spiritual weapons, and it is almost impossible for high-level elixirs to leave the sect.
Those who are good at refining elixirs are respected as alchemists, but alchemists are more closed and wary of each other than weapon refiners. If the weapon refiners in the inner hall of the Chengqi Hall have experience in a certain weapon refining technique, they can write it into a book and send it to the inner hall. After approval by the specified number of weapon refiners, it can be sealed in the inner hall as a classic for others to refer to. Of course, people who write books have great benefits.
But the alchemist is different. This may be caused by the difference between alchemy and weapon refining. When refining elixirs, each elixir has its own formula. According to the formula, prepare the spirit grass and then start refining. As long as you don't make any mistakes, you can make the elixir.
However, if the alchemy skills are more advanced, those alchemists will find that the same kind of elixir may have more than one recipe available when refining it. The refining of elixirs is nothing more than fusing elixirs obtained from spiritual herbs with different medicinal properties into elixirs. However, some spiritual herbs have different medicinal properties, and some are similar. Therefore, when refining a spiritual elixir, if a certain spiritual grass is difficult or extremely difficult to obtain, you can also use spiritual herbs with similar medicinal properties instead. However, this is also It sounds simple, but the amount of thought and spiritual grass consumed during the actual refining is countless. It is not impossible for a skilled alchemist to use lower-level spiritual herbs to refine high-level elixirs. However, these recipes are properly treasured by these alchemists and kept secret. In addition to taking it yourself to improve your cultivation, you can also get great benefits when you sell it. If you share it with others, how can you monopolize this benefit?
Because of this, some high-level elixir recipes often only give a ratio of medicinal properties. Alchemists are familiar with the medicinal properties of various elixirs and can just try the elixir recipes themselves.
However, these Yanxuan are still out of reach. That night, she not only successfully refined the Yangyuan Pill, but also achieved a breakthrough in cultivation, which already made her extremely excited.
After the first batch of Yuan Yang Dan was successfully refined, she calmed down and thought about the entire refining process. After thinking about it again and again, she did not go back to her residence to rest and continued refining with the remaining spiritual herbs. The system was made, and there were two furnaces among the four furnaces.
After the four furnaces of elixirs were refined, it was already bright outside and the sun was already three in the sky.
This time she refined a total of eight furnaces of elixirs. The first three furnaces failed, and the fourth furnace became a pill. At the same time, she also successfully achieved a breakthrough in her own cultivation. Then four more furnaces were refined and two furnaces were made into elixirs. Eight furnaces of elixirs turned into three furnaces, and the elixir success rate was over 30%, which was not low. If the following four furnaces are counted, it becomes two furnaces, which is half of the elixir formation rate. Considering Yanxuan's cultivation level, this rate of elixir success is not low.
Generally, Qixia Mountain Qi refining disciples who concentrate on elixir refining mainly focus on preparing elixirs in Baicao Courtyard on the first and second levels of Qi refining. There are not many like Yanxuan.
After leaving Nan Yutang, Yanxuan only thought about one thing. Although her elixir was refined, the quality of the elixir was still unknown. She had not yet learned the art of tasting elixirs and could not identify elixirs by herself. The quality of the elixir was high, so before handing the elixir to Qixiang Pavilion, she wanted to find someone to appraise the elixir for her. Naturally, she thought of Senior Sister Min.
Not to mention Qixia Mountain, among the female monks in the entire Wuling Sect, she is only familiar with two people. One is Tang Ping, and the other is Senior Sister Min who has been teaching her since she started.
I found Senior Sister Min in Baicao Courtyard and found Senior Sister Shi Min explaining the method of preparing elixir to several junior sisters. Seeing Yanxuan come in, he smiled slightly and asked her to wait, and then continued to carefully prepare the key points of the elixir. I explained it to these people, and while I was explaining it, I personally prepared a magical elixir and finished it after all the junior sisters understood.
"Junior Sister Yan" Senior Sister Min greeted Yanxuan.
"Senior Sister Min" Yanxuan came over when he saw that Senior Sister Min was fine.
"Huh?" Senior Sister Min frowned and looked at her curiously. Although they were both Qi Refining disciples, Senior Sister Min's cultivation level was much higher than that of Yan Xuan after all. She was considered an intermediate Qi Refining disciple. Junior Sister Na Yan Although his expression and temperament were the same as before when he came over, the aura he exuded after he got closer changed differently than usual.
After taking a few glances at Yanxuan, Senior Sister Min finally confirmed that this Junior Sister Yan seemed to have made a breakthrough in her cultivation.
"Congratulations, Junior Sister. In the past few days, Junior Sister has been locking herself up and working hard. It seems that the results have finally been achieved. When did the breakthrough occur?" Senior Sister Min asked with a smile.
The female disciples who heard that Senior Sister Min was going to prepare the elixir had just walked out at this time. They couldn't help but look at each other in shock when they heard Senior Sister Min's words. They entered Qixia Mountain with Yanxuan. They didn't expect this little girl who usually doesn't like to talk. The breakthrough in cultivation so quickly surprised them. According to the rules, they will also call Yan Xuan senior sister when they see him in the future.
"It's what happened last night. It's said that I made a breakthrough when I was refining the alchemy." Yanxuan replied.
"Oh? That's right. It's rare to have a breakthrough in cultivation while refining alchemy. Well, I know that several senior brothers who are highly accomplished in alchemy also achieved breakthroughs in cultivation while refining alchemy. It seems that Junior Sister Yan will also become one in the future. She is an amazing female alchemist."
"Senior Sister Min was joking," which made Yanxuan a little embarrassed, "Senior Sister Min, I tried to refine the elixir yesterday, and luckily made several batches. I asked Senior Sister Min to take a look at it for me."
"Sure, come on, sit down and talk."
Yanxuan and Senior Sister Min sat down across a wooden case, took out a flat wooden box containing the elixirs and placed it on the case.
"They're all here." Yanxuan said.
"Well, let me take a look." Senior Sister Min opened the wooden box as she spoke.
The bottom of the box is covered with a layer of damask, with nineteen diamonds neatly arranged inside.
"So many!" Senior Sister Min was even more curious when she saw it, "How many times have you practiced and how many furnaces have you made?"
"Well, it was refined eight times in total, making it three furnaces."
"Nineteen pills in three furnaces are about the same, but eight times makes it into three furnaces, which is a 30% to 40% elixir formation rate. Not bad. Junior Sister Yan, you really impress me as a senior sister. Come on, let me help. Check it out."
As she spoke, Senior Sister Min went to a small silver plate, took out an amber elixir from the wooden box and placed it on the plate. She also took out a sharp silver knife, held down the elixir, and used the knife to He carefully cut off a very small bit of the elixir, then dipped his finger into the very small amount of elixir and put it into his mouth. After a while, he turned his head and spit it out, then took the tea on the case and rinsed his mouth.
"How is it?" Yanxuan asked after seeing him.
"Well, my elixir tasting skills are a little worse than those of the senior brothers in Qixiang Pavilion, but this elixir is definitely lower-middle grade."
Yanxuan was delighted when he heard this.
"Oh, is there really a lower-middle-level one?" she asked.
"You can't make a mistake, don't worry." Senior Sister Min smiled.
The refined elixir is different from the elixir prepared in Baicaoyuan. When the elixir is handed over to Qixiang Pavilion, it must be of the lower-middle grade, while the elixir only needs to be of the lower-grade. If you turn in the lower-middle-grade ones, you can get more spiritual herbs in Nanyu Hall later.
There is another key point here. Yanxuan used the spiritual grass obtained from Baicaoyuan to make alchemy. Although those spiritual grasses are also suitable for alchemy, they are inferior to the spiritual grass received from Nanyutang. The spiritual grass that Tanghou received at Nanyutang was of the best quality among the same types and was most suitable for alchemy. This is not to say that Baicao Yuan is lower level than Nan Yutang, but that the requirements for refining elixirs are more stringent than preparing elixirs. The small pile of elixirs that Yanxuan received at Baicao Yuan before going to Nan Yutang The grass was also carefully selected, and the spiritual grass that was not suitable for alchemy was kept, and the remaining suitable grass was used for alchemy.
Senior Sister Min appraised four more elixirs for her, and among the last five, three were low-level and middle-grade, and two were low-grade and low-grade.
"It's very good, Junior Sister Yan. To be honest, the quality of the elixir you refined is better than the one I made when I first made it."
"Then I have to thank Senior Sister Min. If Senior Sister hadn't taught me this way, how could I have refined it?"
"It's my job to teach you. Okay, I won't appraise them all for you. At least half of your elixirs are low-level and mid-level. Just have an idea. You can go to Qixiang Pavilion and give them to them. ”
Having said this, Senior Sister Min saw Yanxuan nodding, and then said: "Sister Yan, don't be in a hurry to earn spiritual stones. We will definitely not be short of spiritual stones in the future when we learn alchemy. Instead, we need to get more spiritual grass to polish our alchemy." The art is serious. In addition, since you can make elixirs, you should also learn the art of tasting elixirs. Not only will you identify the elixirs for yourself, but you will also be able to avoid disadvantages when you have the opportunity to exchange elixirs with others in the future. If you have the opportunity Even if you get some unknown elixirs, you can know what they are used for."
Yanxuan nodded after hearing this, "Well, I will learn this alchemy tasting skill later."
"Well, there's one more thing, but it's not urgent. You are currently using Nan Yutang's alchemy furnace for alchemy. In the future, if you have the conditions, you will still have to find a way to get your own alchemy furnace. In fact, you don't need to use flower spirit stones. You can get it in exchange for the elixir, and many people in Jiuxuan are willing to do so."
"Senior Sister Min, is there anything special about this alchemy furnace?"
"Well, this is very important. Let's not talk about those high-grade alchemy furnaces. Even using a convenient alchemy furnace can increase your rate of elixir formation. But that requires you to find someone to refine the elixir furnace. Explain your requirements in detail. Well, if you make alchemy more times, you will find out what habits you have and how to get better, and then you can tell the people who make alchemy. At least there are people who make alchemy in Nanyutang. Half of them are the alchemy furnaces I brought with me."
"That's it." This was the first time Yanxuan had heard of these things. After hearing this, she immediately thought of Qian Chao. The spiritual sword refined by Brother Qian was pretty good, but she just didn't know if he could refine this pill furnace. It seems that I will ask you next time when we all get together again.
"Hey, this is my own alchemy furnace."
As she spoke, Senior Sister Min took out an exquisite and small alchemy furnace from her storage bag. It was like a small incense burner on the desk, which was very unique.
"This was made with the help of a senior brother named Cheng from Jiuxuan Chengqi Hall. It also took him a lot of thought. Both the materials and the usability of the equipment are better than those from Nan Yutang. The most important thing is that this alchemy furnace is custom-made. , it was completely refined according to my requirements, so I can use it very smoothly. You should refine more pills first. Over time, you will naturally know what kind of pill furnace you need, and then go to Jiuxuan's Chengqi Hall to find someone. I'll help you refine it. If you're not familiar with Jiu Xuan, you can come to me and I'll ask for you."
"Well, then I'd better refine the elixir a few more times to see how I can get used to it, and then I'll talk about it."
"That's fine."
In fact, Yanxuan felt that this alchemy furnace should not be a problem for brother Qian. She heard Tang Ping talk about Qian Chao and felt that since brother Qian was so smart, he must be able to refine this alchemy furnace according to his own wishes. .
After coming out of Senior Sister Min's place later, Yanxuan went to Qixiang Pavilion and turned in his own elixir. The investigation of this elixir was much more detailed than that of elixirs. Whether he handed in one pill or a hundred pills, it would be the same. It needs to be inspected carefully one by one.
In the end, thirteen of Yanxuan's nineteen Yuan-Yang Pills were of lower-middle grade, and the rest were of lower-grade and lower grade. After the senior brother who appraised the elixirs for Yanxuanyan finished the inspection, he took a piece of white paper, took up a pen and wrote down in detail the type, quantity, and quality of the elixirs that Yanxuan handed over, and then stamped it with the seal of Qixiang Pavilion and A small chapter of his own was handed to Yanxuan. The whole process was more meticulous and rigorous than when she handed over the elixir.
With this piece of paper, Yanxuan can go to Nanyu Hall to receive a piece of good-quality spiritual grass.
