Most of the cultivators in the world of immortality know more or less the art of alchemy.
Because for mortals to cultivate immortality, it is not enough to rely only on hard training. Almost everyone needs the help of elixirs when they break through the realm. Otherwise, mortals' lifespan is limited, and relying only on the speed of pure cultivation, they may not be able to connect to the elixir in their lifetime, let alone ascend to immortality.
Especially in the later stages of cultivation, the further you go, the slower the speed of cultivation becomes and the more difficult it is to break through the realm. Only with the help of elixirs can we have a chance to reach the step of ascension. In fact, even with the help of elixirs, it is difficult for many people to ascend in their lifetime.
Therefore, almost all cultivators are inseparable from dependence on elixirs. Therefore, while everyone is practicing, they will also allocate their energy to pay attention to elixir-related matters, and even many cultivators will take the initiative to learn the art of alchemy. After all, if you can make elixirs yourself, you won't have to look for elixirs everywhere.
For simple alchemy techniques, it is not an industry secret, because the threshold is low and you can learn it once you learn it. Therefore, over time, most cultivators also know a little bit about the lowest level of alchemy techniques.
What Xiao Ding has mastered is very professional alchemy. Back on Earth, the Yuqing Sect was a sect that was famous for its alchemy. Xiao Ding stole all the sect's secret alchemy technique "Six Hours of Alchemy" and learned it privately. Naturally, he was not just ordinary low-level people. Alchemy is comparable.
However, this was the first time he was refining elixirs, so Xiao Ding decided to make a furnace of elementary spiritual energy elixirs to practice his skills.
This primary spiritual energy pill is a pill used to restore the spiritual energy in the body. Because it is a white grade pill, its effect is not very strong. It can be used by practitioners in the Qi training stage, but if it is used in the foundation building stage It seems a bit useless for people with the above cultivation level to use it.
There are five levels of elixirs in the world of immortality: white, blue, yellow, red, and purple. White is the lowest level elixir, which is slightly less effective; purple is the highest level elixir, which is the most effective. good. The elixirs of each color level can be divided into four grades: low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade, and divine grade according to the quality of the elixir. Similarly, low-grade items are the worst among the same color, and divine items are the best among the same-color items.
Xiao Ding's Chilian Yandan is a red-level elixir, which was refined by his friend Yue Yurou for him. Although Yue Yurou came from the Yuqing sect, which is famous for alchemy, she is still young after all, so the elixir she refined is only low-grade. It's just a red-level elixir.
The low-grade Sheng Yuan Dan that Qin Taibao took out yesterday did not contain any precious medicinal materials as its main ingredient, so its grade was only a yellow-level elixir.
Pills of different colors are of different levels, and their refining difficulty is also different. Of course, the higher the level, the more difficult it is to successfully refine it. However, no matter which level of elixir, the refining steps are roughly the same. The difference is that some of the details are not so easy to control.
The first step in refining an elixir is to mix the medicine. "Liu Hou Dan Jue" says: "If the medicine is not adjusted, the true seed will not grow. When the medicine is combined and agglomerated, the medicine will begin to appear. If the yang qi is sufficient, the true seed will be discovered, the medicinal production will be in full bloom, and the medicinal qi will be combined into one." To put it simply, it means dispensing the medicine. The dosage of each alchemy medicinal material needs to be exactly the same. Adding too much or too little of a single material may lead to the failure of the final elixir.
When Xiao Ding changes medicines in the dispensing pharmacy, he always exchanges them according to the dosage required on the prescription. Each medicine is packaged individually with the precise dosage. Therefore, Xiao Ding does not need to match additional medicinal materials at this time. He only needs to put a separate package of primary spiritual energy elixir materials into the elixir furnace.
The second step in making alchemy is to collect herbs. Of course, the medicine collected here is not the medicine collected by that medicine. The medicine collection mentioned here does not mean going to the mountains to collect medicines, but refers to collecting the medicinal properties of each alchemy material. "Liu Hou Dan Jue" says: "When the medicine is produced, it is like light shining through a curtain, flying water merging, fire rising up, killing it with the gods so that it does not go outside, taking it with breath, and returning it to the furnace. This is It’s time to collect herbs and return them to the stove.”
The step of collecting medicine requires the use of spiritual power and spiritual consciousness. This also tests the alchemist's cultivation. The "flying water fuses and the fire rises" mentioned in the elixir formula means that after putting all the medicinal materials into the elixir furnace, pour in water to soak them, and start tormenting them with Yang Fire. At the same time, the alchemist also needs to use his spiritual power and spiritual power to control each medicinal material in the furnace so that its medicinal properties can be dissolved in the water.
The third step in making alchemy is to seal the furnace and refine the medicine. "Liu Hou Dan Jue" says: "If you feel that the energy has returned to the furnace, you can seal the furnace. Guard it with your mind, blow it with breath, fumigate it with spirit, illuminate it without illuminating it, guard it without guarding it, and slowly nourish it with fire. After sealing for a while, there is a sudden movement, and a stream of Yang fire comes out from it. At this time, the Yang Qi moves, and it can be illuminated with divine energy, and the fire can be used to refine the medicine. Then the breath is condensed and blows back to make it move upward, that is, the wind is used to assist the fire. . Fire borrows the power of wind, wind aids the power of fire, and wind and fire work together."
The general meaning of sealing the furnace to refining medicine is to close the furnace lid, and then use the spiritual power and spiritual power in the body to control the medicinal materials in the furnace and the strength of the fire, so as to extract all the medicinal essence of the medicinal materials in the furnace and integrate it into the medicine. within the juice.
The final step in refining the elixir is to stop the fire and extract the essence into the elixir. "Liu Hou Dan Jue" says: "All the essence is dissolved, and there is no essence to refine. That is to say, stop the refining, stop the fire and wait for a while. There is a time to stop the fire. If you stop it before the time comes, the leakage will not be realized; when the time comes, it will not stop. , then the fire will be dry and the elixir will be old. Don’t go forward or backward, at the right time, the will of God will warm and nourish, and the elixir can be completed."
When all the alchemy medicinal materials in the furnace are precipitated and dissolved in the medicinal juice, the fire can be turned off to condense the elixir. Among them, it is extremely important to grasp the temperature of the fire. If you turn off the fire too early or too late, you will not be able to make the elixir. At the same time, after the fire is stopped, it is necessary to use the residual temperature in the furnace to concentrate the medicinal juice, control it with spiritual consciousness, use spiritual power to remove the medicinal residue, extract the essence, and condense it into a pill.
The whole process of alchemy seems simple, but in fact it is very complicated. If every link is not properly grasped, it will be impossible to refine it into an elixir. The "Six Conditions of Alchemy" that Xiao Ding learned is the orthodox alchemy technique. The so-called six periods are "one period for the production of medicine, one period for sealing the furnace, one period for ascending, one period for descending, and two periods for bathing." That is, It is collected from medicinal products, collected and returned to the furnace, circulated around the sky, raised and lowered for bathing, and returned to the roots to warm and nourish, then the elixir can be made.
Xiao Ding has been studying the "Six Hours of Alchemy" for a long time. The basic theory has been memorized for a long time, but he lacks practice. Therefore, although Xiao Ding has been very cautious about this first batch of elixir, in the end, he just refined it. A furnace of low-grade primary spiritual energy pills.
For each batch of elixirs, if the alchemist has good skills and performs at his best, he can make full use of his talents, leaving almost no residue, and can refine twelve divine elixirs; if the alchemist's skills are poor, he may It would be a waste of materials, and the amount of medicine residue produced would be relatively large, and only six low-grade elixirs could be produced.
Although Xiao Ding's furnace of primary spiritual energy pills was the lowest-grade white pill, it was his first time making pills and his technique was not yet proficient enough. Therefore, he only made seven longan-sized low-grade primary spiritual energy pills, and the remaining materials , all turned into medicine dregs.
But Xiao Ding was not discouraged. He found a jade bottle from the space, put away the seven low-grade primary spiritual energy pills in the furnace, and continued to pick up the materials for the second primary spiritual energy pill.
Then continue to mix medicine, collect medicine, seal the furnace to refine medicine... and continue to refine the second furnace of elixir according to each step.
Because he had already refined it in one furnace, Xiao Ding no longer felt so handy when he was refining it in the second furnace. The control of the medicinal materials in the furnace and the fire by the consciousness and spiritual power is much better than the previous furnace.
It didn't take long for the second batch of elixir to become an elixir. In this batch, Xiao Ding refined nine low-grade primary spiritual energy pills, and the results were slightly better than the previous batch.
Now that he had made progress, Xiao Ding continued his efforts, and then worked hard to refine all the materials for the ten primary spiritual energy pills and the ten primary recovery pills into elixirs.
It took more than two hours in total. The more Xiao Ding refined, the more he felt more comfortable. There were a total of twenty batches of pills. In the last few batches, Xiao Ding actually made several middle-grade primary spiritual energy pills and primary recovery pills. Come.
Primary Huiyuan Dan is also a white grade elixir, mainly used to heal injuries and restore body functions.
Being able to refine a middle-grade elixir shows that Xiao Ding's alchemy skills have reached the level of a junior alchemist. It can be considered as officially stepping into the threshold of alchemy master.
It was already noon. Xiao Ding took out some prepared food from the space and simply filled his stomach. Then he took out the ten materials for the Huang-level Saint Yuan Dan.
As mentioned before, the level of this Sheng Yuan Dan is not high, it only belongs to the Yellow level, but its refining is very difficult, because this alchemy material contains a powdery auxiliary drug called Thunderbolt Stone, which is used in alchemy. During the process, the thunderstone powder easily exploded when exposed to heat, causing the alchemy furnace to explode.
Xiao Ding carefully read the "Six Hours of Pill Jue" several times about the matters that need to be paid attention to when refining the Huangjie Shengyuan Pill. After all, blowing up the alchemy furnace is still very dangerous. If you don't do it right, your life will be blown up. This is also the main reason why many alchemists are unwilling to refine Sheng Yuan Dan.
After confirming that he could master the refining of the Holy Yuan Dan, Xiao Ding put a portion of the refining materials of the Holy Yuan Dan into the elixir furnace. Then follow the steps described in the elixir recipe to refine the medicine.
Yellow-level elixirs are more difficult to refine than white-level elixirs. Some details during the refining process are difficult to grasp, especially the control of the Thunderbolt Stone Powder, which must always be wrapped in water, otherwise it will explode.
Just when Xiao Ding reached the last step of practice and was about to stop the fire and collect the pill, he already felt in his heart that the Sheng Yuan Pill would be successfully refined soon.
Suddenly, an explosion was heard in the next room, and the whole ground seemed to tremble. Xiao Ding's room also seemed to be shaken.
As a result, there was an explosion in Xiao Ding's pill furnace. The huge air wave blew Xiao Ding out of the stone house.
No need to ask, the furnace is fried!
After Xiao Ding was blown out of the stone house, he landed on the ground. Before he could react, he heard many people walking out of the room, shouting loudly: "Go and have a look, Senior Sister has exploded the furnace again!"
