Zhang Xiaokai sat on the stool and stared at the copper elixir furnace.
On the square stove in front of you, the hanging cauldron is divided into three levels: upper and lower.
In the middle is a sea of water made of fire and silver for cooling and insulation.
The upper and lower floors are refining the main elixir and the secondary elixir respectively.
Each furnace of elixir is designed to have two chambers, imitating the human body with one heart and two petals. The advantage is that you can compare the main elixir and the auxiliary elixir. Different temperatures have different effects and properties. Each elixir refining is not only refining the elixir, but also continuing to improve the elixir recipe.
When selling, the main elixir and the secondary elixir are also divided into two categories: excellent and good, and the prices are marked according to the quality.
In Jindan Kingdom, these records will be compiled and sent from the Alchemy Workshop to the Alchemy Department for comprehensive verification and to further improve the existing elixir recipes.
Zhang Xiaokai lowered his gaze and looked at the bottom of the platform.
The magic energy brought by the magic bottle continues to replenish the fire element crystal structure in the stove, allowing the temperature to remain stable.
In the past, fixing the temperature was a troublesome matter. Even firewood and coal with the same weight would cause considerable difficulties due to unpredictable changes in weather and different burning degrees caused by different types and ages of wood.
For a long time, alchemy has had very high requirements on location, alchemy furnace, fuel and people, and the season and time period when the furnace can be opened are fixed every year.
Now there is no need to worry about these, as long as you select a specific number of fire element crystal structures, such as one crystal and two crystals, which represent the number of combinations of standard crystal structures. Even people who don’t know anything can prepare corresponding devices according to these requirements.
By the time the sun was about to set, the new batch of [Calming Pills] main and secondary elixirs had been completed, with a yield of over 30%. For a small workshop, this is not bad.
Zhang Xiaokai divided the elixirs into packages, sealed them, and labeled them.
Then he showed his boss the results of the day.
The boss handed him a piece of green money: "This week's salary. Once you have saved enough money, go to school. You are still too young. It is the time when you should go to Forest College to study."
Zhang Xiaokai took it happily: "I understand, boss!"
This is the newly issued currency of the Yao people. It is a round metal coin plated with expensive light gold material. The word "1" is engraved on it, which represents the face value of 100 seashells.
As an alchemy furnace assistant without an alchemist license or apprenticeship certificate, this weekly salary is reasonable.
Zhang Xiaokai took the money and went to the corner store to buy four hot meat pies and a bottle of sunrise wine. He put it in his backpack and wrapped it in a cloth, and then ran all the way to the sand dunes outside the city.
Over the hills, in a dense area of cacti, he saw the person he was looking for.
"Master Alchemist, here I come!"
A stone stove was set up among the cacti. Sitting beside the stove was a girl in green clothes with her face covered.
She has thick, silky white hair hanging down her shoulders, and her eyes are pure and bright silver. Even though her nose and mouth are covered, she can still tell that she is a beauty.
Being beautiful is certainly attractive, but what Zhang Xiaokai cares about more is her alchemy skills.
However, there was one more person beside the alchemist today.
She was a dark-skinned woman, probably in her twenties, with a red birthmark around her eyes.
She was standing next to a sand-making furnace, wearing thick gloves, and using a long iron pipe to bake sand into enamel bottles. This is sand tire enamel, which is also one of Sand City’s unique technologies.
But normally, doing this work requires a lot of strength, and it is usually only done by strong men or extraordinary people. This ugly woman is very strong, and her eyes are focused on her enamel.
Zhang Xiaokai didn't know who this was, but he handed the meat pie and wine to Lianzi first.
"Master, please use it."
Alchemist called to the side: "Shali, it's time to eat."
"Yes, master."
The dark-skinned woman over there carefully put down the stick, closed the lid, extinguished the fire, took off her gloves and came over.
She wiped her rough fingers with a towel, took the cake and started to nibble on it.
master?
Zhang Xiaokai was a little surprised: "Master Alchemist, don't you have no disciples?"
"Just collected it today."
Alchemist said.
"Congratulations to Master Alchemy Master for gaining a disciple. She is very talented in alchemy... she is definitely not like me, with mediocre qualifications." Zhang Xiaoxin felt a little sour, but still forced a smile.
"Sha Li doesn't know how to make elixirs. She is an enamel craftsman, and the enamel she makes is very beautiful."
Zhang Xiaokai suspected that he heard wrongly: "She doesn't know how to make elixirs. Could it be that you asked her to make enamel?"
"Yes. The container containing the elixir is also very important."
"..."
Alchemist's eyes were serious and determined.
Zhang Xiaokai couldn't help but said: "But isn't the elixir the most important thing in alchemy? No matter how beautiful the bottle is, it can't help anyone?"
"You're right. But if the bottle looks good, people will be willing to take a second look at it and carry it with them. It's necessary to look good. I taught her how to make elixirs. In the future, the elixirs and bottles can be promoted together, which will make them more popular."
Just because of this?
Teach people how to make alchemy for a bottle?
Zhang Xiaokai was spinning for a moment, and he was a little unsteady on his feet.
It was obviously me who came first!
Whether it’s getting to know the alchemy master or asking her for advice on alchemy, I always come first.
But this black-faced woman got in first!
hateful!
Zhang Xiaokai clenched his fists and felt very unwilling: "Master Alchemist, you are willing to accept a layman like her who has no foundation, why don't you accept me as your disciple?"
Shali next to him was just chewing the cake and said nothing.
"Ah? Do you want to be my apprentice?"
Alchemist looked surprised.
Zhang Xiaokai's face twitched.
Any normal person can see it!
I asked for advice on alchemy, gave me food and drinks, and spoke kindly and respectfully. Of course it was to learn skills, or could it be because I like to serve others?
Although you are good-looking, I, Zhang Xiaokai, am not the kind of wimp who can’t walk when he sees a beautiful woman!
"I really want to be your disciple. Please accept me too!"
Zhang Xiaokai knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
"no problem."
The alchemist readily agreed: "If you want to be my disciple, just tell me. How will I know if you don't tell me? I thought you were just exchanging skills with me. Sha Li just said that you want to learn some alchemy skills from me. , in order to make better elixir bottles."
Zhang Xiaoxin felt regretful, empiricism really kills people.
According to the tradition of the Golden Alchemy Kingdom, alchemy is either practiced through an alchemy workshop or under the name of an alchemist. Either way requires a strict apprenticeship process.
The master needs to assess the disciple's character and ability. Usually, he must first become an alchemy boy in the "Xuelu Garden" and then become an alchemy apprentice, and then he is qualified to become a master.
In the end, when she got to Alchemy, it was just a matter of her words.
Originally he was supposed to be a senior brother, but now he has become a junior brother.
well.
He was angry.
The old apprenticeship system of alchemists has long been out of date!
…
Although there were some minor twists and turns, Zhang Xiaokai finally got his wish and became the disciple of Alchemist.
The rest are minutiae, and learning alchemy skills is important.
Zhang Xiaokai still remembers that when he was looking for cockroach shells in the sand dunes, he saw a girl wearing a helmet wandering alone in the desert, like a ghost.
The area she set foot on was the haunt of the Cloud Monks.
Those immortal monks wander among the sand dunes like clouds. As long as you don't actively provoke or attack them, they won't hurt others, they just wander around.
Zhang Xiaokai wanted to warn the other party of the danger.
When he ran over, he saw the girl throwing herself at a cloud-transforming monk. Like a bird catching insects or a farmer harvesting wheat, she easily held Huayun Monk down, kneaded him and stuffed him into her helmet.
Then she took off her helmet and began to stuff various medicinal powders inside to suppress them. She heated her hands with fire before removing impurities, and repeated this step.
As the elixir was being refining, a white air rose up in the pot that looked like it was elongated and thin, like a monk. Finally, she used beeswax to shape the powder, and it turned into a bright yellow elixir.
Zhang Xiaokai watched the whole process in stunned silence.
The other party actually used a small crucible to refine the "God Praying Pill" with his bare hands.
He became addicted to alchemy and couldn't help but go over and say, "Can low-temperature quenching also achieve the effect of making an elixir?"
"Can."
The other party told him: "The cloud monks are a very good medium. They are part of the cloud themselves and can ensure a certain humidity. Together with beeswax and oil, they can ensure that the raw materials are not destroyed by high temperatures. This is a good place for natural alchemy. They won't die."
Zhang Xiaokai confirmed it after chatting with the other party.
This person's understanding of alchemy is so strong that he picked up a lot of details and experience at random. He must have practiced it thousands of times before he could understand the key.
She called herself Alchemist and said that she lived in the mountains and learned alchemy at home.
It looks like a girl, but it is likely that some kind of magic has been used to maintain youthfulness.
Zhang Xiaokai is determined to become his teacher.
He thought that sincerity can make a difference, and he was ready to impress the other party with his persistence and sincerity.
As a result, I didn't expect that the other person was not that type at all. He didn't feel anything at all. He was just ogling a blind man.
After entering the master's school, Zhang Xiaokai learned several elixir prescriptions from him. The master not only knew common elixirs such as "Yangxue Powder" and "Yangqi Pills", but also extremely difficult elixirs such as "Breaking Wandering Pill" and "Shoulongevity Pill". of high-level elixirs.
Although the longevity pill cannot truly extend life, it can help people breathe again at critical moments, activate the internal organs in the body, and slow down the process of dying. It has the same effect as Suxiao Jiuxin Pill.
After Zhang Xiaokai finished his work every day, he would come over to learn skills, do odd jobs and be an assistant to the alchemist.
One evening half a month later, the alchemy furnace began to shake.
At first Zhang Xiaokai thought they were cloud monks, because these monks would gradually wake up after being captured in the alchemy furnace, and then turn into clouds and leave, which would also cause the furnace's jets to tremble.
But this time the shaking was very violent, and there was a clanging sound inside. Senior sister Sha Li, who was burning an enamel bottle next to her, also stopped what she was doing and ran over to see what was going on.
The sound gradually became smaller and turned into a rhythmic hum, as if something was rubbing the alchemy furnace inside.
Finally it was quiet.
Alchemist used a lifting rod to open the upper lid.
In the smoke, three pills were spinning and rolling slowly in the crucible.
Lian Danzi picked it up with his bamboo claws, observed it, then put it in the beeswax next to it, wrapped it in a circle, and put it in his mouth.
After chewing slowly, she exhaled: "You guys should try it too."
Shali did not hesitate to pick up one with her bamboo claws and put it into her mouth like her master, with a look of surprise on her face.
After Zhang Xiaokai took the pill, he felt a layer of strange power on the surface of his body. His strength, speed and reaction were all much faster, and his whole body was as light as a swallow.
"Master, what kind of elixir is this? The gain is so strong."
“Just call it ‘Daliwan’. The condition is not very good, but the effect is to maintain the gain for an hour, increase the strength by 10 points, increase the health points by 1000 points, and increase the speed by 1 point. The advantage is that it doesn't have many side effects. It can only be used once a day. It will cause body pain and cannot be used in combination. "
Zhang Xiaoxin said that the master is indeed not simple. He can see the specific information of life. Only a powerful extraordinary person can do this.
Wait.
Strength +10, health +1000, speed +1?
No side effects yet!
This furnace of elixirs is priceless.
Zhang Xiaokai opened his eyes wide: "This, this is an invention that will shock the alchemy world... It has opened up a path to strengthen the route. Master, go to the Alchemy Department to register the alchemy recipe, so as not to have your name stolen by others, this is Liufang A recipe for immortality!"
"This one isn't that good. It was invented just for everyone to use. It's too troublesome to register..."
She waved her hands, but she didn't look very interested.
"Take it and eat it."
The alchemist sighed: "This is not the elixir I want, it's just a failure... I'm still too weak and can't control it accurately. If adults know about it, I'm afraid they will be very disappointed, alas."
She dropped the medicine jar and returned to the dunes to sulk alone at the moon.
Zhang Xiaokai's hands were shaking a little.
All failed products have this level.
A successful elixir is simply unimaginable.
The master is so strong!
