After settling in, Lu Xiaotian took out the alchemy furnace again, cleaned the impurities and waste in the cauldron, and started the fire again to refine the elixir.
The most difficult thing to control in alchemy is the fire, as well as the time to open the furnace. It usually takes nearly two hours to make a Qi Gathering Pill. Lu Xiaotian must always pay attention to the size of the firepower. When the firepower is too strong, remove a little spirit. Wood charcoal, add charcoal when the firepower is low.
However, these two points are all based on the experience of the alchemist. It is not easy to make elixirs with just one pill recipe.
Even junior alchemists are very popular in Wangyue City, because alchemy is not only difficult, but also a profession that consumes a lot of spiritual stones. For people who have just learned how to make alchemy, the rate of elixir production is often ridiculously low, and they may not be able to succeed even after several or even dozens of furnaces. Increasing the rate of elixir production requires long-term practice and experience accumulation.
Ordinary casual cultivators are simply unable to bear such a heavy burden in the early stages. Most of the alchemists in Wangyue City were trained by the families that controlled each alchemy workshop using family resources.
After being trained, the alchemists need to work for each family's alchemy workshop. Usually the elixirs sold to the outside world are low-grade elixirs, while the better-quality mid-grade or even top-grade elixirs are taken by talented people in the immortal cultivating family, or they appear in auction houses and sell for astonishing prices. Therefore, people from cultivating families are often stronger than ordinary cultivators.
Excluding the time for daily practice, Lu Xiaotian stayed in the yard and practiced Tiandan for nearly ten consecutive days. He refined seventeen batches of elixirs and almost used up the remaining spirit stones. Such a high failure rate made him a little discouraged. If it weren't for the space within the barrier that could cultivate the Purple Spirit Grass, the alchemy of this intensity would have been impossible to carry out long ago.
The value of seventeen purple spirit grasses alone in Wangyue City is as high as nearly forty spirit stones. If auxiliary medicines are included, the spirit stones that Lu Xiaotian has wasted in the past ten days are very valuable for a monk in the Qi refining stage. Astonishing.
However, after so many failures, Lu Xiaotian summed up a method of refining Qi Gathering Pills. I also have a certain understanding of the heat and furnace opening time. Lu Xiaotian was looking at the hot carbon fire under the cauldron with all his concentration.
At this time, he no longer took out the spiritual wood charcoal when the charcoal fire was too strong, as he did when he first started making alchemy. His previous failed experience gave him a rough idea of how much spiritual wood charcoal was needed to achieve the required firepower. This is the experience gained by alchemists practicing alchemy for a long time.
Nearly two hours later, the familiar scent came again, and Lu Xiaotian felt nervous. If he failed again this time, he would have to sell all the twenty talismans in his hand before he could continue to refine the pill.
Stay calm and turn on the furnace!
As he opened the lid of the cauldron, a warm and familiar scent of elixirs came to his nostrils. Two milky-yellow elixirs lay quietly inside the small cauldron. One of them had a particularly strong fragrance, and its milky-yellow surface turned out to be... There are two small red lines.
"I actually refined a middle-grade Qi Gathering Pill!" Lu Xiaotian was suddenly pleasantly surprised. After more than ten days of hard work, it finally paid off. This kind of reward after going through hardships is far more meaningful than two pills.
After the heat on the surface of the two round and full elixirs dissipated, Lu Xiaotian put them into small bottles respectively.
When forging iron, you need to take advantage of the heat. Now that you have successfully refined a batch of Qi Gathering Pills, you will refine them a few more times today.
With enough seeds left in his hand, Lu Xiaotian refined it seven more times, consuming all the purple spirit grass in the barrier. He succeeded three times, but only one elixir was obtained, instead of two as before. .
However, he was quite satisfied with this result. Even among the Wangyue City family alchemists, some veterans with decades of experience in alchemy, being able to succeed three to four times out of ten is already a very good result.
Alchemy is a skill that pays great attention to realm, and fire control and furnace opening are not static. Different purple spirit grasses have different growth levels and states.
A skilled alchemist will have a prediction of the spiritual grass in his hand, and what kind of heat should be used. There may also be errors in this judgment, so during the refining process, the alchemist will also slightly adjust the firepower and release time according to changes. However, no matter how powerful the alchemist is, he cannot guarantee that his judgment is 100% correct. If there is a slight mistake, the pot of elixir will be scrapped.
Therefore, experienced alchemy veterans can only maintain a certain success rate.
The reason why Lu Xiaotian was able to achieve such a high rate of elixir production in such a short period of time was not only due to the improvement of his own alchemy skills. What's more important is that he has refined the same elixir so many times in a row, which is something that other alchemists do not have. In addition, the purple spirit grass growing in the barrier has not been disturbed by external conditions such as wind and rain. Relatively consistent. This also increases his elixir production rate.
After refining the last purple spirit grass, Lu Xiaotian put away the small tripod with satisfaction. Take out the middle-grade Qi Gathering Pill. Naturally, you should keep the good pill for yourself. Now is the time to try out the effects of the elixir.
Lu Xiaotian sat directly on the stone chair in the small courtyard and took the middle-grade Qi Gathering Pill. The Qi Gathering Pill slowly melted in the body and turned into a gentle heat flowing through the limbs.
It used to take nearly six hours to refine the power of the Qi Gathering Pill, but now it only takes less than two hours to refine the fifth level of Qi.
The spiritual energy that cannot be accommodated in the meridians still appears in the barrier. After absorbing the medicinal power in the meridians, Lu Xiaotian’s soul chased after eating the vitality in the barrier. Then he scattered the seeds of Purple Spirit Grass, crushed a piece of spiritual stone into powder and sprinkled it on the soil next to the Purple Spirit Grass seeds.
When he was refining the elixir before, he was so anxious when he used up the purple spirit grass and cultivated it, because the spiritual energy escaping in the air was floating around, and it was difficult to float directly to the seeds of the purple spirit grass and be absorbed by it. Later, he was forced to use spirit stones, and he found that he could control these spirit stones with his mind and crush them.
There is also caution when using spirit stones. After all, he has five kinds of spirit stones in his hand: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Only the rare Ice Wind Thunder is not on hand. Water is the source of life, but it should not be used too much, otherwise the soil will be too warm and moist, which will be detrimental to the growth of purple spirit grass.
Earth spiritual stones can enhance the spiritual power of the earth. The wood-type spiritual stones are also from the purple spirit grass, and you can use these three types of spiritual stones as fertilizer. However, in general, the wood type corresponding to purple spirit grass has the best effect, followed by earth spirit stone and water spirit stone again.
He also tested the gold element and the fire element, but it didn't work at all. After absorbing the aura of the gold spirit stone, the purple spirit grass quickly withered, and the fire spirit stone directly burned the purple spirit grass into black ash.
Generally speaking, one spirit stone can cultivate almost three purple spirit grasses. According to his previous pill success rate, it was already close to 40%. In other words, excluding the waste part of refining the pill, according to the price of the Qi Gathering Pill, once it is sold, one spiritual stone can get four pieces in return.
Although the Qi Gathering Pill is less effective for monks in the middle stage of Qi refining, the advantage lies in its large quantity. After having enough pills, his cultivation speed began to rise linearly, which was several times faster than practicing by meditating alone. More than twice that. Within half a year, when he had just entered the fifth level of Qi Refining, the energy accumulated in the fifth level of Qi Refining had almost reached half.
At this time, Lu Xiaotian, who was dressed in Tsing Yi, had grown much taller than before. His figure was still a little thin, not very handsome, but he still had a somewhat delicate face. Because he had been alone for a long time and had experienced life and death hardships in the past few years, Lu Xiaotian There are a few people with a cold and distant temperament on their bodies.
The roaring leopard's senses were more sensitive than those of ordinary monks, and it quickly noticed the strange movement outside the yard. It was lying lazily in the yard basking in the sun, and it suddenly stood up.
There was a knock on the door.
"Brother Lu, are you here?" Luo Qing called out softly outside the house.
Hearing the voice of the visitor, Huabao lay down back to his original place. In the past six months, the Luo brothers and sisters would come and jump at the door from time to time. After one or two times, Huabao also remembered them.
"Hey, the smell of this Qi Gathering Pill is different from usual." Luo Qing said after walking in the door and sniffing hard a few times.
"Why did you come here so early today?"
Lu Xiaotian smiled when he heard this and avoided talking about the pill. He was lucky just now and actually refined a high-grade Qi Gathering Pill. In the past six months, he has been refining the Qi Gathering Pill and started refining it countless times. I am afraid that other alchemists in decades combined cannot compare. After all, even if purple spirit grass is planted in the spiritual field, it will only be harvested once a year. It was impossible for him to be able to continuously harvest spiritual grass as long as he had spiritual stones.
Luo Yuan said, "It's like this. In four months, the major immortal sects will begin their annual recruitment of disciples. We, brothers and sisters, and a few other close friends plan to go to the Moon Mountains to find some spiritual objects. If you are lucky, you can also encounter items from other sect missions. Brother Lu is quite strong. I would like to invite Brother Lu to form a team. With one more person, we will be safer in the Moon Moon Mountains."
"What, is it dangerous in the Wangyue Mountains?" Lu Xiaotian said in surprise.
"Brother Lu doesn't know that not only monsters are rampant in the Wangyue Mountains, but the more dangerous thing is from other monks. I have been to the Wangyue Mountains several times, and the teammates who died in ambushes by other monk teams are more likely to die than those who died under the attacks of monsters. More." Luo Yuan said in a deep voice.
Lu Xiaotian was horrified. He stayed in the small courtyard refining elixirs for half a year, but he was a little indifferent to the bloody killings among immortal cultivators.
"Who else are there among the people invited by Brother Luo? Who has the highest cultivation level?" Lu Xiaotian asked, without directly agreeing.
"Including us brothers and sisters, there are five other people with us. The one with the highest cultivation level is the same as me, at the sixth level of Qi refining. However, Brother Lu is an extremely skilled alchemist. If he joins our team, the spirit he will get will be Inside the grass, Brother Lu has certain priority."
Luo Qing said expectantly, in the past six months, they have also gotten to know Lu Xiaotian a little bit. Being able to rent such a large courtyard and complete daily practice through alchemy alone is already quite impressive in their eyes.
