Cao Cheng was naturally unaware of the shock in his heart, and he was still just condensing the spiritual grass powder according to the usual method of refining medicine.
In the small medicine cauldron in front of Yiran, the jade ice spring was only half an inch deep and emitted bursts of blue light.
On the surface of the Jade Ice Spring, a brilliance composed of seven-colored spiritual grasses emerges, forming a wonderful regular heptagon without the need for external force. The area occupied by each spiritual grass exactly divides the heptagon into equal parts.
This is the fusion of yin and yang of medicinal properties that Yi Ran originally thought about.
The medicinal power of the seven spiritual herbs reaches a wonderful balance. If the medium used is pure water, then you only need to maintain the balance and slowly integrate the seven medicinal powers.
If the fusion is successful, the Ice Jade Spirit Building Liquid will also be successfully refined.
If the medicine begins to reject collisions instead of fusion, then it depends on the alchemist's adaptability.
Being able to suppress the collision of medicinal power, even if the efficacy of the medicine will eventually weaken, it can still be considered a success in refining the medicine.
But if the fusion of medicinal power cannot be suppressed, the result will be nothing more than failure to explode the cauldron.
This is what really shocked Cao Cheng. Cao Cheng did not deliberately lock his mental power on Yiran, which would inevitably affect Yiran's refining of the medicine.
But even so, Cao Cheng could still find something different from other alchemists, including himself.
That is, the medicinal power of the spiritual materials, including Jade Bingquan, did not collide!
It is the most common medicinal cauldron made of refined iron, which is nothing compared to the medicinal cauldrons used by other alchemists.
But such a common medicinal cauldron, under the cover of Cao Cheng's mental power, became the most eye-catching one.
Just because it never shook from beginning to end!
Even Cao Cheng believed that this was extremely difficult to achieve. The fusion of medicinal power was never easy. As long as there was the slightest difference, when the medicinal power of one spiritual herb overwhelmed another, this kind of shock would be inevitable.
Unless the alchemist has a powerful medicine cauldron, or has a strong cultivation level to suppress it, the medicine cauldron will be as stable as a mountain, but this young man obviously has neither!
This made Cao Cheng, a senior who had been immersed in the art of refining medicine for many years, sigh silently because he hurriedly refined the medicine according to the prescription given by Yiran.
Even if a seventh-level medicinal cauldron was used, and then suppressed with spiritual power at the limit of the spiritual level, the medicinal cauldron would still vibrate slightly when the medicinal power was being condensed.
This slight difference can be ignored in the eyes of ordinary people, but Cao Cheng cannot do it.
If he didn't have such a spirit of striving for excellence, no matter how many years passed, he would only be Song Lidongliu, at the top level among his peers, but he would never be able to be a leader like himself.
Cao Cheng's eyes were fixed on Yiran's direction, as if his heart was being scratched by a cat's claws, eager to go to Yiran and see how he did it.
But since the competition is not over yet, I can only suppress my emotions over and over again, telling myself to wait, wait, wait until the competition is over, and then I can have a good discussion with him.
Even Cao Cheng felt that he no longer had any expectations for today's alchemist competition, and the outcome seemed to be determined at this moment.
Yiran carefully controlled the fusion of medicinal power with his mental power, and combined the medicinal power of seven kinds of spiritual herbs into the coldness of the jade ice spring and slowly condensed it.
The medicinal power that was supposed to fluctuate violently seemed to be condensed, and began to merge with other medicinal powers without any resistance.
Starting from the center point of the heptagon, it slowly rotates like a turntable, and the medicinal power of the seven spiritual herbs begins to merge from this point.
The faster the "turntable" rotates, the faster the medicinal power is integrated.
When the color of the medicinal liquid in the medicine cauldron gradually subsides, the fusion of medicinal power comes to an end. All that is left is to control the heat to condense the medicinal liquid into a more essence.
This operation sounds simple, but it is extremely difficult to do.
Because many people have been too hasty and made mistakes in the first step. Is grinding spiritual grass something easy?
Many high-status alchemists have apprentices who specialize in grinding spiritual herbs for themselves, and this is the case for Cao Cheng and several older alchemists.
The alchemy skills of these apprentices are by no means weaker than those of the people present, but they did not participate in the competition because of their age.
Why is this necessary?
Because grinding spiritual grass is also a job that cannot be underestimated and requires a lot of energy.
Then the pharmacist who needs to refine the medicine will find a trustworthy apprentice to help him complete the work.
Refining medicine is not something that can be taken carelessly from beginning to end, and grinding spiritual grass is not something that can be taken lightly with special techniques.
Slow, there must be a reason why he is slow!
Only by grinding the spiritual grass over and over again to reduce it to the finest particles can the medicinal properties be fully brought out. This is not only to increase the medicinal power of the spiritual grass.
But in the subsequent process of medicinal power fusion, the collision between medicinal powers can be reduced.
The power of an insufficiently ground spiritual herb is like a war horse, while the power of a fully ground spiritual herb is like a young foal.
The two horses charged hard and collided with each other, almost a fatal situation.
The two foals charged hard, but could not reach the speed of the war horses. Even if they were injured, they were not seriously injured.
In this way, coupled with the subtle control of Yiran's strong mental power, the shock could be ignored and dissipated invisible.
Pour the refined ice jade spirit-building liquid into the jade bottle, Yiran is not in a hurry to refine the second portion.
The first round of testing can be completed by just writing a few words, but this round requires refining potions, and the scene is very different.
Someone is almost finished refining the second potion.
Some people, like Yi Ran, were analyzing and making adjustments based on the condition of the first potion, hoping to further improve its effectiveness.
Others were disgraced. After the tripod exploded, they found it difficult to calm down, could not find a way out, and were on the verge of collapse.
At times like this, everyone's character and alchemy skills can be seen at a glance.
At this moment, Yiran's speed in refining potions has caught up with many others.
After mentally scanning the field and understanding the general situation, Yiran fell into thinking again.
The first potion he refined was actually different from the prescription he wrote. In order to maximize the efficacy of the medicine, the prescription written in the first round of testing had taken into account seven kinds of spiritual herbs including Yu Bingquan. The overall fusion of spiritual springs.
Zhen Ling Cao is one or two qian, Sheng Ling Cao is one liang or two qian, Soul-resting root is 7 qian, Heart-twisting Vine, and Huahua Cao.
The first three of these five-flavored herbs already have the dosage, while the last two flavors need to be filled up. Finally, there are still two missing herbs and their dosage.
The prescription written by Yi Ran is nine qian for the Heart-Revolving Vine, nine qian for the Loquat Grass, six qian for the Heart-Nourishing Lotus Seed, one tael of the Red Blood Vermilion Fruit, and 6 liang of the Jade Bingquan.
But in the first trial, Yi Ran only used eight ounces of heart-twisting vine, eight ounces of locust grass, four and a half ounces of heart-nourishing lotus seeds, eight ounces of red blood vermilion fruit, and four taels and five ounces of jade ice spring.
Based on Yiran's understanding of the nature and power of these magical herbs.
In this way, the coldness of the Jade Bingquan can be used to stimulate the mental power, and at the same time, the medicinal effect of the seven-flavored spiritual grass integrated into one can be used to consolidate the mental power, thus stimulating the improvement of the mental power.
"Ice Jade Spirit Building Liquid" and "Jade Ice Spring", in terms of names, are there really some connection.
Since the name of the prescription contains the word "ice", does it mean that this prescription does not need to have a perfect balance of all medicinal powers, but needs to highlight the word "ice"!
When Yiran saw the prescription, he was used to thinking more, so he had to think more and think of various possibilities.
Since there were three opportunities for refining, Yiran directly chose the possibility of perfect balance.
Because it can achieve a perfect balance, the condensation process will be much easier. All of this is based on Yiran's calculations.
The truth was just as Yiran expected, the potion refined under perfect balance was not as effective as imagined.
Because Yiran had also discussed the efficacy of "Soul Forging Spirit Cleansing Liquid" with Zhao Yi Yao, he also had a general understanding of the medicinal power of the same fourth-level "Ice Jade Spirit Building Liquid".
But the potion refined was obviously still a little bit inferior.
This result shows that my guess is correct, and the word ice does have its meaning.
So Yiran quickly refined the second potion according to the prescription he wrote, and then made slight adjustments based on the second potion to complete the third potion.
From the time he started grinding the medicinal materials to successfully refining all three potions, it only took two hours.
Even though it took Yiran more than twice as long as other alchemists to grind the medicinal materials, he was the first to complete the refining of three potions at this moment.
When Yiran finished the test and looked at the arena again, he discovered that there were less than a hundred people in the arena, and nearly 30% of the people had failed to refine three times in a row and were directly eliminated!
Think about it, if you fail to succeed even if you are in the best mental state for the first time, then both your mentality and state will be affected after that.
It is undoubtedly very difficult to continue refining, so it does not seem so difficult to understand that it failed three times and was eliminated.
In addition, half of the people had a jade bottle placed on their desk, which was obviously a potion that had been successfully refined.
Zhao Yiyao was almost exhausted when he was refining a portion of Soul-Destroying Spirit Cleansing Liquid. Although he was only a fourth-level alchemist, his cultivation was that of a real peak mage.
From this point of view, even an alchemist with the level of a great mage would have a hard time refining two potions in a row, let alone three.
From this point of view, giving three potions in this round of testing is a trap. It makes people feel that they have three chances, but in fact, after the first chance fails, it will be difficult to turn around later.
But if you think about it carefully, there is no time limit for this round of testing. It seems that these people are in the current situation because of their impatience!
Yiran couldn't help but sigh, a little speechless about such a test.
Just simply refining a potion, but it also tests the character of these alchemists.
Without the desire for fame, how many people come back to participate in this Laoshizi Alchemist Competition.
Since you want to become famous in one fell swoop, you must naturally show your style, grind quickly, refine medicine quickly, and do everything quickly. This is what a genius should look like.
So one thing leads to another, and everyone starts to compete for speed, not grinding enough, condensing medicine in a hurry, over-pursuing the speed of medicine condensation, etc.
This has led to the current embarrassing situation.
There is no need to even test whether the potion's efficacy reaches 10% of the standard set by Cao Cheng. On one hundred and thirty-six desks, two bottles of potion can be placed on less than two fingers.
As for the one who had already placed three bottles of medicine, Yiran was the only one.
If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools. If he hasn't done the grinding well, how can he blend the medicine well?
If you don’t accumulate small steps, how can you reach a thousand miles!
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