In the quiet room, Lu Zhong slowly finished his work.
With a pinch of his fingers, he shot a spell in front of him.
The spirit gathering array that was buzzing and constantly converting the spirit energy in the spirit stones stopped. This array can assist cultivation and speed up the growth rate of cultivation, but it is directly proportional to the consumption rate of spiritual stones. He does not dare to leave it on all the time, otherwise Lintao Pavilion will lose all the spiritual stones he earns.
Lu Zhong felt quite helpless when his eyes fell on the large and small jade bottles scattered on the ground.
In recent days, he has tried to take many elixirs, all of which were produced in Changchun Immortal City's elixir workshop and suitable for monks in the middle stage of foundation building, but the effects were mediocre. achieve satisfactory results.
It's not as slow as a turtle crawling, after all, the Jade Vein Technique is still effective.
But...he didn't know how to describe it.
Lu Zhong had communicated with his colleagues in Dongbulu a while ago and learned that it was almost a common phenomenon for foundation-building monks to make slow progress in their cultivation. Many people's cultivation had stagnated for decades without making any progress.
If nothing unexpected happens, they will stop here in this life.
Everyone discussed this phenomenon.
The result of the discussion was that there was too much true energy that needed to be refined.
The Sea of True Essence is no joke!
From a small puddle in the early stage of foundation building to the sea of true essence in the fake elixir realm, the increase in the total amount of true essence is no less than the increase in the total amount of spiritual power in the Qi refining period, and because the quality of true essence is much higher than that of spiritual energy, Due to the power, the speed of condensation of true energy is slow. Even if a large amount of spiritual elixir resources are invested, the rapid improvement of cultivation during the Qi refining period cannot be reproduced.
Thinking back to this, Lu Zhong guessed that his slow progress in cultivation was not only due to the above reasons, but also due to his practicing of the Four Spiritual Arts in the past, which made the total amount of true energy in his Dantian initially higher than the same level.
"Oh, what a happy trouble!"
He did not expect that the total amount of true energy four times that of ordinary monks would make him invincible in the battle, but it would also lead to slow progress in cultivation.
"Fortunately, there is good fortune spirit liquid!" Lu Zhong said expectantly.
Since Li Qionghua can use this secret method to achieve a speed of childbirth that exceeds the qualifications of the Tianling Root, then the spirit liquid of creation may have other benefits. If he takes a large amount of this spirit liquid, he may also be able to greatly increase his cultivation speed. It's good to have babies quickly, as long as you can make steady progress.
With a sweep of his sleeves, he put away the bottles and cans.
Then he went out to the front yard, where there was an alchemy room.
Under Xia He's guidance, the maids were simply preheating the alchemy furnace, adding firewood and sweeping away the ashes, and they were all so busy that their feet didn't even touch the floor.
Seeing Lu Zhong come in at this moment, they all stopped what they were doing and saluted according to their dignity.
Looking across the bronze alchemy furnace, Lu Zhong looked at Xia He and asked, "How is the preheating of the alchemy furnace going?"
"Sir, the furnace temperature has reached the temperature you ordered." Xia He said, inadvertently leaning forward a little, and the things in his collar almost slipped out, as if hoping to attract Lu Zhong's attention.
If you didn't come, you wouldn't know that the Lintao Pavilion Master in front of you must have a net worth no less than that of a late-stage Foundation Establishment monk.
You can tell from the fact that the lady started eating beauty pills as if she were eating jelly beans. She was so jealous that she couldn't help but have the idea of becoming a concubine.
Even if it doesn't work, you can still take a step back and become an alchemy boy and learn one or two skills of alchemy.
This way, you can pay off your debt quickly when you go out later.
Lu Zhong turned a blind eye to this, he had no hobby of playing widow.
Although Xia He's body is indeed attractive.
With an expressionless face, he waved his hand and said: "Okay, you can exit."
"Yes, sir." Xia He was disappointed, nodded and exited.
When the other party left, Lu Zhong stretched out his hand and used the object control technique to take out the firewood and ashes from the furnace. Then he opened his mouth and spit it out, and a ball of golden spiritual flame appeared in his hand.
It is a forged spiritual fire. This spiritual fire can be used in elixir making.
The firepower is not strong, not even comparable to the spiritual flames catalyzed by spiritual firewood, but the advantage is that the nature of the flame is pure. For a novice like him in alchemy, it can extremely well avoid interference in alchemy caused by impure flames.
With a flick of his finger, the forging spirit fire fell into the furnace.
After another spell, the furnace door slowly closed.
Lu Zhong is preparing to practice purifying elixirs.
It has been almost a year since I learned alchemy from Zhenren Dongbu as his master. He also has a clear understanding of the alchemy process.
The process of alchemy can be briefly divided into three stages: processing and purification, fusion and transformation, and spiritual infusion to separate the elixir. Things like preheating the elixir furnace and preparing spiritual materials are all preliminary work.
Rice Ball Exploration
Regarding the processing of elixirs, it basically depends on memory. It is not difficult for monks to do this. They only need to write down the classics provided by Dongbulu, and then practice it, and they can easily master it.
Dealing with purification, the difficult part is purification.
This step is extremely important and directly affects the final rate of elixir formation. If the elixir purification step is not done well, it may even directly lead to the failure of elixir refining. It is one of the basic skills of an alchemist.
I took a handful of green rice and threw it into the alchemy furnace without even looking at it.
The bronze alchemy furnace in front of Lu Zhong has a crude structure. The place where the fire is burned is called the furnace, and the place where the elixir is put into is the alchemy chamber. There is only one alchemy chamber. It can only refine one kind of spiritual material at the same time, and there is no way to control the size of the firepower. There are also no auxiliary magic arrays, and others such as the "spirit-guiding array" and "spirit-gathering array" that provide energy for the alchemy furnace.
It's not that he wants to embarrass himself, it's just to build a solid foundation.
When you become more proficient in the future, it will not be too late to buy a better furnace. Even the time-consuming processing and purification can be done by a specialized alchemy boy. You only need to complete the most important fusion and transformation process.
Refining the elixir during the foundation building phase will be much easier than during the Qi refining phase, because spiritual consciousness can interfere with reality.
The purification process can be performed carefully without introducing foreign impurities.
Lu Zhong once observed monks refining alchemy in the Qi refining period. Without the assistance of spiritual consciousness, they basically had to rely on object control. The purification of spiritual materials was time-consuming and labor-intensive. Now it also consumes spiritual power, so the difficulty of refining alchemy will naturally increase greatly. , far less easy than a foundation-building monk.
After a while, a drop of Qinghe Spiritual Dew was purified.
The color is slightly mottled, indicating that it contains a lot of impurities.
Without looking at it, he threw it to the side of the water tank. He took another handful of green rice and continued to purify it.
Drops of spiritual dew were purified.
Constantly sum up experience and lessons, and refer to the personal experience taught by Dongbu Zhenren and the other party's demonstration process to correct your own purification techniques.
Gradually, the purity of the spiritual dew began to slowly increase.
The sun rises and sets again, and half a month passes in the blink of an eye.
Lu Zhong consumed thousands of kilograms of Qinghe Lingmi rice and finally purified a large vat of Qinghe Linglu.
After taking a sip, the spiritual energy contained in the spiritual dew was rich and the taste was surprisingly good.
"If you add ingredients, maybe it can be made into tea..."
