In the thatched cottage.
"call!"
Lu Zhong slowly let out a breath of thick air.
Just now, he finally broke through to the late stage of foundation building.
At this moment, the viscosity of the true essence has increased a lot compared to the middle stage of foundation building. This means that the quality of the true essence has been greatly improved. At the same time, the total amount of true essence has also doubled. The true essence in the Dantian is surging like a tide. , the sea of true essence has begun to take shape.
Breakthrough is a matter of course.
Originally, there was supposed to be a bottleneck between the middle and late stages of foundation building. Lu Zhong benefited from the help of the Jade Vein Skill and Forged Spiritual Fire, coupled with the help of the powerful soul on his cultivation, he only needed to use his true essence. If the total amount is piled up, a breakthrough will occur naturally.
"With my current strength, as long as I don't meet Jin Dan Zhenren, even if I meet Madam Butterfly again, or become a seven-level monk, I can't guarantee that I will win in a fight, but it will definitely be a draw. "Lv Zhong estimated his strength in his heart and thought silently.
Wait for the restless true energy in your body to subside.
Lu Zhong did not get up, but took out a specially prepared grass spirit pill.
This elixir is as crystal clear as jade, exuding a layer of light.
This is a strange phenomenon manifested by the elixir's spiritual energy being too strong.
The grass spirit pill is suitable for monks in the late stage of foundation building. It is made from two kinds of 300-year-old spiritual herbs. It can improve cultivation. However, after he takes it, the effect is mediocre. It is not the grass spirit pill. It had no effect. It would have been extremely effective for an ordinary monk. However, the total amount of true energy in Lu Zhong's body was so huge that it diluted the effect of the Grass Spirit Pill and made it insignificant.
Based on this situation, he estimated that if he wanted to practice to the false elixir stage, he would have to take hundreds of bottles of grass spirit elixirs.
But pills of this level are hard to come by. It takes a lot of effort just to get one pill, let alone take it by the bottle. Otherwise, the cultivation of a large number of foundation-building cultivators outside will not always be stagnant in the early stage. and mid-term.
Generally, when a monk reaches this point in his cultivation, it is the end of his journey to immortality.
By this time, they are all big figures in the local cultivation world. As long as they do not provoke the rare Jindan Master, whether they use their leaves to establish a cultivating family or become a carefree casual cultivator outside, they can be very successful. Live the rest of your life well.
As for the pursuit of the golden elixir avenue, that is something that only a few elite monks who have the full support of the sect family and have good talents, or some casual cultivators who have adventures, dare to hope.
"Next, let's see if the spiritual fluid of creation is really as magical as Li Qionghua said."
Lu Zhong thought of this and took out a storage bag.
This was obtained from Madam Butterfly, and it contained a forbidden secret. If it was destroyed and opened rashly, the contents inside would be lost. It took him a lot of time to finally wear away the secret.
Open it, there are so many things inside.
Light spirit stone, low grade, medium grade and high grade spirit stone together are worth more than 100,000 yuan.
Pile on the ground, it is a hill.
Then there are about twenty magic weapons with extremely low wear and tear, all in various styles. It can be seen that Madam Butterfly killed people and snatched treasures from them. They have the marks of various forces on them. If he wants to take action, he still needs to go through a process. Processing.
In addition, there are many elixirs and spiritual materials, which are neatly stacked in storage bags that are hundreds of square meters in size. Among them are a dozen 300-year-old elixirs, and even a 500-year-old Polygonatum japonica.
The yellow fine phase is extremely well preserved and can be used to refine elixirs that are scarce for pill-forming monks.
In addition to the short sword and the spiritual weapon Zhuanghong, the value of these items alone is at least half a million. This is the main net worth of a notorious demon cultivator.
"As expected of Madam Butterfly..." Lu Zhong said silently in his heart.
Continuing the inventory, it is necessary to carefully distinguish the items in the classics.
They are all basic exercises and spell books that can be bought outside. Most of the exercises can only be practiced to the foundation building stage, and a few can support monks to break through to the elixir formation stage. There are no secret techniques in the spell book. It is basically a spell shop. Perhaps it is for this reason that the street stall goods that have been leaked out are carried with them.
There are also books on elixir identification, as well as miscellaneous experience books.
Lu Zhong plans to deal with these things to the Yu family, and he can probably get tens of thousands of spiritual stones.
Then he picked out a pile of debris, and inside there was a broken token of the elder of Changchun Valley. It was expected that he had seen the real Jindan that day, and the token appeared here. This person may have died unfortunately.
I don’t know how Madame Butterfly did it.
It was definitely not a forceful killing, but it was expected that some kind of shocking method was used.
There are only three interesting things left.
A three-finger-wide, palm-long silver metal ingot exuded extremely strong spiritual energy fluctuations. Lu Zhong felt that it should be the famous Silver Essence. This was a rare spirit that Master Jin Dan could extract from silver by spending elixir fire. Materials that can be used to refine magic weapons.
Similarly, there is gold essence, which is extracted from gold.
Therefore, gold and silver also have value in the eyes of monks.
The half page without words seems to have nothing strange about it, but it can prevent the intrusion of spiritual consciousness, and it is not bad when cut with red makeup. It is treasured by Madam Butterfly and kept in a jade box, which shows that it is extraordinary.
Finally, there is a large palm token with a simple shape at the top and bottom, with three silver inscriptions written on it.
"Movement order?" Lu Zhong read out.
Regarding the function of this thing, he had read relevant classics and had some understanding.
It is said that the movement order is necessary for long-distance teleportation, otherwise it will be crushed into pulp by the terrifying space pressure during the teleportation process. As for short-distance teleportation of tens to hundreds of miles, the space pressure is so small that it can be ignored, so there is no need for this thing.
"How did this thing appear on Madam Butterfly? Could it be... related to her origin?" Relevant information about this demonic cultivator emerged in Lu Zhong's mind.
The appearance of Madame Butterfly is very unexpected.
It's like, appearing out of nowhere.
The first time she committed a crime, she was already in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment. She directly killed a thousand-year-old Foundation Establishment family and turned hundreds of thousands of mortals who were their vassals into living corpses.
This incident once shocked the entire Changchun Region.
What happened next shocked everyone even more. This demonic cultivator repeatedly relied on his extraordinary strength to break out of the siege, or relied on secret techniques to escape from the Changchun Valley monks who were besieging her.
Even Jindan Zhenren personally went out to fight, but he came back in vain.
It took some time for someone to identify that the technique used by Madam Butterfly was actually the "Butterfly Transformation Technique" of the giant demon cultivator in the West, a secret technique inherited by the Butterfly Flower Sect, a major demon sect.
Therefore, some monks suspected that she was a demon cultivator who came from the Western Region.
However, the Western Territory is not connected to the Southern Barbarians. There is not only the Heavenly Punishment Snowfield with extremely harsh climate, but also a vast forest sea where monsters inhabit. The only way to reach the Changchun Territory is to travel through the Middle Earth and then via the East China Sea route. The southern barbarian where it is located.
It's just that this statement is actually a bit ridiculous.
Middle-earth is an out-and-out forbidden land for demon cultivation. If you want to break through the blockades set by the sects of Middle-earth and reach the shores of the East China Sea, this is something that even the old demons of the Demon Dao Nascent Soul cannot do, let alone Madam Butterfly. Such a foundation-building demon cultivator would be caught to collect the reward just after he left the chaotic Western Territory.
Therefore, everyone would rather believe that Madam Butterfly has inherited the legacy of the old demon.
Now that he has received this moving order, Lu Zhong can't help but wonder if there is a possibility. Madam Butterfly should rely on a certain long-distance teleportation array to teleport directly from the Western Region to the Southern Barbarians.
Lu Zhong felt that it was necessary to investigate in detail.
If he can really master the long-distance teleportation array that connects to the Western Territory, then he might be able to earn not only the resources for forming pills, but also the resources for connecting infants. There are a lot of spiritual resources in the Western Territory that the Southern Barbarians urgently need. With the help of teleportation, Even if you simply buy and sell, you can make a lot of money.
"This matter should not be rushed, but should be dealt with slowly."
Lu Zhong had already planned to look for the teleportation array after he successfully formed the elixir, or even until he had refined his natal magic weapon and had enough strength to protect himself. Otherwise, even if he found it now, it would just be a wedding dress for others. .
Put things away separately.
Madame Butterfly's storage bag was too conspicuous, and she might not have snatched it from some powerful force. To be cautious, he still used the original storage bag. As for the Baifang storage bag, he kept it for later. With such a volume The storage bags are very rare and it would be too wasteful to sell them and exchange them for spiritual stones.
Lu Zhong stood up and walked out of the thatched cottage, his eyes falling on the small grave.
As soon as today passes, the three-year period will come to an end.
For mortals with short life spans, three years is a long time, enough to carry many things. But for monks who have no sense of time, everything seems to have happened yesterday.
Stand until the sky reveals the white color of fish belly.
Lu Zhong sighed softly, placed a new stick of incense in front of the grave, and then turned and left.
At the bottom of the mountain, a convoy is waiting.
Yu Feng'er was sitting in the car, her eyes slightly red, as if she had just cried. When she saw Lu Zhong walking into the car, she wiped the corners of her eyes with the corner of her clothes and said:
"My concubine has made arrangements. As long as the incest in the Yu family continues, my sister will not be disturbed."
"Well, thank you for your hard work."
…
The following days were dull and boring.
Lu Zhong took a trip to Dongbu House and did not pay the fee for the thousand spirit stones. He still used the old method to review the scenes directly, "learned" the remaining lessons, and stayed at Lintao Pavilion to digest them slowly.
He has almost learned the fusion and transformation part of alchemy.
Next, there is the spirit-injecting elixir.
Dividing elixirs is to divide the refined raw elixirs into suitable sizes. The process is somewhat similar to ordinary people making pills. The only difference is the separation method.
The difficulty lies in injecting spirit.
Injecting spiritual energy is to inject spiritual energy into the elixir, which can enhance the effect of the elixir. If the previous fusion and transformation stage was not done well, you can also make up for it at this time and convert some inferior elixirs into middle-grade elixirs. Let the elixir formation rate increase slightly.
There is no theory at all in this process, it all relies on personal experience and observation.
Outsiders think that the knowledge of alchemy can be learned by refining it more times, which comes from the spirit injection step.
In order to save the spirit stone, Lu Zhong used Huangya Dan to practice when practicing soul injection. This pill is the current flagship product of the Chengde Chamber of Commerce. Huangya flowers, the main material for refining, are easy to plant and easy to grow, so the yield of Huangya flowers is huge. , it is perfect for practicing spiritual infusion, and even if it fails, the cost will be extremely low.
At the beginning, Lu Zhong failed to refining each furnace.
Hundreds of spiritual stones were wasted in this way.
Most of the failures occur in the spirit-injection stage. Even if he has powerful spiritual consciousness to help him, it will not help. Sometimes there will be some mistakes in the process of melting the spiritual energy of the transformation medicine. Both reasons will lead to the quality of the refined medicine being extremely poor, and the erysipelas content is higher than the effectiveness. The kind of ingredients, sometimes it just comes out like a furnace of charcoal slag.
But gradually, one or two low-grade elixirs began to be refined from a furnace of Huangya Dan.
Refining elixirs is very time-consuming, and the higher-level elixirs take longer.
It is as low as Huangya Dan, which can only be boiled five times a day.
Half a year later, Huangyadan’s pill-forming rate reached 10% for the first time!
Although it is still far from the profit and loss line of Huang Yadan, this is an incredible achievement for a novice alchemist.
This result, in addition to the help of the scene review in the gray fog space, also has a lot to do with Lu Zhong's own efforts.
Everything is going in the right direction.
Another year passed, and Lu Zhong finally made his first batch of profitable Huangya Dan.
70% rate of pill formation.
It is slightly higher than Huang Yadan's profit and loss line of 65%, which is still slightly higher than 50%.
There are thirty-six yellow bud pills in a furnace, and this furnace will probably produce two extra pills. Calculated based on the market price of two spiritual stones, that is four spiritual stones, plus the low-grade pills sold at a discount.
A conservative estimate is that Lu Zhong's furnace of Huangya Dan can earn seven to eight spiritual stones.
"Compared to making talismans, alchemy refining is really a big return on investment. Even wild alchemists without a complete inheritance can rely on the few pills they are familiar with to earn wealth that ordinary monks cannot reach. Alchemy with talent and inheritance Not to mention the teacher..."
Lu Zhong felt emotional for a while, and continued to refine elixirs to deepen his theoretical understanding.
He learned alchemy not just for the sake of spiritual stones.
Spiritual stones are good, but how can they compare with the growth of cultivation?
As for Lu Zhong, if he currently wants to grow his cultivation quickly, he has two ways. Whether it is to practice the second level of Jade Vein Skill and continue to improve his qualifications to solve the problem of slow spiritual energy refining speed, or to use low-grade elixirs. Refining the spirit liquid of creation can solve the problem of difficulty in improving one's cultivation due to the scarcity of high-level elixirs.
Or refining Huangya Dan.
Gradually, the pill-forming rate of Huangyadan is getting higher and higher.
It increased from 70% to 75%, then slowly increased to 80%, and even 85%...
Thanks to the refining of batches of Huangya Dan, Lintao Pavilion's main products have also changed from talismans and magic circles at the beginning to Huangya Dan, which is famous for its large quantity and stable quality.
After constant summarization, Lu Zhong refined the first high-grade Huangya Dan.
At this time, another year and a half has passed.
He looked at the Huang Ya Dan in his hand, which looked like half topaz, and the feeling in his heart could only be described as full of emotion. In order to refine this top-grade Huang Ya Dan, more than a little effort was put into it.
It took three years and thousands of furnaces of refining Huangya Dan to finally refine a top-grade Huangya Dan.
After looking at it for a while, Lu Zhong threw it into his mouth.
I closed my eyes and tasted it carefully, and found that it tasted really good, like eating jelly beans.
Get up.
Lu Zhong planned to rest for a while before talking.
Long-term alchemy refining will put a huge burden on the soul. If it cannot be resolved in time, it will bring about unexpected consequences, and even affect the progress of cultivation over time.
When you open the door and go out, you can see a small grass shining with lightning in the courtyard.
After so many years of cultivation, the tenth branch of Thunder Grass has grown halfway. It is expected that in another ten years, the tenth branch will be fully grown.
"I'm really curious, what transformation will happen to it?"
Regarding this, Lu Zhong once tried to consult the classics, but unfortunately there was no gain.
A fish-shaped jade pendant on his waist was buzzing and trembling.
The jade pendant is the "Yin-Yang Fish Pendant" given by Yu Feng'er. There are two pieces in total. The yang fish is with him, and the yin fish is a short-distance communication weapon because Feng'er is wearing it.
At this moment, the jade pendant was shaking, indicating that Yu Feng'er was here.
