The five major steps of alchemy are refining, engraving, integrating, warming and collecting the elixir!
refining!
This is the simplest and most basic step.
Extract the medicinal essence of the elixir and eliminate the useless dross in the elixir. Just like Bing Chen's previous refining of the magic medicine liquid, it seems simple, but in fact there are many things that require the alchemist's attention. It is a test of the alchemist's control over his own power and his level of care.
Like peeling off a cocoon, using one's own strength to peel off the essence of the elixir bit by bit. Although it is not easy to fail, if you are not careful, you will extract useless impurities from the elixir.
The purity of the refined elixir liquid is related to the probability of success in the later stage of the elixir, and also to the quality of the elixir. Therefore, refining one step is the simplest but the most basic step.
Carve the formation!
In the alchemy furnace, he used his own power to carve out the spiritual array for alchemy.
Different elixirs have different spiritual formations. Even if the same elixir is used, the spiritual formations it depicts will be different due to different alchemists. This is also one of the differences in the alchemy techniques of major alchemists.
To depict a spiritual formation, since it is a spiritual formation, it requires the alchemist to have some knowledge of the Tao. Although not as proficient as the formation master, the alchemist must still have some knowledge of the formation.
To put it bluntly, Yue Yao is now a sixth-grade alchemist, but with his understanding of the Tao of Formation, he is enough to be regarded as a fourth-grade or even fifth-grade formation mage.
The quality and quality of the spiritual formation are directly related to the quality and probability of the pill!
In fact, this is not only true for elixir refining, but also for weapon refining. Formation Dao is the foundation of Alchemy Dao and weapon refining!
Fusion!
In the alchemy furnace, with the help of the carved spiritual array, the extracted essence of the medicinal liquid is fused.
The integration step is the most important and the most likely to fail. The failure of most alchemy attempts lies in the step of fusion.
Elixirs have their own properties, some are compatible with each other, and some are mutually exclusive. Only by understanding the characteristics of various elixirs and integrating them with other elixirs can the success rate and even the quality of the fusion reach the optimal state.
For an alchemy recipe, if alchemists of the same level refine it, the elixirs they refine may be completely different. The main reason is the integration step.
A single elixir contains at least a dozen types of elixirs, and as many as hundreds or thousands of elixirs. For each elixir, two or two elixirs are blended together, or the order of blending is different, and the elixir is refined into The quality of the elixir is different. Sometimes, if something went wrong in the fusion sequence, a life-saving elixir would be refined into a poison pill.
Warm up!
Use your own power or use external flames to warm the fused medicinal liquid in the alchemy furnace spiritual array.
Refining alchemy has reached this point, and it is almost half successful. Its focus is no longer on failure, but on the quality of the finished product.
At this point, the test for the monks is a test of their fire skills or fire control ability.
According to the characteristics of different elixirs, it can activate its own fire attribute power or use external flames to warm and maintain the elixirs for a long time. The level of the skill, the control of one's own strength and the ability to control fire, etc., are directly related to the quality of the elixir.
During the process of warming and curing the elixir, it may not be an exaggeration to say that a slight difference in the temperature control can result in a thousand miles difference.
Collect pills!
Generally, at this step, the alchemy is almost considered successful. The only step of collecting the elixir is also related to a very important result, which is the number of elixirs produced.
Many high-level alchemists have their own unique methods of collecting pills, or spiritual formations for collecting pills. This is a secret that is not passed down among alchemists.
With the same quality and the same amount of medicinal liquid, if different alchemists are used to collect the elixirs, the number of elixirs produced may vary greatly. It can be as little as one elixir, or as many as, under perfect conditions, it can even be nine elixirs!
It does not mean that if there is only one elixir, the effect of that elixir is greater than that of nine elixirs. Perhaps, the result is exactly the opposite.
The number of elixirs that can be turned into elixirs after being warmed and raised is almost determined, and is affected by the previous refining, spiritual formation, fusion, and warming. However, some medicinal liquids can clearly turn into two pills, or even more, but when it was finally released, only one was obtained, and the effects of the rest of the medicinal liquids did not mean that all of them went to that one pill. Among them, most of them have been wasted, lost or burned out by the techniques, spiritual formations and flames used in collecting the pills.
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Beside the burning furnace, Bingchen closed his eyes and meditated.
The mind recalled the memory of the evil medicine and alchemy over and over again and rehearsed the steps of alchemy.
After a long time, Bing Chen opened his eyes. Caressing the fire furnace, Bing Chen said: "Man, I have had you for some time. From now on, I will truly step into the ranks of alchemists. Please don't let me down."
"Brother, looking at you like this, you seem a little nervous." Xianyue joked.
Bing Chen shook his head and smiled and said: "Why should I be nervous? With all the memory inheritance of the eighth-grade peak divine alchemist, and the alchemy skills given by Zhe Yue, I am destined to be looked up to in the alchemy path in the future. The presence."
Xianyue covered her mouth and smiled.
He did not continue to talk nonsense. After adjusting his mood and breath, Bing Chen made a secret and used his divine energy to turn into wisps of purple flames and penetrate them into the burning furnace.
With a wave of his hand, more than a dozen second-grade elixirs floated in front of him, and were then driven into the furnace one by one.
"Hey! Brother is going to directly refine the Condensing Pill!" Xianyue said in surprise.
Worried about affecting Bingchen, Xianyue didn't talk too much, but looked at Bingchen with a look of interest.
It was clearly the first time she was refining an elixir, but she skipped the first level and started with the most difficult concentration pill among the second level elixirs. This made Xianyue surprised and full of expectations at the same time.
In fact, not only Guangyue, but also Yueyao and Bingyuexi on the side are like this.
As the elixirs were poured into the fire furnace one after another, it was obvious that several groups of medicinal liquids of different colors were floating in the fire furnace.
Looking at the pills, Yue Yao pursed her lips slightly and nodded secretly.
Bing Chen had previous experience in refining magical elixirs, and now he was refining a second-grade elixir. It shouldn't be too simple.
Not only is the refining speed much faster than before, but the purity of the medicinal liquid extracted from it is already comparable to the skills of a third-grade or even fourth-grade alchemist based on Yue Yao's observation.
More than a dozen elixirs were completely refined by Bing Chen in less than a stick of incense.
After observing it with his spiritual mind, Bing Chen felt quite satisfied with himself.
After taking a short rest and adjusting his condition, Bing Chen began the second step, carving the spiritual formation!
Using the divine energy as a guide, it turned into a trickle and submerged into the fire furnace.
Bing Chen used the most common, mature and stable spiritual formation among the evil medicine memories. With the foundation of a fourth-level formation mage, there is no difficulty in carving a second-level spiritual formation. It was just following the appearance of the spiritual formation in Xie Yao's memory and using divine energy to outline it.
In just a matter of seconds, a spiritual formation emitting a faint mysterious light was suspended in the fire furnace.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, my brother's spiritual formation, with its exquisiteness of divine energy, can instantly kill many third- and fourth-grade alchemists. My brother is probably considered a third-grade alchemist now!" Xianyue whispered.
Hearing this, Yue Yao agreed and nodded slightly.
Fusion liquid!
There are only a dozen or so elixirs in the Concentration Pill, and over the years, countless alchemists have concluded that the best fusion sequence, fusion time and degree have been figured out, and they are not too particular. Bingchen only needs to follow his memory and copy it.
Blobs of liquid medicine were slowly fused together by Bing Chen on the spiritual formation. This was the most difficult and most likely step to fail, but Bing Chen only used half a stick of incense to complete it. Melted more than a dozen pills of medicinal liquid into one piece.
In this regard, with the precedent of the first two steps, Yueyao and Xianyue felt that they were not surprised. In their eyes, Bing Chen is already a third-level alchemist with no practical experience, and this third-level alchemist is also a person whose theoretical experience is comparable to that of an eighth-level divine alchemist.
Without even taking a break, Bingchen started the fourth step, warming the medicinal solution.
As wisps of purple flames hit the fire furnace, Bingchen and the others saw that the fused liquid medicine was slowly rotating in one direction on the spiritual array at a uniform speed.
Visible to the naked eye, the volume of the liquid medicine is shrinking, and at the same time, its color is also slowly changing.
Nearly half an hour later, what was originally a ball of liquid medicine as big as the mouth of a bowl was reduced to less than one-third of its previous size, turning into a ball of milky white emulsion.
Seeing this, Xianyue on the side felt a little nervous inexplicably.
"Looking at the quality, it's no problem to get three pills!" Xianyue said in surprise.
Yue Yao nodded slightly and said, "Nothing unexpected happens, it should be okay."
When Xianyue heard this, she felt even more excited.
"My brother is really an alchemy genius! Not only was he successful in making alchemy for the first time, but he was also able to make multiple pills. If this spreads to the clan, those guys who claim to be talented in alchemy will be beaten to death." Yue said.
Holding his breath and concentrating, Bing Chen entered the alchemy furnace into the alchemy collecting technique.
In the fire furnace, the purple flame suddenly exploded, completely covering the entire spiritual formation. It could only be vaguely felt that the medicinal liquid was quickly evaporated.
soon!
boom!
With a bang, the top cover of the fire furnace suddenly opened, and a pill flew out.
Bing Chen grabbed it in his hand, looking excited. He smiled at first, but after just a moment, he showed a look of dissatisfaction.
Just one!
From Bing Chen's point of view, under normal circumstances, the medicinal liquid he had warmed up could condense three or even four pills!
Yes!
Seeing this scene, Yue Yao and Xianyue on the side were also puzzled. They both looked at each other with some confusion.
With Bing Chen's method of collecting pills, he can produce three pills, but why?
Looking at the elixir in his hand, Bingchen's eyes showed concern.
In this regard, Bing Yuexi and the others did not come forward to disturb them.
After a while, Bing Chen sighed softly and said to himself: "It's not a bad thing if it's not perfect. It's not a good thing if everything goes too smoothly."
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