Starting from Scavengers to Cultivate Immortals

Chapter 67: The Experiment Failed
After activating the alchemy furnace and observing the kung fu for a while, Xu Chen almost understood the formation and the steps of alchemy inside. The next step is to actually operate it by hand, get some herbs and try a few furnaces to see the effect.

Of course, don't even think about the panacea, you can only get some common herbs and refine some Fan Dan to try your hand.

Now that the medicine garden has been destroyed, the elixir, the elixir, which is used to refine the elixir in the mountains and fields near Taiyuan Gate must not be available, so Xu Chen put away the elixir furnace and went down the mountain with his sword.

An hour later, he returned to the hut and poured out a large pile of messy medicinal materials from the storage bag.

To the disciples of the Immortal Sect, these medicinal materials are completely garbage among garbage, without any spiritual energy.

But if you get the mortal realm, everything is worth a lot.

Ten-year-old Dancao, 20-year-old Scrophulariaceae, 30-year-old Xuezhi, more than [-]-year-old sealwort, etc., in addition to various dangerous medicinal materials such as poisonous insects and snakes that only grow in steep cliffs or even deep caves.

These things are everywhere in the deep mountains and dense forests near the Taiyuan Gate, but for ordinary folks, they need to face great danger and even pay their lives if they want to pick any of them.

Xu Chen compared the jade slips, and slowly found seven kinds of medicinal materials from the inside, and placed them on the stone slabs one by one.

There are only two kinds of Fandan that Xianmen usually refines, one is Qingshui Dan, which is used to cut hair and wash the marrow, and the other is Peiyuan Dan, which is used to open up the meridians.

However, Peiyuan Pill already has a hint of panacea, and one or two herbs are not easy to find, so Xu Chen must not be able to get it together right now, so he can only practice with Qingshui Pill first.

After the preparatory work was completed, Xu Chen activated the alchemy furnace again, carefully reviewed the method of refining Qingshui Dan, and then put one hand on the vitality channel of the alchemy furnace, continuously input vitality, and used his spiritual consciousness to impact the gathering at the bottom of the furnace. Fire array.

Soon a blazing white flame was burning in the alchemy furnace, and when it felt that the fire was almost ready, he put the collected medicinal materials into the alchemy furnace one by one according to the order of alchemy.

There are two ways to refine the elixir, one is to light the furnace with the spirit of the monks for refining, and the other is to put spirit stones as fuel.

Generally speaking, spirit stones will definitely be released when refining elixir, but this is just a furnace of elixir, and it is not needed at all.

Xu Chen is confident that a batch of clear water pills is a piece of cake for him.

After several medicinal materials entered the alchemy furnace, the furnace lid was closed. Under the guidance of the spiritual consciousness, these medicinal materials were wrapped in different arrays of light and shadow according to the attributes of the five elements for calcination and refining, and finally the useless ingredients were burned to ashes. What remains is the essence of the synthetic elixir.

Xu Chen felt very relaxed throughout the refining process. Even though he was a little flustered and almost made a mistake, he read the Danfang Jade Slip in the middle, but he succeeded in refining all the medicinal materials in the end.

The next step is to combine pills, this step is particularly critical, if a mistake is made, all the medicinal materials in the batch will be destroyed in one go.

And the more precise the process of combining the pills is, the more uniform and suitable the composition of the pills will be, and the better the effect of the pills will be.

Fandan doesn't have too detailed requirements for Hedan, generally speaking, it's just so-so.

However, Xu Chen was still very careful. After all, it was his first alchemy, and he was a little excited inside.

He didn't expect that he would successfully refine all seven kinds of medicinal materials in one go.

He had also heard Brother Nine say how hard it is to make alchemy, how it consumes the vitality of spiritual consciousness, and how troublesome it is, especially in the stage of refining, so many medicinal materials have to be baked one by one according to different methods and different formations and temperatures Refining, in order to retain the maximum efficacy of the medicine, one must not be careless and make mistakes, etc.

But today, it seems that Brother Ninth is exaggerating a bit.

Xu Chen felt a little disapproving in his heart, but in fact he forgot the reason why he became so relaxed after having a blue jade bead in his head, which brought him a powerful sense of consciousness.

Even monks who have started to practice qi can refine things like fandan, but it's just a matter of success rate and the number of pills produced.

In the late Kaiyuan stage, it is relatively easy to refine first-rank pills, but it is still very difficult for second-rank pills.

Like Senior Brother Nine, although he has reached the late Kaiyuan stage, he has not yet mastered the skills of refining first-grade pills, and he can still only refine Fandan such as Qingshuidan and Peiyuandan.

In addition, he can also refine Xiaoyuan Dan, but because the medicinal materials are precious, it is rare to refine it several times a year, and there is a high chance of refining it during the period, so the level of alchemy is naturally in a mess, and there is no way to increase it quickly.

If it is in a large fairy gate, there are plenty of low-end elixir, and alchemy apprentices will naturally have a lot of medicinal materials to practice, and the level of alchemy will increase rapidly, and maybe they will become a qualified first-rank alchemist in half a year.

But for Taiyuanmen, the growth of disciples is too difficult.

Rather than spending time in alchemy, it is far better to meditate and practice, and it is better to go down the mountain to experience robbery.

This is also the reason why Brother Jiu is unwilling to make alchemy on the mountain.

Xu Chen's spiritual consciousness was fully immersed in the alchemy furnace, and it was the critical moment to combine the alchemy.

In the center of the alchemy furnace, a spiral formation appeared, and then a faint whirlwind of yuan power began to roar and whirl, and the seven refined medicinal materials were pulled and fell like a whirlwind by his spiritual consciousness, and finally mixed together , After more than ten breaths, wait for the whirlwind to stop slowly, a mass of gray paste appears in the center of the alchemy furnace, and then the spiritual consciousness continues to activate the method of dividing pills, and soon the paste is decomposed into more than ten uniformly sized mud balls, Then the whirlwind started again, and these mud balls swirled in the whirlwind, and quickly turned into projectiles the size of mung beans.

The last step is to raise the pill and release the pill.

But for Fandan, raising pills is basically saved, and this thing is still Fandan after a year of warming in the pill furnace, without a trace of spirituality, so Xu Chen urged the furnace to bake the pills, Gently patted the alchemy stove, and the lid popped open, and more than ten grains of gray pills rose out with a dense medicinal fragrance, and he collected them in his hand with a swirl of vitality.

Xu Chen took a closer look at the freshly baked elixir, and found that it was even in size, rich in fragrance, and the color seemed to be much better than the clear water elixir that Brother Jiu had wrapped around when he went down the mountain, with a grayish white luster.

"Ugh..."

Smelling the fragrance of the medicine, the little fox excitedly jumped onto Xu Chen's lap and yelled.

Xu Chen directly pinched one and stuffed it into the little fox's mouth. He couldn't help knocking one, and then pouted his mouth, and found that it had no effect except for a scent of medicine, not even as good as jelly beans.

Xu Chen put the remaining Qingshui Dan into a small porcelain bottle with a regretful face.

Then start refining the second furnace.

The alchemy process this time is much better and faster than the first furnace. It took only two quarters before and after, and it was time to combine the alchemy again.

Xu Chen's original purpose was to test to see if he could incorporate the white qi released from the jade bottle in the sea of ​​consciousness into the elixir. Therefore, when he was consolidating the elixir, he concentrated on using his consciousness to touch the jade bead in the jade bottle, and then released it. Out of the idea of ​​​​wanting to draw white gas.

Although he didn't get any feeling of resistance or cooperation from Yuzhu, under the touch of this kind of consciousness, Xu Chen actually felt a wisp of white air released from the mouth of the jade bottle, which really appeared in the pill along with his consciousness. in the furnace.

Xu Chen was overjoyed, and said in his heart that it was indeed a fairy weapon, and that it could really communicate with consciousness, so he used his spiritual consciousness to draw the wisp of white air and try to blend it into the medicinal mud.

However, at the moment when the white gas merged, a group of gray mud paste that had been fused was instantly ignited by the spiritual fire, and within two breaths, it was completely burned to ashes.

Xu Chen had no choice but to activate the array to clean up the alchemy furnace. After discharging the ash from the bottom of the furnace, he conducted the third alchemy experiment again.

However, the next two times in a row, they were unable to integrate into the white qi when they were closing alchemy, which led to the failure of alchemy.

So Xu Chen knew that maybe it was because Fan Dan's level was too low to fuse with Bai Qi.

Or this kind of white gas can't be integrated into the elixir at all.

But he still wasn't too desperate.

Fandan can't do it, maybe panacea can.

So he began to think about where to get some advanced medicinal materials to refine a furnace of Xiaoyuan Dan.

Although the Xiao Yuan Pill has not yet entered the product, it is a elixir containing spiritual energy after all, it can barely be regarded as a panacea, and the materials are not particularly precious, even if one or two furnaces are scrapped, it can still be tolerated.

Just as Xu Chen was scratching his head and trying to find a way, a cyan light came from Chaoyang Peak and landed in front of the cabin in an instant.

"Senior Sister, why are you here?" Seeing Zhao Xuan who dropped her sword to the ground, Xu Chen quickly stood up and saluted.

Zhao Xuan blushed slightly, and said coyly: "It's not an outsider, so you don't need to be polite!"

Xu Chen stroked the back of his head and said with a dry smile, "I'm used to it, it feels irregular to say hello without making a bow."

"Hee hee, what you said is obviously perfunctory!" Zhao Xuan covered her mouth, then smelled the scent of medicine that was still lingering in the air, looked at the alchemy furnace on the ground and said: "I just heard that Brother Jiu said that you want to learn alchemy , I want to leave his alchemy furnace, I came here to see what kind of alchemy you can make."

Xu Chen twitched and said, "I think it's good to learn alchemy, but the alchemy furnace was forced on me by Senior Brother Jiu!"

Zhao Xuan was stunned for a moment and couldn't straighten up laughing, her eyebrows were bent and she said: "I just feel that there is something wrong, so he wants to leave the task of alchemy to you."

Xu Chen was also taken aback, and asked with a strange face, "What alchemy mission?"

Zhao Xuan said with a smile: "You don't know yet, Brother Ninth has already told the third elder that you want to learn alchemy, and he wants you to take over from him to the Alchemy Academy to follow the third elder to do alchemy, and he can go down the mountain at any time from now on."

Xu Chen's face turned dark immediately, but in the end he could only smile wryly: "It seems that Senior Brother Jiu has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, and I am the only one who has thrown myself into the trap."

Zhao Xuan giggled and nodded: "No, but you are good at learning alchemy, little brother. I can help you with it when the time comes. In fact, I am also very interested in alchemy, and occasionally go to the alchemy courtyard to help the third elder sort out medicinal materials."

"That's just right, senior sister, take a look, this is a furnace of clear water pill that I refined today, it seems to be pretty good!"

Xu Chen handed over the clear water pill on the stone, and Zhao Xuan took the medicine bottle and said, "It's just a batch of mortal pills..."

But when she poured out a elixir and looked at it, her face instantly became extremely surprised, and she said, "You just made this, little brother?"

Xu Chen nodded and said, "It's fresh out of the oven, it's still hot!"

The smile on Zhao Xuan's face at this time has become quite serious, feeling the lingering warmth and fragrance of the pills, and after carefully looking at each pill, she said: "Although Qingshui Dan is a Fandan, it can be refined so finely. Well, it’s not easy, I’ve refined some Qingshui Dan before, but it’s not as good as yours.”

Xu Chen shook his head and said, "It's just Fantastic Pill, so what's the use, Senior Sister took some time to help me collect some medicinal materials for refining Xiaoyuan Pill, I want to try it."

Zhao Xuan nodded and said: "Okay, but although Xiao Yuan Dan has not been made yet, it is much more difficult than Fan Dan, and some of the medicinal materials in it are also hard to find, so I feel a little distressed if it is useless."

Xu Chen said helplessly: "Then there is no way. Since you want to learn, you have to practice no matter how difficult it is. Otherwise, like Senior Brother Jiu, if you can't make a batch of panacea for several years, it's better not to learn."

Zhao Xuan covered her mouth and said with a smile: "Don't talk about it, Senior Brother Jiu is happy that he doesn't know where to hide now. I still have some medicinal materials for refining Xiaoyuan Dan. I'll get them for you later. Don't worry." There should be more or less some from my senior brothers and sisters, maybe I will get them together for you in a while."

Xu Chen's eyes lit up and said, "Why didn't I expect that we will go find other senior brothers and sisters right now."

Zhao Xuan nodded, then took out a green jade bottle the size of a thumb from her bosom and handed it to Xu Chen, saying, "Junior brother, this bottle of spiritual liquid is for you."

Xu Chen froze for a moment and shook his head, "How can this be, the three of us divided it up..."

"Just take it for you. I can't go down the mountain now. Maybe I will stay on the mountain for a few years to cultivate. It's a waste to keep such a good thing on me. Your last time in the Linghu Mine has been used up, and you will use it when you go down the mountain." Got it."

Looking at the jade bottle that was forcibly stuffed into his hand and feeling the remaining warmth on it, Xu Chen thought for a while and put the psychic liquid into the storage bag and said: "That's fine too, when I get the psychic liquid next time, return it to my senior sister. A big bottle!"

Zhao Xuan immediately smiled and said with crooked eyebrows: "You said it, don't forget it when the time comes, let's go now!"

"it is good!"

The two of them threw out the flying swords at the same time, soared into the sky and headed towards the top of Chaoyang Peak.

(End of this chapter)