Starting from Scavengers to Cultivate Immortals

Chapter 69

Half an hour later, the two went back and forth to rob a group of senior brothers and sisters. When they returned to the cabin, there were already hundreds of kinds of elixir herbs in the storage bag for refining the small yuan pill, and even large ones. Among the medicinal materials given by the senior brother and the second senior sister, there are several that have reached the level of refining Great Yuan Pill.

Xiaoyuan Pill is the most commonly used qi-invigorating pill for monks in the early stage of Kaiyuan Realm.

This is true regardless of the size of the immortal sect or the folk cultivator.

Because it has not yet been imported, the quality requirements for medicinal materials are not high. Generally, it only needs to be rich in a certain amount of spiritual energy, and the age is not very strict.

Xiaoyuan Dan and Dayuan Dan have many overlapping medicinal materials, but as a first-grade panacea, Dayuan Dan is very strict about the quality and age of medicinal materials, and those that do not meet the standards cannot be used, otherwise the final medicinal power will not be direct enough Not to mention reducing the quality of the pill, it may even be refined into a waste pill.

Xu Chen was very excited when he saw a large pile of elixir and herbs overflowing with aura, and he didn't know where to start.

Zhao Xuan is quite familiar with it, so she quickly sorted it into several piles for him, and then jumped out of the eight medicinal materials and said: "These are the eight medicinal materials for refining Xiaoyuan Dan, including five kinds of elixir and two kinds of compound medicines. , a kind of medicine."

Xu Chen was overjoyed and said, "Sure enough, it's the senior sister who has to do it. I'm too dazzled by this pile of medicinal materials!"

Zhao Xuan proudly said: "That's right, you don't even look at who the senior sister is!"

At this time, Xu Chen found Xiao Yuan Pill's Danfang Yujian and began to look carefully.

In fact, the steps to refine any elixir are similar, but the refining speed of elixir is much slower than that of ordinary mortal medicines. In addition, in order to ensure the aura components in the elixir, the requirements and fineness of refining are also very high. many.

If too much spiritual energy is consumed during the refining process, it will eventually lead to the failure of alchemy.

Therefore, Xu Chen focused on how to control the refining process to ensure that the spirituality of the elixir would not be lost too much.

After reading the prescription, Xu Chen revisited the steps of refining the elixir.

After a stick of incense passed, Xu Chen put down the jade slip, reactivated the alchemy furnace, and then took out a piece of spirit stone and put it into the hearth of the alchemy furnace. Then he pressed his hands on the vitality channel and began to input vitality to control his consciousness Inspire the five-element formation inside.

Soon, all the formations in the pill furnace lit up, and under the continuous impact of vitality, the spirit stones were also ignited, and a ball of blazing fire blazed in the furnace, and the pill furnace quickly released a soul-stirring breath .

What the spiritual fire releases is not the high temperature of the body, but the temperature of the soul.

This kind of temperature can only be felt by monks. If it is a mortal, within the range covered by the spiritual fire, it will instantly be dissipated.

Zhao Xuan felt a little uncomfortable, and took two steps back slightly, but Xu Chen didn't feel any change because of his strong spiritual sense, and he was stable.

In the final analysis, this alchemy furnace is still relatively rubbish, and its grade is too low.

In fact, a good alchemy furnace will completely bind the spiritual fire in the furnace and will not escape at all.

But this pill furnace obviously can't do that.

The refining temperature and refining time of each elixir are different.

Naturally, Xu Chen didn't dare to be careless. After all, these elixirs were collected by the brothers and sisters when they went down the mountain to practice or exchanged for spiritual materials. Although they were not too expensive, the loss was still distressing, so he was very careful.

With previous experience in refining several furnaces of common medicine, Xu Chen was already familiar with the refining steps, so under his full concentration, the first elixir was successfully refined after half a stick of incense.

Xu Chen breathed a sigh of relief, but there was also a slight sweat on his forehead.

It is necessary to finely control the temperature of the furnace where the spirit stone burns, and to carefully control the calcination of the elixir by the formation method. In addition, he has to keep recalling the refining steps. Even if his consciousness is strong, his vitality is still too weak after all, so this taste After refining the elixir, he felt that the vitality in his body was consumed a lot, but this consumption was still within his tolerance.

The next second elixir was also successfully refined after about half a quarter of time.

With two successes in succession, Xu Chen's confidence soared, and then he refined all the remaining three elixir in one breath, which turned out to be a one-time success, but it took more than half an hour, and the vitality in his body was almost After seeing the bottom, I even felt the dantian start to tingle slightly.

This was because the injury caused by the last battle with Xuanshui Youlian hadn't fully recovered, so he didn't dare to be careless, and took out a small Yuan Dan and stuffed it into his mouth.

Zhao Xuan looked at it wanting to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, she covered her mouth and turned her head aside, eating and eating and her body trembling wildly.

Xu Chen didn't dare to be distracted at this time, so he could only bite the bullet and pretend he didn't know. While running the exercises to absorb vitality, he threw the remaining three-flavored auxiliary medicinal materials into the alchemy furnace and continued refining.

Compared with elixir, the refinement of these three flavored mortal medicines is much more arbitrary. It takes only half a stick of incense before the refinement is over, and then the alchemy formation is activated to start the alchemy.

Compared with Qingshui Dan, it is much more difficult to fully integrate the five flavors of elixir. If the fusion is not sufficient, the efficacy of the medicine will be lost. Even if it is not a waste pill, it will basically have no effect.

Therefore, Xu Chen didn't dare to be careless, and didn't even dare to incorporate the white air released from the blue light bottle in a hurry.

At least he must first ensure that he can successfully refine Xiao Yuan Dan.

After a full-fledged experience, proceed to his experiments.

The synthesis time of the spirit pill was much longer than that of the Fandan. It took nearly an hour before and after, and finally the five-flavored elixir and the essence of the three auxiliary medicinal materials were all integrated into one. When Xu Chen felt that the small Yuandan he had swallowed His vitality was almost exhausted again, and the alchemy formation slowly stopped, and a cloud of blue-gray ointment appeared in the center of the alchemy furnace.

At this time, we can't rush to divide the pills, but slowly bake them with spiritual fire at low temperature, so that the various elixir can penetrate more closely and fully integrate the medicinal power.

This process takes longer than the alchemy, generally speaking, it takes at least an hour or more.

If it is Da Yuan Pill, this process will take at least half a day.

And to maintain the spiritual consciousness for a long time to precisely control the state of the spiritual fire and the alchemy furnace, it needs extremely strong spiritual consciousness and vitality support.

Xu Chen's spiritual sense is strong enough, but his vitality is weak, so he had to take another small Yuandan.

Zhao Xuan sat next to her and meditated, but her mind was not on cultivation, but she had been observing Xu Chen's alchemy process. Watching him take another pill, she couldn't help shrugging her shoulders and swaying, almost holding back The son fell to the ground.

Xu Chen was full of embarrassment, and said with a sneer, "Sister, you can laugh if you want, why bother."

Zhao Xuan covered her mouth and stood up, Kuku smiled and said, "It will take at least an hour to raise the pill, and it may be dark when the pill comes out, so I'll go and make you something to eat first."

Seeing Zhao Xuan turning around and smiling all the way into the cabin, Xu Chen had no choice but to wipe the sweat off his forehead and continue.

At this moment, he finally knew why Brother Ninth was unwilling to make alchemy, or why there were so few alchemists in each immortal sect.

One is that it is too boring, and the other is that it consumes a lot.

The pill was only half refined, and he took two pills to replenish his vitality, so this batch of pills was fine, if it failed, he would definitely lose his pants.

And this is just a batch of unqualified Xiao Yuan Dan, it will take at least half a day to successfully refine a batch from beginning to end.

I heard that the panacea of ​​the second and third grades often takes several days or even ten days and a half months.

And the spirit pills of the fourth rank and above are calculated in months and years.

The step of cultivating alchemy alone takes a long time, and it can consume the vitality of a cultivator in the alchemy realm several times. It is absolutely impossible for a cultivator in the spiritual realm to persist, let alone a long period of high-intensity spiritual concentration, which is enough to make alchemy The mind and soul of the monks in the realm are all confused and collapsed.

Xu Chen was very fortunate that after he got the blue jade beads, his spiritual consciousness had already become strong to the point of true essence, otherwise he would not be able to hold on just refining a few elixir.

Time passed slowly.

The sun is gradually setting to the west.

Under the setting sun, Xu Chen remained motionless, sitting cross-legged on the cliff open space in front of the cabin halfway up the mountain, concentrating on taking care of the alchemy furnace with his spiritual sense.

A dense elixir fragrance slowly drifted out with the evening wind as time went by.

Danxiang began to appear, indicating that the medicinal effect of the elixir had begun to be fused and stimulated.

Zhao Xuan stewed rice porridge in the kitchen, and made two simple side dishes from the mountains and fields. Then she was also lured out by the fragrance of medicine. Knowing that Xu Chen's batch of virgin pills was about to succeed, she also happily ran out to observe.

Slowly another stick of incense passed by, and it was nearly an hour before raising the pill, and felt that the fragrance of the medicine was strong enough, so Zhao Xuan reminded softly: "Junior brother, it's too late, it's almost time to release the pill!"

Xu Chen breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, and quickly activated the pill-dividing formation. Soon, a piece of ointment was divided into more than ten mud balls in the pill furnace, and then turned into more than ten little finger-sized lumps after being driven by the vitality vortex for a while. The light blue projectiles were baked with the spirit fire for a moment to finalize their shape, and then they waited until the fragrance of the medicine had subsided, then lightly patted the pill furnace, and the furnace lid popped open, and more than ten pills were sprayed out along with a billowing dense mist of pills. When it came out of the furnace, Xu Chen's vitality rolled up, and he took all the pills into his hands.

Zhao Xuan leaned over to take a closer look, and suddenly said with surprise on her face: "Young junior brother really has the talent for alchemy, not to mention the success of this first time, the quality of the elixir is also very good!"

Xu Chen also carefully observed each elixir, and found that it was indeed very successful, basically reaching the upper-middle grade, and it was indeed a good batch of Xiaoyuan elixir, so he happily took out a medicine bottle, filled it, and handed it to him. Zhao Xuan said:
"I have troubled my senior sister for a long time today. I was looking for medicine and cooking. I will give this stove of small yuan pills to my senior sister as a thank you at that time!"

Zhao Xuan smiled immediately, her eyebrows curled up, and she took it over without being polite, "Then I won't be polite, I don't need the Great Yuan Pill, and the Xiao Yuan Pill is just right for me, so I have to ask my junior brother for help in the future." Woolen cloth!"

Xu Chen stood up, stretched his waist and said with a smile: "Senior sister, why bother to be polite to me, this little Yuan Dan is really not difficult except that the medicinal materials are not easy to get, and the refining is more labor-intensive. If you need to come to me in the future, just go Let's go eat first, I'm almost starving!"

The two of them quickly packed up the alchemy stove and the remaining medicinal materials, and then put the food on a flat stone outside the door. In the evening wind and setting sun, they smelled the fragrance of alchemy gradually drifting away, talking and laughing, and started eating , the little fox did not know where to grab a fist-sized toad with bright colors, and ate it with great relish as it lay beside the two of them.

The life of cultivating immortals is so simple and pure most of the time.

There is no fighting, no scheming, and you don't even feel the passage of time.

There is no Jiazi in the mountains, and it is cold and I do not know the year.

As long as you can bear the loneliness, you can spend your whole life here happily, like the trees in the mountains, withered and prosperous, and happy and self-aware.

After the two had a simple dinner, Zhao Xuan left with Yujian.

Seeing the cyan light disappearing on the top of Chaoyang Peak, Xu Chen calmed down and sat cross-legged on the edge of the cliff. He began to meditate with his eyes closed, practicing exercises.

(End of this chapter)