The Rise of the Cultivation Family

Chapter 33 Refining Bigu Pill

"Fire Control Technique" has been completed, and elixir refining can be put on the agenda.

Yun Yongzhu had prepared the materials for the first-level Bigu Pill a few days ago.

It should be mentioned here that he has two prescriptions for the Bigu Pill in his hand, both of which are first-level prescriptions.

One is a Bigu Pill obtained from the family and refined with spiritual rice as the main material. This pill recipe is widely circulated in the world of immortality, and more than half of the alchemy apprentices know it.

The other one was the bigu elixir recipe that Uncle Wang made using purple ginseng as the main medicine when he first went to Bai Yi Tang.

This Bigu Pill recipe is not very precious. Yun Yongzhu only knows the specific weight of each elixir through more exchanges with his classmates at Baiyi Hall.

Because he had a deeper understanding of the theory behind the pill formula, he decided to refine the second Bigu Pill, and the materials he prepared were all from the second pill formula.

Early that morning, he set out for Danxia Peak.

There is Earth Lung Fire on Danxia Peak, and there are many Earth Fire Chambers built inside the mountain. Low-level alchemists and weapon refiners from more than a dozen nearby spiritual peaks often go to this spiritual peak.

Danxia Peak is about [-] to [-] miles away from Yuntai Peak. Using the "Soaring Cloud Technique" to travel there will take more than an hour and a half.

Yun Yongzhu rented a first-order high-grade spirit crane to travel, and it only took him more than half an hour to reach Danxia Peak.

As soon as he walked outside the Earth Fire Palace, a senior brother came up and asked: "This junior brother stayed, why did he come here?"

Gu Yifeng, the deacon disciple of Danxia Peak's Earth Fire Hall, was responsible for guarding the entrance to the Earth Fire Chamber. He had already inquired about it.

Yun Yongzhu cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Senior Brother Gu, I want to rent an alchemy room."

Gu Yifeng looked the child in front of him up and down, nodded and said, "Follow me."

Yun Yongzhu followed Gu Yifeng and entered the Earth Fire Hall.

Gu Yifeng led the way and said: "The earth fire chambers are divided into three grades: upper, middle and lower. The rental fee for the lower grade earth fire chambers is one spiritual stone per day.

The medium earth fire room has a relatively strong earth core fire, and requires a daily rental fee of two spiritual stones.

As for the high-grade earth fire room, not only is the core fire relatively rich, but it is also equipped with a first-class high-grade alchemy furnace and a weapon refining furnace. There is no need to practice the method of controlling fire. You can control the strength of the flame with only spiritual power, so renting The fee is five spirit stones per day.

Of course, you don’t have to pay spirit stones, you can also use elixirs or points. I wonder what kind of earth fire room you want to rent? "

Yun Yongzhu had already found out clearly that the high-grade earth fire chamber and the medium-grade earth fire chamber did have a better auxiliary effect on elixir refining, especially those complex elixirs that require a lot of raw materials for refining.

But for a beginner like him, no matter what kind of underground fire chamber he is in, it doesn't have much impact.

Especially for refining entry-level elixirs such as Bigu Pills, even external fires using spiritual wood and flame stones as fuel are more than enough, and the Earth Fire Chamber has minimal impact on him.

He only later learned about the function of the superior fire chamber. Because its rental fee was expensive, he decided to continue practicing the "Fire Control Technique".

Even if Yun Yongzhu had a lot of spiritual stones in his hand, he would not waste them casually. He directly chose the low-grade earth fire chamber.

So after Gu Yifeng registered Yun Yongzhu's name, he took him deep into the Earth Fire Hall and into the heart of Danxia Peak.

The interior of Danxia Peak has been hollowed out and transformed into large and small underground fire rooms and storage rooms, including an alchemy room, a weapon refining room, a waste elixir room, a herbal medicine store, an elixir storage room, a waste material room, etc.

After walking for a long time and passing through the nine-curved corridor, Gu Yifeng brought Yun Yongzhu to a row of fire chambers.

He smiled at Yun Yongzhu and said: "These are all alchemy rooms, specially used for Qi training period disciples to practice their skills. Junior Brother Yun, just choose an empty alchemy room."

Yun Yongzhu nodded, then randomly selected an empty alchemy room and walked in.

As soon as he entered, his eyes were attracted by the layout inside.

This alchemy room is not large, about two feet long and wide, and more than seven feet high. In the center of the alchemy room is a four-foot-high stone platform. There is a brass alchemy furnace on the stone platform. There is a circular furnace under the alchemy furnace. Through the holes, one can clearly feel the heat radiating from the holes.

Gu Yifeng followed and introduced to Yun Yongzhu: "Junior Brother Yun, what is on the stone platform is a medium-grade brass furnace. Although the grade is not high, it is used to refine most of the first-grade elixirs. That’s no problem.”

Yun Yongzhu looked at the door, then at the brass furnace, and asked: "The flame should come out of the round hole under the alchemy furnace, right?"

Gu Yifeng smiled and replied: "Yes, this is the outlet of the flame.

In order to make it easier for low-level monks to refine elixirs and weapons, the elders of the sect used their powerful strength to open up the earth's veins, draw the fire of the earth's lungs, and seal it in this stone platform.

Junior Brother Yun, look, there is a golden round handle on the side of the stone platform, which can release earth fire. "

Gu Yifeng walked over and pulled down the golden round handle on the side of the stone platform. In an instant, the flame that had been sealed in the stone platform suddenly jumped up, burning the bottom of the brass furnace with tongues of flame.

Looking at the beating flame, Gu Yifeng turned to Yun Yongzhu and said: "When refining the elixir, use the fire control method to control the strength of the flame, and then you can start refining.

It's just that this alchemy, although it sounds simple, the actual process tests one's patience extremely. If you are not careful, a furnace of elixirs will be burned down. "

Yun Yongzhu smiled and said: "Thank you, Senior Brother Gu, for reminding me. I'm very grateful."

Gu Yifeng said kindly: "It's just a small matter. Junior Brother Yun, do you have anything else to ask? I'll give you a detailed introduction."

Yun Yongzhu shook his head and said he had no other questions.

"In that case, I'll go out and you can make elixirs here."

After saying that, Gu Yifeng was about to turn around and leave. Before leaving, he reminded Yun Yongzhu: "There is a mechanism on this stone door. If you press it lightly, the stone door will be closed tightly and no outsiders can come in and disturb you."

After that, he turned and left.

Yun Yongzhu sent him to the door, then turned around and gently pressed the raised mechanism on the stone door. The stone door, which weighed a thousand kilograms, slowly closed, blocking the alchemy room so tightly that outsiders could not peek inside. Case.

After the stone door was closed, he walked to the edge of the stone platform and carefully observed the structure of the stone platform and the brass furnace.

The more Yun Yongzhu looked at it, the more surprised he became. This stone platform was so ingenious.The round base has the fire of the earth's lungs sealed inside.

He held the round handle in his hand and pushed it upward with a little force. The red flames that spewed out from the stone platform immediately extinguished and disappeared. He pressed the round handle down again, and the flames came out again.

Yun Yongzhu performed the "Fire Control Technique" and controlled the size of the flame. He did not stop until he could control the strength of the flame freely and felt that he was comfortable with the flame.

He took a deep breath to calm down the excitement that surged in his heart. Next, the first alchemy refining in his life was about to begin!
Yun Yongzhu gently opened the lid of the brass furnace. The inside of the furnace was as smooth as the wall, and steam was coming out. This omitted the first step of warming the furnace.

He took out a copy of the ingredients for the Bigu Pill, recalled the elixir refining process, put the main ingredient purple ginseng into the brass furnace, and closed the furnace lid tightly without revealing any gaps.

Then he pinched out a "Fire Control Technique", and the active flames in the stone platform grew even higher, rising more than a foot high. He firmly controlled the intensity of the flames.

About a quarter of an hour later, a sizzling sound came from the furnace.

Yun Yongzhu could see with his spiritual consciousness that the purple ginseng in the brass furnace gradually began to soften under the baking of the fierce fire, and slowly turned into a ball of medicinal liquid.

He quickly used his spiritual power to control the liquid medicine and began to remove impurities. At the same time, he also distractedly controlled the temperature of the flame in the alchemy furnace to prevent the heat from being too high or too low.

This process was very labor-intensive and extremely cumbersome. By the time Yun Yongzhu's consciousness could no longer detect impurities, nearly an hour had passed.

He then put Ganoderma lucidum grass and Poria cocos on the stone platform into the alchemy furnace. When the two elixirs showed signs of melting, he threw two astragalus, two bitter chrysanthemums, and two dodders into the brass furnace.

Yun Yongzhu carefully controlled the temperature in the alchemy furnace to avoid excessive heat. He had listened to alchemy classes and knew that bitter chrysanthemums and dodder seeds could not stand the high temperature and would turn into ashes if not careful, thereby destroying the entire furnace of elixirs.

After all the elixirs were smoothly transformed into lumps of liquid medicine and gathered together at the bottom of the furnace, he slightly increased the intensity of the flame, controlled it carefully, baked it slowly, and used his spiritual power to start the process of removing impurities again. .

Under the baking of the flame, the medicinal liquid at the bottom of the brass furnace slowly became thicker, and the color gradually changed from a mixture of colors at the beginning to milky white, and a faint medicinal fragrance gradually spread.

The increase in temperature made Yun Yongzhu boil with enthusiasm. Sweat broke out all over his body. Beads of sweat rolled down his forehead in a short while. Big beads of sweat dropped to the ground and immediately turned into a puff of white smoke.

He did not relax and controlled the temperature of the flame tightly, hoping to complete the tempering of the essence of the medicine as soon as possible.

Nearly half an hour later, Yun Yongzhu still had [-] to [-]% of the spiritual power left in his body, but the medicinal liquid in the brass furnace had not yet been refined, and the medicinal liquid had only become thicker from the original thick juice. , unable to solidify into elixir.

He gritted his teeth and struggled to hold on. Finally, after another half an hour, only about [-]% of the spiritual power in Yun Yongzhu's body was left. He finally extracted the essence of the medicinal liquid, and the medicinal liquid in the furnace was already thick at this time. To the extreme, it looks like it is about to become substantial.

Seeing this, Yun Yongzhu had a flash of inspiration in his mind, changed his hand technique, and used his little spiritual power to instantly pinch out a "Coagulation Pill Jue" and punch it into the brass furnace.

There was a slight sound in the furnace as the essence of the elixir collided with the furnace wall, and then it became silent, with no scent of elixir or burning smell.

Yun Yongzhu turned off the ground fire and carefully opened the furnace cover. He saw three gray-white elixirs lying quietly at the bottom of the furnace. Each one was the size of an eyeball. However, two of the elixirs were not round in shape, cracked and missing corners. And there is still a small piece of black residue left at the bottom of the brass furnace.

For this Bigu Pill recipe, the normal color of the pill is milky white, and the normal size should be about the same as a pea. Looking at the color and size, the chances of failure and success are [-]-[-].

Yun Yongzhu held the only intact Bigu Pill in his hand with anticipation and apprehension. As soon as he held it, he smelled the fragrance of the pill and felt that this pill contained weak spiritual power. It was a low-grade pill. Bigu Pill!

The result surprised Yun Yongzhu. He did not expect that he would succeed in refining Bigu Pill for the first time.

This is the first harvest that he has been preparing for for several years. It is of great significance to him. It also affirms his long-term efforts. He is no longer a theoretical master but a practical novice!
Eighteen bigu pills were filled with pills, and one pill was made into a pill. Although the pill-making rate was less than [-]%, he was very satisfied and felt a huge sense of accomplishment in his heart. His books were not in vain, and his alchemy class was not in vain. , time is not wasted!

At this time, after he relaxed, he noticed that he was covered in sweat, so he cast a "Cleaning Technique" on himself. His whole body suddenly became dry, and there was only a trace of spiritual power left in his body.

While Yun Yongzhu was cleaning up the waste elixirs and residues in the brass furnace, he was thinking about the harvest of this elixir refining, and replayed all the steps in his mind one by one.

Through this practical operation, he finally had a profound understanding that alchemy is really not a simple matter. It is not only a technical job, but also a test of one's endurance, energy, carefulness and cultivation.

Calculating this furnace of Bigu Pill, it took him about two hours in total. Most of the time was spent on removing impurities and refining the essence of the medicine. As for fire control, it was all about taking care of the whole process. It felt like it took [-]% of his energy. Energy and all your heart.

Yun Yongzhu reflected on the fact that he still did not control the heat properly during the elixir refining. This could be seen from the remaining residue in the alchemy furnace.

Moreover, he did not grasp the timing of using the "Elixir Condensation Technique" well, otherwise there would not be only three completed pills, and the completed pills were too large, and two of them would still be useless pills.

The above issues are all minor. After all, this is his first time refining alchemy. If he refines it more in the future, he will naturally improve it gradually.Cultivation was his most important problem now. Yun Yongzhu found that it was very difficult to refine a furnace of Bigu Pill with his cultivation level.

But he remembered very clearly that when he first took Uncle Wang's alchemy enlightenment class, Senior Brother Zhao who led him said that with his level of cultivation, there was no problem at all in alchemy.

And later he also learned that many fellow disciples at the third level of Qi training began to try to refine the Bigu Pill.

However, when he refined a furnace of Bigu Pill this time, his spiritual power was barely enough, and he almost didn't have enough spiritual power to use the "Elixir Condensation Technique".

If you are at the third level of Qi training, your spiritual power will definitely not be able to support the amount of alchemy required at one time, so there must be some secret to it.

He did not immediately think about the key, but decided to meditate first to restore his spiritual power.

So after Yun Yongzhu cleaned up the brass stove, he began to meditate on the spot.

After his spiritual power recovered, he began to think about the problem of "what should I do if my spiritual power is not enough to support the consumption of one alchemy".

But he thought about it and scratched his head, but he still couldn't figure out the answer to this question.

Yun Yongzhu concluded that when he refines a furnace of elixirs, the main consumption of spiritual power is to perform the "Fire Control Technique" and remove impurities from the liquid. These two aspects cannot be omitted, otherwise the furnace will not be opened at all.

After thinking for a while and finding nothing, he decided to continue refining the Bigu Pill a few more times to see if he could find some clues from it.

After Yunyongzhu warmed up the furnace, he opened the lid of the brass furnace, put in a purple ginseng plant, closed the lid, and started refining...

This time, like the last time, he persisted for two hours, but the essence of the tempered medicinal liquid was still not perfect. Even if he used the "Elixir Condensation Technique", there was a [-]-[-]% chance of it becoming a useless elixir.

Yun Yongzhu's spiritual power could not be sustained, and he felt very strenuous. He persisted, thinking that he could not make a useless elixir.

For a moment, his face turned red, then turned white, and he could no longer hold on.

Yun Yongzhu exported the last spiritual power from his body and could only let it fend for itself.

However, the liquid medicine in the brass furnace was not scrapped immediately, because the flame at the bottom of the furnace was still burning, but no one controlled the fire, and soon a burning smell came from the furnace.

Yun Yongzhu's mind at this time was not on the furnace of Bigu Pill that had just been scrapped. He stared thoughtfully at the endless fire at the bottom of the brass furnace.

He quietly recalled that last moment. In order to keep the flame burning, he poured out all his remaining spiritual power. As a result, the flame was actually obedient and did what he wanted. The flame lasted for a while before losing control.

He knew that flames had no thoughts, so there must be a reason for the last move.

Ever since he started refining the alchemy, Yun Yongzhu had always controlled the intensity of the flame. At the last moment, the intensity of the flame was no longer under his control, but he could still do what he wanted.

He felt that it contained the answer that he had been thinking about for a long time.

"The key to "Fire Control Technique" is control, control?"

Yun Yongzhu murmured to himself, thinking hard.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"In that last moment, I didn't control it. I could only guide it. Yes, it was guidance!"

Control and guidance are two completely different concepts. Control is to have everything in your mind, while guidance is much easier. You only need to change the strength of the flame at some critical moments.

This earth-lung fire comes from the ground and has an endless supply. He does not need to control it all the time. He only needs to guide or control it at the right time. If the fire is no problem, he can let it burn on its own.

Therefore, guidance must save spiritual power than control. This is the key to being able to refine elixirs even at the third level of Qi training.

After thinking about this, Yun Yongzhu became excited.

He hurriedly meditated on the spot, and after recovering a little bit of spiritual power in his body, he began to verify what he was thinking.

After performing the "Fire Control Technique", Yun Yongzhu carefully input spiritual power into the flame. This time, he did not control the flame all the time. He only input spiritual power to guide and control it a little when something needed to be changed.

Sure enough, the result was as he thought, this method was completely feasible!

In this way, the spiritual power in his body will be able to last until the end of the alchemy.

Yun Yongzhu was very happy that he had discovered the secret of alchemy so quickly. He meditated on the spot and began to concentrate on recovering his spiritual power.

Time passed little by little. Two hours later, all the spiritual energy in Yun Yongzhu's body was restored. He was full of energy and once again devoted himself to the great cause of alchemy!

This time, Yun Yongzhu was still cautious, keeping his consciousness close to the brass furnace, always paying attention to the changes in the elixir liquid inside.

Although guidance saves spiritual energy, it is not as good as control after all. The reaction is a beat slower than control. He has to notice the changes in the alchemy furnace in advance so that he can take advantage of the situation.

Yun Yongzhu felt that refining the elixir was more strenuous than before, but it was still within his capabilities. This was thanks to his powerful spiritual consciousness. After he entered the fourth level of Qi training, his spiritual consciousness was already comparable to that of a late-stage Qi training monk.

As time passes slowly, the changes in the brass furnace become more and more obvious.

Two hours later, the essence of the spiritual herb liquid in the furnace was thick enough to be almost solid, and was about to transform into a solid state. He directly typed the "Elixir Condensation Jue" into it, and only heard a slight sound, and a burst of the unique elixir fragrance of Bigu Pill came from the furnace. It floats out and is refreshing.

Yun Yongzhu opened the furnace lid and saw five pills swirling at the bottom of the furnace.

His eyes were shining, and he impatiently took five pills into the jade bottle and poured out one in the palm of his hand. It was the only pill with a milky white color. It was fragrant and full of spiritual power. This was the middle pill. Try Bigu Pill!
Checking the other four gray-white pills, they are all low-grade Bigu Pills that can be taken.

This was really a big surprise. He didn't expect that five pills would be produced at once, which was close to [-]% of the pill formation rate. One of them was a middle-grade pill.

What surprised him even more was that he found that he still had more than [-]% of the spiritual power left in his body, which was more than enough to refine another furnace of Bigu Pill.

This was very important to him. The daily rent of one spiritual stone in the alchemy room would be too much of a waste if all the time was spent on restoring spiritual power.

Yun Yongzhu happily packed the Bigu Pills into different grades, placed them on the stone platform, and then began to refine the next batch of Bigu Pills.

However, this time he did not control the heat well, and the liquid essence was lost too much, and the medicinal properties were insufficient, resulting in the condensed Bigu Pills being useless pills.

After refining four furnaces of elixirs in a row, Yun Yongzhu felt waves of exhaustion coming over him. He was well prepared. He took out a mat from his storage bag and spread it out. He lay on it and quickly fell into a deep sleep.

Eight hours later, Yun Yongzhu woke up refreshed, and all his lost energy and spirit were restored.

Yun Yongzhu learned from the experience of yesterday's failure and refined the elixir more carefully.

At the end of the day, he consumed a total of four materials, two of which successfully refined the Bigu Pill, and two of which were scrapped. Only the two successful times had a very different rate of making the pill, with only one pill at one time and four pills at the other time. This shows that His elixir formation rate is not stable and needs more training.

It was his first time getting involved in alchemy, so to achieve this result was already considered very good.

He didn't go to Baiyi Hall in vain. He heard that many of his fellow disciples had to fail dozens or even dozens or hundreds of times before they could successfully refine the Bigu Pill.

Most people are like this. Even if they work hard, they may fail again and again.

Because the failure rate of alchemy remains high, many people are deterred from choosing the popular profession of alchemist.

There are also many people who have learned the basics of alchemy and made a lot of preparations. However, not long after they started, they saw no hope of success and quickly gave up on alchemy and chose another path.

Yun Yongzhu was refining one after another. He was more skillful in putting in the materials, more leisurely when tempering the liquid, and he could control the fire with ease.

Gradually, he was able to successfully refine two to three furnaces of Bigu Pills every day, and the pill success rate was also stable at [-]%.

Fourteen days later, Yun Yongzhu looked at the row of jade bottles placed on the stone platform and mentally calculated the gains and losses of this alchemy.

In the past ten days, he has refined a total of 94 first-level Bigu Pills, including [-] low-grade pills, ten medium-grade pills, and one high-grade pill.

The market price of a first-grade low-grade Bigu Pill is one spiritual stone, the market price of a first-grade middle-grade Bigu Pill is one and a half spiritual stones, and the market price of a first-grade high-grade Bigu Pill is three spiritual stones. The total value of these 110 Bigu Pills is [-] Two spiritual stones.

This time he prepared fifty sets of Bigu Pill materials, each containing five spirit stones. The total cost of the materials was 250 spirit stones, plus the fourteen spirit stones rented from the Earth Fire Room, the total cost was 260 four spirit stones.

After all, he spent a total of 150 spirit stones in refining this elixir.

In fact, this result is already very good. After all, this is his first time refining the Bigu Pill. For most of his classmates, if they can successfully make two or three out of fifty ingredients for the first time, they are already extremely talented.

His elixir-forming rate can be regarded as a quasi-alchemy apprentice, and in the following days, his elixir-forming rate obviously showed an upward trend. On two occasions, he produced five elixirs, which was close to the [-]% elixir-forming rate.

After completing the mental calculation, Yun Yongzhu was very satisfied with himself and felt that his talent in alchemy was very good. After all, he had never heard from his senior brothers and sisters that any of his classmates had achieved as good results as him in alchemy for the first time.

If there was such a person, that person's reputation would have spread throughout the sect.

Of course, we don’t rule out the possibility that others may keep a low profile and make a fortune in silence.

Therefore, Yun Yongzhu only feels good about his alchemy talent, and is not so proud and complacent that he thinks he is great.

Yun Yongzhu had no alchemy materials in his hand. He didn't waste any time and hurried out of the alchemy room and paid the rental fee for the earth fire alchemy in the Earth Fire Hall.

"Junior Brother Yun, looking at your happy face, you must have achieved a good result in the alchemy this time. Congratulations."

Gu Yifeng was obviously deeply impressed by Yun Yongzhu, a young classmate who looked to be over ten years old. He recognized him as soon as he appeared.

"It's okay. I didn't lose too much. I would like to thank Senior Brother Gu for his advice before."

After Yun Yongzhu took out the fourteen spirit stones and handed them to the other party, the two casually said a few words and said goodbye to each other.

It was almost Haishi when he returned to Luoyunju. He said hello to Wang Yiming, told him about his return, and shared with him the good news that he had successfully refined the Bigu Pill.

After that, Yun Yongzhu returned to his living room. He was exhausted from these more than ten days.

Yun Yongzhu stripped himself naked, washed himself for a while, and then lay down comfortably on the bed to meet Duke Zhou.

(End of this chapter)