Daily life of slaying demons in the government

Chapter 505: Rough
The basis of alchemy is the magic circle, which is the basis for communicating with the mysteries of heaven and earth and used in alchemy.

Yang Qian's attainments in formations were not low, but they were only not low, and he could not be called a master of formations. Fortunately, the requirements for pure formation theory in alchemy were not the same. Yang Qian's current attainments in formations could be considered "not bad" among alchemists.

So when Yang Qian saw Zhou Shu's starting alchemy technique, he frowned slightly. He felt that Zhou Shu's starting alchemy technique seemed inappropriate.

This time Zhou Shu came to help Wu Lei Palace refine a precious pill, which was said to be the highest grade of pill that could be refined by human beings before becoming an immortal.

The lowest, middle and highest grades are finally the precious pills.

The reason why there is a separate "treasure pill" as a grade is because the treasure pill requires an alchemist with at least the cultivation level of the fusion realm to refine it, and it involves some "immortal spirit" that does not exist in the mortal world but can be extracted from some special medicinal materials as the core structure of the pill.

A cultivator can sense the spiritual energy of immortals only after he has passed the tribulation.

This eliminated most of the alchemists at once because the threshold was too high.

Alchemists have to spend a lot of time and energy on magic arrays and alchemy techniques. It is easy to imagine how difficult it would be if they want to focus on cultivation in the remaining time.

In addition, the medicinal materials needed for the precious pills were extremely demanding and hard to find, which made the precious pills absolutely scarce even in the Immortal Alliance. Even the Wanshi Sect rarely had any in stock, and they were usually consumed immediately after being refined.

Even before refining the elixir, the destination and distribution of the elixir had already been decided. Just like this time in the Five Thunder Palace, the elixir was refined to be used by the third elder Wang Zhen to overcome the tribulation.

What kind of elixir can be effective when one is going through a tribulation?
Naturally, it is a recovery elixir.

You should know that the initial power of the thunder of the 19th heavenly tribulation is actually not that great. As long as you don't seek death, you can basically withstand at least the first four thunders.

The real difficulty started from the fifth thunderbolt. By the time the sixth thunderbolt came, it was a matter of life and death.

At least, according to a cheater like Yang Qian, this is the situation of the 19th Heavenly Tribulation.

Why was there so much danger when the fifth thunderbolt struck? There are two main reasons: First, the power of the thunderbolts increased gradually, and by the fifth thunderbolt it was already very terrifying. Second, after the bombardment of the first four thunderbolts, both the magic weapons and the magic methods were almost stretched to the limit, and it was not surprising that even the physical body was directly injured by the bombardment.

As this goes on and on, with the increase and decrease of one side and the decrease and increase of the other, the ability of the person who is to face the disaster to withstand it becomes a big problem.

Yang Qian still remembers that if he hadn't relied on his martial arts physique and the power of his swordsmanship when he was undergoing the tribulation, he would not have been able to hold on to the end.

Even martial artists who are known for their strong recovery abilities are in such a state, one can imagine the dangers that ordinary magic practitioners will face during a heavenly tribulation.

So the precious elixir that Zhou Shu refined this time was named: Duanxu.

It doesn't mean to reconnect broken limbs, but to reconnect dead breath!
It means that a monk who is about to die can force himself to breathe again! The name alone is enough to show the miraculous effect of this elixir.

It is said that only one "Duanxu Pill" is needed to instantly replenish half of the mana and spiritual energy lost by a late-stage out-of-body cultivator. Then, in the next incense stick of time, the natural recovery speed of the person who takes it will be increased tenfold!
The most crucial point is that after taking such a miraculous elixir, there are no serious sequelae or side effects.

The only drawback is that this kind of elixir is made by forcibly gathering and sealing a huge amount of pure spiritual energy, so it is difficult to maintain a stable state for a long time. It is very difficult to store and the storage time is very limited.

Generally, a newly refined "Duanxu Pill" can only be preserved for three years. After three years, the medicinal power will quickly dissipate, and after half a year, it will become a dead pill with no medicinal effect. In other words, after obtaining the "Duanxu Pill", Wang Zhen must trigger the heavenly tribulation within three years, otherwise this trip to the Tianmu Secret Realm, which cost a huge price, will be in vain.

After knowing that the key to the "intermittent pill" is to "gather a huge amount of spiritual energy", Yang Qian felt very strange when he saw Zhou Shu's initial pill formula.

Arrange a container with medicinal materials, and then use the formation to fill it with spiritual energy. And you can't just stuff it in at once, you need to arrange it layer by layer to prevent the spiritual energy from causing turbulence in the pill and exploding the furnace.

Therefore, in Yang Qian's opinion, the first trick of alchemy should be based on safety, and the first priority is to grind the medicinal materials finely and make the "container" solid.

However, Zhou Shu's approach was very radical. He did not even grind the herbs. Instead, he directly kneaded them into a ball after tempering them, and used a magic circle to reinforce it from the outside. Then he began to fill it with spiritual energy.

What Zhou Shu did is like building a dam. Instead of reinforcing the dam itself, he installed support columns outside the dam.

Reinforcing the dam body itself would be very troublesome, involving the careful grinding of hundreds of medicinal materials and structural design. It is a tiring and demanding method, but it is the most reliable and solid one.

It is much simpler to add support columns directly to the outside of the dam. It does not require precision or weariness, just enough brute force.

It is difficult to simply judge which of the two methods is better. After all, the difficulty of getting started and the time consumption should also be taken into account.

But as for Yang Qian himself, he prefers to take his time and do fine work, and does not like Zhou Shu's rough method of refining that almost requires great force to achieve miracles.

From then on, in Yang Qian's eyes, Zhou Shu maintained his initial rough style with the blessing of the magic weapon-level alchemy furnace.

Several times when the elixir was obviously about to collapse and explode in the furnace, he managed to save it.

The whole process was full of dangers. Yang Qian could even hear the Five Thunder Palace alchemists around him gritting their teeth and taking deep breaths. Many of them were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and their foreheads were covered with sweat.

You must know that the cost of refining this furnace of elixirs and its significance to the Five Thunder Palace are very important. If the furnace explodes, the Five Thunder Palace will suffer a huge loss.

Yang Qian was also terrified. While he kept questioning Zhou Shu's alchemy style, he also kept praising Zhou Shu for his sharp techniques, rich experience, quick thinking, and amazing adaptability.

At the same time, Yang Qian also had a clear idea in his mind about refining a furnace of "Duanxu Pills".

To put it simply, Zhou Shu’s alchemy is both smelly and fragrant.

It's very contradictory.

When Zhou Shu entered the stage of collecting pills five days later, Yang Qian was somewhat surprised to find that there were not many things that were difficult for him to understand. Even though he did not know the pill formula, he could guess what the pill formula Zhou Shu used was for.

It might be a bit of an exaggeration to say that one can understand it at a glance, but Yang Qian felt that it was not an exaggeration at all to understand 70% of it after reading it only once.

"When did my alchemy skills become so applicable? Or is this just the cognitive convenience brought by the "Heavenly Alchemy Book - Fragments"?!"

(End of this chapter)