Tai Xuan Jing

Sun Boqing is a great master of alchemy. His alchemy room is naturally very large, about ten feet square, with a very high dome. Each jade bottle has a label on it, indicating the name of the elixir.

Sun Boqing came to the center of the room and stopped. With a wave of his sleeves, an eight-foot-high red copper alchemy furnace suddenly appeared. Li Qianmo looked up at this huge alchemy furnace that was much taller than himself, and couldn't help but exclaimed.

Sun Boqing touched the carved dragon pattern on the alchemy furnace, and his face was full of wrinkles with a smile. After a long time, he slowly explained: "Alchemy is a very complicated art. It pays too much attention to skills and has many restrictions. , alchemy furnace, flame, technique, etc., must be comprehensive, and then you can refine a good pill. Pills are divided into nine ranks, and alchemists are also divided into nine ranks. I am now a seventh rank alchemist. The gap between each rank It's a huge gap."

He paused and said: "The most important tool for alchemy is the alchemy furnace. The alchemy furnace belongs to the magic weapon. My alchemy furnace is called the Jiulong Yan furnace, and it is a low-grade holy weapon."

Li Qianmo asked suspiciously: "Uncle, you are a great virtuous master and a master of alchemy, so the alchemy furnace you use is a low-grade holy weapon?"

Sun Boqing sighed when he heard the words, and a look of regret flashed across his face: "The materials for refining the alchemy furnace are too harsh, and it is not easy to find them. They must be able to withstand extremely high temperatures, and you see that the alchemy furnace is so big that it needs materials. One can imagine the amount of it, I spent more than 200 years collecting materials to cast this alchemy furnace, but unfortunately I still failed to refine it into a middle-grade holy artifact, alas..."

Seeing him sighing, Li Qianmo didn't know what to say, so he just kept silent.

Sun Boqing sighed for a while, and then waved his long sleeves. A three-foot-high small alchemy stove appeared next to the Jiulong Yanlu, just like the grandson of the Jiulong Yanlu. , it’s called Huoyun Furnace, the alchemy furnace I used when I first started learning alchemy, and now I’m giving it to you.”

Li Qianmo stepped forward to watch carefully, and saw that the alchemy furnace was made of fire copper, round in shape, with three legs at the bottom, a fire cloud pattern carved on the furnace body, and a beast head carved on the furnace cover, with teeth and claws, which looked very ferocious. .

Sun Boqing added: "Although this Huoyun Furnace is the worst pill furnace, there is no problem in refining first- and second-grade pills, but the yield rate may be lower when refining second-grade pills."

"Thank you uncle, I like it very much." Li Qianmo put away the alchemy furnace and thanked with a smile.

Sun Boqing took out two thick scriptures and handed them over, saying: "This is the "Qian Jin Fang" and "Qing Dan Juan" that I hand-copied, which not only introduces the properties and pharmacology of thousands of medicinal materials, but also lists the medicines listed in the Dan Yao Tang. Bringing the alchemy experience of the sages, even if my disciples of the alchemy hall have not been able to watch it for less than 50 years, you should study it carefully."

Li Qianmo took the two scriptures, flipped through them casually, and found that "Qian Jin Fang" recorded the medicinal properties and pharmacology of various medicinal materials, and there were thousands of them, while "Qing Dan Juan" recorded various pills. The refining method of the medicine, as well as the alchemy experience of many sages of the elixir hall, are very detailed.

After a general glance, he knew that the two scriptures were very precious, so he put them away to express his gratitude. Next, Sun Boqing began to teach him alchemy skills.

The most important thing in alchemy is not to learn the technique, but to know the principle of each technique. This is to know the method and the reason, so that in the future alchemy, you can draw inferences from one instance and learn from others without a teacher, otherwise you will only be self-sufficient and difficult to succeed. Inch.

Under the guidance of Sun Boqing, he began to practice various alchemy techniques. The techniques of alchemy are indeed quite complicated. There are more than 300 changes in the technique of controlling fire alone. Beginners can refine all the first grades as long as they master fifteen kinds. For pills, Sun Boqing, a seventh-rank alchemy master, has only mastered more than 200 methods of fire control, so the difficulty can be seen.

Li Qianmo's ability to distinguish subtleties has greatly improved since he practiced Yinlong Kungfu. In addition, he is a fast learner, and he can master various fire control techniques after learning one or two times. By evening, he had learned 110 fire control techniques technique.

Sun Boqing was extremely shocked, and the eyes he looked at Li Qianmo became more and more strange, and he kept asking in his heart: "What kind of talent is this kid, how can he learn things so quickly, and he can teach them once?"

He really had the urge to take Li Qianmo into the elixir hall, but Yuan Dao really had a perverse temper, so he finally accepted such a clever disciple, so he was naturally very precious, if he dared to snatch him, Yuan Dao would definitely turn against him.

It may be difficult for ordinary people to control the flame, but it is nothing to Li Qianmo. The biggest difficulty in controlling the fire is to grasp the subtle changes of the flame, which requires a high ability to distinguish subtleties, which is why alchemists are so rare s reason.

But Li Qianmo's ability to distinguish subtleties is far superior to that of ordinary people, and some subtle changes in the flames cannot escape his divine sense. It is not easy to change the flames, but it is not difficult.

At the end of the day, Sun Boqing taught Li Qianmo all he could, told him a lot of alchemy techniques, and made an appointment for him to start alchemy here tomorrow.

Li Qianmo went out of the alchemy hall and went back to the room, took out the "Qian Jin Fang" and "Qing Dan Juan" and read them. The two volumes were more than one foot thick, and he read them all in one night and memorized them all in his mind. .

The next day, Li Qianmo came to the alchemy room yesterday on time, and Sun Boqing was already waiting here.

Li Qianmo stepped forward and returned the two scriptures to him. Sun Boqing was puzzled and said, "Didn't I ask you to go back and study it carefully? Why give it back to me?"

Li Qianmo smiled lightly: "I've read them all, and I've written down all the contents."

Sun Boqing was startled when he heard the words, almost thinking that he had heard it wrong. He took the two books, opened Qianjinfang and randomly picked a medicinal material and asked him about its properties. Li Qianmo opened his mouth and said it was right. He chose five kinds of medicinal materials and asked him, Li Qianmo's answers were fluent, and there was no difference at all.

The shock in Sun Boqing's heart could not be increased, he looked straight at Li Qianmo, and kept sighing secretly: "It's a pity, why is such a genius not a disciple of my medicine hall, it's a pity, a pity..."

He sighed secretly for a while, calmed down, and said slowly: "Next, I'm going to refine a furnace of elixir, as a demonstration, you should learn carefully."

"Okay, Master Lao." Li Qianmo nodded respectfully.

Sun Boqing's left palm rested on the alchemy furnace, and his right palm stretched out, a stream of white flame gushed out, entered the furnace from the burner, and burned in the furnace.

After a while, the temperature of the alchemy furnace was sufficient. He put the eight herbs into the alchemy furnace one after another, while constantly adjusting the flame changes. Every time he came to a stage of changing the fire, he would tell Li Qianmo what kind of fire to change at this stage, why he should change this kind of fire, Extensive and detailed.

Li Qianmo also listened very seriously, remembering what he said one by one, not daring to neglect in the slightest.

After three sticks of incense, there was a burst of fragrance wafting out of the furnace, Sun Boqing said slowly: "Look carefully, the pill is about to be produced, and now it is the final stage of harvesting the pill, especially to control the temperature of the fire, otherwise all the previous efforts will be in vain , and it will also destroy a batch of medicinal materials. When the pill is released, the flame must be three times urgent and three times slower, and the medicine can be formed under the changes..."

Li Qianmo watched his movements carefully while listening, his eyes were motionless, and he was very focused. After changing the flame three times, Sun Boqing let out a deep drink, put the fire away and stood up, with a smile on his face, and said: "It's done, turn on the furnace."

As he spoke, he flicked his sleeves, and the furnace lid was lifted, and more than a dozen balls of round pills flew up as if following his command, and finally fell into his palm one after another, just filling his palm.

He showed these elixirs to Li Qianmo, and saw that the elixirs were dark red and shiny, almost reflecting people's shadows. Li Qianmo couldn't help asking: "What is the name of this elixir, and what is its effect?"

Sun Boqing stroked his beard and said with a smile: "This is Qi Yang Pill, its grade is very low, not even a first-grade pill, so don't look down on them. People in the Qi-seeking stage can greatly improve their cultivation progress by taking this pill. The medicine is quite easy to sell in the land of casual cultivation."

He paused, and then said: "Look at this elixir, is it very bright and smooth? This is the way to distinguish the quality of the elixir. The same elixir will have different potency when refined by different people, but the principle is the same. The seventeen qi-nourishing pills I have refined are of the highest quality, very rare."