Happy Taoist

Chapter 60 The First Alchemy
After declining Mo Zhentian's gold offer, Lin Yi stayed in the City Lord's Mansion under Mo Ruxue's kind invitation, and planned to wait two days before leaving.

In the wing room of the City Lord's Mansion, Lin Yi poured out the contents of Duan Hai's storage bag, and then began to count them.

There are 87 low-grade spirit stones, thirteen talismans, fifteen spirit grasses, eight spirit fruits, one sword technique cheat book and some miscellaneous items.

After tidying up, Lin Yi sat cross-legged on the bed and began to practice.

An hour later, Lin Yi opened his eyes, then took out the cauldron with the broken leg, and took out several spiritual herbs at the same time, he was ready to start refining the elixir!
Seeing Lin Yi take out the spirit grass, Xiao Xiao immediately got out of his arms and looked at Lin Yi expectantly.

Seeing this, Lin Yi couldn't help laughing. He took out a spirit stone, crushed it, put it on a small bowl, and handed it to Xiaoxiao, saying, "These spirit herbs are intended for alchemy, so I can't give them to you. Go to the side and eat the spirit stone powder."

Although the spirit stone and the spirit grass both contain spirit energy, but after all the spirit grass is more delicious, Xiaoxiao squeaked a few times in dissatisfaction, then dragged the small bowl that was bigger than her body, hid aside and started to eat.

After seeing Xiao Anjing, Lin Yi also looked at the Danding and Lingcao in front of him.

Although he learned alchemy much earlier than learning formation, his formation attainment has reached the second-level formation apprentice, while alchemy has always been in a theoretical state, and he has not even reached the lowest first-rank alchemist.

And alchemy is an extremely important thing for Lin Yi, which is related to whether he can have enough pill resources to provide cultivation in the future.

If he can't refine the elixir and needs to buy it, then he needs to spend a lot of time to earn spirit stones and then buy the elixir, which will undoubtedly greatly shorten his training time.

Moreover, with the improvement of cultivation base, the required level of pills is getting higher and higher, and more spirit stones will be needed at that time, it is even more difficult to say whether you can earn enough spirit stones to buy medicine pills.

Cultivators, although they live longer than ordinary people, are limited.If you can't break through the advanced stage, you still can't get rid of the cycle of life and death.

As for Lin Yi's time, although he doesn't have to face the problem of old age and death right now, he has a more urgent problem - to find and rescue the surviving clansmen!

As long as I delay one more day, then my clansmen may suffer a little more in Feiyumen, or even die.

In order to save his clansmen, Lin Yi must improve his cultivation as soon as possible, and then find an opportunity to enter Feiyumen to rescue his clansmen.

Because of this, he needs to learn alchemy even more, so that he can save spirit stones and time, and spend more time on cultivation.

When refining alchemy, it is most taboo to be disturbed by others. Right now Lin Yi is a guest in the City Lord's Mansion, so in order to prevent being disturbed, Lin Yi arranged a basic shielding formation in the house.

This formation is just the lowest first-level formation, which can be easily arranged with only a few spirit stones, and even a monk in the early stage of Qi refining can easily break through it.

But Lin Yi originally planned to use this formation to let Mo Zhentian and Mo Ruxue know that he was in seclusion and didn't want to be disturbed.

After setting up the formation, Lin Yi began to meditate on alchemy.

As the true essence was poured into the cauldron, flames rose up, and Lin Yi threw a spiritual herb at random and began to refine it.

Refining spirit grass into juice is the first step in alchemy.

Cultivator alchemy is different from ordinary people. He needs to first refine all kinds of spiritual herbs needed into liquid, and then fuse these liquids together in a certain proportion to condense into the shape of pill, and then inject spiritual energy into the pill to improve its quality. Then divide the pill, split a whole big pill that is about to be formed into several pills of equal size and medicinal properties, and finally put away the pill.

These steps are referred to by alchemists as five steps: extracting liquid, congealing pills, injecting spirits, dividing pills, and collecting pills.

Among the five steps, apart from collecting pills, extracting the liquid is the simplest, as long as you master the heat, you can basically extract it successfully.

However, it is not so easy to control the temperature of the fire. If the temperature of the flame is not well controlled, the spirit grass will be directly burned dry, and it is impossible to extract the essence of the medicinal herb.

Therefore, it takes more than a day for most monks who are new to alchemy to learn the process of extracting liquid alone.

Lin Yi's talent is not bad in the first place, and there is the best method of deriving it from Tianyan's True Explanation, so Lin Yi learned it with twice the result with half the effort. After failing seven or eight times, Lin Yi has successfully extracted It took less than an hour to produce the essence liquid!
Although such a speed is not considered a genius, it can be considered excellent among monks who are new to alchemy.

However, Lin Yi was not satisfied with his performance. In his opinion, if he had failed so many times just to extract the liquid, wouldn't he have to fail more times in condensing pills, injecting spirits, and dividing pills?
Although there are a lot of herbs in his storage bag at this time, the herbs that can be refined into Qi Gathering Pill are only enough to be refined eight times in total.

After seven or eight failed extractions, Lin Yi didn't think he could successfully refine the Qi Gathering Pill within eight attempts.

"It seems that you have to refine other more elementary elixirs first, and then start refining Qi Gathering Pills after you are proficient. Otherwise, when the herbs are all refined and the elixir has not been refined, it will be a big loss. This Alchemy is indeed a profession that burns money, no wonder pills need to be sold so expensive." Lin Yi couldn't help shaking his head and said to himself.

After looking at the herbs in his storage bag, Lin Yi decided to refine the most basic Qingxin Pill first. This is one of the easiest pills to refine among the first-grade pills. Its effect is to eliminate restlessness in the heart. Concentrate and meditate.

Refining the liquid again, but this time Lin Yi's refining speed was much faster than before. In less than a stick of incense, Lin Yi had already refined all the spirit grasses into a green liquid with only the essence left.

Lin Yi's spiritual sense began to manipulate these liquids, making them slowly approach each other and merge.

Various medicinal liquids have different resistance to temperature when they are fused. If you want to fuse the essence of these medicinal liquids together, you need to control the temperature of any flame in the Danding as you like. Squeeze the flame and let it cool down; or let go of the suppression and raise the flame temperature.

This point requires a strong ability to control the spiritual consciousness and true essence, so that it can be achieved.

Because Lin Yi often uses his spiritual consciousness to display the true interpretation of Tianyan, he has a good control over his spiritual consciousness; however, he does not use his true energy very often, and when he is merging at this time, the disadvantages are finally revealed.

Although Lin Yi's spiritual sense had already discovered a place that needed low temperature, he made a mistake when trying to control the flame with his true energy and suppress its temperature.

Because the temperature of the liquid in that place was too high, it was burned into black powder immediately, and the rest of the medicinal liquid lost its balance because of this, and the essence energy contained in the medicinal liquid suddenly exploded under the burning of the flame.

A puff of black smoke rushed from the medicine cauldron with a burning smell, causing Lin Yi's face to be scorched black. This time, the coagulation of the pill failed.

After cleaning up the smudges on his face, Lin Yi didn't sit aside, rubbing the bridge of his nose and thinking about his failure. It wasn't until a quarter of an hour later that he continued to take out the herbs and started refining the elixir.

(End of this chapter)