Chapter 35: Alchemy 2
changed dramatically. She hurriedly tried to control her whisk and retract it, but by this time it was already too late for her to control it. The crimson-black pagoda had surged down with the force...After settling down, Lu Xia Tian once again took out the alchemy furnace and cleaned the impurities and waste within. He then re-ignited the fire to refine the pills.
The most difficult aspect of alchemy is controlling the heat, as well as the timing of when to start the furnace. It usually takes close to two hours to refine a single Qi Gathering Pill. Lu Xia Tian must constantly pay attention to the size of the fire; if the fire is too strong, he removes some spiritwood charcoal, and if it's too weak, he adds more.
However, these two points are entirely based on the alchemist's experience and mastery, and it is not something that can be easily accomplished by simply relying on a single pill recipe.
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Even a junior alchemist would be popular in the Moon Viewing City, because alchemy is not only difficult, but also a profession that consumes a lot of spirit stones. Those who are just learning alchemy often have a very low success rate, and it's common for them to take several furnaces, or even dozens of furnaces, before successfully refining a single pill. To improve the success rate, however, requires long-term practice and experience accumulation.
Ordinary wandering cultivators would be completely unable to shoulder such a heavy burden in their early stages. The alchemists of望月城 were mostly cultivated by influential families who controlled various alchemy workshops, using their family resources.
After training, alchemists must serve the alchemy workshops of various families. Typically, low-grade pills are sold to the public, while higher quality mid-grade and even high-grade pills are consumed by talented individuals within the cultivating families or appear at auctions, selling for astonishing prices. Therefore, cultivators from cultivating families often possess greater strength than ordinary wandering cultivators.
Besides his daily cultivation, Lu Xiaoteng stayed in the courtyard and practiced alchemy for nearly ten days straight. He continuously failed seventeen furnaces of medicinal pills, and most of his remaining spirit stones were used up. Such a high failure rate made him quite disheartened. If it weren't for the space within the barrier that allowed him to cultivate Zi Lingcao, he wouldn't have been able to continue with this intensity of alchemy.
The value of just seventeen sprigs of Zi Lingcao in Wangyue City alone is almost forty spirit stones. If you include the auxiliary medicines, the nearly ten days' worth of spirit stones Lu Xiaoteng wasted is incredibly astonishing for a Qi Refining cultivator.
However, through these numerous failures, Lu Xia Tian summarized a method for refining Gathering Qi Pills. He also gained some experience regarding the heat and time required for opening the furnace. Lu Xia Tian was completely focused, watching the blazing charcoal fire beneath the cauldron.
Now he was no longer like when he first started refining pills, taking out the spiritwood charcoal when the fire was too big. Previous failures had given him a general idea of how much spiritwood charcoal to add for each level of heat. This is the experience that comes from alchemists' long years of practice.
Two hours later, the familiar scent wafted in again. Lu Xia Tian's heart clenched. If he failed this time, he would have to sell the remaining twenty talismans in his hand just to continue refining pills.
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Concentrate your mind and be still, light the fire!
As he lifted the lid, a warm and familiar scent of medicinal herbs filled the air. Inside the small cauldron lay two milky-yellow pills, one particularly fragrant with its milky-yellow surface bearing two fine red lines.
"He actually managed to refine a mid-grade Qi Gathering Pill!" Lu Xia Tian was suddenly overjoyed, his more than ten days of hard work finally bearing fruit. This kind of reward after arduous effort was far greater in meaning than the two pills themselves.
After the heat from the surface of the two perfectly round and full spiritual pills dissipated, Lu Xiaoteng put them into small bottles respectively.
Strike while the iron is hot. Having successfully refined a batch of Qi Gathering Pills today, let's refine a few more while we're at it.
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With enough seeds on hand, Lu XiaTian consecutively refined seven times, consuming all the Zi Ling Grass within the barrier. He succeeded three times, but each time only yielded one pill, unlike before when he managed to refine two pills.
However, he was quite satisfied with this result. Even among the alchemists of the 望月城 (Wangyue City) family, some veterans with decades of experience in alchemy, achieving success three or four times out of ten attempts would be considered very good results.
Alchemizing is a very refined art, and the control of heat and the ignition of the furnace are not fixed. Different Purple Spirit Herbs have different growth levels and states.
A skilled alchemist always has a premonition of the fire needed for each medicinal herb in their hand. This judgment can also be off, so alchemists adjust the firepower and furnace time during the refining process according to the changes. But even the most skilled alchemists cannot guarantee that their judgments are 100% accurate. Even a slight deviation can lead to the entire batch of elixir being wasted.
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Therefore, even experienced alchemists can only maintain a certain success rate.
Lu Xia Tian's ability to achieve such a high alchemy success rate in such a short period of time was not only due to his improved alchemy skills, but also because he continuously refined the same type of elixir. This is something that other alchemists lack. Additionally, the purple spirit grass growing inside the barrier was not affected by external factors like wind and rain, ensuring consistent growth. This also contributed to his high success rate.
After refining the last stalk of Zi Ling Grass, Lu Xia Tian contentedly put away the small cauldron. He took out a mid-grade Gathering Qi Pill, good medicinal pills naturally should be kept for himself to use. Now was the time to test the effect of the pill.
Lu Xia Tian directly sat on the stone chair in the small courtyard, swallowing the mid-grade Gathering Qi Pill. The Gathering Qi Pill slowly dissolved inside his body, transforming into a gentle warmth that flowed through his limbs and bones.
It used to take nearly six hours to refine the Qi Gathering Pill, but now that I'm at the fifth level of Qi Refinement, it only takes less than two hours.
The spiritual energy that couldn't be contained within the meridian still appeared within the barrier. After absorbing the medicinal power from the meridian, Lu Xia Tian's primordial spirit chased after the spiritual energy inside the barrier. Then he scattered the seeds of Zi Lingcao and crushed a piece of spirit stone into powder, sprinkling it on the soil beside the Zi Lingcao seeds.
Previously, when he was refining elixirs, the Spirit Grass ran out. He became anxious because the spiritual energy wafting in the air was difficult to directly guide onto the Spirit Grass seeds for absorption. Out of desperation, he had to use spirit stones, and he discovered that he could control them with his mind and crush them.
When using spirit stones, there are also considerations. After all, he has five types of spirit stones in his hand: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Only ice, wind, and thunder are lacking. Water is the source of life, but it cannot be used too much, otherwise the soil will be too moist and unfavorable for the growth of the purple spirit grass.
Earth spirit stones can enhance the spiritual power of the land. And wood-type spirit stones are also from the same family as purple spirit grass, and these three types of spirit stones can be used as fertilizer. However, overall, the wood-type effect corresponding to purple spirit grass is the best, followed by earth spirit stones, and water spirit stones lastly.
He also tested the Metal System and Fire System, they didn't work at all. After absorbing the spiritual energy of the Gold Spirit Stone, the Purple Spirit Grass withered rapidly, while the Fire Spirit Stone directly burned the Purple Spirit Grass into black ash.
On average, a piece of spirit stone can cultivate about three stalks of purple spirit grass. According to his previous alchemy success rate, it is close to 40%, which means that after removing the waste from alchemy, based on the price of Gathering Qi Pills, once sold, one spirit stone can bring back four times the return.
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Although the Qidan was not very effective for cultivators in the middle stage of Qi refining, its large quantity made up for it. After having a sufficient supply of pills, his cultivation speed began to rise exponentially, several times faster than relying solely on meditation. Within half a year, he had originally just entered the fifth layer of Qi refining, but now the accumulated Qi at the fifth layer was almost halfway there.
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At this time, Lu Xia Tian in a blue robe was much taller than before. Although his figure was still somewhat slender and not very handsome, he had a rather handsome face. Due to his long years of solitude and the hardships he had endured over the past few years, Lu Xia Tian's body carried a few more traces of a cold and distant temperament.
...The leopard's senses were far more acute than those of an ordinary cultivator, and it quickly detected the disturbance outside the courtyard. It had been lazily sprawled in the yard, basking in the sun, but suddenly stood up.
A knock on the door sounded.
"Lu Ge, are you here" Luo Qing called out softly from outside.
Hearing the sound of someone coming, the leopard lay back down to where it was. Over the past six months, the Luo siblings would come by from time to time. After a couple of visits, the leopard also remembered them.
“Hey, the scent of this Gathering Qi Pill is different from usual.” Luo Qing walked in and sniffed vigorously, saying.
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“Why are you here so early today”
Lu Xia tian smiled when he heard this, evading the topic of the elixir. He had been lucky just now and managed to refine a high-grade Juqi Pill. Over the past six months, he had been constantly refining Juqi Pills, the number of times he had fired up his furnace for alchemy was probably more than other alchemists in decades combined. After all, even cultivating Ziling Grass in Lingtian took a year to harvest once. It was impossible for him to continuously harvest spirit grass as long as he had spirit stones.
Luo Yuan said, "That's right, in four months, the major immortal sects will start their annual disciple recruitment. My siblings and several close friends plan to go to the Moon-Watching Mountain Range to find spiritual objects. If we're lucky, we might even encounter items from missions given by other sects. Brother Lu has good strength, so I want to invite you to join our team. With one more person, we'll be safer in the Moon-Watching Mountain Range."
“Is it dangerous in the Wangu Mountain Range” Lu Xia Tian said in surprise.
"Lu Ge might not know this, but the dangers in the Wangu Mountain Range are not just from demonic beasts. The even greater danger comes from other cultivators. I've been to the Wangu Mountain Range several times, and more of my companions died at the hands of ambushes by other cultivator groups than from attacks by demonic beasts." Luo Yuan said solemnly.
Lu Xia Tian was startled. He had been refining pills in the courtyard for half a year, which made him feel less indifferent to the bloodshed and killing among cultivators.
“Besides you, Luo brother, who else did you invite Who has the highest cultivation level” Lu XiaTian asked without directly agreeing.
“Including my siblings and myself, there are six of us in total. The highest cultivation level among us is the same as mine, at the sixth layer of Qi Refining. However, Brother Lu is an extremely skilled alchemist. If he joins our team, he will have priority over obtaining spirit herbs when the time comes.”
Luo Qing said with eager anticipation, "Over the past six months, they've learned quite a bit about Lu Xia Tian. Being able to rent such a large courtyard solely for alchemy and still manage their daily cultivation, in our eyes, is already very impressive."s. To strike down a Great Luo Golden Immortal, even five of them joining forces, was something they could be proud of. It would further solidify their Dao hearts.For them, there is nothing more powerf...