Daozu is Cthulhu

Chapter 262 Alchemy
Can't imagine that the consumption of alchemy is so large, there is no such factory in Mozhushan, right?And when it comes to the factory, the painting style is wrong, okay?Doesn't this show what the apostles of the legion have done!In order to compete for the world, it's too much to move all the tricks of beating workers to the world of Xianxia!Assi!
But thinking about it carefully, it's a bit wrong. According to Zhou Chengxue, this elixir factory should have been established for many years to meet Yuntai Peak's monthly order of [-] Jiuzhuan Donghua Changchun Pills, right?Did other apostles help Penglai achieve industrial modernization before Asiba?Moreover, this style of painting is wrong, and it is obviously not a thing of a civilized system. Don't the Taoist monarchs of Jiuzhenzong not ask more questions about these weird things made by the proposers?
Li Fan thought about it, and when he returned to Zhou Chengxue's alchemy workshop with a bunch of materials, he pretended to be chatting casually and inquired, "But speaking of it, the inside of the workshop looks so strange, I don't know which senior came up with the idea, Was it designed that way?"

But this time Zhou Chengxue suddenly turned his head and looked at Li Fan with a vigilant look, "What are you doing here?"

Li Fan was also taken aback, for a moment he didn't know what was going on with his such a violent reaction, or if he was caught somewhere else, "No, no, I'll just ask, it's obviously different from other Taoist palaces, And I didn't even see the statue of Xuannv when I entered the door..."

Zhou Chengxue stared at Li Fan for a while, then sighed, "Brother Li, that workshop is an important place for masters, so don't inquire about some things. Let's make alchemy first."

Huh?Strange, what's going on with this reaction?Is it because the friendliness is not enough to unlock new plots?It seems that Penglai really has a big problem...

But Zhou Chengxue made it clear that he didn't want to talk about this topic, so he ordered Li Fan to start making alchemy.

Because all kinds of semi-finished materials have been prepared, in theory, it is like a stew, just put it in a pot.As for whether it can be made or not, how many pills can be produced depends on the chef's hand feeling besides the recipe. Some of this, a little of that, and then the right amount.

Li Fan's task is very simple, he is the role of a boy, listen to the alchemist's instructions, help arrange the material jade boxes according to the formation, arrange the magic circle, clean the alchemy furnace, move it back and forth to the alchemy workshop, and put The raw materials of the basic alchemy, together with firewood, charcoal, and burning stones, are smashed into pieces, and the furnace is turned on and placed in layers. After the preliminary preparations are completed, there is nothing else to do.

And Zhou Chengxue was in charge of the specific alchemy process after closing the furnace and starting the fire. He sat cross-legged in the front of the formation, making secret calculations with one hand, and holding a dust whisk in the other hand. various materials.

Zhou Chengxue didn't know that Li Fan had the ability of photographic memory, he devoted himself to alchemy, his spiritual consciousness was completely immersed in the alchemy furnace, and let him watch, Li Fan really understood it a little bit, to some extent , you can say that the principles of alchemy and oil refining are similar.

Oil refining must be understood by everyone, and there is no need to go into details. Simply put, it is to separate the components of petroleum through distillation, and then convert it into fuel oil through chemical processes such as thermal cracking and catalytic cracking, and then refine it by hydrogenation and other processes.

The flow chart of this alchemy is almost similar. First, the impurities in the alchemy are separated, and then various auxiliary materials obtained from the factory are added, which are similar to catalysts and secret recipes. According to the time and heat, various spiritual energy is continuously injected, increasing or decreasing. road fire.According to the established formula and process, if the materials are okay, as long as you are not too bad a novice, you can make pills in the first round of preliminary refining.After the first turning, it can be called Donghua Changchun Pill in theory. Of course, the effect of the medicine can only be described as "if there is nothing", if it is used to describe the game, it will probably add a continuous blood recovery. BUFF, but the blood recovery is extremely low, it may only be effective for the Qi refining period, but maybe the erysipelas is stronger than this blood recovery...

So after that, it needs to be one, two, three... Seven or eight turns to refine, remove impurities, concentrate and exert the medicinal power, increase various top-grade medicinal materials, neutralize erysipelas, and refine to increase the potency of the elixir.As mentioned before, the nine-turn refining process is the so-called alchemy. Every refining process will inevitably consume some of the alchemy. In the end, the whole pot may be blown up. If one can be produced, it is considered a success.

Like those powerful alchemists in the ancient method, if one thousand alchemy pills are refined in a furnace to the ninth rank or even seventeenth or eighteenth rank, only one will be produced, and it will be considered a success.

However, the pharmaceutical factory in Penglai is in pursuit of production, and guarantees that one hundred pills refined to the ninth revolution will complete the task. It's the nine-turn card.

This time Zhou Chengxue had agreed with Li Fan in advance that he picked a lot of treasures and used the ancient method of alchemy, so he didn't stop after the ninth revolution, and continued to refine as much as possible, roughly guaranteeing about ten high-quality pills.Li Fan is not short of his "high-quality goods" at all, and he also wanted to see Zhou Chengxue's craftsmanship, and compare the number of "nine turns" given by the viewer, and he agreed.

Now that alchemy started, Li Fan could clearly see that the auspicious beast relief beside the nine-story alchemy furnace seemed to come to life. He lay on the alchemy furnace and looked left and right, opening and closing his mouth from time to time. It sprays out red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue and purple smoke clouds and red mist.

Looking from bottom to top, the bottom two floors of Baxia, Chiwen usually keep their mouths shut.Of course, it’s a good thing not to open your mouth. According to Zhou Chengxue, the two of them usually open their mouths to fry the pot. The chi kiss is used to extinguish the fire, and will spit out soot to decompress and prevent explosions. If luck is really bad, the pot will be blown up. Only Baxia at the bottom of the pot spit out the danza.

The third layer is Suzaku. Needless to say, the red fire is blooming all over the body. Generally, the elixir is made of Chisha real fire. When the furnace is first heated, it is red. Different Dao fires will be used according to needs, and the color will naturally change with the temperature. Variety.This step requires advanced fire control skills, of course there is no problem with Taoist real people, what about other casual cultivators, ha ha.

The fourth layer of suanni will also spew orange-red flames from Kongmu's mouth and nose from time to time.This is an auxiliary valve port, which will be used when adjusting temperature and pressure.

The white tiger toad on the first five or six floors will spray golden metal juice or green elixir from its mouth, which is used to eliminate impurities that have melted into liquid.

The green dragon basalt unicorns on the seventh, eighth, and ninth floors will spray out green smoke, blue mist, and purple clouds respectively, all of which are vaporized pill clouds full of impurities and erysipelas.

These red ash and red mist sprayed out of the beast's mouth, wrapped in spiritual energy, evaporated and sprayed away from the carved mouth like a rice cooker, and then sucked by the magic circle on the roof, which is probably the function of the range hood. With a breeze, spray it outside.

Uh, well, it seems that the immortals don't pay much attention to environmental protection.After all, even danza is a high concentration of 'spiritual material', probably it will naturally precipitate in the environment of Penglai cave, who knows.

Li Fan can only guard the law in the outer layer of the magic circle to see the changes in the pill furnace, but he can't directly penetrate the spiritual consciousness to see the actual situation of the pill in the pill furnace. After all, it is the famous secret recipe of Penglai. So even if he could forcibly remember the order of feeding, he would not know what changed in the specific pill furnace, and what judgment Zhou Chengxue based on what operation he carried out.It also depends on how he calculates from time to time, feeds materials, lights a fire, and discharges impurities. He doesn't know the real secret.

This is the old-school traditional alchemy refining process.

When Li Fan saw that Zhou Chengxue began to repeat the cycle of certain materials, he roughly guessed that a 'turn' had already been practiced.

Zhou Chengxue should also have a solid foundation. Although each additional round of the first six rounds will double the time spent on crafting and increase the flame color by one level, they are all practiced very quickly without any mistakes.At the seventh turn, it started to slow down significantly, not only because of the need for additional feeding, such as adding that red coral, but also calculating over and over again, probably the probability of top-grade pills is indeed quite low.

At this time, Li Fan noticed that Zhou Chengxue began to make quick moves.

At the critical moment in the seventh round of training, the wind suddenly started to blow.Or to use the common saying in Xiuxian novels, it is time to absorb the essence of heaven and earth and create a top-grade elixir.

Of course, Li Fan couldn't miss this kind of famous scene. It happened that he had a gossip mirror provided by the system to see the 'vortex of qi', so he took it out to observe secretly.

Sure enough, you can see the formation and flag gates around you open one by one following Zhou Chengxue's formula, and the aura of heaven and earth is like a huge vortex, being absorbed into the pill furnace in the eye of the storm, and the carvings of gods and beasts on the tripod are like monks breathing out. , Slowly absorb the filtered aura into the entrance.Occasionally, there are some mistakes in the ratio, and if the spiritual energy is not enough, Zhou Chengxue has to breathe out a breath of pure Dao himself to make up for the gap in alchemy.

It's fine once or twice, but it takes a month to refine the nine revolutions. If you practice at seventeen or eight revolutions, God knows how much skill it will consume. It seems that the alchemist has no knowledge, and it is really impossible to refine the elixir to a high number of revolutions. Woolen cloth.

Li Fan was watching the excitement from the sidelines, and suddenly, he noticed that there seemed to be disharmony, around the aura cyclone that converged towards the alchemy furnace like a storm, there were many turbid air masses. If you look carefully, they are small eddies, like ginseng A small tornado mixed in a big storm.

These turbulent currents may be caused by conflicting and mixed auras stirring together, or they may not be filtered by the surrounding magic circle. Go to the alchemy furnace.

Although it has not directly affected much, because those obvious turbulence and uncoordinated impurities will naturally be counted by Zhou Chengxue, and they will be scattered with a whisk to straighten out the breath, and the auspicious beasts on the alchemy furnace seem to have the effect of filtering the sieve .But these vortices are the cyclones of spiritual energy, which the alchemist can't notice.Being coerced and involved in this way, after a long time, it is probably inevitable that the quality of alchemy will be affected.

It happened that when Li Fan studied the system props before, he discovered that there is a jade ring that can solve similar problems. Although no one has taught him alchemy, the evidence he can see with his own eyes is more convincing than any experience teaching.So Li Fan pretended he couldn't sit still anymore, stood up and walked around the outer magic circle, stretching his muscles and bones. In fact, he used the jade pendant hanging around his waist to sort out the outer vortex and help straighten out the aura of heaven and earth.

Zhou Chengxue probably couldn't see what Li Fan was doing, but it was obvious that the frequency of his plotting tricks and tricks and wielding fog and dust was much less, and the refined elixir of the seventh turn was completed safely and smoothly.The entire alchemy furnace began to radiate dense precious light, surrounded by immortal breath, the glow of the sun flashed, and a strange fragrance came out.

"...It's going so well today, my skills are not unfamiliar yet?" When the alchemy furnace stabilized, Zhou Chengxue opened his eyes and looked at Ruixiang who was around the alchemy cauldron in front of him, he was speechless for a while.

Li Fan stretched his waist, "Oh, did you finish the exercise? It's so fast, did you finish it in just one day? Brother Zhou is really amazing!"

Zhou Chengxue shook his head, "No, this is the seven rounds of refining, the realm of Taiji is transformed into the alchemy furnace, and then it will be left for three days, a round of pregnancy, and watch the heat, but I think this time it is quite smooth , maybe there will be a lot of panacea to achieve top grade."

That is to say, it will be over after stewing, and the eighth revolution will be practiced in a few days, so it usually takes a month to complete the ninth revolution.Well, although the elixir tastes good, to be honest, it's quite boring to practice, just like everyone knows that cooking is cost-effective and delicious, but no one wants to buy vegetables, wash vegetables, cook vegetables and wash dishes...

"Okay, okay, Brother Zhou, let's go drink. How about doing missions together?" Li Fan hadn't fought or killed for another day, and he was bored.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Chengxue was staring at his alchemy furnace, with a peaceful and happy smile on his face, "Oh, forget it today, I suddenly felt that I had practiced it, and I seemed to be enlightened in the art of alchemy. I still remember it in my heart, so I will go to retreat and do a few sets of questions."

Li Fan stared at him with the eyes of a ghost, "..."

"This time, I would like to thank Brother Li for bringing these alchemy materials, so that I can be inspired... By the way, I heard that Brother Li has newly married a concubine. I have recently obtained some rare gemstones. It would be great to make them into jewelry. I just gave it to Brother Li, it’s not worth anything, it’s just a little thought.”

"Uh... oh, oh, the shiny ones are pretty nice, thank you Brother Zhou for your kindness."

Li Fan looked at the ore that Zhou Chengxue handed over casually, and was quite speechless, saying that he still wanted to do some calculations, but it was transferred to him so easily.

And speaking of Zhou Chengxue, when he first came to look for him, he was just asking what materials he got in the sea. Could it be that he originally wanted to exchange this "useless junk" for the "garbage that can be seen everywhere" picked up by Li Fan? Bar……

Forget it, anyway, it's trash for trash, everyone is "I lost, you made money", so let's get what we need.

So Li Fan didn't bother Zhou Chengxue's evening self-study, and went back to find Xiao Yuxi by himself to see how her silent writing of "Xiao Shi Lingshu" was going.

Unexpectedly, he just arrived at the entrance of Shenzhen Palace Mountain, but was stopped by someone.

The person who came was a young man with a pointed chin, narrow eyes, white hair and a crane crown, and he was also dressed in a Penglai fairy robe.Of course, he is definitely not a teenager anymore. This person has the cultivation base of a Nascent Soul, and he feels better than Zhou Chengxue's stretcher. He is probably either a reincarnation of a military solution, or someone with a good face.

"But Li Tang, the guest Qing of Shenzhen Palace." Fang Jishou said, "Liu Chengzong of Taishang Taizhen Palace."

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Although Li Fan clasped his fists politely on the surface, he was already alert in his heart.

He checked carefully, and sure enough, the figure and appearance of this person was one of the three Nascent Soul real people who killed the Huan family in the drone video he saw.

This time, it was the real person from Taizhen Palace who brought the fleet to Penglai with the "remnants of the Demon Cult" and the remaining female relatives of the Huan family. It was just that in the warehouse that night, Li Fan and another man in black came To save people, we had to fight first, and judging by the appearance of this guy with all his hands and feet, the opponent at that time was really not Liu Chengzong.

But that night, all the disciples from Yingzhou he brought died, and the 'remnants' were almost taken away, but Liu Chengzong never showed up, which is also a bit strange.

"My guards are unfavorable, resulting in the loss of my disciples, so I was admonished by the master and responsible for investigating the battle a few days ago..."

Is it really for this matter...

"Elder Li was also nearby at the time. Some Liu would like to ask for some details. I don't know if the elder would appreciate it. Come to the humble house for a banquet?"

(End of this chapter)