Tian Yuan Xian Ji

Chapter 87 Alchemy

Gao Cailiang stepped forward and manipulated the hole slot to adjust the molten flame to the lowest level, and put his right hand on the right through hole: "Convert spiritual power into substantial flame, feel the changes of Danding Neidan pills and main medicine with spiritual sense, and control the The temperature of the flame and the spiritual power pull together the main medicine powder and auxiliary medicine powder and the pills."

Tangning looked in through the transparent wafer, and saw a mass of flames rising from the pill cauldron, every now and then. As time passed, the powder seemed to be pulled by something and penetrated through the cracked pores on the outside of the pill pill. In the pill pill, the flames in the pill cauldron burned around the pill pill, gradually melting its outer layer, and those tiny pinholes gradually disappeared.

Gao Cailiang put down his hand and slapped the cauldron. The flames in the cauldron disappeared immediately, and the medicinal pill was spit out from the toad's mouth and fell into the wooden box.

"This is the nourishing qi pill." Gao Cailiang picked up the pill and said, "This is just a successful pill, and it may be a failure. Take it in your hand and feel it. If the spiritual power in the pill is stable and balanced, it means that it is qualified. Goods, on the contrary, spiritual power disorder is a failure."

Tangning asked inexplicably, "When the spiritual energy in the pill cauldron was turned into fire, why did the flames not evaporate the spirit medicine powder, but seemed to pull it into the pill pill instead?"

"That's why I say that this step is the most important test of an alchemist's skills, and it is also the most important part of alchemy, fire control. On the surface, the flame is burning vigorously, but in fact the temperature of the flame is extremely low. The way to control fire is the most complicated, and if you make a single mistake, all your efforts will be lost, and you will understand it in the future.”

"Even if I have been immersed in the Dan Dao for more than [-] years, I can't guarantee that the Qi nourishing pills I have refined will be qualified products, and occasionally one or two waste products will be produced. You have already memorized the steps, and now I will demonstrate it twice. During the refining process of nourishing Qi Dan, you can carefully observe the changes of the medicinal herbs in the pill cauldron."

"When should the main medicine be added to the pill after disintegration, how should the main medicine be introduced into the pill, and how should the pill be warmed with a spirit fire when it is initially formed?"

Gao Cailiang said, he picked up a wooden ruler and cut the medicinal powder into a ball, added smoked yellow powder, and put it into the cauldron.

But about half an hour, the three medicinal pills were completed.

"Alchemy is a very labor-intensive thing, and the loss of the alchemist's spiritual power and consciousness is not small. Therefore, when alchemy is required, you must keep yourself in good condition, and you must be whole-hearted and devoted without distractions. I feel tired and tired. Take a rest, don’t be stubborn. Generally, beginners must first understand the effects of various medicinal herbs and herbs. You are from the herb family, and you will naturally know this. Therefore, we will start by practicing the basic skills of medicinal pills and making pills. From now on, I will be tired and rest from alchemy. When the time comes, you can use the pill cauldron to try alchemy, and I will guide you by the side."

"In addition to diligence, the way of medicine pills is more important than talent. How far you can go depends entirely on your own understanding. Of course, your cultivation is the foundation of everything. If you are not enough, you can't make high-quality medicines. , to understand the relationship between the two, the way of medicine pill itself is to serve the practice, and alchemy is for better practice."

Tangning nodded and said yes. She took out the herbs from the cabinet on the right, ground them into powder, and then weighed them with a scale, took the amount, and kneaded them into a ball. Earlier, it seemed that Gao Cailiang had done it easily. No matter how soft he squeezed, he couldn't make it so round, it was either a little convex here or a little concave there.

"Pill pills must be very round, without the slightest potholes, otherwise the main medicine will enter the pill pills, the medicinal properties will be unbalanced, the spiritual power will be disordered, and the refining will be a waste pill."

During Tangning's various kneading processes, the loose pills were squeezed hard, and white powders would break up and fall from time to time. Seeing that the pills got smaller and smaller, Gao Cailiang didn't need to say that, he also knew that the pills were useless, and the amount of medicinal ingredients had already disappeared. Serious shortage, had to re-weigh a dose.

After a whole day, I don’t know how many medicinal materials were wasted, and I did not make a complete and qualified pill. Fortunately, these medicinal materials are the most common in the world, and they are grown by special people. But some can't stand it.

Gao Cailiang took care of his own refining of Qi Condensing Pills. Tangning found that it took much longer to refine Qi Condensing Pills than Nourishing Qi Pills. The main reason was in the step of controlling the spirit fire. They kept roasting them at a low temperature and slowing down, about a tea time. Just made one.

Gao Cailiang had to rest for a while every two hours of refining.

It is obvious that he is tired, and sweat is soaked on his forehead. With his skills, not every qi condensing pill is a qualified product, about every five or six will be a waste product, a waste product Dan. As soon as the medicine comes out of the elixir and comes into contact with the air, it will turn into powder in a short time, because the medicinal properties of the elixir are unbalanced, the spiritual power is disordered, and the spiritual power squeezes each other inside and repels each other.

It's like if a cultivator goes crazy, the spiritual power in his body is chaotic, and his body can't stand the explosion.

Gao Cailiang was accustomed to this matter, and he didn't have the slightest chagrin when he made the waste pill, but sometimes he didn't even make the waste pill, and the pill was deformed or turned into powder in the pill cauldron. At this time, he would feel very guilty. And will immediately stop alchemy, close your eyes and rest.

It will not start to alchemy again until you feel your emotions calm down and your body functions to the best of your ability.

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Day by day, as more and more discarded pills were fabricated and the techniques became more and more proficient, Tangning also had a set of her own experience on the forming process of pill pills. Knead.

Finally, on the twelfth day, he made a qualified pill, and after adding smoked yellow powder to solidify, a mysterious black prototype pill was formed.

Tangning held it in her hand and looked at it repeatedly, stroking it, and then took out a Qi nourishing pill for various comparisons. Apart from the lack of spiritual power, it felt the same in appearance and feel.

"Fellow Daoist Gao, look at this." Tangning handed the pill to him, Gao Cailiang opened his eyes from the meditation, took a look, stroked his hand and nodded.

Seeing him nodding, Tangning let out a heavy sigh of relief.

"I have to practice more, until I completely master this basic skill, and every herb can't go wrong." Gao Cailiang said.

Tangning was playing with the pills and fantasizing about the next step in refining the pills, and then the glorious moment of becoming a top master step by step. She was brought back to reality by one sentence. The production of pills failed one after another, and he had to admit that it was just a fluke just now.

For the next few days, he was able to make several qualified pills every day. The number of failures became less and less, and the success rate became higher and higher. Until the twenty-eighth day, he felt that he had completely mastered this skill.

Because he made more than a hundred pills in the past two days, and none of them were scraps.

Gao Cailiang naturally knew all of this, so after Tangning made another qualified pill, he said, "This is the end of this basic practice!"

Hearing what he said, Tangning said happily, "Can we start alchemy?"

He has been a little impatient these days.

"Alchemy? Can you control the spiritual fire? Just alchemy, don't think too simple about alchemy, learn how to turn spiritual energy into fire first!" Gao Cailiang pointed to the hole on the left and said, "We call this hole the fire port, you Come here, put your palm on it, and try to use your spiritual power to make fire."

Tangning did as she was told, put her right hand on it, the spiritual energy in her body circulated, covering her hand, and a strong suction force suddenly appeared in the cauldron, sucking the spiritual energy in her palm into the cauldron.

He could feel the absorbed spiritual power running around in the cauldron. Since there was no continuous supply of spiritual power, the spiritual power quickly dissipated in the cauldron. He tried several times in a row, and each time the spiritual power covered His hands were sucked away by the suction of the tripod, and then dissipated cleanly.

"The reason why Dan Ding can absorb your spiritual power is because there is a simple and small spirit gathering device installed in it. You have to control the spiritual power in your body, and when it absorbs your spiritual power, continue to output it into the palm of your hand. Spiritual power, let the spiritual power continuously output from your hands."

"Until it is connected with the Dingzhong Spirit Gathering Device, there is a micro-spirit burning device at the mouth of the Gathering Spirit Device, which will turn into a substantial flame if it is not supplied by the source of spiritual power, and you can also output how much of your own spiritual power. , control the size of its flame, so this step is called fire control."

"It's also the reason why alchemy consumes a lot of spiritual power. Remember that the spiritual power line must not be disconnected during the fire control period. Otherwise, the supply of spiritual power will be lost, and the flame will be uncontrolled and will go out after burning for a period of time. In fact, the final extinguishment is still Burning doesn't matter anymore, because of the loss of flame control, the medicinal pill has already been roasted into powder by the fiery flames."

Tangning nodded and understood the reason why the spiritual energy turned into fire. She put her right hand on the mouth of the fire. Before he could react, the spiritual energy was sucked out. The subsequent spiritual energy was completely unable to be supplied. This is the case, sometimes it feels that the supply of the first year of the first year is immediately interrupted again.

He withdrew his hand from the fire and frowned for a while, then put it back on.

Seeing that his repeated attempts were unsuccessful, Gao Cailiang said with a smile, "You don't have to be impatient, this is not something that can be accomplished overnight. I think I was also..."

When the words were said, a vigorous fire group was born in the Dan Ding, and in a flash, the entire Dan Ding was ignited with raging flames.

Seeing this scene, Tangning was startled, and quickly took off her hand. Just now, he used the green spiritual energy in his body to cover his hand, and it was effective. He thought that since the spiritual energy in his body was turned into fire, the key was to connect the spiritual energy in his body with the spirit gathering tool. Line, then green spiritual power may be able to do it, because its vitality is extremely tenacious, and its toughness is very strong, and it is not so easy to break, so I gave it a try.

"This should be considered a success in transforming fire!" Tangning turned her head and asked, but saw that Gao Cailiang was completely wooden at the moment. open.

"What's wrong? Wouldn't the fire burn out the Dan Ding?"

Hearing Tangning's question, Gao Cailiang came back to his senses. He was horrified. What a joke, he just tried a few times and it turned into flames. This kind of talent was unheard of. He thought that he had only managed to strengthen it after four months of hard work. Fire.

Aware of his gaffe, he hurriedly adjusted his state and suppressed the horror in his heart. After all, he is now the role of a master, and he can't act like he has never seen the world before: "Oh, oh, no, nothing, um, very good, not bad."

(End of this chapter)