When I take my cultivation to the extreme

Chapter 77 Alchemist!Difficult and noble
The elixir in the alchemy furnace took shape, and Ren Yuanjing took a long breath.

The spiritual flame he had been stimulating also stopped.

"You came just in time, I just opened a pot of nourishing pills."

Ren Yuanjing said.

He pointed at the alchemy furnace gently, and his consciousness touched the mechanism on the alchemy furnace. The machine on the alchemy furnace expanded and opened.

The aura of the elixir spreads.

Li Fan smelled a faint fragrance like bamboo or young wood.

It is the elixir aroma of the Nourishing Pill.

"I haven't taken this pill yet, but I've heard that it's a top-quality pill that nourishes and restores consciousness during the foundation-building period. It's even better than the Dragon Heart Pill," Li Fan said.

Ren Yuanjing put on a smile when he heard this and said, "You do know the goods."

"The elixir used in my furnace of nourishing pills is worth more than [-] spirit stones. A furnace of [-] pills can produce more than [-]% of the pills."

Li Fan nodded and said: "The alchemist has really made a lot of money. In the pill shop, the same hundred pills for nourishing the spirit require more than three thousand spiritual stones."

Ren Yuanjing nodded.

This is equivalent to two people chatting.

"Your level of breath gathering is so advanced that you even fooled me." Ren Yuanjing stood up and faced Li Fan.

He said: "Earlier today, someone from the Loose Cultivator Alliance came to my place to order a batch of elixirs. During the chat, I learned that a new monk named Li Fan had arrived in Yangsu City and was staying at the Shang Hotel. .”

"I wasn't sure it was you at first. After all, you were only at the eighth level of the Qi Refining Stage when I met you. Now it seems that I was blind and didn't realize that you were approaching Foundation Establishment before."

"No wonder you want to exchange for the Foundation Establishment Pill from me."

Ren Yuanjing said to Li Fan.

Li Fan listened to Ren Yuan Jing's tone quite relaxedly, and was not dissatisfied because Li Fan had concealed his cultivation before.

Li Fan said: "It was inconvenient to live under someone else's roof before."

"But now that I have left the Xu family, I can have a more honest relationship with Senior Ren."

"Haha, there is no need to call me senior anymore. We are all in the foundation-building realm, so just call me Brother Ren." Ren Yuanjing said.

Li Fan smiled.

Ren Yuanjing is a very nice person. Although he is capable and has a temper, he is quite easy-going towards Li Fan. It seems that the two of them are quite compatible.

"You come to me, you must have something to do. Tell me, what do you want to do?" Ren Yuanjing asked.

"It's true, Brother Ren, I want to ask you for help with two things." Li Fan said.

"Tell me about it, I think it's quite comfortable to interact with you. If it's not too much trouble, it doesn't hurt to help you," Ren Yuanjing said. After a pause, he chuckled and said, "After all, there will be spiritual planting in the future." Well, I might need you too."

"It's easy to say. If you really need me, just ask." Li Fan smiled.

He took two steps forward, came to Ren Yuanjing, and took out from his arms the ten acres of Lingsha Island spiritual land title deed given by Xu Hua'an.

"What is this?" Ren Yuanjing looked at the land deed, not sure why.

Li Fan briefly explained Xu Hua'an's request.

After explaining clearly, Li Fan said: "I want to go to Zihua Mountain to become a disciple of Wandao Sect, and Lingcha Island cannot take care of me."

"I would like to ask Brother Ren to keep the title deed of these ten acres of spiritual land for me first. After a while, old spiritual farmer Jiao Jingwei may come to Lingcha Island. At that time, please ask Brother Ren to hand over these ten acres of spiritual land to Jiao Jingwei." Let Jing Wei take care of it and let him plant shining rice."

"In this case, Lao Jiao has a spiritual field, and I don't want his spiritual stones every year. I only need him to keep providing me with Yao Jing rice. And Brother Ren seems to be interested in Yao Jing rice, so I can get it from Lao Jiao. Acquire the remainder.”

Ren Yuanjing was a little surprised when he heard this.

"Did you really grow the shining rice?" Ren Yuanjing blurted out.

After a moment, Ren Yuanjing suddenly realized and said: "Jiao Jingwei doesn't have this ability, you helped him."

Li Fan smiled.

Ren Yuanjing looked at Li Fan and said with a smile: "Haha, you were sure that Jiao Jingwei would come to me, and you also knew that I wouldn't refuse. That's quite smart."

"That's because I know that Brother Ren is nostalgic for our old friendship. Although Lao Jiao hasn't established a foundation yet, he is quite a good person and is a common friend of you and me. When he comes to Lingcha Island, he will definitely visit Brother Ren, so I save the effort of looking for him. ." Li Fan said.

After thinking for a moment, Ren Yuanjing said: "This matter is not troublesome, I agree."

"This matter is beneficial to all three of us. It benefits others and benefits ourselves. Why not do it?"

Li Fan nodded.

In fact, he has always known that resources have always been hard to come by when cultivating on the Immortal Path, so it is always good to have another channel to collect resources.

Jiao Jingwei can grow shining crystal rice, which is a very scarce resource in the current world of immortal cultivation.

Li Fan used ten acres of spiritual land to recruit Jiao Jingwei, so that he could have a continuous supply of crystal rice.

Although this kind of spiritual rice is not as effective as elixirs, in the long run, it can not only speed up cultivation, but also extend life and increase life span, which is quite helpful to Li Fan.

Moreover, he had already taught Jiao Jingwei how to grow Brilliant Crystal Rice, so it would be a pity to lose it.

The arrangement at this time is the best.

As for the Yaojing rice harvest, it can be sent to Wandaomen through Xu Huaan's channels. Anyway, Xu Huaan also has to provide resources for his two great-grandsons and great-granddaughters.

Li Fan handed over the title deed of ten acres of spiritual land to Ren Yuanjing.

He is also relieved.

Ren Yuanjing's character is not bad, and he only has ten acres of spiritual land. Li Fan and Ren Yuanjing's current status level will not cause any filth.

"You said you have two things to ask me for, what else is there?" Ren Yuanjing asked.

"Haha, the second thing is that I have become interested in alchemy and want to try the alchemy method. I also have some rare alchemy recipes in my hand and want to exchange them with you. I wonder if Brother Ren is interested?" Li Fan said. .

"Oh?" When Ren Yuanjing heard this, his interest suddenly became much higher.

Seeing this, Li Fan took out a copied elixir recipe from his arms and handed it to Ren Yuanjing.

Ren Yuanjing immediately took it and started reading.

Li Fan took advantage of Ren Yuanjing's study of the elixir recipe to sort out some thoughts in his mind.

He had this idea in mind when he was buying elixirs at Pinxin Pavilion yesterday.

Li Fan has always been interested in the profession of alchemist. His great-uncle Li Yuan was an alchemist and was always treated with courtesy.

And the returns are extremely high.

The prescription that Li Fan is now exchanging is the one left by his great-uncle Li Yuan.

But the threshold for becoming an alchemist is also high.

Most alchemists have an apprenticeship system, with one alchemist bringing one or two apprentices.

If you want to become an alchemist, you must first have a certain talent in alchemy and need to accumulate a lot of experience.

To become an apprentice of an alchemist, you have to be an alchemy boy for at least ten years. During these ten years, you can only practice and observe. However, apprentices are not allowed to touch the real alchemy.Ten years later, after you are familiar with all the processes, you can start with the processing of medicinal materials and step by step into alchemy.

The normal path from apprentice to alchemist takes at least fifteen to twenty years.

Moreover, this is not the cruelest part.

The really cruel thing is that the alchemist profession does not make any money at the beginning. On the contrary, you have to invest a lot of spiritual stones.

For an alchemist who has just started in the industry, the number of pills he can produce will not exceed [-]%. Even if he succeeds, the quality of the pills is very average and most of them cannot be sold directly.

And a furnace of elixirs, even for practicing, requires at least one hundred to two hundred spirit stones.

The number of successes requires investing in spirit stones and refining waste elixirs one after another. Only then can you slowly gain experience and gradually increase the number of successes to [-]%, [-]%, or [-]%.

And every time you refine a new elixir, you have to explore it again.

Of course, a mature alchemist can shorten the time of exploring new alchemy recipes and reduce losses.

Alchemists such as Ren Yuanjing, who has a [-]% chance of becoming an elixir, are considered extremely talented and will soon be able to reach the top.

But even Ren Yuanjing no longer knows how many furnaces of elixirs have been refined and how much energy and spirit stones have been invested to achieve today's achievements.

All in all, if you want to be successful in alchemy, you must have a good master, be talented in alchemy, have money and spiritual stones, and put in a lot of effort to become a mature alchemist.

It took at least 20 years and tens of thousands of spiritual stones were invested.

These conditions are indispensable. If one condition is missing, such as the lack of spiritual stones, then if the master or family does not provide support, even a talented alchemist may be trapped in poverty after refining many furnaces of useless elixirs, and may even be in trouble in the alchemy path from now on. Died in infancy.

It is precisely because the conditions for becoming an alchemist are so demanding that mature alchemists are so rare and sought-after, with high status and extremely high returns.

This is in line with Li Fan's idea of ​​​​doing difficult things to improve efficiency.

When Li Fan was in the Qi refining period, his daily time was arranged to the extreme, and neither spiritual stones nor resources were as rich as they are now. If he wanted to be an alchemist, even if he had a white bead imprint to solidify his attributes, he would have to spend every day Invest enough time.

Li Fan really didn't have time before.

But now that he has reached the foundation-building realm and has become a foundation-building overhaul, both his spiritual stone income and his status are much higher. He has more money and doesn't have to worry about spiritual stones and elixirs like before.

In terms of time, Li Fan has no intention of relaxing his cultivation. However, as long as the monks in the foundation-building stage are not injured or their roots are damaged, they have a life span of two hundred years. The years are long. He has time and leisure to calmly plan his future path.

Li Fan's determination to cultivate immortality has never changed, and as an alchemist, it has long been seen that not only can he be self-sufficient in elixirs, but he can also improve his status among his peers in the world of immortality, and earn a lot of money.

This can be clearly seen in the case of Alchemist Zong Jun recruited from the Xu family and Ren Yuanjing.

In a word, Li Fan didn't want to learn alchemy before, but resources and time really didn't allow it. Now that he has enough spiritual stones and time, he is ready to get involved in this way and study it in depth.

At present, Li Fan is only preparing to study the alchemy path carefully, rather than seeking perfection.

It is also a question of resource input and output. Li Fan has carefully analyzed it. He only has enough energy and time to delve deeper into one skill at present, and Alchemy is the path with the highest returns.

Li Fan sorted out his thoughts, and Ren Yuanjing also finished reading the prescription.

"This is the ancient elixir 'Lingxin Dan'. Its effect is to soothe the inner fire and get rid of the emotions caused by cultivation and restlessness. Long-term use can reduce the possibility of falling into inner demons."

"This kind of elixir is rarely seen on the market now. It is indeed a rare elixir and has a certain value." Ren Yuanjing commented.

He looked at Li Fan and asked, "What prescription do you want to change?"

Li Fan looked directly into Ren Yuanjing's eyes and said, "I can come up with three such elixir recipes. I want to replace them with Xuanyuan Dan, Yangshen Dan, and..."

Li Fan reported the names of five elixirs.

"They are the most common high-level elixirs." Ren Yuanjing thought for a moment.

Li Fan nodded.

Li Fan originally wanted to refine the most common elixirs in order to reduce the high cost of the elixirs used in his own practice.

His uncle actually had average talent in alchemy. He became an alchemist mainly because the elixir he had was special. It was an ancient elixir obtained from treasure hunting. Its effects were relatively rare and it was easy to refine.

If it comes to the most common and useful elixirs, Li Yuan's ability is not that strong and he cannot compete with an alchemist like Ren Yuanjing who is truly talented in elixirs.

Li Yuan also knew this very well, so he simply did not touch common but very useful elixirs. He did not even buy Peiyuan Dan, the basic elixir for the Qi refining period, and specialized in the ancient elixirs.

However, ancient alchemy prescriptions are very rare, so Li Yuan is quite famous among alchemists.

Li Fan is not planning to follow Li Yuan's old path.

Li Fan's situation is different from that of his great-uncle. What he needs is common and useful elixirs.

There are white beads imprinted on it. Although it requires some persistence at the beginning, the longer you practice alchemy, the more beneficial it will be for Li Fan.

There is no need to limit it to such a narrow field as Gudanfang.

Ren Yuanjing thought for a while.

"Okay, I'll change it." Ren Yuanjing said, "Your elixir prescription is worth studying. It happens that I am at a bottleneck in the elixir path, which may make me draw parallels."

Ren Yuanjing said, taking out five jade slips from the storage bag.

"This is the alchemy recipe. In addition to the original basic alchemy recipe, what is recorded in it is my daily alchemy experience, and I give it to you."

Li Fan nodded, took out two more pieces of paper containing the prescriptions and some insights, and handed them to Ren Yuanjing.

The two of them checked it individually and found that there was no problem.

Li Fan and Ren Yuanjing each took what they needed and both felt quite satisfied.

Ren Yuanjing received the prescription and was in a good mood.

"You have the elixir recipe, have you bought the elixir furnace?" Ren Yuanjing asked.

"Not yet. I haven't found anyone I'm satisfied with in Yangsu City. I plan to go to Wandao Gate before buying an alchemy furnace," Li Fan said, "Why, does Brother Ren have any recommendations?"

"Haha, if you don't have an alchemy furnace, you might as well buy this one of mine." Ren Yuanjing said.

As he spoke, he turned to look at a wall, and with a sweep of his consciousness, he touched a secret switch in the wall.

The entire stone wall opened with a low sound, pulled by the mechanism.

Li Fan looked around and saw that there was a storage room inside. There were many finished elixirs, as well as elixir furnaces and other items.

"Come in with me." Ren Yuanjing walked in front, Li Fan followed, and the two entered the secret room inside.

Ren Yuanjing walked a few steps and stopped, pointing to Li Fan a purple pill furnace on a nanmu shelf.

The alchemy furnace is the size of a human head, is purple in color, stands on three legs, is slightly oblate in shape, and has crane figures and cloud patterns on it.

"This is the Zixiao Furnace, the alchemy furnace I used to use. I used it to accumulate a lot of experience in alchemy, such as Xuanyuan Dan and Yangshen Dan. I used this alchemy furnace to refine them for the first time." Ren Yuan Jing looked at the Zixiao Furnace, recalling many memories with a look of nostalgia on his face.

After thinking about it for a while, Ren Yuanjing said: "The alchemy furnace is different from other magical weapons. Other magical weapons are new and the most expensive, and they will be discounted by several percent if they are circulated again."

"The alchemy furnace is different."

"The longer the alchemy furnace is used, the more valuable it becomes."

"This is especially true for the alchemy furnace of a famous alchemist like me."

(End of this chapter)