Chapter forty-four first acquaintance with Dan Dao
Li Fei felt so lucky that he found that the words in this jade slip were exactly the same as those on the folding fan! They were written from ancient cultivation codes, with not much content, with a total of less than 10,000 words.
Soon, Li Fei read it through and finally found that it was not half of his experience at all. He only recorded the preparations before the alchemy! Just after the introduction of the spiritual medicine, the introduction of the refining experience was suddenly interrupted. Li Fei was very regretful!...
The first part of the jade slip introduces the principle of alchemy. The roughly means that the alchemy tripod is equivalent to a miniature "world". It can simulate the environment of the world to a certain extent. The higher the level of the alchemy tripod, the better the simulation effect, the higher the success rate of alchemy and the quality of the elixir.
Moreover, the higher the spiritual pill, the more stringent the requirements for refining. Low-quality alchemy tripods cannot be refined. They can also be summarized as: "Creating alchemy tripods, high and low size, wide and narrow thickness, attribute arrangement, five elements distribution, formation planning, and according to the law."
The process of alchemy is to use the principle of the cycle of the five elements and the law of the evolution of all things, supplemented by the source power of the spiritual mantra, to absorb the spiritual energy of the heaven and earth, collect the essence of the spiritual herbs, and thus achieve the effect of "a thousand-year-old energy, one day, and the treasure of the mountains and lakes, seven days."
The latter part of the jade slip focuses on the impact of the accuracy of the elixir formula on the efficacy of the medicine. The grasp of the degree is extremely complicated and requires extremely high talent to fully understand it.
It can be said that improving the level of alchemy is an endless process, and the level of alchemists is reflected in this link.
The extraction and preservation of spiritual medicines is also extremely important. This is the basic skill of an alchemist. It can be said that it is also a process that can be continuously improved. The extraction and refining of any kind of spiritual medicine requires meticulous spirit and good understanding. After the extraction and refining of the medicines, different restrictions need to be blessed according to different attributes and characteristics to maintain the medicinal properties and quality, thereby avoiding affecting the final elixir and quality.
In short, many steps, as long as one of the links is not deeply understood, it will lead to overall failure, so there are so few alchemists!
Of course, the preciousness of various heavenly and earth treasures used to refine spiritual pills is also an important objective reason, because it is impossible for any cultivator to have the opportunity to come into contact with this field. Most cultivators are still working hard to make a little progress in their cultivation. Who would waste the materials they have finally obtained...
After memorizing the contents in the jade slip, Li Fei reviewed the "Basic Alchemy Chapter" he had learned before, and combined them to verify each other, so as to deepen his understanding. For some difficult content, he will temporarily put it aside, and strive to integrate the easy-to-understand content.
Li Fei estimated that some things can only be truly experienced in practice. It is impossible to become a master alchemist just by looking at the summary of his predecessors.
There is no time to cultivate the truth, and three months passed quickly. During this period, Li Fei spent all his time studying the refining of the spiritual pill except taking the spiritual pill.
There are gains when you work hard. Li Fei basically knows nothing about alchemy since the beginning. After these three months of study, he has some confidence in alchemy, and it needs to be verified in practice.
Li Fei took out the jade boxes and stored them in different grid areas. He originally planned to purify them all at once, but considering that if he does not have the talent in this area, he should not cause too much waste, so he decided to refine thirty copies first, so he treated these thirty copies as experiments. If he succeeded, he would naturally continue, and if he failed, he would end there.
Although Li Fei really wants to become an alchemist, he understands that many things cannot be achieved by just hard work, but also require strength, talent and luck.
Next, Li Fei cleaned up each spiritual medicine one by one, checked it, and after confirming it was correct, he began to refine the work.
First, Li Fei selected three main spiritual medicines for refining the spiritual transformation pill: Lingguan, Huang Lingjing, and Cistanche, one by one. According to the requirements of the jade slip, each spiritual medicine was processed differently, and then classified and collected according to the corresponding characteristics.
Since Li Fei had no experience in purifying the elixir for the first time, he had no experience in systematic learning and was completely "reading according to the script", so the speed was very slow, but fortunately nothing went wrong.
Five days later, Li Fei finally completed the purification of the three main elixirs, and felt like a battle, which was very tired! Li Fei decided to take a day off first, and summarize some of the experiences in the purification process, and verify them in a targeted manner with the content recorded in the jade slip.
A day later, Li Fei regained his fighting spirit and his confidence increased a lot. At the same time, he also found that he still had a little talent and felt that as long as he was serious and careful, it was not as difficult as he thought.
Then, Li Fei began to purify five auxiliary elixirs. With the previous experience, and after all, the auxiliary elixirs cannot be compared with the main elixirs. They are more courageous, and the purification will be much more natural and the speed will be much higher.
After five days, Li Fei successfully completed the purification of five auxiliary elixirs.
This time, Li Fei felt a little tired, and after resting for a long time, he recovered. Then he took out the recipe for the Spirit-Cultivation Pill bought from Danji Sect and studied it carefully.
An hour later, Li Fei had completely memorized the contents of the jade slip, and also discovered what was the approximate content that was erased at that time.
There is basically no problem with the pill recipe. The exact amount and key order of each elixir are relatively clear, but some details that are not very critical are deliberately blurred.
Although he knew he had been hacked for a while, Li Fei had no choice but to rely on his own exploration. I hope the other party would not be too dark for Ruth's sake, otherwise it would be miserable.
After studying the pill recipe, Li Fei took out the pill tripod that he bought at a high price.
The alchemy tripod is generally yellow-black and very small, and can be put on your hands to play with. The tripod has two ears, one cover, square belly, and four feet are hollow. Except for the center of the four sides of the tripod, there are patterns everywhere, decorated with sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, flowers, plants, birds and beasts... all of which are vividly portrayed.
Li Fei checked it and found no problems. He put it away and decided to have a good rest and start the furnace and refine the alchemy tomorrow morning!
The next morning, according to the legend I heard before, Li Fei took a shower and changed his clothes, and then walked into the alchemy room with great energy and looked at the alchemy furnace carefully for the first time.
The alchemy furnace about one zhang high gradually contracted from bottom to top, with only two feet square at the top, and a groove half a foot deep in the four corners, which was used to fix the four legs of the tripod, and a black hole about one foot in the middle, which looked quite mysterious.
Li Fei made three spells in a row, and the alchemy tripod expanded rapidly. It didn't stop until it was three feet tall. Another movement spell was made. The alchemy tripod made a "crack" sound and landed accurately on the alchemy furnace. After the alchemy tripod was placed safely, Li Fei quickly made nine spells. The alchemy tripod made a slight "buzzing" sound, activated the ban on the alchemy tripod and completed the initial opening of the alchemy tripod.
After checking that there was no problem, Li Fei made six magic tricks on the alchemy furnace. The entire alchemy furnace emitted a slight vibration. With a "swish", a large amount of yellow flame emerged in the black hole in the middle of the alchemy furnace, and began to preheat the alchemy cauldron.
Half an hour later, Li Fei made three magic tricks on the alchemy furnace again. The yellow flame turned orange, accelerating the preheating of the alchemy. As the alchemy was gradually heated, the patterns on the alchemy became clearer. Under the heat wave, it seemed to come alive, and a layer of mystery was covered with.
An hour later, Li Fei made another spell, and the orange flame turned into a lilac. At this time, the temperature during the alchemy had risen a lot, and Li Fei estimated that it would be even hotter later, so he simply took off his clothes and only wore a pair of sports shorts.
The lilac flame continued to heat up for two hours, and the red cauldron had faintly revealed a hint of redness. Li Fei used a trick, and with a "bang", the cover of the cauldron flew up, and then stopped above the cauldron and kept still.
Li Fei observed the inside of the alchemy and found a faint purple mist rising from the alchemy. He curiously tried to penetrate a small stream of divine thoughts, but he could not go deeper. He quickly bounced out and had to give up and continue to observe with his naked eyes.
When the purple mist in the alchemy tripod became denser, Li Fei began to get busy in a nervous and orderly manner. He strictly followed the requirements of the alchemy formula and put the refined spiritual medicines into the alchemy one by one at the prescribed moments. At the same time, he paid close attention to the changes in the alchemy tripod and adjusted the size of the fire in time.
It sounds simple, it seems to be similar to cooking, but the actual process is extremely complicated. You need to constantly make magic tricks at the right time and activate various restrictions in the alchemy tripod. You have to constantly change the temperature and timing. If you are not careful in grasping the temperature and timing, all efforts will be lost...
This state lasted for three days, and Li Fei's face was flushed, and his clothes all over his body became dry from sweat to wet, and then from dry to wet…
After three days of alchemy refining, Li Fei's divine consciousness and mana consumed a lot. Finally, he finally survived and finally entered the next relatively relaxed stage of the Pill. The moment he covered the cauldron, Li Fei was so tired that he lay on the ground and gasped...
After a little rest, Li Fei continued to cheer up and pay attention to the process of the elixir. Although this stage is not as hard as before, it is also a very important stage, because all the previous efforts were to enter the elixir stage.
The time for the spiritual transformation pill accumulation will last for seven days. During this period, you need to pay attention to and adjust the orderly transformation of the fire in time. If you miss the opportunity, you will directly cause the use of pills. This is why alchemists are most taboo to disturb them when refining pills.
Seven days are not long, but for Li Fei, it feels extremely long. He actually wanted to take a break in the gap, but he didn't expect that this kind of slow torment would be no easier than the previous alchemy!
During this process of waiting for unknown results, Li Fei was always nervous. On the one hand, he hoped to come up with the result soon, but on the other hand, he was afraid that the result was not what he expected.
Chapter completed!