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Chapter 13 Refining the Elixir

Jiang Chen followed Feiyu to the depths of the cave. He felt that the steps seemed to be going down, as if he was moving deep into the center of the earth. After walking for about half an hour, he felt a wave of heat coming, Feiyu said, "It's here!"

Jiang Chen looked up and saw a red stone door in front of his door, with three golden words "Alchemy Room" written on it.

The fat fish took out a key from his arms and opened the stone door: "Brother Jiang, this is the alchemy room. You should get familiar with the environment inside. I'll prepare some food and water for you!"

Jiang Chen nodded. He didn't know how long he would stay here. Now his cultivation level is far from where he can fast, so food and water are naturally indispensable.

He then walked into the alchemy room and carefully looked at the situation inside the alchemy room. He saw that the alchemy room was not big, only more than ten feet in a circle, with a small bed and a cushion inside it, which seemed to be used for meditation and resting during the intervals of alchemy. In the center of the alchemy room, there was a three-foot-high hollow pillar like a chimney, with a handle on it.

Jiang Chen tried to rotate the handle, and saw a bright red flame spewing out from the top of the pillar, which was extremely hot and scared him.

After a while, he calmed down and tried to rotate the handle again. He found that to the left, it was to adjust the firepower smaller, and to the right, it was to adjust the firepower larger, which was very convenient.

After mastering this trick, Jiang Chenfang took out the pill recipe for the return elixir given by the man in the green robe, as well as the jade slip for "Alchemy Experience" given by Xu Guohua, and began to study it carefully...

Not long after, Fat Fish and Fat Mule arrived one after another and brought medicinal materials, food and water to Jiang Chen. Both of them looked at him with anticipation expressions and sighed: "Brother Jiang, it depends on you this time! If you cannot succeed, all three of us will die. We brothers have seen the fate of the two alchemists before, and now the bones are buried in the Lingcao Garden. If they cannot be refined, I am afraid that the three of us will follow their footsteps..."

After hearing this, Jiang Chen shivered and had to comfort them, "Brother Yu, Brother Mu, I can only do my best. The plan is for others and the success is for heaven. If I really do my best, it cannot be saved, so I have to accept my fate!"

Feiyu and Feimu also knew the difficulties, so they had to say, "Brother Jiang, then you can refine the alchemy with peace of mind. If you have any questions, please call us! We will all wait at the door!"

Jiang Chen nodded, and the two of them turned around and walked out of the alchemy room, and closed the stone door heavily by the way.

At this time, he continued to study alchemy. After reading the jade slip of his experience in alchemy, Jiang Chen finally had a certain understanding of the way of alchemy. He knew that the lack of artifacts in refining elixirs mainly lies in the control of the heat during alchemy and the time to open the furnace to retrieve the alchemy.

As for the proportion of various medicinal materials and the number of various medicinal materials, it has been clearly stated in the elixir recipe, so there is no need to consider it. Of course, it is OK to appropriately increase or decrease the number of elixirs at one time. As long as the fixed ratio is used, the number of materials placed can be increased or decreased.

However, this thing is simple to say, but it is extremely difficult to make!

According to the jade slip in the "Alchemy Experience", only by accurately controlling the heat of the alchemy cauldron, grasping the time to open the furnace, and calculating the best time to produce the alchemy, these three major problems have stumped so many so-called alchemy masters.

Generally, the chances of success of the first alchemy of a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage are almost one in a thousand. Even if a cultivator who has been trained and has a certain talent for alchemy, the chances of success will not exceed one percent within one month of alchemy.

Of course, after a long period of practice and using countless materials to pile them up, if a monk can refine pills with one-tenth of success, he can become a junior alchemist. However, this is limited to refining pills that he is more skilled. If he replaces pills that he is not familiar with, he is afraid that it will still not work.

Therefore, whether a elixir can be successfully refined depends entirely on whether the alchemist has rich experience. The more times a elixir is, the greater the chance of becoming an alchemist. Therefore, alchemist is the three most expensive professions in the immortal cultivation world that are in line with weapon refiners and talisman makers. Of course, they are also the three most popular professions at present.

After Jiang Chen learned about these situations from the jade slip in "Alchemy Experience", he knew that if he really took it as a rookie who had never refined the alchemy, he wouldn't have to say one percent, but he was afraid that a one-thousand chance of success might not be.

But he was fine. He had a demon order that could restore the refined pills. This allowed him to continue to refine it after failing once. No matter what work he did, he would be mature again and again. After repeated refining dozens of times, Jiang Chen still had the confidence to refine the Rejuvenation Pill.

After making up his mind, Jiang Chen placed his purple gold elixir cauldron on the hollow pillar.

Then, he gently swung the handle a little, and saw a bright red flame as thick as a chopstick from the mouth of the pillar, baking the bottom of the alchemy furnace. The air in the alchemy room also suddenly became hot, making people feel the hot fire waves coming towards him, which surprised Jiang Chen slightly.

Then, Jiang Chen tried again, changing the thickness of the flame until he was freely controlled, and then extinguished it. Then, he walked to the cushion, sat cross-legged, and began to accumulate energy.

Jiang Chen meditated and adjusted his breath for about half an hour. He felt that his spirit and physical strength were in the best state and his spiritual power had completely recovered. He opened his eyes and stood up, preparing to start formal alchemy.

At this time, the surface of the purple gold cauldron was burning hot, emitting a scorching high temperature outward.

Jiang Chen opened the lid with his left hand to reveal the mouth of the cauldron. Then he turned his right hand and took out a white jade porcelain bottle from the alchemy materials prepared on the table. He poured the grinded white herb powder into the cauldron according to the ratio required in the Huanling Pill Recipe.

After pouring in the accurately calculated portion, Jiang Chen put the bottle back on the table, then took out another portion of the medicinal material from the table and continued to repeat the same action.

In this way, Jiang Chen spent about an hour to pour the dozens of herb powders needed to refine the spirit pill into the purple gold cauldron, and then covered the lid again. This step went very smoothly, without any mistakes, and even the medicine powder did not fly to the ground.

Then, the second step began: heating and melting!

The bright red flames spewed out of the pillars changed from thin to thick under Jiang Chen's control, baking the bottom of the cauldron. The temperature on the surface of the purple gold cauldron became higher and higher, and it became slightly red. Jiang Chen even felt that the cauldron was trembling slightly in the flames.

However, no matter how much you complain, you still have to continue to practice the elixir. Jiang Chen had to sit down and continue to meditate and cultivate. After his condition was adjusted, he began the next round of alchemy process...

Forty days passed in a flash. Jiang Chen had already refined the spirit pill ten times, but all failed. All the pills were refined were waste pills. Although these materials could be restored, the energy completely disappeared after the Demon Order was restored twice, and it would take a week to recover.

So although he only takes one day to refine the alchemy, it takes seven days to wait for the Demon Order to restore energy, which is really enough.

During these seven days, Jiang Chen also practiced the magic that he had learned shortly before he learned alchemy.

Although this alchemy room is not big, it is at least ten feet in a radius, and the walls are very strong and durable. I only have the first level of the Qi Refining Stage. Whether it is the Netherworld Ghost Claw or the Ghost Fire Technique, hitting the walls is just a tickling for it.

Therefore, Jiang Chen naturally would not miss this opportunity. During the seven-day waiting time, he used it to practice spells except for eating, sleeping, and studying alchemy. Although his cultivation level has not improved during this period, his familiarity with spells and control power have increased a lot.

After several consecutive failures in refining the spirit return pill, Jiang Chen temporarily gave up on the work of refining the spirit return pill after thinking about it. He was a little doubtful if he did not have the talent for alchemy. If he was really not suitable for alchemy, even if he had the Heavenly Demon Order, it would be useless.

It just so happened that he had several elixir materials for Yuhuang Pills, and the experience of Xu Guohua's elixir was also in the elixir recipe for Yuhuang Pills. Jiang Chen turned to refining Yuhuang Pills, wanting to see how talented he was in refining other elixirs.

As a result, he found that it was much easier to refine the Yuhuang Pill than to refine the spirit pills. Jiang Chen only failed three times and succeeded. This fully demonstrated that it was not that he had poor talent in refining the alchemy, but that it was too difficult to refine the spirit pills.

You should know that according to the "Alchemy Experience", it would be great if he could refine Yuhuang Pills within ten times after more than a month of alchemy tests. However, he succeeded in the fourth time. This is already quite talented in alchemy.

In addition to being happy, Jiang Chen struck while the iron was hot and decided to continue to make Yuhuang Pills. He was also a little afraid that he had accidentally hit him just now.

However, the result of the refining made him very satisfied. The five parts of Yuhuang Pills on his body have now been converted into five yellow elixirs. The five parts of the materials have only failed thirteen times in total. This has strengthened his confidence in becoming an alchemist.

"It seems! This spiritual pill is really too difficult to refine!" Jiang Chen thought to himself.

Time passed day by day like flowing water, and half a year passed in a flash. In the past six months, Jiang Chen has not left his home except for eating food and water, and has been looking for fat fish and fat mules to replenish it three times.

Feiyu and Feimu saw a large number of medicinal materials placed on the table through the crack of the door, and both were worried. They thought to themselves that half a year has passed, why hasn't Jiang Chen started to refine alchemy yet? Even if he has to be familiar with the pill recipe, it will not be so long. However, looking at his appearance, he seemed to be in good spirits and was not very depressed. Now he can only pray that this kid can refine the pill successfully within the second half of the year.

After three consecutive months of busyness, Jiang Chen felt a little anxious when he saw that he could not refine it successfully. After the Demon Order was exhausted again, he simply lay on the bed and fell asleep, preparing to accumulate energy for seven days and relax his mood.

As a result, there was indeed a change. Early on the eighth day, when he started to refine the spirit pill again, he miraculously succeeded. He got a pill with green oil and emitting a trace of medicine fragrance.

"Is this the legendary spiritual pill? I have really refined it!" Jiang Chen couldn't help but feel happy in his heart holding this pill pill in his hand.

At this time, he put away the Demon Order, then walked to the door and opened the door.

The two brothers Feiyu and Feimu were sitting on the two reclining chairs in front of the room, half closing their eyes to rest. When they saw him walking out of the alchemy room, they were also shocked. The two immediately sat up with each other.

The fat fish hurriedly asked, "Brother Jiang, can you refine this spiritual pill?

"Fortunately, I'm not humiliating my fate!" Jiang Chen took out a small white porcelain bottle from his arms and shook it in front of the two of them.

Fat Fish and Fat Mule were immediately overjoyed and breathed a sigh of relief. Their lives were saved. They also understood the old monster's temperament. Although they were cruel and moody, they still kept their promises. They refused to admit their promises.
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