Unexpectedly, refining alchemy consumes so much money. There is no such factory in Mozhu Mountain, right? And when it comes to factories, the style of painting is not right! Doesn’t this show what the apostles of the legion have done! In order to fight for the world, you,

It’s too much to move all the tricks of working-class involution to the world of Xianxia! Come on, Axi!

But when I think about it carefully, something is wrong. According to Zhou Chengxue, this pill factory should have been established for many years to be able to meet Yuntai Peak’s monthly order of 300 Nine-turn Donghua Eternal Spring Pills, right? Could it be that in Axi?

Have other apostles helped Penglai achieve industrial modernization before? And this style of painting is wrong. It is obviously not a civilized system. Could it be that the Taoist Lords of Jiuzhen Sect don't have much to do with these weird things created by the proposers?

Did you ask?

Li Fan thought for a while, and when he returned to Zhou Chengxue's alchemy workshop with a bunch of materials, he pretended to chat casually and inquired, "But speaking of which, the workshop looks very strange. I wonder which senior came up with the original idea.

Is it designed like that?”

Unexpectedly, this time Zhou Chengxue suddenly turned his head and looked at Li Fan with a vigilant look, "Why are you asking about this!"

Li Fan was also stunned. He didn't know why he reacted so fiercely or whether he had been exposed again. "No, no, I'll just ask. It's obviously different from other Taoist palaces.

And I didn’t even see the Xuannv statue when I entered..."

Zhou Chengxue stared at Li Fan for a while and sighed, "Brother Li, after all, that workshop is the center of the master's sect. Don't ask around about some things. Let's refine the elixir first."

Huh? It’s strange, what’s the reason for this reaction? Is it because the friendship level is not enough to unlock new plots? It seems that there is indeed a big problem within Penglai...

However, Zhou Chengxue made it clear that he did not want to talk about this topic anymore, and ordered Li Fan to start arranging the alchemy directly.

Because the ingredients for various semi-finished products have already been prepared, in theory, it is just like stew, just put it in one pot. As for whether it can be made, and how many pills can be produced, in addition to the recipe, it also depends on the chef's touch.

Some, a little of that, and then the appropriate amount. In short, you can calculate it as you cook, adjust the heat at any time, and judge the quality based on experience.

Li Fan's task is very simple. He plays the role of a boy. He listens to the alchemist's instructions and helps arrange the jade boxes of materials according to the formations, arrange the magic circle, clean the alchemy furnace, move it here and there, and fiddle with it in the alchemy workshop.

The raw materials for the basic alchemy, plus things like firewood, charcoal, and stones, were smashed into pieces, and the furnace was opened and placed in layers. After the preliminary preparations were done, there was nothing else to do.

Zhou Chengxue was responsible for closing the furnace and lighting the fire, and detailed the process of alchemy. He sat cross-legged in the center of the formation, making secret calculations with one hand, and holding a whisk in the other hand. He swept and waved it from time to time to control the fire and wind, and added in sequence.

Various materials.

Zhou Chengxue didn't know that Li Fan had a photographic memory. He was concentrating on refining alchemy, and his consciousness was completely immersed in the alchemy furnace. As he watched, Li Fan actually understood a little bit, to a certain extent.

, you can say that the principles of alchemy and oil refining are similar.

Everyone must know about oil refining, and there is no need to go into details. Simply put, the oil is separated into its components through distillation, and then converted into fuel oil through chemical processes such as thermal cracking and catalytic cracking, and then refined using processes such as hydrogenation.

The flow chart of this alchemy is almost similar. First, the impurities in the elixir 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 energies are continuously injected, increasing or decreasing.

Daohuo. Follow the established formula and process, and if the materials are okay, as long as you are not a bad novice, you can initially refine it.

The first turn of the pill can turn it into an elixir. After the first turn of the furnace, it can theoretically be called the Donghua Changchun elixir. Of course, the effect can only be described as "if there is nothing", and it can be described as a game.

Probably just add a BUFF that continuously restores blood, but the amount of blood restored is extremely low. It may only be somewhat effective during the Qi refining period, but maybe the erysipelas is even stronger than this amount of blood restored...

So after this, one, two, three...seven or eight rounds are required to refine, remove impurities, concentrate the medicinal power, add various high-grade medicinal materials to neutralize the erysipelas, and refine the elixir to increase its effectiveness. As mentioned before, these nine rounds

The refining process is the so-called alchemy art. Every time you refine it, you will inevitably lose some of the finished elixirs. In the end, the whole pot may explode. If you can get one, it is considered a success.

Like those powerful alchemy masters in ancient times, they would be done if they refined a furnace of a thousand elixirs until only one elixir came out at the ninth or even seventeenth or eighth level.

However, the pharmaceutical factory in Penglai pursues output and ensures that the one hundred pills refined to the ninth level will complete the task. In other words, if you refine it to the eighth or tenth level, the efficacy of the medicine may not be much worse, but it is meaningless because of the specifications.

It's the ninth turn that's stuck.

This time, Zhou Chengxue had made an agreement with Li Fan in advance. He collected a lot of rare items and used ancient methods to refine elixirs, so he would not stop after the ninth round and try his best to continue refining, roughly ensuring that about ten exquisite items would be produced. Li Fan

Fan was not short of his "high-quality products" and wanted to see Zhou Chengxue's craftsmanship and compare the "Nine Turns" given by the artist, so he agreed immediately.

At this moment, he started to make alchemy. Li Fan could clearly see that the relief of the auspicious beasts beside the nine-layer alchemy furnace seemed to be alive. He lay on the alchemy furnace and looked left and right. From time to time, he would open and close his mouth.

It sprays out smoke and mist in seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

Looking from bottom to top, Chiki usually keeps his or her mouth shut in the bottom two floors. Of course, not opening his mouth is a good thing. According to Zhou Chengxue, usually if they open their mouths, they will explode. Chiki is to put out the fire.

Yes, it will spit out ash to decompress and prevent explosions. If you are really unlucky and the pot explodes, naturally only the boss at the bottom of the pot will spit out the dregs.

The third layer is Suzaku. Needless to say, red fire blooms all over the body. Generally, the elixirs are made of Chi Sha True Fire. When the furnace is started to be heated, they will all be red. Different Dao Fires will be used as needed, and the color will naturally change with the temperature.

Change. This step requires advanced fire-bending skills. Of course, there is no problem with the real people of Xuanmen, but other casual cultivators, haha.

The fourth layer of Suanni will also spray orange-red flames from its holes, mouth and nose from time to time. This is regarded as an auxiliary valve port, which is used when adjusting temperature and pressure.

The white tiger toads in the next five or six layers will spray golden metal juice or green elixir jelly from their mouths to remove impurities that melt into liquid.

The Qinglong Xuanwu Qilin on the seventh, eighth and ninth floors will emit blue smoke, blue mist, and purple clouds respectively, all of which are vaporized red clouds filled with impurities and erysipelas.

The red-grey mist sprayed out of the beast's mouth was wrapped in spiritual energy. It steamed away from the carved mouth like a rice cooker, and was then sucked up by the magic circle on the roof, which was probably the function of a range hood. Without further processing, it was just

The breeze blows out and blows outside.

Uh, okay, it seems that the immortals don't pay much attention to environmental protection. After all, even the elixir slag is a highly concentrated 'spiritual material', and it will probably precipitate naturally in the environment of Penglai Cave. Who knows.

Li Fan could only protect the outer circle and see the changes in the alchemy furnace, but he could not directly penetrate his spiritual consciousness to see the actual situation of the elixirs in the alchemy furnace. After all, it was Penglai's famous secret elixir recipe.

Therefore, even if he can forcefully remember the order of adding ingredients, he will not know what specific changes occurred in the alchemy furnace, and what judgment Zhou Chengxue based on what operations he performed. It depends on him sometimes calculating, sometimes adding ingredients, and sometimes

Making a fire and expelling impurities from time to time, I don't know the real secret.

This is the old-school traditional alchemy refining process.

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

Zhou Chengxue should also have a solid foundation. Although the process time for the first six turns will be doubled with each additional round, and the flame color will also increase by one level, he can be refined very quickly without making any mistakes. By the seventh

The process slowed down significantly at the beginning, not only because it required additional inputs, such as Cana red coral, but also because it had to be calculated over and over again. The probability of becoming a high-grade elixir was probably quite low.

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

When the seventh round of refining reaches a critical stage, the wind suddenly begins to rise. Or to use a common saying in immortality novels, it is about to start absorbing the essence of heaven and earth to create a high-grade elixir.

Of course, Li Fan couldn't miss this famous scene. He happened to have a Bagua mirror provided by the system that could see the 'vortex of Qi', so he took it out and observed it secretly.

Sure enough, we can see that the formation flag gates around us are opening one after another as Zhou Chengxue seals the secrets. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is like a huge whirlpool, being absorbed into the alchemy furnace in the eye of the storm. The sculptures of mythical beasts on the alchemy cauldron also seem to be breathed out by monks.

, slowly absorbing the filtered spiritual energy into his mouth. Occasionally, if the ratio is wrong and the spiritual energy is not enough, Zhou Chengxue has to spit out a breath of pure Tao breath to make up for the gap in the alchemy.

Once or twice is enough, but it takes a month to refine the nine rounds. If you refine the seventeen or eight rounds, God knows how much energy will be consumed. It seems that the alchemist has no skills, and it is really impossible to refine the elixir to a high number of revolutions.

Woolen cloth.

Li Fan was watching the fun as a layman. Suddenly, he noticed something disharmonious. There were many turbid air masses around the spiritual energy cyclone that gathered towards the alchemy furnace like a storm. If you look closely, you will see that they are tiny vortices, like ginseng.

A small tornado mixed in a big storm.

These turbulent flows may be caused by the conflicting and mixed spiritual energy stirring together, or they may not be filtered by the surrounding magic circle. More or less, there is always a point. As the spiritual energy gathers around the alchemy furnace, it is enveloped by the spiritual energy, and the volume is rolled up.

Go to the alchemy furnace.

Although it has not directly affected much now, because those obvious turbulence and uncoordinated impurities will naturally be accounted for by Zhou Chengxue, and dispersed with a whisk to straighten the breath, and the auspicious beasts on the alchemy furnace also seem to have the function of filtering sieves

.However, these vortices themselves are cyclones of spiritual energy, which the alchemist cannot notice. Being dragged in like this will inevitably affect the quality of the alchemy over time.

It just so happened that when Li Fan had studied system props before, he discovered that there was a jade ring that could solve similar problems. Although no one had taught him the way of alchemy, the evidence he could see with his own eyes was more convincing than any experience teaching. So,

Li Fan pretended that he couldn't sit still anymore, stood up and walked around the outer circle to stretch his muscles. In fact, he used the jade pendant hanging around his waist to sort out the eddy currents in the outer circle and help straighten out the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Zhou Chengxue probably couldn't tell what Li Fan was doing, but it was obvious that the frequency of his secret calculations and fog whisks were much less frequent, and the seventh round of refining the elixir was indeed completed smoothly. The entire elixir furnace began to

It exudes a dense glow of precious light, is surrounded by immortal breath, and glows with rays of light, giving rise to a strange fragrance.

"...Today went so well. I'm not unfamiliar with my skills yet?" After the alchemy furnace stabilized, Zhou Chengxue opened his eyes and looked at the auspicious signs surrounding the alchemy cauldron in front of him. He was also astonished.

Li Fan stretched his body and said, "Oh, have you finished practicing? It's so fast. Did you finish practicing in just one day? Brother Zhou is really amazing!"

Zhou Chengxue shook his head, "No, this is the seventh level of refinement, the state of Tai Chi transformed into the alchemy furnace, and then it will be left for three days, a round of pregnancy and nourishment, and see how the heat is, but I think this time it went quite smoothly.

, maybe there will be a lot of magic pills to achieve top-level results.”

That is to say, the stew is done next, and the eighth round will be practiced again in a few days, so it usually takes a month to complete the ninth round. Well, although the elixir tastes good, to be honest, it is quite boring to practice.

Just like everyone knows that cooking by themselves is cost-effective and delicious, but no one wants to buy and wash the vegetables and dishes by themselves...

"Okay, okay, brother Zhou, let's go have a drink. How about completing missions or something together?" Li Fan had not played any games for another day, and he was too idle.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Chengxue was staring at his alchemy furnace with a peaceful and happy smile, "Oh, forget it today, I suddenly feel that I have been enlightened in the art of alchemy. Taking advantage of my current understanding,

Still keeping it in mind, I will go into seclusion and do a few sets of questions."

Li Fan stared at him as if he had seen a ghost, "..."

"Thank you to Brother Li this time for bringing these elixirs to make medicine, so that I can get some inspiration... By the way, I heard that Brother Li has newly married a concubine. I recently got some rare gemstones. I think it would be great to make them into jewelry.

I just gave it to Brother Li, it’s not a valuable thing, it’s just a little token of my gratitude.”

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

Li Fan looked at the ore that Zhou Chengxue handed over casually, and was quite speechless. He said that he wanted to make some plans, but it turned out to be in his hands so easily.

And speaking of Zhou Chengxue, when he first came to see him, wasn't he asking about what materials he got from going out to sea? Could it be that he originally wanted to take this 'useless junk' in exchange for the 'trash that can be found everywhere' that Li Fan picked up.

Bar……

Forget it, it’s just trading rags for garbage anyway, everyone is like ‘I lose, you gain’, everyone gets what they need.

So Li Fan did not disturb Zhou Chengxue's evening self-study, and went back to find Xiao Yunan to see how her dictation of "Xiao's Lingshu" was going. If it was completed, maybe it could be used to practice and study it.

Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the gate of Shenzhen Palace, he was stopped by someone.
To be continued...