Chapter 404: Alchemy

Soul gate.

After Xiao Chen and Mu Qing returned to the Soul Sect, Xiao Chen planned to make elixirs.

During the half-year period when Xiao Chen was in coma and practicing, Xiaotian and Ao Tian found many precious medicinal materials in the deepest part of the Monster Mountain Range, and they were all based on the prescriptions of the Purple Heart Mysterious Life Pill and the Nine Transformations Tribulation Pill. , and is still looking for it, coming back every ten days or so.

"As my cultivation improves, the catastrophe is getting closer and closer. It is estimated that it will only be a month or two. I must refine the Nine Transformation Tribulation Pill as soon as possible. I will feel relieved then." Xiao Chen said to himself. Said to himself.

After a pause, Xiao Chen said again: "I will leave the Purple Heart Mysterious Life Pill to Senior Han You to refine it. I will refine the Nine Transformation Tribulation Pill, but the main medicine of the Nine Transformation Tribulation Pill is Qi Huan. There aren’t many Qingling saliva leaves.”

Xiao Chen came to the woods behind the palace, found a random place, took out the alchemy furnace that Ba Soul had left behind, and made preparations for the alchemy.

"Refining the Nine Transformation Tribulation Pill requires Seven Illusion Green Lingzhi Leaves, Purple Blood Lingzhi, Extreme Cold Lingzhi, Red Lingzhi Fruit, and Nine Colored Snow Lotus Leaves..." Xiao Chen muttered in his heart while taking out the medicinal herbs. A total of twelve different medicinal materials.

Not all the herbs used to refine the Nine Transformations Tribulation Pill are precious herbs. Among them, the most important herbs are Qixuanqing Lingzhi leaf, Purple Blood Ganoderma, Red Lingguo and other medicinal materials. The most precious of them is Qixuanqing. Lingshu leaves cannot be sold, and they are difficult to find deep in the Monster Mountain Range. Xiaotian searched for half a year and only got two plants. Other medicinal materials can be purchased at the auction house.

It was Xiao Chen's first time to refine the Nine Turns of Tribulation Pill, so he didn't know the degree of fire resistance of various herbs. The first time he refined it, he could only try to understand the degree of fire resistance of each medicinal material. , in order to increase the success rate of refining the elixir.

"Peng!"

Xiao Chen's palm turned into claws, and with a muffled sound, a wisp of black flame appeared out of thin air in the palm of his hand. Xiao Chen waved his hand, and the black fire flew into the alchemy furnace.

Naturally, Xiao Chen would not waste precious medicinal herbs, so he first put those herbs that could be purchased anytime and anywhere into the alchemy furnace for calcination.

Xiao Chen activated his true energy, quickly formed seals with his hands, and performed ancient alchemy techniques. At the same time, he activated his soul power and injected it into the alchemy furnace. At this moment, the black fire became violent.

Xiao Chen slowly closed his eyes and carefully observed the herbs. He must understand the degree of fire resistance of each medicinal material, otherwise, if there is a slight mistake, all the medicinal materials will be wasted.

Refining alchemy is the most terrible thing, more tiring than workers moving bricks.

certainly,

For Xiao Chen, an eighth-level alchemist, he could quickly master the degree of fire resistance of other herbs. As time went by, after a few hours, Xiao Chen had completely mastered the degree of fire resistance of other herbs.

Then came the extreme cold Ganoderma lucidum, Red Lingzhi fruit, and Purple blood Ganoderma lucidum, observing their fire resistance one by one.

The reason why Xiao Chen observes the herbs one by one is because Xiao Chen's elixir refining is different from others. Others' elixir refining is to calcine the herbs one by one, but Xiao Chen puts them all into the alchemy furnace for calcining at once, so he must understand them before he can refine the elixir.

As a few more hours passed, Xiao Chen also understood all the fire resistance of other medicinal materials except the Qihuan Qingling Saliva Leaf, and he couldn't help but feel a little excited.

Xiao Chen said with a proud smile: "Hehe, next is the Qihuan Qingling Saliva Leaf. I don't know how strong this most precious herb is in fire."

Xiao Chen took a deep breath, and then carefully put a Seven Fantasy Qingling Saliva Leaf into the alchemy furnace. The black fire was very weak, so Xiao Chen was worried about destroying this precious medicinal herb.

"Huh? It's strange, why is there no reaction? The black fire is more powerful than other flames. Although it is weak, it should be able to be calcined." After putting the herbs in for a few minutes, there was no reaction. Xiao Chen couldn't help but wonder.

"Increase the heat!" Xiao Chen thought to himself, and then activated the black fire. Under the control of the true essence, the heat slowly increased. Xiao Chen carefully observed the inside of the alchemy furnace through the cold and transparent surface of the alchemy furnace. The changes of Qihuan Qingling saliva leaves.

However, what surprised Xiao Chen was that as the heat increased, the Seven Illusion Green Spirit Saliva Leaf still did not move at all and remained unchanged.

"It's strange, what kind of herb is this? There is no movement at all. It can't be related to Wuhuo." Xiao Chen said in shock. This was the first time he encountered such a situation. Even he didn't know what was going on.

"No! It seems we need to increase the heat!" Xiao Chen said cruelly in his heart.

"Peng!"

The black fire was suddenly activated, with a muffled sound, and the heat suddenly increased twice. The powerful black fire wrapped the Qihuan Qingling saliva leaves, and every direction could be affected by the fire.

However, as Xiao Chen's heat intensified twice in vain, the Qihuan Qingling Saliva Leaf really changed. The skin of the herb began to slowly fade away, and traces of essence juice began to appear, and there was also a faint fragrance permeating the alchemy furnace. And out.

"Haha! It's done!" Seeing this scene, Xiao Chen immediately laughed ecstatically.

However, at this time, the light fragrance began to turn into a burnt smell!

"Huh?" Xiao Chen's smile suddenly froze when he smelled the burning smell. When he looked carefully, he saw that the herbs were burnt! A plume of black smoke emerged.

"No! The herbs are ruined!" Xiao Chen was shocked and quickly took out the herbs from the alchemy furnace, but it was too late and the herbs were burnt.

Seeing the burnt herbs, Xiao Chen's heart bleeds. Such a precious herb was actually burnt.

"It's a pity, it's so careless. This herb is worth a lot of money, but it was burned by me like this. If senior Hanyou knew about it, he would probably scold me to death." Xiao Chen said depressedly, but it was depression because the elixir always needed to be burned. Keep practicing.

Although it was scorched, Xiao Chen already had a rough idea of ​​the extent of the fire damage to the Qihuan Qingling Saliva Leaf. As long as he observed it again, Xiao Chen would definitely be able to figure it out. As the saying goes, failure is success. His mother.

"Be careful this time!" Xiao Chen thought to himself, and once again put a Seven Illusion Green Spirit Leaf into the alchemy furnace, activated the black fire, and quickly increased it to the previous heat, and it also weakened slightly.

Slowly, slowly, as the black fire calcined the leaves, the skin of the Qihuan Qingling salivary leaves slowly peeled off, much slower than before.

"Very good! The heat will be a little stronger." Xiao Chen thought to himself, staring at the alchemy furnace without blinking, and the black fire was also getting stronger little by little.

After a stick of incense, the medicinal herbs began to condense into essence juice, and the faint fragrance filled the air again. Xiao Chen was immediately overjoyed.

"Great! This is the heat!" Xiao Chen said with an ecstatic smile, but he did not dare to be careless and continued to control the black fire to simmer. When all the essence juice of the herb condensed out, Xiao Chen quickly activated his soul power to wrap the essence juice. stand up.

"Huh!" After doing all this, it was getting late, Xiao Chen took a deep breath, and his whole body felt relaxed immediately, and his forehead was covered with sweat.

Xiao Chen smiled happily and said: "It's not easy. It's much harder than calcining other herbs, but luckily it was successful! It's true that hard work pays off."

After resting for more than ten minutes, Xiao Chen recovered a little, and then continued.

"Hehe, it's time to make the elixir next!" Xiao Chen chuckled. After figuring out the fire resistance of all the herbs, Xiao Chen suddenly felt confident.

Alchemy is divided into five major steps: fire control, calcination, essence extraction, elixir condensation, and elixir formation, all of which are indispensable.

"Peng!"

Xiao Chen clawed his hand, and with a muffled sound, the black fire condensed out and flew into the alchemy furnace. Xiao Chen quickly put the herbs into the alchemy furnace.

"Drink!" Xiao Chen shouted. While stimulating his true energy, he injected powerful soul power. He quickly formed seals with his hands, and his mysterious gestures kept changing. The speed was so fast that afterimages were produced.

All the herbs for refining the Nine Transformations Tribulation Pill are being calcined in the alchemy furnace. Xiao Chen's gestures change rapidly. If you look closely, you can see that every herb in the alchemy furnace is wrapped in black fire and is receiving Calcining at different temperatures is the power of ancient alchemy!

This is fire control and calcination, two steps performed at the same time.

As time passed, half an hour later, most of the herbs in the alchemy furnace had shed their skin and began to condense their essence juice.

At this moment, Xiao Chen's gestures changed again. The true energy and soul power were activated crazily, which consumed a huge amount. In the alchemy furnace, whenever the essence juice was condensed, Xiao Chen used the soul power to wrap it up, just like the seven previous ones. Huanqing Ling saliva leaves like.

This is the third step to extract the essence juice.

After all the essences of the herbs were condensed, Xiao Chen's gestures changed again, completely different from the previous gestures. Xiao Chen shouted in a low voice: "Condensate the pill!"

This is the fourth step of condensing pills!

Xiao Chen shouted, and in the alchemy furnace, all the essence juice wrapped by the soul power, under Xiao Chen's control, the soul power dispersed, and all the changes were merged together. After the fusion, the black fire followed to calcine. The juice burns into a solid state and condenses into the shape of the elixir.

The four steps were completed at one time, and they were all very smooth. Now the fourth step is underway, which requires extremely strong fire control capabilities.

"You must be careful here. Every time you refine a new elixir or a more powerful elixir, you will fail at this step." Xiao Chen thought to himself, his face was extremely solemn. At this time, his face was already covered with sweat, and sweat was dripping. fall.

The reason why this step fails is because each type of elixir requires completely different heat levels in the fourth step, and it has nothing to do with the degree of fire the herbs receive. This is also difficult to grasp.

Under the calcination of black fire, the essence juice has gradually formed into a solid state and condensed into an oval bead the size of a longan. An exciting fragrance spreads out, and powerful spiritual energy continues to permeate the air.

"Great! Is it going to be successful?" Xiao Chen was secretly happy when he saw that the essence had condensed into a pill.

However, Xiao Chen was still too happy. Although the essence condensed into the shape of an elixir and emitted powerful aura, the elixir in the elixir furnace gradually became smaller and the aura emitted gradually weakened.

"Why has the spiritual energy weakened? What's going on?" Xiao Chen asked doubtfully. Judging from the confused look, he must have never seen it before.