Volume 4, Taiqing Sect, Five Hundred and Eighteen Grade Elixir

Liu Ming felt the magic power flowing out of his body rapidly, and his face was full of solemnity.

He had been waiting for this moment for a long time. He patted the two black leather bags on his waist, and two black mist rolled out, condensed slightly on both sides, and turned into a silver mini bone scorpion. and the ferocious flying head.

"Master!" The voices of girls and boys came to my ears.

Liu Ming didn't speak, he just glanced at them and gave simple instructions with his spiritual consciousness.

The next moment, Bone Scorpion immediately waved its pair of pincers and hugged Liu Ming's thigh, while Feitou released his hair and wrapped it tightly around his arm without saying a word.

Liu Ming nodded slightly, and carefully checked that all the materials in the Xumi snail and storage talismans at his waist were ready, then he closed his eyes, pinched with both hands, and began to control the speed of the flow of mana in his body. After the mana is absorbed, enter the mysterious space.

As time slowly passed, his face gradually turned pale from the previous rosy color, and the black mist that was constantly surging on his body became increasingly thinner.

After ten percent of its magic power was absorbed, the suction in the Dantian suddenly stopped.

When Liu Ming saw this, he breathed a sigh of relief. But before he could think about it, he only felt a "buzzing" sound coming from his ears, and then his eyes went dark.

When he saw the front clearly again, he was already in a gray space.

This space is already about an acre in size, and it seems to be much larger than the last time we entered.

Liu Ming glanced at the Flying Skull and Bone Scorpion beside him, and both of them were successfully brought into the mysterious space.

"Okay, we have plenty of time now. You two can practice hard." Liu Ming waved his hand and whispered.

"It's...Master..."

The Bone Scorpion waved a pair of giant pincers. Quickly jumped down and dodged. He appeared in front of a wall of air more than ten feet away, and at the same time, his tail hook swung and pierced towards the wall of air.

Not to be outdone, Feitou instantly transformed into nine phantoms and flew away in the direction of the other air wall.

Seeing his two spiritual pets starting to practice, Liu Ming glanced around and suddenly called out loudly:

"Senior Luohu, this junior has something to ask me.

Please show up and see me.

The sound echoed in the space. As a result, after waiting for about a quarter of an hour, there was no reply.

He called like this a few more times, but after waiting for a while, he still didn't appear.

Seeing this, Liu Ming shook his head helplessly.

It seems that Luo Hu is unwilling to appear at this time, or may have fallen into a deep sleep again.

He immediately sat cross-legged and began to silently recall the contents of some books he had read in the Hall of All Things that introduced the system and types of elixirs in Zhongtian Continent.

According to records, the Zhongtian Continent’s immortal cultivation world divides elixirs in extremely detailed ways, and it has become a major system in the cultivation world. It is not comparable to Yunchuan Continent at all.

Although generally practitioners use the level of application of elixirs as simple spiritual disciple level, liquid condensation level, crystallization level or even true elixir level or above to distinguish them. And based on the difficulty of refining, it is called low-level or high-level elixir.

But in fact, the elixirs at each level have different purity levels. It can also be divided into inferior, ordinary and top-grade elixirs.

Every elixir is refined. It inevitably contains some impurities that are not beneficial to the user, and can be easily identified through various means.

Among them are inferior elixirs. It means that the harmful impurities in the elixir exceed 50% and the purity is less than half. Ordinary elixirs are elixirs with a purity between 50% and 70%, and high-grade elixirs are elixirs with a purity of more than 70%. . Among them, 70% to 80% can be called ordinary-grade elixirs, 80% to 90% can be called earth-grade elixirs, and those with a purity of more than 90% are rumored to be heaven-grade elixirs.

Once the elixir is of high quality, spiritual patterns will appear on the surface of the elixir, and the more spiritual patterns there are, the higher the grade will be. And these spirit patterns are also called pill patterns. Therefore, even if you are not an alchemist, you can easily distinguish the grade of high-grade elixirs by the number of elixir patterns.

Generally speaking, elixirs with three or less elixir lines are of ordinary grade, those with three or more and six but not more elixir lines are of earth grade, and those with more than six are naturally of heavenly grade.

Once the elixir is sold, its value and price are simply incomparable to ordinary elixirs. After all, the higher the purity of the elixir, the effect and the resistance it brings are far from comparable to the latter.

Even for some elixirs with special effects, the difference in purity may be as small as 10% or even 50%, which may make a huge difference in the effects of taking them.

In Zhongtian Continent, only alchemists who can refine high-grade elixirs can be called true alchemy masters.

Liu Ming now recalled that the Qingsan Dan that Fang Yao refined for him when he was in Nanhai seemed to have two pill lines on the surface, and it was indeed worthy of being called a master of alchemy.

Of course, a high-level alchemist who can refine spirit disciple-level elixirs and liquid crystallization-level elixirs is naturally very different.

After all, the former can rely on the power of the sect or family and use a large amount of material resources to accumulate, while the latter can generally only rely on its own alchemy talent.

Liu Ming's thoughts changed, and he vaguely remembered that when he entered the mysterious space in Yunchuan Xuanjing, he had refined a large amount of the same spiritual disciple-level elixir to refine an ordinary elixir with a single elixir pattern.

The same is true for the entire cultivation world. The higher the level of cultivation, the more difficult it is for a practitioner to find an alchemy master who can refine elixirs suitable for his level.

Liu Ming thought about this, and suddenly he took out the jade box containing the silver elixir wrapped in three-color lamp flames from the Xumi snail at his waist, opened the lid of the box, and gently picked it up with two fingers. , put it in front of me and looked at it carefully.

After looking through the three-color lamp flame and confirming that there were indeed three golden elixir lines on its surface, Liu Ming's eyes flashed with a hint of contemplation before he shook his head again and put away the elixir.

"Then let's start with the Condensation Pill."

After muttering something to himself, he immediately took out a prescription from his sleeve and studied it carefully.

Half a day later, after careful consideration, he immediately flicked his sleeves, and a small light silver cauldron flew out from it. After a blur, it became several feet high and landed steadily on the ground.

He touched his sleeve again and took out a light yellow talisman.

The surface of the talisman is covered with dense silver spiritual patterns, and it is just an ordinary storage talisman used to hold alchemy materials.

He immediately crushed the storage talisman into pieces. After a flash of yellow light, a pile of materials needed for alchemy were scattered on the floor.

These materials were carefully distributed by him in the previous month according to the proportion of materials required for the condensation elixir, which was enough for him to refine the elixir for one day.

Since it is in a mysterious space, the materials used for alchemy are not really consumed, so in theory he only needs to prepare one set of alchemy materials to endlessly refine pills, but he is always cautious and still prepares five copies. .

A flash of light flashed in Liu Ming's eyes, and he changed his one-handed technique and shot a technique into the silver cauldron.

The silver spiritual pattern on the surface of the cauldron suddenly lit up, and with a rumble, the lid of the cauldron slowly opened.

He raised his sleeves, a gust of wind blew by, and the alchemy materials on the ground were rolled away into the cauldron.

The sleeves of the robe were gently caressed, and the lid of the cauldron was slowly closed again.

After doing all this, Liu Ming sat cross-legged, murmuring something in his mouth, making spells with his hands, and continuously pouring magic spells into the silver cauldron.

After the cauldron shuddered slightly, the red flames below ignited and enveloped the silver cauldron.

The second day.

There was a sudden "bang" explosion in the silver cauldron, followed by a burning smell wafting out of the cauldron.

Liu Ming frowned slightly, put away the spell in his hand, took out a black material residue from the cauldron, and then took out a light yellow talisman from his sleeve, pinched it into pieces, and poured the material into the cauldron. Enter and start the second alchemy.

…

One day a month later, when Liu Ming once again took out a ball of black residue from the silver cauldron in front of him, he couldn't help but frown.

This was already the thirtieth time he had refined the condensation elixir. None of the previous thirty times had been successful, and he had not even managed to refine a single elixir of the lowest purity.

He thought he had some expertise in alchemy, but he couldn't help but sigh. It seemed that the difficulty of refining the condensation-stage elixir was much higher than that of the spiritual disciple-stage elixir.

He stood up and stretched his muscles, and after observing the practice of Bone Scorpion and Flying Skull for a while, he sat cross-legged on the ground again and continued to refine the elixir.

…

Another month passed, and Liu Ming was still sitting in front of the alchemy stove, focusing on using his magic to control the fire, with big beads of sweat on his forehead.

Three months later, Liu Ming looked at a furnace of pill pills that smelled like burnt food, and smiled bitterly in his heart.

Six months…

Time flies, and a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

In the mysterious space, Liu Ming was still sitting cross-legged in front of the silver pill furnace, looking at a shining silver pill in front of him, a look of joy finally appeared on his face.

This condensation pill was the only one that Liu Ming succeeded in after trying hundreds of times in the past year. This was also thanks to his previous experience in making pills.

After a little identification through a simple secret technique recorded in the classics, the purity of this first condensation pill was only 30%, and it could only be regarded as a low-quality pill that could only become a pill.

Although it was only a 30% pure elixir, it greatly boosted Liu Ming's confidence.

You know, for ordinary people, not to mention hundreds of repeated failures, even if they face dozens or dozens of failures, many people have already given up with their confidence collapsed.

He immediately put the elixir into the jade box that had been prepared on the side, then crushed a storage charm, took out the materials and put them into the silver elixir furnace in front of him, and then began to concentrate on refining the elixir.

Now that he has had his first success, Liu Ming believes that the next time he refines the elixir, it will naturally not take too long. (To be continued...)