Chapter 172 Hard Training
The excitement on Xiao Lin's face turned into frustration in an instant. He stared at the medicine liquid that had exploded into medicine residue and stopped rotating, and remained silent for a long time.
After a full hour, Xiao Lin sighed softly and showed a bitter smile.
Although he had expected the failure of the first refining of the Five Elements Spirit Pill, he was still frustrated when he saw that he was about to succeed but failed.
In Xiao Lin's opinion, he had spent this period of time studying the alchemy notes left by Uncle Tao, especially the refining of the Five Elements Spirit Pill, which he had read dozens of times, and every time he finished reading, he would spend some time to comprehend it carefully.
Moreover, in the process of refining the Water Spirit Pill, he also followed the steps recorded in the notes completely, and was very careful in every step. He even compared the heat of each time he put in the medicinal materials with the description in the notes.
But even so, it failed in the end.
Xiao Lin stared at the alchemy furnace, but he was thinking hard in his mind.
Xiao Lin once again recalled the steps of alchemy recorded in the alchemy notes, and began to carefully comprehend every step and every detail.
Half a day later, Xiao Lin cleaned up the residual liquid in the alchemy furnace and started to make the alchemy again.
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Two days later, Xiao Lin walked out of the alchemy room with a frustrated face. He first went to the spiritual field, pinched the water control formula to water all the spiritual herbs, and after checking that the spiritual herbs were growing well, he returned to the alchemy room again and continued to make the alchemy.
In the next ten days, Xiao Lin could be seen watering the spiritual herbs in the spiritual field listlessly every morning. Once, because of distraction, a small piece of spiritual mist grass was almost flooded.
This made Xiao Lin very nervous. The spiritual herbs in the spiritual field were the treasures of Uncle Tao, and there could be no mistakes. The spiritual mist grass was still okay, but if the few five-element spiritual herbs had any accidents due to his own negligence, then he would probably be severely punished.
After spending more than an hour to loosen the soil of the nearly flooded spiritual mist grass, and shoveled some soil to cultivate it again, Xiao Lin entered the alchemy room again.
Except for taking out some dried meat from the storage bag to fill his stomach and irrigate the spiritual field once a day, Xiao Lin spent all his time on alchemy. Even when he was eating, he was thinking about the process of alchemy.
What made Xiao Lin depressed was that he had refined dozens of furnaces of five-element spiritual pills, but every time the pills were broken at the critical moment of the pill, which almost drove him crazy.
I thought that with my experience in refining Yunling Pill and Huiyuan Pill, refining this five-element spiritual pill might have some twists and turns, but it should not be too difficult. The fact is that the refining of this five-element spiritual pill is at least several times more difficult than the first-level spiritual pills such as Yunling Pill.
This is also why Uncle Tao confidently gave the task of refining Yunling Pill to him and Xiao Yishao, but never mentioned the refining of the five-element spiritual pill.
In her opinion, it is impossible for Xiao Lin and Xiao Yishao to refine the five elements elixir with their level. Moreover, even if Tao Ling is a true disciple, there are not enough five elements spiritual herbs for them to squander.
Moreover, Xiao Lin is also very clear that although Tao Ling is in charge of this spiritual field, a certain amount of finished elixir must be paid every month, otherwise the authority of this Uncle Tao to manage this spiritual field will be lost.
Of course, who is in charge of this spiritual field has little to do with Xiao Lin. As long as he can study the art of alchemy quietly, he will be satisfied.
The days of alchemy are fulfilling and boring, but Xiao Lin's days of alchemy are full of bitterness. Watching the furnaces of elixir bursting in front of him, the frustration almost destroyed his confidence in alchemy. Xiao Lin even asked himself more than once after failing to refine the elixir.
Is it that he has no talent for alchemy at all? But obviously no one would answer him. Even in Tao Ling's notes on alchemy experience, only some of the process and details of alchemy were recorded, and she would not record the number of times she failed and her mood after the failure of alchemy.
Xiao Lin did not think so before, but after experiencing this dark period of alchemy, Xiao Lin finally understood the difficulty of becoming an alchemist. There are tens of thousands of outer disciples in the Qi Refining Stage and hundreds of inner disciples in the Foundation Establishment Stage in Dancao Mountain, not including those outer deacons and elders in the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Among these people, there are only 20 to 30 who are truly qualified as alchemists. Among the inner disciples in the Foundation Establishment Stage, there is about a one-twentieth probability.
Thinking about this probability, Xiao Lin can roughly understand why it is so difficult to refine the Five Elements Spirit Pill.
In Dancao Mountain, only the second-level alchemists who can refine the Five Elements Spirit Pill and have a success rate of more than 40% are called alchemists. The so-called first-level alchemists are at the level of Xiao Lin. In Dancao Mountain, they are not called alchemists, but alchemy boys.
Most of the Soul-Enriching Pills distributed monthly to the numerous Qi-refining outer disciples at Dancao Mountain come from the hands of the 20 to 30 alchemists who are in charge of the alchemy.
As for the Five Elements Spiritual Pills needed for the cultivation of the Foundation-Building Cultivators, they are all made by these 20 to 30 alchemists, without exception.
Even Xiao Lin's Senior Brother Xiao, who claims to have a talent for alchemy, cannot refine the Five Elements Spiritual Pills.
Thinking of this, Xiao Lin couldn't help but feel a little better. He cheered up and entered the alchemy room again, starting the arduous journey of alchemy.
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On this day, Xiao Lin sat in the alchemy room, looking at a green elixir in his palm with a calm face.
There were seven or eight jade bottles beside him. Only one of these jade bottles contained the five water elixir that Xiao Lin had just refined today, and the rest of the jade bottles contained the soul-enriching elixir that he had taken time to refine in the past few days.
Two months have passed since Xiao Lin started to refine the elixir, and it was not until today that Xiao Lin refined the first batch of water elixir.
After experiencing countless failures, Xiao Lin's mood had long been neither sad nor happy. Even the moment he refined this batch of water elixir, the feeling of joy was fleeting.
He gently put the Water Spirit Pill in his palm into his mouth. The Water Spirit Pill melted in his mouth and turned into a stream of clear water flowing down his throat into his body. After entering his body, it immediately turned into a cool breeze and penetrated into Xiao Lin's meridians.
As soon as it entered his meridians, Xiao Lin felt that a stream of pure spiritual power instantly filled his meridians, and his meridians suddenly began to ache.
Xiao Lin's face changed, and he closed his eyes in a hurry. He recited the formula of the eighth level of the Dry Water Sutra in his heart. Soon, his whole body was shrouded in a layer of misty water vapor, and his five senses gradually closed during the practice.
The next morning, the door of the alchemy room opened. Xiao Lin walked out of the alchemy room refreshed, looking at the beautiful scenery of the fairy mountain in front of him, and couldn't help but smile on his face.
After a whole night of practice, the long-lost feeling of rapid improvement in cultivation appeared again. The Water Spirit Pill was indeed worthy of being a second-level spiritual pill. Compared with the Yunling Pill, both the amount and quality of spiritual energy were at least ten times stronger.
It was precisely because of this that Xiao Lin spent a whole night to completely refine the Water Spirit Pill and turned it into pure mana flowing in the Dantian.
Sitting on a piece of bluestone next to the spiritual field, Xiao Lin supported his chin with his hand and fell into deep thought.
Through these two months of alchemy, Xiao Lin's attainments in alchemy have undoubtedly deepened a lot. The furnace of Water Spirit Pills he refined was by no means accidental, but a natural result after his alchemy skills had reached a certain level.
Although he could not reach a 40% success rate, in his opinion, a success rate of 10% or 20% was not a big problem, but he had not many five-element spiritual herbs on him, and there were only three pitiful fire scale fruits left.
Fortunately, the fire scale fruit in the spirit wood space will soon mature, and it should be ready for harvest in ten days or half a month.
Xiao Lin knew very well that with his current success rate, the spiritual herbs grown in the spirit wood space were probably not enough to sustain his cultivation. However, as he refined more and more five-element spiritual pills, the success rate would definitely increase, and then he should be able to reach a balance with the growth rate of the spiritual herbs in the spirit wood space.
After irrigating the spirit field, Xiao Lin entered the alchemy room again, closed the door, and entered the spirit wood space in meditation.
Looking at the four-leaf grass in front of him emitting a misty gray mist, Xiao Lin smiled. These four-leaf grass emitting a misty gray mist were the dust-cleansing grass planted by Xiao Lin.
Next to the dust-cleansing grass, the purple spirit flower had already produced a bunch of thumb-sized purple fruits, and it also emitted bursts of sweet smell.
The purple spiritual flower he picked from the spiritual spring in the cave has reached the limit of the growth of the second-level spiritual flower and has begun to bear fruit.
Looking at the various spiritual herbs and flowers growing in his spiritual wood space, Xiao Lin showed satisfaction on his face. After a while, he came to the sapling, stared at the small leaf on the top of the sapling for a while, and then flicked it lightly and left the spiritual wood space again.
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Xiao Lin started his hard life in Dancao Mountain, which was boring but extremely fulfilling.
After Senior Brother Xiao came several times to confirm that Xiao Lin was fully capable of refining the Yunling Pill, he completely "disappeared".
And Xiao Lin was also happy to have some peace and quiet. He swallowed the refined Shuiling Pill to practice the Dry Water Sutra. Half a month later, Xiao Lin harvested another batch of second-level spiritual herbs from the spiritual wood space and entered the alchemy room to start refining the Five Elements Spirit Pill.
After the last success, Xiao Lin's success rate of refining pills has indeed improved significantly. At least one pill can be made in every ten furnaces, and every time a furnace of five-element elixir is refined, Xiao Lin will swallow it directly for cultivation.
In this way, the five-element elixir refined is barely enough, at least one pill every two or three days is still available, and with Xiao Lin's current eighth-level cultivation, swallowing one pill of the five-element elixir every day is already the limit.
Three months later, Xiao Lin's success rate of refining the five-element elixir has reached 20%, which immediately made Xiao Lin rich and no longer have to live a tight life.
Although the days of cultivation are boring, they pass quickly, and a year has passed in the blink of an eye.