Chapter 65: Alchemy Behind Closed Doors

The five-leaf grass in Xiao Lin's spiritual wood space has reached a medicinal age of nearly 120 years, but there is still no sign of stopping. This shows that this grass is at least a third-level spiritual grass. As for what level it is, we have to wait until it is truly mature to know.

The main reason why Xiao Lin did not know the name of this five-leaf grass was that he did not dare to ask. If he asked around, he might be suspected by someone that he had obtained this spiritual grass. If this spiritual grass is extremely precious, it may attract powerful enemies above the foundation-building stage. With his current combat power, if he encounters a cultivator in the foundation-building stage, there is no hope of survival.

What surprised Xiao Lin was that the seeds obtained from the "immortal immortal" Hua Rongrong finally produced bright red fruits. This strange fruit is the size of a pigeon egg, bright red, and has a sweet smell. Even Xiao Lin almost couldn't help wanting to pick it and taste it.

However, he thought about it and decided not to do it. He was almost nineteen years old now. In two months, it would be his nineteenth birthday. He planned to take this strange fruit on that day. If it could really keep him young, he could keep his nineteen-year-old appearance forever. Although in the world of cultivation, there were many foundation-building cultivators who looked like they were in their teens or twenties, and even Jindan ancestors who looked like they were in their twenties were not uncommon, but most of them were because the techniques they practiced had the effect of keeping their appearance young.

Of course, there were also some talented geniuses with earth spirit roots or above who successfully built their foundations in their teens or twenty-years. Once they built their foundations, their lifespans would reach a terrifying two hundred years or more, and the decline of their physical functions would become extremely slow. A foundation-building cultivator in his fifties or sixties would look like he was in his twenties or thirties, which was normal. If he could enter the Jindan stage in his fifties or sixties, his lifespan would double again, so even if he lived to be one hundred and seventy or eighty years old, he would probably look like he was in his twenties or thirties.

But there are still very few such people. Most of the Jindan ancestors look like old men in their sixties or seventies. After all, entering the Jindan stage at the age of fifty or sixty is not only based on talent, but also luck sometimes accounts for the majority.

Moreover, there are not many techniques with the nature of preserving youth. Most male cultivators do not pay attention to their appearance, so few male cultivators will create some techniques with the nature of preserving youth. However, it is different for women. Relatively speaking, there are more techniques with the nature of preserving youth. So if you see a beautiful girl in the fairy city, don't be silly and think that she is only in her teens. Maybe she is a Yuanying old monster who is hundreds of years old.

In the next few days, Xiao Lin bought some auxiliary medicinal materials for refining the improved version of Yunling Dan. Ten days later, he drove the Seven Blades Slash and left Chixia Fairy City. Before leaving Chixia Fairy City, he also paid special attention to whether there was anyone following him. After experiencing the incident of being chased by three high-level Qi-refining cultivators in Wuyin Fairy City, Xiao Lin became more careful, and he didn't think that Huo Jun would really keep the secret and stop causing trouble for him.

However, what made him happy was that after he left the city, no one followed him. After flying thousands of miles, he was completely relieved and then looked for a hiding place in the Tianlu Mountains.

Two days later, Xiao Lin landed in a small valley. After patrolling the surrounding area of ​​dozens of miles, Xiao Lin used the Seven Blades to dig a small cave close to the root of the mountain, and dug it all the way into the belly of the mountain. After digging a temporary residence, he collapsed the cave entrance, forming a look like after an earthquake. This time, Xiao Lin planned to refine the improved version of the Soul-Enriching Pill here.

In the belly of the mountain, Xiao Lin sat cross-legged on the ground. In front of him was the purple silver furnace. Next to the purple silver furnace, there were a lot of herbs. Xiao Lin first sat cross-legged to restore the energy and spirit that had been lost in recent days. He opened his eyes an hour later, but he did not rush to start refining the pill. Instead, he closed his eyes again and began to meditate on the steps of refining the pill and the matters that needed to be paid attention to at each step.

After another two hours, Xiao Lin opened his eyes again. With one hand, he flicked a mini fireball, which instantly ignited the black charcoal under the purple silver furnace. The scorching flames instantly burned, and Xiao Lin's face was also reflected in the red light. After a while, seeing that the flames had stabilized, Xiao Lin poured in clean water and put auxiliary herbs into the furnace one by one.

Soon, the strong aroma of medicine filled the entire mountain belly. Xiao Lin also stared at the furnace with a serious face. The liquid medicine in the furnace had turned into a transparent emerald green and gently rotated in the furnace. Xiao Lin stared at the furnace closely, and kept thinking about the refining method of the improved version of Yunling Pill in his mind, and verified it with the refining process one by one.

Seeing that the liquid medicine in the furnace was about to turn transparent, and the liquid medicine was spinning faster and faster, Xiao Lin decisively opened the two jade boxes beside him, took out two mature Lingwu grass and threw them into the furnace, and then he pinched the magic formula with his hands and injected a series of spiritual formulas into the liquid medicine to speed up the fusion and condensation of the liquid medicine.

In this way, another hour passed, and the whole mountain belly began to be shrouded in a clear and rich medicinal fragrance. Xiao Lin's face also showed tension. The speed of the spiritual formula in his hands was faster, and his hands even brought out layers of phantoms. The liquid medicine in the furnace was spinning faster and faster, and in the middle of the liquid medicine, there was already a green pill slowly condensing.

"Puff" At this time, the green pill in the middle of the furnace suddenly burst, and the liquid medicine in the furnace also sprayed out directly from it, and it failed at the most critical moment of condensing the pill.

At the moment when the pill exploded, Xiao Lin used his magic power to prevent the liquid from splashing on him. He looked at the pill furnace with a thoughtful expression on his face. As for refining this improved version of the Soul-Enhancing Pill, Xiao Lin did not think that he would succeed in refining it the first time. He had expected this result in his heart. Although he failed, he was still disappointed, but it was completely within his expectations.

He stared at the pill furnace in a daze, but his mind was reviewing the process of refining the pill just now. Every step was replayed in his mind, and then verified with the pill formula in the jade slip again. After a few hours, his eyes regained their spirit again. He sighed softly, threw a Soul-Enhancing Pill into his mouth, and then began to meditate and practice.

An hour later, Xiao Lin woke up from his meditation, then cheered up and devoted himself to refining the pill again.

In the world of cultivation, alchemy and talisman making are recognized as the two most difficult professions. There is a success rate in alchemy and talisman making, because no matter alchemy or talisman making, each process is very complicated. For example, in alchemy, the placement of each auxiliary medicinal material, the circumstances under which the next auxiliary medicinal material is placed, the required melting time after each medicine is placed, the timing of the main medicinal herbs, the rotation speed of the medicinal liquid during the pill formation, and the degree of melting, each step is very critical, and the slightest mistake will lead to the failure of alchemy.

Refining elixirs can be said to be the most complicated skill in the world of cultivation. It is even more complicated than making talismans. Xiao Lin even heard the saying more than once when he was strolling in Chixia Fairy City: "Making talismans will make three generations poor, while refining elixirs will make the whole family poor." This sentence means that if you are a casual cultivator, it will take one or two hundred years, three generations in succession, and all the resources will be used to support one person to learn talismans. Maybe he can make some progress. Of course, this is just a possibility, and it does not mean that he can definitely become a talisman maker. To become an alchemist, the resources required may not be enough even if a large cultivation family fully supports it. There was even a case in the Tianlu Mountains where a cultivation family gave up everything to support a low-level cultivator in the family to learn alchemy, which eventually led to the decline of the entire family. Therefore, in the Tianlu Mountains, the real alchemists are basically in the five major sects, and it is rumored that there are only one or two great alchemists who can refine the third-level spiritual pill in Dancao Mountain. From this, it can be seen how rare these alchemists are. If Xiao Lin did not have such a heaven-defying place as the Lingmu Space, he would never be able to become an alchemist, and even the lowest-level Yunling Pill would not be able to be refined.

You know, when he first started to refine the Yunling Pill, he failed dozens of times in a row. If these resources were converted into spiritual stones, they would be at least tens of thousands. From this, it can be seen how difficult it is to refine pills.

Fortunately, Xiao Lin is not worried about resources. With the Lingmu Space, he has enough spiritual herbs for him to practice. Even if he fails, it is completely within his tolerance. In addition, he is naturally more stable and careful, and he is quite persistent in doing things, which allows him to persist in countless failures.

A month later, Xiao Lin sat in the belly of the mountain, his face covered with sweat, but his face was filled with an excited smile. On his palm, a bean-sized emerald green spiritual pill was rolling. Compared with the Yunling Pill that Xiao Lin had refined before, this spiritual pill was no different in size, but this Yunling Pill was more transparent. Inside the almost transparent spiritual pill, a faint green halo flickered, and the spiritual energy it emitted was at least 30% richer than the Yunling Pills he had refined before.

This was Xiao Lin's achievement in the past month. Today, he finally refined the first batch of seven improved Yunling Pills.

Xiao Lin looked at the Yunling Pill in his palm excitedly. The hard work during this period was finally not in vain. With this improved Yunling Pill, he could finally start trying to break through the bottleneck of the middle stage. This bottleneck was like a gully on his road to cultivation, which had blocked him for too long.

Thinking of this, Xiao Lin put the improved version of the Soul-Enhancing Pill back into the jade bottle, then took out an ordinary Soul-Enhancing Pill and put it into his mouth. He closed his eyes and began to practice. Before breaking through the bottleneck in the middle stage, he had to restore all the energy and spirit that had been lost during this period to its peak state.