Chapter 1014: Golden Pill Formation
Perhaps Qingyang's alchemy skills have reached a bottleneck. After all, he is only at the foundation-building stage, but he has to refine the top-level golden elixir among the golden elixir-level elixirs. Therefore, his alchemy skills have improved very slowly during this period. Seven or eight months have passed. In his continuous attempts, the success rate of simulated refining of the golden elixir has only reached 30%, and there has been no progress since then.
Four or five months may seem like a long time, but in fact, Qingyang has not simulated refining the golden elixir very often. It takes about five or six hours to prepare and refine a pill. It takes five or six days to refine all ten materials. In addition, it takes time to prepare for alchemy, rest and restore the true essence and spirit, and summarize the experience of failure and success. It is common to use up ten materials for seven or eight days or even ten days. Four or five months means that he simulated refining more than a hundred materials. It is not bad to have such an improvement.
After trying several times, Qingyang also felt the bottleneck of his alchemy skills. He knew that he could not improve his alchemy skills by simulating refining. Qingyang had to give up. He flashed out of the Ziyun Tongxiao Ding, and after a little preparation, he began to refine the Jindan.
Qingyang first spent nearly half a month meditating to restore his true essence and adjust his mentality. Then he practiced with low-level pills. After finding the feel, he went through the refining process of the Jindan in his mind, and then took out the materials for the Jindan and started refining.
Qingyang used the Ziyun Tongxiao Ding, which was obtained from the Thousand Hands Pill King in the Zhongsha Region. It is a spiritual treasure in itself, which has a certain bonus effect on the success rate of refining pills.
The fire was provided by the Fire-Driving Gourd. This treasure was the second gourd that Qingyang picked from the gourd vine in the Drunken Immortal Gourd space. It was refined by Master Shi Han and was a rare treasure. Later, Qingyang collected the extreme fire in the Yinfeng Extreme Fire Cave and got a lot of extreme fire stones to provide energy. Now the Fire-Driving Gourd is much more advanced than Xia Meng's Earth Core Extreme Fire Furnace.
Extreme fire is higher than earth fire, and even better than the Dan fire of Jindan cultivators. It is often used by cultivators to assist in refining tools and alchemy. It is much more convenient than using spiritual materials. The Fire-Driving Gourd refined by Master Shi Han is convenient and practical, and it also has a significant auxiliary effect on Qingyang's alchemy.
Because of this, Qingyang was quite successful in refining the Golden Pill. There was no mistake in the first batch of materials. It was not until the final condensation of the pill that some abnormalities appeared, and finally failed. After all, there are some differences between real refining and simulated refining. The materials used in simulated refining are exactly the same each time, while the actual materials are slightly different. When used, the refining method and dosage need to be fine-tuned, otherwise the success rate will never be improved.
The first failure did not hit Qingyang, but made him understand the subtle differences between simulated materials and real materials, gain a deeper understanding of elixirs, gain more experience and insights in the refining process, and be more confident in the refining of the golden elixir.
After that, Qingyang made some adjustments, summed up the experience and lessons, and started refining the golden elixir again. The specific process will not be described in detail. In short, the second and third portions of materials failed, but the fourth refining was successful and the first golden elixir was refined.
Then Qingyang continued to work hard and used up all the remaining 15 portions of the golden elixir materials in one breath, and refined four more golden elixir. Together with the previous one, the 19 portions of materials succeeded five times in total, which was slightly better than his previous prediction, and the success rate reached more than 26%.
The real pill refining is different from the previous simulation refining. Qingyang has to summarize every time he finishes refining a material. If it fails, he must find out the problem to avoid making such mistakes in the future. If it succeeds, he must also summarize the experience and carry it forward in the future refining. At the same time, he must adjust his mentality and restore his true essence. It takes much longer than the simulation refining. It took almost a month to use up all the 19 materials. So far, Qingyang has been in seclusion for ten months.
Looking at the golden pill in his hand, Qingyang couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. For these things, Qingyang spent decades preparing materials and countless energy to improve his alchemy skills. Today, he finally succeeded. On average, the value of each pill is almost tens of thousands of spirit stones. The key is that this thing is extremely scarce. Even if you have spirit stones, you have nowhere to buy it.
Qingyang can get three of these five pills, and the remaining two are for others. Nearly ten months of hard work have not been in vain. Three golden pills should make his own pill successful, right? Thinking that he would soon become a Jindan cultivator, Qingyang's fatigue suddenly disappeared.
Qingyang held the pills in his hand and looked at them for a long time before he reluctantly put them away. Then he adjusted his breath a little, got up and walked out of the retreat room.
Outside, many people were always paying attention to Qingyang's movements. Qingyang was not the only one who was eager to form a Jindan. Others were also eager. Qingyang had just finished his retreat, and Xiying, Xiao Yuhan, Yu Mengmiao and her senior sister came to the yard where Qingyang rented.
As soon as he entered the yard, Xiao Yuhan couldn't wait to ask: "Junior Brother Qingyang, how was the retreat this time? Did you succeed in refining the Jindan?"
Without waiting for Qingyang to answer, Xiying next to him said: "Do you still need to ask? It must have succeeded. Junior Brother Qingyang has always been steady in doing things. How can he do something he is not sure of? What we should ask most is how many Jindans have been refined by Junior Brother Qingyang, and whether they are enough to distribute."
Qingyang did not deliberately whet their appetites, and directly took out two jade bottles and said: "The pill refining went smoothly this time. Nineteen materials have refined a total of five golden pills. According to our previous agreement, I will keep three, and each of you two groups will have one."
After that, Qingyang handed the two jade bottles to Yu Mengmiao and Xiao Yuhan respectively. The two took the bottles and couldn't wait to open the lids and pour the pills into their hands.
The round pills are about the size of peanuts, dark green in color, with fine pill patterns on the slightly shiny surface. A slight sniff of the pill's subtle fragrance is intoxicating. A divine sense probes it, and the surging energy inside is ready to burst out. Just a rough observation, they have confirmed that this is the golden pill that foundation-building cultivators dream of, and it must be true.
Looking at the golden elixir in his hand, Xiao Yuhan's thoughts had already flown to who knows where, and he even forgot to speak. Xiying, who was standing beside him, was quite calm and said, "I didn't expect Junior Brother Qingyang to have succeeded. The quality of this elixir is beyond our expectations. Thank you, Junior Brother Qingyang."