Chapter 1184 Benefited a Lot
The conditions in Guixia Cave are indeed good. The alchemy room is extremely luxurious. The huge room is dozens of feet in radius and is paved with special materials. In the middle of the room, there is a black alchemy furnace. It is not an ordinary item at first glance. There are countless materials placed around the alchemy furnace in different categories. Almost all of them are placed in special containers, such as bottles, jade boxes, trays, shelves, storage talismans, and labels and nameplates. It seems that someone is specially helping to take care of them.
Opposite the alchemy furnace, there are three cushions. The ones on the two sides are slightly worse. The one in the middle looks extremely luxurious and exudes a faint fragrance. Two beautiful maids stand beside them with their hands down. They have nothing else to do but serve Master Guixia when refining the alchemy.
Qingyang was amazed. He didn't expect that Master Guixia would have such a grand show when refining an elixir. Compared with the situation in front of him, it was nothing to ask a pharmacist to help him when refining the elixir.
Qingyang made the elixir by himself, and did all the preparations by himself. He had to do everything by himself. In order to concentrate on making the elixir, he even set up restrictions outside the room for fear of being disturbed. Every time he made the elixir in seclusion, it was a process of tempering.
But for this Guixia Master, the preparations were done by others, and there were also alchemists to help during the elixir making process, and maids were needed to serve behind him. In this way, making the elixir was not tempering but enjoyment.
Qingyang came to help, and Guixia Master paid him. No matter what others did, it was not his turn to say. Although Qingyang felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, he said nothing. He just sat on a cushion on the left according to Guixia Master's request.
After the three of them sat down in their respective seats, Guixia Zhenren ordered a maid to close the formation outside the alchemy room, and then sat there, silently going over the recipe in his mind, then looked at Ge Dagen, and said softly: "Start baking the furnace."
Ge Dagen had been prepared for a long time. After hearing the order, he quickly flicked his finger and opened the lid of the earth fire furnace. Then he gently rolled up his sleeves, and the earth fire furnace was under the alchemy furnace. After that, he kept adjusting the size of the earth fire and slowly baked the alchemy furnace.
Seeing that the alchemy furnace was almost baked, Guixia Zhenren looked at Qingyang and said: "Take two plants of the first kind of medicinal materials on the left, pick off the leaves on the top and extract the juice, and I order to add them to the alchemy furnace."
Hearing Guixia Zhenren's order, Qingyang took out two plants of the first kind of medicinal materials on the left, processed them, and held them in his hand, waiting for orders. Guixia Zhenren has been observing the situation of the alchemy furnace. When the fire was almost ready, she waved her hand, and Qingyang added the materials to the alchemy furnace.
The situation after that was similar to this. Guixia Zhenren only moved her mouth, and most of the work was done by Qingyang and Ge Dagen. Both of them were newly promoted pharmacists in the Ghost Valley. They were more than capable of helping others. They did not need to think for themselves, and they only needed to listen to Guixia Zhenren's instructions.
Of course, Guixia Zhenren did not completely let it go, but when it really came to the critical moment, she felt that Qingyang and Ge Dagen's abilities might not be able to do it, so she would do it herself. Since she dared to preside over the refining of golden elixir-level elixirs, it meant that her alchemy skills were almost the same even if she was not the elixir king.
Guixia Zhenren was refining elixirs in front, and her two maids were not idle either. If Guixia Zhenren was hot, they would fan her beside her. If she was thirsty, they would immediately serve her a cup of fragrant tea. If she was hungry, they would cut a small piece of spiritual fruit and put it in her mouth. If she was tired, they would pinch her shoulders and beat her back. It can be said that she did her best to serve her master.
Qingyang was extremely envious watching from the side. How great would it be if he could also get such service? Unfortunately, he was born to work hard. He has been homeless for decades and has never cultivated his own power. Naturally, he cannot enjoy this treatment. Moreover, this kind of thing affects the heart of Tao the most. Qingyang is also worried that he will lose the motivation to practice if he gets used to it, and the gains will not outweigh the losses in the end.
The difference between the Nether Pill and the Spirit Pill is very large, but they are also connected in some places. Qingyang lacks experience in refining the Nether Pill, but his vision and experience are still there. From these previous operations, it can be judged that the ability of Master Guixia to refine the Nether Pill can reach the level of the Quasi-Pill King. The third level of the Golden Pill has such a level, which shows that Master Guixia still has some talent in refining pills. Of course, he cannot be compared with Qingyang, but he is much higher than ordinary cultivators.
However, at the same time, Qingyang also saw many defects of Master Guixia. It may be that he is used to commanding others to operate. Master Guixia lacks hands-on ability, especially when problems arise. The ability to respond is insufficient. After all, there is a person in the middle, and the process of conveying information is prone to errors. However, for Master Guixia, this is not a big deal. If she makes a mistake, she can just start over. It's just a waste of materials. She can afford it. Even if she piles up, she can still improve her alchemy skills.
As a skilled alchemist, the most intolerable thing is some low-level mistakes. Seeing some mistakes made by Master Guixia, Qingyang couldn't help but frown, but he was afraid that a direct reminder would hurt Master Guixia's self-esteem. In desperation, he could only make some corrections inadvertently and do his best to help Master Guixia refine pills.
Not to mention, Qingyang's inadvertent corrections have a significant effect, and can even complement Master Guixia's alchemy skills, greatly increasing her success rate in refining the dark pill. She successfully refined the first dark pill with only four materials. When more than a dozen materials were used up, Master Guixia's success rate actually reached a rare level of nearly 30%.
30%, that would be the King of Pills. Seeing this result, Guixia Zhenren was overjoyed. She felt that her recent efforts had paid off, and she had made rapid progress in the art of pills. This credit was mainly hers, of course, it was also related to the close cooperation between Qingyang and Ge Dagen.
Guixia Zhenren has been learning to make pills for a hundred years, and she has cooperated with countless pharmacists and alchemists, but it is unprecedented to have such a tacit cooperation with Qingyang and Ge Dagen. Guixia Zhenren never thought that two good assistants would be so helpful to pills. The reward is not high and they cooperate well. It seems that in the future, she still needs to ask these two people to help her in refining pills.
With the help of Qingyang and Ge Dagen, Master Guixia greatly increased the success rate of refining the Nether Pill. Little did he know that Qingyang also benefited a lot in the process. As a quasi-master of refining the Nether Pill, Master Guixia still had some extraordinary qualities. In particular, many of his methods and skills were the secrets of the Ghost Valley, which were inaccessible to ordinary alchemists outside. No matter how much it cost, they could not be learned outside. But now they were all displayed in front of Qingyang one by one.