Chapter 2015: Refining the Concentrating Spirit Pill
Qingyang re-set up the restrictions around him, and then sat down in the alchemy room. He first took out Jin Hanshan's storage bag and counted it. There were not many things in it, but most of them were fine products, such as the refining materials of the level of transformation, piles of high-quality spirit stones, thousands of years of spiritual medicine, etc., with a total value of nearly 10 million spirit stones. His personal wealth was one-fourth of the clan treasury of the moth clan.
Qingyang also found more than 180 copies of the materials for the Jushen Pill in it. It seems that Jin Hanshan couldn't find a suitable one. However, now it's all cheap for Qingyang. Counting more than 1,360 copies from the other three clans and more than 150 copies sent by Gu Lieyang, the total number of materials has reached 1,700. At Qingyang's current speed, it will take one or two years just to refine the Jushen Pill. It seems that he still needs to find an opportunity to try batch refining, otherwise all the time will be spent on alchemy, and cultivation will be delayed.
After packing up Jin Hanshan's storage bag, Qingyang sorted out the materials for the Jushen Pill, then took out the Ziyun Tongxiao Ding and began to simulate the refining of the Jushen Pill. Qingyang had refined the Jushen Pill before, but he had done it less frequently and the intervals were long, so he was already very unfamiliar with it.
After more than a dozen simulated refinings, Qingyang was familiar with the refining process of the Jushen Pill and gradually became proficient in the technique. With the addition of the Ziyun Tongxiao Ding, Qingyang's success rate reached more than 20%. Seeing that the refining effect was getting better and better, Qingyang began to formally refine the Jushen Pill.
Qingyang's talent in alchemy was indeed high. Although he changed from simulated refining to real materials, his success rate did not decrease at all. Moreover, as time went by and the number of refinings increased, the success rate of the Jushen Pill also increased. After more than a month, Qingyang had refined a total of 24 Jushen Pills, but only used 97 portions of materials. The success rate was extremely close to 25%, which had long exceeded the Quasi-Alchemy Sect and was not far from the real Alchemy Sect realm.
Qingyang looked at the remaining materials for the Ju Shen Dan. If he refined them one by one like before, it would definitely take one or two years to complete. Time is precious and he can't waste it all on this. So Qingyang decided to take a risk and try to refine Ju Shen Dan in batches in advance.
The biggest difference between batch refining and single refining is that the number of materials used in refining is different. It seems simple, but in fact the difficulty of the whole process has increased countless times. The alchemist must divide his divine thoughts into many parts, pay attention to the changes in the temperature at any time, pay close attention to the reaction of each material, and adopt different methods and adjust the response measures in the face of different changes. This cannot be done without extreme patience and strong divine thoughts, so few alchemists dare to try batch refining.
Qingyang dared to do this because, on the one hand, he often refined in batches before and had rich experience. Second, he had the Ziyun Tongxiao Ding as a backing, which not only allowed him to simulate refining, but also guaranteed the success rate. Third, he had enough materials and the cost was low enough to withstand waste.
After making the decision, Qingyang began to try to simulate batch refining with Ziyun Tongxiao Ding. The elixir of the spirit transformation level is indeed difficult to refine. In the first simulated refining, all five materials failed, and not even one Ju Shen Dan was refined. However, this did not affect Qingyang. He calmed down and carefully recalled the process and summed up the experience. It took a full day to start the second time.
The second simulated batch refining was also five materials. With the previous experience, this refining was very smooth, and finally successfully refined a Ju Shen Dan. After that, Qingyang did not continue to refine, but stopped to rest and summarize the experience. It is the so-called victory is not arrogant and defeat is not discouraged.
In the third simulated batch refining, Qingyang directly increased the number of materials to ten. Although the number was only doubled, the difficulty increased several times. Even Qingyang was a little flustered when operating. The mind was a little overloaded. This time, the simulated batch refining of a Ju Shen Dan was not successful, but Qingyang had roughly mastered the whole process and was confident.
Sure enough, the fourth simulated batch refining went much smoother, with no mistakes from beginning to end. After several hours of intense operation, two Concentrating God Pills were finally produced, which was beyond expectations.
After continuing to simulate batch refining, Qingyang did not dare to increase the number of materials. Ten materials were already his current limit. After each refining, he needed to spend time to recover his mind. Basically, he could only refine once a day, and the rest of the time was used to summarize experience and adjust his status. In this way, Qingyang tried five more simulated batch refining. When he was unlucky, he only produced one Concentrating God Pill, and when he was lucky, he produced two. However, there was no situation where no pill failed.
After stabilization, Qingyang began to formally refine in batches, one furnace a day, and ten materials in each furnace. The success rate was slightly lower than that of single-portion refining, but he was efficient, anyway, there was no shortage of materials now. More than a month later, Qingyang harvested another ninety-one Concentrating God Pills, and only used five hundred materials. One day, the refining was particularly smooth, and three Concentrating God Pills were produced in one furnace.
With one third of the materials in his hand gone, Qingyang's pressure was reduced immediately. After a brief rest, he devoted himself to alchemy again. He made one furnace a day, with ten portions of materials in each furnace. He refined the pills in batches, summarized his experience, rested and adjusted his breathing, and then made pills in batches again. Day after day, it was boring and tedious.
But this is how cultivating immortals works. Qingyang has lived for hundreds of years and has long been accustomed to this boring life. The mountain of materials for the Jushen Pill is gradually decreasing, and the Jushen Pill in Qingyang's hand is increasing. As time goes by, Qingyang's success rate in refining Jushen Pills in batches is getting higher and higher. In the later period of time, it is rare for a furnace of pills to produce only one Jushen Pill. Most of the time, two pills are successful, and the situation of three successful pills has also occurred many times, and the frequency is getting higher and higher. In the last period of time, it basically occurs every two to three days.
In other words, at this time, Qingyang's success rate in batch refining is close to 25%, which is astonishingly high. If it is a single batch refining, his success rate at this time will definitely exceed 30%, becoming a standard Danzong, and refining Qingming Xumai Pill is more confident.
Another three months passed, and all 1,700 materials were refined. Qingyang harvested a total of 368 Ju Shen Pills. According to the terms discussed with Miao Fuyun and others before, 15 materials were exchanged for one Ju Shen Pill, and Qingyang only needed to give more than 110 pills, so he could keep at least 250. In just half a year, Qingyang not only greatly improved his alchemy skills, but also harvested 250 Ju Shen Pills and made friends with the other three tribes. This business was worth it.