Chapter 276 Quasi-Qi Refining Alchemist
That is, Qingyang, because the Drunken Immortal Gourd was upgraded and matured a large number of elixirs for use, he was able to continuously refine Qi Nourishing Pills within a month. If other monks are learning alchemy, they can only save money and save some materials to try once. If it succeeds, it's okay. If they fail, they want to accumulate more materials next time. I don't know how long it will take for them to do so.
After a month of continuous attempts, Qingyang spent hundreds of materials to refine dozens of Qi-nourishing pills. Compared with the wasted materials, the value of these Qi-nourishing pills is not worth mentioning, but Qingyang’s alchemy skills are He has made great progress, and his understanding of alchemy has entered a whole new level, and he can barely be considered a pulse-opening alchemist.
Under normal circumstances, alchemists are divided according to the level of pills they can refine. A pulse-opening alchemist must be able to refine a pulse-opening pill to improve cultivation, and a qi-refining alchemist must be able to refine qi-training pills to increase hunger. For cultivation level elixirs, foundation-building alchemy masters must be able to refine the elixirs that foundation-building monks take.
Of course, each realm also has specific requirements for alchemists. According to convention, under normal circumstances, only those with a success rate of more than 30% are considered qualified. The material value of refining an elixir is generally one-fifth to one-quarter of the elixir. The success rate must be more than 20% to save money, and to reach 30% to make a surplus, so the elixir success rate is less than 30%. A true alchemist. Qingyang's current success rate in refining Qi-nourishing pills is only about 20%, and he can only be said to be a quasi-pulse-opening pill master.
It took five months to become a quasi-opening alchemist. This time is not short, but for other alchemists, it is already a staggering speed, because for others, who does not need it? Spend several years, even ten years?
After refining the Qi-Nourishing Pill, Qingyang turned his attention to the Qi-Gathering Pill. Half of the ingredients in the Drunken Immortal Gourd were from the Qi-Nourishing Pill, and the rest were generally from the Qi-Gathering Pill. Qingyang refined Qi-nourishing pills just to improve his alchemy skills, and refining Qi-gathering pills was his real purpose.
Today, Qingyang has reached the Qi refining stage. Only by taking Qi Gathering Pills can he improve his cultivation level. If he becomes a Qi Refining Pill Master, he can refine the pills he takes. It will be easy to improve his cultivation level. ? Maybe it can also be used to earn spiritual stones.
He did what he said. Qingyang didn't even leave the alchemy room this time. He just rested for two days, adjusted his condition, and started trying to refine the Qi Gathering Pill.
With the experience of refining Qi-nourishing pills in the previous month, Qingyang's pill skills have been greatly improved. His experience is richer, his techniques are more skillful, and his mentality is more stable. Even if he sometimes encounters some unexpected small situations, You can also solve it in time yourself.
The specific situation will not be described in detail. In short, when Qingyang refined the Qi Gathering Pill, it was much smoother than the previous refinement of the Qi Nourishing Pill. In other words, the first time he tried, more than 20 materials were wasted. After that, the success rate It got higher and higher, and when a month passed and all the materials were used up, the elixir formation rate finally reached nearly 20%.
With a 20% elixir-making rate, Qingyang can now be considered a quasi-qi alchemist. It only took him half a year to go from an ordinary disciple who knew nothing about alchemy to a quasi-qi alchemist. Qi Dan Master, Qingyang's speed can't be described as unsatisfactory. Even compared to the Chang Wubing he met last time in the alchemy room of Chuangongyuan, it was not much different.
You know, Chang Wu Bing spent more than ten years to become a self-taught man, so he was favored by Qingtian Sanren. If he knew that Qingyang only spent half a year to achieve what he is now, Probably going crazy with fear.
However, Qingyang also knows that Mu Xiu is bound to be destroyed by Lin Feng. If this matter is really leaked, it will definitely cause a sensation in the entire sect, and I am afraid it will be difficult to practice in a low-key manner in the future. There are too many secrets in myself. If you live in the public eye for a long time, something will happen sooner or later, so it is necessary to keep a low profile. Things about the alchemy technique can be disclosed appropriately for the sake of convenience in the future, but the more shocking details must be kept secret.
After all the materials were used up, Qingyang got about sixty Qi-nourishing pills and more than seventy Qi-gathering pills, which were worth about eighty spirit stones.
The materials of the Qi Gathering Pill and the Qi Nourishing Pill are similar in quantity, but the difference in value is huge. More than 40 parts of the Qi Nourishing Pill are equivalent to one spiritual stone, while the material value of the Qi Gathering Pill is nearly ten times that of the Qi Nourishing Pill. times, one spirit stone can only buy four to five pieces of Qi Gathering Pill materials. In other words, just by selling the materials, this batch of things can be sold for nearly 200 spirit stones.
Not all monks are as rich as Qingyang. For most monks in the Qi refining stage, two hundred spirit stones are almost their entire income for more than ten years. Due to daily consumption, many monks even spend decades. He couldn't even save so much, but Qingyang squandered it all in just two months. Something worth 200 spiritual stones was turned into a pill worth 80 spiritual stones, and the value shrank by 60 to 70%. It can be said that the gain outweighed the loss.
However, Qingyang has no regrets, because he has improved his alchemy skills and has become a quasi-qi alchemist. Having thousands of pills at home is not as good as having one skill at his disposal. With a 20% pill-forming rate, he can almost save his capital and refine similar ones in the future. There is no need to pour the elixir inside. As the elixir-forming rate further increases, he can even make a living by refining it.
This is what an alchemist is like. The initial cost is very high. There is only investment but no output. Only when it reaches a certain level can it break even, and then it will be profitable. However, most cultivators have no cost to invest in it due to their own conditions, and can only sigh in despair. That is why alchemists are so rare and so popular among cultivators.
More than 70 Qi Gathering Pills are only enough for the first level of Qi Refining. However, Qingyang still has many valuable things and a lot of spiritual stones. When the time comes, he can sell them and exchange them for materials for Qi Gathering Pills, and then he can further improve his alchemy skills and refine more Qi Gathering Pills. At least he doesn't have to worry about it in the early stage of Qi Refining.
In the last few days, Qingyang also tried to refine the Bigu Pill. The main material of the Bigu Pill is spiritual grain, and the refining method is also extremely simple. For a quasi-Qi Refining Alchemist like Qingyang, there is almost no difficulty, so it is easy to succeed.
After the last upgrade of the Drunken Immortal Gourd, it not only ripened the spiritual medicine planted by Qingyang, but also ripened the spiritual grain in the field he planted. The spiritual energy in the Drunken Immortal Gourd was sufficient, and the output of spiritual grains was much higher than that in the outside world. About dozens of kilograms of spiritual grains were harvested. The success rate of the Bigu Pill was relatively high. Dozens of kilograms of spiritual grains were used to refine more than a dozen Bigu Pills, which could at least allow an ordinary cultivator to fast for a year.