Chapter 718: Refining Yuandan
The most critical step of the Yuandan technique is how to expel the evil spirits in the monster materials, and turn the violent energy in the monster pills and monster materials into peaceful energy that can be received by the body of the cultivator, so as to refine the pills suitable for the cultivator to take.
After Qingyang carefully read the entire book of Yuandan Zhenjie several times, he had a certain understanding of the basic steps of refining Yuandan and the treatment of monster materials. Even before he started, he had gained a lot of experience and mastered the basic methods of refining Yuandan.
After all, the alchemy techniques are all interlinked. Although there are many differences in details, the general principles are basically the same. Qingyang himself is already a very good foundation-building alchemist, and his talent in alchemy is also relatively high. In this regard, ordinary alchemy beginners cannot compare.
However, this book of Yuandan Zhenjie also has certain defects, that is, the level of the pills recorded in it is relatively low. Even if Qingyang reads the whole book, he can only refine low-level Kaimai Realm and Qi Refining Stage pills. He still cannot refine the foundation-building stage pills that he lacks the most at present.
The refining methods of low-level and high-level elixirs are different. Moreover, the higher the level of the monster material, the heavier the monster and evil spirit contained in it, and the processing methods of the material are also different. If there is ready-made experience or steps to learn, it is easier to master. If you rely on your own exploration, you may not succeed in a long time.
In other words, this book of Yuandan Zhenjie is just a basic elementary book, and there should be more advanced ones later. When in the treasury, Qingyang once asked the people of the Duanmu family if there was a second volume or sequel to this book. The people of the Duanmu family shook their heads blankly. They had learned from this book and had never seen a higher-level Yuandan Zhenjie. Even if there was, it was only passed on by word of mouth among some high-level alchemists, and it was not circulated outside.
Yes, there are only a few cultivators in Wucheng Island, and there must be only a handful of foundation-building alchemists. It is estimated that there are very few cultivators who can master the art of refining high-level Yuandan. But it is not impossible. Since Duanmu Song can refine this bottle of Yangyuan Pill for his son, it means that he is at least a foundation-building alchemist. Then he must have mastered some methods of refining foundation-building Yuandan. If he exchanges with him later, he may gain something.
There is no need to rush now. Qingyang has not even mastered the low-level Yuandan technique. It is useless to think so much. First, familiarize yourself with this Yuandan True Explanation. After you have thoroughly learned how to refine the basic Yuandan, you can use the Yuandan technique to refine Yangqi Pill and Juqi Pill. It will not be too late to find Duanmu Song. With his life-saving grace to the Duanmu family, Duanmu Song will surely not hide it.
After thinking through these things, Qingyang did not delay any longer. He took the materials directly to the alchemy room in the courtyard and began to try to refine the Yangqi Pill for the Kaimai Realm cultivators.
For a foundation-building alchemist like Qingyang, refining the Yangqi Pill was too easy, but dealing with the monster materials was a little more difficult. After he gradually figured out the tricks of the Yuandan technique, everything went smoothly. He succeeded once with only six or seven materials.
After that, Qingyang patiently summed up the lessons of failure and the experience of success, and made all the precautions and key points clear in his mind. All the steps were extremely proficient. He felt that there were no more problems, and then he continued to refine the Yangyuan Pill.
After continuous attempts, continuous summarization and exploration, Qingyang's success rate in refining the Yangqi Pill using the Yuandan technique gradually increased. When all fifty materials were used up, the success rate had exceeded 40%, which was not much worse than the success rate of refining the Yangqi Pill using the Caodan technique.
With the materials of fifty Yangqi Pills, Qingyang refined a total of 17 Yangqi Pills. If the success rate was not a little low when he first tried, the number of pills might be more.
The Yangqi Pill is taken by cultivators in the Kaimai Realm. It is of low grade and not valuable. Qingyang was too lazy to collect it, so he gave it to the servant sent by the Duanmu family to serve him. The servant was only at the seventh level of the Kaimai Realm. After receiving the Yangqi Pill, he was grateful and served more attentively.
After completely mastering the Yuandan technique to refine the Yangqi Pill, four or five days had passed. After that, Qingyang did not show courtesy to the Duanmu family and asked them to prepare some materials for refining the Qi Gathering Pill.
The people of the Duanmu family were shocked that Qingyang could refine the Yangqi Pill in just four or five days, but thinking about the fact that he was originally a foundation-building alchemist, and he used the pill to cure Duanmu Song, who they were helpless against, these things did not seem so strange.
The Duanmu family was very efficient. On the same day, they sent the second batch of materials to Qingyang. Like the last time, there were still fifty copies, all used to refine the Qi Gathering Pill.
Before trying to use the Yuandan technique, Qingyang had already understood the entire book of Yuandan by heart, and was familiar with the steps of refining both the Yangqi Pill and the Juqi Pill. After getting the materials, Qingyang did not waste time and tried to refine the Juqi Pill directly in the alchemy room.
The Juqi Pill is one level higher than the Yangqi Pill, and the difficulty of refining is greatly increased, but this is only for low-level alchemists. For a foundation-building alchemist like Qingyang, this difficulty is nothing at all, just a little more troublesome than before.
The first few attempts failed, but Qingyang's face did not show any frustration, but became more and more confident, because Qingyang knew very well that the previous few attempts were just to accumulate experience, explore the tricks of Yuandan refining, and experiment with the refining techniques that had just been mastered. Failure is inevitable, and it is also an indispensable process for everyone to learn the alchemy technique.
After several failures, when Qingyang mastered some of the key points and gradually became proficient in the techniques, there were fewer problems when he tried again. Qingyang sat quietly in the alchemy room, with a serious expression on his face, his eyes fixed on the alchemy furnace in front of him, and his hands kept moving, constantly processing various materials, judging the timing to add the materials to the alchemy furnace.
This time the refining seemed to be particularly smooth. After half an hour, a humming sound was heard from the front, and the alchemy furnace began to vibrate continuously, just like a furnace boiling water.
After a few breaths, the alchemy furnace returned to calm. Qingyang pointed with his left hand, and the lid on the alchemy furnace fell to the side. Then Qingyang's mind moved, and a light blue pill fell into his hand.
Hundreds of various materials were piled together, which was estimated to be a few points larger than the entire alchemy furnace. The energy contained in it was even more amazing. In the end, only this peanut-sized pill was refined. It can be seen that the energy contained in this pill is huge.
Looking at the pill in his hand, Qingyang couldn't help but show a hint of joy on his face. He finally succeeded. Except for the color, the aura and effect of the pill in his hand were almost exactly the same as the Qi Gathering Pill that he had refined using the Grass Pill Technique during the Qi Refining Stage.