Chapter 734: Ju Yuan Dan
As Duanmu Song said, Duanmu Fei and his brother have a good talent for alchemy. After learning the art of grass pills from Qingyang for several years, they not only learned to use the art of grass pills to refine Yangqi pills and Juqi pills, but also greatly improved the art of Yuandan that they had already mastered.
It’s just that the materials for grass pills are hard to find. The Duanmu family collected some from outside, and Qingyang collected some from his own Zuixian gourd, and they barely gathered enough materials for Duanmu Fei and his brother to practice. Because the materials are precious, both of them dared to try when they were sure enough.
Duanmu Lin is weaker after all, and being able to master the refining of Juqi pills is already an extraordinary performance, and Duanmu Song did not have too much hope for him. Duanmu Fei is different. After she was able to use the art of grass pills to refine Juqi pills, Duanmu Song gave her special training and personally taught her to use the art of Yuandan to refine Yangyuan pills. It seems that Duanmu Song did not put all his hopes on Qingyang, and still hoped that his granddaughter could fight for the Duanmu family at the Dan King Conference.
After more than four years of training, Qingyang's Yuandan technique is not much different from Caodan technique, and the success rate of refining Yangyuan Dan has already exceeded 40%. Looking at the time, there are only a few months left before the Dan King Conference begins. Qingyang has more expectations for the Dan King Conference.
He found Duanmu Song and made an unexpected request to him, asking the Duanmu family to help collect a batch of Juyuan Dan for Jindan cultivators to improve their cultivation. In other words, Qingyang wants to try to use the Yuandan technique to refine a Jindan-level Juyuan Dan.
Duanmu Song was very surprised by this request. He has been a foundation-building alchemist for decades, but he still dares not try to refine Juyuan Dan because it is too difficult. Only quasi-Jindan alchemists or senior foundation-building alchemists dare to do so. Daoist Qingyang has only been exposed to the Yuandan technique for a short time, and has only learned Yangyuan Dan for more than four years. How dare he try to refine Juyuan Dan? Ignorance is really fearless.
Since Qingyang made the request, the Duanmu family had to do it. With Qingyang in charge over the years, the Duanmu family was safe and sound, and no one dared to provoke them. This was something that no amount of spirit stones could buy. Whether it was because the ignorant were fearless or Qingyang was just daydreaming, even if all these materials were wasted by him, the Duanmu family would satisfy Qingyang's request anyway.
Duanmu Song had no hope that Qingyang could refine the Juyuan Pill. For hundreds of years on the entire Wucheng Island, no one after the Thousand Hands Pill King could refine it. How could Qingyang, an outsider who had only learned the art of alchemy for a few years, succeed?
To put it bluntly, Duanmu Song agreed to prepare the materials just to deal with Qingyang and spend some spirit stones to play with him. When Qingyang knew the difficulty, he naturally gave up.
Of course, this playfulness also comes at a huge price. The materials for Juyuan Dan are not cheap. One set costs 20 to 30 spirit stones, and more than 100 sets are nearly 4,000 spirit stones. In the past four years, all the materials consumed by Qingyang added up to this amount. Duanmu Song was also very distressed. But thinking about this person who saved the lives of Duanmu's family and protected the Duanmu family for five years, and saved the Duanmu family from disaster, these spirit stones don't seem to be a big deal.
The Duanmu family is still very efficient. Duanmu Song specially sent Duanmu Tong out. About a month later, more than 100 sets of materials were collected and sent to Qingyang's residence.
Looking at the more than 100 materials for Juyuan Dan in front of him, Qingyang took a deep breath. The difficulty of refining Juyuan Dan was unimaginable. Not only because Juyuan Dan was a golden elixir, but Qingyang was only a foundation-building alchemist, and there was a gap in level between them, but also because the introduction of Juyuan Dan in the second volume of Yuandan Zhenjie was too little. It only simply recorded the recipe and refining steps, and nothing else. What to pay attention to, what is the difficulty, what are the requirements for material processing, and whether there are any taboos in the combination of main and auxiliary medicines, all of these were unknown, and Qingyang needed to explore them by himself.
Qingyang had been studying alchemy for so many years, but this was the first time he encountered such a situation. There was no experience and lessons from his predecessors to refer to, and he had to rely on himself for everything. Perhaps after all the more than 100 materials were used up, he could not make a pill by himself, and then he could only give up. The materials for Juyuan Dan were so expensive that Qingyang was embarrassed to ask for it a second time. Moreover, Wucheng Island was located in a remote area with scarce resources. Even if Qingyang asked for it regardless of his face, the Duanmu family might not be able to get the second batch.
However, no matter how difficult it is, he has to try. Qingyang temporarily put the materials aside, then closed his eyes and filtered the second volume of Yuandan Zhenjie in his mind. There are a lot of contents in the book, and there are also many parts about Juyuandan. Whether useful or not, Qingyang familiarized himself with them all again.
The subsequent procedures were the same as refining Yangyuandan. Qingyang sat quietly and filtered the refining steps of Juyuandan over and over again, familiarized himself with the process, and found the difficulties. However, there are too few reference experiences about Juyuandan refining in Yuandan Zhenjie. This process is much faster, but speed is not necessarily a good thing. It also means that many aspects are not considered, and the possibility of problems in the future is greatly increased, and the probability of successfully refining Juyuandan is even lower.
Five days later, Qingyang felt that the preparations were almost done, so he started the first refining. Ignite the spiritual materials to bake the alchemy furnace. When the temperature of the alchemy furnace reaches a certain level, Qingyang casually takes a piece of material, and according to the method recorded in Yuandan Zhenjie, he simply processes the material and throws it into the alchemy furnace in front.
The materials were put into the furnace and melted by the high temperature of the furnace, gradually undergoing some changes. Qingyang's keen perception could even detect that the evil spirit in the materials was driven away. At this time, Qingyang went to another batch of materials, processed them a little, and saw the right time to add them to the furnace.
Alchemy is not an easy task. Qingyang seems to be sitting there calmly, but in fact, he is extremely nervous. Taking materials, processing materials, controlling fire, and controlling the furnace, two hands are not enough, and the mind needs to cooperate continuously. Observing the condition of materials, judging the fire, and staring at the reaction in the furnace also requires the interaction of mind and eyes, and the whole body and mind must be devoted to it, so one time of alchemy is no less than a big battle.
Fortunately, Qingyang has refined countless pills since he embarked on the road of cultivation. He is familiar with this process. This time, except for the difficulty of the pill, he can adapt to other things.
After two quarters of an hour, there was a burst of sound in the pill furnace, followed by a burnt smell. The first refining failed. Qingyang's expression was calm, and there were no other extra movements. He just sat there quietly, filtering all the steps he had experienced before in his mind, analyzing the reasons, and looking for where the mistakes occurred.