Chapter 93 Proportion
As soon as Lin Mu landed on Danxia Peak, Tai Ning came forward to meet him.
"Junior brother, you are finally here. Sister Han Bing is still waiting at the top of the peak. Go quickly." Tai Ning said hurriedly.
Lin Mu asked, "Brother, do you know why Sister Han Bing wants to see me?"
"I don't know about that." Tai Ning said apologetically, "Just go, you will know when you get there."
Lin Mu smiled at Tai Ning and turned to fly to the top of the peak.
Danxia Peak is located in the fire vein, and the underground lung fire is extremely strong. Many alchemy rooms have been opened up on the hillside for disciples to make alchemy.
But few people know that the largest fire vein in Danxia Peak is led to the top of the peak to make alchemy for Fairy Han Bing.
Fairy Han Bing is a cultivator with a single fire spirit root, but unlike other fire spirit root cultivators, she is extremely indifferent and doesn't care about anything.
Lin Mu came to the top of the peak and stopped in front of a huge courtyard.
Just as Lin Mu was about to knock on the door, the courtyard door opened without wind, and the faint voice of the Ice Fairy came from the courtyard: "Come to the east wing."
Lin Mu's heart trembled, and he hurried to the east wing.
After entering, Lin Mu found that the east wing was an alchemy room, and the Ice Fairy was standing in front of a purple alchemy furnace, preparing to make an elixir.
Lin Mu hurriedly saluted: "Greetings, Sister Ice."
Seeing Lin Mu coming in, the Ice Fairy did not raise her head, still sorting out the spiritual herbs and medicines, and replied faintly: "Senior Brother Luo Yan intends to take you as his apprentice, but I heard that you have a good talent for alchemy, and I am afraid that you will be buried, so I want you to learn alchemy from me."
The Ice Fairy's tone was flat, without any emotional fluctuations, but Lin Mu was overjoyed after hearing it.
Learning alchemy with the Ice Fairy?
This is really a pleasant surprise.
Lin Mu has always had only a vague understanding of alchemy, and no one has ever taught him. Many processes were explored by myself, and I took many detours.
If there was guidance from Fairy Han Bing, Lin Mu believed that his alchemy skills would be able to advance by leaps and bounds.
Lin Mu hurriedly thanked her: "Thank you, Elder Luo Yan, thank you, Sister Han Bing."
Fairy Han Bing was extremely cold and did not respond at all.
Although Lin Mu knew Fairy Han Bing's character, he still felt extremely embarrassed in the face of this situation and had to stand up by himself.
Fairy Han Bing was not polite to Lin Mu at all. She threw a storage ring and a jade slip and said: "Classify the medicinal materials here and sort out the materials for refining the foundation-building pill."
Lin Mu hurriedly took the storage ring and jade slip.
After getting the jade slip, Lin Mu input spiritual power into it. After checking it, he found that it actually recorded the recipe of the foundation-building pill. It recorded the refining process of the foundation-building pill in detail, and the content was much richer than the recipe given by Mu Qing.
Lin Mu was in a state of confusion. He had spent a lot of effort to get the recipe from Mu Qing, but he didn't expect that Fairy Han Bing would give him the recipe so easily.
The storage ring contained all the spiritual herbs and medicines for refining the foundation-building pill.
It takes a total of 16 kinds of spiritual herbs to refine a foundation-building pill, which is the largest number of pills Lin Mu has ever seen.
The number of each spiritual herb is also inconsistent. Lin Mu compared it carefully and found that although the types of spiritual herbs in the recipe Mu Qing gave him were the same, the proportions of the spiritual herbs were not consistent and there were subtle differences.
For example, in Mu Qing's recipe, only two plants of second-grade cold tobacco were needed, but in Fairy Han Bing's recipe, one more plant of cold tobacco was needed, and three plants were needed.
This made Lin Mu a little confused. The recipe Mu Qing gave him looked like it had been around for a certain period of time and didn't look fake.
But why were the two recipes different? Lin Mu couldn't figure it out.
There was a master of alchemy standing in front of him, but Lin Mu thought of her cold personality and didn't dare to ask. After hesitating for a long time, Lin Mu finally mustered up the courage to ask: "Master Han Bing, is the number of spiritual herbs in the recipe of this foundation-building pill strictly controlled? Are there different ratios for the same pill?"
"Yes." Fairy Han Bing said.
Lin Mu tilted his ears and listened carefully, thinking that he must not miss this part.
But after a long while, Fairy Han Bing's voice did not sound again, and Lin Mu was stunned.
Is that the answer?
She dismissed herself with just one word. This answer was too concise. One word is worth a thousand gold, right?
Lin Mu had the urge to vomit blood, but after hesitating again and again, he didn't dare to ask again, for fear of being dismissed with one word again.
Fairy Han Bing's hands did not stop, and the materials were quickly sorted out under her hands. Although the foundation-building pill is only used by Qi-refining cultivators to build their foundation, it is of the third grade. To refine it, not only does it require a high level of alchemy, but it also requires a certain level of cultivation, at least above the foundation-building stage.
Elder Luo Yan asked Lin Mu and Han Bing Fairy to learn alchemy. Han Bing Fairy didn't take it seriously. Is alchemy really that easy to learn? It's not that if you are good at refining first-grade pills, you can refine second-grade pills, not to mention third-grade elixirs. She didn't believe that Lin Mu could learn to refine the foundation-building pill.
At the beginning, she learned to refine the foundation-building pill, but she suffered a lot and wasted a lot of fire dragon grass.
She didn't have much hope for Lin Mu, as long as he didn't cause her trouble.
She didn't intend to let Lin Mu take action. Fire dragon grass was extremely rare and could not be wasted easily. She just wanted Lin Mu to watch it carefully, retreat when faced with difficulties, work hard to cultivate swords, and stop having hope for alchemy.
The alchemy industry is not something that anyone can enter.
If you don't have a strong character and a smart mind, don't learn alchemy.
These two things alone are not enough. The most important thing is to have a rich family.
As long as you have a rich family, even if you are a little stupid and lazy, as long as the materials are sufficient, even if you are a pig, you can make alchemy.
Alchemy is a very expensive profession. Without the strong cultivation of the sect, it is difficult to cultivate an outstanding alchemist.
It is even more of a foolish dream to want to learn by yourself.
There are many geniuses in this world, but it doesn't mean that you are one of them.
Seeing Lin Mu standing there in a daze, the Ice Fairy had a blank expression on her face and threw another jade slip to him.
Lin Mu hurriedly reached out to catch it. After inputting spiritual power into it, Lin Mu read it eagerly.
This jade slip mainly talks about the ratio of foundation-building pills.
However, Lin Mu only had one feeling after reading it.
It is profound, too profound!
In theory, the ratio of a medicinal material is not complicated, just follow the number recorded on the recipe.
But this jade slip is different, it discusses in detail the principle of the ratio of different medicinal materials and the effects that can be achieved.
Just take one of the sixteen spiritual herbs for refining foundation-building pills, cold tobacco, as an example, different cold tobacco ratios will produce different effects of foundation-building pills. The main ingredient of foundation-building pills is fire dragon grass, which is a fire-type spiritual herb. The medicinal effect is powerful and overbearing. It is difficult for ordinary people to bear it, and it needs to be neutralized by cold tobacco.
If there are two cold tobacco plants, the neutralization effect on fire dragon grass is not very good, and the medicinal effect is still overbearing. The foundation-building pills refined in this way are full of impact and are likely to succeed in building the foundation in one fell swoop. But it is also possible that the spiritual power is out of control, the meridians are broken, and the cultivation is completely destroyed.
If three cold tobacco plants are used, the foundation-building pills made in this way will have a stable medicinal effect, but the impact is not as good as the previous one, but it is safer and is the choice of most disciples.
There is another ratio, which is to use four cold tobacco plants to neutralize the medicinal effect of the fire dragon grass. Because some water-based single spiritual root cultivators are naturally incompatible with the fire system, for ordinary people, the stable medicinal effect of the foundation-building pill may not be able to bear it.
For such people, the ratio of four cold tobacco plants is suitable.
However, due to the large number of cold tobacco plants, the water system spiritual power is sufficient, and the medicinal properties of the fire dragon grass are suppressed, so the success rate of foundation building is even lower.
Lin Mu put down the jade slip, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.
Too complicated!
Among the sixteen spiritual herbs, only one of them, cold tobacco, has so many analyses. The other dozen spiritual herbs also have different functions according to the mutual generation and mutual restraint of the five elements.
If you want to study it carefully, you will not be able to understand the principle without a month.
At this point, Lin Mu realized that he had always been a frog in the well in terms of alchemy.
Before he started to refine the elixir, Lin Mu was already overwhelmed by the ratio of the medicinal materials.
But this also made Lin Mu excited. He felt that this was the real way to refine the elixir, and he would not be blind and groping in the dark.
In the next few days, Lin Mu did not leave the alchemy room, and studied the jade slip given by the Ice Fairy.
After a few days of research, Lin Mu found that at least fifty kinds of elixir recipes could be combined according to the ratio of the medicinal materials.
These elixir recipes are all the recipes for foundation-building elixir.
According to different medicinal material ratios, they are suitable for different people.
The spiritual roots of the cultivators are different, so the recipes of the foundation-building elixir used are also different.
But it is not just that. In many cases, even if two people with the same spiritual roots use different foundation-building elixir.
Some people have a deep cultivation base and a great chance of building a foundation, so there is no need to take risks and use a mild elixir recipe.
But some people have repeatedly failed to build a foundation. Such people need to use a powerful elixir recipe to fully impact the foundation.
Until now, Lin Mu realized the profoundness of alchemy, and all his previous arrogance was thrown out of the window.
Lin Mu only then truly understood why the elders wanted his disciples to concentrate on sword cultivation.
Because the life of a cultivator is limited, if you want to succeed in cultivation, you must make some sacrifices and specialize in one thing.
But alchemy is too important to Lin Mu. The existence of the Xuanyue Space is destined to make him unable to leave alchemy, nor can he give up alchemy.
The qualifications of the five elements of spiritual roots make him full of dependence on elixirs.
Lin Mu decided that he must learn to make elixirs no matter what and climb to a higher level.
With this idea in mind, Lin Mu has been helping the Ice Fairy for the next half a month, helping to prepare different foundation-building pill recipes, from which Lin Mu has benefited a lot.
More than 900 Fire Dragon Grasses seem to be a lot, but the materials prepared in the end are divided into more than 30 kinds, suitable for more than 30 people.
Calculating in this way, each group of people only has about thirty pieces of materials. Even with the alchemy level of the Ice Fairy, it is impossible to reach 100%, and the amount of foundation-building pills refined will be much less.
In this way, it is not easy to get a foundation-building pill that is suitable for you.
Many people will get a foundation-building pill that is not the most suitable for them. Such a foundation-building pill will reduce their chances of building a foundation.
Lin Mu suddenly felt that a simple ratio was so important.
It is related to whether a person's foundation building can be successful and how high the chance of success is.
All of this is in the hands of the alchemist.