Chapter 417: Refining the Foundation-Building Pill, the Pill Recipe Is Different (First Update)

The foundation-building pill is a special pill that appeared after the Yuan Emperor clarified the realm of cultivation and determined the six realms of Qi training, foundation building, pill formation, Yuanying, spirit transformation, and return to the void.

In terms of the difficulty of refining, it requires the attainment of the second-level upper-grade pill, and the required spiritual materials are relatively rare in the second level.

But this foundation-building pill was refined to help Qi training cultivators break through to the foundation-building realm.

This sets a framework for the refining of the foundation-building pill. No matter how perfect the attainment of the pill is, it basically works hard in similar key points.

To put it bluntly, it is like making a temple in a snail shell.

Before this, Li Qing had watched Liu He refining pills.

Now with the spiritual power of a fifth-level wizard, combined with two different foundation-building pill recipes, even if it is the first time to refine, Li Qing has a success rate of more than half, not to say that it is a sure thing.

This time, Master Cao brought the pill materials, so he naturally had to bring the results back, and Li Qing couldn't let him stay for long.

In desperation, he had to entrust Li Yu to take Qingli Zhenren to see the growth of the green lotus plant, and he hung a "retreat" sign outside the cave.

The reason was also ready: today, he discussed the Dao with the Jindan Zhenren and the Lord of the Blessed Land, and felt something in his heart - no one should bother him again.

He closed his eyes slightly, and his consciousness turned rapidly, recalling the scene of Liu He refining the foundation-building pill several times.

After a while, he opened his eyes, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes: "Well, it's time to start refining."

He raised his hand and took out a few jade bowls, condensed three kinds of spiritual water, such as Ganlin, Gaolu, and Liquan, and then soaked several of the spiritual medicines in them according to the medicinal properties of the pill materials.

The three pill materials brought by Zhenren Cao, one of the main medicines, Xuanyang Ginseng, were of ordinary quality, not as good as the half-step "Medicine King" he had seen before.

Li Qing simply soaked and refined them with three kinds of spiritual water at the same time, and then found that the one soaked in Liquan had the best quality.

The other auxiliary medicines also have their own suitable spiritual water.

"It saves me the trouble of multiple adjustments." Li Qing chuckled and began the subsequent steps of alchemy.

He ejected a Nirvana fire, transformed it into the shape of an alchemy furnace with his small magical power, and slowly raised the temperature.

A phantom of a divine bird flickered slightly in the furnace. Although it had no spirituality, it was very agile.

Li Qing thought for a moment, took out the fire spirit bead, threw it into the furnace, and induced it with Nirvana fire, making the alchemy fire in the furnace more magical.

He waited for a moment until the medicinal properties of Xuanyang Ginseng were completely stimulated by the spiritual water, and then took out the one with the worst affinity soaked in Ganlin, and threw it into the alchemy furnace together with a Yin Lingzhi with the worst appearance.

"Boom", a hot flame burst out in the furnace, but under Li Qing's control, the alchemy materials were not burned.

With a clang, Li Qing sealed the Nirvana Fire furnace and performed a series of hand gestures according to the foundation-building pill recipe.

In the furnace, Xuanyang Ginseng and Yin Lingzhi quickly changed under the calcination of Nirvana Fire.

The Xuanyang Ginseng soaked in the rain melted like beeswax, like drops of honey, yellow, shiny, and crystal clear.

And Yin Lingzhi exploded with a "bang", turning into a light silver-white mist, slowly flowing around the droplets.

The two interacted with each other, and the medicinal properties underwent extremely subtle changes, like the transformation of yin and yang, containing some great truth.

Even if Li Qing was blessed with the power of the Lord of the Blessed Land, he could not fully understand the truth.

But he was still a fifth-level wizard, and his soul had already undergone a transformation, not inferior to the real person of the Jindan.

So, he quickly grasped some of the details of the changes, and while refining the pill, he also adjusted his own true essence a little bit.

"No wonder Daoist Liu He wanted to keep it secret last time. It turns out that refining the elixir is like refining oneself, and the way of alchemy is cultivation. There are really secrets in it."

In fact, if Liu He heard this, he would be so angry that he would vomit blood, because he could not understand this at all.

Li Qing refined the elixir while practicing. After about an hour, the Xuanyang ginseng droplets and the Yin Lingzhi mist finally merged together.

The furnace fire went from warm to strong, and then from strong to warm, and repeated nine times. The spiritual medicine in the furnace had turned into a handful of light yellow powder.

Li Qing pointed to the elixir furnace, opened the top cover, and a faint ginseng and ganoderma fragrance overflowed.

But it was completely different from the feeling of making people feel restless when Liu He refined it.

Li Qing temporarily extinguished the furnace fire, scanned it repeatedly with his spiritual consciousness, and was surprised to find: "Huh, it seems that the second step of yin and yang reconciliation is not needed?"

The two spiritual medicines were almost perfectly fused.

But Li Qing was refining the foundation-building pill for the first time after all, and fearing that something might go wrong, he still followed the foundation-building pill recipe and put some prepared medicinal powder into the furnace and mixed it with the ginseng powder.

After the powder was evenly mixed, Li Qing put the essence of the mysterious water into the furnace, along with a dozen other medicinal materials.

These medicinal materials belong to the five elements, and the foundation-building pills refined with them can achieve the balance of the five elements, which is universal among the human cultivators who have the innate five elements.

The essence of the mysterious water wrapped the different medicinal materials and suspended them under the ginseng powder.

Under the baking of the Nirvana fire, the essence of the mysterious water absorbed the essence of the spiritual medicine, and then a series of fine bubbles emerged.

The bubbles quickly evaporated and turned into a five-color light mist, soaking the ginseng powder.

The five colors in the furnace were surrounded by rosy clouds, and even Li Qing himself could not use his eyes to distinguish the changes for a while.

Soon, the sound of boiling water in the furnace was heard, sometimes strong and sometimes weak, accompanied by a little gray smoke, which dissipated from the furnace hole.

This is the third step in refining the foundation pill, balancing the five elements and accumulating medicine for refining the pill.

After that, Li Qing put other different materials into the furnace one by one, and produced other changes.

With his talent for alchemy, he keenly noticed: "It seems that some spiritual materials are not necessary to be put in at all?"

Some of this unnecessary is because the alchemist's level is not enough, the medicinal properties are not evenly blended, and they can only be adjusted by "adding more water to flour, and adding more flour to water".

But some, Li Qing felt, were purely interference items, adding a layer of mystery to the foundation-building pill.

"No wonder there are so few foundation-building pills on the market. The Xuan Palace ban is one of them, but there is also a problem with the pill formula."

"However, I think it's not Brother Liu He who made trouble. Maybe, when he got the pill formula, it was like this?"

Li Qing shook his head and stopped thinking about it. Instead, he threw the fourth main medicine, "Chongming Grass", in.

With a "hum", the furnace fire halo dissipated, leaving only the furnace fire to slowly bake.

With the help of the light-emitting characteristics of Chongming Grass, the foundation-building pill can complete the nine spiritual transformations, making the medicinal properties of the pill purer.

In fact, the Nine Mysterious Fruit is more suitable for use here than Chongming Grass.

Li Qing had previously planted the Nine Mysterious Fruit privately and asked Liu He to help refine the Foundation Building Pill. In fact, the quality of the finished pill should have been better.

However, now that I think about it, Liu He's attainments in the way of alchemy are actually average. He can only copy the pill formula without any flexibility, and he failed to produce many genuine Foundation Building Pills.

Due to a series of mistakes, Li Qing failed to build his foundation with the inferior Foundation Building Pill.