Chapter 105 Li Yan's Alchemy (1/2)

Linjiang City, [Sub-branch of the Great Zhou Alchemist Alliance] affiliated store - [Linjiang Alchemy Furnace Shop].

Li Yan transformed into a middle-aged man and came to the shop to buy an alchemy furnace.

"Shopkeeper, tell me what kind of alchemy furnace you have here."

The shop is not big, only about 20 square meters. There are containers on three walls, displaying various alchemy furnaces of different sizes.

There are only two people in the store, a shopkeeper who is responsible for selling goods and a clerk who is responsible for doing chores.

"Sir, you have come to the right place. Please ask in Linjiang City which alchemist has not purchased an alchemy furnace from our store."

"We have three types of alchemy furnaces. One is the alchemy furnace for personal use. The materials and craftsmanship of these alchemy furnaces are similar, but the appearance of the design is different according to different people's preferences."

"One is a multi-person alchemy furnace. This needs to be customized. Our store does not have it yet."

"The last one is the treasure of our store, a spiritual weapon-level alchemy furnace. However, there is only one such alchemy furnace in our store, and only alchemists certified by the Alchemist Alliance can purchase it."

The shopkeeper talked for a long time, and in Li Yan's opinion, he talked about loneliness.

Together, he could only buy the first type of alchemy furnace.

He didn't have any use for the second type, and she wasn't even qualified to buy the third type, but even if she did, he probably wouldn't be able to afford it.

Finally, Li Yan bought a simple alchemy furnace because its style was similar to the standard alchemy furnace of Guiyuan Sect.

And this alchemy furnace cost Li Yan nearly one thousand taels of silver.

"A bunch of black-hearted traders are just trying to pluck out the alchemist's wool, right?"

Li Yan cursed secretly in his heart.

Li Yan has carefully learned some information about alchemy these days.

Among them, what Li Yan read the most was the information on alchemy furnaces and various strange fires.

The furnaces of ordinary alchemy furnaces are not particular about the materials, as long as they can withstand high temperatures.

To cast an alchemy furnace, the materials used are only about a few dozen kilograms, and the cost is no more than ten taels at most.

The two really expensive things are [Qi Blood Stone] and [Induction Stone].

According to the data, both of these are a type of ore that can be obtained by mining veins.

However, the veins of these two mines are really rare. Even the Guiyuan Sect's classics only record three locations, but they are all occupied by forces above the Taoist level.

Rare things are more valuable, so the prices of [Qi Blood Stone] and [Induction Stone] are ten times more expensive than gold.

One tael of gold and ten taels of silver, but one tael of [Qi Blood Stone] and [Induction Stone] would cost hundreds of taels.

When casting an alchemy furnace, some scraps of [Induction Stone] are often added to the materials, so that the alchemist can more clearly sense the medicinal materials in the alchemy furnace when making alchemy.

This is naturally one of the reasons that makes alchemy furnaces more expensive.

However, Li Yan asked the senior fellows at [Lianfeng Pavilion] that the final cost of a qualified alchemy furnace would not exceed five hundred taels.

But the shop sold it to Li Yan for nearly one thousand taels of silver, and the profit was almost equal to the cost.

Isn’t this three years of non-opening and three years of open operation?

No wonder Li Yan cursed secretly.

What they earned was Li Yan's hard-earned money.

After buying the alchemy furnace, Li Yan quickly and carefully sent the alchemy furnace to the basement of the small courtyard where the main body was located.

Now, the basement has been expanded again, and its area is one-third the size of the small courtyard above.

At this time, in the alchemy room that had just been built in the basement, Li Yan was lighting [100-year-old rosin charcoal] and placing the newly purchased alchemy furnace on it to bake.

This is preheating and maintaining the alchemy furnace.

The reason why we chose this kind of charcoal instead of the [100-year-old blood charcoal] commonly used in alchemy pavilions is because this kind of charcoal does not emit smoke when burned and is very suitable for the basement environment.

Generally, it is necessary to preheat for about a quarter of an hour before making alchemy, in order to prevent the temperature distribution inside the alchemy furnace from being uneven and causing the alchemy to fail.

Next to Li Yan, there were already processed medicinal materials.

The pill that Li Yan wants to make this time is the first pill that he has taken in Linshan City, [Qi and Blood Pill].

There are five or two of them on the market, and there are as many as you want.

Because this elixir can be said to be the most basic elixir, it is the first choice for many novice alchemy apprentices.

Even many skilled alchemy apprentices and even formal alchemy masters will practice one or two [Qi and Blood Pills] to get a feel for it before officially making alchemy.

Li Yan bought one hundred materials for refining [Qi and Blood Pill], which cost him two hundred taels of silver.

In other words, the ingredients for a [Qi-Blood Pill] are only two taels of silver, and a furnace of [Qi-Blood Pill] can produce up to ten pills.

It can also be seen from here that alchemy is indeed a very profitable industry.

There are nine kinds of medicinal materials used to refine [Qi and Blood Pill], including one main medicine and eight auxiliary medicines.

The order of adding medicinal materials to the alchemy furnace should be in the order of auxiliary medicine first and then main medicine.

The auxiliary materials should also be put in sequentially according to the principle of leaves first, then roots, then stems.

The processed medicinal materials need to be soaked in [Protection Solution] before being put in.

[Alchemy Protecting Liquid] will form a thin film on the surface of the medicinal materials, so that the medicinal materials will not be burned immediately in the continuous high temperature, but will allow enough time for the alchemist to refine the essence of the medicinal materials.

If there were no [Protection Alchemy Liquid], then the threshold for an alchemist would be raised to the innate realm.

Because, only the true energy of the innate realm can achieve the same or even better effect as the [Protection Pill Liquid].

According to Li Yan, before the appearance of [Protective Pill Liquid], only innate warriors could become alchemists.

At that time, the pills were much more expensive than now, and the acquired warriors could only afford medicinal diet.

"It's almost warmed up, and it's time to make pills."

Seeing that the bottom of the alchemy furnace was already slightly red, Li Yan pulled down a red rope beside him, and the lid of the alchemy furnace was pulled up.

It turned out that the red rope passed through an iron ring fixed just above the lid of the alchemy furnace, one end was tied to the lid of the alchemy furnace, and the other end was in Li Yan's hand.

When Li Yan wanted to put in the medicinal materials, he just had to pull the red rope.

This was done to prevent the alchemist from being scalded, and to facilitate the alchemist to put in the medicinal materials and concentrate on making medicine.

This was not invented by Li Yan, but a little trick that the alchemists gradually explored.

And there are many such little tricks. Li Yan has heard a lot of them from Senior Sister Hu Meirou these days.

This is the benefit of having a legacy. Without it, you can only explore it yourself.

And with a legacy, you can just use the wisdom of the predecessors.

The first medicinal material Li Yan put into the alchemy furnace was called [Blood Maple Leaf], a leaf from a century-old blood maple tree, which looks similar to a maple tree.

But the color is like blood, and the size is as big as a washbasin.

The seven [Blood Maple Leaves] in Li Yan's hand have been processed, the water has been dried, the size has shrunk by half, but the color has become more blood red.

After being put into the alchemy furnace, the [Blood Maple Leaves] fell directly to the bottom of the alchemy furnace.

Li Yan quickly released the Qi and blood through the [Qi and Blood Stone] at the handle of the alchemy furnace to control the [Blood Maple Leaves].

Then, he observed the status of these [Blood Maple Leaves] through the [Sensing Stone].

Combined with the use of "Alchemy", these [Blood Maple Leaves] soon gradually precipitated drops of blood-colored thick liquid under high temperature.

These are the essence of the [Blood Maple Leaf], and they are also the necessary materials for refining the [Qi and Blood Pill].

After the essence of the [Blood Maple Leaf] was stripped away, a pile of residues was left. Li Yan directly released the control of these residues and let them fall to the bottom of the furnace.

"Not bad, the first step went smoothly, I hope it will succeed at once."

Li Yan was happy and quickly put the second medicinal material into the alchemy furnace.

The second medicinal material also successfully extracted the essence, and Li Yan was even happier.

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Then, the third medicinal material was successfully extracted.

Until the fifth medicinal material, Li Yan successfully extracted the essence of the medicinal materials.

However, the benefits for novices soon ended. When the sixth medicinal material, [Bezoar Root], was put in, [Bezoar Root] was burnt and no essence was extracted.

Li Yan hurriedly put the new [Bezoar Root] into the alchemy, drew the spirit from other clones, increased the total amount of spirit in the main body, and began to observe the refining process of [Bezoar Root] more carefully.

Finally, he found that there was a problem with his control method. One part of [Bezoar Root] was overheated, which caused [Bezoar Root] to turn yellow.

So, he naturally adjusted his method and finally extracted the essence of [Bezoar Root].

After wiping off the sweat, Li Yan continued to refine.

Finally, he fell on the eighth medicinal material - [Ginseng Stem].

He failed twice in the refining of [Ginseng Stem], which caused the effect of [Elixir Protecting Liquid] to disappear. The remaining essences of the extracted medicinal materials were directly exposed to the scorching high temperature and were vaporized.

The time limit of [Elixir Protecting Liquid] is the time limit of the alchemist.

If the elixir is not successfully refined within this time limit, then no matter how perfect the previous work is, it will fail in the end.

That's why many people say that alchemists are fed with a large amount of medicinal materials.

Without a lot of practice, who can guarantee that they can succeed in one go.

"Not bad, I was able to extract the essence of seven auxiliary medicines for the first time, which is much better than I thought."

Facing failure, Li Yan was not discouraged, but rather had some surprises.

The first time to refine an elixir, unless the alchemist is reincarnated or has an alchemy plug-in, anyone will fail.

At this time, it depends on which step you fail.

To a certain extent, the more steps you complete, the better your talent is.

Li Yan heard from Hu Meirou that most people would fail at the fourth step when refining [Qi Xue Dan] for the first time, which required the use of [Blood Vine Root].

The difficulty was much greater than the previous three steps.

Then, Li Yan continued to add some [Hundred-year-old Pine Resin Charcoal] to the fire and continued to refine the pill.

The alchemy furnace he bought was three feet high and had a large internal volume. It could be refined about ten times and the residue was cleaned once.

Therefore, he did not clean the residue of the medicinal materials and continued to refine the pill, which was a waste of time.

The second time he refined the elixir, Li Yan still stopped at the eighth step, but after failing several times, he finally found the problem.

The third time he refined the elixir, he needed to extract the essence of the main ingredient [Qi Xue Cao], and the difficulty was raised by another level compared to the previous one.

After Li Yan consumed nearly twenty [Qi Xue Cao], he finally got the hang of it and successfully completed the extraction of the essence of [Qi Xue Cao].

Of course, as expected, the last step of the fusion of the essence of the medicinal materials failed.

He refined a gray irregular object the size of a baby's fist.

After this failure, Li Yan did not continue to refine the elixir, but began to clean up the residue in the elixir furnace and then went up to rest.

First, the blood and qi in his body were almost consumed, and second, the mental power was consumed too much.

Using the [Induction Stone] requires mental power.

It must be said that this [Induction Stone] is indeed a strange thing. The acquired realm is not qualified to contact the spiritual level, but it can allow people to passively consume their own spirit in the acquired realm.

This process of constantly consuming and restoring the spirit can strengthen a person's spirit.

A strong spirit is a very important indicator for breaking through the innate realm.

Therefore, some people who are stuck in breaking through the innate level, even if they do not have the talent for alchemy, will learn to make alchemy in order to strengthen their spiritual power.

Under the black tongue fruit tree, Li Yan ate the black tongue fruit he had just picked, lying on a recliner and blowing the cool autumn breeze, and gradually felt a little sleepy.

At this time, his other clones also became lazy.

After squinting for a while, a burst of food fragrance drifted into his nose.

Lunch time is here.

After having lunch with Xiao Zhao, I waited for a while, and it was time to receive the experience of the clone.

An extremely strong blood and energy poured into the dantian like a tide, filling the dantian up.

"It's really full!"

The first time he was so full, Li Yan almost didn't get used to it.

Now that more than ten days have passed, he has slowly adapted to this feeling.

Li Yan's heart moved, and powerful blood and qi began to rush into the bone marrow frantically. The huge energy prompted the bone marrow, which had been tempered three times, to start producing a large amount of new blood.

The more scarlet new blood was incompatible with the old blood, and began to expel the old blood bit by bit.

Li Yan's body was instantly dyed red by the blood discharged from the pores.

After consuming half of the blood and qi, Li Yan's body had formed a thin layer of blood scabs.

His body shook slightly, and all the blood scabs fell to the ground. Xiao Zhao would come to clean these blood scabs later, so Li Yan didn't have to worry about it.

However, when Xiao Zhao saw so many blood scabs for the first time, she was really shocked.

After Li Yan explained it, she put down her worries.

"It will probably be in these two days, and the third blood exchange will be completed."

"The speed of cultivation is faster than I thought."

"It may be because the blood and qi provided by the clone are too sufficient."

Li Yan guessed.

"However, in addition to providing qi and blood, the clone obviously also mixed other things in it."

Li Yan closed his eyes and looked inward, and saw a white ball of light appearing in a corner of Li Yan's Dantian.

The space occupied by this ball of light in the Dantian is very small, less than one thousandth.

The first time Li Yan felt this thing was the day when the clone fell into the body of the super cobra.

That day, when Li Yan accepted the experience of the clone, this thing appeared in Li Yan's Dantian, but there were not as many as today.

Li Yan tried to mobilize it like mobilizing qi and blood, but there was no reaction. He tried with qi and blood, but because of an invisible force, he could not get close at all.

Later, when Li Yan was looking up relevant information in the Sutra Pavilion of Guiyuan Sect, he found a power similar to this thing.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth absorbed by the innate masters.

According to the description of those innate masters, the spiritual energy of the outside world, after being absorbed into the body, is also a ball of white light.

Then it needs to be combined with qi and blood to form the true qi of the innate masters.

Of course, another force is needed to coordinate this so that the spiritual energy and blood energy can combine to form true energy.

If there is no such force, the spiritual energy will also repel the blood energy.

It has the same performance as the white light ball in Li Yan's Dantian.

"It seems that the super snake is really a congenital spirit beast, otherwise how can there be spiritual energy in the flesh and blood?"

In Li Yan's heart, the value of the super snake is getting higher and higher.

Afterwards, Li Yan came to the basement and continued to refine the pill.

"This time, I won't go out unless I refine the [Qi and Blood Pill] or use up all the medicinal materials."

Then, Li Yan began to refine the pill.

Of course, before that, the gray object that was previously refined was thrown by Li Yan to a newly summoned clone to eat.

"It's all money, can't be wasted."

No matter how small the mosquito is, it's still meat.