Chapter 24: First Alchemy

Twenty kilograms of water algae cost only ten spirit stones. Fang Yun really didn't expect that this medicinal material was so cheap.

One kilogram of water algae, about five plants, is enough for a long time.

He went out of the market and found a deserted place. He threw the spiritual medicine into the space, changed his clothes, and went into the market again. He used the remaining spirit stones to buy spiritual rice, a few iron-toothed fish and green-scaled carp fry.

He also bought some spiritual plant seeds, a fast-growing thorn.

I would like to emphasize that the boss who sold him the thorns actually sold the method of condensing the thorn seeds for only twenty spirit stones.

But unfortunately, Fang Yun has no money now, so he can only wait until next time to get it.

In the end, he only left three spirit stones for backup, and there was a lot of wealth in the space that could not be converted into cash.

It's just that it can't be converted into cash for the time being. Fang Yun has thought of some ways and wants to wait until he learns to make pills before starting.

Back to the wooden house, there was another busy period. Fang Yun killed an iron-toothed fish and grilled it, and then started to cook.

Take a look at the data panel, the talent column.

Talent: Iron Stomach (40/100)

Iron Stomach has reached 40 points. After eating every day, Fang Yun can even feel his digestive system, the feeling of frantically digesting food.

The faster the digestion, the faster the hunger. He always feels like a glutton recently.

Fortunately, this talent has no side effects except that he gets hungry faster. Every bit of food he eats will be converted into strength.

In short, being able to eat is a blessing.

Otherwise, if he is always hung with a hunger buff, wouldn’t it be fatal?

After eating, Fang Yun decided not to practice today and have a good sleep.

The way of cultivation is to relax and work hard.

After being tense for so long, now that the preparations for alchemy are done, Fang Yun must enter the most perfect state before alchemy.

First of all, he must rest well and recover his spirit.

Two days passed, and no one disturbed him. He slept well.

As for why he dared to sleep so boldly?

It was because Fang Yun was not only focusing on cultivation in the past month.

First, he built a fence along the edge of the fish pond outside the wooden house.

Of course, this thing is the same as the streamer array arranged by Ran Zhi. It plays a psychological role, guarding against gentlemen but not villains.

The most important thing is the trap he set in the house. Once someone breaks in rashly, Fang Yun will be awakened immediately.

So, he dared to sleep so peacefully.

At noon, the red-eyed carp outside jumped anxiously. Well, they have no feet, so they jumped into the water anxiously.

No one has fed them for two days, and they are all hungry.

The splashing water woke Fang Yun up, and the scene in the space was similar.

He got up quickly, and Fang Yun cleaned up casually, first feeding the spiritual fish in the yard, and then feeding the ones in the space.

After this sleep, he felt full of energy and his expression was much lighter.

After the work, he made something to eat casually. It was night again, and the moon was above the willow branches. It was the right time to make elixirs.

Then he calmed down and began to meditate and purify his body and mind to achieve inner peace. His mana was running along with the skills, doing the Zhoutian cycle, waiting for the spiritual power to fully awaken and the heart and soul to merge.

Entering the study, choosing a corner with relatively abundant spiritual energy to place the alchemy furnace?

No, there was no alchemy furnace, he only had a large iron pot.

Pour the purified spiritual water into the large iron pot, prepare the spiritual herbs and medicines according to the recipe, and put them aside.

Throw them into the large iron pot one by one.

Under the large iron pot, there was a stove, and a large amount of charcoal was piled next to it.

The mana was released, instantly igniting the charcoal, burning a blazing fire, and in a moment, the spiritual water in the pot slowly boiled.

Fang Yun began to use the alchemy method to trigger the spiritual fluctuations in the pot, activate the energy of the spiritual water, and begin to stimulate the medicinal materials put into the pot.

These materials will gradually merge and react under the effect of the rising water temperature.

The medicinal materials will slowly precipitate impurities and become a pure liquid medicine.

This is the water alchemy method. Different from the direct flame extraction of fire refining, it uses liquid water to slowly stimulate the essence of medicinal materials, and finally the medicinal properties are blended and condensed into pills.

But this is only in theory, the most ideal state, but it is not easy to do this.

First of all, in the process of alchemy, you must use the power of spirituality to collect the essence of medicinal materials, which requires a high degree of concentration and spiritual control.

Moreover, water refining extraction is not simple. It does not mean that you put a bunch of medicinal materials in spiritual water and then use the alchemy technique to do it casually.

It also requires external stimulation, which is of course heating, so stewing medicinal materials with flames can better precipitate the essence of medicinal materials.

Like fire refining, controlling the heat is the key link in alchemy. It is necessary to adjust the temperature and intensity of the furnace fire in time according to the progress and needs of alchemy to promote the refining and fusion of medicinal materials.

It is good to compare that fire refining is grilling and water refining is stewing. Anyway, in the end, the essence of medicinal materials is fused and condensed into pills.

When the pill is completely condensed and formed, it is finally taken out of the pill furnace using special techniques and then processed.

Water alchemy generally has an extra step, which is to wash the pill with water. It can wash out more impurities from the pill that is not fully formed with spiritual water, which can effectively improve the quality of the pill.

Fire alchemy can actually have this step, but it requires extremely subtle or even microscopic control of the flame to achieve this.

Most fire alchemists cannot do this, which is the unique advantage of water alchemy.

Except for this, the other steps of water refining are more difficult than fire refining.

But unfortunately, Fang Yun only has this alchemy inheritance in his hand. Who else can he learn from?

The alchemy sold in the market, a lowest-level alchemy inheritance, costs more than 200 spirit stones.

It is not something that casual cultivators can afford.

Thinking of the steps that he has memorized, Fang Yun dare not exclaim lightly. His whole heart is hanging in the iron pot in front of him. As the temperature of the flame rises, the water gradually boils, and the medicinal materials in the pot slowly precipitate various spiritual essences.

The next step is to manipulate them to fit together, which is a test of his spiritual power control level.

Although he has achieved the extreme, after a while, the originally green medicinal soup suddenly has huge bubbles, and a burnt smell hits the face.

The bottom of the pot is burnt!

Fang Yun turned off the fire, waited for a while, and stirred with chopsticks. The whole pot of medicinal materials has become a pot of paste. Whether it is the main material or the auxiliary material, they are all stuck together, like a tortilla.

There was a strong smell of medicine, but it was not the fragrance of medicine, but the smell of paste.

"Sure enough, it failed!" Fang Yun sighed. When he manipulated the essence of the medicine liquid to merge, he felt a little stagnant.

The next moment, he failed and wasted two water algae.

"Alchemy is really not easy. I just used too much firepower just now, and the spiritual power traction was not done well. I failed just because I was distracted!"

Although he hoped that he had a particularly strong talent in alchemy, now his hope was shattered, and he still had to rely on external help.

"Come again, anyway, this time is just a test!"

If it doesn't work once, try it twice, and if it doesn't work twice, try it three times. Accumulate experience and summarize lessons. With the support of the Immortal Mansion, these twenty kilograms of medicinal materials are just a sprinkle of water. When the medicinal materials in the space can be used, he will have no problem refining twenty kilograms every day.

Just do it!