Chapter 21: Sherry Elixir
"Sister, your divine soul is about to recover?"
Jiang Nan was dumbfounded, a complex emotion suddenly arose in his heart, and after a long period of silence, he said in an astringent voice, "After your divine soul recovers, will you still stay here?"
"Naturally not."
Jiang Xue turned to look into the distance, her back facing him, and quietly said, "Jianwu Country is too small, a small pool can't support a big dragon, I want to restore my former achievements and reclaim what belongs to me, how can I stay more in this tiny place? Zi Chuan, when I restore my divine soul, that's when you and I will be separated as siblings ......"
Jiang Nan fell into silence again, a pang of reluctance in his heart.
Although the time he spent with Jiang Xue was short, but in his heart, he had already treated her as his only relative, for this fox demon, his heart was full of admiration, treating her as his mentor, beneficial friend and reliance, and even in the youngster's budding heart, she was still the most beautiful woman in the world.
He cherished this time, wishing that time could pass slower and slower.
"Zichuan, the Buddha's Hand Golden Lotus is already considered a very good elixir for you, but it's still a bit of a waste for you to take it like this."
Jiang Xue laughed, "If you take it directly, you can only utilize at most 20% of the medicinal power in the Buddha's Hand Golden Lotus, whereas if you combine it with other medicinal herbs and refine it into a Sharpness Spirit Pill, you can utilize a full 10% of it!"
Jiang Nan's eyes lit up, he had almost crossed a realm just by taking a single petal of the Buddha's Hand Golden Lotus, if he were to refine the Buddha's Hand Golden Lotus into a Sharpness Spirit Pill and utilize four or five times its medicinal power, wouldn't it mean that he could easily become a Divine Wheel expert with this Buddha's Hand Golden Lotus?
"Sister, you know how one can refine a Sherwood Spirit Pill?"
"I only know a little bit, I can't talk about being proficient."
Jiang Xue flicked her fingertips, a spirit fire leaping around her fingertips like an elf in the fire, and laughed, "But I still know how to make a low-grade elixir like the Sherry Spirit Pill. There is a Doodle Divine Flame in your brow center, you already have a fire, alchemy is not troublesome for you, now all that's missing is the Dan formula, the Dan furnace and the other medicinal materials. I do remember the formula for the Sherry Spirit Pill, but there is no way to get the furnace and other medicinal materials."
Jiang Nan pondered for a moment and said, "The furnace and medicinal materials can be exchanged with the Qi Benefiting Pill and Body Nourishing Pill to Pill King City, I don't have much use for keeping them anyway."
Jiang Xue earnestly taught, "Brother, there is one thing you need to keep in mind, spirit pills to enhance your cultivation is certainly extremely swift, but that is after all an external force transformed into cultivation, and if you enhance it too quickly, you will instead become unstable in your realm. Therefore, Spirit Pills can only be used as things that aid in cultivation, and if you are bent on relying on Spirit Pills to raise your cultivation, then you will fall short, and it will be very unfavorable to your future cultivation progress."
Jiang Nan's heart was aghast, and he nodded solemnly.
In the following days, he did not continue to go out hunting, but stayed at home to refine the residual medicinal power in the petals of the Golden Lotus of Buddha's Hands, and this one petal made him spend four days before he was able to finish refining it.
As for the periosteum of the head, now he already has enough strength to open it, but opening these periosteums is extremely dangerous and cannot be done overnight, it must be done slowly.
"There are many ways to refine spirit dan, but it can be roughly categorized into two types, one is fire method of refining dan, this one is the most common, your Doodle Divine Flame is divided into seven weights, using the first three weights to refine ordinary spirit dan is enough to suffice. The other is the water method of alchemy, this kind is relatively rare, using divine water to wash away the impurities in the herbs and make the medicinal power pure, the medicinal power of all kinds of elixirs can then be combined into one, and to a certain extent, it also beats the fire method of alchemy by a mile."
In the past few days, Jiang Xue had been explaining the techniques and skills of alchemy to him, saying, "If you have the Yellow Spring Divine Water, coupled with the Toutiao Divine Flame, the quality of the elixir refined will be even better! Unfortunately, Yellow Spring Divine Water is extremely rare, and I'm afraid it can't be found so easily. Zi Chuan, try it now, can you pull the first divine fire of the Doodle Divine Fire out of your body, so that the divine fire appears in your palm and heats ...... up."
She looked east and west, and her gaze landed on the iron pot, smiling, "You can then try to heat this iron pot."
Jiang Nan tried to use his true qi to catalyze the Toutiao Divine Flame at the center of his brow, and immediately the Divine Flame of the first level of the Divine Flame ran and poured out in all directions.
"True Qi Controlling Fire!"
Jiang Nan hastily drummed up his True Qi, controlling the direction of the flow of Divine Flame, sinking down along the center of his eyebrows to his right arm, following the channel of the periosteum, and converging towards his right hand.
Suddenly, his True Qi was slightly lax, and immediately the Divine Flame collapsed, and a slender flame sprang out from the pores of his arm, setting his sleeve on fire in the blink of an eye!
Jiang Nan hastily sprayed out a mouthful of true qi to extinguish the flames.
He tried several times and finally grasped the trick, only to hear a whirring sound, a divine fire appeared in his palm, burning quietly.
Jiang Nan held the iron pot in his palm, still urging his true qi to stimulate the Doodle Divine Flame in his brow, so that the fire would continue to flow. That iron pot was filled with clear water, and in just a moment, the clear water was already boiling.
"You still need to control the fire, so that the size of the fire follows your heart."
Jiang Xue instructed, "Whether or not you can refine a spirit elixir is all in the control of the alchemist, you need to pay attention to the fire and control the temperature, otherwise if you are not careful, you will lose your efforts and refine a furnace of ruined elixirs."
Jiang Nan was careful and was soon able to control the fire as he wished. He possessed the Doodle Divine Flame, and was much more fortunate than those alchemists. Other alchemists did not have the Divine Flame, and those with low cultivation used coke to ignite the furnace fire, and could only concoct pills when the furnace fire was pure.
Alchemists with high cultivation levels use their true qi to turn high temperatures into alchemy, and the loss of making a furnace of dan is extremely high. Moreover, it was difficult to control the temperature of the fire, and the rate of pills was not high.
On the other hand, although the Toutiao Divine Flame was dangerous, as long as one grasped the tricks of the trade, it was not difficult to control. If Jiang Nan did not have this kind of divine fire, there was no possibility of quickly mastering the skill of controlling the fire as one would like!
Jiang Xue quietly said, "Cultivation is like alchemy, true qi is divine fire and divine water, divine water quenches and divine fire refines, quenching the body, body, hair, skin, bones, flesh, essence, spirit and qi, so as to make oneself as a spiritual elixir, crystalline and clear, without any impurities. Using battle as divine fire and divine water, quenching one's beliefs, divine thoughts, will, guts, and ambition!"
Jiang Nan's heart was in awe, these few words of Jiang Xue could truly be described as micro-phrases, although the words were shallow, they contained great truths, so that the more one experienced them, the more one would gain.
She was using alchemy to instruct Jiang Nan, so that while he practiced alchemy, his martial arts cultivation would also progress at the same time!
It could be said that the gains she had given Jiang Nan with these words were not the least bit inferior to imparting Jiang Nan with the Demonic Prison Xuan Tire Scripture!
It didn't take long for Jiang Nan to familiarize himself with fire control techniques, and the divine fire in his hands could be as large or as small as he wished, changing by heart.
"Every kind of elixir has a formula, the formula is not simply the proportion of the herbs, it also includes the time of casting each kind of herb, the control of the temperature at every moment, the hand seals for controlling the fire, as well as when to open the furnace, how to check the medicine, etc., of which the most crucial is the sealing method of refining the medicine!"
Jiang Xue softly said, "The sealing method of refining medicine is also called the spirit skill, for example, refining Sherry Spirit Pill, there are eighteen spirit skills, extremely complicated, when to use each kind of spirit skill, the order of use, must not be remembered incorrectly, otherwise it will be a waste of a furnace of elixir."
Her slender jade hand opened, her ten fingers gently leaping in front of Jiang Nan, her fingertips transforming into an arc of beauty, displaying eighteen extremely subtle seals with many changes, her true qi overflowing from her fingertips, transforming into lotus flower after lotus flower blossoming quietly in front of her.
However, seeing a snow-white lotus wither away and another white lotus swaying and generating, it was truly beautiful!
Jiang Nan could not help but feel relaxed, his true qi unconsciously running, his hands involuntarily following Jiang Xue's movements.
Buzz!
There was Toutiao Divine Flame overflowing from his fingertips, and the flame intertwined with his true qi, gradually transforming into a lotus flower.
Unlike Jiang Xue, his true qi was compatible with the Toutiao Divine Flame, changing into a green lotus, which was very strange and eerie, rather like the style of a wicked devil.
Jiang Nan was speechless for a long time as he watched a green lotus blossom and fall. Although the Devil's Prison Xuan Tire Sutra was a Devil's Dao Mind Technique, it was not the Devil's Prison Xuan Tire Sutra that caused this bizarre scene, but rather the Toutiao Divine Flame.
This divine fire had a total of seven flames, arranged in the order of green, yellow, red, white, green, purple, and black, and as he used his true qi to catalyze the first divine fire, the green lotus was what was derived from his fingertips.
"Zichuan, if you want to refine pills, you have to do it gradually, step by step, first refine the Qi Benefiting Pill and the Body Nourishing Pill, familiarize yourself with the various alchemy techniques, and after you have sufficient certainty, then you can refine the Shelly Spirit Pill."
Jiang Xue swept a glance at the green lotus, she couldn't help but laugh as well, "The Qi Benefiting Dan and Body Nourishing Dan is too low level, I didn't collect the formula for this type of pills, the nearby Pill King City which is not far away should have the formula for this type of pills and the medicinal materials needed."
She paused and apologized, "These days I also need to go out, traveling around, collecting spiritual medicines from the mountains and rivers, and refining a furnace of spiritual pills, which will probably take more than a month, so I won't be able to accompany you to Pill King City. Before going out, I still need you to advance two days of Yang Qi ......"
Jiang Xue could not help but suddenly soft lips gently touched on Jiang Nan's forehead, the teenager was slightly stunned, only to feel that his whole body was soft as if he was electrocuted, and a deep sense of powerlessness arose.
Jiang Xue siphoned off 80% of his Yang Qi in a brain and then floated away.
Jiang Nan opened his mouth, like a fish leaving the water, gasping for breath, he stood frozen for a long time, then suddenly sneezed heavily.
"Zichuan, have you been picked up by a goblin, or by your unmarried daughter-in-law?"
In the courtyard, Tie Zhu looked at Jiang Nan's face and shook his head, "Your face looks so bad, you've definitely been picked by someone to make up for your yin!"
"Picking your ass!"
Jiang Nan did not have a good temper, then sneezed, Jiang Xue drained 80% of his Yang Qi when he left, causing his body to be incredibly weak now, becoming afraid of the wind and cold, and his face was gray, how do you look at it was like he had been viciously picked up by a demonic spirit.
"Pillar, these few **** have to go out for a trip, I'm afraid it will take some time before I can come back, today I will teach you the remaining several styles of Dragon Tiger Elephant Power Technique." Jiang Nan thought about it and said.
Tie Zhu whispered, "Zi Chuan, I'm afraid I can't go out for the last few days, you don't know, recently the royal residence has been under a lot of martial law, first, the outer residence steward Wu Sijiang was killed, the inner residence was furious and searched for the murderer, and it made a big mess. Then the search came to the outer house! A few days ago when I was about to be searched, the inner house clan son Qi Shan and steward Wu Juntong, along with many slaves disappeared, the inner house was very shocked, sent people to search the mountain, the result was encountered a psychic Yimia Ape, killed and injured many people, the big chief Qi yong personally led the experts to hunt psychic Yimia Ape, so that there is no investigation into me, or I am sure to be exposed!"
