Chapter 29: The Alchemist
Throughout history, countless alchemists, the pursuit of pure fire, with the help of the heat of the fire will be the impurities in the medicinal materials quenching clean, leaving only the pure medicinal power, and then the medicinal power will be blended together, a wonderful change, and condensed into a spirit of pills.
But the fire is extremely difficult to do, even with the help of the ground fire, it is not possible to really do the fire, all the impurities will be refined.
And if you can't completely refine the impurities, there will be impurities left in the condensed elixir, so there will be seventy percent of the Dan eighty percent of the Dan division.
The characteristic of the Dushi Divine Flame was to refine impurities, Jiang Nan even used the Dushi Divine Flame himself to refine his body, refining the impurities in his body and true qi as well as essence, using this Divine Flame to refine pills, innately his chances of success far exceeded that of any other alchemist, even if the Pill Palace's Prince Yue came, he would have to bow down to his masters!
"Alchemy and all that, it doesn't seem to be that hard ......"
Jiang Nan struck the last Spirit Sequence and waited for a moment, only to hear the crunching sound of tinkling beads falling from a jade plate coming from the Dan Furnace, so he opened the Dan Furnace, only to see more than thirty Beneficent Qi Dans dripping and rolling to and fro in the Dan Furnace, crystalline, and couldn't help but murmur, "When I heard Yue Ling'er and the others talk about it being so difficult, I thought that it would be a waste of dans, or even explode the furnace, but it seems like it wasn't that they were over exaggerating now. It's that they're just too stupid."
He gently twisted up a Qi Benefiting Dan and threw it into his mouth, savoring the medicinal power in the Dan and was quite pleased, "There aren't any impurities, it looks like it's a ten percent Dan."
He didn't know that other people's first time refining dan must be the case of the furnace exploding, very few people can refine the finished product for the first time, even if the finished product is refined, it is also a waste dan with extremely high impurity content, and there is no one who can refine 70% of the dan at all!
If other people knew that he had smoked a ten percent Dan with no impurities for the first time, they would have exclaimed in shock and called him a monster!
Jiang Nan, however, did not have the slightest awareness of being a monster, and continued to refine without stopping, and in a few hours, he finished refining all the medicinal materials, and there were ten furnaces each for the Beneficent Qi Pill, the Nourishing Body Pill, and the Encompassing Spirit Pill, and there were twenty to thirty pills refined in each furnace, and all of them were ten percent pills, and there wasn't a single wasted product!
"A ten percent potency Qi Benefiting Dan can be sold for seventy taels of grain silver, with so many Spirit Pills, there are more than seven hundred, doesn't it mean that I have created a fortune of fifty thousand taels of silver in these few hours?"
Jiang Nan looked at such a large number of spirit pills in a daze, and couldn't help but feel a little dizzy, muttering, "Who said that alchemists are a money-burning profession? Who said that alchemists are able to make people lose their money? This is simply the most lucrative industry ...... No, it's the most money grabbing industry!"
"Zichuan, how many times did you explode the furnace?"
Outside suddenly came Yue Ling'er's voice, this county princess is not modest, barged right in and laughed: "You don't have to be discouraged, first time alchemy, everyone has to take a bit of a hit, things like bursting furnaces are common, even highly skilled alchemists have their moments of failure ...... "
She just entered the door, saw hundreds of elixirs as if they don't need money being poured haphazardly on the ground, her small cherry mouth couldn't help but become round, letting people see it really want to find something to stuff into her small mouth.
"Brother Zichuan, you refined all these spirit pills?"
Yue Ling'er came back to her senses and said incredulously, "Impossible, never ...... right, it must be refined by Su Huang right? The Fourth Prince is extremely talented in the Dao of Dan, it must be him who refined these spirit pills, it must be!"
Jiang Nan smiled, without explaining too much, took out a piece of paper and handed it over to Yue Ling'er, smiling, "Sheriff, these spirit pills all belong to you, and please help me configure some spirit medicines over."
"Configuring spirit medicine this is not difficult, what is not in my Medicine King House's medicinal herb storehouse ...... What? These spirit pills all belong to me?"
Yue Ling'er woke up and lost her voice, "Brother Zichuan, could it be that these spirit pills weren't refined by the Fourth Prince, but that they all came from you? Lol, your first time refining pills you were actually able to refine so many ...... There must be a lot of scraps in them, maybe so toxic that they could poison someone to death!"
As she examined one spirit dan after another, she couldn't help but feel a little dizzy and **** heave violently, "Ten percent dan, surprisingly all of them are ten percent dan! God, God ...... Qi Zichuan, you must be an old monster who has been immersed in the dan Dao for hundreds of years, or some kind of demon who has cultivated into an adult, right? Why don't you quickly show your original form ......"
Jiang Nan laughed bitterly, he hadn't realized until now this, just how horrible his performance just now was. Yue Ling'er was the county princess of the Pill King's Mansion, the daughter of the Pill King, what kind of alchemy expert hadn't she seen before?
For her to be so surprised and out of sorts just now must mean that her own performance just now was beyond the norm and could even be described as perverted!
"Ahem, county princess, I was actually a far-famed alchemy master back in Middle Earth." Jiang Nan coughed, cheekily plastering his face with gold.
"You have refined spirit pills before?"
Yue Ling'er came to a realization and laughed, "That's no wonder, my little sister said how could you refine a Spirit Pill with ten percent medicinal power on your first alchemy, in fact, Zichuan, you can just say it directly, that way I won't treat you as a rookie."
"Your Highness hasn't asked, how can I be ashamed to boast?"
Jiang Nan laughed, "County Lord, the herbs I need?"
Yue Ling'er walked outside and laughed, "Spiritual medicines are good, I'll fetch them for you soon!"
"County Lord, I also need ten medicinal ingredients for refining the Qi Tonic Pill, Fire Spirit Pill, and Divine Traveling Pill, as well as the corresponding Spirit Skills, please trouble County Lord to bring them along as well!"
It did not take long for Yue Ling'er to send Jiang Nan the spirit medicines he needed, and among these medicines, other than those needed for Spirit Pills such as the Qi Replenishing Pill, the others were the superior spirit medicines needed for refining the Sheri Spirit Pill!
Jiang Xue taught him the formula for the Sheri Spirit Pill, the Buddha's Hand Golden Lotus is the main medicine, the most precious, the others are auxiliary medicines, used to stimulate the Buddha's Hand Golden Lotus in the huge medicinal power. However, even the auxiliary medicines were not trivial, there were as many as forty-five kinds of medicinal herbs, each of which was extremely rare and precious, and when placed amongst the other Spiritual Pills, they could be used as the main medicines!
There were still fourteen petals left on the Buddha's Hand Golden Lotus, so Jiang Nan had asked for a total of fourteen portions, the value of these elixirs was extremely high, and even some of the herbs were priced without a market, the value of these herbs alone was more than fifty thousand taels of silver!
The reason why Jiang Nan asked Yue Ling'er for the formula for the Qi-replenishing Dan and other elixirs was that he had seen Su Huang consume a huge amount of energy when he refined a furnace of Pure Yang Red Blood Dan, and his cultivation was far inferior to that of Su Huang, so he had prepared himself beforehand, so that he wouldn't have no true qi to promote the elixir when it was about to be refined.
With the experience of refining low-grade spirit pills such as the Qi Benefiting Pill, he quickly grasped the spirit skill of the Qi Replenishing Pill and other spirit pills, and immediately began to refine them. After several hours, he was able to refine these spirit pills.
Jiang Nan chewed a few Qi Replenishing Pills, Fire Spirit Pills and Divine Traveling Pills as if he was eating candy beans to replenish his real energy and spirit, rested for a moment, and his eyes flickered with a brilliant light!
"Finally, I can refine the Sherry Spirit Pill!"
In the middle of the Dan Room, Jiang Nan's hands intertwined with his ten fingers, his true qi entwined, and the Doodle Divine Flame surged out, transforming into a green flaming lotus, eerie and bizarre, surging into the purple sand bronze furnace in front of him, causing the medicinal power in the furnace to continuously stimulate, as different medicinal powers rushed and impacted in the furnace, with such a tremendous force that it almost lifted the furnace off the ground!
If the lid of the furnace lifted off, the medicinal power would drain away cleanly, and that would be the bursting of the furnace!
The bursting of the furnace was something that the alchemist could not bear, not only would the money become a basket of water, but it would even hurt himself and his confidence and belief in alchemy.
"Divine Elephant Treading Mountain!"
With a brilliant light in his eyes, Jiang Nan rose up, one foot stepping on top of the alabaster copper furnace, just like a divine elephant, his force pressed down on the mountain, pressing this Dan furnace to death!
At the same time, the spiritual techniques in his hands changed even faster, a green flame lotus flower flew out from his hands and merged into the furnace, continuously refining the impurities in the various medicinal herbs and purifying the medicinal power, making the medicinal power even more pure.
The stronger the medicinal power of the elixir, the more difficult it was to expel the impurities, especially for elixirs such as the Buddha's Hand Golden Lotus, in which the impurities were like a stubborn disease.
Jiang Nan suppressed the riot of the furnace while refining the impurities, only to feel that the true qi in his body was depleting rapidly. He hurriedly opened his mouth and inhaled, only to see several more Qi Replenishing Pills flying up and automatically plunging into his mouth!
The medicinal power in the qi replenishing pills exploded, and began to be transformed into true qi under the urging of the Devil Prison Xuan Tire Scripture, but although the qi replenishing pills were much better than the qi benefiting pills, they weren't any high grade spirit medicines either, and took a long time to refine, and the speed of refining was slow.
The speed at which the Qi Replenishing Pill transformed into true qi still couldn't keep up with his true qi consumption, and the excess medicinal power would be suppressed in his body and could only be slowly refined.
This was the drawback of low and medium grade spirit pills, even as long as the cultivation of the heart method was subtle enough, the speed of one's own cultivation would surpass the speed of refining the spirit pills, for example, Jiang Nan's Demon Prison Xuan Tire Scripture was one of them!
"Finally, I've completely refined all the impurities!"
I don't know how long it took, but Jiang Nan quietly sighed in relief, the impurities were refined and the medicinal power was pure before the Spirit Pill could be condensed, and then he only heard a bam sound, a violent force came from the purple sand copper furnace under his feet, almost lifting him off the ground on the spot!
Without the impurities, the medicinal power in the furnace was even purer, thus the medicinal power rushed more and more, making it difficult for him to control it!
"Elephant King Divine Pile!"
Jiang Nan shouted in a deep voice, his body lurched, just like a savage elephant king's legs and feet rooted in the earth, borrowing magnificent strength from the earth, pressing the purple sand copper furnace to death, and in his heart, he said in a dark voice of thrill: "Other people's alchemy, either they refine it or the furnace explodes, where is it as hard as mine, alchemy is almost no less than a vicious battle!"
He continued to play all kinds of spirit skill, accelerate the medicinal power cohesion, and the purple sand copper furnace that the violent force also gradually calmed down, until he played the last spirit skill, only to hear the Dan furnace came from the tinkling bells like jade beads rolling crunch, after two or three breaths of time before calming down.
"The Sherry Spirit Pill has finally been refined!"
Jiang Nan leapt down from the Dan Furnace and frowned, refining this furnace of Sherry Spirit Pills had consumed almost all of his True Qi: "Huh, how come there are only three Sherry Spirit Pills?"
He opened the furnace, only to see three finger-sized elixirs lying quietly at the bottom of the furnace, crystal clear and glowing with a jade-like luster, Jiang Nan pinched one up and frowned slightly, his heart was a little wary, "Sister Jiang Xue once said that eating the Buddha's Hand Golden Lotus in raw form could only bring out 20%, while refining it into a Sherry Spirit Elixir would bring out 10%! Doesn't this mean that the medicinal power contained in a Sheri Spirit Pill is as much as one and a half times that of a single Golden Lotus petal?"
