Longevity begins with loose cultivation

Chapter 182 Alchemy
Inside the cottage.

"call!"

Lu Zhong let out a breath of foul air slowly.

Just now, he finally broke through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

At this moment, the viscosity of the true essence has increased a lot compared to that in the middle stage of foundation establishment, which means that the quality of the true essence has been greatly improved, and at the same time the total amount of the true essence has directly doubled, and the true essence in the dantian is surging like a tide , the sea of ​​true essence has already begun to take shape.

A breakthrough is a matter of course.

Originally, there should have been a bottleneck in the middle stage of foundation establishment to the late stage of foundation establishment. Lu Zhong benefited from the help of Yumai Art and Forging Spirit Fire, coupled with the help of the powerful soul to his cultivation, he only needed to use his true essence When the total amount is piled up, a breakthrough can be made naturally.

"With my current strength, as long as I don't meet the Jindan Daoist, even if I meet Madame Butterfly again, or a monk of the Huayi Qizi level, I dare not guarantee that I will win the fight, but there is absolutely no problem in a tie. "Lv Zhong estimated his own strength in his heart, thinking silently.

Wait for the restless true essence in the body to subside.

Lu Zhong didn't get up, but took out a specially prepared Grass Spirit Pill.

This pill is as crystal clear as jade, exuding a faint glow.

This is the phenomenon that the aura of the pill is too strong and manifested.

The Grass Spirit Pill is suitable for monks in the late stage of foundation establishment. It is made from two types of [-]-year-old spirit grass, which can improve cultivation, but after taking it, the effect is mediocre, not the Grass Spirit Pill. It has no effect, and it would be extremely effective for an ordinary monk, but the total amount of true energy in Lu Zhong's body is too large, so that the effect of the grass spirit pill is diluted, and the effect becomes insignificant.

According to this situation, he reckoned that if he wanted to cultivate to the stage of fake alchemy, he would have to take hundreds of bottles of grass spirit pills.

But this level of elixir is hard to come by, and it takes a lot of work to get one, let alone take it by bottle, otherwise there will be a lot of foundation-building real cultivation outside, and it will not always stagnate at the initial stage and mid.

Ordinary monks practice here, which is the end of the immortal journey.

By this time, all of them are big figures in the local cultivation world. As long as they don't provoke the rare Jindan Daoist, no matter whether it is spending money to create a cultivating family, or being a casual cultivator outside, they will be able to do it very well. Live the rest of your life well.

As for the pursuit of the Golden Core Dao, that is something that only a few elite monks who are fully supported by the Zongmen family and have good talents themselves, or some casual cultivators who are full of adventures, dare to expect extravagantly.

"The next step is to see if the spirit liquid is really as magical as Li Qionghua said."

Thinking of this, Lu Zhong took out a storage bag.

This is obtained from Madame Butterfly, and it has a forbidden secret method attached to it. If it is opened rashly, the contents inside will be gone. It took him a lot of time to finally wear away the secret method.

Open it, there are quite a lot of things inside.

The light spirit stone, the low-grade, middle-grade and top-grade spirit stones together are worth more than [-] yuan.

Pile on the ground, it is a hill.

Then there are about twenty pieces of magic weapons with extremely low wear and tear, in various styles. It can be seen that they were all snatched by Madame Butterfly's murder and treasure, with marks of various forces on them. deal with it.

In addition, there are a lot of elixir and spiritual materials, which are neatly stacked in a storage bag the size of a hundred square meters. Among them, there are more than a dozen elixir plants that are [-] years old, and there is even a [-]-year-old sealwort.

The yellow essence is extremely well preserved, and it can be used to refine the rare elixirs for alchemy monks.

In addition to the red makeup of the short knife spirit weapon, the value of these things just counted is at least half a million. This is the main net worth of a notorious magic cultivator.

"As expected of Madam Butterfly..." Lu Zhong said silently in his heart.

Continue to count, it is an ancient book that needs to be carefully distinguished.

They are all basic exercises and spell books that can be bought outside. Most of the exercises can only be cultivated to the foundation stage, and a few can support monks to break through to the alchemy stage. There is no secret technique in the spell book. It is basically a magic shop. Perhaps it was precisely because of this that the street stalls that flowed out were brought with them.

There are also books on elixir identification, as well as miscellaneous experience books.

Lu Zhong intends to deal with these things to the Yu family, and probably get tens of thousands of spirit stones.

Then he picked out a bunch of sundries, and there was a broken Changchun Valley Elder's Token inside. It is expected that he met the Jindan Daoist that day, and the token appeared here, and this person may have unfortunately passed away.

I don't know how Madame Butterfly did it.

It was definitely not a violent killing by jumping over the ranks, it is expected to use some kind of amazing method.

Only three interesting things remained.

A piece of silver metal ingot that is three fingers wide and palm-length exudes strong aura fluctuations. Lu Zhong thinks it should be the famous silver essence. material, which can be used as a magic weapon for refining.

There is also gold essence, which is extracted from gold.

Therefore, gold and silver are also valuable in the eyes of monks.

Half a page of wordless book, it doesn't look strange, but it can prevent the intrusion of spiritual consciousness, and it is not bad to resist makeup and red cutting. It is treasured by Madame Butterfly and stored in a jade box, which shows its extraordinaryness.

Finally, there is a big slap token with a simple and simple shape on the upper circle and the lower part, and there are three silver pole characters written on it.

"Relocation order?" Lu Zhong read out.

Regarding the function of this thing, he has read relevant classics to understand.

It is said that the teleportation order is necessary for long-distance transmission, otherwise, during the transmission process, it will be crushed into a pulp by the terrifying space pressure.As for the short-distance transmission of tens of hundreds of miles, the space pressure is so small that it can be ignored, so it is not necessary to use this thing.

"How could this thing appear on Madame Butterfly? Could it be... related to her origin?" In Lu Zhong's mind, relevant information about this demon cultivator emerged.

The appearance of Madame Butterfly can be described as very abrupt.

It's as if it appeared out of nowhere.

The first time she committed a crime, she was already in the mid-stage of foundation establishment, and she directly killed a thousand-year-old foundation family, and even the tens of thousands of mortals who were vassals were all transformed into living corpses.

This incident once shocked the entire Changchun Region.

What happened afterwards shocked everyone even more. This demon cultivator repeatedly relied on his extraordinary strength, either directly broke out of the siege, or relied on secret techniques to escape from the Changchun Valley cultivators who were besieging her.

Even Daoist Jindan went out in person, but he came back in defeat.

After a while, it was discovered that Madame Butterfly's technique was actually the "Butterfly Transformation Technique" by a giant demon cultivator in the Western Realm, which was a secret technique inherited by the Butterfly School of Demonic Dao.

Therefore, some monks suspected that she was a demon cultivator fleeing from the west.

However, the Western Territory is not connected to the Southern Man. In the middle is not only the Heaven’s Punishment Snowfield with extremely harsh climate, but also a vast forest sea where monsters inhabit. Where is the Nanban.

It's just that this statement is really a bit ridiculous.

Zhongtu is an out-and-out forbidden place for demon cultivators. If you want to break through the heavy blockade set by Zhongtu Zongmen and reach the shore of the East China Sea, this is something that even the old demons of the Demonic Dao Yuanying can't do, let alone Madame Butterfly Such a foundation-establishing demon cultivator is afraid that he will be caught and rewarded just after leaving the chaotic western region.

Therefore, everyone prefers to believe that Madame Butterfly has obtained the legacy of the old demon of sitting down.

Now that he got this transfer order, Lu Zhong couldn't help wondering if there was a possibility that Madame Butterfly should rely on a certain long-distance teleportation array to teleport directly from the western border to the Southern Man.

Lu Zhong felt that it was necessary to investigate in detail.

If he can really grasp the long-distance teleportation array that connects to the western region, then he might be able to earn the resources for forming alchemy, not to mention the resources for linking babies. Even if it is simple buying and selling, you can make a lot of money.

"This matter should not be rushed, but should be done slowly."

Lu Zhong already planned to look for the teleportation array after he succeeded in forming the alchemy, or even after refining the magic weapon of his own destiny, and had enough strength to protect himself. Otherwise, even if he did find it now, it would be nothing more than a wedding dress for someone .

Put things away separately.

Madame Butterfly's storage bag is too conspicuous. I'm afraid it was not snatched from some powerful force. To be cautious, he still uses the original storage bag. As for the Baifang storage bag, let's keep it. His storage bags are very rare, and it would be too wasteful to sell them for spirit stones.

Lu Zhong got up and walked out of the thatched cottage, his eyes fell on the small grave.

Once today is over, the three-year period will come to an end.

For a mortal with a short lifespan, three years is a long time, enough to carry many things, but for a monk who is indifferent to the concept of time, everything seems to have happened yesterday.

Standing until the sky reveals fish belly white.

Lu Zhong sighed lightly, added a new pillar of incense to the grave, and then turned to leave.

Down the mountain, there is already a convoy waiting.

Yu Feng'er was sitting in the carriage, the corners of her eyes were slightly red, as if she had just cried, when she saw Lu Zhong coming into the car, she wiped the corners of her eyes with the corner of her clothes, and said:

"The concubine's body has been arranged. As long as the incense in the Yu family continues, my sister will not be disturbed."

"Well, thank you for your hard work."

……

The days that followed were dull and boring.

Lu Zhong made a trip to Dongbulu, but did not pay the one thousand spirit stone fee. He still used the old method to go back to the scene directly, "learned" the remaining courses, and stayed in Lintao Pavilion to digest slowly.

He has already learned about the fusion and transformation of alchemy.

Next, is the Infusion of Spiritual Fennel.

Dividing pills is easy to say, it is to divide the refined original pills into suitable sizes, the process is somewhat similar to that of ordinary people making pills, the difference is only the method of separation.

The difficulty lies in injecting spirits.

Spirit injection is to inject spiritual energy into the elixir, which can enhance the effect of the elixir. If the previous fusion and transformation stage is not done well, it can be remedied at this time, and some inferior elixirs can be transformed into middle-grade elixirs. Let the Chengdan rate increase slightly.

There is no theory at all in this process, it all depends on the accumulation of personal experience and observation.

The cognition that outsiders think that one can learn alchemy with more alchemy times comes from the spirit injection step.

In order to save spirit stones, Lu Zhong used Huangya Dan to practice hands when practicing Zhuling. This pill is the current main product of Chengde Chamber of Commerce. The main material for refining, Huangya flower, is easy to plant and easy to feed, so the output of Huangya flower is huge. , it is perfect for practicing spirit injection, even if it fails, the cost is extremely low.

At the beginning, Lu Zhong's refining failed one after another.

Hundreds of spirit stones just went to waste.

Most of the failures are in the spirit injection stage. Even if he has a strong spiritual sense to help him, it will not help. Sometimes there will be some mistakes in the process of melting and transforming the spiritual energy of the transformation medicine. Both reasons will lead to the extremely poor quality of the refined medicine, and the content of erysipelas is higher than effective. The kind of ingredients, sometimes it's just a furnace of charcoal.

But gradually, one or two low-grade pills began to be refined from a batch of yellow bud pills.

Alchemy is extremely time-consuming, and higher-level pills will take longer.

It's as low as Huangya Dan, and there are no more than five furnaces a day.

Half a year later, the success rate of Huangya Pill reached [-]% for the first time!
Although it is still far away from Huang Yadan's profit and loss line, this is already a great achievement for a novice alchemist.

This achievement, apart from the help of backtracking in the gray fog space, has a lot to do with Lu Zhong's own efforts.

Everything is going in the right direction.

Another year passed, and Lu Zhong finally refined the first batch of profitable Huang Ya Dan.

Seventy percent success rate.

It was [-]% higher than Huang Yadan's profit and loss line, and slightly higher than [-]%.

There are thirty-six pieces of yellow bud pills in a furnace, and this furnace is likely to be two more refined. Based on the market price of two spirit stones, it is four spirit stones, plus the low-grade medicine sold at a discount.

It is conservatively estimated that Lu Zhong's furnace of Huang Ya Dan can earn seven to eight spirit stones.

"Compared to making talismans, alchemy is really a big return on investment. Even a wild alchemist who does not have a complete inheritance can still rely on the few kinds of pills he is familiar with to earn wealth that ordinary monks can't match. Talented alchemists with inheritance Teacher, not to mention..."

Lu Zhong felt emotional for a while, and continued to refine alchemy to deepen his theoretical understanding.

He learned alchemy not only for spirit stones.

Lingshi is good, but how can it compare to the growth of cultivation base?

At present, Lu Zhong wants to increase his cultivation base rapidly. There are two ways, whether it is to practice the second level of Yumai Kungfu, continue to improve his aptitude to solve the problem of slow refining speed of spiritual energy, or use low-year elixir Refining the spiritual liquid of good fortune to solve the problem of difficult cultivation due to the scarcity of high-level elixir in a disguised form.

Or refining Huangya Dan.

Gradually, the success rate of Huangya Dan became higher and higher.

Increase from [-]% to [-]% and a half, then slowly increase to [-]%, and even [-]%...

Thanks to the refinement of batches of yellow bud pills, the main products of Lintao Pavilion have also changed from talismans and magic circles at the beginning to the main sales of yellow bud pills, which are known for their large quantities and stable quality.

After continuous summarization, Lu Zhong refined the first top-grade yellow bud pill.

At this time, another year and a half passed.

He looked at the yellow bud pill in his hand, which looked like topaz, and the feeling in his heart could only be described as a thousand emotions. In order to refine this top-grade yellow bud pill, more than a little bit of painstaking effort was put in.

For three full years, thousands of furnaces of Huang Ya Dan were refined, and finally a high-grade Huang Ya Dan was refined.

After studying it for a while, Lu Zhong threw it into his mouth.

Close your eyes and savor it carefully, and find that the taste is really good, like eating jelly beans.

Get up.

Lu Zhong planned to rest for a while before talking.

Long-term alchemy will cause a great burden to the soul. If it cannot be resolved in time, it will bring unexpected troubles, and even affect the progress of cultivation as time goes by.

Pushing the door open, one can see a shimmering grass planted in the yard.

After so many years of cultivation, the tenth branch of Thunderbolt Grass has grown halfway. It is estimated that in another ten years or so, the tenth branch will be fully grown.

"I'm really curious, what will happen to it?"

In this regard, Lu Zhong tried to consult the classics, but unfortunately nothing.

A fish-shaped jade pendant around his waist hummed and trembled.

The jade pendant is the "Yin-Yang Fish Pendant" given by Yu Feng'er. There are two pieces in total.

At this moment, the jade pendant was trembling, which meant that Yu Feng'er was here.

(End of this chapter)