The Rise of the Cultivation Family

Chapter 36 Refining Qi Gathering Pill

Yun Yongzhu held the Nine Dragon Cauldron in his hand and couldn't put it down.

With this alchemy furnace, he can refine alchemy in Luoyunju without having to travel between Danxia Peak and Yuntai Peak. He also saves the spiritual stones needed to rent an alchemy room.

However, to make elixirs in the cave, you still need to prepare some spirit wood or flame stones. The only small piece of red sun wood he had was used up while practicing the "Fire Control Technique".

As for using the "Red Fire Technique" to make elixirs, I don't know if spiritual power can support it.

At this time, more than half an hour has passed. Counting the time, Wang Yiming should be on his way to Fangshi now.

Yun Yongzhu calculated the spirit stones, added the payment for the spirit rice, and deducted Wang Yiming's salary of 120 spirit stones. By then, he should have seventy spirit stones left in his hand.

He remembered that he had not received the monthly quota since he entered the sect. There were six tasks in a year, and he still had one elementary task to complete. He had to complete it as soon as possible after returning and collect the annual quota for this year.

After thinking for a moment, he asked: "Senior Sister Liu, how do you sell the red sun wood? Where is the flame stone?"

"Red Yang Wood is very cheap. It is priced by weight. One spiritual stone of low-grade Red Yang Wood is ten kilograms, a medium-grade Red Yang Wood is five kilograms of spiritual stone, and a high-grade Red Yang Wood is one kilogram of spiritual stone.

Flame stones are more expensive, with ten spiritual stones for a low-grade flame stone, fifteen spiritual stones for a medium-grade flame stone, and thirty spiritual stones for a high-grade flame stone. "

Yun Yongzhu is more familiar with red sunwood. Ten kilograms of low-grade red sunwood is enough for him to refine Bigu Pill more than fifteen times.

"How long can the low-grade flame stone be used?"

"It can be used for more than a month. The flame of the flame stone is higher and more stable than the flame of the red sun wood of the same level.

You can also buy spiritual carbon. In fact, this spiritual carbon is more suitable for alchemy. It has both high temperature and stability, and is more durable than red sun wood. "

Regarding spiritual carbon, Yun Yongzhu knew something about it. Spiritual carbon was indeed better than red sunwood, but its price was not very beautiful and it was really not cost-effective. I would consider it in the future if I had more money.

"Senior Sister Liu, please give me fifty kilograms of low-grade red sun wood, and prepare thirteen refining materials for the Bigu Pill for me. I'll stick to the previous recipe and the previous price."

Except for a few elixirs, generally speaking, the prices of elixirs involved in first-order elixirs hardly fluctuate.

Another situation that leads to obvious differences in the price of elixirs is that regions are far apart. This place is rich in a certain elixir, and its price is generally not high, but another place does not produce much of it, so the price is on the high side.

"Okay, you sit down and I'll prepare what you want."

Liu Mei went to prepare the materials, while Yun Yongzhu took out a classic book called "Wang Yuan's Alchemy Experience" from his storage bag to look through it.

The footer of this book on alchemy is slightly curled up, obviously it has been read frequently.

This was what Yun Yongzhu exchanged for the spirit stone when he was redeeming the "Fire Control Technique". There was also another book "Wu Feng Dan Lun", which played a great reference role for him in refining Bigu Pill later.

In recent months, when he was not refining alchemy, he often read two books on alchemy experience. In addition to Bigu Pill, there were also many other low-level elixir refining experiences.

Nearly two months ago, his success rate in refining Bigu Pills had increased to [-]% to [-]%, so he wanted to refine new pills, which were pills for monks during the Qi training period to improve their spiritual power.

After all, Bigu Pills are not very useful for cultivation, and the first-level and lower-grade Bigu Pills are completely sufficient.

Originally, he planned to purchase a few materials for refining the Qi Gathering Pill and try it out after the chalcedony rice was harvested.

Now that I have decided to buy the Jiulong Cauldron, I can only refine the Bigu Pill for a while, increase the rate of the Bigu Pill, and earn the funds to refine the Qi Gathering Pill.

Half an hour later, Wang Yiming returned to Wanbao Pavilion and handed the storage bag to Yun Yongzhu.

Liu Mei weighed out and took away one thousand kilograms of chalcedony rice on the spot, and handed over 120 spirit stones, thirteen batches of Bigu Pill refining materials, and fifty kilograms of low-grade red sunwood to Yun Yongzhu.

The transaction ended quickly, and Liu Mei said again: "Junior brother Yun must keep his word. In the future, the output of Lingtian and the refined elixirs must come to me. The price I will give you is the highest. Also, you need to get the alchemy materials from me."

Yun Yongzhu nodded repeatedly and said: "Definitely!"

The wallet was empty, and Yun Yongzhu had no interest in visiting the market, so the two of them went directly back to Yuntai Peak.

Returning to Luoyunju, Yun Yongzhu called Wang Yiming, and after the two sat down on the stone table, he said: "As promised before, I will settle your wages when I come back, promise, 120 spirit stones, you count them. "

Yun Yongzhu said as he took the spirit stone and placed it on the table in front of Wang Yiming.

Wang Yiming directly put a small pile of spirit stones into his storage bag and said: "No need to count, I have been living with Senior Brother Yun for a year, how can I still not believe it!"

He was very happy. A year's salary of 120 spirit stones was hard to find in the Qingshan Sect. The key was that the inner disciple was very happy and did not default on his payment, which made him even more happy.

He has to work hard and try to continue doing this job in five years.

"It's up to you. This year's spiritual rice harvest has gone smoothly, and you've worked hard too.

The seven-star grass and purple ginseng should also be mature in a few days. Just let me know when harvesting.

According to what you said, we should plant another round of first-order low-grade spiritual rice in the spiritual field outside. You can see what kind of rice is best to plant. When the time comes, you can buy the spiritual rice seeds and come back to me to settle the account. "

After paying the salary and making arrangements for Lingtian, Yun Yongzhu had to busy himself with his own affairs.

He had just obtained the Nine Dragon Cauldron and couldn't wait to try it out to see if the medicinal cauldron was really that useful.

A few days ago, when he was resting, he tidied up an empty room on the right side of his living room. He originally planned to use it as an alchemy room in the future, but because it was just a plan, it has not been tidied up yet.

Now that the alchemy furnace has been bought, I don’t have to worry about it too much. I can just use it today.

Yun Yongzhu entered the alchemy room, took out the materials of Chiyang Wood, Nine Dragon Cauldron and Bigu Pill, and started to make alchemy.

The Jiulong Cauldron is indeed a medicinal cauldron. Yun Yongzhu used it to refine Bigu Pills, and the rate of the pills was directly increased by about [-]%. Each time the pills were produced, there were five or six pills.

Moreover, the two hours of alchemy refining time was shortened to one and a half hours. Yun Yongzhu called the artifact in his heart, and it was only refined with the flames generated by the first-order spiritual wood.

This Nine Dragon Cauldron is worth buying. Three hundred spiritual stones are not wasted. In addition to increasing his elixir formation rate, it can also save time and spiritual stones traveling between the two places.

How many things can he arrange in these hours!

You should know that the knowledge of cultivation is very extensive, and he often laments that he does not have enough time.

Since Yun Yongzhu obtained the Nine-Dragon Cauldron, he has lived in seclusion in Luoyun Juli, arranging himself to refine a furnace of Bigu Pill every day.

Thirteen days later, Yun Yongzhu finished refining all the Bigu Pill materials in his hand, and made a total of 73 Bigu Pills.

Perhaps due to slow work and careful work, or perhaps because of the blessing of the Nine Dragon Cauldron, a total of thirteen middle-grade pills were produced this time. Although there was still no high-grade pill, it was still a very good result.

In the past thirteen days, the purple ginseng and seven-star grass in the spiritual field have been harvested.

He kept the purple ginseng for his own use, but sold all the seven-star grass.

As agreed before, he found Liu Mei of Wanbao Pavilion and sold all 540 first-grade high-grade seven-star grasses per acre for a total price of [-] spirit stones.

In fact, Yun Yongzhu originally wanted to make all the seven-star grass into blank talisman papers. He had watched his parents make blank talisman papers since he was a child, and he thought it was not difficult.He knows the production methods and recipes so that the profits can be maximized.

Later he learned that this would not work. The formula he knew was based on nine-leaf grass and was not suitable for seven-star grass.

Moreover, when he inquired about the recipe for making blank talisman paper from Seven Star Grass, he also knew that making blank talisman paper was not as simple as he thought.

Novices who make blank talisman paper, even the first-grade high-grade spiritual grass Seven Star Grass, can only produce mid- to low-grade blank talisman paper. The production rate of high-grade talisman paper is extremely low, and the total number produced is more than half less than that of experienced hands.

This went against his idea of ​​maximizing profits, so in the end he chose to sell the spiritual grass directly.

The income from the sale of the Bigu Pill was 64 spirit stones, plus the income from the Seven-Star Grass. In addition, he deliberately took the time to complete the last elementary task, and successfully received the monthly payment of 120 spirit stones a year. Yun Yongzhu's storage bag was again The drums swelled.

After his wallet bulged, Yun Yongzhu's idea changed.

He inquired about the cost of materials for refining the Qi Gathering Pill. One material required twenty spirit stones. He only had enough money to buy 36 copies. If he was not careful, he would lose everything.

He was speaking from experience. Just one Bigu Pill alone cost him almost four hundred spirit stones. This Qi Gathering Pill was more complicated, and the success rate would be even lower, and the loss would be even greater.

After thinking about it, Yun Yongzhu decided to be more conservative and refine the Bigu Pill more, and then think about the Qi Gathering Pill after seeing the benefits from the Bigu Pill.

At least until then, he would have enough confidence to support himself and slowly increase the rate of Qi Gathering Pill success.

In this way, after eight months of accumulation, the rate of his Bigu Pills finally increased to about [-]%. The number of pills hovered around seven, and there were occasionally one or two high-grade pills, and about two middle-grade pills. One will come out of the third furnace.

At this time, Yun Yongzhu could take off his label of "quasi-alchemy apprentice" and be promoted to a qualified alchemy apprentice.

Now, he has accumulated 1000 and 18 spirit stones in his hand. He left 270 eight spirit stones for himself just in case, and used 940 spirit stones to buy fifty refining materials for the Qi Gathering Pill.

Then he devoted himself to the great cause of refining Qi Gathering Pill.

Qi Gathering Pill is different from Bigu Pill, there are [-] kinds of main medicine plus auxiliary medicine.

Purple ginseng is also an important auxiliary medicine, and fifty ingredients can save him sixty spirit stones.

The difficulty of refining Qi Gathering Pill is far less than that of Bigu Pill. In the alchemy world, alchemists usually do not include Bigu Pill into the normal range of spiritual pills.

You can only refine Bigu Pill, and even if the pill yield rate is as high as [-]-[-]%, other alchemists will only call you an "excellent alchemy apprentice".

Strictly speaking, first-level pills such as Baiyun Pill, Huangya Pill, and Qi Gathering Pill are the first step to becoming an alchemist.

Yun Yongzhu recited the Jingxin Jue silently before starting to refine the Qi Gathering Pill.

He first preheated the Nine-Dragon Cauldron over low heat, and then added the main medicine Bisancao, the auxiliary medicine Purple Ginseng and various other auxiliary medicines in an orderly manner according to the recipe.

Then use the "Fire Control Technique" to control the size and temperature of the flame to ensure that the Nine Dragon Cauldron is heated evenly. Use the flame to bake the elixir, soften it and turn it into a liquid medicine. Then use your spiritual consciousness to find the impurities in the liquid medicine, and use your spiritual consciousness to force removal.

Step by step, when the step of removing impurities is completed and the medicine is thick, the "Elixir Condensation Technique" is used. However, when the medicine is condensing, the medicine in the alchemy furnace emits a stench, which obviously fails to condense the medicine.

He didn't grasp the timing of condensing the elixir well.

Having learned the lesson from the first time, Yun Yongzhu was more careful when refining it for the second time, but he still succeeded in the end, but it was still a problem when condensing the pill.

It is said that this Qi Gathering Pill is really not easy to refine. It takes up to two and a half hours. This is done using the Nine Dragon Cauldron.

Although Yun Yongzhu was a little disappointed, he did not feel defeated. He did not get carried away because of the success of Bigu Pill.

On the second and third days, there were no completed pills, but a few waste pills were refined.

On the fourth day, Yun Yongzhu did not turn on the stove.

He calmed down and combed through all the parts about the Qi Gathering Pill in the two alchemy tips.

Then he took out his memo and read through it, recalling the important content that the seniors said in the alchemy class and the things to pay attention to when refining the Qi Gathering Pill, and then carefully recalled and summarized the process of alchemy in the past few days.

On the fifth day, Yun Yongzhu finally successfully refined a batch of Qi Gathering Pills. Although there was only one completed pill and the quality was only inferior, he was still so happy that he wanted to fly.

Speaking of which, there are sixteen full pills in the Qi Gathering Pill, so as long as the pill success rate is stable at [-]%, you can make a small profit, or at least break even.

Since successfully refining a low-grade Qi Gathering Pill, Yun Yongzhu's refining of the Qi Gathering Pill has been much smoother.

He seems to have mastered the secret of alchemy. He makes two furnaces of Qi Gathering Pills every day, and occasionally one of them is successful. Although there is usually only one low-grade pill coming out of the furnace, occasionally two low-grade pills are produced.

20 days later, Yun Yongzhu felt that his alchemy skills had made great progress, and the rate of forming the Qi Gathering Pill had stabilized at [-]%.

However, due to lack of experience, the chance of successfully refining the elixir is still low. It takes about three or four furnaces to successfully refine one furnace.

It's a pity that after fifty furnaces of materials and 25 dull days passed without a single surprise, he still failed to refine a medium or high-grade Qi Gathering Pill.

Yun Yongzhu consumed all the alchemy materials, and as usual recorded the refining process, problems encountered, and summarized his refining experience in the "Yongzhu Memo".

After making detailed records, he took out all the refined pills and counted them. There were only fourteen low-grade Qi Gathering Pills in total.

The selling price of low-grade Qi Gathering Pills is usually eight or nine spirit stones. According to his experience in selling spirit rice and bigu pills, these fourteen pills can only be sold for about one hundred spirit stones.

Yun Yongzhu felt very sad. After working hard for more than half a year, he was back before liberation in less than a month.

He randomly poured out a low-grade Qi Gathering Pill that he had refined, then put it into his mouth, closed his eyes and absorbed and refined its inner spiritual power.

An hour later, Yun Yongzhu opened his eyes, his eyes filled with joy. The low-grade Qi-Gathering Pill he had refined was slightly more effective than the low-grade Qi-Gathering Pill in his hand.

Yun Yongzhu planned to keep three for himself, enough for him to use for a year.

Nearly two years after leaving Yunzhou, the bottle of 25 medium-grade Qi-Gathering Pills given by Uncle Zeng had been consumed two and a half months ago, and there were still twelve low-grade Qi-Gathering Pills left.

Since the elixirs made by oneself are more effective now, it is of course better to take one's own.

The twelve low-grade Qi Gathering Pills were sold together with the ten low-grade Qi Gathering Pills he refined himself.

However, when he refined the Qi Gathering Pill for the first time, the losses were really huge. It was simply "miserable"!
No wonder people often say, "It's hard to make an elixir; it's hard to make an elixir; it's hard to build a foundation!"

The cost was 940 spirit stones, but only about 800 spirit stones worth of elixirs were refined, resulting in a loss of more than [-] spirit stones, not counting the consumption of Chi Yang Mu.

Fortunately, he did not choose to refine the Qi Gathering Pill at Danxia Peak. He produced the purple ginseng himself, otherwise the loss would have been increased by another 85.

Nearly 90.00% of the spiritual stones were destroyed by him in this way. No wonder most people can't learn the art of alchemy. It's really a waste of money!

However, although his results have been ugly in the past month, his alchemy skills have made great progress, and he can now be regarded as a quasi-first-level low-grade alchemist, which is gratifying.

(End of this chapter)