Soul Palace No. 1 Player

Chapter 689: Alchemy at the highest level of difficulty!
Xiao Yaoxi's seventh-level medicine cauldron was a gift from Yao Lao.

From the color of this medicine cauldron, we can tell that Yao Lao is indeed fond of little Yao Xi.

It is pink and crystal clear, and it doesn’t look like it is made of metal, but rather crystal.

If you think about it carefully, although Yang Shan gained a lot of favor from Yao Lao in every major plot.

Although Xiao Aotian's favorability is not as high as his, Xiao Aotian is a pure fire attribute practitioner, and the weapon he uses is a giant ruler. He is also a very good alchemist.

But in terms of the alchemist's inheritance, the one that Yao Lao favors more might still be little Yao Xi.

If it was just a talent in the alchemy game, it wouldn't be something that Yao Lao would value so much.

Yang Shanyou thought carefully about why Xiao Yaoxi could surpass him and Xiao Aotian in the alchemist inheritance.

After thinking about it, Yang Shan thought of a possibility -

Utilitarianism!
Although Tianyao Company arranged Yao Lao as an "angel investor", all alchemist players owed him a favor.

Whether it was Yang Shan or Xiao Aotian, they really wanted to repay the favor.

But it is undeniable that both of them have ulterior motives towards Yao Lao!

When Xiao Yaoxi met Yao Lao, she hadn't even graduated from elementary school!

It is obvious that Grandpa Tieyang taught Xiao Yaoxi well, so that Xiao Yaoxi retained the innocence and simplicity of a child.

Han Feng’s betrayal was a lifelong pain for Yao Lao.

Therefore, although Yang Shan was so excellent in cultivation that there was nothing wrong with him, Xiao Aotian was in line with many of Yao Lao's inheritances.

But Yao Lao’s alchemist heritage seems to be on a different track from Yang Shan and Xiao Aotian.

Of course, there are many ways for Yang Shan to get the alchemist inheritance. It would be better if he had Yao Lao.
He is the "handsome uncle" in Xiao Yaoxi's mouth. He holds the game contract and non-compete agreement. Yang Shan hopes that Yao Lao will pass all the medicine refining inheritance to Xiao Yaoxi.

Xiao Yaoxi spends much more time refining medicine than him.

Of course, Xiao Yaoxi was indeed very hardworking and reached the seventh-grade alchemist through normal channels.

The most outrageous thing is that Xiao Yaoxi can now refine extremely difficult seventh-grade advanced elixirs with a success rate of over 80%!

The success rate of the perfect elixir is close to 45%!

Yang Shan had watched Xiao Yaoxi refining elixirs some time ago.

The saying goes "If you're a woman, go to the 300th floor." The little person controlled by Xiao Yaoxi seemed to have a cheat code. Yang Shan had to slow down the video to determine that Xiao Yaoxi's landing point on almost every floor was the best choice.

The most important thing is that although there are many types of mini-games, it is easy to get bored if you keep facing mini-games for a long time.

But Xiao Yaoxi didn’t find it boring!

The natural born holy body of the little game is really terrifying.

However, other alchemist players seem to have developed a resistance to facing mini-games every day.

In the previous two or three versions of the questionnaire, countless players hoped to optimize the alchemy gameplay.

Therefore, in version 3.2, Tianyao Company has made significant optimizations to the refining of seventh-grade advanced elixirs and higher-level elixirs.

No changes have been made to ordinary seventh-grade elixirs and below, because alchemist players have always played in this way. A rash change will require a certain period of adaptation for players and will have a huge impact on the output of alchemy.

Therefore, it will still be a phased adaptation, just like the transition from the fifth-grade elixir to the sixth-grade elixir.

The overall optimization direction of the alchemy gameplay is still based on the gameplay of some alchemy mini-games.

Combined with the gameplay of refining equipment and array seals, try to make pill refining relatively realistic.

Yang Shan could only get a general idea of ​​the situation by watching Xiao Yaoxi making medicine.

Xiao Yaoxi also gave Yang Shan a special lesson on the refining process and key points of the seventh-grade advanced elixir.

However, the seventh-grade advanced elixir is just a transition, and the eighth-grade elixir is the complete way to play.

[Ding! Players, please note that you are trying to refine an eighth-grade elixir. ]

[Your alchemist level is "peak six", which does not meet the requirements for refining eight-grade pills. ]

[Based on the breakthrough rules of the alchemist, you need to refine the seventh-grade pill at the level of a sixth-grade peak alchemist in order to break through to the seventh grade. ]

[It is detected that your soul strength has reached the Great Perfection of the Spirit Realm, exceeding the soul requirements of an eighth-grade alchemist. You can try to refine an eighth-grade elixir, but the difficulty of your alchemy will increase significantly. ]

[If you succeed in refining, your alchemist level will directly reach the eighth level. The specific level needs to be determined based on the color of the pill thunder you refine. ]

【From all members of Tianyao Company, we wish you a successful start. 】

That sounds nice, but if you can, lower the difficulty of alchemy a bit!

After complaining in his heart, Yang Shan started refining the eighth-grade elixir.

Enlightenment grass, level 8 beast king magic core, soul-clearing leaf, black leaf red
The first time Yang Shan refined it, he was just trying to gain experience and didn't want to succeed, so he didn't use the magic core of the King of Beasts level.

But even so, with so many materials, even if the player group cannot use them for the time being, they can be traded with caravans from hidden forces such as Jianbao Mountain and Kongxuanmen, and exchanged for seventh-level resources, which can be sold for tens of thousands of RMB in the player trading house!

[Ding! Players, please note that the "Pink Crystal Mysterious Cauldron" you are using is detected to be a seventh-level medicine cauldron. The difficulty of refining the "Enlightenment Pill" is reduced by 3%, and there is no risk of the cauldron exploding during the refining process. ]

[It is detected that the alchemy flame you are using is "Sea Heart Flame - Dou Zun Level", the difficulty of refining "Enlightenment Pill" is reduced by 10%, and in the "Nurturing" stage, the difficulty is reduced by an additional 10%. ]

[After three minutes of countdown, you will begin the first step of refining the eighth-grade elixir: refining. You can start or cancel this refining process in advance at any time by pressing the button.]

The peak sixth-grade and most seventh-grade pills reduce the three major steps of alchemy to one step, and the success of the refining is determined by passing the mini-game.

However, the refining of the seventh-grade advanced elixir divides the three major steps of alchemy into three stages.

The eighth-grade elixir has an additional stage on top of the three stages, called:

Inject spirit!

Many of the medicinal materials needed for the eighth-grade elixir are the so-called "eighth-grade spiritual plants".

Plants that have entered this stage already possess the most basic "spirituality", or consciousness.

Therefore, when the elixir is formed, it has the potential to unlock "spirituality".

The alchemist can use his own soul power to help activate the "spirituality" of the eighth-grade elixir, allowing the eighth-grade elixir to have a certain degree of autonomy and fully exert its medicinal effects.

The eighth-grade elixir with two-colored elixir thunder can produce the phantom of a living being.

If it is an eighth-grade elixir with seven-colored elixir thunder, the huge energy gathered in the elixir can manifest into a living being like a real entity under the guidance of its spirituality!
The official planning team of Tianyao said that they hope to completely match the importance of the eighth-grade elixir in the game with the original work.

Therefore, starting from the transition to seventh-grade advanced elixirs, players will encounter considerable difficulties even when looking for medicinal materials.

The refining of eighth-grade elixirs is not only tedious and difficult, but unless it is the most common recovery elixir, other elixirs will only be produced one at a time!
In other words, after refining the seventh-grade high-level elixir, every time of refining is a gamble!
However, Tianyao Company has given players a certain buffer time and the freedom to choose to stop loss.

Yang Shan’s first step of “refining” now requires refining each material separately.

If the refining of a single material fails, it will not affect other materials. Players can also place them in special containers after refining to lock the medicinal properties for a certain period of time.

A familiar little game appeared in front of Yang Shan——

Rhythm dance.

However, the gameplay has changed a lot.

The interface of the mini-game is on the left side of Yang Shan’s sight.

On the right side, there is a transparent medicine cauldron, in which floats the main ingredient of the Mingwu Pill, "Mingwu Grass".

Below the medicine cauldron, a cluster of sea heart flames flickered, as if it could jump up at any time and engulf the Mingwu grass.

In addition, next to the medicine cauldron, there was a blueprint of the finished product, and a line of text description:
[The pill recipe you have is extremely complete, and the standard form of the finished product has been displayed for you.]

The appearance given in the morphological drawing is a pool of emerald green juice. This emerald green looks very "fresh", like the juice squeezed from early-ripening green fruits without the foam.

The dance game interface is already in preparation. There are two options:
1. Perform a refinement.

2. Collect medicinal materials.

Yang Shan chose "1".

I heard part of the audio of a song:
"Ayuwuokahei? Hello, three oils, oh weiweimaqi"

The song is not difficult, just a little more difficult than when Yang Shan was refining the sixth-grade elixir. It should be at the level of an ordinary seventh-grade elixir.

However, while the song was playing, the game only showed two rows of rhythm buttons.

After the input was completed, the song continued to play. In the medicine cauldron on the right, the sea heart flame suddenly jumped up and wrapped the Mingwu grass.

A second later, the Sea Heart Flame fell back again.

There seemed to be some signs of yellowing at the tips of the leaves of the Mingwu grass.

The flame of the sea heart flickered, as if asking Yang Shan:
"Still burning?"

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Yang Shan's heart trembled.

burn?
Others wanted emerald green but you got it all yellow. Did you burn it right?

But Yang Shan did pass the mini-game perfectly, so there shouldn't be any problems.

Come again!

Yang Shan concentrated his attention and input accurately again and again, while Hai Xinyan wrapped the Mingwu grass again and again.

The shape of the Mingwu grass also changed from a little yellow to the whole thing turning yellow and then to melting.

Seeing the pool of milky yellow juice, Yang Shan almost suspected that there was something wrong with the system.

I didn't believe it and refined it twice more.

The milky yellow juice actually began to turn green!

Yang Shan continued to refine the juice, and the color of the juice completely changed to green.

At this time, Yang Shan stopped and carefully observed the juice in the medicine cauldron and the standard example given in the picture.

The color seems to be a bit lighter.

Come again!

After three more refinings, the color of the liquid now seems to be exactly the same as in the picture.

note!

"seem"!
When Xiao Yaoxi was explaining to Yang Shan before, she took out two portions of refined blood-red powder and asked Yang Shan what the difference was between the two.

Yang Shan looked at it for a long time but couldn't figure out what was going on.

Then Xiao Yaoxi told him.

Of the two portions of medicinal materials, one has slightly smaller particles, and the other has slightly larger particles.

If you want to judge this "slightly" clearly with your naked eyes, you need to pour both blood-red powders into your palms at the same time and look carefully.

But during the extraction process, the medicinal materials must not be touched. Yang Shan could only compare them through pictures.

A little more or less refinement will affect the final step of "fusion".

If the difference is too big, failure is inevitable.

If the difference is not too big and they are smoothly integrated, the quality of the pill will be affected to a certain extent.

It is indeed not an easy task to accurately grasp the morphological expression of each medicinal material.

After careful comparison, Yang Shan felt that there seemed to be something missing.

So I decided to refine it again.

But after refining, Yang Shan felt that the emerald green seemed a little darker.

This is the most difficult part about the eighth-grade elixir.

Give a comparison, but not specific values.

Players have to judge by their own "feeling"!

No wonder they used weapon refining and formation seals as references.

Because for refining equipment, the ratio of materials is also given, and then the equipment refiner player is allowed to "weigh" it himself.

The final step is to provide a blueprint and let the players make it themselves.

Not to mention the formation seal, that thing is even more complicated.

The layout of the formation must also be adjusted according to the terrain and the different energy ratios between heaven and earth.
If calculated based on the game time, Yang Shan spent a full half an hour just to refine this step!
Fortunately, it is not like the original book, where it takes several days to refine an eighth-grade elixir.
On the one hand, Tianyao Company provides players with a more playable and research-worthy secondary career gameplay, but on the other hand, it also has to take into account the players' patience and time cost.

In this half hour, the actual game time was only ten minutes, and comparing with the pictures, it took twenty minutes!

Fusion and spiritual infusion.

There are even more variations in these two steps.

There are significant differences in the gameplay and requirements for fusion and spirit infusion of different elixirs.

For example, the Mingwu Pill, because of the harsh soul power conditions, the actual refining difficulty is relatively low, so the fusion and soul infusion are not too complicated.

The main thing is to grasp the degree of fusion and the amount of soul power injected.

Especially the spirit infusion.

If too much soul power is injected, exceeding the spiritual limit that the elixir can withstand, the elixir may collapse.

If too little is injected, then the medicine refining may be directly judged as a failure!
Moreover, the system will not give any prompts as to whether these two steps have been met.

A comprehensive judgment will only be made after entering the final fusion stage.

Yang Shan carefully and cautiously completed the steps of fusion and spirit infusion based on his own "feeling".

Came to the final stage of nurturing.

The warming step is actually the easiest.

Players just need to observe the situation of the flame.

If the flame is too strong, fan it with your hands.

If the flame is weak, add some fighting spirit into it.

Just keep the flame at a relatively appropriate state.

Perhaps because the refining process was relatively smooth this time, Yang Shan felt that he had a good chance of succeeding in one go!

He couldn't help rubbing his hands and snapping his fingers:
"Come on fire!"

The moment the sea heart flame rose, the elixir that had already taken shape in the medicine cauldron instantly turned into ashes.

[Ding! Players, please note that your alchemy this time has not reached the minimum requirements for success. Please keep working hard. ]

really!

“Feeling” is the most unreliable thing!

(End of this chapter)