Cultivation: I can solidify equipment attributes

Chapter 600 Frequent Pill Refining

Tianyue Market, Contribution Exchange Point.

Li Yuan activated the list of upper realm resources on the wall with the dark blue resource channel token, and scanned the pill formulas one by one with his divine sense.

His gaze fell upon a prescription for medicine.

Condensing Essence and Nourishing Infant Pill. A newly added exchange item, Grade 3, superior quality.

The effects of the pill are divided into three levels: after taking it, one can roughly feel the process of forming a nascent soul, which is equivalent to a risk-free rehearsal; taking it during the actual formation of a nascent soul can increase the success rate; after successfully forming a nascent soul, it has a continuous promoting effect on the cultivation of the early stage of the Nascent Soul stage.

The main ingredient in the recipe is a unique spiritual plant from the Upper Realm, named Condensing Essence and Nurturing Infant Grass.

There are no resources produced in the lower realm; they can only be obtained through the Mingyuan Sect's resource channels using contribution points. There are seven types of auxiliary materials in total, five of which can be obtained in the lower realm, and two of which need to be exchanged from the upper realm, but at a low price.

The recipe itself is quite expensive, and the contribution points required for the main ingredients are also an astonishing amount.

Li Yuan calculated his current contribution point balance.

After exchanging for the pill recipe, the materials are only enough for one refining. If you exchange for two sets of materials, your contribution will still be a little short.

The margin for error in a single batch is zero. Although it is blessed with multiple permanent attributes such as "Comprehension of Alchemy," "Refining of Alchemy Fire," and "Condensation of Alchemy Array," the yield of alchemy should be guaranteed.

However, Li Yuan had never encountered the formula and compatibility logic of the Condensing Essence and Nourishing Infant Pill before, and there was a risk of wasting materials if he rashly started the furnace.

It's best to improve your alchemy skills before taking action.

Li Yuan exchanged the pill formula and a Condensing Essence and Infant-Nourishing Grass for two auxiliary materials from the Upper Realm.

The Condensing Essence Infant Grass is placed in a specially made preservation jade box, where the roots of the spiritual plant maintain a slight activity within the protective layer of spiritual energy. It has a shelf life of approximately three months, which is ample time.

After leaving Tianyue Market, Li Yuan returned to Wulin Market.

The stone door to the seclusion chamber was closed.

Li Yuan took out several third-tier pill formulas he had accumulated from his personal microcosm: Qingyuan Pill, Peiyuan Gumu Pill, Humai Wenling Pill, and two third-tier mid-grade pill formulas he had exchanged from Tianyue Sect.

The furnace platform was set up, and the fire of alchemy was lit.

The Blazing Sun and Bright Fire Technique is activated.

The first batch, Qingyuan Dan.

Li Yuan was extremely familiar with the refining process of Qingyuan Pill, with a success rate of nearly 100%. However, this time the goal was not to produce the pill, but to deliberately compress the time of each step in the refining process and push the precision of temperature control of the pill fire to the limit.

Spiritual energy is injected into the alchemy furnace, and the flame temperature is precisely controlled on a time scale at the breath level.

When the main ingredient is added, its medicinal properties diffuse. When the auxiliary ingredients are added one by one, their medicinal properties converge.

Every temperature adjustment challenges the upper limit of temperature control achieved at the mastery stage of the Blazing Sun and Bright Fire Technique.

Extracted. Quality is above average.

The speed was nearly 30% faster than normal, but the quality of the finished product decreased. Temperature control accuracy experienced a perceptible deviation at the maximum speed.

The second batch was the Nourishing Essence and Strengthening Wood Elixir.

Both methods compress time and push the limits.

This time, focus is placed on the inflection points of the temperature curve. Each time the temperature needs to rise or fall rapidly, the spiritual energy circulation of the Blazing Sun Flame Technique will experience a brief response delay. The delay is extremely short, about half a breath, but at extreme speeds, this half-breath delay is enough to cause deviations in the medicinal properties.

The third batch: the Pulse-Protecting and Spirit-Warming Pill.

The fourth furnace, the fifth furnace, the sixth furnace, and the seventh furnace.

Each batch of furnaces repeatedly verifies the method of channeling spiritual energy released in the middle stage, refining it from a deliberate act into a semi-instinctive reaction.

The eighth batch.

Spiritual energy was poured into the alchemy furnace, and flames rose.

The method of spiritual energy allocation has been fully integrated into the operating system of the Blazing Sun Bright Fire Technique. Spiritual energy no longer needs to travel the entire distance from the dantian to the fingertips; the meridian nodes in the middle of the arm are like a small pool of spiritual energy, ready to respond to temperature control needs at any time.

The moment the eighth batch of pills was produced, the spiritual energy circulation of the Blazing Sun Bright Fire Technique underwent a complete reconstruction.

Blazing Sun and Bright Fire Technique, Minor Success.

Temperature control accuracy has been improved from the level of one breath in the mastery stage to the level of less than half a breath in the minor mastery stage.

The range of flame temperature control, response speed, and duration of stability have been comprehensively enhanced.

Li Yuan put away the pill fire and sensed the changes in the circulation of spiritual energy within his body.

After achieving minor mastery of the Blazing Sun Flame Technique, the spiritual energy pool structure at the mid-section node of the arm's energy circulation path has stabilized and solidified. No conscious effort is needed to maintain it; spiritual energy will automatically replenish and store at the mid-section node during breaks in cultivation.

The quality of the alchemical fire has also undergone a qualitative change. While the alchemical fire at the mastery stage has a sufficient temperature range, the purity of its spiritual energy is limited. The dual-source structure at the minor completion stage further reduces impurities in the spiritual energy of the alchemical fire, making the flame even purer.

In alchemy, increasing the purity of the alchemical fire means reducing the loss of medicinal properties and improving the quality of the finished product.

carry on.

Starting with the ninth batch, Li Yuan shifted his focus from controlling the temperature of the alchemical fire to overseeing the entire process of alchemy.

In the tenth and eleventh batches, Li Yuan began to experiment with different radical pairing strategies.

Each furnace is testing new possibilities.

Alchemy is no longer about following a set procedure step by step, but about freely combining ingredients based on a deep understanding of the logic of medicinal properties. The order, timing, and proportion of the ingredients can all be flexibly adjusted according to the actual situation.

After the twelfth batch of pills was produced, Li Yuan extinguished the fire.

Third-order alchemy, minor success.

The hallmark change in the minor success stage is the ability to proactively intervene in the quality of the elixir.

The mastery stage of alchemy involves execution, ensuring each step is done correctly according to the formula. The quality of the finished product depends on the grade of the materials and the precision of the operation.

The initial stage of alchemy involves regulation. During the refining process, the formulation strategy can be actively adjusted based on the actual reactions of the medicinal properties, guiding the quality of the finished product towards a higher level. Using the same materials and the same formula, the initial stage can produce 10-20% higher quality pills compared to the advanced stage.

Li Yuan stored the alchemy furnace in his personal microcosm and cleaned the remaining medicinal residue from the furnace platform.

He took out the formula for the Condensing Essence and Nourishing Infant Pill from his personal miniature world, probed it with his divine sense, and studied the logic of the formula from beginning to end.

The formulation logic of Ningyuan Yunying Pill is intricate. The seven auxiliary ingredients interact in complex ways, and the order in which any two ingredients are added will produce drastically different medicinal properties. The timing of adding the main ingredient, Ningyuan Yunying Grass, is even more precise, down to the breath level; adding it even a breath earlier or later will significantly affect the quality of the pill.

The purple entries in the Array Dao Heavenly Pivot produced an unexpected auxiliary effect when studying the matching logic.

The cross-network of medicinal properties in elixirs is essentially the same as the nested structure of spiritual energy circulation in formations.

The cross-action paths among the seven auxiliary materials can be compared to the parallel and serial relationships of multiple loops in an array.

This analogy greatly improved Li Yuan's speed of understanding matching logic.

But understanding is one thing, putting it into practice is another.

He needs to practice with other alchemical formulas to further hone his alchemical skills.

The time is ripe for refining the Condensing Essence and Nourishing Infant Pill.

But there's no rush.

The materials still have a little over two months left to be stored. The Nascent Soul Condensation Technique is still in the mastery stage, progressing towards minor success. The three-layer coordination of the Spirit Body Forging Technique is also being continuously refined. Let all conditions continue to accumulate, and then start the furnace at the most secure time.

The seclusion room fell silent.

The third-order spirit-gathering array within his body operated stably, and spiritual energy silently flowed in.