The strongest warrior of the Great Qian Dynasty

"This... Lord Li, are you going to refine pills?"

The servant in charge of reception stared at Li Qingshan in shock, his mind filled with doubt.

"That's right. I wonder if you sell any books about alchemy?"

Li Qingshan asked.

"Of course we have them. I'll go get them for you right away."

Despite being filled with doubts, the servant still diligently retrieved various alchemy books.

It should be known that many people in this world have had the idea of ​​alchemy.

However, those who can become alchemists are extremely rare. He didn't believe that this Li, who had only started practicing alchemy later in life, could successfully become an alchemist.

But so what?

Anyway, the bookstore sells these books, so I won't make things difficult for myself and will just take them upstairs.

Having taken the books on alchemy, Li Qingshan didn't linger and left directly from the back room of the Hundred Herbs Hall.

The reason was simple: all the prominent families in Lin'an City, knowing that Li Qingshan was actually here, sent their visiting cards, hoping to get a meeting with him.

Li Qingshan was annoyed by them, and besides, he didn't usually interact with these people, so he refused to see them.

Many people only felt regret and sighed when Li Qingshan left.

"Alas, what a pity, I didn't get to meet Lord Li. It would have been wonderful if we could have become friends."

"Who says otherwise? Those Tan family scions, having heard that they once studied poetry and literature under Lord Li, are truly envious; their voices have even grown louder now."

"Who can disagree? Tan Tongle tells everyone he meets about his days learning his craft, and even the teachers at Tiantong Academy can attest to it."

"Do you think Lord Li will be teaching poetry and literature at the academy in a while?"

The crowd discussed it amongst themselves, but there was nothing they could do. After all, Li Qingshan had grown stronger, both in terms of his strength and his foundation.

……

"Master, are you really going to refine pills?"

Qianqian hovered around, her mind full of questions, after all, she had never heard of anyone practicing martial arts and then getting into alchemy.

Li Qingshan didn't hide his thoughts either, and talked with Qianqian as they walked.

"That's right, I'm going to refine pills, but not those herbal pills, but the golden elixir within my own body."

Li Qingshan suddenly recalled many biographies from his previous life.

As the saying goes, once you swallow a golden pill, your fate is in your own hands, not in the hands of heaven.

Of course, he might not be able to refine the Golden Elixir, but he will refine his Yin and Yang energies.

Back then, Qiu Meier's Yin and Yang energies were only slightly condensed, yet she was so self-satisfied, clearly because it had such great benefits to condensing a Dharma body.

What if I could completely condense the Yin and Yang energies?

Even if all else fails, one can use methods from other mountains to refine the jade of this mountain, so that one can also try to walk the path of Dharma.

In the courtyard.

Li Qingshan lit a stick of sandalwood incense for himself, then sipped his fragrant tea and quietly flipped through the book in his hands.

The Method of Alchemy Using Herbal Elixir.

The name is simple, and the content is also very simple.

It mainly explains how to extract the essence from plants, then use a furnace to create it, and finally condense it into an elixir.

After reviewing it several times, Li Qingshan had a general idea of ​​how to refine the pills.

First, the furnace is opened with a gentle fire. Then, the prepared pills are added to it along with their medicinal properties. Finally, a special technique is used to condense them before the furnace is opened to retrieve the pills.

However, Li Qingshan didn't need to know how to process the medicinal properties of the pills, nor did he need to know how to condense them into pills.

All he needed was a step, a process that would allow him to solidify his power.

As the sound of the "Huang Ting Jing" resounded, Li Qingshan's mind began to expand to its limit in this courtyard.

In this chaotic state, he suddenly found himself in his own inner world, but at this moment he was located at the very end of this inner city.

A nine-zhang-tall alchemy furnace is located inside.

The alchemy furnace is carved with all sorts of rare and exotic animals, so lifelike that they seem to be alive.

Beneath this alchemy furnace, a flame emanating from true energy was burning fiercely at an extremely high temperature, causing even the surrounding air to seem to be constantly distorted.

At the very center of this alchemy furnace lies a vast amount of Yin and Yang energies.

These two forces swirled and intertwined, then separated again, finally merged, only to separate once more.

It had now formed into a liquid state, flowing slowly and continuously absorbing the gaseous true energy.

The pedestrians around them, however, seemed oblivious to this, and even began to recount secrets about "power".

"Someone poured their years of will, essence, and soul into their techniques, which were eventually condensed into the power of swords and spears."

"Some people, with a single thought, possess an overwhelming aura, believing themselves to be the embodiment of a true dragon, and thus condense their true dragon aura."

"Even more so, some perceive the vastness within themselves and condense it into a Dharma form."

……

In an instant, these words, like dry tinder, were thrown into the furnace and burst into flames, shooting into the sky.

However, the yin and yang energies within the alchemy furnace seemed to have been stimulated and began to expand continuously, attempting to break free from the furnace's confinement.

but.

The yin and yang energies within this alchemy furnace are still being continuously refined, twisted, and rotated.

It became a strange power, which began to merge into Li Qingshan's consciousness, constantly nourishing him.

Legend has it that when unparalleled masters refined elixirs, they drew upon the essence of heaven and earth, the spirit of the sun and moon. They even used heaven and earth as their alchemical furnace to refine all things.

In the process of resisting and refining the Yin-Yang True Qi, Li Qingshan finally succeeded, and even felt as if his consciousness had broken through some kind of confinement.

"How is that possible? Master only read a book on alchemy, how come he seems to be cultivating his own aura?"

Unable to enter the inner world, Qianqian stared blankly at Li Qingshan, who was sitting cross-legged, and was instantly stunned.

"Although I have heard of people who can become masters in a day, they still have to spend a lot of time honing their skills."

Moreover, he has also grasped his own path, but why didn't the master think about how to condense his power before?

Li Qingshan remained motionless as the furnace in his mind began to expand, seemingly about to burst through the entire inner world.

It was as if even the white lotus mark that had always surrounded them was about to be completely destroyed.

break!

But the next moment, all of this vanished, as if it had never existed.

Li Qingshan slowly opened his eyes and continued reciting the "Huang Ting Jing".

At this moment, a slight smile appeared on his face, because he had already seen the path ahead—the path to breaking through to the Grandmaster level.

"With a cauldron within one's heart, it transforms into a furnace of heaven and earth; yin and yang become the elixir, and all calamities are naturally eliminated!"

With a thought, the alchemy cauldron appeared in Li Qingshan's mind again, and he continued to refine the yin and yang energies within his body.

Around him, within a radius of a hundred paces, a strange aura seemed to emerge, and the yin and yang energies around him were also attracted and began to move towards him.