Chapter 161: Ascending Alchemy
"Hmph," the tyrant snorted coldly and ignored it. It's just a fierce gaze wandering between the golden bat and the bastard Jiao, and I don't know what the hell I'm thinking.
Seeing that the golden bat and the bastard Jiao actually cleaned up the tyrant demon! Wang Hong couldn't help but be happy in his heart, "I didn't expect this old guy to have such a day! It seems that this spirit beast is not easy to deal with if it is not cleaned up!"
"You three guys have finally tossed enough! Look at what you have tossed my wooden house into! Give you half an hour, clean it up for me, otherwise I will look good!" Wang Hong looked at the three with warning-like eyes.
As soon as the words fell, the three did not dare to delay at all, and began to re-repair the things they had destroyed, the action was very funny, which made Wang Hong look very funny, obviously the three guys were not good at carpenter's work.
With the efforts of the three guys, the broken things were finally repaired, although they were a bit nondescript, but they could barely be used, looking at the three guys with a dejected look, Wang Hong said angrily, "What should you do, what should you do, as long as you don't mess with me, you can do anything, but you can't leave the medicine garden!" Wang Hong was a little uneasy, and sat cross-legged and cultivated.
After cultivating for a day, he felt that his cultivation had not increased in the slightest, Wang Hong felt bored at all, knowing that with his qualifications, his cultivation had reached a bottleneck, and if he couldn't refine it into the Wanling Qingteng Pill in the shortest possible time, he could only take the Zhuji Pill to break through!
"It seems that you have to go to the Alchemy Hall often to refine the pills!Otherwise, your alchemy skills will not be improved at all! Not to mention refining the ground-level pills like the Wanling Qingteng Pill!"
Although Old Man Su's alchemy hall is not too big, there are dozens of them, and each alchemy room has a lung fire drawn out of the ground.
Entering the alchemy hall, when he saw the old man Su, Wang Hong, asked him for an alchemy room for long-term use, because the old man Su got a low-grade magic weapon and hundreds of elixirs from Wang Hong, plus Wang Hong became his own founding disciple. An alchemy room was easily given to Wang Hong by Old Man Su.
"Well, this alchemy room is actually built with Hantan stone!" Wang Hong looked at the wall that exuded a faint cold air with some surprise, due to the low cultivation before, Wang Hong really hadn't paid close attention to the building of the alchemy room. At this moment, I can't help but be a little surprised.
Perhaps because of the strange characteristics of the cold pool stone ground that is resistant to high temperatures and is not afraid of earth fire smelting, this land of fire has never had any major accidents since it was opened!"
This alchemy room is a square building. The area is average, only seven or eight zhang in size, but in the center of the room there is a round dun with a width of one zhang, and a fist-sized gourd is hung on each of the four walls, and there is an emerald green futon in the corner not far away.
Yuandun is also made of Hantan stone, which is very flat, only half a foot high. But on the outside of Yuandun, there are eight fiery red miniature dragon heads, which are lifelike. Moreover, the mouth of the dragon's head is slightly raised, which is just aimed at the sky above the center of Yuandun, and the spitting posture is very realistic. Seal the stone gate. Then he walked up to Yuandun excitedly, and after circling around it several times, he carefully looked at the eight spitting dragon heads.
In the past few years, Wang Hong has deliberately spent a lot of time studying the art of alchemy in order to refine the elixir this time. Therefore, he is not unfamiliar with the way of alchemy. Knowing the success of the pill mainly lies in the control of the heat during alchemy, and the grasp of the time to open the furnace to take the pill.
As for the amount and quantity of raw materials put in, after countless practices of the ancestors, it has already been clear in the formula, so there is no need to consider it. Of course, it is okay to increase or decrease the number of Cheng Dan at one time. As long as the number of raw materials is increased or decreased in a fixed proportion, the same amount can be increased.
However, when it comes to simplicity, it is extremely difficult to do! Accurately controlling the heat of the Dan furnace and grasping the opening time of the furnace are these two major problems, and I don't know how many so-called alchemy masters have been stumped.
Even the most famous alchemy masters of the Five Elements Sect had to admit that even if they took action personally, the probability that the pills above the middle grade of the prefecture level could become pills would not be too high, only about half or even less, and this was still the best pill for refining them. So let alone other ordinary alchemists!
Therefore, whether the pill can be successfully refined depends on whether the alchemist has rich experience. The more alchemists who have alchemized more times, the greater their chances of becoming a pill. Therefore, alchemists are the two most money-burning professions in the immortal cultivation world on a par with talismans, and of course, they are also the two most popular professions
Although Wang Hong had refined the pill no less than a hundred times before, it was only refining some human-level pills, but Wang Hong had never refined the ground-level pill once, not to mention the Wanling Qingteng Pill, which was the top grade among the ground-level pills, and the difficulty of refining was no simpler than the spirit-level pill.
Wang Hong was very clear about the process of alchemy, and knew that the probability of success in alchemy was related to his own accumulation of experience, so he didn't dare to be careless in refining the pill, but divided the pill he used to improve his alchemy technique into dozens of parts, and prepared to refine a few pills at a time, so that even if he failed, he would not lose too much.
"I believe that there are so many elixirs, enough for me to raise my alchemy to an advanced level!" Wang Hong, who was already familiar with the use of the fire of the earth lungs, then pinched the method with his hand, and shot out eight red lights in a row on the dragon's head, and the dragon's head immediately absorbed the red light, and then the dragon's mouth opened slightly, and they spewed out purple flames with chopsticks thick. Suddenly, the air in the room was filled with a scorching heat.
After the guidance of Old Man Su and his many practices, Wang Hong was not worried about his ability to control fire, and directly put a medicinal material for refining a human-level high-grade pill into the bronze medicine tripod according to the refining method of the Danfang.
The three-foot-sized bronze medicine tripod is comparable in quality to a top-grade magic weapon, which is enough for Wang Hong to use to improve alchemy, and the eight dragon heads distributed at the base of the medicine tripod spew out purple fire under Wang Hong's control.
According to the different stages of smelting the elixir, extracting the elixir, condensing the elixir, cultivating the elixir, and knotting the elixir, Wang Hong constantly controlled the size of the fire of the earth's lungs. But Wang Hong knew that it was still very early to become a pill at this time, and at least he had to use a more violent earth fire to carry out instantaneous condensation pills, so that he could form a pill.
Thinking of this, the purple fire under Wang Hong's control became more and more dazzling, even reaching the point where the mouth of the bowl was thick, enveloping the entire bronze tripod in it. Therefore, from a distance, Xiaoding has become a huge fireball, and the fragrance of medicine is becoming more and more intense.
There is no need to guess that Wang Hong also knows that this is the beginning of the pill condensation, so he is more and more concerned.
But at this moment, a muffled popping sound came from Dingzhong, although the sound was not loud, but it made Wang Hong's heart sink and his face was a little ugly.
After hesitating for a moment, Wang Hong sighed and stopped. Then with a move of his hand, he opened the lid of Xiao Ding, which was still hot, and stretched out his head to take a look. There were several pieces of light blue solid that had been shattered apart, and it seemed that they were the waste pills that had not been completed! He shook his head and threw away the discarded and useless pills.
After doing all this, Wang Hong went back to the futon and meditated until the bronze tripod had completely cooled down. before starting alchemy again. The same steps, the same raw powder. The same fire control technique, but unfortunately, this time it still failed in the step of Ning Dan.
This time, Wang Hong's face was expressionless, and after the state was adjusted, he silently started the next round...... Ten days, twenty days,... Three months have passed! Wang Hong still has no sign of coming out.
During this period, Old Man Su came to see that the door of Wang Hong's cave was closed, and he left without disturbing! In the fire house, Wang Hong sat on the futon, looking at the twenty or so green jade porcelain bottles containing pills floating in front of him, with a contemplative look on his face.
These pills are all the gains that Wang Hong has poured into countless painstaking efforts in the past three months. It was so hard to get them! It cost thousands of elixirs.
"It seems that it is extremely difficult to become an alchemist, not to mention the difficulty of alchemy, even the consumption of this elixir is not something that every monk can afford!
"Fortunately, the hard work pays off, although the cost is not large, but it is not without gain, at least the human-grade pills can be all refined! Although the rate of the top-grade human-grade pills is only fifty percent!, it is not bad!".
With the lessons of repeated failures before, Wang Hong's alchemy was just more cautious, and he carefully read the experience of alchemy given to him by Old Man Su, and after thinking about it dozens of times, he found that there was nothing missing, and then he started refining again.
Alchemists are extremely rare in the cultivation realm, even if there are tens of thousands of disciples in the Five Elements Sect, there are only a few dozen alchemists, and there are only four great alchemists, and Old Man Su has only been promoted to a great alchemist for a long time, and there is no alchemy master, which is still cultivated by the sect at a huge cost.
Alchemy is actually three points more difficult than the outside world has praised. An intermediate or high-level alchemist cannot be cultivated without a year or two of time and spending an almost astronomical fortune. This is also the reason why alchemists are so rare and have such a noble status in the cultivation realm
It is precisely because it costs a lot to become an alchemist, Wang Hong panicked and searched for all kinds of elixirs, even so, it was extremely difficult for Wang Hong to become a great alchemist like Old Man Su.