Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Book of Alchemy
A day later, Feng Fan came to the Flying Sect's Scripture Pavilion. The Tibetan Scripture Pavilion is divided into three layers, the first floor is open to all formal disciples during the Qi Gathering Period and the Foundation Building Period, and there are books on various spell cultivation, low-level exercises, elixir effects, rare beasts, treasures, etc.
The content recorded on the second layer is similar to that of the first layer, but there are some more intermediate exercises, which are only open to monks of the Hua Dan stage, Yuan Infant stage and above, and monks in the Qi gathering period and foundation building stage are forbidden to enter.
The third layer is only open to monks at the Dacheng stage and above, and most of them contain some extremely precious books, including various high-grade elixirs, refining and formulas of elixirs, and individual high-level exercises.
Feng Fan is most concerned about the refining of the elixir, and as for the spells, he can choose any few after he is cultivated and promoted. Other aspects of the book are brief, and there is plenty of time to study them later.
It is better to carry the book slip with you in the Scripture Pavilion, because the Feitian Sect stipulates that you can only borrow one book slip at a time, so Feng Fan borrows one book at a time, and returns to his residence to copy the phantom life The next day after returning to the residence, he will return the original and then borrow another one.
Ten days later, many of the books on the first floor of the Flying Heaven Sect's Scripture Pavilion had been copied and phantomed by Feng Fan, and these books included various spell cultivation, rare beasts, treasures, and the introduction of low-grade elixirs.
Feng Fan studied it briefly and became familiar with some knowledge of the elixir theoretically. The elixir is divided into seven grades, with the lowest grade of the first grade and the highest grade of the seventh grade. In addition to Danding and Spirit Grass, refining the spirit pill also requires real fire.
Danding is divided into seven levels, from the first grade of Danding to the seventh grade of Danding, each grade of Danding corresponds to the level of the elixir suitable for refining, and the low-level Danding can also refine the high-level elixir, but the success rate will be significantly reduced.
There are two types of true fire, one is the true fire of the center of the earth naturally formed between heaven and earth, and the other is the true fire formed by the monk's own true element. Only monks at the foundation building stage and above can emit true fire, and monks who send out true fire to refine the elixir will greatly consume true yuan. If there is a sufficient amount of high-frequency rank crystal jade, the consumption of true yuan can be minimized, but ordinary monks can't get a sufficient number of high-frequency rank crystal jade at all, so there are very few monks who turn their true yuan into true fire alchemy.
Most alchemists relied on the earth-centered true fire formed between heaven and earth, and this kind of true fire had several places in the Golden Moon Ancient Country, all of which had been occupied by the major sects, and the Flying Heaven Sect also occupied one of them.
In addition to these two methods, there is another way to obtain the true fire of alchemy, that is, the cultivation realm has discovered a substance called "true flint" in ancient times. This substance can be burned under the blow of the true element, and its combustion produces the true fire used in alchemy. It's just that the real flint is very precious and needs to be exchanged for a lot of crystal jade, but this is nothing to Feng Fan at all.
But Feng Fan then discovered that the book on the elixir in it did not have a refining method, not even the lowest level of the elixir refining method. It was just a detailed introduction to the ingredients and functions of some elixirs, and these introductions were all low-grade elixirs, which made Feng Fan very depressed. I didn't expect the book on the first layer to be so mutilated, which made Feng Fan a little speechless.
Later, Feng Fan asked Lin Jingnan for advice, and through Lin Jingnan's guidance, he learned that the books for refining the elixir were very precious, even if they were not open to the public in the major cultivation forces, but they might be exchanged in some markets. Moreover, Feng Fan learned from Lin Jingnan's mouth that a small square market would be held in a place called Jinyin Town, three hundred miles away from the Feitian Sect, ten days later.
Returning to his residence, Feng Fan thought about it and decided to participate in the Fang Market ten days later, because the cultivation of the Five Elements Xuanmeng Jue was extremely slow to improve his cultivation, so he must have enough elixir as a foundation, so that he would get twice the result with half the effort. In the elixir book, Feng Fan knows that the elixir that helps the monks in the Qi Gathering Period to improve their cultivation is the Nine Transformation Spiritual Pill, which is a first-grade elixir, as long as one is refined, Feng Fan, who has the ability to copy the illusion, can copy the illusion to produce countless pieces.
Some time ago, he had consumed a lot of True Yuan because of copying the Phantom Spirit Grass, and he had been busy studying the borrowed books, so Feng Fan hadn't cultivated much in the past few days. After calming down, Feng Fan then began to concentrate on meditation.
Ten days later, Feng Fan's state reached its peak. After making some simple preparations, Feng Fan stepped on the frisbee and flew towards the gold and silver town hundreds of miles away.
Along the way, Feng Fan occasionally met other monks flying in the air, and from the direction of their flight, Feng Fan roughly judged that these people were also going to participate in the Fang Market held in Jinyin Town. Feng Fan followed from a distance, and finally reached his destination after nearly a day.
Jinyin Town is a small town in the west of the ancient country of Jinyue, which is usually very remote. Because of the lack of aura, there are very few monks who usually appear, and there are no cultivation forces that are optimistic about this place.
At this time, it is very lively, and monks in all kinds of costumes gather here to participate in this small market. This kind of fang market has nothing to do with the eight major forces, but is jointly organized by some loose cultivators and small families, so there is chaos here, and murder and treasure grabbing happen repeatedly.
The bazaars are held outdoors, and each monk puts out what he wants to exchange, and if the other monks want to exchange, they only need to take out a certain amount of crystal jade or other things that will make the seller happy. There is no fixed time pattern for the holding of this kind of market, it may be once every few years, or it may be once every six months, mainly depending on the number of monks involved in the sale of goods.
Around the Golden and Silver Town are a number of guest rooms, which belong to the undertaker of Fang City. All monks who rented these houses had to pay a small amount of jade, and although this was a small amount for each monk, because of the large number of rooms, the undertaker of the market could also earn a lot of jade from these rooms after the market ended.
Feng Fan first paid a few pieces of mid-grade crystal jade as a deposit and found a room to live in. The Fang market lasted for ten days, and although it had been carried out for a day, it was already late at this time, so Feng Fan was going to rest for one night and go out tomorrow to find a book to refine the elixir.
The next day, Feng Fan searched carefully in the market. A day passed in a hurry, and Feng Fan didn't find a book for refining the elixir at all. On the third day, the fourth day, ...... until the eighth day, except for exchanging some true flint stones necessary for alchemy, a four-grade Danding, etc., Feng Fan still did not find what he wanted most.
When Feng Fan came to the area in the center of Fang, there were a few divine senses that glanced over, most of them were monks in the foundation building period.
Feng Fan pretended not to know, and carefully looked at the things placed on the table. Most of the talismans and magic weapons here are mid-range, and occasionally there are a few spirit grasses, most of which are hundreds of years old, and there are no thousand-year-old spirit grasses at all. Because the thousand-year-old spirit grass is extremely helpful for improving one's cultivation, few monks who have obtained the thousand-year-old spirit grass exchange it, and almost all of them are kept for their own use.