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Chapter 229 The first attempt

Although Lin Feng had already memorized the steps and details of refining the elixir, this was the first time he tried it himself, so he was inevitably a little worried.

It's okay if it fails, but if the furnace really blows up, the house will probably be affected.

It is hard to imagine that if a hole is blown out of the room, the nearby residents will be frightened and immediately call the fire alarm for help.

"However, what I want to refine now is just a elixir for clearing away heat and detoxifying. If there is no accident, even if the refining fails, there will be no major problems."

Taking a deep breath, Lin Feng placed the cauldron in front of him, and stuffed a kind of black charcoal into the bottom of the cauldron.

Generally speaking, ordinary cauldrons are divided into upper and lower parts.

The upper entrance is where medicinal materials are placed, and the lower entrance is where fuel is placed.

As for the fuel, there is also a lot to say.

If ordinary charcoal or firewood is used, there is probably no way to ignite the flame in the cauldron.

Therefore, the refining elixir usually uses a special fuel, which not only has a mild flame, but also has no peculiar smell, which is the best choice for refining elixir.

After Lin Feng stuffed the fuel into the cauldron to ignite, he reached out and picked up a medicinal herb, and stuffed it directly through the upper entrance.

For beginner Lin Feng, how to choose the order of medicinal materials is a big question.

Refining elixir does not mean stuffing all the medicinal materials into the cauldron, but each medicinal material needs to be individually put into the cauldron to be refined until the medicinal materials are baked into a paste by the flame. success.

Although the appearance of this paste may not be very beautiful, but it contains all the essence of the medicinal materials.

If you want to refine it into the final product, you must refine each medicinal material into such a paste, then mix them together and continue baking, and finally all the medicinal effects are mixed together and solidified into the shape of a pill. success.

Although this process does not sound difficult, in practice, countless doctors have struggled with it.

Not to mention that the refining time of some medicinal materials is too long, it is very likely that the essence of other medicinal materials that have been refined will be lost. Even if the whole process can be carried out smoothly to the end, each medicinal effect is different. Unpredictable accidents are likely to happen.

Although Lin Feng hadn't seen it with his own eyes, according to Old Ghost Gan, when he was refining the elixir, it was because he couldn't grasp the temperature properly in the end, which led to a conflict between the effects of the medicine, and a burst of anger broke out. The high temperature almost shattered the entire cauldron.

This is another essence of refining elixir, that is, the control of the heat is extremely important.

Because of the difference in heat, it may lead to different effects of the refined medicine, and may even greatly change the effect of the elixir.

Sometimes it may be just a slight difference in temperature, which may turn a panacea that can cure diseases and save lives into a poison that kills people!
So refining pills is by no means so easy.

It is precisely because of this that there are very few people in this circle who can refine elixirs, and each of them will be sought after by various forces.

Not only public hospitals and private hospitals, but even some forces in the rivers and lakes urgently need such talents.

Just imagine, if they could refine a panacea to enhance their physique or heal their injuries, it would be a great improvement for this kind of Jianghu forces.

It is also because of this that a doctor who can refine elixir will become a favorite.

Although it is difficult to refine the pills, but fortunately, Lin Feng knows the properties of various medicinal materials very well, so he didn't spend too much energy on the selection.

However, in terms of heat control, since Lin Feng didn't have any prescriptions for reference, he could only figure it out by himself.

At the first attempt, Lin Feng carefully stuffed a herb into the cauldron, and then ignited the flame.

Originally, Lin Feng wanted to try slowly with a low fire, but after roasting for a long time, the medicinal materials still didn't change much, but they became slightly burnt and black.

Seeing this scene, Lin Feng couldn't help feeling a little anxious, and subconsciously increased the flames.

As a result, fierce flames sprang up instantly, devouring the medicinal materials into a pile of ashes in just a few seconds.

"Sure enough, it still failed."

Lin Feng smiled helplessly.

But such a failure was also expected by him, after all, anyone would make such a mistake when trying for the first time.

What's more, he doesn't have any prescriptions to refer to. If he can succeed at one time, he is really a genius who is unique in a million.

Although it failed, fortunately, there are enough medicinal materials, so you can squander them at will.

After regrouping, Lin Feng threw all the medicinal materials into the cauldron again, and then ignited the flames.

This time Lin Feng became more courageous and directly increased the temperature a lot.

In this way, you won't be in a hurry when changing the temperature temporarily.

Sure enough, as Lin Feng expected, after the temperature increased, the medicinal materials also began to melt at a speed visible to the naked eye.

During this process, Lin Feng adjusted the flame slightly at a slow speed to ensure that the medicinal materials could be fully burned under different circumstances, and would not be directly burned to ashes.

Finally, after more than ten minutes of hard work by Lin Feng, the first medicinal herb was finally refined into a ball of black pasty liquid.

Seeing his achievements, Lin Feng had a look of joy on his face.

When he carefully took out the mushy liquid in the tray, he even trembled slightly with excitement.

"I didn't expect to succeed in the second attempt. It seems that I really have the talent in refining pills."

Lin Feng shook his head half-jokingly, and carefully stored the refined liquid paste in a special jade bottle.

After the first medicinal material was successfully refined, Lin Feng threw the second medicinal material into the cauldron in one go.

Of course, there is no surprise. The first two attempts all ended in failure. The reason is that the fire control is not accurate enough.

After failing twice in a row, Lin Feng just sighed, and said with emotion: "Now I finally understand why the prescriptions of elixir are not something ordinary people can develop."

After all, the refining time and heat of each herb have to go through more than a dozen or even nearly a hundred trials before the most precise control point can be found out.

Coupled with the final process of condensing into a pill, it is even more necessary to control the heat with incomparable precision.

Even if he was refining the simplest pill, Lin Feng doubted that he would fail dozens of times, or even hundreds of times before he could succeed, not to mention that the higher the grade of the pill, the more difficult it would be to refine it.

(End of this chapter)