Immortality Begins with the Master of Alchemy

Chapter 117: Immortal Zhuju’s experience and refining of blood-burning pills

 “Here, breakfast.”

 Handing a glutinous rice cake wrapped in green leaves to Luo Chen, Gu Caiyi sat down next to him.

 Luo Chen took the hot glutinous rice cake and took a delicious bite.

 “Authentic!”

“I never knew that glutinous rice cakes made from Lingmi could be so delicious.”

Looking at Luo Chen who was enjoying his meal, Gu Caiyi smiled softly, "Isn't this inspired by your popcorn? Those who followed the trend began to think about the most common spiritual rice."

Luo Chen smiled and enjoyed the spiritual breakfast.

 Once a human being refines his Qi, his body is in a process of passive transformation.

 In this process, in addition to spiritual practice, food supplementation is also a key factor.

The so-called monks' fasting is often something that only high-level monks take the initiative to do in seclusion.

 But in fact, low-level monks try not to live without food, because in the Qi refining stage, in addition to refining external spiritual energy, they also refine their own physical energy.

If the essence is insufficient, the origin will be damaged.

It is also common for people to suffer physical fatigue and seven injuries due to Qi refining.

However, there are also opinions on eating. Ordinary whole grains are not the first choice for monks.

Eating too much of those things will fill the body with impurities and affect the process of refining Qi.

 Spiritual rice, spiritual vegetables, monster meat, spiritual wine, spiritual tea, etc., naturally became popular.

Even when Luo Chen was at his most depressed, he would grit his teeth and buy the smallest amount of spiritual rice in order to prevent his body from hindering his spiritual practice.

Nowadays, in Dahefang City, the spiritual food industry is developing in full swing.

 Originally, there were normal places like Lingyuanzhai and Zhongding’s house.

Later, Luo Chen created a series of snacks containing trace amounts of spiritual energy, which were very popular.

Stimulated, the casual cultivators also used their brains to innovate many small foods containing spiritual energy.

I have to say, there is quite a market for it. When monks are tired of eating spiritual rice, they are still willing to spend some spiritual stones to improve the taste.

For example, Luo Chen liked the food sold in Baishi Square very much and often asked Gu Caiyi and others to bring them over in the morning.

Of course, he will also give the spirit stone, and he can’t prostitute her for free.

He was even relatively generous, and even those who helped him bring breakfast were able to enjoy it together.

Gu Caiyi used to eat only one meal of spiritual rice a day, just like any other monk.

 But now following Luo Chen, I have become accustomed to eating breakfast.

 She lay there, thinking about some spiritual matters.

 Suddenly, I smelled a fragrance.

“Hey, Luo Chen, did you put on some rouge? Why do you smell so good?”

 “I’m not a woman, why should I put on rouge?”

Gu Caiyi sniffed her nose and smelled it carefully. The fragrance emanating from Luo Chen's body was vaguely present.

 It is as blazing as fire, yet as gentle as jade.

 It was very contradictory, but between the wings of her nose, it made her feel quite comfortable.

Luo Chen paused for a moment and suddenly said: "It should be the elixir energy left by my years of refining elixirs. Is the smell strong?"

 “It’s not strong, you have to get very close and smell it carefully to smell it.”

Gu Caiyi sniffed it and felt a little relaxed and happy.

 Why haven’t you discovered the elixir energy in Luo Chen before?

Hearing what she said, Luo Chen felt relieved.

  It is normal for an alchemist to have some alchemy energy, as long as it is not too strong and leaves a deep impression on others.

However, if you want to do something shameful in the future, it is better to cover it up, or it is better to eliminate it directly.

 After breakfast, the internal monks gradually arrived at the Alchemy Hall.

 A new day of alchemy work is about to begin again.

However, under the leadership of Gu Caiyi, these people had no complaints.

 At the beginning of this month, the salary increase promised by Hall Master Luo Chen has been approved by the gang.

 Each of them, according to their respective positions, has benefited more or less.

 Furthermore, if you work in Poshan Gang for a long time, you will gain merit points.

  After accumulating enough merit points, you can go to the Hall of Merits and exchange them for some low-level spells.

Although it is only a mass product, if you go out and buy it yourself, you will still have to spend a high price of spiritual stones.

 Internal exchange is very cheap.

It is also because of the improvement in salary that these people are more passionate about their work than before, and they are more attentive than before when assisting Luo Chen in refining elixirs.

  After all, Luo Chen casually said once that he would promote two management leaders like Qu Hancheng from among the medical practitioners and alchemists.

 One day later, the alchemy was completed.

 Today's elixir success rate is not high, only about 40%.

Of course, that’s what the monks in the office saw only.

 The true rate of elixir formation is actually 50%.

 The extra ten percent was quietly stolen by Luo Chen.

Those are twenty high-grade chalcedony pills that he specially refined, and their effectiveness is comparable to that of Qi-nourishing pills.

 Although it is not as good as the Huachen Pill that is mainly taken today, it does not have drug resistance!

Luo Chen was not in a hurry to refine it, so he just ate it, letting the medicinal power fill his meridians and absorb it automatically.

 In this way, whether he is refining elixirs or releasing spells, his spiritual power can always remain full.

 Furthermore, Changchun Gong’s automatic Qi-returning feature is always working.

Luo Chen also wanted to try and see if the spiritual power in his body would be passively purified if it remained full.

 Actually, Luo Chen also thinks about it sometimes.

What will happen if his greedy behavior is discovered?

 After thinking about it many times, Luo Chen came to a conclusion.

What can be done?

 As long as it's not too much, Mi Shuhua will just pretend he didn't see it.

Is it possible that he can still be imprisoned in the dungeon?

 The most you can do is give a warning, then restrain yourself a little, and then return to your old ways after a while.

 Hence, Luo Chen has nothing to worry about now that he is filling his own pockets.

After work, Luo Chen greeted Gu Caiyi and headed to the inner city.

As he left, Zhou Yuanli and several other bodyguards followed him tacitly.

 These bodyguards did not disperse until they entered the safety of the inner city.

After they left, Luo Chen said goodbye to Gu Caiyi and started walking around the inner city alone.

We went to Baicaotang first.

Accompanied by Bai Meiling, Luo Chen met the new shopkeeper of Baicaotang.

 Unexpected!

The other party was actually not an old monk like Liu Hecai, but a very young-looking foundation-building monk.

Shouldn’t such a talent stay in the sect and study hard, become a foundation-building true disciple, and then work hard to form elixirs?

Or should we say that the Yaowang Sect is so full of talents that young people are even sent out to handle business?

The reason why the other party was willing to meet Luo Chen was because the previous shopkeeper Liu had said hello that there was a casual alchemist like Luo Chen in Dahefang.

 Alchemists are inherently rare.

　　It is even more curious to see the alchemy master.

However, after learning that Luo Chen was already serving the gang, the other party had no interest.

They exchanged names and waved their hands for Luo Chen to see by himself.

 After buying some medicinal materials for Peiyuan Spiritual Liquid and dozens of Tianyang Fruits, Luo Chen said goodbye to Bai Meiling and went straight to Xianzhu Residence.

Xianzhuju, a store affiliated to Ailao Mountain, specializes in selling various building materials, ores, etc., and also collects resources.

 After entering Xianzhuju, Luo Chen began to wander around inside.

Seeing him looking like he wanted to take a stroll, the disciples from Ailao Mountain in Xianzhuju had no intention of coming up to greet him.

There are too many casual cultivators like this.

You may not be able to buy anything valuable even after shopping for a long time.

 “There is nothing to argue with, it must be their Jade Cauldron Sword Sect who did it!”

"How could anyone be so stupid as to commit murder on his own territory?"

“Tch, this kind of thing happens too often. Otherwise, how could the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect come up with so many magic weapons to auction at the auction?”

 Listening to the chat between the two Ailaoshan disciples who were in the late stage of Qi refining next to them, Luo Chen was thinking about gossip.

 He thought that at the auction, the local sword pavilion representing the Sword Sect had indeed put up a lot of magic weapons for auction.

For example, the Tianyue Purple Gold Wheel bought by Mi Shuhua at a large price is one of them.

 In the subsequent auction, at least four magic weapons were sold!

He used to be curious about how the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect could come from so many magic weapons since it was not a major weapon-making sect.

I didn’t expect to hear this kind of explanation from other sect disciples.

 Thinking about it carefully, it is right. Once a Sword Sect monk has established a foundation, he will abandon most foreign objects and concentrate on Jianwan.

The magical artifacts that casual cultivators regard as treasures are really not indispensable to sword cultivators who respect "one sword can break all magic".

  If you accidentally get some magic weapon and it is useless to keep it in your hands, it is reasonable to auction it off.

There may be some trouble in the auction in the hinterland of Yuding Territory, but in a remote place like Dahefang, there will be no trouble.

In a place like this, Jade Cauldron Sword Pavilion is the absolute overlord, and no one can mess with it.

 In my ears, there was another voice of conversation, which was quite indignant.

“The injuries on Uncle Fei Bowen’s body were clearly caused by magic weapon-level sword pills. There are many sword pills in the entire Jade Cauldron Domain, but the only one who can cultivate magic weapon-level sword pills is the Jianzong Golden Pill!”

“Why would Jianzong Jindan take action against the foundation-building monks?”

"Who knows, maybe he just fell in love with the Fan Cong magic weapon of my uncle. It is said that Fan Cong, a defensive magic weapon, can also be used by swordsmen."

"maybe!"

"Anyway, the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect bullies people too much. The Supreme Elder of our sect came to ask for an explanation, and they were very arrogant. After the Supreme Elder returned to the sect, he was so angry that he scolded the Sword Sect and even stopped several large markets of the Sword Sect. Repair plan.”

“Hiss, we in Ailao Mountain can’t afford to offend the Yuanying Sect. If the Supreme Elder does this, isn’t he afraid of causing trouble?”

“Oh, you don’t know something about this. When we first opened up the Jade Cauldron Territory...that boy, did you want to buy anything?”

Luo Chen was stunned for a moment, then smiled.

 “Buy it, aren’t you afraid of disturbing the chat between the two fellow Taoists?”

 “What do you want to buy? Hurry up and tell us, we are going to close.”

Luo Chen pursed his lips and said with a smile: "I heard that you have the Earth Fire Demon here. But I searched for it on the shelves for a long time and didn't see it."

 The monks in Xianzhuju looked at him disdainfully.

“I don’t know how to put Earth Fire Fiend on the shelf, how much do you want?”

 …

 …

 The evil spirits kill each other, they are extremely ferocious and evil, and there are no foreign objects left.

 If there is an extremely dangerous place, evil spirits will often be born.

 If there is corresponding evil spirit, there will be no other external things except the things that generate evil spirits.

Like the Yellow Spring Yin evil spirit, it is the place where the second-level Yellow Spring water gathers, and the evil spirit has been condensed over the years.

 In that place, except for Huangquan water, Huangquan Yinsha will actively destroy any external objects.

 The same is true for the earth fire evil.

 It is a kind of evil spirit that is born where a large amount of earth fire exists.

Hence, the evil spirit of earth fire often does not tolerate external objects, is extremely destructive, and is a masculine evil spirit. But the monks are such smart people. If that kind of extremely destructive power is added to the magic weapon, the power will increase several times.

 After years of research, generations of highly intelligent people have come up with many ways to remove evil spirits, tolerate evil spirits, and use evil spirits.

  After all, no matter how awesome you say, if one thing is lowered than another, there will always be something with a higher grade than you and with attributes that restrain you.

For example, the earth fire evil spirit, although it belongs to the fire attribute, but it lives in the mountains and rivers all year round, it will naturally be restrained by earth elements.

 Under the leadership of the Ailao Mountain disciple, Luo Chen saw the thing that stored the Earth Fire Evil.

 A stone that looks like a honeycomb full of tiny holes.

"This is a rock pumice stone, which is associated with earth fire. One stone can hold ten rays of earth fire evil."

“If you want to buy the Earth Fire Demon, you have to buy a rock pumice stone. So, the price…”

 Fifty spiritual stones!

Luo Chen was shocked.

Earth fire evil is only the lowest level, the most common evil spirit, and its grade is only the first level.

Only ten strands, but they actually had to sell him fifty spiritual stones!

Seeing the pain in Luo Chen's flesh, the monk smiled and said, "Of course, we will also teach you how to channel evil spirits. You will definitely not lose out on this deal."

Hearing what he said, Luo Chen could barely accept it.

However, after spending fifty spiritual stones to buy the Earth Fire Demon, Luo Chen was still angry.

This Immortal Zhuju in Ailao Mountain is also a big profiteer of his mother.

Let’s just sell things, and also engage in bundled sales.

Ten wisps of earth fire evil spirits are actually sold together with rock pumice stones and the secret of controlling evil spirits.

 …

 After leaving Xianzhuju, Luo Chen settled the accounts.

Ten wisps of earth fire evil require fifty spiritual stones.

Tianyang fruit is relatively cheap, and the amount corresponding to the amount of earth fire evil spirits is almost ten spirit stones.

Blood of the Explosive Ape, one of the three main ingredients of Burning Blood Pill, is not cheap at all.

He hasn’t bought it yet, but he also knows the corresponding price. Buying ten copies of the Explosive Ape Demon Blood will cost you at least thirty spiritual stones.

 If you add other auxiliary materials, you will get about 20 yuan.

Calculating it this way, to gather ten main materials, you will need at least one hundred and one low-grade spiritual stones.

 It’s not unknown, but based on this calculation, the cost price is simply sky-high.

 The cost of one furnace starts with eleven spiritual stones!

As for other manpower and material resources, including the firewood for refining the elixir, Luo Chen has not yet added it.

“The cost of Zhongmiao Pill and Chalcedony Pill is only five spiritual stones. Why is the cost of Blood Burning Pill so high?”

“Is it because I deduced this recipe?”

 Luo Chen couldn't help but want to go up to Danfang.

Generally speaking, mature elixir recipes have been deduced countless times by alchemy masters, and the main and auxiliary materials are carefully selected.

 This process may take ten years, a hundred years, or even a thousand years to evolve.

 Hence, the prices of the main and auxiliary materials in various prescriptions have been reduced to the lowest.

 His blood-burning elixir recipe is a bit tricky.

He derived it through the second-level Blood Evil Pill and used the system to forcefully get started.

 There is no optimization or simplification process yet.

“If this is true, it means that there is still room for optimization in the Blood Burning Pill recipe.”

“But with my current knowledge of alchemy, I have tried my best to deduce an alchemy recipe that can be used as a beginner. How can I optimize it?”

 If the cost price is not lowered, the profit from the elixir will be very small.

 Even though the effect is very good, in the end it is only a first-level elixir.

 The effect is not good for high-level monks. Low-level monks cannot afford high prices, so the profits will naturally be very small.

“Forget it, refine it first and then talk about it.”

“If the effect is average and it’s not suitable for selling, just use it for yourself!”

Luo Chen sighed and made this plan.

He has no intention of giving up refining the blood-burning elixir. It is a first-level elixir after all. What if there is a market for it after refining it?

Furthermore, by refining the Blood Burning Pill and increasing his proficiency, the improved Blood Evil Pill can also have the effect of attacking jade with other mountain stones.

 In the final analysis, both come from the same source.

 Over the next few days, he gradually collected the remaining auxiliary materials.

As for the explosive ape demon blood, he did not buy it himself, but entrusted Duan Feng to buy it for him.

 The reason why Duan Feng came forward was because it was reasonable for the other party to buy this kind of thing.

 The blood of the Explosive Ape Demon is very suitable for refining a large tonic soup, which is quite beneficial for those who are deficient in Qi and blood.

Those monks who often go to the Taoist platform to fight will often buy it and make soup to drink.

In fact, Luo Chen has seen this kind of thing before.

　　When the eighteen monks were fighting to the death, Murong Qinglian made a kind of tiger bone soup for Qin Liangchen to drink.

The recipe for tiger bone soup is the tonic soup mentioned above.

  It's just that the main materials used are different, but the principle is the same.

 After collecting the materials, Luo Chen was ready to start refining the blood-burning pill.

As for the refining place, he placed it in his own small alchemy room at home.

 …

　　咚!

With a muffled sound, the Four-Elephant Cauldron landed on top of the fire pit.

Luo Chen frowned. The area of ​​the alchemy room in his home was too small. After accommodating the four-elephant cauldron that was one foot high, it seemed quite crowded.

 But there is nothing we can do about it.

He can't blatantly bring this kind of thing to the Xieyue Valley Alchemy Hall.

Even if you are refining alchemy late at night, you can easily be discovered by the Poshan Gang monks who are keeping watch at night.

 So, I can only make elixirs at home.

With no one to stop him, Luo Chen started doing the chores of alchemy that he had not done for a long time.

Heating the Four-Elephant Cauldron took a long time, and firewood alone was not enough. Luo Chen had to do two things, firing out fireballs from time to time.

You also have to control your spiritual power and not let the fireball spell be too powerful.

 Fortunately, he is already familiar with the flame-making technique and is very skilled in controlling flames.

 While doing these tedious tasks, Luo Chen even thought of his own current situation.

 Fortunately, I joined the Broken Mountain Gang. If I had continued to fight alone as before, I would have been exhausted from refining alchemy every day.

 Now I make elixirs twice a day, three furnaces at a time, and the workload is obviously more than before.

 But because of the help of the group of medicine apprentices and pyrotechnics, he felt much more relaxed.

 “Next, it’s time to put in the auxiliary materials.”

 The processed medicinal materials were put into the Four Elephants Cauldron one by one.

 Some of them need to be dealt with on site, and he also has a special hand in handling medicinal materials.

 Then there is Tianyangguo, which has mild medicinal properties.

There is a hint of innate spirit in this thing, which is not much, but is quite precious.

 Otherwise Baicaotang would not sell it.

 After the Tianyang Fruit, there is the blood of the ape demon.

 Luo Chen took out a magic weapon and swallowed the Bona sea pot.

This is a new one he bought recently. The previous one was given to Feng Xia, and it is specially used to hold the milk of Fu Zhulu.

 Don't mention it, the price of buying the magic weapon this time was only two hundred spirit stones.

 He remembered that the Tumbo Nahai pot in Wanbaolou used to be sold for 230 yuan.

Sikong Shoujia did not lie to him. The price of magic weapons is indeed getting cheaper now. Maybe thousands of years later, the price of storage bags will remain high, and Qi Refining monks will all have one.

 The spout of the pot is opened, and a fishy smell gushes out.

This thing doesn’t need to be processed, what’s important is its original flavor.

Luo Chen accurately controlled the amount of demon blood until he had enough blood-burning pills, then he put away the Tunbo Nahai pot.

After pouring the blood of the Explosive Ape Demon, Luo Chen stopped moving and concentrated on controlling the fire.

Occasionally, the traction technique will be used to open the lid of the cauldron, and then a special medicine shovel will be used to stir the gradually melting medicine inside.

 According to the elixir formula he deduced, it is best not to come into contact with too much spiritual power from the alchemist during the refining process of the blood-burning elixir.

 Otherwise it will affect the purity of the elixir.

The only place where it comes into contact is probably when it comes out of the oven, relying on alchemy techniques and using spiritual power to knead the liquid into pills.

 The work of boiling and stirring took a long time.

  Even Luo Chen was a little dozed off.

Of course, he will not fall asleep.

He even thought about how to arrange this time period if blood-burning pills were refined on a large scale.

 There must be firemen to watch the fire.

 A group of people can also be specially trained from among the medicine disciples to be responsible for the stages of changing the medicinal solution during the alchemy process.

Perhaps not only the Burning Blood Pill, but the Chalcedony Pill also had a stage that cost him a lot of energy, and it seemed that he could do it in this way?

 These thoughts passed by in a flash.

 Luo Chen continued to concentrate on refining elixirs.

 Another incense-burning time has passed, and I feel that it’s almost done.

Luo Chen took out the honeycomb-shaped pumice stone.

The stone floated in the sky above the Four-Elephant Cauldron. Luo Chen stretched out one hand far away, and his spiritual power surged out.

With the one-hand seal, the spiritual energy intertwined into a group like a bee, burrowing into the hive.

After breaking through the barrier set by the monks of Ailao Mountain, Luo Chen's spiritual power wrapped up a wisp of earth fire demon like a bee carrying pollen, and slowly carried it out.

Earthly fire evil entered the cauldron, and Luo Chen's spiritual power was suddenly withdrawn.

 The lid of the tripod was also pressed down instantly.

 Almost at an instant, the Four Elephant Cauldron trembled slightly.

“The mild liquid medicine will produce special changes after it comes into contact with the evil energy of earth fire. The overall attributes will instantly evolve in a violent direction.”

“Not only that, the spiritual power in the blood of the Explosive Ape Demon and the Tianyang Fruit will also burst out in an instant under the stimulation of the Earth Fire Evil, and then merge with each other.”

The elixir formula you deduced will naturally have changes that may occur during the elixir refining process.

It can be said that Luo Chen is the person in the world who understands this blood-burning elixir best.

 A great master of alchemy would not be more familiar with it than him.

 Suddenly!

 The trembling four-symbol tripod suddenly stopped and became as quiet as before.

Luo Chen was at a loss. This was the last moment for him to become a pill.

 He unleashed his spiritual power and penetrated it along the formation lines originally reserved for the alchemy cauldron.

 After about five breaths, Luo Chen opened the lid of the cauldron expectantly.

 The pungent smell of burnt beetroot spread instantly.

 “Did it fail?”

“Get used to it. The first refining is just an entry-level proficiency. It’s normal to fail...”

Luo Chen, who was mentally prepared, was stunned when he saw the five peanut-sized pills at the bottom of the Four-Elephant Cauldron, which were as red as blood.

 There is no failure!

 Success in one fell swoop!

 (End of this chapter)