My magical power has skills

Xu Yi stayed in the alchemy room for an hour and a half before returning to his own courtyard.

During this hour and a half, Lu Fang taught him everything he knew. Of course, all the knowledge was limited to the Zhuangqi Pill.

Before a normal alchemist touches the alchemy furnace, the first thing to do is to go to the medicine garden to learn. They have to master a lot of knowledge, including how to identify herbs, distinguish the efficacy and quality of herbs, and know the problems of mutual promotion and mutual restraint between drugs.

All of these require a lot of time to complete, and even backlog the practice time of normal people.

However, Lu Fang and Xu Yi didn't care. They taught one and learned the other, limiting all their knowledge to seven kinds of medicines.

According to Lu Fang, the simplest pill, Zhuangqi Pill, actually has three different methods of refining medicine. Corresponding to seven medicines, ten medicines and twelve medicines respectively.

Different medicines have different proportions, and the biggest difference is the price and difficulty of refining.

Using seven medicines to refine Zhuangqi Pills is undoubtedly the simplest, but its cost is the most expensive. The cost of the medicine alone requires eighty taels of silver. Although there are three more kinds of medicines in the ten kinds of medicines, the cost is 30 taels cheaper. As for the Zhuangqi Pills with 12 kinds of medicines, the cost has even dropped to a mere 30 taels.

Nine out of ten true alchemists will choose the most basic pill, Zhuangqi Pills, to start with. Their refining methods are also from less to more, from easy to difficult. However, once they have mastered it thoroughly, most of them will choose 12 kinds of medicines in their daily refining.

All this is because of the relationship between cost and selling price.

The finished pills in the Qiaoqi Pavilion are extremely expensive. A bottle of ten low-grade Zhuangqi Pills is worth 30 taels of silver, a bottle of ten medium-grade Zhuangqi Pills is worth one gold, a bottle of ten high-grade Zhuangqi Pills is worth three golds, and the best Zhuangqi Pills are worth three golds. This is an appalling level.

Moreover, the best medicines are hard to come by, so generally don't count on them. On the contrary, although the best pills are scarce, as long as you can pay enough, you can still maintain the supply.

As long as the alchemist has made some achievements, he can make money very quickly. Even if the cost of seven kinds of medicine is 80 taels of silver, as long as the refining is successful and the quality reaches the middle grade, then there is still some profit in one furnace of pills. If a top grade or top grade pill is produced, it will be a big profit.

However, since Zhuangqi Pills are the most basic pills and the supply is huge, most junior alchemists will still choose twelve kinds of medicines to refine for cost considerations.

But at this moment, Xu Yi only learned the simplest but most expensive method of refining seven kinds of medicinal materials, and he only learned the steps and various precautions of how to exercise. As for how to pick and preserve medicinal materials, that was completely ignored.

But even so, when Xu Yi left the alchemy room, he felt dizzy.

In a short period of time, he accepted a lot of new knowledge, and witnessed Lu Fang refine three furnaces of pills in succession. Anyone would feel overwhelmed.

When he returned to the yard, he could see the benefits of Xu Yi's deliberate choice of the most remote place. There was no one near the yard. Xu Yi would not neglect it. He took out his notes and continued to read, and added a few words from time to time to make his impression more profound.

Not long after, someone brought the furnace and medicinal materials. The person who brought them was a manager of the warehouse. The furnace was borrowed by the sect, but Xu Yi was charged two golds for the cost of three medicinal materials.

That's right, the market price is two golds and forty silvers, but the price the sect gave to the alchemist is two golds, which is also a small surprise.

Along with the furnace, there was also a large amount of Dan coal, which was a special fuel, different from the coal balls Xu Yi had seen on Blue Star. This fuel is specially used to refine pills or forge weapons. The price is not cheap, but as long as you have the identity of a disciple of the Qiaoqi Sect, the sect will provide it for free.

The deep heritage of the great sect for thousands of years shocked Xu Yi again, but made him extremely happy.

After closing the book, Xu Yi did not directly refine the pill, but took a top-grade Zhuangqi pill, and then circulated the true qi to complete a large Zhoutian transportation. When the Qi circulation was completed, his spirit and energy were restored to the peak state.

Although cultivation is a very boring thing, it is also very enjoyable when circulating the Qi. Especially when taking the best elixir, it becomes more and more obsessed.

After a big cycle, Xu Yi's head was no longer dizzy, and his body was no longer tired. He felt refreshed as if he had slept for three days and three nights.

He placed the alchemy furnace in the back room and estimated to send the coal into the iron frame at the bottom of the furnace. There is a vent here to adjust the firepower, but for refining basic elixirs, generally no adjustment is required, as long as a certain temperature is maintained from beginning to end.

After taking out the seven kinds of elixirs and putting them away, and reviewing the notes again, Xu Yi officially started his first alchemy.

These medicinal materials have been processed, but before the formal alchemy, they still need to be processed for the last time. Soaking in water, cutting, or mixing, this preparation alone takes half an hour.

When it comes to alchemy, it doesn’t actually take too long from actually putting the medicinal materials into the furnace to the time the finished product comes out. Instead, the preparation work beforehand takes up more time.

This is like an exam, where one hour of answering questions requires several years or even more than ten years of study. It is also like cooking, where the time spent actually putting in the seasoning in the pot is not long, but the time spent preparing the ingredients in advance is the real big deal.

It took Lu Fang less than a quarter of an hour from the time he heated the furnace and put in the first kind of elixir to the finished elixir.

In that hour, he spent most of the hour preparing the herbs for three furnaces of elixir and explaining the key points to Xu Yi, while the actual time to refine three furnaces of elixir was only about two quarters of an hour.

Now, Xu Yi spent a whole hour to complete the preliminary work of a batch of medicinal materials.

He looked at the debris on the ground, making sure that he had no mistakes, and then directly activated his magical powers to expand the seven processed herbs by three times.

After doing all this, he actually felt out of breath. But it was all worth it, because it saved him a lot of time.

Concentrating his mind, Xu Yi took a top-grade Qi-strengthening pill. After a quarter of an hour of practice, his spirit and energy were full again.

Opening his eyes, Xu Yi lit the coal and began to put herbs into the furnace according to the steps.

Half a quarter of an hour later, a puff of black smoke rose...