The cheating boy plays around in the world of immortal cultivation

Xiaoqing Mountain is not high. In fact, it is the shortest mountain at the old mountain gate. But fortunately, it is not sandwiched between the mountains, but at the edge, so it can be regarded as a beautiful scenery.

There is a pavilion halfway up Xiaoqing Mountain, which is where the original alchemy room is located. The reason why the alchemy room was built here is that there is a fire-attributed ground vein under this mountain. After development, the ground vein fire can be drawn out, which can be used to make alchemy.

Of course, if it is a high-level cultivator, other fire can be used to make alchemy instead of ground vein fire. For example, Jindan cultivators can use their own Dan fire, and Yuanying cultivators can use their own Ying fire, but there are higher requirements for precise control of fire.

Hai Laodao took Yuanxiao to a pavilion and landed steadily outside the gate.

"Brother, you have always been alone here. You don't have to be restrained. You can walk around when you are free." Hai Laodao said.

After passing through the main hall, there is a small courtyard behind. After passing through the courtyard and continuing forward, you can see a wide hole dug out of the mountain, which has been transformed into a hall, which is the place for alchemy.

As soon as you step into the alchemy room, you can feel a wave of heat coming towards you. There are several alchemy furnaces of different sizes in the hall, and three ground vein fires are tirelessly emitting flames from the ground fire holes.

"I have collected three portions of all the medicinal materials today, and plan to refine them in three times. The amount of each portion is enough to refine 5 foundation-building pills, so we have a total of three chances today."

The preparation work for alchemy is to wash the herbs and remove the defective dead branches and rotten leaves. Some medicinal materials need to be ground and prepared in advance, and auxiliary items such as cinnabar need to be prepared in advance.

The process of alchemy mainly consists of three steps: purification, concentration of essence, and fusion and condensation of pills.

Purification is to use the ground vein fire in the alchemy furnace and use the power of one's own consciousness to control the impurities and toxicity of the herbs.

Concentration of essence is to maximize the medicinal power, extract the most essential part, and compress it to make the pill formed later stronger.

Fusion and condensation of pills is to solidify the liquefied pills. But it is not a simple and rough direct blending, otherwise it may cause the pill to become slag or even explode the furnace. Instead, it is necessary to find the common points among them according to the principle of mutual generation and mutual restraint of different medicinal materials, so that various medicinal powers can be perfectly integrated, otherwise new pill poison will be produced.

Hai Laodao chose a smallest copper pill furnace and started the first refining. First, put the copper pill furnace on one of the ground veins fire to preheat the pill furnace. When the pill furnace is hot, use the spirit to control the top cover of the pill furnace, and throw the soul-building grass, July flower and other medicinal materials into the pill furnace in a certain order.

Hai Laodao closed his eyes at this time, concentrating on using the spirit to control the herbs to remove impurities, but because there are many impurities in the herbs, and the toxicity exists in various herbs, it is difficult for the spirit to remove them in detail. After a while, Hai Laodao's face flushed and fine sweat came out.

Long-term consumption of spirit will make people tired and even damage the soul, so refining pills is not an easy task.

With Hai Laodao's cultivation and spiritual strength, he can only refine once or twice a month. However, Hai Laodao has been refining three times like crazy. He still tries hard even though his spiritual consciousness is damaged, and often faints on the spot.

This may be one of the reasons why he has always failed to refine pills, or it may be the reason why he is crazy.

Hai Laodao is actually very skilled in the step of concentrating the essence to stimulate the medicinal power. The herbs in the spiritual medicine garden are of low quality and lack spiritual energy, but the ones picked today are slightly better because they were watered with spiritual liquid by Yuanxiao. The spiritual energy picked in the past was even less.

The spiritual medicine in the pill furnace has begun to liquefy, and Hai Laodao is fully focused and starts to blend it with his spiritual consciousness. But Hai Laodao cannot achieve perfect fusion, so this step often produces new pill poison.

Among the three steps of refining pills, the second step of concentrating the essence to stimulate the medicinal power is what Hai Laodao is best at. Hai Laodao was not gifted in the first step of purification and the third step of fusion and condensation, so every time he refined the pill, there were too many impurities and too much toxicity, and he could never get a qualified pill.

Hai Laodao had been refining pills alone for a hundred years, without anyone to communicate and guide him. He was like an old ox that only used brute force, burying his head in the land without looking up to see the direction, so he had nothing to gain for so many years.

Although Yuanxiao did not understand the techniques of refining pills, after listening to Hai Laodao's introduction to the refining process, he understood that the most important reliance of refining pills was the power of spiritual consciousness, which required very high spiritual consciousness, but excessive use of spiritual consciousness was also very harmful to the soul!

After the first batch of pills was refined, seeing Hai Laodao's tired face, Yuanxiao vaguely guessed the reason why Hai Laodao had failed to refine pills for many years.

He used his spiritual consciousness to open the top cover of the pill furnace, and took out the pills in the furnace. Five pills fell on the porcelain plate prepared next to it.

Five black pills were still emitting wisps of smoke, but no fragrance came out. As long as it is a qualified foundation-building pill, there will be a medicinal fragrance. Now there is no medicinal fragrance, which means that there are too many impurities and toxins, causing the medicinal power to be lost and it cannot be eaten.

Hai Laodao's face turned red. Today, in front of Brother Yuan, he still failed.

"Brother Hai, are these pills usable? How do we know whether it is successful or not?"

"No, these pills have too many impurities and are too toxic. If the foundation-building pill is successfully refined, it will have a natural medicinal fragrance after it comes out of the furnace."

"Brother Hai, should we take a day off and refine it again?"

"No problem, we can refine it twice more!" As expected of a madman, Hai Laodao still has to bear it.

Half an hour later, the second batch of elixirs came out, and the result was still the same as the first batch. Five more black beans were obtained.

Ebido's face turned pale. He had used his spiritual consciousness twice in a row for a long time, and his head had started to feel dizzy. However, his madness for the elixir made him fearless.

Brother Yuan, there’s no need to stop me, big brother can protect me, come again!

As a result, half an hour later, when the third batch of elixir was about to be released, Ebido suddenly fell backward and fell into a coma.

In fact, using his spiritual consciousness three times in a row for a long time caused serious damage to his soul and he was no longer able to stay awake. I think this has happened many times before.

Yuan Xiao looked at the scene in front of her and was completely speechless. My Brother Hai, if you keep refining elixirs like this all the time, the reasons why elixir refining fails and the reasons why you go crazy will be found out all at once!

Yes, it has to be me!

Yuanxiao went over to set up Ebido and dragged him to the deck chair in the yard.

Then return to the alchemy room to check the status of the last batch of elixirs. It's not as good as the previous two times. The alchemy furnace was full of broken medicine dregs. This time, I didn't even get a few black beans!

Yuanxiao put together the 10 black elixirs refined in the first two furnaces, picked up one and observed it carefully. It looks similar to the low-grade foundation-building pill in Brother Mo Fei's hand, but there is no medicinal fragrance.

Ebido said there were too many impurities and it was too toxic. Now, while Ebido is asleep, it's a good time to test.

Yuanxiao then took out the Apocalypse Pearl and put it together with the 10 black pills, and quietly waited for the change. Although the elixir can also be thrown into the storage space for purification, this is the first time to purify the foundation building elixir. Yuanxiao needs to observe the process, so it must be tested in person and observed personally.

Will it succeed this time?