The Taoist ancestor is Cthulhu

Daozu is Cthulhu Chapter 262 Alchemy

You didn’t expect that refining alchemy would consume so much money. There is no such factory in Mozhu Mountain, right? And when it comes to factories, the style of painting is wrong, right? Doesn’t this show what the legion’s apostles have done? In order to fight for the world, it's too much for you to transfer all the tricks of working-class workers to the world of immortals! Assi!

But when I think about it carefully, something is wrong. According to Zhou Chengxue, this pill factory should have been established for many years in order to meet Yuntai Peak's monthly order of 300 Nine-turn Donghua Eternal Spring Pills, right? Could it be that before Asiba, there were other apostles who helped Penglai achieve industrial modernization? Moreover, this style of painting is wrong, and it is obviously not something of a civilized system. Don't the Dao Lords of Jiuzhen Sect ask more questions about these weird things created by the proposers?

Li Fan thought for a while, and when he returned to Zhou Chengxue's alchemy workshop with a bunch of materials, he pretended to chat casually and inquired, "But speaking of which, the workshop looks very strange. I wonder which senior came up with the original idea. Is it designed like that?”

Unexpectedly, this time Zhou Chengxue suddenly turned his head and looked at Li Fan with a vigilant look, "Why are you asking about this!"

Li Fan was also stunned. He didn't know why he reacted so fiercely or whether he had been exposed again. "No, no, I'm just asking. It's obviously different from other Taoist palaces. And I didn’t even see the Xuannv statue when I entered..."

Zhou Chengxue stared at Li Fan for a while and sighed, "Brother Li, after all, that workshop is the center of the master's sect. Don't ask around about some things. Let's refine the elixir first."

Huh? Strange, what's the reason for this reaction? Is it because the friendship level is not enough to unlock new plots? It seems that there is indeed a big problem inside Penglai...

However, Zhou Chengxue made it clear that he did not want to talk about this topic anymore, and ordered Li Fan to start arranging the alchemy directly.

Because the various semi-finished ingredients have already been prepared, in theory it is just like a stew, just put it in one pot and simmer it. As for whether it can be done or not, how many elixirs can be produced, in addition to the elixir recipe, it also depends on the chef's touch. A little of this, a little of that, and then the appropriate amount. In short, it is calculated while refining, adjusting the heat at any time, and judging the quality of the pot based on experience.

Li Fan's task is very simple. He plays the role of a boy. He listens to the alchemist's instructions and helps arrange the jade boxes of materials according to the formations, arrange the magic circle, clean the alchemy furnace, move it here and there, and fiddle with it in the alchemy workshop. The raw materials for the basic alchemy, plus things like firewood, charcoal, and burning stones, were smashed into pieces, and the furnace was opened and placed in layers. After the preliminary preparations were done, there was nothing left for him to do.

Zhou Chengxue was responsible for closing the furnace and lighting the fire, and detailed the process of alchemy. He sat cross-legged in the center of the formation, making secret calculations with one hand, and holding a whisk in the other hand. He swept and waved it from time to time to control the fire and wind, and added in sequence. Various materials.

Zhou Chengxue didn't know that Li Fan had a photographic memory. He was concentrating on refining alchemy, and his consciousness was completely immersed in the alchemy furnace. As he watched, Li Fan actually understood a little bit, to a certain extent. , you can say that the principles of alchemy and oil refining are similar.

Everyone must know about oil refining, and there is no need to go into details. Simply put, the oil is separated into its components through distillation, and then converted into fuel oil through chemical processes such as thermal cracking and catalytic cracking, and then refined using processes such as hydrogenation.

The flow chart of elixir refining is almost similar. First, the impurities in the elixir are separated, and then various auxiliary materials obtained from the factory are added, which are similar to catalysts and secret recipes. According to the time and heat, various spiritual energies are continuously injected, increasing or decreasing. Tao fire. If you follow the established formula and process, and there are no problems with the materials, as long as you are not a bad novice, you can make a pill in the first round of refining. After the first turn, the furnace can theoretically be called Donghua Eternal Spring Pill. Of course, the effect of the medicine can only be described as "if there is nothing". To describe it in a game, it probably only adds a continuous blood recovery. Bu, but the amount of blood returned is very low. It may only be somewhat effective during the Qi refining period, but maybe the erysipelas is even stronger than this amount of blood restored...

Therefore, after that, we need to go through seven or eight rounds of refining to remove impurities, concentrate the medicinal power, and add various high-grade medicinal materials to neutralize the erysipelas and refine the elixir to increase its potency. As mentioned before, this nine-turn refining process is the so-called alchemy art. Every refining process will inevitably consume some completed elixirs. In the end, the whole pot may explode. If one can be found, it is considered a success.

Like those powerful alchemy masters in the ancient method, they would be done if they refined a furnace of a thousand elixirs until only one was produced at the ninth or even seventeenth or eighteenth level.

However, the pharmaceutical factory in Penglai pursues output and ensures that the one hundred pills refined to the ninth level will complete the task. In other words, if you refine it to the eighth or tenth level, the efficacy of the medicine may not be much worse, but it is meaningless because of the specifications. It's the ninth turn that's stuck.

This time, Zhou Chengxue had made an agreement with Li Fan in advance. He collected a lot of precious items and used ancient methods to refine the elixirs. Therefore, he would not stop after the ninth round and try his best to continue refining, roughly ensuring that there would be about ten exquisite ones. Li Fan was not short of his "high-quality products" at all. He also wanted to see Zhou Chengxue's craftsmanship and compare the "nine turns" given by the master, and he agreed immediately.

Now he was starting to make alchemy, and Li Fan could clearly see that the auspicious beast reliefs beside the nine-layer alchemy furnace seemed to be alive. He lay on the alchemy furnace and looked left and right, opening and closing his mouth from time to time. It sprays out red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple smoke and mist.

Looking from bottom to top, the Chiqiu of the two bottom tiers of Baxia usually keep their mouths shut. Of course, it is a good thing not to open your mouth. According to Zhou Chengxue, usually the two openings will cause the pot to explode. Chiqiu extinguishes fires and will spit out soot to decompress and prevent explosions. If you are really unlucky, the pot will explode, naturally. Only the bully at the bottom of the pot spat out the dregs of pills.

The third layer is Suzaku. Needless to say, red fire blooms all over the body. Generally, red fire is used for elixirs. When the furnace is started to be heated, it will always be red. Different Dao fires will be used as needed, and the color will naturally change with the temperature. Variety. This step requires advanced fire control skills. Of course it is no problem for Xuanmen real people, but other casual cultivators, haha.

From time to time, the fourth level Suanni will spit out orange-red flames from its eyes, mouth and nose. This is an auxiliary valve port, which is used when adjusting temperature and pressure.

The white tiger toads on the five or six levels at the back will spray golden metal juice or green elixir jelly from their mouths to remove impurities that melt into liquid.

The Qinglong Xuanwu Qilin on the seventh, eighth and ninth floors will emit blue smoke, blue mist, and purple clouds respectively, which are all vaporized red clouds filled with impurities and erysipelas.

The red-grey mist sprayed out of the beast's mouth was wrapped in spiritual energy. It steamed away from the carving mouth like a rice cooker, and was then sucked up by the magic circle on the roof, which was probably the function of a range hood. Without further processing, it was just The breeze blows out and blows outside.

Uh, okay, it seems that the immortals don't pay much attention to environmental protection. After all, even the elixir slag is a highly concentrated ‘spiritual material’. It will probably precipitate naturally in the environment of Penglai Cave Sky. Who knows.

Li Fan could only protect the outer circle and see the changes in the alchemy furnace, but he could not directly penetrate his spiritual consciousness to see the actual situation of the elixirs in the alchemy furnace. After all, it was Penglai's famous secret elixir recipe. Therefore, even if he could forcibly remember the order of adding ingredients, he would not know what specific changes occurred in the alchemy furnace, and what judgment Zhou Chengxue based on what operations he performed. It just depends on whether he is calculating, sometimes adding materials, sometimes making fire, and sometimes expelling impurities, but he doesn't know the real secret.

This is the old-school traditional alchemy refining process.

When Li Fan saw Zhou Chengxue starting to repeat the cycle of using certain materials, he roughly guessed that a 'turn' had been practiced.

Zhou Chengxue should also have a solid foundation. Although the process time for the first six turns will be doubled with each additional round, and the flame color will be upgraded by one level, he was able to refine it very quickly without making any mistakes. It starts to slow down significantly at the seventh turn, not only because it requires additional inputs, such as Cana red coral, but also because it has to be calculated over and over again. The probability of becoming a high-grade elixir is probably quite low.

At this time, Li Fan noticed that Zhou Chengxue began to make quick secrets.

At the critical moment of the seventh training session, the wind suddenly started to blow. Or to use a common saying in immortality novels, it is about beginning to absorb the essence of heaven and earth to create a high-grade elixir.

Of course, Li Fan couldn't miss this famous scene. He happened to have a Bagua mirror provided by the system that could see the 'vortex of Qi', so he took it out and observed it secretly.

Sure enough, we can see that the formation flag gates around us are opening one after another as Zhou Chengxue seals the secrets. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is like a huge whirlpool, being absorbed into the alchemy furnace in the eye of the storm. The sculptures of mythical beasts on the alchemy cauldron also seem to be breathed out by monks. , slowly absorbing the filtered spiritual energy into your mouth. Occasionally, if there were some mistakes in the matching and insufficient spiritual energy, Zhou Chengxue would have to spit out a breath of pure Dao breath to make up for the gap in the alchemy.

Once or twice is enough, but it takes a month to refine the nine rounds. If you refine the seventeen or eight rounds, God knows how much energy will be consumed. It seems that the alchemist has no skills, and it is really impossible to refine the elixir to a high number of revolutions. Woolen cloth.

Li Fan was watching the excitement as a layman. Suddenly, he noticed something that seemed disharmonious. There were many turbid air masses around the spiritual energy cyclone that gathered towards the alchemy furnace like a storm. If you look closely, you will see that they are small vortices, like ginseng. A small tornado mixed in with the big storm.

These turbulent flows may be due to the conflicting and mixed spiritual energy stirring together, or they may not be filtered by the surrounding magic circle. More or less, there is always a point. As the spiritual energy gathers around the alchemy furnace, it is enveloped by the spiritual energy, and the volume is rolled up. Go to the alchemy furnace.

Although it has not directly affected much now, because those obvious turbulence and uncoordinated impurities will naturally be accounted for by Zhou Chengxue, and dispersed with a whisk to straighten the breath, and the auspicious beasts on the alchemy furnace also seem to have the function of filtering sieves . But these vortices themselves are cyclones of spiritual energy, which the alchemist cannot notice. Being coerced and involved in this way, over time, it is probably inevitable that it will affect the quality of alchemy.

It just so happened that when Li Fan had studied system props before, he discovered that there was a jade ring that could solve similar problems. Although no one had taught him the way of alchemy, the evidence that he could see with his own eyes was more convincing than any empirical teaching. So Li Fan pretended that he couldn't sit still anymore, stood up and walked around the outer circle to stretch his muscles and bones. In fact, he used the jade pendant hanging around his waist to sort out the eddy currents in the outer circle and help straighten out the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Zhou Chengxue probably couldn't tell what Li Fan was doing, but it was obvious that the frequency of his secret calculations and fog whisks were much less frequent, and the elixir refined in the seventh round was successfully completed. The entire alchemy furnace began to emit a dense glow of precious light, surrounded by immortal breath, rays of light flashed, and a strange fragrance came out.

"...Today went so well. My skills are not unfamiliar yet?" After the alchemy furnace stabilized, Zhou Chengxue opened his eyes and looked at the auspicious signs surrounding the alchemy cauldron in front of him. He was also astonished.

Li Fan stretched, "Oh, have you finished practicing? It's so fast. Did you finish practicing in just one day? Brother Zhou is really amazing!"

Zhou Chengxue shook his head, "No, this is just the seventh round of refining, and the Tai Chi state is transformed into the alchemy furnace. Next, it will be left for three days, one round of pregnancy and nourishment, and let's see the heat, but I think this time it is going well. , maybe there will be a lot of magic pills to achieve top grade."

That is to say, the stew is done next, and the eighth round will be practiced again in a few days. In this way, it usually takes a month to complete the ninth round. Well, although the elixir tastes good, to be honest, it is quite boring to practice. Just like everyone knows that cooking by themselves is cost-effective and delicious, but no one wants to buy and wash the vegetables, cook and wash the dishes...

"Okay, okay, Brother Zhou, let's go have a drink. How about completing missions or something together?" Li Fan didn't have any fun for another day, and he was too idle.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Chengxue was staring at his alchemy furnace with a peaceful and happy smile, "Oh, forget it today, I suddenly feel that I have been enlightened in the art of alchemy. Taking advantage of my current understanding, Still keeping it in mind, I will go into seclusion and do a few sets of questions."

Li Fan stared at him as if he had seen a ghost, "..."

"Thank you to Brother Li this time for bringing these elixirs to make medicine, so that I can get some inspiration... By the way, I heard that Brother Li has newly married a concubine. I recently got some rare gemstones. I think it would be great to make them into jewelry. I just gave it to Brother Li, it’s not a valuable thing, it’s just a little thought.”

"Uh...oh, oh, the shiny ones are quite nice. Thank you Brother Zhou for your kindness."

Li Fan looked at the ore that Zhou Chengxue handed over casually, and was quite speechless. He also wanted to make some plans, but it turned out to be in his hands so easily.

And speaking of Zhou Chengxue, when he first came to see him, wasn't he asking about what materials he got from going out to sea? Could it be that he originally wanted to take this 'useless junk' in exchange for the 'trash that can be found everywhere' that Li Fan picked up. Bar……

Forget it, UU Reading www.uukanshu.net It’s all about exchanging rags for rubbish. Everyone is like, “I lose, you make profit,” so everyone gets what they need.

So Li Fan did not disturb Zhou Chengxue's evening self-study, and went back to find Xiao Yunan to see how her "Xiao Shi Ling Shu" dictation was going. If it was completed, maybe it could be used to practice and study it.

Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the gate of Shenzhen Palace, he was stopped by someone.

The person who came was a young man with a pointed chin, narrow eyes, white hair and a crane crown. He was also dressed in a penglai fairy robe. Of course, he is definitely not a teenager anymore. This person has the cultivation level of Nascent Soul, and he feels that he is better than Zhou Chengxue's Na La Qiao. He is probably either a reincarnation of Bingjie, or someone with good looks.

"But it's Li Tang, the guest from Shenzhen Palace." The other party said, "Liu Chengzong of Taishang Taizhen Palace."

"Nice to meet you." Although Li Fan clasped his fists politely on the surface, he was already alert in his heart.

He checked carefully, and sure enough, the figure and appearance of this person were what he saw on the drone video, one of the three Yuan Ying Zhenren of the Miemen Huan family.

This time, it was this real person from Taizhen Palace who brought the 'remnants of the Demon Cult' and the few remaining female relatives of the Huan family to Penglai with his fleet. However, that night at the warehouse, Li Fan and another man in black came. To save people, there was a fight first, and judging from the way this guy was equipped with all his hands and feet, the opponent at that time was really not Liu Chengzong.

But all the Yingzhou disciples he brought that night died, and the 'remnants' were almost taken away, but Liu Chengzong never showed up, which was a bit strange.

"My guard was unlucky, which resulted in the loss of my disciples. Therefore, I was reprimanded by the master and responsible for investigating the fight a few days ago..."

Did you really come here for this matter...

"Elder Li must have been nearby at that time. Liu wanted to ask for advice on some details. I wonder if the elder would appreciate the honor and come to the humble residence for a banquet?"