Chapter 342 Alchemy
"Okay!" Qin Ziling nodded, and then said seriously: "There is one thing I want to remind you in advance, that is, once you transfer here, I will take you to the Wuzhou Cave World to undergo a life and death test in thirty days. That test will be extremely dangerous and will take a long time. If you feel that there is no need to undergo a life and death test at the moment, you can also raise the issue.
Everyone has their own way of cultivation. You are not yet disciples of Wuji Sect, and I respect your choice. But once you switch over, you will be a disciple of Wuji Sect, and you must obey the orders of the headmaster without special reasons. "
"Cultivation is an act against the will of heaven, and what I cultivate is the way of Gengjin, which is the way of killing. If I don't even dare to experience the slightest danger of life and death, how can I have the chance to become a master in the future?" Pan Bo said proudly.
"Disciple thinks so too!" Ma Bocai said immediately afterwards, his tone calm but revealing an unshakable firmness.
"Okay!" Qin Ziling nodded, and then said, "Wuji Sect was founded by me, with me as the head, so after you switch over, Pan Bo, your seniority will not change, but your ranking will be lower than mine as a junior brother. As for Bo Cai, you will continue to follow the seniority of the Golden Sword Sect and call me uncle."
"Yes." Pan Bo and Ma Bocai replied with a slight bow.
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On that day, Qin Ziling returned to Fangliao County.
After the family, including Zuo Le and his wife, came over to have a warm dinner, Qin Ziling and Xiao Qing went up to the roof together.
Sitting quietly side by side with Xiao Qing on the roof, looking at the bright moon hanging in the sky, Qin Ziling felt particularly calm.
"Everything is on the right track now in Fangliao County. Sister Zhu is secretly in charge of Yunluo Lake, the Jinjian Sect and the Cui family are in Qinghe County, and Bai Yu Lieyang is in the state capital. We just need to entrust all matters to uncle and Master Zuo. It won't be a big problem whether I'm here or not. So I want to go to Wuzhou with you and enter the underground cave world for training." Xiao Qing suddenly spoke, breaking the silence.
"You are the county magistrate. Is it okay for you to leave Fangliao County?" Qin Ziling asked.
"The world is not peaceful nowadays. Not to mention raising troops and making their own decisions, there are even many who rebel and declare themselves kings. What does it matter if I just leave Fangqiao County for a while? The key is strength. In the last battle at Jinyan Mountain, I showed my master strength and my teacher showed his master level. After that incident, two more masters emerged from the Cui family.
Now in the whole Xiyun Province, I don't take the initiative to covet other people's territory, which is good enough. Who dares to point fingers at Fangluo County? I just need to inform the governor in advance and say that I will retreat and practice for a period of time. "Xiao Qing replied.
"In that case, you can come with me to Wuzhou!" Qin Ziling nodded .
As he spoke, Qin Ziling took out the Seven-Leaf Earth Spirit Vermillion Grass from his storage ring.
A wisp of herbal fragrance drifted into Xiao Qing's nose, and Xiao Qing immediately felt the energy and blood in his body stirring. He couldn't help but look surprised and blurted out, "What is this?"
"Seven-Leaf Earth Spirit Red Grass." Qin Ziling replied.
"What is the Seven-Leaf Earth Spirit Red Grass? Why does it only have six leaves?" Xiao Qing asked.
"I ate one leaf, so there are only six leaves left. This seven-leaf Earth Spirit Vermillion Grass is a spiritual medicine unique to the underground cave world. Its medicinal effect is comparable to the blood essence of a fifth-grade intermediate-level exotic beast. After you eat it, you should be able to become a mid-level master." Qin Ziling replied.
"The medicinal effect is comparable to the blood essence of a fifth-grade intermediate-level exotic beast. It's so powerful!" Xiao Qing was surprised, then shook his head and said, "Forget it. I will definitely break through to become a mid-level master by the end of the year. There is no need to take such a precious elixir."
"If a warrior wants to go further, he must fight day and night. Even though you have a solid foundation and are still young, your internal organs refining speed must be much faster than others, but you should still try to go faster.
Because the stronger you are, the greater your chances of saving your life and seizing opportunities, so you should take supplements when you need them. Cultivation resources are not obtained by saving, but by finding and fighting for them with strength.
I left this Seven-Leaf Earth Spirit Vermillion Grass just for you. After you eat it, you should be able to break through to become a mid-level master, and you should also be able to refine part of your lungs. At that time, with your foundation, you won’t have to be afraid unless you meet a grand master. "Qin Ziling said.
"Okay!" Xiao Qing nodded, her expression didn't change much, but her heart felt as sweet as if she had eaten honey.
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Two days later.
Yunluo Lake, the island in the middle of the lake.
Wuji Grand Palace, alchemy room.
Next to a half-person-high alchemy furnace that was shaped a bit like a gourd, Qin Ziling was fanning the fire with a fan made of special material while throwing medicinal materials into the furnace. At the same time, he kept practicing alchemy techniques, and traces of power seeped into the furnace, constantly stirring the medicinal materials inside and extracting strands of pure medicinal power.
The fire is sometimes weak and sometimes strong, and the changes are like flowing water, completely natural and just right.
In the alchemy furnace, the medicinal materials continued to melt with the fire, and the waste gas, turbid air, and pure five elements of medicinal power continued to separate in an orderly manner.
Three days later.
As waste gas and turbid air were continuously separated out, traces of pure five-element medicinal power were extracted and gathered together. Virtual images of elixirs as big as goose eggs were forming in the elixir furnace, emitting a hint of pleasant elixir fragrance.
If there was an alchemist watching this scene at this time, he would be greatly surprised.
Because Qin Ziling was a master at controlling fire and using alchemy techniques to separate, extract and gather medicinal power, without any error, he had already reached the level of a master of alchemy.
Ordinary people can also make pills, but they are just ordinary pills and cannot be considered elixirs.
Real elixirs are divided into different levels. Generally speaking, real elixirs need to be refined by a Qi Refiner.
Therefore, most alchemists come from the Qi Refining Dao school.
There are nine grades of elixirs, with the ninth grade being the best.
An alchemist who can refine fifth-grade elixirs can be called an alchemy master.
Generally, only a master of Qi refining is qualified to become a master of alchemy.
Because if one has not reached the level of a Qi Refining Grandmaster, no matter how high one's talent is, one cannot achieve the following two points due to the limitations of one's own cultivation.
First, it is impossible to truly separate and purify the medicinal power of high-level medicinal materials, which is the same as the fact that you cannot use firewood to refine gold; second, the true essence and magical power cannot last long. To refine a furnace of fifth-grade elixirs, you need to continuously and intensively control and output the true essence and magical power. Generally, only a master of Qi Refining can do this.
Of course, the Grandmaster of Qi Refining has many superiorities that other Qi Refiners cannot match.
But these are not problems for Qin Ziling.
He practiced five series of skills, the five elements are interdependent and endless. In terms of the might and power of his true energy, he is not inferior to the master of Qi Refining.
It can be said that he has all the qualifications to be a Qi Refining Grandmaster, but he just hasn't reached that level yet.
Not only that, he has two points that even the Qi Refining Masters cannot compare to.
First, he practiced the Five Elements Kung Fu. The operation of the Five Elements Kung Fu gave birth to a trace of Yin and Yang Qi. All things in the world are made up of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements. It is conceivable that he has unique advantages in separating and extracting the medicinal power of various properties.
Secondly, he is also a cultivator with a powerful soul. He can sense the various properties of medicinal components, impurities, and their changes during the alchemy process to an extremely subtle degree. He is also able to control all kinds of power in alchemy to a subtle degree. Even the Qi Refining Master is far inferior to him in this respect.
Therefore, Qin Ziling carefully recalled the knowledge about alchemy that he had seen in the Sutra Library, and after pondering the recipe of the "Liuhe Huagu Dan" over and over again, except for being a little unfamiliar at the beginning, he became more and more proficient in it later.
Today is the fifth day of alchemy. Finally, all the extracted medicinal properties have been refined into pills.
The next step is the final step, which is to gather the power of the elixir and turn the virtual into the real.
This is also the most critical time that tests a Qi Refiner's ability.
Because all the previous steps are mainly to separate impurities, purify medicinal properties, and then integrate various medicinal properties.
If these steps are not done thoroughly, you can start over and over again.
But the last step, turning the virtual into the real, if you fail, all the hard work will be completely in vain and there will be no way to start over.
He pinched the alchemy formula, and strands of true essence and magic power formed invisible hands, which carefully gathered and compressed the virtual pills as big as goose eggs.
The virtual pills as big as goose eggs kept shrinking, gradually revealing a hint of real luster and texture.
"Puff!" A virtual pill seemed unable to withstand the force of contraction and burst like a soap bubble and disappeared.
But Qin Ziling remained calm and composed, feeling every slight change of the Void Pill carefully. As the Void Pill changed, he kept changing the force of contraction and compression.
"Crack!" A virtual pill that was almost semi-solid suddenly cracked, and then the color of the part that had already appeared solid gradually faded and became transparent, and then it turned into nothingness along with the other parts and disappeared.
After this, everything went smoothly.
One after another, "Liuhe Bone-Transforming Pills" were continuously produced and spinning in the pill furnace.
"Yes, I made eight 'Liuhe Huagu Dan' in my first batch of alchemy, but it was too time-consuming. This batch of pills took me five days. This batch of pills was made with the Great Demon Guard as the main ingredient, and five kinds of fourth-grade upper-level exotic beast bone marrows and five kinds of spiritual medicines that were less than 500 years old as auxiliary ingredients. If it was changed to the Little Demon General as the main ingredient, and five kinds of fifth-grade lower-level exotic beast bone marrows and five spiritual medicines that were more than 500 years old as auxiliary ingredients, it would probably take longer. If I want to make pills on a large scale in the future, I must find a way to improve it."
Qin Ziling took out the "Liuhe Huagu Pill" from the alchemy furnace. Looking at the elixir in his hand, he felt both happy and somewhat dissatisfied with the time-consuming and laborious process of refining the elixir.
"Hey, the quality of the 'Liuhe Bone-Dissolving Pill' that I refined myself seems to be higher than the one the Qin family gave me!" Qin Ziling's attention was soon attracted by the patterns on the elixir in his hand.
The "Liuhe Bone-Transforming Pill" he refined was almost the same as the one given by the Qin family in shape and size, but the six lines on the "Liuhe Bone-Transforming Pill" he refined were obviously clearer than the one given by the Qin family, and even gave people a feeling of being vivid and changing endlessly.
Unlike the "Liuhe Bone-Transforming Pill" given by the Qin family, the six lines are blurred and give people a rigid feeling without much change.
