Now that the matters on Dai Yu Island were settled, Chen Xi's life returned to normal.
The life of an ordinary person …
Naturally, it was dull and repetitive.
Niannian spent most of her time in kindergarten, so the teahouse was fully taken care of by Qiao Yuan.
Qiao Yuan graduated from the best university in Hua Xia, so a small teahouse was not a problem for her.
College students nowadays were very smart.
Perhaps it was because Qiao Yuan had been living with Chen Xi's family for a long time, so under the influence of Chen Xi's family, Qiao Yuan looked more mature.
She was very smart and knew what to listen to and what not to listen to. She also knew what to ask and what not to ask.
As the saying goes, one is marked by the company one keeps.
In Qiao Yuan's eyes, Chen Xi's family was a hidden expert.
Therefore, she did not know when it started, but there was a slight change in her thinking.
In the past, Qiao Yuan was just an ordinary college student who had gone astray. She did not have any plans for the future. She always felt that after she graduated, she would find a suitable job according to her major.
But now …
Qiao Yuan did not want to live the rest of her life like this.
Although Chen Xi's family was always thinking about where to go and play, they did not set a good example for her at all.
But under her rich imagination, she was able to completely fill in the background of Chen Xi and her husband.
The boss and lady boss …
They were the modern version of Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu!
They had seen the prosperity of the world, crossed thousands of mountains and rivers, but in the end, they resolutely chose to retreat from the turbulence and live a seemingly ordinary, but happy and stable life with their loved ones.
This was Qiao Yuan's dream, and also her role model in life!
It was just that Chen Xi's family had reached the end, while she had just started.
Qiao Yuan was in her fourth year of university this year, and her mind was gradually becoming more active.
In fact, not to mention Chen Xi's family, even the retired old man Gu Lao was not simple.
Although the two brothers looked like losers all day long, in fact, the moment they were born, they were already rich second-generation heirs …
After all, the two of them had a courtyard house in Houhai.
It was very valuable.
The little girl's mind was active, and she didn't know what Chen Xi was busy with recently, so the responsibility of playing chess and chatting with Gu Lao naturally fell on her shoulders.
Needless to say, this old man and young man actually got along quite well.
Although Gu Lao didn't specifically teach Qiao Yuan anything, this little girl would always inadvertently learn things that couldn't be learned in school.
Qiao Yuan was accumulating herself, just like the sweeping monks in the Scripture Depository.
When she decided to leave the small teahouse, it was time for her to set sail and usher in her brilliant life …
…
Day after day, the cycle repeated itself.
Like a sponge, Qiao Yuan studied and improved herself crazily, while Gu Lao enjoyed the rest of his life.
Qin Ruoying was in closed-door cultivation all day long, and Chen Xi rarely showed up except to take the three children to and from school.
Because …
Chen Xi was busy with something important.
A very, very big thing.
For this, after Chen Xi sent Niannian to school every day, he had to cross the entire Pacific Ocean and go to the United States, which was far away on the other side of the ocean.
Of course.
Chen Xi didn't go to the United States for fun, but for work.
The Udumbara Flower was so precious, naturally, it couldn't be refined with an ordinary iron basin.
And Chen Xi didn't have enough materials to refine a new alchemy furnace, so refining the Udumbara Flower became a big problem.
So after thinking about it, Chen Xi finally decided to use the power of nature to refine the elixir.
That was —
Heaven and earth as the furnace, nature as the work;
Yin and Yang as the charcoal, all things as the copper!
Therefore, the supervolcano in Yellowstone Park was his first choice.
The so-called supervolcano was a large-scale eruption volcano that could change the world's weather after eruption and even threaten human beings.
Yellowstone Park was once the world's largest national park, and Yellowstone Volcano was the world's largest supervolcano.
Mount Fuji was an active volcano, but it wasn't a supervolcano, so it didn't have the qualifications to enter Chen Xi's consideration.
Refining elixir was a very complicated thing.
The Energy Cultivation Elixir that he refined in the past was actually rubbish, so Chen Xi didn't care at all.
Now that he finally had the best ingredients, Chen Xi naturally had to pay 120% attention.
Configuring the prescription, screening the ingredients, analyzing the medicinal properties, choosing the furnace, and so on …
After doing all this preliminary work, Chen Xi could officially start refining the elixir.
…
This day, December 1st.
Shang Jing had just welcomed the first snow, but Yellowstone Park was already covered in snow.
Looking around, the dense pine forests rose and fell, and the rolling mountains were covered in morning fog.
Animal footprints crisscrossed the snowy plains, and hot springs rose and fell one after another.
Because the world's largest supervolcano was buried below, Yellowstone Park had a wonderful scenery that was difficult to see in other places during winter.
When the warm water vapor sprayed into the cold air, the water molecules would instantly solidify into a rain of small ice pellets, forming an extremely rare geothermal fountain.
So what kind of park was this?
It was simply a paradise on earth.
Yellowstone Park covered an area of up to 9,000 square kilometers, one-third larger than Zhonghai's 6,000 square kilometers.
Because of the need to close off the mountains to cultivate forests, the park would be completely closed at the end of October and would only reopen in mid-December. During this time, only a few scenic spots could be visited.
Therefore, when Chen Xi arrived at the park, there was not a single tourist in the huge park.
This was not the first time he had been here.
After the volcanic eruption cooled down, it would produce hard and impermeable basalt. After rainfall, it would generally produce a large lake. Therefore, the crater of Yellowstone Park was not protruding like Mount Fuji, but hidden under Yellowstone Lake.
It could even be said that …
The entire Yellowstone Park was located on the crater of the volcano.
Chen Xi plunged into Yellowstone Lake, then followed the tunnel he had previously dug and quickly flew underground.
The reason why it was called a supervolcano was because there was a magma reservoir with a diameter of 70 kilometers and a thickness of about 10 kilometers below the crater.
In fact, a volcano was like a pressure cooker. Once the internal temperature rose to a certain level, the magma inside would instantly erupt.
Chen Xi set up a restriction in the magma reservoir.
Then, he put all the medicinal herbs he had collected during this period of time inside, such as the udumbara flower, bloodthorn grass, ginseng flowers, and all kinds of precious medicinal herbs that could be found in the world.
Rare and precious treasures were produced from the earth.
With the calcination and extraction of the underground fire essence, coupled with the continuous washing of the spirit energy of heaven and earth, the medicinal properties of the medicinal herbs could be released most effectively.
Chen Xi used the restriction to bind the medicinal properties and continuously quenched and compressed them together. The released medicinal properties would gradually change from a gaseous state to a liquid state, and finally to a solid state.
When the medicinal herbs were exhausted, it was time for the elixir to be produced.
What was the most important thing in alchemy?
It was neither the medicinal herbs nor the technique.
It was the last step before the elixir was formed!
Because this was not an ordinary Chinese medicine, the moment the elixir was produced, it was like forcibly opening the lid of the pressure cooker. Boiling hot steam would instantly rush out.
What Chen Xi had to do …
Was to smoothly take the elixir out of the furnace from this boiling hot steam.
It sounded very simple.
But what if the steam was replaced with the spirit energy of heaven and earth?
The udumbara flower's grade was very high, and the elixir it produced was at least a ninth-grade elixir.
Thus, the accumulation of more than three thousand years would completely erupt the moment the furnace was opened, along with the elixir.
If Chen Xi did not immediately take the elixir and use a secret technique to bind the elixir, then the medicinal properties of the elixir would rapidly dissipate, turning back into spirit energy and dissipating into heaven and earth.
And precisely because of this, when cultivators refined high-grade elixirs, they would usually use a high-grade alchemy furnace.
On one hand, it was to extract the medicinal properties more effectively. On the other hand, it was for safety reasons, using the alchemy furnace to resist the impact of the elixir when it was produced.
Chen Xi did not have an alchemy furnace, so he could only do it himself.
This was a battle.
It was a battle between Chen Xi and the elixir.
If he could not successfully take the elixir from the sudden explosion of spirit energy …
If it was light, the elixir would be destroyed, and if it was heavy …
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