Chapter 48

In a cave on Eternal Sun Peak, Ran Weng smiled faintly at Jiang Yuanchen, who was standing in front of him. "You must have heard about what happened between us, right?"

After Xun Yang brought Jiang Yuanchen over, he immediately took his leave. However, on the way there, he told Jiang Yuanchen about Ran Weng and Hua Yudan.

Jiang Yuanchen had an awkward expression. He said awkwardly, "Back then, I had just entered the sect. I was young and impetuous. Please forgive me, Senior."

"Forget it. I've heard Xun Yang mention it. You didn't specifically target this old man. However, since Xun Yang sent you here, it must be because he wanted you to walk the path of alchemy, right? How much do you know about alchemy? "

"This disciple has never touched an alchemy furnace."

Ran Weng frowned. "You don't know anything about gentle fire, martial fire, or the properties of medicinal ingredients?"

"I do know that, but I don't have any actual experience." Jiang Yuanchen put on a humble and courteous expression.

"Then can you help me differentiate these medicinal ingredients?" Ran Weng touched the ground, and seventy to eighty jade boxes appeared. "According to their properties, from left to right, they are cold, warm, and hot."

Jiang Yuanchen picked up one of the jade boxes and opened it gently. There was a three-inch-long golden ginseng inside. After thinking for a moment, he placed it in front of him. Then, he opened another jade box and took out the red spiritual herb. Just as he was about to place it on his right, he suddenly paused. He carefully looked at the flowers and leaves inside before placing it on his left.

Not bad. If one didn't look closely, this red spiritual herb could easily be mistaken for a hot one. Ran Weng nodded to himself. It seemed that this disciple had memorized many medicinal scriptures and recognized many medicinal ingredients.

Almost an hour passed. The tip of Jiang Yuanchen's nose was sweating. He had finally sorted out these medicinal ingredients.

Ran Weng looked at them. "Apart from three of the medicinal ingredients being placed in the wrong places, the rest are not bad. Fine, you can stay here and help me start a fire. It just so happens that I received an invitation from your sect to refine a few types of spiritual pills. You can be my assistant. "

Jiang Yuanchen was slightly hesitant. "According to this junior's experience, I'm afraid …"

"I'm not asking you to refine pills. I'm just asking you to help refine the medicinal ingredients and extract the medicinal properties." Ran Weng waved his hand and five jade slips flew into Jiang Yuanchen's hands. "Take these back and look at them. Come here tomorrow morning to help me fan the fire."

Weng Weng looked at them. One was the control of fire, and martial fire, while the other four explained four completely different types of alchemy. Ran Weng.

"The system of alchemy is very broad. Everything in the world can be used as medicine! "Dao Dao is Dao has of. Dao. Dao is. and W. However, it was not enough to just prepare the medicinal ingredients. A qualified alchemist would always check the ingredients before putting them into the medicine. After all, even the same medicinal herb would have different medicinal effects depending on its age and growth environment. A Yang Yang Have Shan and Jun and Sun Yang Wu Wby, Has and said Will. Therefore, Alchemists need to choose herbs based on their own experience, and roughly understand the amount of medicinal properties. "

Yang Chen Jiang Yang Yang Wen Chen Wu Wu. Yang Jiang Yang Wu Xand said? and Jiang. If you were to refine it according to the pill recipe, then you could only place your hopes on the Heavens. Ordinary pill prescriptions would not include any pharmacological knowledge or instructions for the use of various medicinal herbs. These were all learned as the initial project of an alchemist.

Therefore, the Dao of alchemy had the saying, "Those who have attained success create pills, while fools imitate pills." This meant that a brilliant Alchemist would not limit himself to the pill recipes of the predecessors, but would willfully create his own Alchemy Dao on the basis of the predecessors. Stupid people could only follow in the footsteps of their predecessors, not daring to take a step forward.

Any brilliant Alchemist would not place their sights on a single pill recipe. If we can't find one of the main ingredients, could it be that we can't refine this pill? "

"Do you mean that we should think of substituting other medicinal materials?" Jiang Yuanchen put away the five jade slips and said with a smile.

"That's right. How would you know if it's real or fake just because you're obsessed with a pill formula? Do you dare to refine and eat it just based on the name and the medicinal effects described? Although this old man is a rogue cultivator, I'm also disgusted by the problems of rogue cultivators. All of them are muddle-headed, and there are only a few truly outstanding rogue cultivators. "

Rogue cultivators had not received any real inheritance, so they naturally did not understand those twists and turns. When they got a cultivation pill recipe, they would be ecstatic and use it as if it was a treasure. Why would they care about the authenticity of the pill recipe? Many of these locust-like rogue cultivators were killed by the jokes of their predecessors or by the trials. The number of truly outstanding rogue cultivators in each generation was only about the same as the number of true disciples of Taixu Taoism.

"What I just handed you are the beginner level of the four Dao of alchemy schools. You should have heard of them."

Because of the different types of medicinal materials, alchemy was divided into many schools and classifications: the Herb School, which was good at using the essence of plants as medicine; the Beast Pill School, which was proficient in the essence of beasts' fur, scales, and flesh; the Ore Pill School, which was fond of gold and iron ore as medicine; the Qi Pill School, which believed that the essence of heaven, earth, sun, and moon was collected; and the Blood Demon Pill School, which used humans as medicine, such as Ziche River, Full Moon Baby, and Virgin Boy and Virgin Girl.

From the division of medicinal materials, the Herb Pill occupied the mainstream of today's Dao of alchemy, and using humans to refine pills was a taboo of Dao of alchemy and had long been sealed by the Dao. The few jade slips in Jiang Yuanchen's hands were only for the Herb Pill, Beast Spirit Pill, Golden Stone Pill, and Vitality Pill.

"Because the Dao of alchemy is broad, every alchemist will only choose one branch to cultivate at first. This old man chose the Herb Pill, but as for how you choose, it's all up to you. While you're helping me start the fire, you can try it out according to the simple pill recipes in your spare time. Of course, other than the alchemy furnace that I can lend to you, you'll have to prepare the medicinal materials yourself. "

Ran Weng seemed to feel that he was being a little unreasonable, so he changed the topic and said, "As for the medicinal materials for the Herb Pill, if you do well in making a fire, I can help you gather all the medicinal materials as a reward. The Vitality Pill only requires you to gather all kinds of vitality from heaven and earth, so it's the most convenient. As for the Beast Pill and the Golden Iron Ore, you'll have to deal with them yourself. "

"Thank you, Senior, for your kindness!" Jiang Yuanchen thought for a while and thanked Ran Weng.

Didn't he come here to make a fire for the sake of cultivating in the Dao of alchemy? He even stopped all his other homework because of this.

"Forget it, you can leave first. I need to prepare the medicinal materials needed for tomorrow's alchemy."

Jiang Yuanchen got up and left for the resting room at the side. He took the jade slip that Wen Wuhuo had given him and read it carefully. Ran Weng's method of controlling Wen Wuhuo's fire was no different from what the Taixu Taoism had taught him. Jiang Yuanchen read it carefully, then turned to look at the four jade slips. Time passed unconsciously, and when the moon was in the middle of the sky, Jiang Yuanchen began to cultivate by gathering Qi.

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On the second day, after Jiang Yuanchen finished his Qi gathering homework, he came to the alchemy room to pay his respects to Ran Weng. At this moment, Ran Weng had already built a golden bronze cauldron the height of a person in front of him. There was also a smaller bronze cauldron at the side.

"Go to the Trinity Cauldron and refine the five catties of thirty-year-old Ghost Brush Fungus placed in front of it for me." Ran Weng raised his eyes and said, then closed them again to control the golden cauldron in front of him.

Hearing this, Jiang Yuanchen walked to the front of the bronze cauldron and looked at the foot-long Ghost Brush Fungus in the medicine basket. He picked them and only opened the bronze cauldron when he saw that there were no problems.

Opening the top cover, Jiang Yuanchen was stunned. Ran Weng's voice came from afar, "This cauldron has a total of three layers. You only need to spread the medicinal materials on the outside at the bottom of the cauldron. There's no need to fill the water, just wait for the essence to enter the jade cauldron inside."

The Trinity Cauldron had a total of three layers: the bronze cauldron, the white cloud cauldron, and the yellow wood cauldron in the center. These cauldrons were used to refine the essence of pills in the solid, liquid, and gaseous states. When the Ghost Brush Fungus was placed in the outermost layer of the bronze cauldron, the essence would naturally turn into gas and enter the white jade cauldron. Then, it would condense into liquid form and be refined again. Only when the purest essence was absorbed into the yellow wood cauldron would it be considered a success.

Jiang Yuanchen spread the medicinal materials on the bottom of the cauldron. He took out a spiritual wood from the side and lit it with a fire seed. Then, he started fanning the fire with a palm-leaf fan.

When the fire gradually grew stronger, Jiang Yuanchen fanned the fan a few times, causing the fire to burn even stronger. The water vapor from the Ghost Brush Fungus inside slowly entered the white jade cauldron.

Fanning the fire was a process that tested one's patience. It was also Jiang Yuanchen who could endure the loneliness. After two hours, the water vapor from the Ghost Brush Fungus finally fell into the white jade cauldron.

"There's no need to take out the medicinal dregs." Ran Weng saw that Jiang Yuanchen was about to open the lid and directly stopped him. "Continue to burn, continue to increase the intensity of the fire. Turn the medicinal liquid in the white jade cauldron into red medicinal energy!"

Another four hours passed before Jiang Yuanchen finally managed to turn the medicinal liquid into a wisp of Pill Qi.

"Do not extinguish the cauldron fire. Use a gentle flame to slowly refine it. After three quarters of an hour, I will absorb the Red Mushroom medicinal energy." Ran Weng's tone was calm, neither praising nor cursing, allowing Jiang Yuanchen to continue fanning the fire.

After three quarters of an hour, Ran Weng saw that the heat in his golden cauldron was ready. He pointed at the Tri-Origin Cauldron and a wisp of medicinal energy flew out and entered the golden cauldron, continuing to refine the medicinal liquid in the golden cauldron.

After another two hours, Ran Weng's cauldron of medicinal pills finally took shape. He took out a yellow-skinned gourd and placed the fifteen medicinal pills in the golden cauldron.

"Senior, what use do these medicinal pills have?" Jiang Yuanchen asked curiously.

"I don't know. These are medicinal pills that I casually refined." Ran Weng poured out a medicinal pill and examined its medicinal properties. "According to my technique and the medicinal ingredients, this should be an antidote pill without a doubt."

Because Jiang Yuanchen was a greenhorn, Ran Weng did not dare to let him help him right away. He needed some time to familiarize himself with him. For the next two days, Ran Weng had Jiang Yuanchen accompany him to refine a few cauldrons of miscellaneous medicinal pills. Only then did he truly begin to refine the few types of spiritual pills that Taixu Taoism required.

There were eight cauldrons placed in the pill room. Other than Ran Weng's Golden Life Cauldron, there was also a set of Six Extremes Origin Cauldron and Jiang Yuanchen's Tri-Origin Cauldron.

Using the Six Extremes Origin Cauldron to refine medicinal energy and then following the procedure to throw it into the Golden Life Cauldron to refine medicine, one would need to control several cauldrons at the same time. In addition to Jiang Yuanchen's Tri-Origin Cauldron, one would need to refine seven to eight types of medicinal liquid at the same time.

Other than Ran Weng himself controlling five of the Six Extremes Origin Cauldron, Jiang Yuanchen was also responsible for looking after one of the cauldrons in addition to the Tri-Origin Cauldron, helping to refine the medicinal properties within.

Controlling one Tri-Origin Cauldron was considered simple, but with the addition of the Origin Cauldron, Jiang Yuanchen was a bit strained. In addition, Ran Weng would let Jiang Yuanchen look after the other cauldrons from time to time and act as an assistant. Thus, Jiang Yuanchen's Fa Li consumption was also very large. However, it was also this hard work that allowed the remaining medicinal effects of the Magnificent Jade Pill in Jiang Yuanchen's body to be completely refined.

The Magnificent Jade Pill was originally a medicinal pill used by Jade Condensation Realm cultivators. Letting Jiang Yuanchen use it to forcibly step into the Foundation Establishment stage naturally had a side effect, which was why Liu Kai said to let him cultivate bitterly for six months to make up for his foundation.

As the medicinal effects were completely refined, Jiang Yuanchen suddenly spat out a purple gas. Behind him, just like Lin Zixuan's White Sun Dharma Avatar, a Silver Moon Dharma Avatar also appeared. Under this pressure, Jiang Yuanchen's cultivation level rose a step further.

The Foundation Establishment stage actually didn't have many divisions. Other than solidifying the foundation, then working hard to cultivate Qi, cultivating Fa Li and True Essence. When it reached the great circle, directly condensing True Fire to reach the Heart Stirring stage would be enough. Whether it was the Foundation Establishment early stage or the Foundation Establishment late stage, the amount of battle power still depended on oneself. Challenging someone of a higher stage was very difficult, but if they were both in the Foundation Establishment stage, the gap between them wasn't that big. At most, it was the degree of attainment in Dao techniques and the density of Fa Li.