To a novice, the biggest obstacle was not having enough alchemy materials for you to waste. Think about the treasures of heaven and earth, especially the high-grade elixirs, which cost hundreds to thousands of spirit stones. Even ordinary cultivation clans could not afford to nurture them.
Therefore, many cultivation clans could not even refine the Nature Elixir, which was why the Yi Family's business was a fixed supplier.
However, this was not a problem for Ye Kong. He had the Soil of Breath. With it, he could have as many spirit herbs as he wanted. The key was that he had seeds or roots. He could grow baskets of spirit herbs in no time. Even spirit herbs that were thousands of years old would not be a problem.
There was another reason that restricted elixir refinement, and that was fire. Without a suitable fire, the success rate and quality of elixir refinement would be greatly reduced. That was why the Spiritual Medicine Mountain set their sect on the volcano.
There was no need to worry about this. Ye Kong had the Cangbei Cold Fire. This rare fire was a holy item for refining elixirs. Of course, it was useless to have a fire. The alchemist had to have a good grasp of the fire. If the fire was too big, the elixir would be burnt. If the fire was too small, the elixir would miss the time to produce the elixir, and the elixir would be a waste. If the fire was unstable, it would be even worse. If the furnace was not careful, it would explode.
Ye Kong had to thank Patriarch Acheron. If he had not been forced by Patriarch Acheron to practice elemental control for three months outside Southern City, he would not have been able to control the Cangbei Cold Fire.
"Patriarch, when will you wake up?" Ye Kong took out the Water-Fire Gourd and thought about Patriarch Acheron again.
If that old guy knew that he had found a cultivation vessel for him, he would be so happy. If he knew that he was already his stepfather … Haha, that guy would definitely jump out and scold him.
Ye Kong smiled and put the Water-Fire Gourd on the tea table in front of him. Then, he placed the various spirit herbs he needed on the side.
Alright, the preparations were ready. Let's start the elixir refinement.
Ye Kong sat down cross-legged and carefully let the Water and Fire Gourd release a wisp of flame. Once the white frost-like flame came out, the temperature of the entire array instantly dropped. This Cangbei Cold Fire was indeed powerful. Just a small wisp of it had such cold power.
Ye Kong used his soul sense to control the Water-Fire Gourd to make the fire smaller. Until the white flame stabilized into a tiny bundle, Ye Kong began to refine.
Thousand Leaf Grass, Spirit Beast Meat, Low Grade Spirit Beast Inner Core … These supplementary materials were thrown into the white flame one after another. Very soon, they melted. These were all supplementary materials, so there was no need to refine them individually. The Thousand Leaf Grass melted into a green liquid, the Spirit Beast Meat turned into a red muddy substance, and after the White Low Grade Spirit Beast Inner Core was burned, a black liquid flowed out.
Several colors were mixed together and fused together, looking like chocolate of various colors mixed together.
After burning for a while, the various colors had already mixed together and were indistinguishable. However, as the temperature rose, the surface of the liquid began to bubble, and from the bubbles, small granular materials were flipped over.
Ye Kong raised both of his hands, and his index finger quickly flicked out. Gusts of strong wind shot out, flicking the impurities out of the medicinal liquid. Ye Kong also learned this move from Ancestor Acheron. In the past, when Ancestor Acheron refined the Fasting Pill, Ye Kong was especially envious, and he secretly learned a lot of it. Therefore, his movements were very proficient, and his timing, strength, and position were all grasped just right.
Once the supplementary materials were refined, it was time for the main materials. Ye Kong used a porcelain bottle to store the supplementary materials, and then carefully threw a Snake Saliva Grass into the flame. Those supplementary materials were very cheap. The Low Grade Spirit Beast Inner Core was the worst, and it only cost 30 spirit stones. The Spirit Beast Meat was even cheaper, and it cost 5 spirit stones to buy a big lump. As for the Thousand Leaf Grass, there was no need to mention it, and it cost 2 spirit stones per stalk. Each stalk had a thousand leaves, and only a dozen or so were used each time.
The most expensive was the main material, which cost 800 spirit stones per stalk. If any Alchemy Grandmaster knew that this kid used such expensive materials to practice on his first time refining pills, they would definitely jump up and down and scold him for being too extravagant! Too wasteful!
Not long after, the main material was refined, and Ye Kong took out the supplementary materials, and started fusing them in the flame.
According to Lian Ruolan's notes, the fusion of the main and supplementary materials, for a novice Alchemy Alchemist, this was the first big hurdle. However, Ye Kong was very lucky, and succeeded in his first fusion. After an hour, a cyan coloured pill embryonic form appeared.
With his first successful experience, Ye Kong continued to work hard, and prepared to refine four more pills, and once he had collected five, he would proceed to the next step of roasting it in the Pill Furnace.
However, his luck was not so good, and for the next four pills, he encountered setbacks at the fusion juncture, and could not fuse them together, which led to the main and supplementary materials being wasted.
Ye Kong had prepared a total of ten stalks of Snake Saliva Grass, and now there were only five left. He did not dare to continue, and took a deep breath, and closed his eyes to recall the previous five fusion processes.
After thinking for an hour, Ye Kong felt that the reason for the last four failures was due to the wrong timing of the supplementary materials, and the firing time of the main material was too long, which led to the supplementary materials not being able to fuse with the main material.
After finding the reason, Ye Kong continued to work. He took out four stalks of Snake Saliva Grass, leaving only the most beautiful and neat stalk for cultivation.
Although he had found the reason, but the timing of putting in the supplementary materials was really not easy to grasp. Whether it was late or early, he would have to rely on the Alchemist to observe the colour of the main material solution. This was something that could not be explained clearly, and one must have experience in order to succeed.
This Alchemy was really not a job for the poor. After a few hours, nearly 9,000 Spirit Stones worth of materials had been successfully fused, but only two embryonic forms of pills had been formed.
He had not even succeeded yet. It could be said that it was still too early. This first step was the simplest, and Ye Kong had already wasted 70% of the materials.
Looking at the two embryonic forms, Ye Kong felt quite lucky that he had not been completely wiped out. Regardless of it, he would just put it into the Pill Furnace.
The Pill Furnace was a brass Pill Furnace, and it looked pretty good. However, it did not have any additional effects, such as increasing the success rate of refining pills and the like. However, a Pill Furnace with such effects was expensive, even if it only increased the success rate by 1%, it would still be a sky-high price!
Ye Kong did not mind, as he had Lucky Charms. As long as there were grooves for Lucky Charms on the Pill Furnace, it would be fine. When he bought the Pill Furnace, he had already paid attention to it, which was why he bought this Imitation Ancient Pill Furnace.
Currently, Ye Kong could only open the first page of the low-grade high-tier Lucky Charms, so he did not have any high-tier Lucky Charms. It was just a 10% success rate, so he had to make do with it.
Ye Kong took out the Brass Pill Furnace, and it immediately became the size of a square table. It was golden yellow, and there were dragons and phoenixes embroidered on the furnace handle. There was a lace hollowed out silk net on the furnace cover. It looked pretty good, but Ye Kong knew that those were just decorations, and were not very useful.
"Sigh, if you have time to carve dragons and phoenixes, why don't you just carve two more grooves for Lucky Charms on the furnace? Flashy but impractical." Ye Kong scolded unhappily.
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