Lonely Immortal

Now, the elixir recipe is available, the medicinal materials are available, and the alchemy furnace is available. Everything is ready and all it takes is the east wind. Zhang Zhiwen can start refining the elixir, but he has no experience at all. This is his first time using elixirs. Furnace refining elixir, and Lingqi Powder is obviously considered a real elixir. Lingqi Powder always feels a little lacking and not high enough. It is just a very entry-level elixir for monks in the early stages of Qi refining.

Although the recipe for elixir contains records on the preparation and refining methods, there is no detailed description, let alone any experience. Whether the elixir can be refined depends entirely on the alchemist's careful control, and Zhang Zhiwen can only be considered a dabbler. The alchemist was born in Yeluzi and had little experience, so the pot of elixirs was scrapped on the spot.

However, Zhang Zhiwen is not discouraged. In the past, he failed again and again in refining the spiritual energy powder. At that time, he still needed to collect and prepare the medicine himself. But it is different now. Zhao Tieqing and the others provided him with enough medicinal materials, and these medicinal materials were also He didn't say that he had to get the spirit pill, so his pressure was naturally greatly reduced, so he just did his best.

Zhao Tieqing gave a total of ten medicinal materials, but there were also a lot of other unnecessary medicinal materials. It was probably Lin Wei who was greedy for ink, and now he took advantage of Zhang Zhiwen. Zhang Zhiwen didn't know that Lin Wei took these medicinal materials. Whatever he came for, he would just keep it for now, maybe he could use it later.

In this way, Zhang Zhiwen continued to practice, basically using the medicinal materials given by Zhao Tieqing to familiarize himself with the entire alchemy process. Most people really don't have such an opportunity. The medicinal materials are very precious. If Lao Li hadn't risked his life, I'm afraid he wouldn't have. There is no way to get as cheap as Zhang Zhiwen.

However, Zhang Zhiwen also had a headache looking at the batch of scrapped elixirs one after another. He had been refining them for three days and nights without sleep, but he could not get out even one batch of elixirs. Only then did he realize , this alchemy was much more difficult than he imagined.

Just like this spirit wood, it is something that can be bought on the market anyway, and it was given to him by Zhao Tieqing. After lighting it, the flame temperature of the spirit wood must be maintained, otherwise the elixir may be easily scorched by accident. Or if the elixir is delayed in maturing and the best opportunity to form an elixir is missed, then the elixir that comes out will be useless, unusable, and even poisonous.

Then there is the combination of medicinal materials. If the weight is slightly wrong, it will definitely be ruined. Even if the weight is correct, accidents may occur during the refining process, such as the remaining medicinal residue from the last time is not cleaned up, or there are certain flaws in the medicinal materials. ,etc.

In short, after these three days and three nights, Zhang Zhiwen was unable to produce even a single batch of spirit-building pills. He felt that this was because he had the blessing of the Fire and Thunder Cauldron, otherwise the result would probably be worse. At least in these three days and three nights, He almost succeeded several times.

Speaking of this fire and thunder cauldron, it is indeed very easy to use. It has dual attributes of fire and thunder. Needless to say, the fire attribute is necessary for alchemy. The thunder attribute is also quite good. Not all this world is born from thunder. Coming from? Therefore, the thunder attribute actually has a strong vitality, and this vitality allows Zhang Zhiwen to have better effects during the alchemy process, making the medicinal materials less likely to be scorched and less likely to be immature. This is all the result of Fire Thunder Cauldron.

But even with the blessing of the Fire and Thunder Cauldron, Zhang Zhiwen still couldn't refine the Spirit-Building Pill. He now vaguely felt that this alchemist was probably a very rare and precious profession. Just imagine, a powerful alchemist Master, it must have taken countless elixir refinings to achieve. How much of the medicinal materials alone will be consumed? How much money does it cost to put in? Only in this way can the experience of an alchemist be accumulated bit by bit. Just like Zhang Zhiwen today, he is accumulating experience bit by bit, but the problem is that he does not have enough time now. His agreement with Zhao Tieqing is for ten days. Time, but now three days have passed, and he has not refined a single soul-building pill. He is indeed a little unsure.

But Zhang Zhiwen is not in a hurry. His mind is always very stable. He feels that there must be some problems here, and there may even be some problems with the elixir, because after three days and nights of refining the elixir, he is more or less familiar with it. During the refining process, problems always appeared in some key places, and these problems were almost impossible to solve. Only then did Zhang Zhiwen vaguely doubt the elixir recipe.

He took out the medicinal materials that Lin Wei wanted more. Zhang Zhiwen felt that Lin Wei's ability to refine the spiritual elixir must have a lot to do with the extra medicinal materials. Maybe this was the key. Of course, if Zhang Zhiwen didn't have the elixir recipe, , he had no idea where to start, but he had a prescription, and after comparing it again, he still had a chance to see the clues.

In this way, Zhang Zhiwen placed these medicinal materials on the table and studied them carefully.

All these medicinal materials are hundreds of years old, and there are more than 20 elixirs among them. However, it is embarrassing to say that Zhang Zhiwen does not know these elixirs at all. He immediately excluded these elixirs because these elixirs are If there is no such elixir in a variety of elixirs, it definitely cannot be this elixir. This is obviously Lin Wei's way of confusing Lao Litou.

Then only the century-old medicinal materials are left, and there are three more varieties of century-old medicinal materials, so these three varieties are probably the key. Since there are not many varieties, you can try them one by one. .

Zhang Zhiwen made a decision and continued to refine the pill, but this time he added a medicinal material, and he decided the amount on his own. Anyway, if it failed, he would change it. Of course, even if there were only three extra medicinal materials, it would take a very long time to try them one by one. After all, it also involves the amount. However, Zhang Zhiwen thought it didn't matter. He would try the overall effect first. He had some experience in the past few days.

In this way, Zhang Zhiwen refined for another three days. After three days, Zhang Zhiwen finally breathed a sigh of relief. He finally found the key to the problem.

It's not that the recipe has a problem, but the medicinal materials. The recipe is fine, but the spiritual medicine required by the recipe is fresh spiritual medicine, because he found that by adding a century-old medicinal material called water money grass, the elixir can almost be successfully refined. This water money grass is recorded in the Changsheng Sutra. It belongs to the category of nourishing medicinal materials that can make people rejuvenated. After adding water money grass, the shriveled lonely fairy fruit and the spiritual cultivation fruit were slightly moisturized and restored to some vitality. This is the key.

Lin Wei actually didn't know Zhang Zhiwen's recipe, and Zhang Zhiwen knew that the recipe in his hand should be left by a big family, because only big families have the ability to get fresh spiritual medicine, or even grow fresh spiritual medicine. It is difficult for other independent alchemists to get this kind of medicinal materials.

Therefore, with the addition of water money grass, Zhang Zhiwen can refine the spiritual pill. Sure enough, after another day of trying, Zhang Zhiwen finally produced a spiritual pill. This spiritual pill is similar to the one sold outside, and the price is 20 low-grade spirit stones. If calculated according to the success rate, there is no profit, almost a loss-making business. Zhao is also ruthless. Just by suppressing the price, there will definitely be no alchemists to compete with them for business.

However, Zhang Zhiwen knows that this is definitely not the best success rate. He continues to study the refining of pills. After another two days, Zhang Zhiwen can finally increase the success rate to 30%. However, this level is already the limit. At least Zhang Zhiwen thinks it is unlikely to be improved. One piece of medicinal material produces three spiritual pills, which are worth a total of 60 low-grade spirit stones, and the value of the medicinal materials themselves is also very close. In this way, unless you produce and sell them yourself, it is unlikely to make any profit.

But Zhang Zhiwen didn't believe that Zhao had no profit. That was definitely double the profit. Thinking of this, Zhang Zhiwen combined his experience in alchemy in the past few days, and he had a bold idea, that is, Zhao was selling fake medicine. Of course, it can't be said to be completely fake, that is, half true and half false, or even less than half true.

Zhao could add some useless things to the real Peiling Pill, as long as it doesn't kill people, or add Lingqi Powder. In a Peiling Pill, the real Peiling Pill is only one-third, or even less than one-third, and the rest are the ingredients of Lingqi Powder, and others can't see it.

So, Zhang Zhiwen planned to buy a Peiling Pill from Zhao to see if it was the same as he thought.

So, he went to the west of the city, found a pill shop at random, and bought a Peiling Pill at random, and then went to another one and bought another one. He came back. The reason why he bought two pills was because he was afraid that there would be any omissions. If one Peiling Pill was adulterated, it might not necessarily mean that Zhao really did it, but if both were like this, then it goes without saying that Zhao must be selling fake medicine.

After returning, Zhang Zhiwen took out the Peiling Pill he refined and compared it with Zhao's Peiling Pill. After comparing, Zhang Zhiwen immediately saw that Zhao's Peiling Pill was indeed adulterated, and both were adulterated, and the degree of adulteration was as high as 80%!

This means that the degree of profit from Zhao's selling fake medicine is almost unimaginable. Only 20% of a Peiling Pill is a real Peiling Pill, and a real Peiling Pill can be sold as five pills. Wouldn't the profit be five times higher?

But even so, its price still attracted many casual cultivators to buy it. Even if it was available on the black market, Zhang Zhiwen was sure that the pills on the black market were definitely very expensive, but the effect might be better than that of the Zhao family, because it was difficult for alchemists who came from the wild to be compared with the alchemy families like the Zhao family. In addition, who knew whether people like Lin Wei would adulterate and make fake pills?

Anyway, Zhang Zhiwen felt that the goat beard was not a good thing. It was likely that he would also make fakes, but he should not be as cruel as the Zhao family. And the goat beard must have known that the Zhao family made fake medicines. In places like Feixian City, no one knew that fake medicines were made, because no one had ever taken the real Peiling Pill.

Then, why couldn't Zhang Zhiwen let everyone taste what the real Peiling Pill was?