Siheyuan: a hole in the sky with you

"The Life Essence Liquid is so powerful. In just a few days, this place has turned into a real elixir garden!" Zhou Jianguo looked at the elixir garden in front of him, which was full of elixirs. He couldn't help but admire in his heart.

A few days ago, this place was still deserted. Not to mention the elixirs, there was not even a blade of grass. But now, it is full of elixirs, and each one is growing extremely well.

For example, to my right, the ground is full of ginseng.

The first twelve ginseng plants that were planted have completely changed. When they were first planted, they were only the size of chopsticks and looked like they were about to die. But now, each plant is at least as thick as a wrist and can match

The dense leaves on it look almost like a small tree.

Zhou Jianguo used his mental power to scan and immediately concluded that this ginseng was a thousand-year-old ginseng and was still growing rapidly.

And there are twelve such thousand-year-old ginseng here.

In addition to these thousand-year-old ginseng, there are also a large number of century-old ginseng. These ginsengs grow densely here, looking like weeds, and there are countless them.

This is the power of life spirit liquid. The growth effect in one day is equal to the growth effect in hundreds of years outside.

Zhou Jianguo didn't pay much attention to these ginseng, he was more concerned about the blood ginseng.

If he wants to refine elixirs such as Marrow Cleansing Pills, Muscle Relieving Pills, and Strengthening Pills, he will need hundreds of years of blood ginseng.

Nowadays, it is difficult to buy century-old blood ginseng outside. Moreover, even if century-old blood ginseng appears, it will cause countless people to compete for it. Therefore, Zhou Jianguo simply grows his own in Dongtian Baozhu.

The first batch of blood ginseng was planted three days ago. Zhou Jianguo had never come to see it before, but this was the first time he came to see it.

"Well, the smell of blood ginseng is very strong." Zhou Jianguo sniffed it and soon smelled the smell of blood ginseng.

When he walked in and took a look, his eyes lit up. The situation in the blood ginseng plantation was better than he imagined.

He originally thought that if the blood ginseng here could survive to the third level, he would be satisfied, but now that the ground is full of blood ginseng, Zhou Jianguo has no place to set foot. It can be seen that the blood ginseng here has survived above the ninth level.

"The spiritual liquid of life is really amazing!" Zhou Jianguo couldn't help but sigh.

The reason why these blood ginsengs have such a high survival rate is obviously because of the life spirit liquid.

"This blood ginseng must be at least five hundred years old!" Zhou Jianguo came to a blood ginseng that was as thick as a child's arm. The surface of this blood ginseng was bright red. Both the body and the whiskers were bright red.

It looked like it was about to ooze blood.

As soon as he got closer, a strong scent of blood ginseng hit his nostrils, and Zhou Jianguo could clearly feel that his spirit was much better.

This feeling is like that after taking a nap at noon, the whole body feels much more relaxed.

"There are so many century-old blood ginsengs, hey, I'm rich, and I don't have to worry about blood ginseng in the future." Zhou Jianguo smiled and looked at the century-old blood ginseng on the ground around him, and his heart blossomed with joy.

Outside, if you want to find a century-old blood ginseng, it is very difficult and even requires you to pay an unimaginable huge price. But as for Zhou Jianguo, he has them everywhere. The century-old blood ginseng is like a weed.

Growing here, if he wanted to find a few, there would be a few. Even blood ginseng that was five or six hundred years old could be found.

I believe that if people outside knew about this, they would definitely go crazy.

"Now that I have the century-old blood ginseng, I can start refining secret medicines such as marrow-cleansing pills, tendon-soothing pills, and strengthening pills."

Zhou Jianguo was eager to give it a try. He had long wanted to give alchemy a try.

All the materials were available, so Zhou Jianguo did not hesitate for long and quickly began to collect the corresponding medicinal materials to prepare for the first time in his life to make alchemy.

"Let's refine the Marrow Washing Pills first!" Zhou Jianguo made a decision and decided to refine the Marrow Washing Pills first.

Among the three types of elixirs: Xisui Pills, Shujin Dan and Guben Pills, Xisui Pills are relatively less difficult to refine, and they require a smaller amount of medicinal materials, so they are most suitable for hand training.

Zhou Jianguo picked up the "Xingyi Zhenji" aside, turned to the secret medicine chapter - the refining method of Ximui Pills, and looked at it carefully.

"Using three yuan grass, five-leaf licorice, and six other medicinal materials as supplements, plus the main ingredient century-old blood ginseng, you can refine the marrow-washing pills." Zhou Jianguo checked the prescription and prepared the necessary ingredients.

of these medicinal materials.

The most important part of the Marrow Cleansing Pill is Centennial Blood Ginseng, and other auxiliary medicinal materials are very common. Zhou Jianguo went to some pharmacies several times to buy them. If some of them were not available, he would buy the seeds, and then do it himself, so that he could have enough food and clothing.

No, Zhou Jianguo grew his own auxiliary materials such as five-leaf licorice, and the medicinal effect is much stronger than those sold outside.

"Well, we need to refine the three-yuan grass first."

Zhou Jianguo stared at the Xingyi Zhenji and pointed to one side with his left hand.

With a sound of "Boom!", a flame rose out of thin air.

"go!"

With the word "go", the three-yuan grass was thrown into the flame, and then an alchemy furnace transformed from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth appeared in the flames, and the three-yuan grass was placed in the alchemy furnace.

"Boom!" The flames continued to burn the alchemy furnace, and the Sanyuancao soon began to change. It gradually melted like ice cream when it was heated. After a dozen breaths, it miraculously turned into a pool of green.

liquid.

"Five-leaf licorice, go!" Zhou Jianguo pointed at the five-leaf licorice on one side again, and three five-leaf licorice plants automatically flew into the alchemy furnace, and then the flames intensified again.

"Zizzizi!!"

This time, there were extremely obvious changes in the alchemy furnace. The liquid made from the five-leaf licorice began to react with the liquid made from the three-leaf licorice. The two began to merge under the action of the flame.

"Zhi...poof...!" A burst of black smoke flew out from the alchemy furnace, and Zhou Jianguo's nose immediately smelled a burnt smell.

"No, the fire is too big!" Zhou Jianguo stopped quickly, but it was too late. The liquid in the alchemy furnace was directly dried, and the surrounding area was filled with a scorched smell.

"The first alchemy failed because I didn't control the heat properly." Zhou Jianguo took out a new notebook and wrote down these words in it.

Soon, the second alchemy began.

This time, Zhou Jianguo learned the lessons from his previous failure and worked hard on controlling the fire. However, because he was afraid that the flames would be too strong, Zhou Jianguo was not able to let go when refining this time.

Although the liquid in the alchemy furnace was not dried, the optimal fusion time was missed because the time was too slow, so the second refining of the marrow-cleansing elixir failed again.

"The second alchemy failed. The reason was that I was afraid of failure, so I was timid when refining..."

"The third alchemy failed. The reason was that the quality of the medicinal materials was not carefully checked..."

"The fourth alchemy failed. The reason was that the order of putting the medicinal materials was wrong..."

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"The thirtieth alchemy failed. The reason is that the blood ginseng is too powerful..."

This failure made Zhou Jianguo know that sometimes, even if the medicine is too powerful, it won't work.

The century-old blood ginseng outside is said to be a century-old blood ginseng, but in fact the real medicinal effect is only seventy or eighty years at most.

The environment outside is relatively harsh, and the spiritual energy in the Cave Heaven Orb is not even one-tenth of that in the Cave Heaven Orb, let alone the watering of heaven and earth spiritual treasures such as Life Spirit Liquid. Therefore, the efficacy of the century-old blood ginseng outside is far less than that of the Cave Heaven Orb.

The medicinal effect of the century-old blood ginseng inside.

Calculated as 100%, the efficacy of the century-old blood ginseng outside is 50%, while the efficacy of the century-old blood ginseng inside the Dongtian Orb reaches 110%, which is far more than 100%.

In order to fear that he might have made a mistake, Zhou Jianguo also checked the alchemy experience of some seniors in the Xingyi Zhenji in detail. It was clearly recorded in it that there are indeed differences in blood ginseng over the centuries, including different growing locations, and the medicines of blood ginseng.

The effects are different, so before refining, it is best to determine the specific medicinal effects of this century-old blood ginseng.

Seeing this, Zhou Jianguo breathed a sigh of relief. He thought that the failure just now was due to himself. Because he was not the material for alchemy, he failed again.

Now that he found out the answer, he breathed a sigh of relief.

After refining elixirs thirty times, they all failed. To be honest, even Zhou Jianguo couldn't bear it anymore.

"First get some blood ginseng that has been effective for decades." Zhou Jianguo put down the Xingyi Zhenji in his hand, picked up the basket on one side, and went to the blood ginseng medicine garden to pick the appropriate blood ginseng.

Refining elixirs for a long time and thirty times failed made Zhou Jianguo's nerves very tight. If he continued like this, Zhou Jianguo was afraid that his nerves would be broken sooner or later, so he just took this opportunity to relax and soothe his mood.

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Ten minutes later, Zhou Jianguo came back from the blood ginseng medicine garden. When he came back, he was holding a basket with ten blood ginsengs aged between thirty and sixty years old.

After the previous thirty failures, Zhou Jianguo still gained a lot of experience, such as how to judge the medicinal properties of medicinal materials, and now Zhou Jianguo is quite good at it.

The medicinal effects of the blood ginseng he picked were similar to those of the auxiliary medicinal materials he prepared. Therefore, if these blood ginseng were used to refine the medicine, the success rate would be much higher.

In addition, when Zhou Jianguo was picking blood ginseng, a thought suddenly flashed in his mind. Since alchemy is to refine and fuse certain parts of various medicinal materials in a certain way through some means to finally become an elixir.

Then can you make some preparations in advance?

For example, if you directly extract the required parts of this medicinal material, and finally fuse them one by one to refine them, will the success rate of refining be higher? After all, you have eliminated the useless parts in advance.

To be honest, Zhou Jianguo didn't have much confidence in his heart, but he had to try this thing before he knew whether it would work. If his experiment was successful, wouldn't it be much easier to make alchemy in the future?

Just do it if you think of it, and the most it will do is fail a few more times. Anyway, I have already failed thirty times, so a few more times won’t matter.