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In a cave in Changyang Peak, Ran Weng smiled lightly at Jiang Yuanchen who was standing in front of him and said, "I guess you've heard about what happened between you and me, right?"

Xun Yang sent Jiang Yuanchen over and left directly, but on the way he also told Jiang Yuanchen about Ran Weng and Hua Yudan.

Jiang Yuanchen looked embarrassed and said awkwardly: "In the past, I just started, so I am so young and energetic. Please forgive me, senior."

"Forget it, I also heard Xun Yang mention it. You didn't target me specifically at the beginning. But when Xun Yang sent you here, he must have wanted you to follow the path of alchemy, right? Then how much do you know about alchemy?"

"This disciple has never touched the alchemy furnace."

Ran Weng frowned: "You don't know anything about Wenhuo, Wuhuo, or the properties of medicinal materials?"

"I know this, but I don't have practical experience." Jiang Yuanchen looked humble and polite.

"Then please tell me how to distinguish these herbs." Ran Weng touched his hand, and seventy or eighty jade boxes appeared on the ground: "According to the medicinal properties, from left to right they are cold, warm, and hot."

Jiang Yuanchen picked up a jade box and opened it gently. Inside was a three-inch long golden ginseng. After thinking about it, he placed it directly in front of him. Then he opened another jade box, took out the red spiritual grass and looked at it. When he was about to place it on his right hand side, he suddenly paused and carefully looked at the flowers and leaves before placing it on his left hand side.

Yes, this red herb can easily be regarded as having a heat property if not carefully distinguished. Ran Weng nodded secretly. It seems that this man has memorized a lot of medicinal scriptures and recognized many herbal medicines.

Less than half an hour passed, Jiang Yuanchen's nose was sweating, and he finally sorted out the herbs.

Ran Weng took a brief look at it and said, "Except for the three herbs being sorted in the wrong place, the others are pretty good. Anyway, you can stay here and help me light the fire during this period. I happened to be invited by your Taoist Sect to refine some of them." Lingdan, you just hit the target."

Jiang Yuanchen hesitated: "According to the experience of this junior, I'm afraid——"

"I'm not asking you to actually make elixirs, but I'm asking you to help refine the medicinal materials and refine the medicinal properties." Ran Weng waved his hand, and five jade slips flew into Jiang Yuanchen's hands: "You can take these things back and look at them tomorrow. Chenshi, come here and help me fan the flames."

Jiang Yuanchen glanced at it, one part was about the control method of civil and military fire, and the remaining four parts were about four completely different explanations of alchemy.

"The alchemy system is very extensive, and everything in the world can be used as medicine! Whether it's plants, trees, gold, or stones, or even living things. But just preparing medicinal materials is not enough. A qualified alchemist must check it before using it. Materials. After all, it is the same medicinal material. Depending on the year and the growing environment, its medicinal effect is also different. A dose of tonic will turn into a fatal poison if you are not careful. Therefore, alchemists need to use their own experience To select medicinal materials and roughly understand their medicinal properties.”

Ran Weng chatted: "The second most important medicinal material is the elixir. If you only refine it based on the elixir, then you can only rely on God to open your eyes. Ordinary elixirs will not be assisted by pharmacological monarchs and ministers, and various Notes on the use of medicinal materials are written down for you. These are the initial projects for alchemists to learn.

Therefore, there is a saying in alchemy that "the master creates elixir, and the fool imitates elixir." This means that a skilled alchemist does not limit the prescriptions of his predecessors to create his own elixirs, but creates his own elixirs based on the recipes of his predecessors. But stupid people can only follow the footsteps of their predecessors and dare not go beyond it.

No wise alchemist would place his or her sights on an elixir recipe. If I can't find the main ingredient, is it possible that I can't make this elixir? "

"You mean to think about using other medicinal materials instead?" Jiang Yuanchen put away the five jade slips and agreed with a smile.

"Yes, if you are just obsessed with a pill recipe, how do you know whether it is true or false? Just based on the name and the described medicinal effects, do you dare to practice it and dare to take it? Although I am a casual cultivator, but for casual cultivators, The problems they have are also disgusting, and they are all muddled, and the truly outstanding casual cultivators are just those few people."

Casual cultivators have never received any real inheritance, so they naturally don't understand the twists and turns. When they get a cultivation elixir, they are as ecstatic as if they are a treasure and they directly refine the elixir and take it. Who cares whether the elixir is authentic or fake? Many of these locust-style casual cultivators were killed by the jokes or trials of their seniors. The number of truly outstanding casual cultivators in each generation is only about the same as the number of true disciples of the Taixu Taoist Sect.

"What I just handed you is the basic introduction to the four alchemy schools. You should have heard of them."

Because of the different types of medicinal materials at the beginning, alchemy is divided into many schools: the herbal style that specializes in using the essence of plants and trees as medicine; the animal elixir style that is proficient in using the essence of animal inner elixirs, skin, hair, scales, horns, flesh and blood as medicine; the mineral elixir style that prefers gold and iron ores for use in medicine. There are also the Qi Dan flow, which is believed to collect the essence of the world, the sun and the moon; and the Blood Demon Dan flow, which uses human beings as medicine, such as Zi Che He, full moon babies, boys and girls, etc.

Judging from the differentiation of medicinal materials, the alchemy of plants and trees occupies the mainstream of alchemy today, while the use of human elixirs is a taboo in alchemy that has long been sealed by the Taoist sect. The jade slips in Jiang Yuanchen's hand are only of four types: grass and wood pills, animal spirit pills, gold and stone pills, and vitality pills.

"Because the way of alchemy is vast, each alchemist will only choose one branch of practice at first. I chose the alchemy of plants and trees, but as for how you choose, it is all up to you. When you help me light the fire, you can follow the instructions in your spare time. Try the simple elixir recipes above. Of course, except for the elixir furnace that I can lend you, you need to prepare the medicinal materials yourself."

Ran Weng seemed to feel that he was a little unkind, so he turned around and said: "If you do a good job of making a fire with herbs, I can help you prepare the herbs as a reward. The Vitality Pill only needs to collect all kinds of vitality from heaven and earth. It is most convenient. As for the animal elixirs and gold and iron ores, you need to deal with them yourself."

"Thank you for your love, senior!" Jiang Yuanchen thought about it and thanked Ran Weng.

Didn't I originally come here to light a fire for the purpose of alchemy practice? I even stopped doing other homework for this reason.

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

Jiang Yuanchen got up and said goodbye to the rest room nearby. He took the jade slip from Wenwuhuo and read it carefully. Ran Weng's civil and military fire control method is not much different from that taught by Taixu Taoist Sect. Jiang Yuanchen looked at it carefully and then turned to look at the four jade slips. Time passed unconsciously. When the moon was in the sky, Jiang Yuanchen began to collect Qi. Practice.

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On the second day, after Jiang Yuanchen finished his qi collecting exercises, he came to the alchemy room to meet Ran Weng. At this moment, Ran Weng had already built a golden copper furnace that was as tall as one person in front of him, and there was a smaller bronze furnace next to it. .

"Go to the Sanyuan Cauldron and refine the five kilograms of 30-year-old Phalloides mushrooms placed in front of you for me." Ran Weng raised his eyes and said, then closed his eyes again to control the golden furnace in front of him.

Hearing this, Jiang Yuanchen walked to the bronze alchemy cauldron, looked at the foot-long Phallus agaricus in the medicine basket, picked them and saw that there were no problems before opening the bronze cauldron.

Jiang Yuanchen was stunned when he opened the top cover. Ran Weng's voice came from far away: "This cauldron is divided into three layers. You only need to spread the herbs on the bottom of the copper cauldron outside. There is no need to add water. Just wait for the essence to fall. Just enter the jade cauldron inside."

The Sanyuan Cauldron is divided into three layers: a bronze cauldron, a white cloud cauldron, and a yellow wooden cauldron in the center. These cauldrons are used to refine solid, liquid, and gaseous elixirs respectively. When the Phallus agaricus is placed in the outermost bronze cauldron, its essence will naturally turn into gas and fall into the white jade cauldron. Then it will condense into a liquid state and be refined again. Only when the purest wisp of essence is put into the yellow wooden cauldron will it be considered complete.

Jiang Yuanchen put the medicinal materials into the bottom of the medicine cauldron, took out the spiritual wood from the side, lit it with tinder, and began to wave a banana fan to fan the fire.

When the fire gradually grew stronger, Jiang Yuanchen fanned it several times, making the fire even more intense, burning out the water vapor from the Phalloides inside and integrating it into the white jade cauldron.

Fanning the fire is a process that tests patience. It was also Jiang Yuanchen who could endure the loneliness. After an hour, he finally boiled out all the Phalloides and the water vapor fell into the white jade cauldron.

"There is no need to take out the medicine residue." Ran Weng saw Jiang Yuanchen trying to open the lid and directly stopped him: "Continue to burn, continue to amplify the fire, and burn the medicine liquid in the white jade cauldron directly into red medicine gas!"

After another two hours passed, Jiang Yuanchen managed to turn the medicinal liquid into a wisp of pill energy.

"Don't extinguish the cauldron fire. Use a slow fire to simmer it slowly. After three moments, I will absorb the red mushroom medicinal energy." Ran Weng's words were calm, neither praising nor cursing, so Jiang Yuanchen continued to fan the flames honestly.

Three moments later, when Ran Weng saw that the heat in his golden furnace was up, he pointed at the Sanyuan Cauldron, and a stream of medicinal gas flew out of it and fell into the golden furnace, and continued to boil the elixir liquid in the golden furnace. practice.

It took another hour before the batch of pills that Ran Weng had practiced finally took shape. He took out a yellow-skinned gourd and put the fifteen elixirs in the golden furnace.

"Senior, do you know what effect these pills have?" Jiang Yuanchen asked curiously.

"I don't know, this is the elixir I practiced casually." Ran Weng poured out an elixir and checked its properties: "According to my technique and medicinal materials, it should be a detoxification elixir."

Because Jiang Yuanchen was a novice, Weng Zi did not dare to ask him to help as soon as he came up, and he also needed a running-in period with him. In the next two days, Ran Weng asked Jiang Yuanchen to accompany him to refine several furnaces of miscellaneous elixirs to try, before he actually began to refine the several kinds of elixirs needed by Taixu Taoist Sect.

There are eight alchemy furnaces placed in the alchemy room. In addition to Ran Weng's natal golden furnace, there is also a set of six-pole Guiyuan furnace and Jiang Yuanchen's Sanyuan Cauldron.

Use the Six-pole Guiyuan Furnace to temper the medicinal gas, and then put it into the natal Golden Furnace to refine the medicine according to the process. You need to control several furnace cauldrons at the same time. In addition to Jiang Yuanchen's Sanyuan Cauldron, you need to refine seven or eight kinds of elixirs at the same time.

In addition to Ran Weng himself controlling five of the six-pole Guiyuan furnaces, Jiang Yuanchen was also responsible for taking care of an alchemy furnace outside of the Sanyuan Cauldron, helping to fan the flames and refine the medicinal properties in it.

It is relatively easy to control a Three-Yuan Cauldron, but with an extra Guiyuan Furnace, Jiang Yuanchen is a little reluctant. In addition, Ran Weng asks Jiang Yuanchen to take care of the other furnaces from time to time, and Jiang Yuanchen's mana consumption is also very huge. However, it was precisely this hard work that allowed the remaining Huayu Pill effects in Jiang Yuanchen's body to be completely refined.

Huayu Pill was originally a pill taken by Yuye monks. Of course, there was a sequelae for Jiang Yuanchen to use it to forcefully enter the foundation building stage, so Liu Kaicai said that he should be allowed to practice hard for six months to complete the foundation.

As the effect of the medicine was completely refined, Jiang Yuanchen suddenly spit out a burst of purple energy, and behind him, a Silver Moon Dharma model appeared, imitating Lin Zixuan's White Yang Dharma Appearance. Jiang Yuanchen further improved his cultivation level directly under this pressure.

In fact, there are not many differences in the realm of foundation building. In addition to consolidating the foundation, and then working hard to practice Qi and cultivate mana and true energy, when reaching the Great Perfection, it is enough to directly condense the true fire into the heartbeat stage. Whether it is the early stage of foundation building or the late stage of foundation building, its combat power still depends on itself. It is difficult to challenge the next level, but it is also the foundation building period, and the difference between them is not big. At most, it is the level of Taoist attainment and the strength of the magic power.

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