The Legend of the Immortal Cauldron

Time flies, and more than a month has passed.

After this period of practice, Matthew's cultivation has reached the second level of Qi Refining.

Today, he packed up all his things and prepared to go into the city.

He had used up all the Qi-nourishing pills on him. Without the pills, his cultivation would be difficult to advance.

After changing his clothes, Matthew returned to Wangxian City.

Although he had not been back for several months, the city was still as lively as before.

In fact, Matthew felt that there were more cultivators in the city than before.

He still had hundreds of spirit stones on him, but they were not enough to buy Qi-nourishing pills.

For this reason, he came to Baodan Hall again and bought two low-grade marrow cleansing pills in the store.

After returning to his home, Matthew immediately purified the two marrow cleansing pills.

He bought an extra marrow cleansing pill when he went into the city last time. With the two in his hand, he already had three medium-grade marrow cleansing pills.

After thinking for a while, Matthew decided to sell two marrow cleansing pills in Baibaolou, and the other one in another shop.

In this way, he would have a lot of spirit stones.

However, he had other plans in mind.

Buying pills for a long time would definitely attract the attention of others.

So, he decided to try to make pills himself.

He had the book of alchemy experience of Master Wang in his hand, and he would read it whenever he had time during this period.

It also made him understand some things about alchemy.

Only then did he have the confidence to try to make pills himself.

With three medium-grade marrow cleansing pills, Matthew exchanged more than a thousand spirit stones smoothly.

It was the first time for him to have so many spirit stones, and he was inevitably a little excited.

Then, he left the shop selling marrow cleansing pills and went to an unfamiliar shop to buy hundreds of qi nourishing pills.

Although he had to make pills himself, he still needed to prepare some qi nourishing pills, after all, cultivation could not stop.

When he came out of this shop, Matthew sighed in his heart that this spirit stone was really useful.

More than a thousand spirit stones had been spent before he could even warm them up.

After that, he continued to wander around the city.

There were several recipes for elixirs at the back of the Wang's Elixir. He only needed to buy the herbs required on them.

In addition to buying the materials for the Yangqi Pill, Matthew also bought a lot of materials for the Bigu Pill and the Rejuvenating Pill.

Although he rarely used those two kinds of pills, they were the best pills for practice.

This was what he saw in the Wang's Elixir. Master Wang also started from the most basic pills and refined them little by little until he could successfully refine the Yangqi Pill.

In addition to buying the materials needed for alchemy, you also need to buy spirit wood.

There are roughly two ways for cultivators to refine pills.

Those with low cultivation need to rely on external forces, such as lighting spirit wood or relying on earth fire to refine pills.

This method is difficult because the flame is not easy to control. If you are not careful, it will cause the fire to be unstable and fail.

The other method is limited to cultivators with high cultivation, such as Dan fire for Jindan cultivators and infant fire for Yuanying cultivators.

Whether it is Dan Huo or Ying Huo, they are transformed by one's own magic power. If they are easy to control, the chance of making a pill will be greatly increased.

Matthew didn't know if there were any Jindan or Yuanying cultivators in Wangxian City. Even if there were, how could such masters help him make pills.

He had no other choice but to buy a large amount of spiritual wood to make pills himself.

During this period, Matthew also passed by Baiyaotang.

Seeing that the shopkeeper inside had been replaced, he did not go in again.

When he went out, his storage bag was still flat, but when he came back, the storage bag was bulging and full of things.

When Matthew returned home, he was not in a hurry to make pills, but cleaned the house and fell asleep on the bed.

During this period, he had been practicing hard, which made him feel quite tired mentally. It was time to take a break.

After sleeping for more than ten hours, Matthew was full of energy when he woke up.

After a simple wash, he began to try to make pills.

It was inevitable that he was a little flustered when making pills for the first time.

As expected, his first batch of pills failed in a short time.

Smelling the pungent smell of burning, Matthew opened the window.

After cleaning the burnt medicine residue in the pill furnace, Matthew did not rush to continue refining the pill.

Instead, he took out a pen and paper from the storage bag and began to write down his own process of refining the pill.

Being able to find the cause of failure is one step closer to success.

Seeing that the paper was almost full of mistakes, Matthew was not discouraged and tried to make pills again.

At the beginning of the practice, Matthew was full of confidence and thought that he only needed to do each step well.

But the reality is that he simply could not do every step perfectly.

Especially the control of the flame is too difficult.

Although the spiritual wood is more resistant to burning than ordinary wood, the flame intensity is also stronger than ordinary fire.

Matthew had no way to control the flame. Several times, when he saw the fragrance of medicine floating out of the pill furnace, the sudden fluctuation of the flame directly caused the whole furnace of pills to turn into slag.

After failing more than a dozen times in a row, Matthew fell to the ground and closed his eyes to rest.

Although he felt frustrated, he did not give up refining the elixir.

However, refining the elixir is also a great mental drain.

Especially when refining the elixir, you must concentrate and not relax at all.

This made Matthew, who had just started refining the elixir, feel extremely tired.

After a short rest, Matthew sat up from the ground, took out another piece of paper and started writing.

The previous piece of paper had already been filled with his writing.

He put the two pieces of paper in front of him and memorized the areas that needed improvement bit by bit.

Suddenly, Matthew had a flash of inspiration.

After putting away the paper, he cleaned the furnace and began to make the elixir.

Matthew was already familiar with the previous steps. He first lit the spirit wood, let the furnace be heated evenly, and then put the medicinal materials into the furnace one by one.

After about a cup of tea, a wisp of medicinal fragrance wafted out of the furnace.

At this time before, the flame of the burning spirit wood would fluctuate, and Matthew also failed here.

This time was the same, and the flame began to jump again.

Matthew's eyes condensed, stretched out his hand and grabbed in the air, and performed the exorcism technique.

Under the control of the exorcism technique, the originally jumping flame gradually stabilized, and the medicinal fragrance in the room became a little stronger.

At this time, the flame became unstable again.

Matthew, who had been prepared, used his magic power to control the flame.

After controlling the flame again, wisps of white gas floated out from the furnace.

"It's done!"

Matthew was delighted and quickly withdrew his magic power to open the lid of the furnace.

But before he could do anything, the flames below suddenly jumped up and enveloped the entire furnace.

Matthew froze a little as he watched the white gas turn into black smoke.

After a light sigh, he put out the flames and began to clean the furnace.

However, there was no regret in his eyes at this time, but excitement.

Through the previous attempt, he already knew how to control the flames, and the failure was only because he was too anxious.