The Path to Immortality

"According to the elixir instructions, you only need to wait a hundred breaths before you can open the furnace and get the elixir!"

Patiently, Fang Ping waited for another moment.

"Turn off the heat and collect the juice!"

Fang Ping stopped refining.

When Baoding is channeled, the invisible restrictions within the tripod automatically stop.

Without the constraints of invisible restrictions, the pungent and spicy taste, accompanied by a strong burnt smell, spread immediately.

Fang Ping pinched his nose and came forward, and looked inside the cauldron. He only saw balls of burnt medicine dregs of different sizes inside.

"Very good, even the step of getting the elixir is omitted!"

Alchemy is a delicate job.

Even ordinary alchemy is not something that a qi-training monk can master the first time by just reading the pharmacopoeia for a few days.

"Perhaps the effect of spiritual fire is a bit too strong compared to ordinary flames?"

Fang Ping made a preliminary judgment based on the description on the [Xiao Huan Dan] prescription.

Although it failed, the result was not beyond his expectation.

Still looking calm, he was ready to clean the tripod and try to refine it for the second time.

By the way, do some research to see if there are any other changes in the Purple Gold Cauldron after the first alchemy, or anything that can help you.

Just when he had this idea, a shocking scene appeared.

Inside the purple gold cauldron, a silvery brilliance suddenly lit up.

The brilliance is misty, powerful, and vicissitudes of life, as if flowing from the endless river of time.

The next moment, the brilliance turned into a divine light that could reverse the passage of time. Under its wash, the burnt medicinal residue inside the tripod slowly floated into the air and decomposed.

It's like going back in time, turning into various medicinal materials again, appearing in the treasure tripod in different categories!

After completing this process, the divine light dissipated again and disappeared into the cauldron.

In an instant, Baoding returned to normal, as if nothing had changed.

Only the medicinal materials in front of me were traced back to the situation before the furnace was opened, silently proving what happened just now!

"The residue of the elixir that failed to be refined turned into medicinal materials again?"

After being lost for a long time, Fang Ping looked at the materials in front of him and felt ecstatic in his heart!

What is the origin of this tripod that can turn back time?

Fang Ping was vaguely suspicious. He had previously speculated that its grade was higher than that of Lingbao. Now it seems that I have underestimated the quality of this treasure.

Fang Ping, who was a little worried that the power displayed by Baoding was just a flash in the pan, quickly started his second attempt.

Due to his agitated mood, his refining result this time was even more unsuccessful than his first attempt.

Less than a quarter of an hour after the furnace was turned on, black smoke came out of the cauldron.

At this time, Fang Ping no longer cared about the success or failure of a small pot of Huan Dan.

He quickly stopped refining the elixir and told the Purple Gold Cauldron to restart the furnace.

Just like before, the magnificent breath of time reappeared, causing the medicinal residue in the tripod to flow back and restore it to the original medicinal materials!

"Haha, this tripod really has the ability to go back in time!"

After trying this several times in succession and successfully backtracking each time, Fang Ping no longer had any doubts about the ability of this tripod.

During this period, due to his mental preparation, he also noticed one detail.

The invisible restriction within the treasure tripod not only prevents any leakage of the medicine's power during refining. When looking back, all changes can be limited to the treasure tripod, and the power and breath of the divine light will not be leaked.

Unless you stand in front of the tripod and see it with your own eyes, you won't feel anything unusual even if you are close at hand!

For Fang Ping, this is undoubtedly good news.

With the cover of invisible restrictions, there is no need to worry about attracting the attention of other monks when using this tripod in the future.

However, he still has a lot of uncertainty about the specific effects of backtracking.

After some thought, Fang Ping formulated a series of testing methods.

………

Ten days later.

After experiencing nearly a hundred times of backtracking and consuming all the purchased Xiaohuandan materials, Fang Ping basically summarized the rules of this Baoding's backtracking ability.

First of all, no matter what kind of elixir is refined, whether it is successful or not, Baoding can return it to the state before the furnace was opened, but it can only go back up to nine times a day.

There is a saying that the great roads of this world are nine in number.

In this regard, Fang Ping speculated that Baoding's number of backtracking may be related to this limit.

In addition to the upper limit of nine times per day, the backtracking ability itself is not omnipotent, but has certain limitations!

For example, after the furnace is opened, once the refined elixir/drug residue is taken out of the cauldron, even if it is just taken out and put back again, it cannot be traced back again.

Another example is that the finished elixir placed in the cauldron cannot be traced back.

It is impossible to take away the refined elixir and then infinitely retrace the bug, or to restore the medicinal materials by purchasing waste elixirs and medicinal residues at a low price.

As for the medicinal materials that have been traced back to before the furnace was opened, they can be taken out at will. When it is put back into the cauldron for refining, it will be no different from brand new medicinal materials and can still be traced back again.

In addition, Fang Ping also discovered that the time node for backtracking is not fixed.

By default, Baoding is restored to the state of the medicinal materials before the furnace was opened, but this can be changed according to Fang Ping's wishes.

As long as he is willing, he can accurately go back to any point in time during the elixir refining period.

This means that if Fang Ping encounters a certain difficulty when refining a certain elixir in the future, he does not need to start from the beginning every time he backtracks. Instead, he can directly go back to this specific moment, thus saving a lot of time and mana.

………

Combining the above rules, Fang Ping has a theoretical explanation for the ability of this treasure tripod.

That is: the time and space in the tripod are likely to be independent of the outside world and are a "black box".

After putting in the materials, as long as they are not taken out, no matter how many times they are refined, they are chaotic and uncertain to the outside world and can be retraced and reset at will.

Until Fang Ping, the "observer", sees the result that suits his wishes and takes it back to the outside world, at that moment, the final result will be truly fixed.

By the way, in addition to the alchemy, when he tested the retrospective ability of the purple gold treasure tripod, he tried to put items that were not medicinal materials into the treasure tripod.

For example, spiritual materials and ores that can be used to refine tools.

Unfortunately, when making these attempts, although the divine light of retracing time also appeared, the result of the retracing was chaotic and could not accurately return to the original form of the material.

As for whether it can only be effective for the alchemy or there are other restrictions, Fang Ping does not know for the time being.

In short, after this detailed and thorough test, he confirmed the greatest use of the purple gold treasure tripod.

It is used to refine pills!

With this treasure tripod, it is equivalent to having nine free practice opportunities every day, without worrying about any cost loss.

More importantly, when refining some rare elixirs in the future, relying on the continuous backtracking of the treasure tripod, it can be ensured that one furnace of materials will be refined into one furnace of pills!

The significance of this is too great.

With this treasure, even if his talent in the way of alchemy is like a pig, he can rely on continuous backtracking and repeated practice, and finally master the corresponding refining method!

There are golden fingers in time travel, it is true!