The Path to Immortality

Generally speaking, the common problem encountered by alchemists when refining elixirs is that the flame temperature is not high enough, making it difficult to extract the medicinal power of the elixir.

This life-returning pill is just the opposite.

Its biggest difficulty is that the flame with the lowest temperature possible must be used to perfectly blend the blood essence of the cultivator and the medicinal power of the medicinal materials to complete the refining of the elixir, so as to maximize the preservation of the vitality contained in the blood essence of the cultivator.

This places extremely high demands on the mastery of mana and flame by the alchemist, and must be meticulous.

With such abnormal restrictions, the difficulty of refining the life-returning pill is indeed not low for ordinary first-level alchemists.

But Fang Ping is an alchemist who can even refine the foundation-building pill at the fine level. This life-returning pill is only slightly more difficult than the ascending Yuan pill, so it is naturally no problem for him.

Release the Yuan Ding.

Fang Ping threw the medicinal materials given by Zhou Lingyu into the Yuan Ding after necessary processing.

Then he pinched the magic formula, injected the scorching sun true fire, and began the refining process.

The blazing fire of the sun soon melted the spiritual medicine in the Yuan Ding bit by bit.

After about an hour of continuous refining.

The spiritual medicine in the Yuan Ding had been completely fused.

What surprised Fang Ping was that although it was his first time to refine the Life-Returning Pill, with the help of his superb alchemy skills and powerful spiritual consciousness, the entire first half was almost completed in one go.

Although it was inevitable that some details were not handled properly, at least there were no mistakes that would cause the refining to fail.

It was not until the refining of the Life-Returning Pill entered the critical stage and was about to add the cultivator's blood and essence that Fang Ping failed to suppress the true fire to the right level in an instant, causing the medicinal liquid to undergo an unexpected change in medicinal properties.

Although there was no explosion in the furnace and the refining could continue, the subsequent result would inevitably be failure.

Fang Ping shook his head, activated the backtracking, and went back directly to ten breaths ago.

This time, he learned from his experience and began to reduce his mana in advance, slowly lowering the temperature.

Seeing that the medicinal properties were almost perfect, Fang Ping took out a bottle of Zhou Lingyu's blood essence and added it to the Yuan Ding.

The bright red blood essence of the cultivator immediately clashed violently with the medicinal liquid.

This change was slightly beyond Fang Ping's expectations.

He reacted quickly and immediately tried to control the temperature of the true fire and the direct interference of the divine consciousness, taking a two-pronged approach to suppress the conflict at the same time, trying to make the two complete the fusion in the most gentle way possible.

But unfortunately, this attempt ended in failure after only a few breaths.

"It's still a little challenging!"

Fang Ping cheered up, traced back to the medicinal materials again, and started the third attempt.

………

After just five times.

Fang Ping slowly suppressed the temperature of the true fire, allowing the medicinal liquid in the cauldron to enter the final stage of condensing liquid into pills.

At this moment, the original medicinal liquid and the cultivator's blood essence have been fully fused together, from the initial milky white to a slightly crystal-like light red, which looks very tempting.

At this point, this refining can basically be said to be successful.

Using his divine sense, Fang Ping probed once for the last time, and nodded secretly.

The next moment, the pale golden true fire went out, and the invisible restriction in the Yuan Ding dissipated by itself.

There is another special point about the Life-Restoring Pill, that is, only one pill can be made in each furnace, so the process of dividing the pill can be avoided.

The only criterion for distinguishing the level of alchemists is no longer how many Life-Restoring Pills can be produced in one furnace, but how much medicinal power of the entire furnace of medicinal materials can be contained in this pill.

An average alchemist can only make the pill contain 60% of the medicinal power at most, and the rest is wasted.

However, an excellent alchemist can make the pill contain 70% to 80%, or even higher!

At this moment, the first furnace of Life-Restoring Pills refined by Fang Ping contained slightly more than 70% of the medicinal power.

If Fang Ping used it for himself, this pill would definitely be unqualified and would have to be re-made.

But for someone who is refining for others, and there are only seven furnaces of materials, slightly more than 70% is already very rare.

"Forget it, I won't deliberately go back again just because of this, just consider it as a bargain for Zhou Lingyu!"

Fang Ping rolled up his magic power, put away the pill, and carefully sealed it with a ban.

As for Zhou Lingyu's other bottle of blood essence, if it is some cultivators who master special evil methods and have bad intentions, they may be able to use this bottle of blood essence to do something, or even cast a spell to harm.

This is also the main reason why Zhou Lingyu only dared to ask the alchemists in the sect and gave priority to Fang Ping from his own faction for help, instead of looking for help from outside.

Fang Ping naturally disdained to do so, and shot out a wisp of true fire to completely burn the remaining bottle of blood essence.

"There are still six medicinal materials!"

Looking at the remaining six materials for the life-returning pill, Fang Ping couldn't help but feel a little eager to move.

But considering that the life-returning pill has a short shelf life and he can't use it for the time being, he suppressed the idea of ​​refining one for himself immediately.

Anyway, he is an alchemist, and he can refine it at will when necessary. This is the advantage of not asking for help from others.

………

Just half a month later.

Fang Ping was practicing the Taiwei Yangshen Chapter in the cave as usual, but he didn't expect the restriction to be triggered again.

The person who came to the door was Zhou Lingyu again!

Could it be that he came to ask about the life-saving pill?

But the previous agreement was two months, and it has only been half a month. Isn't the other party too impatient?

Fang Ping was a little unhappy at first, but soon realized that he must have guessed wrong. With the other party's usual good manners, it is unlikely that he would be so impatient. Most likely, there is something else important.

He immediately stopped practicing and let the other party into the cave.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou's trip..."

Fang Ping had just opened his mouth, and before he could finish his words, he saw Zhou Lingyu anxiously saying, "Fang Daoyou, please don't misunderstand me. I didn't come here for the Life-Restoring Pill this time, but I have other news to inform you."

Other news?

Is it good news or bad news?

But from Zhou Lingyu's expression, it was hard to tell, which surprised Fang Ping a little.

"Not long ago, I received a piece of information. A few days ago, in a battle behind Mingyun Immortal City, a certain Xu family foundation-building cultivator who assisted the Cangjian Tower cultivators in guarding an important mine was attacked by the Wanmo League cultivators. He fled at the most critical moment of the battle, which directly led to the loss of the mine. The rest of the cultivators suffered heavy losses and could not hold on until the reinforcements arrived."

When Zhou Lingyu said the news, his face seemed to be worried, but if you look closely, there was clearly some gloating in it.

"Xu family foundation-building cultivator escaped in the face of battle?"

This news really surprised Fang Ping.

Although the situation is critical and it is the time to use people, the sect's law enforcement hall often turns a blind eye to ordinary mistakes and will not easily impose heavy penalties. But fleeing from the battle and causing extremely serious consequences is the most serious crime.

Even if the situation on the front line is serious, the sect must give severe punishment, so as to set an example.

Of course, if it were a family with a good reputation and a strong background, there might be some room for maneuver. But the reputation of the Xu family is really not good in the sect... It can even be said to be infamous!

The cultivators in the sect also have many complaints about the Xu family.

Even Fang Ping has had conflicts with Xu family disciples more than once.