Chapter 5 Alchemist

Liu Yuanchen, who had already walked out of Qinghe Town, naturally didn't know that such a thing happened in Wanbao Chamber of Commerce.

Relying on the identity of a disciple of Qingdan Sect, he returned to Yujin Mountain safely.

Entering the cave, Liu Yuanchen took out the red copper furnace, forced out a drop of blood essence, and dripped it into the furnace.

Then, he released a wisp of consciousness, and with the blood essence, he outlined the universal master recognition inscription on the bottom of the red copper furnace.

After dozens of breaths, the master recognition inscription was completely formed.

Then, the inscription was integrated into the furnace body.

He injected mana into the red copper furnace, and the original palm-sized furnace instantly turned into a copper furnace nearly three feet high.

Liu Yuanchen took the alchemy furnace into the alchemy room, which was also there before.

A stone room of two feet square, with a small stone pit in the middle, with traces of fire inside.

He placed the alchemy furnace right above the small pit and placed a few dense charcoal blocks in the pit.

He took out two flints and knocked them against each other a few times.

Sparks from the flint fell on the charcoal, causing a small red flame.

The flame expanded rapidly, and soon the bottom of the furnace was covered.

He did not know fire magic, so he could only use this simple method to light the fire.

In the red copper furnace, a pattern of inscriptions faintly glowed.

Soon after, the entire furnace became hot.

There was a faint flicker of fire in the furnace, which was the first step of alchemy - heating the furnace.

Then, Liu Yuanchen took out a pound of golden silk rice and put it into the furnace.

He was going to refine the Bigu Pill, the simplest of the first-grade low-grade pills.

There are many versions of the Bigu Pill recipe, and the simplest one is to use only spiritual grains.

Refining the essence and condensing it into pills can make Bigu Pills.

A cultivator can eat a pound of first-grade low-grade spiritual grains to ensure that he will not be hungry for three days.

Eating three Bigu Pills can also ensure that he will not be hungry for three days.

And the weight of a Bigu Pill is only one coin, and one hundred Bigu Pills weigh only one pound.

It is better to cook the spiritual grains, while the fasting pills can be eaten directly.

When going out, it is obviously much more convenient to carry fasting pills than spiritual grains.

Liu Yuanchen released the power of his spiritual consciousness, drew the flame from the furnace wall, wrapped the golden rice, and extracted the essence from it.

He did not deliberately explore, but the distribution of energy in the rice grains was clearly visible in his perception.

As he was distracted, the flame in the furnace was a little unstable, and he quickly stabilized his emotions and led the flame to roast the golden rice.

Using the spiritual consciousness to attract the energy in the rice grains, it did not take much effort, and a small drop of liquid flowed out of the rice grains, which was the essence of the golden rice.

After losing the essence, the rice grains turned into ashes in a very short time.

After more than a hundred breaths, all the rice grains had disappeared, leaving only a fist-sized ball of essence.

Refining the essence in the spiritual medicine is an extremely important step in alchemy.

The upper limit of how many pills can be made is in the step of refining the essence.

Assuming that the essence quenched is only enough to make two pills, no matter how exquisite the fire control and pill condensation techniques are, at most two pills can be made.

Liu Yuanchen was extremely surprised and distracted for a moment, and the flames went out of control.

In just a breath of time, only a wisp of green smoke and a little ashes remained.

Liu Yuanchen was not depressed after failing to refine the pill for the first time, but his face was full of joy.

The essence just quenched was a bit too much.

When he first got started, he worked as a boy for a second-level alchemist.

He learned the basics of alchemy at that time.

Liu Yuanchen was also present when the alchemist taught his disciples to refine the Bigu Pill.

The essence of the golden silk rice quenched by the alchemist was only about 90% of the essence just now.

In the end, that furnace of Bigu Pills produced five pills.

The limit of refining Bigu Pills with a pound of golden silk rice is six pills.

A second-level alchemist who can make five pills is already an intermediate master.

Liu Yuanchen whispered to himself: "I haven't officially stepped into the threshold of alchemy, and my alchemy level can't compare with that second-level alchemist.

But the essence of golden silk rice I refined is actually more than his.

Also, when refining the essence, I can actually clearly sense the energy distribution in the rice grains.

Just use the spiritual consciousness to slightly induce, and the energy flows out and condenses into essence."

"Being able to do this is definitely not due to alchemy, it should be related to the immortal seed.

Before, I could sense the vitality of plants and trees and extract it.

Rice The essence in the grains is also the energy in the plants, and the two have something in common.

It should be the prototype of the blessed land. After the practice method was changed, the ability to sense the vitality of plants was enhanced. "

"The essence quenched before can completely make six pills, that is, it can be quenched to nearly 100% of the essence.

The difficulty of quenching the essence can be completely ignored by me.

As long as the fire control ability can be improved to a qualified level, a 60% to 70% success rate is easy. "

The success rate of alchemy is around 30%, which can basically guarantee no loss.

If there is a 60% to 70% success rate, it will be more than double the profit.

Alchemists are all fire or wood attribute cultivators, and each has its own advantages.

Fire attribute cultivators are good at controlling fire, and it is not easy for a furnace of pills to be scrapped.

But the essence of the spiritual medicine quenched is not much, and the success rate is generally not high. It is good to have 40% to 50%.

In addition, the spiritual medicine essence they quenched has more impurities, and the quality of the pills is usually not high.

Wood attribute cultivators have an advantage in refining the essence of spiritual medicine. They refine more essence, less impurities, have a high upper limit of the success rate, and are more likely to produce high-quality pills.

However, their fire control ability is generally insufficient, and the probability of all pills being scrapped is high, and the risk of furnace explosion is also higher.

The most suitable person to be an alchemist should be a cultivator with both fire and wood attributes.

Liu Yuanchen adjusted his state and began to refine the Bigu Pill again.

Just like last time, he did not spend much effort to refine a fist-sized ball of essence.

After that, it is necessary to divide this ball of essence into six parts and then bake it with flames, that is, to collect the juice with high fire.

There are also some rules for dividing the refined essence into several parts. If the number of parts is too large and the essence of each part is too small, it is easy to be burned in the process of collecting the juice with high fire.

Even if the pill is formed by chance, the pill is too small and will be considered as defective and cannot be sold at a high price.

If the number of parts is too small and the essence of each part is too large, the fire inside and outside is not evenly received, it is likely that the pill cannot be formed.

When each group of essence is only the size of a longan, it is time to condense the pill.

It is necessary to reduce the firepower at a very fast speed to solidify the thick pill liquid into pills.

From the high fire to the completion of pill condensation, the essence may be completely burned to ashes if the firepower is slightly wrong during the whole process.

Liu Yuanchen is a wood-attributed cultivator. He has a congenital weakness in controlling fire. He failed more than ten times in a row before he finally refined a bigu pill.

Looking at a yellow bigu pill, he was a little excited.

After so much effort, he finally got results.

In the next four or five days, he refined several furnaces of bigu pills every day, and the success rate quickly increased to about 50%.

Refining any first-level pill, as long as the success rate exceeds 30%, it can be regarded as a first-level lower-grade alchemist.

The success rate of bigu pills exceeds 50%, which is naturally a first-level lower-grade alchemist.

It took nearly 30 kilograms of spiritual grains and more than 60 pills, barely covering the cost.

Having just crossed the threshold of becoming an alchemist, not losing money is a victory.

With the foundation laid by the Bigu Pill, Liu Yuanchen began to try to refine the Huiling Pill.

The raw materials of the Huiling Pill include five kinds of spiritual medicines, and the refining process is similar to the previous Bigu Pill.

That is, there is an additional process of blending the essences of different spiritual medicines, and this process is most likely to explode the furnace.

With the foundation laid before, the refining process was extremely smooth.

It only failed twice, and the third time successfully refined two Huiling Pills.

The fourth furnace produced four pills, and the next three furnaces produced five pills.

One Huiling Pill requires three spiritual stones. Theoretically, it can produce up to ten pills, and one Huiling Pill is sold for one spiritual stone.

Seven raw materials can produce a total of twenty-one pills, which can just cover the cost of raw materials.

If the loss of spiritual charcoal is counted, it is actually a bit of a loss.

But the craftsmanship has been practiced, and a little loss is nothing.

At this time, Liu Yuanchen has no spiritual stone left.

He left Yujin Mountain again and went to Qinghe Town to sell pills, and then bought some spiritual medicines for refining Huiling Pills, and continued to make pills to earn spiritual stones.

When he arrived in Qinghe Town, he came to the door of a pill shop.

On the plaque at the door, there were a few big characters "Dongyang Liu's Pill Shop".

After entering the store, a cultivator in his forties asked: "What does this fellow Taoist from Qingdan Sect want to buy?"

Liu Yuanchen smiled and said: "Sixth uncle, you don't even recognize me?"

This person's name is Liu Qingfeng, a descendant of the main branch of the Liu family and the cousin of the head of the Liu family.

The cultivator took a closer look and said: "You are Yuanchen, we haven't seen each other for seven or eight years.

If you didn't look like the third brother, I really wouldn't recognize you.

What do you want to buy this time? I'll give you a 10% discount."

Liu Yuanchen took out a cloth bag from the storage bag, and after opening it, twenty-one milky white pills appeared, which were Huiling Pills.

"Sixth Uncle, I came here to sell pills."

Liu Qingfeng picked up a pill, looked at it carefully for a while, and smelled it.

"Yuanchen, where did you get these pills?"

Liu Yuanchen smiled: "My nephew made them himself."

Liu Qingfeng had a hint of surprise on his face: "This pill is really good, it's close to good quality, did you really make it?"

The quality of pills is divided into four levels: inferior, ordinary, good, and top quality.

Inferior pills can exert 70% to 80% of their efficacy, but they contain a lot of pill poison. Eating too much will cause meridian blockage and even poisoning, and they are generally not sold.

Ordinary pills are the most common pills on the market, with less pill poison and no obvious side effects. At most, there will be more obstacles when breaking through the realm, and they are generally sold at a fair price.

Good pills are relatively rare on the market, the pill poison can be ignored, and there are no side effects if taken frequently. The price is 10% higher than the fair price.

Top-grade elixirs are nearly perfect, with no elixir poison, and their efficacy is about 30% higher than that of ordinary and good elixirs.

Even elixirs of low value are 30% to 50% higher than the average price.

If it is a top-grade elixir that assists breakthroughs, such as the Barrier Breaking Pill, people will rush to buy it even if the price is doubled.

The so-called elixir poison mainly comes from impurities in the essence of spiritual medicine.

It may also be that insufficient fire control causes unknown changes in the medicinal properties and produces elixir poison.

Liu Yuanchen nodded: "It is indeed made by me. You know, I am a grass fairy.

The spiritual medicine essence refined has fewer impurities and is easy to produce high-quality elixirs."

"What is the success rate of elixir?"

"After practicing for several months, the success rate of elixir has reached 40%."

Liu Qingfeng's face was full of smiles: "Yes, with this skill, you can earn a lot of spirit stones, and it is not impossible to break through the Qi Sea Realm in the future.

If others come to sell pills, I will lower the price by 10% or 20%.

Since you are selling pills, I will buy them at the market price."

After that, he put the pills away and gave Liu Yuanchen 21 spirit stones.

The pills that are close to good quality have much less poison than ordinary ones.

No matter which store you take it to, there is no reason to lower the price.

With his identity as a disciple of the Qingdan Sect, ordinary small pill shops dare not lower the price.

Liu Qingfeng said this purely out of shamelessness.

But Liu Yuanchen still put away the spirit stone and bowed, saying, "Thank you, Uncle Six."

Liu Qingfeng waved his hand: "Over the years, the family's resources have been concentrated on Yuan Si, and other people rarely get support.

There is no other way. There are few resources in the Red Wasteland, and it is impossible to train every child.

We can only focus on training the most talented ones, and you can't blame the family."

All families in the Red Wasteland are like this, concentrating most of their resources on a few main disciples with good talents.

Other main disciples with poor talents can still get some benefits.

When they go out to work, they can also get lucrative jobs.

As for the distant descendants, unless they are extremely talented and can lead the entire family to a further step, they can only rely on themselves.

For those with medium and above talents, the family will provide some spirit stones and send them to Qingdan Sect.

Distant descendants like Liu Yuanchen, who have poor talents, have never received a single spirit stone subsidy from the family since childhood.

The resources needed for cultivation in his early years were all dependent on his father's meager salary.

He was able to join Qingdan Sect because of his father's connections, which had nothing to do with the family.

I can't say I hate the family, but I just don't have a sense of belonging.

It doesn't matter which store I sell the elixirs I refine. For things that don't harm my own interests, I can give priority to the family.

If the main line wants me to pay a price for the family, it's wishful thinking.

"Uncle Sixth, you are too serious. If I hate the family, there is no need for me to sell elixirs here.

I haven't been home for about a year. How is my family?"

Liu Qingfeng's face changed slightly, and then returned to normal: "Third brother has been guarding Yanze. Nothing happened."

Yanze is a small saltwater lake in the lower reaches of Dongyang Lake, the ancestral land of the Liu family.

The family built a salt field there, and the salt produced every year can be sold for about 100 spirit stones.

Three distant clansmen were arranged to protect the ordinary clansmen who were drying salt there. Liu Yuanchen's father Liu Qingyun was one of them.

Liu Yuanchen followed his father since he was a child and grew up by the Yanze.

Seeing him like this, Liu Yuanchen's heart sank. It seemed that something happened at home.

"Sixth uncle, don't hide it from me. What happened to my father?"

Seeing that he couldn't hide it from him, Liu Qingfeng sighed: "More than ten days ago, several red sand wolves attacked Yanze.

More than a dozen ordinary tribesmen died, and your father was slightly injured. Now he is fine."

"My eldest brother is also in Yanze. How is he?"

"Yuanfu is fine. Third brother was injured just to save him."

Liu Yuanchen breathed a sigh of relief: "I have to go back and see."

After that, he was about to go out.

Liu Qingfeng grabbed him: "The family is five or six hundred miles away from Qinghe Town. If you walk back like this, it will take at least two or three days.

The road is not safe, and it is easy to be attacked by scattered cultivators at night.

It just so happens that the family's cargo ship is going back to transport goods, so you can take the cargo ship back.

It's smooth sailing, and it's always faster than walking back."