Text Chapter 1003 Alchemy (Part 2)

After receiving Ishikawa's promise, Wang Qingshan felt relieved and said with a smile: "Thank you, fellow Daoist. I will start refining the elixir now. You must watch carefully."

Wang Qingshan took out a palm-sized exquisite small tripod from the storage bag.

There were countless strange seal characters and various micro-arrays engraved on it. It was not an ordinary thing at first glance.

Wang Qingshan patted his hand lightly, and the lid of the small tripod flew out. Suddenly, a strong medicinal fragrance filled the entire stone hall.

"The Divine Alchemy Cauldron?" Ishikawa couldn't help but say it out loud.

Wang Qingshan smiled and nodded, and did not respond with words, but the complacency on his face was unmistakable.

The so-called Divine Alchemy Cauldron is first of all an ancient cauldron. The ancient cauldron itself is an extremely rare thing. In addition, this ancient cauldron must be used to refine a large amount of elixir, so the medicinal fragrance in the cauldron is so strong.

Using the Divine Alchemy Cauldron to refine elixirs can greatly increase the chance of success.

But this kind of treasure is not something that ordinary cultivators can possess. Ishikawa has only seen it in some classics, but has never seen the true appearance of the Divine Alchemy Cauldron.

Wang Qingshan took out this treasure in front of Ishikawa, which was also a sign of his trust in Ishikawa. After all, with Ishikawa's strength, he could fight him, but he was willing to trade with him and didn't want to fight. It was enough to show that Ishikawa was not a vicious person.

And Wang Qingshan also believed that for those who were not very proficient in alchemy, they should not know the Divine Alchemy Cauldron.

Ishikawa was able to call out the name of the Divine Alchemy Cauldron, which surprised Wang Qingshan.

But at this time, Wang Qingshan didn't think too much. What he wanted to do was to refine a spiritual pill with gold and water attributes immediately. And this Divine Alchemy Cauldron can greatly increase the success rate of pills.

Wang Qingshan used his spiritual power to control the earth fire, and then began to put some common spiritual herbs into the Divine Alchemy Cauldron.

With Ishikawa's eyesight, he naturally remembered the order of putting these spiritual herbs firmly in his mind, without any deviation, even the degree of spiritual fire power controlled by Wang Qingshan. It was also seen by Ishikawa.

Although Ishikawa was not a cultivator with fire spiritual roots, the spiritual fire in his dantian played a big role.

This small divine elixir cauldron was like a bottomless pit. After swallowing a large amount of spiritual herbs, Wang Qingshan began to refine it carefully.

This process was very peaceful. It lasted for three months.

During these three months, in addition to manipulating the spiritual fire and refining pills, Wang Qingshan also kept taking some kind of pills to drive away the erosion of the earth fire.

Therefore, this refining process was very boring. And there was nothing special and new, so after observing for a month, Ishikawa no longer paid full attention to it.

Instead, he took out the escape method from the storage bag and studied it carefully again.

Of course, Ishikawa's consciousness would not relax. As long as Wang Qingshan had any movements, they would still fall into Ishikawa's eyes.

Three months later. The rich aroma of medicine spread throughout the stone hall. Just a few low-level spiritual herbs could produce such a rich aroma. I don't know whether it was the credit of the divine pill cauldron or the powerful effect of the earth fire spirit.

Wang Qingshan coughed lightly, held the five spiritual herbs of gold attribute in his left hand, and the five spiritual herbs of water attribute in his right hand. With a slight shake of his hands, both spiritual herbs were put in.

Wang Qingshan's face showed an extremely nervous look. This was one of the most critical processes. If the two five spiritual herbs were to be fused together, it would be the key among the keys. If they could not be fused, then the pill refining this time would be a complete failure.

Therefore, the success rate of refining a spiritual essence pill of one attribute was as high as 60%, while the success rate of refining a spiritual essence pill of two attributes was only 30%.

"Not bad!" Wang Qingshan's forehead was full of sweat, but he was slightly relieved when he saw the situation in the pill cauldron.

Ishikawa also stopped studying the escape method and observed carefully.

Ishikawa watched this process very carefully. In the process of fusing the two spiritual herbs, the most important thing is to control the spiritual fire. Any mistake will lead to the failure of alchemy.

Wang Qingshan has obviously refined a large number of elixirs and is very skilled in controlling the spiritual fire.

However, he is still incomparable with Ishikawa. First, he refines much fewer elixirs than Ishikawa, and secondly, he is far from being able to control the spiritual fire.

Wang Qingshan saw that the two spiritual herbs quickly merged together, and a big stone finally fell in his heart. In this way, he passed the second stage of refining the spiritual essence pill safely.

As for the third stage, it is to control the spiritual fire. Wang Qingshan is confident that with the help of the magic pill cauldron, there should be no big problem.

At this time, the medicinal fragrance in the stone hall is getting stronger and stronger.

The joy on Wang Qingshan's face is also getting stronger and stronger.

After a full month, after Ishikawa completely mastered the escape method, Wang Qingshan still maintained control of the spiritual fire.

However, there is no more joy on Wang Qingshan's face.

Wang Qingshan was a little overwhelmed by the months of refining and the erosion of the earth fire spirit power.

As for Ishikawa, he did not feel any discomfort because he absorbed a lot of spirit fire.

During this process, Ishikawa also mastered a lot of Wang Qingshan's methods of refining pills. Generally speaking, refining spirit essence pills is not too difficult.

It just takes a lot of time, the ability to control the fire spirit, and the special method when the two spirit herbs merge.

In addition, according to Ishikawa's many years of experience in alchemy, he also understood that the final condensation of the pill was also a great difficulty. If the technique was unfamiliar, a large number of waste pills might be produced, resulting in the burning of months of hard work and precious spiritual herbs.

Suddenly, Ishikawa discovered that there was a strange spiritual power fluctuation coming from the place where the magic pill cauldron was.

"Not good!" Ishikawa said in his heart. Obviously, this was not done deliberately by Wang Qingshan, but a mistake that occurred because Wang Qingshan could not support the manipulation of the spiritual fire.

Although Wang Qingshan realized this quickly, it was too late.

A slight sound came from the cauldron, and the familiar medicinal fragrance slowly dissipated. Months of hard work, but success or failure was determined in just a moment.

Wang Qingshan stood there blankly, his face full of disbelief. The result of months of hard work ended like this, and he didn't even see a waste pill.

However, this is really a very common thing in the process of alchemy, and all alchemists will have this experience.

After a long time, Wang Qingshan slowly said, "I failed!"

Wang Qingshan originally thought that after he completed the fusion of the two spiritual herbs, the most critical point left was to make the pill, but he didn't expect that he failed before the pill was made.

At the same time, Wang Qingshan secretly felt lucky that he had a sudden idea at that time to lure Ishikawa here with the spiritual pill, otherwise, the two five spiritual herbs would be completely destroyed, and it would be impossible for him to refine the spiritual pill again.

"This pill is indeed very complicated to refine. Fellow Daoist Wang is about to enter the pill stage, but it's a pity that it failed at the last minute!" Ishikawa also said regretfully. If it enters the pill stage, even if there are mistakes and some waste pills are caused, there will always be one or two decent pills in a furnace of pills.

And if there are mistakes during the refining process, it will be a complete failure.

Ishikawa took out two five-spirit herbs from his storage bag, handed them over and said, "I will abide by the agreement with you."

"Thank you, you!" Wang Qingshan thanked him again and again, and took it with a happy face.

"But I don't understand one thing!" Ishikawa said in a deep voice.

"Please tell me, you!" Although Wang Qingshan said that he would not give Ishikawa the recipe for the Spiritual Essence Pill, he knew in his heart that since he had obtained the other party's spiritual herbs, he would not be able to not take out some practical things.

"Why did you use the five-spirit herbs of gold and water attributes to refine the Spiritual Essence Pill?" Ishikawa asked in confusion: "According to my observation, the addition of two kinds of five-spirit herbs makes it extremely complicated to control the spiritual fire. If you only put in one kind of five-spirit herbs, the chance of success can be greatly improved."

Wang Qingshan showed a trace of surprise on his face. He did not expect that Ishikawa could see so clearly. It seems that Ishikawa should be quite knowledgeable about the way of alchemy.

"For cultivators with a single spiritual root, it is naturally okay to take a spiritual pill with a single attribute, but not all cultivators have five pure spiritual roots." Wang Qingshan hesitated for a moment: "Okay, let's not talk about this. Daoist friend is right. If I only put in one kind of five spiritual herbs, I have 60% chance of making a pill, but if I put in two kinds of five spiritual herbs, I will only have 30%, and if I put in three kinds, I am afraid it will be less than 10%."

"So that's it!" Ishikawa nodded, but he was a little puzzled. Wang Qingshan's spiritual root qualification is a cultivator with a single gold spiritual root. Why did he add water-based five spiritual herbs? After thinking for a long time, Ishikawa suddenly thought that although he was a cultivator with five earth spiritual roots, his clone should be considered a pure wood spiritual root, and there was a spiritual fire ball in Ishikawa's dantian, so the fire spirit was also very important to Ishikawa.

"If this inference is followed, then wouldn't it be best for me to refine a spiritual pill with three kinds of five spiritual herbs coexisting, earth, wood, and fire?" Ishikawa thought secretly in his heart.

Since he had mastered the method of refining this kind of elixir, Shichuan also wanted to refine it himself.

After all, it was not easy to find a place with such a rich earth fire.

Shichuan took out a cauldron from his storage bag. Although it was also antique, it was immediately dwarfed by Wang Qingshan's cauldron.

Shichuan's cauldron was considered a good cauldron in the Seven Stars of the Outer Domain, but it could only be considered a low-grade cauldron in the Xuanwu Star Domain.

Wang Qingshan knew that Shichuan wanted to refine the elixir himself as soon as he saw the cauldron.

Although he didn't say anything, Wang Qingshan thought that Shichuan would never succeed. Since he advanced to the Spiritualization Stage, Wang Qingshan had never used this low-grade cauldron.

Moreover, Shichuan had never refined a spirit elixir before. It was even more impossible for him to successfully refine a spirit elixir just by observing Wang Qingshan's elixir refining process.

Wang Qingshan thought to himself: "It's good this way. Let him fail a few more times and know how difficult it is for me to refine the elixir."