Chapter 154 Heartache
Lingchan Peak.
After returning to the alchemy room, Li Yu casually activated the protective formation.
This set of formation flags was given to him by the people of Huashan Sect when he won the third-level formation master competition in Tiandao City and lent the ancient formation secret book to Huashan.
This formation can resist the attack of the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir for a short period of time. The purpose of Li Yu setting up this formation is not to prevent attacks from others, but to isolate the spiritual consciousness so that he cannot be spied on when refining the elixir.
Alchemists cannot be disturbed when they are refining pills. The Xuanyin Sect is also well aware of this. As long as Li Yu is in the alchemy room, no one else will approach within ten feet of the place, not even a demon girl will come here.
Having said that, the spiritual awareness of a Nascent Soul expert is enough to cover the entire Xuanyin Sect, so it is better to be on guard.
If they saw that he could refine seven pills in one furnace, he would not give them so many portions of materials.
I have to say that Li Yu was right to be cautious.
During the alchemy process, the protective formation blocked the spying of multiple spiritual consciousnesses.
There were obviously quite a few powerful people in the Xuanyin Sect who were interested in his alchemy process.
Only after they discovered that there was an array blocking the way did they stop their spying.
Almost all high-level alchemists will use formations to create an absolutely quiet and undisturbed environment when refining elixirs. After all, the materials for high-level elixirs are precious. If the refining fails or the furnace explodes due to disturbance, the loss to the alchemist will be huge.
After activating the formation, Li Yu took out the strange thing.
This thing is black and looks like metal but not metal, and like stone but not stone either. Li Yu has read many books on refining tools, but he couldn't find the corresponding material.
However, since the Qiankun Furnace reacted, Li Yu didn't need to think too much and could just touch it.
He touched this object, and the Qiankun Furnace that he had longed for responded immediately. A powerful suction force came from his body, and this object immediately shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it continued to shrink.
After dozens of breaths, the unknown materials obtained from the Xuanyin Sect's treasure house completely disappeared.
Li Yu's spiritual consciousness sank into the alchemy furnace space at the first moment .
The Qiankun Furnace at this time was very different from the first time Li Yu saw it.
When I first saw it, its body was covered with cracks of varying sizes, and it seemed like it would break at any time. But over the past few years, especially in the past two years, Li Yu consciously allowed it to absorb various energies, and the tiny cracks on the furnace had long been repaired. Some larger cracks were also healing little by little.
Li Yu had just looked at it a few days ago. After absorbing that piece of material, several medium-sized cracks on the furnace body had disappeared. Li Yu calculated that the area of cracks repaired by this piece of material almost exceeded the sum of those small cracks repaired before.
According to Li Yu's experience, every time the furnace body is repaired, its capacity will become stronger.
Li Yu took out a top-grade golden spirit pill and held it in his palm. After a moment, he stretched out his hand. There were two more dan patterns on the golden spirit pill, reaching the top grade.
Before today, he could only upgrade the fourth-grade elixir by one grade.
Li Yu took out ten portions of materials, put them into the alchemy furnace, and began to refine a new batch of Golden Spirit Pills.
An hour later, Li Yu came back to his senses from his daze.
There was a look of surprise on his face. Although he had just taken over the body and was in a state of emptiness, he could still clearly feel the passage of time.
At this moment, only one hour had passed since he started to refine the elixir.
With his current strength, even with the help of the demon girl's spiritual fire, it would take a day and a night, nearly twelve hours, to refine the fourth-level elixir. The Qiankun furnace absorbed the mysterious material, and the efficiency of refining the elixir increased by more than ten times...
If it is completely repaired, wouldn't it be possible to make the elixir in seconds?
Not only that, when Li Yu was refining pills in the past, his mind and energy would be depleted a lot. This time, he was refining a fourth-level pill, and he didn't feel very tired.
Li Yu opened the alchemy furnace, and ten top-grade pills lay there quietly.
Not only is the refining speed faster, but the quality of the pills is also greatly improved.
Li Yu took out several more ingredients for Tuomai Pill, a third-level pill that could be refined in a quarter of an hour in the past if it was completely handed over to the Qiankun Furnace.
He raised the Dan Fire, handed over control of his magic power, and then counted the time.
One breath, two breaths, three breaths.
Ten breaths later, the fire of the pill went out. Li Yu opened the pill furnace and saw ten top-grade Tuomai Pills.
As an alchemist.
This kind of thing was beyond Li Yu's understanding of alchemy. The alchemy theory of Kunlun Sect was completely ineffective in front of the Qiankun Furnace.
No alchemist could imagine that it would only take ten breaths to refine a furnace of top-grade Tuomai Pills.
Not to mention a third-grade alchemist, even a fourth-grade or fifth-grade one wouldn't be able to do it.
This was naturally good news for Li Yu, as it meant that in the future he would not be distracted too much by alchemy, and refining pills below the fourth grade would be just a piece of cake.
After thinking for a moment, Li Yu decided to challenge the limits of the Qiankun Furnace again.
He purified the spiritual liquids needed for Tuomai Pill and Jinling Pill respectively, then took out his third-grade alchemy furnace and refined two furnaces of pills at the same time. He used the Netherworld Spirit Fire borrowed from the witch to refine the Jinling Pill, and used his own mana fire to refine Tuomai Pill.
After handing over control to the Qiankun Furnace, the refining process went extremely smoothly.
Perhaps because of the need to distract his attention, the time taken to refine the Tuomai Pill took a little longer than before, but it only increased from ten breaths to twenty breaths, and the quality was still top-notch.
This batch is just used to test the capabilities of the Qiankun Furnace.
Li Yu will intentionally control the next few furnaces, and each furnace will produce a super-grade Tuomai Pill and a top-grade Jinling Pill. These are for the Xuanyin Sect.
Li Yu made a reasonable distribution of the seven materials for the Golden Spirit Pill. One of them was given to the Xuanyin Sect to be refined into pills. As for the other six, Li Yu absorbed three and refined three.
By this calculation, after refining all the spiritual medicines of the Xuanyin Sect, he should have about a thousand golden spiritual pills.
Kunlun's monthly output is only three.
For the next month, Li Yu did not step out of Lingchan Peak and was completely immersed in the ocean of alchemy.
The materials of the Golden Spirit Pill have balanced properties, which also allows his cultivation of the five elements to advance in parallel. Although he has not yet broken through the second turn, Li Yu has already vaguely felt the existence of a small bottleneck.
A month ago, the Xuanyin Sect gave him elixirs for thirty pills at one time, which is two hundred and ten portions of materials. Excluding the thirty portions used by the Xuanyin Sect, Li Yu absorbed half of the remaining one hundred and eighty portions through the Qiankun Furnace, and the other half turned into ninety golden elixirs.
It's time to go back to Kunlun and improve their cultivation.
At this moment, Xuanyin Sect.
Inside the meeting hall, several elders gathered together, looking worried.
"He hasn't been out for a month..."
"Nothing will happen, right?"
"It's not like anything bad has happened. Every few days, a disciple would go in to deliver the materials for the third-level elixir. According to those disciples, he was refining two furnaces of elixirs at the same time..."
"This won't work. I'm worried if his body can hold up..."
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There is no doubt that Li Yu is an extremely competent alchemist. Although the Xuanyin Sect paid a considerable price to invite him, it was all worth it.
During this month, Li Yu helped them refine countless high-level pills. The strength of some core disciples in the sect also improved greatly in a short period of time. For the first time, they experienced the benefits of having a high-level alchemist.
But refining the elixir is an extremely laborious task, and the hard work of refining the elixir makes them very worried.
It was so hard to find a high-level alchemist, and they didn't want him to be exhausted.
Elder Xuanyuan looked at Nangong Chan and said, "The Saintess has to go and persuade him. There is no end to the elixirs. If his body collapses, it will be a loss..."
Nangong Chan gritted her teeth, turned around and flew towards Lingchan Peak.
In the alchemy room, Li Yu was reading books about formations and refining.
In fact, he had already finished refining the elixir taught by Xuanyin. As the Qiankun Furnace absorbed more energy, the speed of refining the elixir became faster and faster. Out of boredom, Li Yu could only find something else to do.
His face was a little pale and his hair was messy. After all, such high-intensity and continuous alchemy would take a certain toll on the mind.
But thinking about what he had gained this month, Li Yu felt tired but happy.
Feeling someone calling him outside the formation, Li Yu put away his books and walked to the alchemy furnace.
I thought it was a disciple of Xuanyin Sect who came to deliver elixir, but when I opened the formation, I found that it was a witch who came in.
Nangong Chan looked at his pale face and disheveled hair and felt distressed for no reason.
She strode forward, grabbed his wrist, and walked outside while angrily saying, "Why are you so stupid? You're refining pills for others, and you're working so hard. You can't even be lazy. You're so stupid..."
