Chapter 47: Trial of First-level Elixir
Zixiao Peak, Piaoxiang Pavilion.
Zhou Zixuan said no, but she still went with Li Yu and finished all the food in a flash. She leaned back in the chair without caring about her manners, stroking her slightly bulging belly, with a satisfied expression on her pretty face.
She hadn't eaten anything so delicious for a long, long time.
The food here is a bit expensive, but it is really delicious.
Even the slight depression she had felt after training in the sect for so long was diluted by these delicious dishes.
After dinner, Li Yu took the initiative to pay the spiritual coins and went to Danxin Pavilion with her.
It was Zhou Zixuan's first time here, so she asked Li Yu, "Do you want to buy some pills?"
Li Yu has used up his quota of Tongmai Pills this month and has to wait until next month to buy more. He asked for Zhou Zixuan's identity jade token and bought three Tongmai Pills from Junior Sister Xu's counter.
Junior Sister Xu looked at Li Yu with some embarrassment and said, "Senior Brother Li, Tongmai Pill can only be taken on the spot by the owner of the identity jade token."
Li Yu smiled and said , "Don't worry, I'm not buying it for myself."
He handed three Tongmai Pills to Zhou Zixuan and said, "These are for you."
Zhou Zixuan was slightly stunned, then immediately waved her hand and said, "No, no, no, I don't want it. It's too expensive."
Li Yu said: "Take it, otherwise the monthly quota will be wasted. Consider it as my treat for you."
Zhou Zixuan was speechless and stunned. How could someone invite someone to take Tongmai Pills?
This small pill costs one thousand spirit coins. She needs to save up for almost two years to buy one...
Holding the precious Tongmai Pill in her hand, she always felt like she was being kept. There were some female disciples in Biyun Peak who, in order to pursue a faster cultivation speed, devoted themselves to the sect's foundation-building elders. The foundation-building elders would give them a lot of spirit coins every month...
But even those female disciples who were kept by the elders not exchange for half a Tongmai Pill every month.
What’s the difference between this and keeping a mistress?
She looked at Li Yu and murmured, "This..."
Li Yu rolled her eyes at her and said, "Do you need to be polite to me?"
Zhou Zixuan looked at Li Yu and felt a slight sweetness in her heart. Although they met less often now, Li Yu was still Li Yu from Baiyun Temple. She no longer refused and gently put a pill into her mouth.
The Tongmai Pill melted in her mouth and turned into a stream of clear water, which easily opened the acupuncture points that she had practiced for a long time but failed to open.
After taking three Tongmai Pills, five acupoints in her Wood Spiritual Vein had been opened. If she opened four more, she would reach the second level of Qi Refining.
After leaving Danxin Pavilion and sending Zhou Zixuan back to Biyun Peak, Li Yucai flew slowly towards Danding Peak alone.
He is a person who knows how to repay kindness. When he was in Baiyun Temple, Senior Sister Zhou was really nice to him and Jiang Li. Sometimes when he was doing a mission, he would rather earn a few fewer spirit coins himself and take Li Yu and Jiang Li with him.
Of course, there are other reasons besides gratitude.
Although Li Yu has never been in love, he is not completely ignorant. He can feel the feelings of girls to some extent. Men will always take extra care of beautiful girls who like them.
When he returned to his residence at Danding Peak, even Li Yu himself was shocked by the scene there.
"Congratulations!"
"Congratulations, Junior Brother Li!"
"From the first day I met Junior Brother Li, I knew you were different!"
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Li Yu's acquaintances at Danding Peak gathered at the gate of his courtyard and congratulated him. Li Yu responded politely one by one. He only returned to his courtyard after they left.
He sat on a stone bench and stretched out his hand. The space ring on his finger flashed, and a white jade box appeared in his hand.
Li Yu opened the jade box, and thirty white Tongmai Pills were neatly placed in the box.
This is the sect’s reward for the first place in the competition, and it is also what he has been thinking about these days.
Li Yu got it as soon as the competition ended.
It took a whole day, until noon of the next day, for Li Yu to finish taking the thirty Tongmai Pills.
Thirty Tongmai Pills were divided equally among the five spiritual veins. One spiritual vein opened up six acupoints. At this moment, Li Yu had five spiritual veins, no more, no less, and each of them opened up exactly eighteen acupoints, which meant he had just entered the third level of Qi Refining.
However, his magic power is even deeper than that of a person who has just cultivated one spiritual vein at the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining.
The difference is that as long as others take one more small step forward and successfully build their foundation, their strength will have a qualitative leap. However, Li Yu’s road to building his foundation is far from over.
After regulating his breath for a while, Li Yu came to Elder Han.
When they met again, Han Tiancheng looked at Li Yu as if he was looking at a monster.
What level of level is it to be the first in the Dandao Apprentice Competition? Even if Han Tiancheng were to take the exam himself, he might not even be able to make it into the top ten.
If Li Yu's talent for cultivation was not low, he would have been the direct disciple of a third-grade alchemist by now, and he would have to be polite when meeting him.
Of course, Han Tiancheng is also very polite to Li Yu now.
The champion of the apprentice competition, no matter how limited his achievements are, is still higher than Han Tiancheng.
He showed a kind smile on his face and asked, "Congratulations, Li Yu. I saw you outside when you were competing yesterday. You really made our Danding Peak proud..."
Li Yu smiled and chatted with Elder Han for a few words before asking, "Elder Han, do you have any elixirs that you need me to refine recently?"
Han Tiancheng fell into deep thought. Li Yu had already completed his monthly task of making low-level pills. Only some first-level pills were left. However, the difficulty of refining first-level pills was incomparable to that of low-level pills. Ninety-nine percent of alchemy apprentices could not master it.
Han Tiancheng shook his head and said, "No more."
Thinking that Li Yu had extraordinary talent and had cultivated many spiritual veins, he might be able to do what others couldn't do. Han Tiancheng said, "I'll give you some materials. Maybe you can give it a try..."
A first-grade alchemist needs to refine a certain amount of pills for the sect every month. The sect will provide the spiritual herbs and herbs needed for alchemy. Considering that not everyone can refine ten top-grade pills in one furnace, the sect will provide three times the alchemy materials.
Three portions of materials are enough to refine one furnace of elixirs. If there is any surplus, it can be kept by the alchemist. If it is not enough, there is no need to make up for it by yourself. However, if the alchemist fails to refine qualified elixirs for a year in a row, the grade of the alchemist will be downgraded, and the corresponding benefits will also be reduced...
Han Tiancheng's alchemy skills this month are pretty good, and he has some materials left, so he can give them to Li Yu to try.
Li Yu was also eager to try, and said with a cupped hand: "Thank you very much, Elder Han..."
Han Tiancheng said: "No need to thank me, just follow me..."
What Li Yu had refined before, whether it was the Hemostatic Pill, the Nourishing Essence Pill or the Detoxification Pill, were all low-level pills that could be refined in any furnace. However, it was different for the first-level pills. The materials for this kind of pills were all spiritual herbs and medicines that contained spiritual energy. All the spiritual liquids were gathered together. If a furnace of poor quality was used, it would explode if one was not careful.
Elder Han brought Li Yu to his alchemy room and pointed to an alchemy furnace in the corner and said, "This is the alchemy furnace I used when I was promoted to a first-grade alchemist. You can try it and start with the simplest fasting pill."
Han Tiancheng himself is striving to become a second-grade alchemist, and the furnace he uses is of a higher grade. The furnace he used at the beginning is enough for Li Yu to use.
Theoretically speaking, as long as one’s cultivation level is around the fifth level of Qi Refining, one can refine a first-grade pill.
However, to refine a first-level elixir with this level of cultivation requires extreme skills, which usually only exists in theory. Most alchemy apprentices will only attempt to refine a first-level elixir after their cultivation reaches the eighth or ninth level of Qi Refining.
In terms of cultivation, there is no problem with Li Yu, his magic power has exceeded the ninth level of Qi Refining.
There is another big difference between first-level elixirs and low-level elixirs. Low-level elixirs are not very particular. All the medicinal liquids are mixed together and the refining is done. First-level elixirs are different. Not only are there strict restrictions on the amount of each material, a little more or less will not work, but the order of adding the medicinal liquids must also be strictly in accordance with the recipe. Adding it too early or too late, or adjusting the order of addition, will lead to refining failure...
Since he had nothing to do, Han Tiancheng personally explained to Li Yu the method of refining the Bigu Pill.
Li Yu could also clearly feel that the difficulty of refining low-level and first-level elixirs was more than ten times different.
There are a total of thirteen kinds of ingredients for the Bigu Pill, and none of them are ordinary medicinal materials. They are all spiritual herbs and medicines with rich spiritual energy. Fortunately, their grades are not high. They are just first-level herbs like the blood-clotting vine, and the alchemy furnace in his body is too disdainful to absorb them.
Li Yu followed the process and first crushed them to extract the liquid, and then filtered and purified the elixir liquid more than three times. This step was not required when refining low-level elixirs.
Because there were too many materials, Li Yu had to prepare them by himself and didn't know how long it would take to prepare them. Han Tiancheng personally helped him purify the medicine.
While helping, he also said: "When you become a first-grade alchemist, you can apply to the sect for a steward disciple to help you do these small things while you are refining the pills. As an alchemist, you only need to refine the pills in front of the alchemy furnace..."
Li Yu listened with great interest as Elder Han introduced him to the benefits of a first-grade alchemist. A first-grade alchemist would receive a subsidy of one thousand spirit coins from the sect every month, which was twice as much as an ordinary elder in the foundation-building stage.
In addition, a first-rank alchemist can also have a deacon disciple, who is responsible for running errands, purifying liquid medicine, taking care of the alchemist's life, etc. He is almost equivalent to a personal secretary. The secretary is paid 100 spirit coins per month by the sect.
In addition to these, if you become a first-class alchemist, you can also own your own villa on a mountain with rich spiritual energy.
This courtyard is several times larger than the small courtyard of the alchemy apprentice. Not only is the spiritual energy richer than that of Danding Peak, but there is also a formation around the courtyard to protect it. When the formation is activated, no matter how loud the noise is in the courtyard, it will not be heard outside...
This reminded Li Yu of his courtyard with poor sound insulation. If Wu Tong coughed in the room, he could hear it in his own room, making it inconvenient for him to do anything.
He has long wanted to have a private space. It seems that he needs to become a first-level alchemist as soon as possible.
When you become rich, don't forget each other. When the time comes, I will recruit Senior Sister Zhou to be my secretary. Although Li Yu can refine low-level pills so easily, a big reason is that the pill furnace is unwilling to absorb low-level spiritual medicines. When it comes to refining high-level pills, he can't touch the spiritual medicine with his hands at all. He must have a special person to purify it for him...
Of course, this person is none other than Senior Sister Zhou.
First, she is trustworthy. Second, she cultivates her own wood spirit veins. She and Li Yu are a perfect match. One prepares medicine, the other refines pills. They complement each other. It couldn't be more suitable...
