The first volume debuts Chapter 16: Alchemy
Shortly after the competition in the martial arts arena, Li Xuanfeng's cultivation level stabilized at the middle stage of Ling Rong, and he felt that the progress of his cultivation level began to slow down.
The higher the realm of cultivation, the more powerful spiritual energy is needed. It is normal for the progress of cultivation to slow down. Li Xuanfeng's spiritual power has been compressed and condensed three times, which is stronger than the average middle stage of Rong Ling. Therefore, more spiritual energy is needed to cultivate to the perfection of the middle stage of Rong Ling.
Under such circumstances, Li Xuanfeng still reached the middle stage of Rong Ling Perfection half a month later. For a normal Rong Ling Realm disciple, being able to reach the middle stage of Rong Ling Perfection within a month is already an amazing talent.
Li Xuanfeng's spiritual power, which he had condensed three times, was fully cultivated in just half a month. The key point was that he still felt that the speed of cultivation was too slow. Even the Five Elements Venerable began to wonder how to defeat him.
After reaching the middle stage of Rong Ling, Li Xuanfeng began to use the secret method of refining spirit to compress and condense his spirit power. However, the middle stage of Rong Ling was much stronger than the early stage, so the speed of compression and condensation was correspondingly slow. Moreover, it took about five days to cultivate the spirit power to perfection again after compressing it once. This speed made Li Xuanfeng very frustrated.
"Master Five Elements, do you know the art of alchemy?" Li Xuanfeng suddenly remembered the introduction to the art of alchemy that he had seen in ancient books.
Refine the treasures of heaven and earth, gather the spiritual energy of the five elements, break the bottleneck of cultivation, and achieve the great path of cultivation.
"Of course, I was a master of alchemy in my past and could refine elixirs of the third level!" The Five Elements Venerable smiled and had already guessed Li Xuanfeng's thoughts.
"Then please teach me how to make pills. I want to speed up my cultivation." Li Xuanfeng requested impatiently.
"No problem. You just happen to have fire-attributed spiritual power, which makes it easier for you to learn the art of alchemy." The Five Elements Venerable agreed readily. Learning the art of alchemy would indeed be of great convenience for improving one's cultivation in the future, so he began to explain the art of alchemy to Li Xuanfeng.
"In the early stages of alchemy, spiritual fire was used to extract the essence of herbs and condense them into elixirs. Because many herbs contain impurities or toxicity, using spiritual fire to extract them can effectively remove these impurities, making the essence of the herbs easier to be absorbed by the human body, and it will not accumulate impurities. If too many impurities accumulate, it will gradually hinder your cultivation, making it more difficult to break through your cultivation."
"When your alchemy skills reach a state of perfection, you are no longer limited to refining natural materials and treasures. Everything in the world can be refined into elixirs, and you can seize the fortune of heaven and earth to achieve your own success. There was once an amazing man who refined a planet and swallowed it, breaking through the bottleneck of his cultivation, shocking the world and weeping ghosts and gods!"
The scene of refining and swallowing the planet appeared in Li Xuanfeng's mind, and the shock in his eyes could not dissipate for a long time. There was actually someone who could refine and swallow the planet. What kind of amazing cultivation level was needed to do that?
The Five Elements Venerable did not hold back at all when talking to Li Xuanfeng. He explained the art of alchemy in great detail and even patiently answered all the questions he raised.
Afterwards, Li Xuanfeng went to the Xuanling Sect's trading pavilion to buy some low-level herbs, spending twenty spirit stones in his storage bag. These low-level herbs were relatively cheap, and twenty spirit stones were enough to buy a small pile. Among them were spirit gathering grass, three-flower fruit, and spiritual cinnamon twigs.
The Five Elements Venerable asked Li Xuanfeng to find some ordinary branches first, so that he could condense the spiritual fire for refining.
"Alchemy requires a very high level of control over fire, otherwise the herbs will be easily burned. You are not yet proficient in controlling spiritual fire. First, practice with some ordinary branches and peel off the bark of the branches with spiritual fire."
Li Xuanfeng mobilized his spiritual power in his right hand to generate spiritual fire, but he underestimated the power of the spiritual fire the first time and threw the branch directly into the spiritual fire, which burned up instantly.
Li Xuanfeng looked embarrassed and took out another branch. This time he carefully mobilized the spiritual fire to burn around the bark, constantly rotating the branch.
After a few breaths, the bark was gradually burned to ashes, but the heart of the tree wrapped in the bark also turned black. It was obvious that Li Xuanfeng did not control the spiritual fire perfectly and the inside had been burnt.
Afterwards, Li Xuanfeng took out a few branches again and practiced patiently. After several failures, he finally managed to use flames to separate the bark and the core of the tree, burning the bark while leaving the core of the tree intact.
At this time, the voice of the Five Elements Venerable echoed in Li Xuanfeng's mind, and he was finally slightly satisfied with Li Xuanfeng's performance.
The information conveyed by the Five Elements Venerable emerged in Li Xuanfeng's mind, which was a recipe for an elixir.
The Soul Gathering Pill is a first-level pill that can quickly increase spiritual power or be used to restore the spiritual energy consumed in the body. It is made by refining the essence of Soul Gathering Grass and Three Flower Fruit. The essence of Soul Gathering Grass is in the stem, and the essence of Three Flower Fruit is in the core wrapped in the flesh...
Li Xuanfeng carefully browsed the information in his mind, closed his eyes and thought about the details to pay attention to, and began the first refining.
The Soul Gathering Pill is an entry-level pill for alchemy. Any disciple with some talent for alchemy can easily master it within half a month. However, the quality of the pills made will be different depending on the alchemy qualifications.
Li Xuanfeng had used spiritual fire for quite a while when he tried to unlock the Purple Destruction Stick. In addition to practicing with tree branches, he had already reached a relatively proficient level in controlling the spiritual fire.
Li Xuanfeng quickly mastered the method of removing impurities and extracting the essence. It was inevitable that the essence would not be very pure at the beginning, but it was enough to refine the Soul Gathering Pill.
Li Xuanfeng carefully controlled the spiritual fire to fuse and refine the extracted essence, and carefully controlled the temperature of the spiritual fire.
After failing the first time, he learned from the experience and the explanation of the Five Elements Master and successfully refined a Soul Gathering Pill the second time. Looking at the gray-green round pill in his hand, Li Xuanfeng's eyes were filled with excitement.
"What's there to be happy about? The herbs you put in this time are more than enough to refine two Soul Gathering Pills, but you only refined one, wasting half of the herbs. And you still have the nerve to be so complacent."
Before Li Xuanfeng could feel happy, the Five Elements Venerable poured a basin of cold water on him, causing the excitement in his eyes to disappear immediately.
The lost Li Xuanfeng tried to refine the medicine once more, and his proficiency improved rapidly. He was able to refine two pills for the third time. Just when Li Xuanfeng was about to be happy, the Five Elements Venerable poured cold water on him again.
"The few Soul Gathering Pills you have refined now are almost all of low quality, and only one barely reaches the middle quality. That's because you haven't removed the impurities thoroughly enough. Not only are the efficacy of such pills much lower, but they will also cause the body to accumulate herbal impurities. If you can't effectively remove the impurities in the future, it may affect your breakthrough in cultivation."
"Don't take the pills you made now. Make better quality pills later. You can sell these low-quality pills to the trading pavilion of your Xuanling Sect in exchange for spirit stones. The art of alchemy requires a large amount of spirit stones to buy medicinal materials. Since you lack spirit stones, you can only make pills and sell them yourself."
In fact, Li Xuanfeng knew that he could go to his master Shen Hua to get cultivation resources, but he didn't want to trouble his master and didn't want to owe him too much. After all, his master had saved his life and brought him into the world of cultivation, and he was just an orphan that his master brought back out of pity.
In fact, Shen Hua never regarded Li Xuanfeng as an outsider. He just considered it as a normal disciple. He didn't need many cultivation resources in the middle stage of Rong Ling. Ten spirit stones plus the spirit stones Li Xuanfeng won in the duel were enough for him to use for a long time. Moreover, Shen Hua had asked his eldest disciple Zheng Cheng to prepare some cultivation pills and spirit stones, and planned to find an opportunity to give them to Li Xuanfeng.
After listening to the words of the Five Elements Venerable, Li Xuanfeng absorbed the experience and continued to refine the pills. He also asked the Five Elements Venerable from time to time how to improve the quality of the pills.
With continuous refining, Li Xuanfeng's proficiency in refining the Spirit Gathering Pill continued to improve, and the quality became higher and higher. He could now refine top-grade Spirit Gathering Pills.
At the beginning, Li Xuanfeng's spiritual power would be exhausted after refining for half a day, and he could only absorb spiritual power to recover and continue refining. After several cycles, Li Xuanfeng's spiritual power increased a lot, and it was compressed and condensed again. Slowly, he could refine for most of the day, and with the proficiency of controlling the spiritual fire, the consumption of spiritual power was reduced again.
During this period, the Five Elements Venerable once again passed on to Li Xuanfeng the information of a pill recipe. This was a healing pill called Huiyuan Pill, which was made with Sanhua Fruit and Lingguizhi.
With continuous refining, Li Xuanfeng has mastered the art of refining these two kinds of pills. On the last day, all of them were of top quality, and he could even refine four pills at the same time, greatly increasing his refining speed.
At this time, Li Xuanfeng was still on the fifth day of alchemy. If other alchemists knew about this, they would probably be so shocked that their eyes would fall out.
