Chapter 694

"My lord, the precious treasures and pills you ordered in our shop yesterday, all-refined method, one bottle with three pills, a total of two bottles; split-refined, one bottle with three pills, a total of four bottles; please count them."

"No problem, thank you."

"You are too polite, my lord."

The servant bowed, struggled to withdraw his gaze from the little white dragon dancing in the air in the courtyard, and backed away.

Qingsong Street, Imperial Capital.

This place gathered many large alchemy workshops, including but not limited to famous large shops like the Xuanxuan Alchemy Hall, Yunyin Alchemy Hut, and Lingxi Treasure Furnace Workshop; they were skilled in different alchemy techniques and schools, and all had palace masters and Jiang Zongshi-level alchemists as guest ministers, which could be said to be famous far and near, and many Grandmasters from outside prefectures even ran thousands of miles to the Imperial Capital's Qingsong Street to seek pills.

After the auction.

Liang Qu didn't rush to consume the dragon whiskers, but instead had Round Head catch more than ten Ox-Horn Pomfrets of basically equal quality, found the Yunyin Alchemy Hut, which was famous for refining Treasure Beast Pills, and used different techniques to refine Treasure Fish Pills to compare and verify one thing.

Can alchemy preserve Water Marsh Essence?

If it can be preserved, how much can be retained?

What are the influencing factors in between?

The accumulated snow in the corner of the wall was stained with a layer of yellow-gray, and the frozen-to-death moss shattered into small pieces.

Liang Qu picked up the first bottle with a paper strip on it, poured out a blood-red pill, twisted it between his fingertips, and a bright white light flickered.

All-refined method!

One pill per Ox-Horn Pomfret!

He had eaten Treasure Beast Pills before, such as the Sturgeon Bone Pill of the Sturgeon Demon and the Snake Bone Pill of the Snake Demon.

Both belonged to this category.

It's just a pity.

He didn't know if it was because they had been stored for too long or what, but it was like keeping spirit fish for too long would consume their spirituality and evaporate into thin air.

The Water Marsh Essence in the two kinds of pills was pitifully small, better than nothing, basically only the medicinal effect itself.

So much so that Liang Qu hadn't been very keen on using Treasure Beasts for alchemy before.

Unless it was like fish bone or snake bone, too large in volume and too hard to swallow, he had to refine them into pills to exert their residual heat.

For others, refining into Treasure Pills had the effect of increasing absorption and enhancing medicinal effects.

A rare "Monarch Medicine" treasure material, combined with other "Minister, Assistant, Envoy" auxiliary medicines, could achieve the miraculous effect of 120% to 130% of the "Monarch Medicine"!

But for Liang Qu, without Water Marsh Essence, it was not as cost-effective as eating it directly.

However, at yesterday's auction, what Lu Jia said about the Vast Sea Profound Whale Pill, refining the whole Great Demon alive, focusing on "original flavor" and "concentrated essence," opened the door to a new world for him.

There are so many wonderful methods in the world.

Could it be that the alchemy method affects the retention of Water Marsh Essence?

What about the storage time of the pills?

These two items must be determined.

Treasure Plant alchemy is relatively difficult to refine, such as the Withered-Prosperous Twin Lotus and the Two-Life Flower; the plant medicinal properties are too complex, and ordinary alchemists simply don't have so many good things to practice with, and it's easy to refine them into waste if not careful.

Therefore, plant Treasure Pills are particular about both the pill formula and the alchemist.

The pill formula must be accurate and good, not a castle in the air, relying entirely on pharmacological analysis; some pharmacological analysis has no problems, but the refined product is not only useless but even becomes a poison pill.

The alchemist must either be rich in experience, having practiced before, and be familiar with the road, or seek a Jiang Zongshi-level master to take action, with a steady hand.

The conditions are too harsh.

Cost and profit are hard to say.

Some alchemists know you can't find anyone else, and will hold out for a better price, deliberately blocking people.

Beast types are different.

With beast nature as the "Monarch Medicine" and treasure plants as "auxiliary medicines," the inclusiveness is much stronger!

Not afraid of you refining.

200,000 taels of bright white silver.

Can't help but make people take it seriously.

Must maximize profits!

If it really doesn't damage the Water Marsh Essence, essence + material original effect + alchemy extra gain, two becomes three, the profit is visible to the naked eye!

By then, the 200,000-tael dragon whiskers will be eaten to have the effect of 300,000 or even 400,000!

Gulp.

Blood pill into the belly.

【Water Marsh Essence +18】

There is essence!

Liang Qu's eyes lit up.

"Don't know if it's less..."

Liang Qu turned his head.

Otter Otter Open ran into the courtyard holding two grilled fish clamped in a wire mesh, heat rising, inside was the grilled Ox-Horn Pomfret, even a bit charred.

The whole fish was basically not processed, fish blood, fish bone, fish gills all kept, if not charred and crisp, it would be hard to swallow.

Crunch crunch.

【Water Marsh Essence +17】

【Water Marsh Essence +18】

About the same!

Let's look at the others.

The second bottle was changed to fish meat pill, fish bone pill, and fish miscellaneous pill, swallowed at the same time.

【Water Marsh Essence +7】

【Water Marsh Essence +6】

【Water Marsh Essence +3】

Split apart, it was the same, sixteen points!

The few treasure fish were carefully selected, similar in size, and a difference of one point in Water Marsh Essence was reasonable.

Two points...

"Splitting it apart might have an effect; in this way, is the major loss due to time?"

Secretly remembered in his heart.

Third day.

Took two more pills.

【Water Marsh Essence +16】

【Water Marsh Essence +16】

Fourth day.

【Water Marsh Essence +14】

【Water Marsh Essence +13】

The three pills split out dropped sharply to only eleven points.

With eighteen as the benchmark, a difference of four points and five points of essence, or even seven points, definitely had a problem.

"Sure enough, refining into pills, Water Marsh Essence will dissipate over time."

Liang Qu covered the medicine bottle.

Clear at a glance.

After rare beasts are refined into pills, Water Marsh Essence dissipates very quickly, and the initial split refining is about the same, but the dissipation will be faster.

As for cooking it...

Must also try it.

Before, he would eat it after cooking, never thinking about whether the essence would flow away due to time, so he just studied it thoroughly today.

Otter Otter Open took out a treasure fish made five days ago and reheated it.

This grilled fish was frozen in the courtyard for a full five days, and wild cats and mice often came to steal food in the middle of the night, all of which were beaten away by Otter Otter Open with sticks.

【Water Marsh Essence +12】

Liang Qu put down his chopsticks and confirmed it completely.

Pills can be refined.

The first choice is all-refined, refining the whole thing, followed by split-refined, splitting into several parts.

There is a difference between the two, but the gap is not large.

Compared to the increase brought by the pills, as long as it is fresh enough, eat it on the day the furnace is opened, pure profit.

Figured it out.

Refine dragon whiskers into pills and then eat!

At this moment, open the five kinds of pills given by the Heaven Ship Chamber of Commerce again.

Each has its focus.

"Dragon whisker blood pill strengthens constitution and increases blood Qi, Spirit Sensing Pill strengthens perception and measures fortune, Rejuvenation Pill heals injuries, Barrier Breaking Pill helps break through bottlenecks, Divine Ability Pill enhances wind-type and water-type divine ability cultivation..."

Give up the Barrier Breaking Pill first.

Have Ze Ling and Chuan Zhu.

Bottleneck?

What bottleneck?

Except for some wonderful ways to enter Hunting Tiger, for other small realms, Liang Qu himself has enough spirit and blood Qi to reach them.

The Spirit Sensing Pill can strengthen the "heart's whim" of a Great Martial Artist, sensing certain dangers in advance.

Useful, but not critical.

Being strong means high fault tolerance; after choosing and choosing, the dragon whisker blood pill is the most suitable, a kingly pill.

Afternoon.

Monarch, Minister, Assistant, Envoy, "Monarch Medicine" dragon whiskers, the remaining few key medicinal materials are not difficult to find, the Imperial Capital Heaven Ship Chamber of Commerce has stock, just pay money, and another 28,000 taels were spent.

His pocket suddenly shrank to 60,000 taels.

Unprecedentedly "poor" after the excavation of the Jiaoren ruins in Xiangyi County.

Fortunately, as the buyer of dragon whiskers and the owner of the regular customer card, he doesn't need to worry about the remaining expenses for hiring an alchemist.

"My lord, this pill is too valuable, I'm afraid there will be mistakes on the road, and our two sides will be entangled, so I have to trouble you to come and pick it up yourself tomorrow noon, or designate a servant to hold your regular customer card."

Liang Qu thought for a while: "I'll come and pick it up myself tomorrow."

"Thank you for your understanding, my lord." The steward bowed, then called an attendant to send out two exquisite small ivory lanterns.

"This is..."

"Tonight is the Lantern Festival, sending my lord two ivory flower lanterns."

(End of chapter)