Chapter 427: Alchemy Research Institute

"Today we are refining the Nether Blood Lesser Year Pill; this furnace will yield a maximum of nine pills..."

"Before putting this Red Snow Mushroom into the alchemy furnace, it must be sliced first, so that it can turn into the medicinal base at the fastest speed, laying the foundation for the whole furnace of pills..."

Xu Henshui kept putting medicinal ingredients into the alchemy furnace while lecturing, what characteristics each medicinal ingredient had, how it should be handled in this prescription to maximize the medicinal efficacy, and so on and so forth.

What he lectured on were the basic principles of alchemy, and those listening were also loyal and reliable people. However, regarding a few main medicinal ingredients, Xu Henshui still skipped over them and directly used Dao power to shield the appearance and aura of the medicinal ingredients, so as not to leak the prescription.

Ordinary Lesser Year Pills were one thing; there were plenty of higher-grade prescriptions in the Creation Sect, but the Nether Blood Lesser Year Pill prescription with Blood Yingluo as the main material was no small matter. After being inspired by the ancient Immortal Prescription, the new pill Xu Henshui researched would significantly reduce the negative effects of Blood Yingluo, enhance the life-extension time slightly, and at the same time, not be restricted by other life-extending pills.

Without Wei Yuan's permission, Xu Henshui naturally wouldn't leak this prescription to others, and the finished products refined would also be handed over to Azure Void for unified distribution.

Xu Henshui refined pills while lecturing, his water-colored sleeves dancing constantly under the alchemy fire, truly possessing the grace of an immortal. His voice was also extremely pleasant to hear, and when he spoke of alchemy, he explained profound things in simple terms, revealing extremely profound alchemy principles in the plainness.

Wei Yuan was refining pills synchronously on the side, and at this moment, his heart stirred, so he sent out several Dao Foundation cultivators, holding stones to begin recording the images.

"What is the meaning of this?" Xu Henshui asked via sound transmission quietly.

"I want to record all the courses you lecture on; naturally, images are best. In the future, when training new alchemists, I can play them for them to watch at any time, letting them study well."

"So that's how it is."

Xu Henshui immediately puffed out his chest, his eyes smiling, his voice gaining several resonances, like a fairy from the nine heavens chanting, indescribably pleasant to hear. His eyes were as bright as the morning stars, occasionally lightly raising his eyebrows, as if the entire alchemy room had gained lingering immortal energy.

At this time, Wei Yuan constantly scanned the alchemy furnace in front of him with his spiritual sense, and the situation in every part of the furnace was under his control.

At this time, there was an additional virtual giant alchemy furnace in the ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers, synchronously reflecting the situation inside the alchemy furnace in front of Wei Yuan.

A group of mortals with talent for alchemy had already gathered around the orchid and the Ice Glass Immortal Wood, using these two immortal plants as five nodes, tracking and analyzing the situation of this furnace of pills with all their might, and giving suggestions in real-time.

"The furnace temperature is rising too fast, it has exceeded the optimal temperature."

Wei Yuan immediately weakened the flame in his hand.

"The Blood Yingluo has not fully merged with the medicinal liquid, or the purity is insufficient; it is suggested to add a little more..."

Wei Yuan picked up a piece of Blood Yingluo. At this time, the refined suggestion came in time: "... add three qian of Blood Yingluo."

Wei Yuan's Dao power moved, cutting off a small piece of Blood Yingluo, exactly three qian, and put it into the alchemy furnace.

Xu Henshui was somewhat surprised, not understanding why Wei Yuan had added a bit more main medicinal ingredient. However, he didn't think much about it; at this time, multiple cultivators were capturing images from different angles, so he naturally couldn't tolerate any imperfection in himself, so he endured the urge to ask and continued to lecture with a perfect posture.

"... The last step is not the formation of the pill, but the collection..."

In the beautiful voice, the alchemy furnace in front of Xu Henshui opened, and the furnace mouth immediately sprayed out a five-colored light, and then several white cranes circled the five-colored light pillar three times, and the strange phenomenon slowly disappeared.

Xu Henshui lightly pointed with his orchid fingers, and pills sprayed out from the furnace continuously. These pills were dark red, and actually, ten pills came out of one furnace, and one of them had a golden Dao pattern on it!

Xu Henshui's eyes lit up, then he pretended to be calm, placing the pill with the golden Dao pattern in his palm, displaying it in front of everyone.

The Creation Sect disciples were all moved, exclaiming: "Truly worthy of Xu Shi, actually refining a spiritual pill with a rank!"

"This prescription originally didn't enter the ranks, yet Xu Shi could actually refine a first-rank spiritual pill; it's truly too amazing!"

These Creation Sect disciples weren't flattering, but the situation was indeed so. Hearing this, Xu Henshui wanted to maintain his smile at the level of a slight smile, but it was somewhat difficult, and the corners of his mouth couldn't be pressed down no matter what.

This one-patterned spiritual pill was indeed beyond his expectations. Originally, Xu Henshui had done his best, refining ten pills from this furnace that was supposed to produce nine, which was already something to brag about. Now that a one-patterned spiritual pill had appeared, even if he were at Dan Mingzi's place, he would receive praise.

"This furnace should have produced nine pills, but if the timing of collection is grasped well, it is possible to have more. For example, this time ten pills were formed..."

Speaking of this, Xu Henshui suddenly paused, discovering that Wei Yuan was still constantly injecting True Fire into the alchemy furnace, but the flame in his hand was somewhat strange, pale gold with some light red, clearly having immortal spiritual energy.

Xu Henshui then said: "If the collection is late, it will affect the pill grade and the number of pills formed. But if some steps were not perfect before, one can make some remedies at this stage..."

The Creation Sect disciples had strange expressions; they naturally heard that this was Xu Henshui forcibly making up for Wei Yuan. With the same prescription, Xu Henshui's pill grade and quantity exceeded the original prescription, indicating that the collection timing was just right. And Wei Yuan had delayed for so long; even if all the previous steps were perfect, it would be good if this furnace of pills could produce one-third of the normal amount.

At this time, prompts constantly rang in Wei Yuan's consciousness:

"Maintain low-temperature immortal fire, pill liquid purity 95.6%..."

"... pill liquid purity 98.3%..."

"Purity 100%! Bless with luck!"

Wei Yuan instantly threw over ten strands of green energy into the alchemy furnace, and then a faint sound of music rang out in the furnace, ding-dong, very pleasant to hear.

Then Wei Yuan performed the pill collection technique, the furnace lid opened, spraying out a mass of white cloud energy, and countless immortal birds flew out from the furnace, each holding a pill in its beak!

After a while, the strange phenomenon dissipated, and there were actually eighteen pills in the air, and most of them had a pill pattern, with the one in the center a circle larger than the other pills, actually having two green pill patterns!

Until this batch of pills landed with a clatter, like pearls falling on a jade plate, Xu Henshui woke up from his shock.

When pills are formed, they gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, secretly matching the Great Dao, and only then will pill patterns be produced. Pills with pill patterns have entered the ranks, and their medicinal efficacy far exceeds ordinary pills.

Xu Henshui no longer cared about his image, snatched two one-patterned pills and that two-patterned pill, cast one technique after another onto them, and at the same time, water-blue light shot out from his eyes, beginning to carefully examine the pill grade.

Wei Yuan used his spiritual sense to order the entire alchemy process to be saved. Then he issued another task: optimize.

This furnace of pills was refined by Wei Yuan himself, which could be considered practice. He was thinking at this moment, who would refine the pills in the future? The Dragon Guards and Dao Foundation cultivators standing there all seemed capable of the task.

!.

Wei Yuan finished arranging the task and returned to reality, only to see Xu Henshui looking him up and down, as if looking at a monster.

The surrounding Creation Sect disciples were all dumbfounded, while the cultivators on the periphery didn't understand what had happened, only feeling that something extraordinary had occurred.

Wei Yuan collected the few Dao Foundation cultivators who had recorded the images, and Xu Henshui suddenly grabbed his wrist, urgently saying: "Go, follow me to see the Patriarch!!"

Wei Yuan naturally wouldn't go; besides, True Lord Dan Ming was currently at the Northern Shanmen, and Wei Yuan had only just returned not long ago. Calculating the time, Zhang Sheng should still be in seclusion, so there was nothing to do even if he went to the Northern Shanmen.

Xu Henshui said: "No, you must go! With such great talent, how can you be content in the Heaven Azure Hall? You should transfer to the Creation Sect; the next Sect Master will be you!"

Wei Yuan naturally knew his own limitations; that little alchemy level couldn't even catch up to Xu Henshui's fur, let alone inherit the Creation Sect.

Besides, the good effect of this furnace of pills was the result of adding luck, and it just happened to have the moon essence power of the Laurel Immortal Tree as low-temperature immortal fire. Changing the prescription wouldn't have this effect.

What Wei Yuan cared about at this moment wasn't the height of the pill patterns, but something else: "How much is this furnace of pills worth?"

Xu Henshui picked up an ordinary Nether Blood Lesser Year Pill and said: "Although this one can only extend life by three years, it has the advantage of no restrictions; as long as one hasn't taken a large amount of Blood Yingluo or burned life essence, one can add a full three years of life. This quality of life extension is worth one thousand taels of immortal silver per year, so this pill can be priced at three thousand taels. If it weren't for the residual karma still being extremely heavy, the price would be even higher."

Xu Henshui picked up the Nether Blood Pill with one pill pattern again and said: "This one obtained the essence of heaven and earth, the life-extending effect is increased and the karma is reduced, it can increase life by four years, and can be sold for six thousand taels."

Finally, Xu Henshui picked up the Nether Blood Pill with two pill patterns produced by Wei Yuan, and only said: "This pill can be doubled again, selling for twelve thousand taels."

Wei Yuan's furnace produced eighteen pills, one with two patterns, eight with one pattern, and nine ordinary ones. According to Xu Henshui's valuation, this furnace of pills was worth eighty-seven thousand taels in total. And if Wei Yuan remembered correctly, the medicinal ingredients for one furnace were worth about five hundred taels.

Xu Henshui's furnace was also worth thirty-three thousand taels. And this kind of life-extending pill didn't worry about selling at all; as many as could be produced would be sold.

Wei Yuan silently calculated the profit multiple, and then felt that the measurement tool called "percentage" in the world beyond the heavens was completely superfluous.

For a moment, Wei Yuan even wanted to go back with Xu Henshui to see Patriarch Dan Ming.

Wei Yuan immediately remembered the twenty million taels of immortal silver debt he owed, not knowing how much of it had become the Dao-attainment resources of the Creation Sect.

Only after refining a furnace of pills himself did Wei Yuan truly feel how profitable alchemy was. Wei Yuan was currently very short of money, and after personally experiencing the money-making ability of alchemy that turned decay into magic, he immediately made up his mind to add alchemy to the core industries of Azure Void.

Wei Yuan immediately issued an order, letting the mortals with talent for alchemy establish a specialized research institute to study alchemy.

Thus, a group of mortals was selected, and they found a courtyard of considerable scale, hanging a plaque at the gate: 【Supreme Benevolent Heart Alchemy Research Institute】.

However, it was not the first professional research institute in the Mind-Reflection World. The first was the 【Sentient Beings Equal War Equipment Research Institute】 right next door.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 428 =====