Chapter 604: Virtual Refining (Thanks to Alliance Leader Liao Quezi)

Facts proved that Monk Kong Que was indeed much more professional than Wei Yuan; Wei Yuan's whole set of complex operations only managed to get less than one thousand Qi from over thirty thousand refugees, while Monk Kong Que simply erected a statue for people to worship, which allowed Wei Yuan to harvest over three thousand strands of Qi.

Judging from past experience, basically the Qi that could be contributed had already been squeezed out, and the vast majority of the remainder was Qi that simply didn't exist. There was also a very small number who possessed Qi but didn't contribute, and Wei Yuan didn't intend to want their Qi either.

Facts proved that the Qi of this small handful of people was both little and hard to get; rather than staring at the three melons and two dates on them, it was better to get a few more batches of refugees in.

Thirty thousand refugees were only the first batch; the follow-up main force was still on the way. Wei Yuan took the cultivators through the process once, and everyone was familiar with it, so they could complete it themselves next time, without needing Wei Yuan to stare here.

Thus Wei Yuan was once again idle, so he began to ponder how to find something to do for himself. Human World Renjian Yanhuo was quite capable in finding work for the Creation Immortal Venerable, immediately pointing out that storing too much Qi was useless, and the best way was to find a way to use it up, keeping only the Qi of the highest rank and the most essence.

Like humanistic Azure Qi, it was large in quantity but not strong, and it might dissipate after a long time, so it needed to be used up quickly. Humanistic Qi would indeed dissipate, which was also easy to understand; for example, if the refugees found that the pie Wei Yuan painted couldn't be realized, then the Qi would dissipate.

The original method of consuming Qi was to use Xu Wenwu as a medium, but now a mere Xu Wenwu couldn't use up so much Azure Qi. Finally, Wei Yuan exchanged a large amount of information about Qi from the Merit Hall, reading it himself while copying it into Human World Renjian Yanhuo to seek countermeasures.

The more information stored in Human World Renjian Yanhuo, the more the mortals could learn from, and the response became correspondingly faster and faster, and the accuracy was greatly improved.

After analyzing a large amount of information, Human World Renjian Yanhuo concluded that the best way to consume Qi was firstly to cultivate Dao Foundation, secondly to refine elixirs, and thirdly to cultivate immortal plants.

Wei Yuan approved of the first two points, but he instinctively felt something was wrong with the third.

However, a round of ten-thousand-person Dao Foundation training had just been held, and there were not enough new Body Forging cultivators at the moment; only a few hundred loose cultivators had arrived in Azure Void and were waiting to participate in the next session.

After thinking about it, Wei Yuan realized that Xu Henshui's state of mind had been stable recently and he was quite free, so he decided to take the path of elixir refining, and by the way, test the state of mind and cultivation of this Uncle-Master of his.

When Wei Yuan arrived, Xu Henshui was initially indifferent, but as soon as he heard Wei Yuan wanted to refine elixirs, he immediately became ten thousand times more enthusiastic, eagerly asking what kind of elixir he wanted to refine this time; anyway, below the Master Yu Jing, there was everything, and it didn't matter if Wei Yuan didn't know how, Xu Henshui could teach, and it was guaranteed to be taught and learned.

The Immortal Master in the dream had given Xu Henshui a long-term task, which was to teach Wei Yuan to refine elixirs, and depending on the results of the teaching, he would be given a chance to comprehend the Ancient Immortal Prescription.

Xu Henshui had long known that Human World Renjian Yanhuo was Wei Yuan's Dharma Form; although it was called a Dharma Form, it was actually not much different from a real Mind-Reflection World.

However, he had actually quietly asked his own Immortal Ancestor, as well as the Temple Master Fenhai Zhenjun Dan Ming, about the matter of the Immortal Master in the dream teaching ancient prescriptions.

Both sides said roughly the same thing, which was that although the matter happened in Wei Yuan's Mind-Reflection World, the Immortal Master in the dream clearly didn't have much to do with Wei Yuan; one possibility was that a wisp of remnant thought left by the immortal who created Azure Void was hidden in Human World Renjian Yanhuo, looking for a suitable successor so that the immortal's path wouldn't be cut off.

Since even his own Immortal Ancestor said so, Xu Henshui naturally believed in the Immortal Master in the dream without doubt.

Wei Yuan had also done his homework before coming, because he wanted to use Qi, so ordinary elixirs definitely wouldn't work, so he said: "Great Sun Morning Splendor Elixir."

Xu Henshui's eyebrows stood up, then slowly relaxed, and said: "This... it's not impossible, it's just a bit difficult. If you have time, I can teach you now. Although the medicinal materials for this elixir prescription are a bit expensive, they are not considered scarce."

"I am naturally free." "That's good, follow me." Xu Henshui took Wei Yuan into his elixir room, lit a stick of clear incense that helped with spiritual sense, and began to explain.

In order to let Wei Yuan comprehend as soon as possible, Xu Henshui also spent a lot of money, and that incense wasn't cheap.

This lecture lasted for half a day.

The Great Sun Morning Splendor Elixir used Morning Splendor Grass as the main material; the problem was that after the Morning Splendor Grass grew, a single leaf was as high as three zhang, with thick branches and thick leaves; this wasn't grass at all, it was simply like a tree. After being processed by the Creation Temple's secret method, it was seven or eight chi long, so refining required a large elixir furnace of one zhang five.

The refining process was very long; at Xu Henshui's current level, it took seven days, ordinary elixir masters needed fifteen days, and Xu Henshui estimated that Wei Yuan would need over twenty days.

A qualified elixir master of the Creation Temple usually produced about ten elixirs per furnace, each worth fifty thousand taels of immortal silver. Xu Henshui produced more, often with a few high-quality ones with elixir patterns, so a furnace of elixirs was worth one million taels of immortal silver, while the medicinal materials for the whole furnace were about sixty or seventy thousand taels of immortal silver.

Speaking of this, Xu Henshui naturally couldn't forget to brag about himself. He said that the Creation Temple had a default standard, which was how many times the value of the elixirs produced by an elixir master was compared to the raw materials, to determine the level of the elixir master.

Generally speaking, ten times was considered an excellent disciple, seven times was a normal level, and if one could only earn four times with tears, then one would probably be expelled from the Creation Temple.

Someone like Xu Henshui, who had been stably between fifteen and twenty times for many years, belonged to a real genius and had a slim hope of competing for the future Temple Master. To be able to stabilize above twenty times was considered a genius among geniuses, becoming an official Temple Master candidate, to be examined by many elders of the sect. By this standard, Xu Henshui was still a bit short.

When Fenhai Zhenjun Dan Ming was a small elixir master, his income could be stably above twenty-five times for many years, and more than half of the elixirs in a furnace had elixir patterns, with a record of sixty-eight times at his peak, which no one had been able to surpass within a thousand years, so on the day he broke through to Master Yu Jing, the previous Temple Master automatically resigned and let the virtuous take over. Fenhai Zhenjun Dan Ming also became the Temple Master at the age of one hundred and seventy.

According to Xu Henshui, the price of the Great Sun Morning Splendor Elixir was actually somewhat inflated, mainly because many people treated it as a disguised longevity elixir; some cultivator ancestors couldn't afford orthodox longevity elixirs, so they used this as a substitute for their concubines or nephews who weren't very talented. Once successful, it could increase longevity by several hundred years, even longer than orthodox longevity medicine.

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For Xu Henshui, refining this elixir also required being quite cautious, so he spent two days preparing, on one hand exchanging for medicinal materials, on the other preparing the elixir furnace, and at the same time took out an ancestral elixir book, letting Wei Yuan study it for these two days.

The so-called ancestral elixir book was actually a jade plate, which originally recorded an ancient prescription. The ancestors of the Creation Temple used the empty space inside to record many elixir prescriptions for breaking through realms and their own insights, and each elixir prescription recorded the whole process of refining in the form of Dao rhyme.

Xu Henshui didn't hide anything at all, so Wei Yuan wasn't polite, copying a copy of all the elixir prescriptions, not even letting go of the incomplete ancient prescription.

Two days later, the elixir refining officially began. First was virtual refining. Xu Henshui refined a furnace alone, then guided Wei Yuan to refine a furnace hand-in-hand.

The so-called virtual refining was to refine a furnace first with an elixir prescription that had similar medicinal properties and the same refining process, to familiarize oneself with the whole process. It was just that the medicinal materials for the virtual refining of the Great Sun Morning Splendor Elixir also cost five thousand per furnace.

One day later, the virtual refining was completed; according to the results, Xu Henshui should have produced eleven, with two having one pattern, and the refining time was eight days. Wei Yuan produced four, with one having one pattern, and needed fifteen days.

Judging from the virtual refining, Wei Yuan's income per furnace was about five times, on the verge of being expelled by the Creation Temple. Xu Henshui felt quite comforted and couldn't help but show a smile. In his view, this was Wei Yuan's proper level, and the previous few times must have been sheer luck.

During the whole virtual refining process, Wei Yuan made over seventy mistakes, big and small; after Xu Henshui pointed them out and corrected them one by one, he took out the real medicinal materials, and with Wei Yuan in separate elixir rooms, they began to officially refine the Great Sun Morning Splendor Elixir.

(End of chapter)