Chapter 38: Alchemy

In the cultivation world, alchemy is a profound discipline.

Once reaching a certain realm, one can use spiritual sense to drive the alchemy fire, directly roasting the medicinal herbs to burn away the dregs and retain the essence, extracting the medicinal juice from the spiritual herbs.

After all the medicinal juices of different types of herbs are purified, they are fused.

After cooling, it becomes a pill.

This is a profound alchemy method.

Obviously, Qi Condensation disciples and Foundation Establishment disciples cannot use this method for alchemy.

On one hand, they don't have powerful spiritual sense and cannot use spiritual sense to separate medicinal juice and dregs. On the other hand, because no Golden Core has condensed in the dantian, naturally, there is no way to manifest alchemy fire.

So the alchemy method for low-tier disciples is simple and crude: boiling.

Add water to the alchemy furnace, and after washing the medicinal herbs clean, put them in as well.

Then start boiling.

After boiling, the essence in the herbs will be released into the water, and finally, boil the water dry to obtain the herb essence.

This method is extremely stupid, and the success rate is extremely low, often succeeding only once every ten batches.

But this is the alchemy means for low-tier disciples in the cultivation world; besides doing this, there is no other way.

He Pingsheng can only use this stupid method now.

The medicinal herbs and alchemy furnace have all been strengthened.

Originally twenty portions of medicinal herbs, now they have become forty portions!

The key is that these forty portions of medicinal herbs are all top-tier quality.

Previously, it was Wang Dun's alchemy furnace, a low-tier magic treasure with only one layer of restriction on it.

Now, after being strengthened by He Pingsheng, this alchemy furnace has become a top-tier magic treasure with four layers of restriction on it.

And there are two such alchemy furnaces, one square tripod, one round tripod.

"Hehehe..." Seeing this alchemy furnace, He Pingsheng chuckled: Top-tier magic treasure, when I go to the Mount Matou market next time, I'll sell this thing, it should be worth quite a few spirit stones.

In the cultivation world, the grading of treasures is relatively strict.

From low to high, they are magic treasure, spiritual treasure, magic treasure, profound treasure, etc.

Under normal circumstances, the treasures used by Qi Condensation disciples are at the magic treasure level.

The treasures used by Foundation Establishment disciples are spiritual treasures.

Golden Core disciples have the basic conditions to nurture magic treasures, so under normal circumstances, cultivators above the third layer of the Golden Core realm will possess magic treasures.

And profound treasures and the like are treasures used by Nascent Soul cultivators.

Of course, it's not necessarily so.

For example, those poor early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators might still be using magic treasures.

And whether it's magic treasure, spiritual treasure, magic treasure, or profound treasure, they are all divided into four qualities: low-tier, mid-tier, high-tier, and top-tier.

Take magic treasure for example, low-tier magic treasure has one layer of restriction!

Mid-tier magic treasure has two layers of restriction.

High-tier magic treasure has three layers of restriction.

Top-tier magic treasure has four layers of restriction.

And so on!

Once reaching the spiritual treasure level, even the lowest-tier spiritual treasure has five layers of restriction.

It can be understood this way: the more restrictions branded on this treasure, the higher the level of the treasure, and the more powerful its strength.

He Pingsheng reached out and took out the round alchemy furnace in front of him.

Palm-sized.

"Open..." He shouted, and the magic power in his body surged over with a rumble.

The alchemy furnace turned into the size of an iron pot in an instant, with four layers of restriction on it.

But unfortunately, these four layers of restriction had not been refined.

So wanting to use this alchemy furnace as one wishes is probably not possible.

Before alchemy, one must first refine the alchemy furnace.

"Come on... don't know how long it will take to refine!"

Next, it was time to refine this alchemy furnace.

Unknowingly, another two months passed.

He Pingsheng refined all four layers of restriction on this alchemy furnace.

"Open..."

"Receive!"

"Out!"

After refining, He Pingsheng found that this alchemy furnace was more convenient to use, could be taken out freely, and could also be stored in the dantian.

Of course, this alchemy furnace also has a certain storage space, which can temporarily place some items.

Next was alchemy!

Step one, manifest the alchemy furnace, turn it into the size of an iron pot, and place it in the courtyard.

Can only be placed in the courtyard, because one still needs to burn fire, and it's definitely not possible in the room.

Step two, add water to the pot.

Then put the medicinal herbs in one by one and start boiling.

The boiling process requires the most caution.

But the problem is not big; the method of boiling and refining these pills, the control of the fire size, what situation will occur in the pot at what time, these things are all recorded clearly in the 【Thirty-Six Alchemy Recipes】.

He Pingsheng had long since memorized these things by heart.

The first one put in was the immortal bamboo shoot, then the seven-leaf spiritual herb, the third was the spiritual apricot, and the last one put in was the vermilion fruit.

Everything was stable and proper.

Half an hour later, a strange fragrance wafted from the alchemy furnace.

But it was not particularly strong.

Only He Pingsheng could smell it; the neighbors couldn't smell it.

Even if they smelled it, they wouldn't come to ask, because He Pingsheng's neighbors were all ordinary people, not a single cultivator.

Another few hours passed!

He Pingsheng fished out the debris in the pot and discarded it, then started boiling the small amount of mixed medicinal juice in the pot.

Watching the pills gradually take shape, finally turning into twelve pills.

But they hadn't really taken shape yet, and a loud noise came from the pot.

Bang...

Exploded!

First alchemy attempt, failed!

But what comforted He Pingsheng was that although the alchemy failed, he obtained twelve waste pills.

Similar to the twelve waste pills he got in the alchemy room of Xiuzhu Peak before.

"Hoo..." He Pingsheng breathed a sigh of relief and put away the waste pills.

This thing is a waste pill to others, but to He Pingsheng, who has a heaven-defying item like the Ju Bao Pen, it is a treasure.

Because it can be directly purified, and after being strengthened by the Ju Bao Pen, it becomes a top-tier Qi Gathering Pill.

The first batch failed!

He Pingsheng didn't rush to refine the second batch, but calmed down and started thinking.

Why did it fail?

Where did the problem arise?

What problem?

How to solve it?

With the problem and the solution, He Pingsheng started refining the second batch.

But the result was undoubtedly that the second batch also failed.

Alchemy doesn't have many shortcuts.

It relies on failure after failure, accumulating experience and feel.

Fortunately, although he failed, he could always refine waste pills.

In the following days, He Pingsheng spent his time in alchemy.

Refining two batches every day.

One batch in the morning, one batch in the afternoon.

Day after day.

When He Pingsheng refined to the seventeenth batch, he finally succeeded.

He Pingsheng was ecstatic.

"Hahaha... I can do alchemy... I can refine Qi Gathering Pills..."

What he didn't know was that for a normal mid-stage Qi Condensation cultivator, wanting to refine the first batch of pills, it is basically impossible without trying more than a hundred batches.

The reason He Pingsheng could find the feel in the seventeenth batch was first because his spiritual sense was stronger than disciples of the same level, and second, it was blessed by the heaven-tier 【Thirty-Six Alchemy Recipes】.

Otherwise, he would not have been able to refine it successfully either.

"Again!"

Next, He Pingsheng continued alchemy.

But not every time was successful.

His alchemy success rate was about one-fourth.

That is to say, on average, four portions of medicinal herbs could refine one batch of pills.

This success rate was already very heaven-defying.

Because those ordinary skilled alchemists only have such a success rate.

If it's a beginner, some may not even be able to refine one batch in ten.

Of course, He Pingsheng felt that if he were to refine pills in the alchemy room of Xiuzhu Peak, this success rate could be improved.

In addition, if the cultivation base grows and the spiritual sense continues to grow, the alchemy success rate will also increase significantly. ===== CHAPTER 39 =====