Chapter 153: The Beginning of Alchemy

It is undeniable that this unspoken rule allowed Sun Hao to spend more time practicing on his own. Posting address, read it backwards ↘↙Perhaps, it is precisely because monks’ cultivation is fundamental to the sect that they acquiesce in the existence of such unspoken rules.

After his task was contracted out, Sun Hao simply lived in Zhulinyuan, and Chengcheng only occasionally went to pretend to be a flower to show that he was carrying out the task.

In Zhulinyuan, after completely relaxing, Sun Hao's cultivation steps are normal. According to the needs and urgency, Sun Hao arranged a simple training plan for himself, and began to improve himself in an all-round way step by step.

For a day, Sun Hao arranged it like this. In the afternoon, he will practice the way of array talismans. The current focus of training is on the practice of writing talismans; It’s about refining qi and refining gods. Actually, because of the existence of wood pills and flames, Sun Hao automatically refines qi all the time, but with the improvement of Sun Hao’s cultivation base, it is still necessary to ensure a certain amount of time for refining qi every day. God refining is a dream , because now Sun Hao has just practiced the dream of refining the gods, and he is not familiar with it, and the time required is not short.

Practicing alchemy has officially mentioned Sun Hao's practice.

Alchemy is one of the essential subjects for monks. Except for those monks who do not have the talent for alchemy, all monks with a little talent for alchemy will generally learn the art of alchemy. Pills have a wide range of uses, and they are the most powerful and most commonly used in monks' practice. auxiliary means.

Spirit pills can improve monks' cultivation; spirit pills can improve monks' cultivation qualifications; spirit pills can heal monks' injuries; spirit pills can help monks break through bottlenecks; it is said that powerful spirit pills can also make monks soar ... As long as there is an alchemy formula, there is nothing impossible, only unexpected effects. This is alchemy.

Alchemy originated in ancient times, known as Waidan Huangbaishu in history, it is a method used by ancient monks to refine elixirs in pursuit of longevity. Based on their knowledge of yin and yang, five elements and numbers, ancient alchemists tried to refine spirit grass and spirit plants into pills in order to achieve the goal of immortality. ", is an important theoretical book on alchemy, and there is a list at the beginning of it

Yang one two three four five

water fire wood gold earth

Yin six seven ** ten

The distribution of yin and yang, five elements, and numbers in this table is consistent with the older monk's scripture "Hetu", which fully demonstrates the practical application of ancient monks' principles of theory, qi, and number in alchemy. The ancient monks believed that although the failure of alchemy can be attributed to negligence in the alchemy process, it can also be attributed to fate, and fate is the other side of number. Therefore, a person must be destined to have a relationship with immortals in order to refine the panacea, otherwise he will fail.

Of all the arts of cultivation, in terms of auxiliary effects, alchemy is the strongest, not one of them.

Because of the powerful auxiliary effect of alchemy, there are as many monks practicing alchemy as crucian carp crossing the river. There are all kinds of alchemy skills, and the ever-changing inheritance of alchemy recipes. After thousands of years of evolution, they are like the sands of the Ganges River.

However, most monks are self-preserving, because of alchemy recipes, because of spiritual herbs, and because of various reasons such as alchemy qualifications. There are very few real alchemists. Most low-level alchemy monks often master one or two alchemy recipes. For a sect like the Cyanwood Sect, the first-level alchemist has a very high status. Level 2 alchemists are scarce resources.

The ancient monks' alchemy was an act that surpassed the heavens and the earth, so the alchemy was extremely mysterious and strange in the practice or process. The monks usually choose famous mountain resorts that are inaccessible and where gods come and go, otherwise "evil spirits can enter, and medicine will not work". ;

Ancient alchemy equipment is also varied. The alchemy tools recorded in history books include alchemy furnace, alchemy tripod, water sea, pomegranate jar, sweet snail, mercury pump, Huachi, grinder, silk sieve, horsetail Luo, etc. However, the inheritance So far, apart from special regions, the only popular alchemy tools for monks in mainland China are alchemy furnaces and alchemy tripods. Ordinary monks often use alchemy stoves for alchemy, and only the big sects use alchemy tripods. Every time a tripod comes out of the gate, thousands of pills will be made.

Sun Hao had two alchemy furnaces at hand, which were obtained from Ma Yiming and Yukunlong respectively. Among them, Yukunlong's alchemy furnace was of better quality, and it happened to be used by Sun Hao for alchemy at this time.

Cultivator alchemy, the so-called talent in alchemy, mainly lies in the word fire.

If a monk does not have a fire root, and what he is practicing is not the true energy of the fire attribute, then the monk needs to build a foundation and give birth to a real fire before he can really learn the art of alchemy, which is one of them.

However, as a monk who cultivates the true energy of fire, if he cannot control the temperature of the fire well and accurately control the true energy, then he will not be able to become an alchemist. The level of Qi control is another threshold for becoming an alchemist.

It is these thresholds that create the scarcity of alchemists.

Take Sun Hao as an example, the reason why he is able to quietly practice alchemy now is precisely because he has practiced the fire attribute of the Yanlong Trifold Method. Breathing out fire every day is just for leisure, what is the sacred temple of alchemy, and the nine stacks of flame dragons can climb to the top..."

If the introduction description is not exaggerated, then Sun Hao will have a lot of extra help to drive Yanlong's three stacks of true energy to refine alchemy.

Moreover, compared with ordinary monks, there is a small flame in the heart of Sun Hao, and a copy of "The God of the Five Elements and Wheels" in his mind. These are closely related to the flames. There is no bonus effect, and Sun Hao is looking forward to it.

In addition to these advantages, Sun Hao's alchemy also has two early advantages, which come from the advantages he had when he was a child in the mortal world. One is that Sun Hao has practiced brewing medicinal juice with his mother Wu Yuhe since he was a child, and he has a little experience in controlling the heat of boiling medicine. Although brewing medicine and alchemy are not the same, many principles are similar, which can be regarded as one of the foundations; One thing is that Sun Hao was a blacksmith since he was a child, and he has an indissoluble bond with Huo Huo, and he is quite familiar with Huo Huo.

Examining himself, and based on his own advantages, Sun Hao planned to practice alchemy hard, and hoped that he would rush to the second-level alchemist within two years to help Tong Li refine the Black Jade Discontinuous Pill.

Following the customs of ancient monks, Sun Hao fasted and put on a clean hat, and sat in the alchemy room with concentration. After a while, he began to try alchemy for the first time. Sun Hao is not a person with high ambitions, and he never thought that he would become fat in one breath. Therefore, the first panacea he chose to refine was a half panacea, which was also the formula he obtained from "The Book of Cows" , Guidance Pill. It is relatively easy to refine the Half Spirit Pill. Sun Hao plans to practice the Half Spirit Pill first, get familiar with it, and then proceed step by step.

Sun Hao's alchemy is mainly obtained from the storage bags of Ma Yiming and Yu Kunlong. After writing the books on alchemy, Sun Hao has spared time to study these four books many times. With Sun Hao's photographic memory, the content of these four books has long been engraved in his heart.

"Basic Alchemy" divides the entire alchemy process into six major steps: "drinking medicine, collecting medicine, sealing furnace, refining medicine (Xiao Zhoutian), coagulating pill, and stopping fire".

The six major steps must not be wrong in order to refine the panacea.

Adjusting the medicine is the first step. If the medicine is not adjusted, the true species will not grow. It is said in the alchemy scriptures that "harmony and agglutination make a decision". The medicine adjustment is to process the spiritual grass according to the needs of alchemy. For the spirit pills, different spirit herbs have different weight requirements, such as Sun Hao’s Daoqi Pill that Sun Hao is practicing now, its pill formula is three Qixing pills, two thousand-year-old honeysuckle plants, supplemented by rootless water, ebony charcoal, and fire refining , you can get Qi Gui Dan.

The first step is to mix the medicine. According to Dongfang Sheng's "Alchemy Experience", this is the foundation of alchemy, and it is related to the quality of the alchemy. The alchemist has to practice the skill of this medicine throughout his life. Of course, as long as the medicine can be adjusted to a certain level level, you can start alchemy.

In the first step back then, Dongfang Sheng lasted for three months, wasting countless spiritual herbs in order to reach the level of medicinal preparation for alchemy.

Qi Dao Pill is a semi-spiritual pill. Except for the thousand-year-old honeysuckle, the other alchemy materials are mostly secular things and do not need to be prepared, as long as the quantity is accurate. Therefore, the focus of Sun Hao's preparation is two thousand-year-old honeysuckle.

There is a big gap between theory and practice. According to the description of the basic alchemy and the pharmacological combination of the basic alchemy, a semi-elixir such as Qi Dao Pill, only needs the coordination of spirit and energy, and the harmony can be used to collect medicine. That's right, as long as the auras of the two thousand-year-old honeysuckle plants are relatively balanced, and controlled within a certain range through modulation, you can proceed to the next step, collecting herbs and refining them.

After Sun Hao started to concoct, he realized that it is not easy to concoct the aura of the two spiritual grasses. It is either you have more or he is short of the two spiritual grasses. Too much spiritual energy was lost during the adjustment process, and it could not meet the spiritual energy requirements for refining Qi Dao Pill.

That is to say, if it is the winning hand in the East, this modulation ended in failure at this time. I have to practice this method of concocting again with two stalks of spirit grass. And this is often one of the reasons why alchemists are precious. If it is not for outstanding talent, there are really not many spiritual herbs that can afford an alchemist.

However, for Sun Hao who lives in Mudan, this is not the case. Under the urging of the wood pill, the two spiritual grasses quickly recovered their spiritual energy, and Sun Hao returned to the original point again and began to concoct.

Sun Hao's approach, invisible, saved a lot of time and cost. Of course, Sun Hao can even activate Mudan during the modulation, artificially controlling its aura within a certain range. If he does this, Sun Hao's modulation will undoubtedly speed up a lot, but Sun Hao did not do this, but step by step, Seriously practice the technique of preparing the spirit grass by yourself.

Sun Hao has been practicing all the way, and he is well aware of the importance of the foundation. Since the preparation of spiritual herbs is the foundation of alchemy, Sun Hao feels that he still needs to be practiced steadily, and does not intend to opportunistically. <