"What a God of Wealth! He actually sold a broken stove for 40 taels!" The shopkeeper was very happy.

You must know that he received this item for 4 taels of silver, and the book only cost 35 copper coins.

The shopkeeper felt that he had made a lot of money this time.

After Fang Yang returned to the white door, he immediately closed the doors and windows and carefully studied the "True Interpretation of Alchemy Talismans" he had just obtained.

"The way of alchemy is so mysterious and mysterious, it is called the secret of cultivation, the wonder of performing magic, the ingenuity of conquering the world..."

Fang Yang roughly read through this ancient book written in ancient seal characters in less than three or four hours.

Fang Yang felt that this book "The True Interpretation of Alchemy Talismans" explained a lot of the most basic principles about elixirs and talismans.

"I'm afraid this is a book about the lowest level among cultivators, about simple elixirs and talismans." Fang Yang guessed.

However, this is of great use to Fang Yang, a beginner who knows nothing.

"It turns out that alchemy and talismans are also the key to cultivation."

After reading these prefaces, Fang Yang understood more about the so-called immortal masters of cultivation.

"In the past six months, although I have been practicing hard, my progress has been very slow. It turns out that there are still many tricks in my practice!"

Only then did Fang Yang understand that pills were one of the shortcuts to cultivation.

Pills refined from so-called spiritual objects can increase the speed of cultivation.

Even when you break through the bottleneck, taking elixirs can smoothly pass the bottleneck and improve your cultivation level.

"And the talisman is also very magical. You can use special talisman paper according to certain rules to seal the spell on the talisman paper. When you use it in the future, you only need to use the talisman paper, and you don't even have to consume your own true energy."

These superficial knowledge of elixirs and talismans have already opened Fang Yang's eyes.

In addition, "The True Explanation of Alchemy Talismans" also records several elixir recipes and several methods for making low-level talismans.

Although the records are all low-level elixirs, they still require decades or hundreds of years of medicinal materials.

Several of them are relatively precious medicinal materials.

The talisman is even more troublesome, as it may require the finest pure cinnabar as the raw material, as well as the skin of a monster or special talisman paper to condense the magic into the talisman.

Fang Yang found a "Qi Gathering Pill" formula among the pill formulas.

If nothing else, most of the medicinal materials in this recipe are relatively common.

There is only one ingredient that is special, and that is ginseng that has been grown for more than a hundred years as the main ingredient.

Fang Yang happened to snatch a century-old ginseng tree from Luo Liang.

And judging by the heat, that ginseng plant is probably two to three hundred years old.

Several of Fang Yang's friends, including Ma Dali, were assigned to the Changzhen Medicine Hall in Baimen. It was naturally easy to find them to buy the remaining alchemy ingredients in the recipe.

It's just that almost all medicinal materials that are more than a hundred years old are treasures and cannot be purchased even if you want to.

In the next half month, Fang Yang went to Changzhen Medicine Hall whenever he had time to buy medicinal materials in small quantities and many times.

Some medicinal materials were even purchased privately from Ma Dali and others without anyone else knowing.

Fang Yang only said that he was injured some time ago and wanted to learn medicine so that he could heal his own injuries in the future.

They all thought that Fang Yang was not good at practicing martial arts and wanted to switch to medicine refining in the future, and they were very supportive.

Therefore, Fang Yang's action was not suspected.

In addition, for some common herbs in the prescription, Fang Yang directly asked Sun Zhenzhen, who runs a pharmacy at home, to obtain them smoothly.

Fang Yang prepared the medicinal materials and divided them into ten parts this time. At the same time, he also divided the century-old ginseng into ten parts and put them into the medicine bags respectively.

"Finally, we got together the ingredients for ten sets of elixirs! But where to make the elixirs has become a problem!"

If it is refined inside the white door, no matter whether it is successful or not, it will probably attract people's attention. Then Fang Yang's eyes lit up and he had an idea.

On the first day of the new year, Fang Yang came to the backyard of a private house in Dafeng City early in the morning. In front of the place was a small shop selling mountain products.

In addition to the rooms for people to live in at the back, there is also an elegant small courtyard in the inner courtyard.

This place is a bit remote, but it is suitable for refining elixirs.

This is the mountain goods store run by Mr. Qi, and Tieniu is here to help Mr. Qi.

It turned out that when he returned to Fengcheng, Fang Yang took out some silver and asked Mr. Qi to set up a shop and do some business.

From now on, Old Uncle Qi will not have to work hard anymore, and Old Uncle Qi is an old hunter and knows all about the animal skins, medicinal herbs and other mountain products in the mountains.

In addition, with the support of Fang Yang, the chief disciple of the White Sect, the local ruffians did not dare to cause trouble.

Over the past six months or so, the business of this small shop has been getting better and better.

Today, Uncle Qi and Tieniu knew that Fang Yang had something important to do and wanted to refine the elixir here, so they were extremely careful.

They even closed the store on the pretext of repairing the house, fearing that the noise from doing business would affect Fang Yang.

The method of cultivating alchemy is completely different from the pharmaceutical method in the world.

Pharmaceutical methods in Jianghu all use slicing, boiling, decoction, and pill making to make powders and pills.

To refine the elixir, you must use a sealed alchemy furnace and refining it in the furnace.

And the old alchemy tripod Fang Yang bought matches the alchemy furnace required in "The True Interpretation of Alchemy Talisman".

Fang Yang was very glad that he had bought the right thing. If he had used an ordinary medicine furnace, it would have been impossible to refine the elixir.

Fang Yang took out some ingredients and put them into the medicine furnace with the mountain spring water prepared in advance.

He pounded the medicine box with spring water and stirred it together with a jade medicine pestle as required, until the medicine was evenly distributed before closing the furnace lid.

The alchemy process recorded in "The True Explanation of Alchemy Talisman" is very particular.

For example, you cannot touch the medicinal materials with other things. Even when mixing the medicinal materials, you must use pure jade.

Therefore, this medicine pestle alone cost Fang Yang three hundred taels of silver.

In the process of elixir refining, there are repeated handprints, which must be coordinated with the true energy to guide the heat and form a vortex in the elixir furnace, so that the elixir can be gradually formed.

Fang Yang had studied the alchemy process dozens of times in advance, but when it came time to actually do it, he still felt a little nervous.

Fang Yang placed the fine charcoal blocks prepared in advance under the alchemy furnace, and then used the power of his true energy to activate the fireball technique.

The true fire instantly ignited the charcoal.

The furnace burned for an hour or two. In order to make the firewood burn evenly enough, Fang Yang only dared to add or subtract charcoal pieces little by little.

And if the firepower is insufficient, immediately control a fireball to replenish it in time.

As a result, not only was Fang Yang highly stressed, but the constant use of the fireball technique also made Fang Yang somewhat difficult.

In addition, Fang Yang is worried about the last step of alchemy, which is also the most critical step.

This requires grasping the opportunity to get the elixir out of the furnace.

During the process of alchemy, the liquid in the alchemy furnace will automatically gradually condense into elixir.

If the furnace is opened too early, the potency of the medicinal liquid has not yet been fully released, and the elixir has not yet completely condensed, leaving it as a semi-finished elixir.

The elixirs at this time only had four to five or even two to three points of potency, which was seriously insufficient and resulted in waste.

Fang Yang silently recalled in his mind that if the furnace was opened late, the elixir would be more likely to coke in the furnace and become useless.

Waste pills contain a lot of impurities and toxins.

This waste elixir cannot be eaten. If you eat it, it will not only not help your cultivation, but will also cause huge damage to the body. Usually, you can only throw it away reluctantly.

If you want to skillfully master the temperature of the elixir, you must go through long-term elixir refining operations.

After refining for two hours, according to the elixir prescription, the time to complete the elixir has arrived. Fang Yang immediately controlled the lid of the elixir furnace with his true energy and said: "Open~~~" The lid flew up, and a burning smell came out.

It came from the alchemy furnace.

"Ah~~~It failed~~"

Fang Yang shook his head, but Fang Yang was not discouraged.

He first meditated to restore his true energy, and at the same time carefully recalled the process of refining the elixir just now, looking for problems in it.

From then on, Fang Yang went to the backyard of Old Man Qi's shop to refine elixirs every first and fifteenth day of the lunar month.

At the beginning, five furnaces of elixirs were refined in succession.

Either it was because the fire was not under control, or the time to make the elixir was not grasped. As a result, a large number of semi-finished products and waste elixirs were produced, which made Fang Yang heartbroken.

As soon as Feidan opened the alchemy furnace, a strong and strange burning smell came out, which made Fang Yang choke to tears and could hardly sit still in the room.

A month and a half later, Fang Yang finally succeeded in refining a pot of elixir to his surprise.

When the stove was turned on, a warm and refreshing elixir fragrance filled the whole room.

The fragrance is so intoxicating that it is almost impossible to extricate yourself.

I saw nine white pills the size of lotus seeds lying quietly in the pill furnace.

In the end, a total of three furnaces of elixirs were refined from ten materials.

There are only nine pills in the first two furnaces.
To be continued...