Just when Zuo Feng was talking to himself to relieve the tension in his heart, there were new changes in the medicine furnace.
Zuo Feng had originally been paying attention to the changes in the medicinal pot in his hand. Now that he saw the changes, he immediately became more nervous. Obviously, the previous soliloquy had no effect at all.
At this moment, even a slight change in the medicine pot in his hand may directly affect the overall situation, that is, Zuo Feng's life or death. How could this not make him feel nervous.
Zuo Feng can no longer feel the changes within the medicine furnace just through the flames. He has released a ray of spiritual energy and injected it into the fire line medicine furnace.
You must know that for Zuo Feng now, any bit of spiritual energy is extremely precious, so Zuo Feng is not willing to use it directly unless it is absolutely necessary.
But now it is different from before. The heat released by the flame can only touch the juice in the cloud grass at best, but cannot directly touch the core of the male fruit of the double-flowered vine inside.
The so-called "cooking medicine" now has actually begun the formal step of mixing medicine, which is equivalent to combining medicine processing and refining medicine.
If something unexpected happens now, it will directly affect the two drugs, so Zuo Feng has to pay careful attention to any changes.
The white juice of the cloud grass is continuously heated in the medicine stove, and then the medicine liquid is used to slowly stew the core inside. This processing method is relatively gentler than steaming the medicine or roasting at high temperature.
The male fruit produced on the double-flowered vine itself is born in a grease-like liquid, so although it looks very hard on the surface, it is actually very fragile. If there is a slight problem, the entire fruit core will be damaged.
Destroyed, thereby losing all the medicinal properties inside.
Therefore, when dealing with the core of this male fruit, the best way is to use the method of boiling medicine, but usually, this process is relatively long, and the person who cooks the medicine cannot even practice, and has to look after it for almost half a day.
During the process of cooking medicine, you need to constantly observe the internal changes and adjust the flame to continuously increase or decrease the temperature. If the corresponding temperature is not reached, the external protection of the fruit core will not let any of the medicine leak out.
However, once the temperature exceeds the endurance limit, not only the medicinal properties will begin to be damaged, but the entire fruit core may even be destroyed. Therefore, once the temperature is too high, artificial control must be carried out to allow the temperature to drop rapidly.
However, if the temperature drops to a certain level, it must be raised immediately. After heating to a certain level, the medicinal properties inside the fruit core will be in an activated state. After cooling again, the medicinal properties will be combined with the fruit core itself, so when the time comes, you want to peel it off.
It will be very difficult to get out the essence of the fruit core.
Now Zuo Feng doesn't have that much time to slowly cook the medicine, and he also has to quickly integrate the juice of the cloud grass into the fruit core, so he must always keep the temperature at a temperature that the fruit core can withstand.
The upper limit hovers.
In this way, not only the fusion and the process of cooking the medicine are combined, but the process of cooking the medicine is also greatly accelerated, and naturally the risks to be taken are also greatly increased.
Since the beginning of cooking the medicine, there have actually been several internal changes, but Zuo Feng has carefully resolved them. No damage has been caused, but as time goes by, Zuo Feng can also feel the changes that will occur at any time.
, may directly affect success or failure.
Just at that moment, Zuo Feng felt that the outside of the fruit core began to peel off. This change surprised him and made him highly nervous.
Although the first step in the process of cooking medicine is to extract the essence inside the fruit core, it is still very rare to directly peel off the outer shell of the fruit core.
Although Zuo Feng was nervous, he did not forget to carefully control the flame. In addition to lowering the temperature, he also slightly slowed down the flow rate of the juice.
Originally, these white juices exert pressure on the inside, but through constant rotation, the released pressure is made more uniform and balanced.
But I didn't expect that the rotating and flowing juice not only made the pressure more uniform, but also continuously washed the outside of the fruit core.
In fact, in the face of such a change, Zuo Feng couldn't help but be caught off guard. You must know that the outer shell of the fruit core is indeed a part that needs to be processed, but if it is destroyed so easily, it will have extremely negative consequences for his subsequent refining.
Impact.
If other alchemists faced such changes, they might be eager to proceed and remove the core of the fruit to obtain the essence inside.
But Zuo Feng was taught by Zhuang Yu step by step, and he had a deeper understanding of the entire process of cooking medicine.
"The shell part of this fruit core looks very unsightly, but in fact you should be grateful for its existence. It is precisely because of the shell that we can truly extract the inner essence without causing damage and
Loss."
The words Zhuang Yu once said will echo in Zuo Feng's mind, as if she was right beside him teaching Zuo Feng.
For the process of cooking medicine, if you want to extract the essence inside, it is not just as simple as what you see on the surface.
In fact, the shell part of the fruit core is equivalent to the furnace within the furnace. After external heat and pressure are applied to the fruit core, the shell part will bear part of it, and then heat and pressure the essence inside.
Although on the surface it looks like "taking off your pants and farting", in fact the existence of the shell is not superfluous. Because the internal essence of the male fruit is very sensitive, the heat and pressure must be controlled within a certain range when cooking medicine.
Inside.
The shell part of the core is not only an obstacle to cooking medicine, but also an important guarantee in the entire process of cooking medicine.
When the external medicine furnace and the inner shell, the "medicine furnace", cooperate with each other, all the essence inside can be extracted without allowing the medicinal properties to be lost.
So when Zuo Feng discovered that the shell of the fruit core was peeling off, not only was he not happy at all, but he became very nervous.
But in just a moment, Zuo Feng had already made a decision. First, he slowed down the rotation speed of the white liquid, and at the same time lowered the pressure, but slightly raised the temperature.
Originally, the first two methods are all ways to alleviate the problem, but the last method of heating will not help the changes in the shell of the fruit core, but will instead promote its continued deterioration.
While Zuo Feng was controlling the changes inside the medicine furnace, his aura responsible for detecting the situation quietly wrapped around the surface of the fruit core.
This process may seem slow, but in fact it is extremely fast. Almost the adjustments to the interior of the medicine furnace and the addition of spiritual energy are completed at almost the same time.
Originally, due to the increase in temperature, the shell part had begun to have new parts, which were about to peel off from the surface, but due to the injection of spiritual energy, it suddenly rejoined.
Seeing such a change, Zuo Feng didn't have much joy on his face, because the refining process had obviously reached a very critical point. Even if the outer shell was stabilized, the next step had to begin.
After stabilizing the shell part, the white juice accelerated again under the control of Zuo Feng, and the pressure gradually increased.
Although it is not obvious on the surface, Zuo Feng is actually in great pain right now. Originally, his spiritual energy has only just recovered a little, and a large part of it is used to urge the flame crystal to release flames, and through the flames,
Adjust the juice, pressure and temperature in the furnace.
At this time, a part is separated to stabilize the outer shell of the fruit core, which puts a lot of pressure on Zuo Feng. Even the spiritual energy in the body is in danger of drying up again at any time.
Faced with this situation, Zuo Feng naturally did not feel any joy. He carefully distributed the spiritual energy while trying to speed up the cooking of the medicine.
Just when there was a dull pain in the meridians and the spiritual energy in the sea was about to be squeezed dry, the fruit core suddenly began to shrink. This contraction was not only a change in the outer shell, but also a change in the inner essence.
Seeing this change, Zuo Feng finally had a smile on his face. Because his efforts finally paid off, the essence part was finally completely separated from the outer shell part, and it was precisely because of this that it shrank.
Using the ordinary method of cooking medicine would naturally not be so difficult, but it would take at least half a day to reach this level. Now Zuo Feng has shortened this time dozens of times, and the risk is worth it in the end.
After the core shrank, the most obvious change was in the outer shell. After this period of cooking, it was no longer so hard, and due to the peeling of the inner essence, the outer shell is now full of creases caused by shrinkage and extrusion.
, looks like old tree bark.
Originally, extracting the inner essence required a somewhat complicated process, but now the white juice is directly activated, suddenly divided into several strands, and rushed directly towards the deepest wrinkles on the outer shell.
And each stream of the white juice is rotating on its own, like a rotating cone, directly piercing the outer shell and drilling inward.
Then I saw that the core began to bulge like an inflated ball. It was even bigger than before.
After a pause of about a breath, Zuo Feng suddenly waved his hand and dispersed the medicine stove, and the flames turned into lines of fire again. As they dispersed, juice began to fly out from the inside of the fruit core. However, the juice at this time was no longer there.
It was no longer milky white, but turned into light blue.
The internal juice and the external juice are mixed with each other. At the same time, the lines of fire are like invisible tentacles, gently dragging the liquid.
The liquid medicine was placed in a container of flames, and the temperature continued to increase. Zuo Feng took a deep breath and directly threw several pieces of the stamens of the blind flower he had just refined into it.
"Success or failure depends on this, don't have any problems!"
Zuo Feng stared nervously at the changes in the medicine, and even forgot to breathe.