Linghu Chong smiled. Seeing that Ai Xunhuan was so angry, he immediately changed the subject and said, "I met Alchemist Yue yesterday. She said she wanted to become a hundred billion level alchemist and asked me if it was possible for me to reunite with her.
, I bow my head and borrow 30 billion from her?"
Ai Xunhuan seemed to be frozen, his eyes did not blink, he did not speak, but his expression kept changing.
"Brother, what's wrong? Seeing that you were unhappy, I made a joke. At that time, Brother Chong refused directly."
Ai Xunhuan slapped his head and there was a snap.
Linghu Chong was heartbroken when he saw it. This was a real shot.
"Brother, what's going on? Please speak. I'm so worried."
"Your mistress's brain is really not full of water. She is very good at calculations. I was accidentally calculated by her."
"What's going on? Stop talking nonsense!"
"This time we were refining alchemy, the School of Materials had it. Tian Yaoyang went directly to redeem it without doing any preventive work. Your mistress used her authority to check it out. Naturally, she got the formula easily. She is an alchemist and naturally thought of using cheaper medicinal materials to replace expensive medicinal materials and looked for alternatives.
Fang, your mistress is in a very exciting mood. Seeing you rejuvenated these days, she can’t help but feel excited, so I’m going to give you a thorough explanation in advance.”
"Yue Zhuoer is really hateful!"
"How about you go kill her!"
"This? She relied entirely on conjecture and improved alchemy. There seems to be no obvious fault."
"It's a big mistake for her to usurp our interests!"
"Then how are we different from those who persecuted me before?"
"Brother Chong, if you have this idea, we still have a chance."
"As long as you go to Alchemist Yue and find a way to hold her back and prevent her from specializing in alchemy, we will do our best to research alternative elixirs, and there is still a chance."
"Go, go, go, it's all a bad idea."
"She and I have made a decision. There is no way we will have anything to do with her anymore, never!"
"Okay, let Master Yue succeed once, and tell Qiu Liang that it will cost you your life, if you don't want money."
"Qiu Liang said that if you said you had no money, she would sell the technique to Xia Qiuwei in exchange for working capital."
Ai Xunhuan's petrification, Xia Qiuliang's intimidating skills are really good, this technique cannot be made public for the time being, he is only at this level.
Ai Xunhuan's head was as big as an ox, but Xia Qiuliang said she could do it. And he had said before that he would let her make the decision. Although there was a five-year agreement, what could a woman do if she refused to be reasonable?
Ai Xunhuan was so anxious that he ran around in the room and said after a while: "You don't want to take action against Master Yue?"
Linghu Chong said: "If she violates the rules at all, I will definitely take action. Now, there is really no reason to take action."
"You are not willing to sell your body and soul for profit?"
"Then what's the difference between us and Master Yue?"
"Okay, go and tell Qiu Liang that we will immediately recruit ten ordinary body refiners and find ten alchemists to borrow them for ten days. If we can't find this alchemist, don't come back. You can do whatever you want, just sell your skills.
If the law is to sell magic, I can’t afford 30 billion.”
"Brother, I will do it right away. Qiu Liang may be able to find ten alchemists. She is influential in Tianhong Bao Tower."
"By the way, that universal body trainer is not allowed to know each other. You can pay a high price and say that you have ten days to concentrate on your work. You can only eat, sleep and work. After ten days, you can check out and leave."
Linghu Chong got the instruction and left in a hurry.
Ai Xunhuan is very calm. Now he needs to quickly come up with a replacement prescription and sort out what needs to be done.
Regarding alchemy, Ai Xunhuan took the time to learn more about Tian Yaoyang after he returned from Tianhong Bao Tower.
There are three major steps in making alchemy.
The first step is to extract the active ingredients in the medicinal village. There are mainly the following methods.
The first method is the dipping method: The dipping method is a method of putting Chinese herbal medicine powder or pieces into an appropriate container, adding a suitable intrusion agent, and dipping the medicinal materials to dissolve the ingredients.
This method is relatively simple and easy to implement, but the leaching rate is poor.
The second method is the percolation method: The percolation method is a leaching method in which Chinese herbal medicine powder is placed in a percolator, an intruding agent is continuously added to make it penetrate through the medicinal materials, and the leachate flows out from the lower part of the percolator from top to bottom.
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When the invading agent penetrates into the medicinal powder and the proportion of the dissolved components increases and moves downward, the upper solution or dilute leaching liquid will replace its position, resulting in a good concentration difference and enabling better diffusion, so the leaching effect is better than the dipping method
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When the color of the exudate is very light or the volume of the exudate is equivalent to ten times the weight of the original medicinal materials, it can be considered that the extraction is basically complete.
The third method, decoction method: Decoction method is the earliest traditional leaching method.
The containers used are generally pottery and sand jars.
It is best to stir frequently when heating over fire to prevent local medicinal materials from being overheated and easily scorched.
The fourth method, reflux extraction method: uses the invading solvent to heat the extraction, and a reflux heating device is required to avoid volatilization loss of the invading solvent.
The extraction efficiency of this method is higher than that of the cold soaking method, and the continuous extraction method is often used in mass production.
The fifth method, continuous extraction method: uses volatile intrusive solvents to extract the active ingredients of Chinese herbal medicines. It requires a smaller amount of intrusive solvents and the extracted components are more complete.
These five methods correspond to the use of various medicinal materials, each with its own characteristics. Currently, there are only four types of medicinal materials. As long as a large amount of invasive solvents are purchased, ordinary people can learn to extract the effective ingredients of medicinal materials immediately.
This is why Tian Yaoyang can be a Dantong. The main job of Dantong is to purify.
This is obviously a free job for the alchemist.
The second step of making alchemy is to mix the extracted active ingredients evenly in proportion, and then use edible glue to make the mixed extracted ingredients into a spherical elixir base.
The third step of refining elixir is to burn the elixir and refine the elixir into elixir in the elixir furnace.
The first step of extracting the effective substances is not difficult. As long as there are people on hand, there will be no problem.
The trouble comes in the second step, the ratio of the two newly replaced drugs.
Now we don’t know how much the new drug is equal to the medicinal properties of the original drug. It is impossible to know. We can only test it. In addition, there are two kinds of drugs. The permutation and combination increase the square value.
Only replacing a single new drug, assuming only ten weights are needed to test, now it will take hundreds of times.
The third step is a big problem. The smelting time and temperature of the new elixir were determined through testing.
It is based on the alchemist's experience, observation, and judgment of the color of the flames, and is tried out.
An ordinary alchemist tries out a new elixir an average of fifty times before he can succeed.
If you conduct a test of 100 formulas of elixirs, you will need to refine 5,000 elixirs.
Generally, it takes about half an hour to refine elixirs. An alchemist can refine up to seventeen or eight elixirs a day. For ten consecutive days, it can only be calculated as 15 elixirs per day.
A total of one hundred and fifty pills are recorded in ten days, and ten people can only refine one thousand and fifteen pills.
The number of tests must be reduced from one hundred groups to less than thirty groups.
Ai Xunhuan has a big head.
Tian Yaoyang came back at this time, and Ai Xunhuan immediately ordered him to exchange a large amount of medicinal materials, about two thousand replacement pills.
At the same time, he told Dan Master Yue that he was refining the replacement elixir and they had to speed up.
Tian Yaoyang suffered a lot from Yue Zhuoer, and he felt very guilty when he thought of Yue Zhuoer guessing the formula.
Ai Xunhuan said: "Why are you blaming yourself? The main task now is to refine a good replacement elixir before Master Yue. First of all, have you chosen the new replacement elixir well?"
Tian Yaoyang said: "The new substitute medicines were selected from the "Ai Shi's Materia Medica". Sika deer antler replaced five-color deer antlers, and white dew grass replaced silver feather grass. A total of hundreds of tests were conducted and two pills were refined, but the effect was not very good."
"Immediately tell me the proportion of ingredients and the efficacy of the elixir."
"In the first formula, the ratio of sika deer antler to five-color deer antler is 1.5 times to 1, and the ratio of white dew grass to silver feather grass is also 1.3 times to 1. The second time the ratio is reversed. The first pill of the elixir is about 1.5 times to 1.
It’s 1.3 times the amount of the intermediate body tempering pill, and the second one is about 1.5 times. It’s far different from the original one.”
"You go and exchange a large amount of medicinal materials first, and I'll think about it."
Tian Yaoyang left in a hurry.
Half a day later, Linghu Chong brought back ten alchemy masters and ten ordinary martial arts cultivators.
Ai Xunhuan asked Linghu Chong to bring ten ordinary martial arts cultivators to his residence and stay there. Each of them would have their own space. No talking or communication allowed. They would be provided with good wine and meat while they waited for work.
The main purpose is to prevent them from leaking which medicinal materials are extracted.
Each person has one kind, and ten people can extract a large amount together to make elixirs.
Time was urgent, so Linghu Chong didn't ask any questions and directly brought back ten martial arts cultivators to wait for the mission.
Ai Xunhuan immediately said to the ten alchemists: "Thank you very much for your help. Each person will receive one million spiritual stones per day, and each person will be rewarded with ten million spiritual stones in ten days. If the new elixir is successfully refined, the reward will be increased tenfold."
!The person who refines the most effective medicine will be awarded an additional 100 million spiritual stones."
All the alchemists had already accepted Xia Qiuliang's favor. When they heard that there was such a high reward, they were all eager to work hard for ten days.
Once successful, the reward will be tenfold, and the person who refines the most successful elixir will also receive a grand prize. This is really hard work and worth it.
No matter how much alchemy masters make money, they are still not at this level.
Ai Xunhuan first handed out a form to each person, which said - white dew grass = 1 tael of silver feather grass; - sika deer antler = 1 tael of five-color deer antler.
Ai Xunhuan looked at the estimates of ten alchemists on the quantity of this alternative medicine.
After all, they deal with each other every day, so their intuition is much more accurate.
I quickly took back the answer. The value of sika velvet antler compared to five-color velvet antler ranges from 1.3 to 1.7.
The value of White Dew Grass compared to Silver Feather Grass ranges from 1.3 to 2.2.
This ratio shows that the difference between deer antlers is small, but it is difficult to judge the medicinal properties of the two grasses.
Judging from Tian Yaoyang's two pills, the ratio of white dew grass is high and the ratio of deer antler is low, so the effect of the pill is slightly better.
Ai Xunhuan decided to take the route with a higher ratio of white dew grass and a slightly lower ratio of deer antlers.
This requires a gamble, and I don’t have time to test everything.
Ai Xunhuan used his mathematical knowledge to write down twenty groups of alternative medicine formulas.
This is the first step of preliminary screening, if the effect is good.
It can also do ten groups of fine screening work.
At this time Tian Yaoyang came back, and Ai Xunhuan ordered him to take the medicinal materials to Linghu Chong's mansion for purification.
There are about eleven purified elixirs, and they will be brought back immediately.
Ai Xunhuan brought out food and tea, and asked the ten alchemists to rest and prepare for work.
Soon, Tian Yaoyang brought back more than a dozen pill extracts.
Ai Xunhuan weighed and proportioned according to his own data, resulting in a total of thirteen servings.
Then, take it out, give a portion to each alchemist, and ask the alchemist to start practicing.
For the first time, the alchemist does two or three steps.
Next time I have time, Tian Yaoyang, Ai Xunhuan, and Linghu Chong may do the mixing of the medicinal powder and making the base. The base making is not too difficult.
As the busy work begins, Ai Xunhuan has to pause his physical exercise.
The ten alchemists are particularly powerful because there are heavy rewards. If you refine the best elixir, you will receive a special prize of 100 million. The other alchemists also have 100 million, so there is no need to be discouraged. This chapter has been completed!