Ever since ancient sages created the art of elixirs, over hundreds of millions of years, alchemy has always been at the top of the list of cultivation arts!
Whether it is cultivation, breakthroughs, healing, or life extension, elixirs can play a very high role.
Today, elixirs are a necessity for every monk.
But since the great changes in the world a million years ago, all kinds of spiritual herbs have become increasingly rare in the Jiuxuan Realm where Yunzhou is located.
As a result, there is an increasing shortage of alchemy materials, causing the price of elixirs to skyrocket.
The art of elixirs is extremely difficult to get started with, and a large amount of materials are required to refine elixirs in order to train a qualified alchemist, so the number of alchemists is becoming increasingly scarce.
To this day, some big sects and wealthy families can still train alchemists.
There are some alchemists outside, but most of them are half-experienced, or they only know how to refine some basic elixirs.
Xueyang Sect, under Limeng Courtyard, has six pavilions in total.
They are Li Zhen Pavilion, Li Dan Pavilion, Li Qi Pavilion, Li Fu Pavilion, Li Puppet Pavilion and Li Beast Pavilion.
Lin Fan stepped on the flying sword and after a brief walk around Li Meng Island, he went straight to Li Dan Pavilion.
"Hello, senior brother, I am Lin Fan, an inner disciple. I am here to accept a mission from the sect." Lin Fan said and handed over the mission jade token.
The disciple at the door briefly checked the jade plaque and said, "Junior brother, please wait here for a moment. I will go and report to the Deputy Pavilion Master."
After saying that, the disciple turned around and entered the pavilion.
After a while, the disciple turned back and said: "The deputy pavilion master is not in the pavilion at the moment. Junior brother can go to the second floor to report to Alchemist Guangcheng first. When the deputy pavilion master comes back, he can go through the formalities for entering the pavilion."
"Okay." Lin Fan took back the jade token and stepped into the palace.
When he went up to the second floor and inquired, he found out that the alchemist Guangcheng was actually making alchemy.
So he returned to the lobby on the first floor and waited quietly.
Who knew that this wait would last a day and a night.
Lin Fan was meditating on the floor of the hall when suddenly a voice came from his ear.
"Are you the disciple who accepted the mission of Alchemy Disciple?"
Lin Fan slowly stood up and saw a lean old man with short brown hair and beard.
He took out the jade sign and said: "I am the one you are, who is your Excellency?"
"I am the alchemist Guangcheng who works in this alchemy pavilion." The old man said and took the jade token, looked at it twice and returned it.
"Have you ever learned the art of elixirs before?"
Lin Fan shook his head.
"Where's the art of controlling fire?"
Lin Fan shook his head.
"How many kinds of spiritual herbs do you know?"
Lin Fan twirled his fingers and was about to speak, but was interrupted by Guang Cheng: "Okay, I got it."
As he said that, the old man threw three jade slips to him and said, "Take the jade slips back and look at them carefully. Come back here to report in three days."
"Disciple accepts the order."
Lin Fan didn't expect that the report on the first day would be so simple. Taking the jade slip in hand, Yu Jian returned to Caiquan Island.
An hour later.
Lin Fan, who returned to the cave, took out the three jade slips given to him by Guangcheng and looked at them one by one.
The first jade slip contains the rules and regulations in the Dan Pavilion.
For example, before entering the alchemy room, you must perform a cleaning technique to ensure that dust on your clothes will not be brought into the alchemy room.
When guarding the fire, you must concentrate on it and cannot doze off or be lazy.
The elixir recipes learned from the elixir pavilion cannot be disclosed to anyone else without permission.
In short, there are various rules.
Apart from being a little cumbersome, these rules were acceptable and he completely memorized them after reading them once.
The records in the second jade slip are similar to the Lingcao version of the encyclopedia.
It contains thousands of common spiritual herbs and some rare spiritual herbs. There are also detailed notes on the characteristics, medicinal properties, and pharmacology of these spiritual herbs.
Due to the large amount of content in it, even with his extraordinary memory, it took him two full days to memorize all the relevant information about these spiritual herbs.
The third jade slip records the introductory knowledge of alchemy and the two most basic elixir recipes, namely "Blood Coagulation Pill" and "Poison Expelling Pill".
In terms of alchemy, it is mainly divided into three major parts, namely fire control, modulation and elixir condensation.
The first fire control is to control the fire temperature in real time according to the characteristics of different spiritual materials to achieve the perfect refining of the spiritual materials in the alchemy furnace.
However, since there are often a variety of spiritual materials in the alchemy furnace, and the characteristics of each spiritual material are basically different, it is necessary to divide the flame into several strands and use different fire temperatures to refine different spiritual materials.
Therefore, in order to achieve perfect fire control, the alchemist not only needs to be able to multi-task, but also needs to have extremely high control over the flame.
Controlling fire alone raises the threshold of alchemy to the pulse-opening stage.
The second preparation is divided into two parts. One part is the preparation of the spiritual materials before opening the furnace, and the other part is the real-time mixing of the materials during the alchemy process.
The part before starting the furnace is fine. As long as you practice diligently, you can usually prepare the ingredients before starting the furnace.
But the real-time deployment during the alchemy process is very difficult to master.
This is not to say that the technique is difficult, the main reason is that when refining the elixir, the alchemist has to control the temperature of the fire in real time.
Doing multiple things at the same time naturally raises the difficulty level by several levels.
The third elixir condensation refers to the use of a special method to condense the spiritual materials in the elixir furnace into elixirs at the last moment of elixir refining.
The key here is that the art of condensing alchemy is a secret art that is extremely difficult to learn and even more difficult to master. The difficulty of its cultivation has deterred countless people who want to become alchemists.
It is also the biggest obstacle on the way for alchemy disciples to be promoted to alchemy masters.
In this way, various requirements have led to the fact that almost all alchemists are monks at the foundation-building stage and above, and only a few are at the pulse-opening stage.
Even those who can achieve success in alchemy are almost all the ancestors of the golden elixir stage!
However, the two biggest obstacles on the road to alchemy, the art of controlling fire and the art of condensing elixir, are the easiest to achieve for Lin Fan who has the Enlightenment Tower.
For him, the most time-consuming thing is the preparation of spiritual materials. Apart from working hard and practicing a lot, there is no other way.
To sum it up, there is no problem if he wants to become an alchemist, but it will only take a while.
However, spiritual practice does not happen overnight.
In his plan to climb the great road, the art of alchemy is an extremely important link.
Because as the realm increases, elixirs become increasingly rare and difficult to refine.
Rather than begging for help when the time comes, it is better to master the art of alchemy yourself.
Another point is that making talismans is still a good way to make money in the early stage.
But after reaching the realm after the foundation building stage, it becomes increasingly difficult to earn spiritual stones by refining talismans.
The main reasons are, first, the lack of materials for refining talismans.
Second, except for a few kinds of talismans, the power of most talismans increases as their level increases, and it is difficult to keep up with the power of spells and magic weapons.
This is why, among the high-level ones, the combat power of Fu Lu Masters is basically at the bottom.
The fire control technique recorded in the jade slip is called "Lava Fire Control Technique".
Generally speaking, any monk with a fire spirit root can learn to use this technique.
However, monks who major in fire techniques and have high qualifications in fire spiritual roots have additional advantages when learning to perform fire techniques.
The reason why he majors in water-based exercises is precisely because he has the spiritual roots of water, fire, wood, and earth. Moreover, the water spiritual roots occupy the most 50%, and the other three spiritual roots are almost the same. Together they occupy
The other fifty percent.
Since this lava fire control technique is just an ordinary fire control technique, it is quite simple to practice. It only took him two hours to successfully master this technique.
Then with the help of the Enlightenment Tower, he actually directly practiced this technique to the level of mastery!
At this time, there were only a few hours left before the agreed time. He immediately stepped onto the escape light and headed straight for Lidan Pavilion.