After taking a look at his identity information panel, after deducting the bidding money and handling fees for purchasing the 'Sapphire Five-square Furnace', the number of stored spiritual stones under his name was 17,853 intermediate-level spiritual stones.
Once again, go back to before liberation!
Gao Yuan sighed silently, and then exited the Exile space.
Returning to reality, he skillfully constructed a space passage across the boundary plate, and took out the 'Sapphire Five-square Furnace', which had been reduced in size to the size of a wine gourd, and a moon-white jade slip.
He couldn't put it down and played with the green alchemy furnace carefully for a while, then put it into the storage space and put his spiritual thoughts into the jade slips beside it.
What is recorded in it is the instructions for the use of the 'Sapphire Five-square Stove'. Judging from the tone of the writing, it should be written by the previous owner of this alchemy furnace.
In addition to the various techniques for controlling the talisman array in the furnace and the daily maintenance details of the alchemy furnace, some tips for using the alchemy process are also included at the end.
After reading through the contents of the jade slip, Gao Yuan, who had previously known nothing about alchemy, felt greatly enlightened, and the pain of spending hundreds of thousands of intermediate spiritual stones to buy an alchemy furnace was relieved a lot.
He then took out the jade slip that recorded the nameless body-training technique, and prepared to carefully study the prescriptions recorded in it.
At this moment, lying on the leisure chair, he suddenly felt a familiar wave coming from the innate sea of air.
His heart moved, and he quickly sat up straight and began to realize it carefully.
Under his guidance, strands of innate essence with a strange sense of fluctuation spurted out from the innate air sea.
As the skills circulate around the world, they are continuously transformed into true energy.
And these new powers of true energy have a more vigorous vitality than usual.
They circulate rapidly in the high and far meridians, and gradually have a tendency to expand outward.
Affected by this, an illusory binding force gradually emerged, looming and looming with the expansion of his true energy.
Gao Yuan no longer doubts it. Having experienced several breakthroughs, he is all too familiar with this faint sense of restraint!
This is a sign that the realm of cultivation is about to break through!
When he thought about this, he couldn't help feeling a little emotional. It had been nearly half a year since he broke through to the third level of Kaiyuan Realm.
Although there were various trivial matters that delayed the practice during this period, the continuous extension of the practice time with the improvement of the realm was also an important reason.
Originally, in his estimation, it would take about a month before he could break into the middle stage of Kaiyuan.
But today, I don't know if it was because he solved the problem of the alchemy furnace that had troubled him for a long time, so that his thoughts became clear, and the opportunity for a realm breakthrough quietly appeared. Now he has touched the barrier to break into the next level.
It’s really a double happiness!
Gao Yuan was in a good mood and immediately gave up his plan to refine the alchemy and quickly left the underground stronghold.
Using the wind spell, he rushed towards the remote place he was looking for and determined to break through.
…
Ten days later.
The rising sun casts a misty golden glow, reflecting on the face of Gao Yuan who was meditating quietly on the top of the mountain.
After many days of consolidation and guidance, his innate Qi Hai, which was already in a critical state, became more powerful, and the innate essence spewed out from it became more majestic and solid.
Under the full operation of the "Concentration Art" technique, it continuously absorbs the energy of the surrounding world and turns into an illusory energy funnel entrenched above his head. Following the rhythm of his technique, it continuously pours into his body.
And go.
…
I do not know how long it has been.
In the surrounding void, as if some kind of barrier had been penetrated, an illusory shattering sound rumbled.
At this moment, an invisible wind suddenly blew up.
I saw it whirling around for a while with Gaoyuan's body sitting cross-legged as the center, and suddenly turned into a shock wave visible to the naked eye, spreading in all directions.
"Wow..."
"Click..."
Pushed horizontally by the invisible air waves, not a single tree in the surrounding trees was spared.
Large and small trees within a radius of tens of meters were directly broken in half under the action of this huge force.
Although the trees further away were preserved, they also peeled off large swaths of branches that had just sprouted buds after a violent shock.
Gao Yuan was completely unaware of this. He meditated and adjusted his breath for a while before slowly opening his eyes.
With the light overflowing from the depths of his pupils, he whispered softly:
"It's the fourth level of Kaiyuan Realm..."
He didn't rush to get up. He sat cross-legged quietly, comprehending the changes brought about by this breakthrough one by one.
"The total amount of internal energy has increased... by about 30%, and the speed of Zhoutian has also increased by... about 20%."
He whispered to himself, and then activated his spiritual power.
As soon as he sensed it, he realized that the power of his spiritual thoughts had become much stronger, and he immediately radiated his spiritual thoughts.
Sure enough, the coverage radius of the spiritual mind has also increased by about 70% as it grows, and now it can easily cover a range of 90 meters around the body.
Of course, what concerned him the most was the increase in the strength of the power of his mind.
When he thought of this, an impulse suddenly surged in his heart.
Then he controlled his spiritual thoughts and turned them into tentacles, twining towards a pine tree not far away with only half of its stump left.
"Crack!"
With a slight increase in force from the spiritual tentacles, the bowl-sized pine tree was cut into two pieces by the powerful squeezing force!
"So strong!"
He sighed subconsciously, paused briefly, and then used the 'Heart Curse' mode to instantly cast a Wind Curse.
In an instant, his body floated up under the action of the wind wall that emerged out of thin air, and quickly reached the mid-air several meters above the ground.
"The consumption of spiritual energy is less than 10%!"
He sensed it briefly and quickly got the result. He couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction.
As his spiritual consciousness grows stronger, the practical value of the 'Heart Spell' mode becomes higher and higher.
In the beginning, he would be in danger of running out of spiritual energy if he used it three times at most.
Therefore, the 'Heart Mantra' mode can only be used as an emergency method and will not be used unless it is an emergency.
It was only after he was promoted to the third level of the Kaiyuan Realm last time, and with his spiritual consciousness greatly improved, that he began to try to use the 'Heart Curse' mode to cast instant spells to assist in the battle in subsequent battles.
Despite this, he was quite cautious when using it.
But things are different now. Judging from the mental energy consumption of the blast spell just now, even if the spell is activated seven or eight times in a row, it will not put too much burden on his mental energy.
Of course, what's more important is that as the mind itself grows, its recovery speed also increases slightly, which ensures the endurance of his mind.
In this way, when he faces a battle again, his fighting style will be more flexible and changeable, and his actual combat ability will definitely increase accordingly!
In mid-air, Gao Yuan lowered his head and looked around.
I saw that this originally lush hilltop had been completely razed to the ground when he briefly lost control due to his breakthrough in cultivation and the rapid expansion of his spiritual thoughts in a short period of time!
Tsk, luckily I didn’t choose to break through at home!
Otherwise, if the land in front of me is in such a mess, I am afraid that more than half of the underground stronghold I have worked so hard to build will be directly destroyed by the divine storm just now.
As his mind turned, he activated the Wind Curse with all his strength, and his body turned into a ray of light and shadow, quickly heading towards the underground stronghold.
…
Underground stronghold.
On the basis of the original lounge, Gao Yuan expanded an alchemy workshop of about fifty square meters.
Although it is said to be a workshop, the furnishings inside are very simple.
The five-sided sapphire furnace, which was entirely green in color, had now reached a normal height of just over five feet, and was firmly placed on the stone base reserved in the center of the stone chamber.
Less than two meters in front of the furnace, there is a square stone platform about one foot high, and Gao Yuan is sitting cross-legged on it.
Less than an arm's length away from his left side, there was a square stone table about two feet high, shaped like a trough.
There are several groups of unknown substances of different shapes inside, some are dark and look like coke, and some are wet and sticky, like melted chocolate.
He turned sideways and picked up a small piece of it in his hand, frowning and staring at it for a moment.
Then he took out the jade slips that recorded the methods of using the elixir and the elixir furnace. He compared the entire elixir refining process just now and looked for the mistake that led to the failure.
Including the previous batch, this was already the sixth batch of elixirs that he had refining to waste, but the progress of his elixir refining was still at the first step of calcining impurities.
Refining elixirs was more difficult to get started than he expected!
Speaking of which, thanks to various master-level skills, his control of the power of true energy has already entered a very sophisticated state.
Coupled with the powerful spiritual consciousness Sasuke gained from practicing "The Art of Connecting the Gods", his various conditions have far exceeded the threshold for refining elixirs.
But his path to alchemy was still not smooth. Even though all the steps recorded on the elixir recipe were memorized in his mind, when he actually started to refine the elixir, he would still make various mistakes in some details.
This error has nothing to do with the alchemy furnace or himself, but stems from the limitations of written expression.
There are many subtle gaps between the information that the Danfang writer wants to express through Danfang and the content he reads through Danfang.
This subtle gap is not obvious in daily life, but in the rigorous process of alchemy, it is the key to the success or failure of alchemy.
Taking calcination of impurities as an example, in this link, the most mentioned point in the recipe is the heat.
During the refining process, it is necessary to control the furnace fire to an appropriate level, so that the flames can be used to roast and burn the medicinal materials to remove various useless impurities, thereby extracting useful medicinal properties.
This step is easy to understand, but difficult to do.
The description of the heat is very abstract, and coupled with the subtle differences between the alchemy furnace talismans, this makes the refining process even more difficult to unify.
If the heat is slightly off, at least the impurities will not be completely removed, which will affect the final quality of the elixir. In serious cases, the properties of the medicine will be burned together with the impurities, or even the removal of the properties will leave the impurities.
There is no good solution to this problem. In addition to accumulating experience through continuous practice, the most important thing is ‘enlightenment’. This is also the fundamental reason why the way of alchemy attaches great importance to understanding!
In the final analysis, it is still the fault of imperfect weights and measures!
Gao Yuan, who was having fun in his misery, laughed at himself, stood up and came to the sapphire five-square furnace.
He opened the cover on its back and pulled out the bracket inlaid with spiritual stones.
Most of the ten intermediate spirit stones originally inlaid on it had been consumed during the previous several alchemy processes.
He skillfully unloaded these discarded spiritual stones, took out ten more and installed them one after another.
Then he returned to the stone platform and sat down, quickly condensed a magic formula, and pointed it at the alchemy furnace.
"Buzz~boom!"
Along with a deep roar, a cluster of orange-red flames instantly rose up inside the alchemy furnace, and the bright firelight escaped through the circular observation port on the front of the furnace body.
Gao Yuan saw this, waited for a moment, then reached into the storage bag on his waist, and three vein-shaping flowers appeared together with several auxiliary materials.
Under his guidance, he quickly flew from the feed port of the alchemy furnace into the crucible cavity in the middle of the alchemy furnace.
Under the licks of raging flames, bursts of medicinal fragrance suddenly filled the air.
…
Two months later.
In the alchemy workshop of the underground stronghold.
Gao Yuan sat cross-legged on the square stone platform with his eyes slightly closed.
At this time, he was using his spiritual thoughts to wrap up the power of his true energy and turn it into tentacles. He was constantly squeezing and stir-frying the mushy liquid that was constantly churning in the second-floor treasure cauldron of the alchemy furnace.
The six-level spirit-gathering talisman array of the Jade Five-square Furnace is running at high speed at this time, constantly drawing out the energy of heaven and earth in the surrounding void.
After its internal regulation and purification, it is slowly poured onto the inner wall of the tripod, and while the liquid is being squeezed and stir-fried, it is continuously fused with it.
During this process, the strong medicinal fragrance continued to escape from the small opening on the edge of the tripod, filling the stone chamber with a fragrant aroma that made you feel intoxicated.
After a long while, Gao Yuan, who had been sitting still, suddenly opened his eyes, and saw his hands moving continuously, firing out spells one after another.
Following his movements, the flames churning in the alchemy furnace instantly became blazing.
Seeing this, he sat there quietly with bated breath, his eyes fixed on the mooncake-shaped observation port on the outside of the tripod without blinking.
After waiting for a moment, he reached out his hand to condense a magic formula and quickly fired it at the alchemy furnace.
Following his actions, the spirit flame talisman array and the spirit gathering talisman array in the furnace were quickly extinguished, and the buzzing sound of the talisman array's operation also subsided.
There was silence in the huge alchemy workshop.
Only in the treasure cauldron on the upper floor of the alchemy furnace, the sound of small objects being scraped against each other at high speed could be heard from time to time, but it quickly subsided.
Gao Yuan saw this, quickly got up and came to the furnace, and couldn't wait to play the magic formula to open the furnace lid.
"Chi~chi!"
The huge furnace cover opened sideways, and a large amount of white mist steamed up.
There were faint wisps of black smoke with a burnt smell mixed in it, and Gao Yuan's heart couldn't help but sink.
Before the smoke that blocked his vision had dissipated, he couldn't wait to use his spiritual thoughts and probe into the inside of the tripod.
Then he saw six bead-like objects the size of longan scattered inside a spherical tripod the size of a basketball.
And in more places, there are still lumps of muddy waste that have gelled on the cauldron walls.
Regardless of cleaning up the waste, he carefully reached out his right hand, fished out all the bead-like objects that were still hot, and picked up one of them to look at it carefully.
At a glance, this elixir looks a bit like several colors of plasticine kneaded together, with several mottled color patches of different sizes on the surface.
Its appearance is not very round, and it looks more like a newly roasted chestnut than a pill.
He picked up the other five pills in his hand and looked at them one by one, and found that these 'elixirs' all had more or less similar problems.
According to the records in the elixir recipe, the refined elixirs are divided into four grades according to their quality, from high to low: top grade, top grade, medium grade, and low grade.
In addition, there is another hidden level called non-entry.
Although this elixir also has certain preset effects, due to various problems in the refining process, its internal medicinal properties are mixed. In addition to the predetermined effects, there are often certain toxic and side effects. It is not recommended to take it.
food.
The six elixirs that Gao Yuan managed to refine after fifty-seven failures fell into the inferior category.
But he didn't care much about it. He put the six pills aside and then opened the system panel:
【Name】: Gao Yuan
【Shouyuan】:22/203
[Realm]: Fourth level of Kaiyuan Realm
【Skill】:
Unnamed, entry-level (0%)
…
Looking at this newly added entry, joy flashed across his face.
Sure enough, as long as the use of energy such as inner energy and true energy is involved in the process, it will be judged as a skill by the system.
Since it is a body-refining elixir, let’s call it a body-refining elixir.
Gao Yuan casually named this unknown elixir without any psychological burden, and then used the analysis function to directly upgrade the proficiency of this newly mastered skill to the master level.
As he operated, a large number of memories appeared in his mind out of thin air.
It contains various experience and skills in alchemy, as well as a lot of pharmacological knowledge and skills in controlling the alchemy furnace talisman array.
With the huge flow of information pouring in, it took him quite a while to fully digest it.
At this time, when I looked at the prescription in my hand, I suddenly felt as if I had read the standard answers and then done some reading comprehension.
In addition to being able to easily understand the ideas that the Danfang writer wants to express, you can even see some unreasonable aspects in the Danfang!
The functions of the system are really overbearing!
With a sigh in his heart, he seemed to have remembered something, quickly opened the deduction panel, and found the newly added tag:
[Physical Refining Pill]: A second-level advanced elixir recipe, the conditions are insufficient and cannot be deduced yet.
Insufficient conditions, cannot be deduced yet?
Gao Yuan was slightly startled when he saw this unprecedented explanation.
From the literal meaning, it is not that it cannot be deduced, but that there are other preconditions besides the source of mutation?
But this is not important, as long as this body refining pill can be used!
Upon thinking of this, Gao Yuan looked at the sapphire five-way furnace in front of him, and suddenly felt a little itchy.
He quickly cleaned up the waste residue in the furnace, and then started refining it based on his newly acquired skills and the proportion of medicinal materials.
The whole process was smooth and smooth, with the blessing of systematic experience, whether it was the precise control of the alchemy furnace talisman array or the method of putting the medicinal materials into the furnace cavity, all subsequent operations felt like they had been tempered thousands of times.
Not long after, a furnace of elixirs was successfully refined.
Unlike the previous refining process where the aroma of medicine overflowed, this time there was no peculiar smell at all during the entire refining process.
It wasn't until he opened the stove lid that bursts of mellow and fragrant medicinal fragrance hit his face along with the steaming white mist.
After the white mist dissipated, pills shaped like strings of agate beads suddenly caught his eye.
He picked up one of them and saw that the elixir was round and round, and its whole body showed a bright red color.
Its surface is also covered with criss-crossing dark golden red lines that have their own charm.
Excellent!
Gao Yuan looked at this pill, which was like a work of art, and these two words suddenly flashed through his mind.
Even people who know nothing about alchemy can see how extraordinary this elixir is!
He then used his spiritual mind to scan the inside of the tripod, and saw that the remaining 35 pills were the same size and appearance as the one in his hand, as if they were carved from the same mold.
What's more important is that during the refining just now, 36 pills were actually produced in one furnace, which was 6 more pills than the maximum number of pills specified in the pill recipe!
But when you think about the improvements made by the system deduction to Danfang, it is understandable.
Thinking that the spare materials were enough to refine nine more furnaces, Gao Yuan immediately stopped delaying, started the furnace fire and continued refining.