Chapter 340 Chapter 340 Refining the elixir to pierce the heart, a bustling crowd (4K)
After filtering the bamboo dew with golden oak charcoal, the spiritual material for refining the "Bamboo Heart Pill" is ready.
Li Qing issued a Taoist messenger talisman, and all the family alchemists who stayed in Qinghe Valley came to listen.
After realizing the undercurrent, some members of the Li family staying in Qinghe Valley became panicked.
Fortunately, Li Qing, the foundation-building ancestor, was still there, and his closest niece and grandniece Li Wei was also there, so everyone felt a little more at ease.
When they heard that Li Qing was going to start making alchemy, in addition to the family alchemist, many clan members came to join in the fun, as if seeing him in person would make them feel much safer.
Li Qing was able to let them go, so a large crowd of people crowded in front of the Gongguan Cave, making it noisy.
"Quiet!" He flicked his fingers, and his true energy hit the golden bell in front of the door.
"When——" The long bell echoed over the Blue Crane Valley, shocking everyone present and finally quieted down.
"It made fellow Taoist laugh." Li Qing bowed slightly to Fan Shuyun.
Fan Shuyun shook his head: "This is human nature. The same is true for my Fan family. How can I laugh at fellow Taoists."
Li Qing nodded slightly and looked forward to the clansmen who were watching the excitement: "I have been taking pills recently. His Taoist attainments have improved again, and he has been able to refine a second-level high-grade elixir."
"Congratulations to my ancestor!" Patriarch Li Shu quickly took the lead in cheering.
The clan members present also bowed down in unison: "Congratulations to our ancestors!"
At a time when the hearts of the whole clan were unstable, Li Qing was promoted to the second level of high-grade alchemy master, which was undoubtedly a blessing for everyone. A reassuring pill.
To put it mildly, even if Xuefeng Lake changes and Xuan Gong is willing to fish a group of people ashore, Li Qing, a second-level high-grade alchemist, will definitely be among the best.
Under the tower near the water, the chances of the Li family being rescued are even higher.
Seeing his few words, Fan Shuyun temporarily calmed down his heart and couldn't help but be envious: "Fellow Taoist is very prestigious in the clan!"
Li Qing smiled without saying a word: His prestige is It is not something that comes easily, but is built on the successive "foundations" of A-Sun, A-Zao and Li Yu.
Seeing that the scene had calmed down, he adjusted his breathing slightly and began to refine the elixir.
This Bamboo Heart Pill, ranked second-level top grade, was entrusted to Li Qing by Fan Shuyun after his small banquet for foundation building.
This kind of elixir is quite strange. It requires a monk who specializes in the wood element to make fire with wood in order to successfully refine it.
Looking at the Great Zhou Kingdom, all alchemists mainly use fire spirit roots. Even if they have wood spirit roots, they are used to assist the practice of fire spirit roots.
Those who cultivate the wood spirit root alone will basically become a spiritual planter.
Although Li Qing's Aoki True Essence incorporates elements such as spiritual water, nirvana, and meditation, it uses Aoki as its body and the rest is used, which does not affect its essence.
He only extended the invitation to Fan Shuyun after deducing it in advance.
I saw his left palm stretched forward, the green wood light shining in the palm, condensed into a small mortar, and then put the mysterious bamboo leaves and the goddess bamboo rice.
He then squeezed his right hand, and the Aoki True Essence turned into a hammering stick, and carefully pounded the bamboo leaves and rice in the bowl into powder.
The leaves of Xuanyou Bamboo are green and black, and the rice of Shenfei Bamboo is purple and gold. The two are mixed together and reflect the sunlight, showing a mysterious black-gold color.
A faint fragrance of bamboo permeates the mortar, making people's soul tremble.
Li Qing looked at the bewildered tribesmen and couldn't help but cough lightly: "Still not awake yet?!"
Li Shu and others came back to their senses, and quickly held their breath and concentrated, for fear of being affected by the bamboo fragrance again.
“The quality of this mysterious bamboo leaf, fellow Taoist, seems to be quite good.” Li Qing praised.
Fan Shuyun nodded: "It took a lot of effort and a lot of favors to get it from a fellow Taoist in the Kingdom of Great Joy."
Li Qing said with a smile: " I think so. The only place suitable for planting this in our country is Muhunyuan, but there are evil spirits there that can easily contaminate various spiritual plants..."
While chatting, the two main ingredients in the mortar have been processed.
Li Qing then took out the alchemy furnace, turned the mortar and hammer into pure Qingmu essence, wrapped the handful of powder and put it in.
He raised his hand and pointed again, and nine kinds of first-level bamboo dew turned into clear water lotus, which slowly fell into the furnace, carrying the main medicine powder.
As for the remaining nine kinds of first-level bamboo rice, they were piled in groups of three and three to form three mountains of millet by the stove, which looked very substantial.
"Fellow Taoist, I'm going to officially start refining alchemy, and I won't be in the mood to greet you later." He bowed to Fan Shuyun first.
Fan Shuyun said hurriedly: "I can save it! I'll leave everything to my fellow Taoist."
Li Qing chuckled lightly, and the Qingmu True Essence rolled up a mountain of rice and fell to the bottom of the alchemy furnace.
Seeing him operating the matching refining techniques, the Aoki True Essence vibrated slightly, and soon a faint flame came out.
This fire is not Nirvana fire, nor is it any other spiritual fire, but the "fire in the wood" naturally generated by Qingmu Zhenyuan.
The fire in the wood was extremely weak, flickering on the tip of the rice mountain. It took a long time to ignite a spark.
The spark flickered on and off, but fortunately, Qingmu Zhenyuan ignited it regardless of the cost, and finally a bright flame appeared.
Then the pile of bamboo rice at the bottom of the stove began to emit a small flame, slowly igniting the top bamboo rice grains.
But soon, the flames dimmed, and only the green smoke rising from the rice mountains was left in the furnace, which contained the essence of three kinds of bamboo rice.
The green smoke curled up, pulled by Li Qing's method, and merged into the water lotus above.
The bamboo dew that condensed into water lotus began to boil without fire, making a "gurgling" sound, and began to emit colorful steam, soaking the main medicine in the middle.
During this period, Li Qing put in the second-grade medium-grade and low-grade spiritual materials such as Qingxin Kuzhu Yiyi and Liquan Zizhuli.
A refreshing fragrance of bamboo emitted from the furnace without concealment, and soon the entire palace, cave, and cave were filled with a faint fragrance.
Fan Shuyun couldn't help but feel worried, but hesitated to speak.
In the past, when making alchemy, the alchemy furnace was kept tightly closed, and the essence was locked in the furnace to facilitate the combination of medicines. Even if there are some impurities, they are directly reduced to nothing with the elixir fire.
It would be a bit strange to let the essence of spiritual plants fly out like Li Qing is doing now.
Li Qing ignored it and allowed the green smoke from the burning bamboo rice to boil the bamboo dew.
In this way, day and night passed. The first pile of three kinds of bamboo rice was finally burned completely, with not even a trace of ashes left.
On the contrary, one-third of the bamboo dew was missing, and it was stained with a layer of shadow by the bamboo smoke.
The main powder in the middle of the water lotus is also slightly wet and looks dirty.
Fan Shuyun was terrified when he saw it, fearing that he might accidentally bring disaster to the spiritual materials he had finally collected.
But she only had one copy of the spiritual material and couldn't get a second copy for Li Qing to practice with.
In line with the principle of employing people without doubting others, Fan Shuyun could only hold his nose and watch his performance.
Li Qing did not hesitate, waved his hand again, and the second rice mountain made of three kinds of bamboo and rice fell to the bottom of the alchemy furnace.
Li Qing once again used the Qingmu True Essence to derive "Fire in the Wood" and ignited the bamboo rice.
This time, what rises is no longer green smoke, but faint white smoke.
The white smoke was also drawn into the bamboo dew and water lotus by Li Qing's magic formula.
But this time, the water lotus did not boil again, but condensed into a thin layer of ice on the surface.
The thin ice seems to be quite cold, condensing the water vapor in the entire palace cave. Then he saw the bamboo fragrance spirit essence that had escaped before, rolling up the water vapor suspended in the air, pouring into the furnace, and gathering near the ice lotus.
“Buzz buzz…”
The water vapor turned into pieces of bamboo leaves, flying around the ice lotus, and then swept the pure spiritual energy, repeatedly infiltrating the main powder, and turning it into mud.
Fan Shuyun felt like he couldn't breathe. He didn't even care to watch Li Qing refining the elixir. He closed his eyes and adjusted his true energy, for fear that he would go crazy accidentally.
Seeing her performance, Li Qing couldn't help but smile to himself, but he kept carefully controlling the heat.
Until another day and night passed, the second pile of bamboo rice was completely burned.
Without hesitation, he pointed towards the stove again, and the third pile of bamboo rice followed one after another and fell to the bottom of the stove again.
Then black smoke rose from the furnace and merged into the ice lotus.
Soon, the thin ice melted, and the water lotuses turned into bamboo dew flowed smoothly, and there were faint flashes of nine-color spiritual light.
The water vapor previously gathered by the White Smoke Ice Lotus dissipated again. But this time, it was colorless and odorless, and there was no more bamboo fragrance.
In the alchemy furnace, the black smoke slowly seeps into the bamboo dew and water lotus, gradually dyeing it black.
What is magical is that the wet mud in the middle gradually transforms from black gold to colorless and transparent.
"Gululu..."
The black water lotus began to boil violently, rising up with colorful black mist, filling the alchemy furnace.
Li Qing closed his eyes slightly and twitched his nose, carefully identifying the rapidly transforming properties of the medicine.
This time, he did not wait for the bamboo rice hill to finish burning, but quickly circulated the Qingmu True Essence, falling into the furnace and rubbing violently, igniting a blazing "fire in the wood".
There was a roar and a deflagration occurred in the furnace.
All the remaining bamboo rice was ignited in an instant, and the black smoke filled the entire alchemy furnace without waiting for it to flow into the water lotus.
The fire in the wood, which had already ignited violently, ignited the black smoke a second time. For a moment, the flames rose and came out directly from the furnace, splashing sparks with teeth and claws.
Fan Shuyun was horrified when he saw it, and silently prayed that Li Qing could successfully complete the furnace of elixir.
Finally, the flames in the furnace dissipated, and the third pile of rice disappeared.
The water lotus has turned pitch black, emitting some unpleasant stench.
The main medicinal powder held in its arms has turned into a ball of crystal clear medicinal mud.
Seeing this, Li Qing felt it secretly and breathed a sigh of relief when he found that he didn't screw up.
He took out a jade plate and pointed with his hand, and the black water lotus flew out of the furnace and slowly fell to the top, condensing without scattering.
"This is the elixir refining. The remaining medicine residue can be used to refine poison." He pushed the jade plate towards Fan Shuyun.
Fan Shuyun smiled stiffly: "No need. This will be given to fellow Taoists as a reward for refining the alchemy."
In fact, she had already paid the remuneration for alchemy in advance after the last foundation-building banquet.
She just didn’t want this sewage lotus for other reasons.
Li Qing did not force himself, he smiled and sealed the jade plate in a jade box, put it into a storage bag, and then started the last step of the alchemy.
“Fellow Taoist, give me a drop of blood essence!”
Fan Shuyun hesitated for a moment, after all, there are too many things that can be done if the blood essence is given out.
But she had invested too much and had no way out, so she gritted her teeth, cut her fingertips, and forced out a drop of blood.
The essence and blood of a monk is closely related to his practice.
Fan Shuyun's essence and blood are bright red in color, but also shimmering with a bluish-purple halo, full of vitality.
Li Qing took out the last main material and looked at the bamboo tears in the moon: "This bamboo tears smells very fresh. Could it be the one cultivated by fellow Taoist himself?"
Fan Shuyun saw it He still had time to chat, which showed that he was quite confident, so he felt a little relieved: "Well, thanks to Brother Sang."
"The portion I originally prepared was of a much poorer quality than the bamboo leaves picked from Hsinchu because of its age."
Li Qing said with a smile: "It seems that what Brother Sang Dao said is true. Damn, fellow Taoist, you are indeed very accomplished in cultivating spiritual bamboos."
As he spoke, he moved his hand, and Fan Shuyun's essence and blood "dropped" into the Moon-Watching Bamboo Tears.
The bright red blood drops dye the bright bamboo tears into a light pink.
Li Qing's eyes were as bright as a torch, staring at this scene until the two completely merged into one: "Success or failure depends on this in one fell swoop!"
He gave a soft drink and threw the pink bamboo tears into the furnace, landing accurately on top of the crystal mud.
There was a loud "bang", and the bamboo tears and medicinal mud exploded at the same time, turning into dots of spiritual essence, flying everywhere in the furnace.
“How could this be so!” Fan Shuyun exclaimed, without any trace of the majesty of the Foundation Establishment Ancestor.
Li Qing waved his hand calmly: "No problem, let's see what I do!"
I saw him pouring the Qingmu True Essence into the alchemy furnace and turning it into a net. Catch all the medicinal mud and liquid in it.
After all the medicinal mud was collected, Li Qing lightly snapped his fingers, and the fire in the wood ignited again.
This time, it did not ignite any spiritual materials. Instead, it kneaded the medicinal mud into a ball, turned it into a pill, and baked it slowly.
"Hey, the weight of this pill seems to be a bit too much..."
With a thought in his mind, the pill split into two and rolled each into a ball: "This will be much better. ”
The round fire in the wood was used to bake the round medicinal mud into shape. Soon, two light cyan pills with a bright red halo were floating in the furnace.
When the pills were heated enough, Li Qing dispersed the Qingmu True Essence, and the fire in the wood dissipated without the firewood.
"Fellow Taoist, I have lived up to your trust and refined this 'Bamboo Heart Pill'!"
He filled the two pills in jade bottles and presented them to the side. Fan Shuyun.
Fan Shuyun was still in disbelief: "It's... done?!"
Li Qing nodded seriously: "Well, the Bamboo Heart Pill has been refined, two pills in total!"
Fan Shuyun took the elixir and after checking that it was correct, he was overjoyed: "My Taoist friend's alchemy attainments are really extraordinary!"
She couldn't wait to get up and bowed solemnly to Li Qing: "I I will go back to seclusion. When I come out of seclusion, I will come back to express my gratitude to my Taoist friends!"
As she said that, she turned into a bamboo shadow and fled away from Qinghe Valley towards Zhuxin Island.
“This senior has such a fiery personality!” Li Shu couldn’t help but sigh.
Li Qing looked in the direction of Zhuxin Island in trance: "Next time we meet, this fellow Taoist may have reached the late stage of foundation building."
Sure enough, three days later, the Fan family of Zhuxin Island announced in a high-profile manner that their ancestor Fan Shuyun was successfully promoted to the seventh level of Foundation Establishment and officially became a late-stage Foundation Establishment monk.
Some families who knew that she had been to Qinghe Valley before her breakthrough couldn't help but turn their attention to her.
For a time, the Qinghe Valley was full of people, and there was an endless stream of monks coming to ask for elixirs.
(End of this chapter)