Chapter 34: Refining alchemy, being expelled
Hiss! Lu Xiaotian felt a stabbing pain in his brain and quickly withdrew his consciousness that was acting on the storage bag.
Lu Xiaotian looked at the black storage bag in surprise. Logically speaking, the old man in black robe had already destroyed his soul by him at this time. It should not be a problem to open this storage bag, but at this time, using his spiritual sense When I went to open it, I was still attacked by the cold spirit like a poisonous snake attached to the storage bag.
Perhaps there is some unsolved secret about the old man in black robe, but now that the other party has lost his soul, I am afraid that this secret will be silenced forever.
What a pity for that golden flying sword. Lu Xiaotian smacked his lips, but he was satisfied with today's battle.
At this time, the old man in black robe has been eliminated, and he can make reasonable use of the mysterious space in his body. In addition to leaving an empty storage bag on his body for show, the remaining spiritual objects have been sent to the barrier.
After doing this, Lu Xiaotian held his chin. Before, he was only at the second level of Qi Refining. Even if there was a sufficient supply of pills, it would take several years to reach the fifth level.
But now he is at the fifth level of Qi Refining. The "Hunyuan Jing" in hand can only be practiced to the middle stage of Qi refining, so it is urgent to obtain the techniques for the later stage of Qi refining.
Just a copy of the late-stage exercises in the store is basically about 40 yuan of low-grade spiritual stones. An ordinary monk in the qi-refining stage can barely buy a copy of the late-stage qi-refining exercises based on his usual income, like Luo Yuan even incurred a certain amount of debt. Now he only has eight low-grade spiritual stones in his hand, and the only things he can sell are more than a dozen vitality pills. Although it is a windfall, it can easily be targeted by some people who are in the late stage of Qi refining, or even those who have reached the Great Perfection of Qi refining. This is extremely disadvantageous for later venturing into the Moon Mountains and collecting the spiritual objects needed to join the sect. What's more, we need to collect the elixir formulas for the middle and later stages of Qi refining later, which will require a lot of spiritual stones.
Going out to find work, the spiritual stones earned in a month are not used for various expenses, but also for cultivation. It is estimated that it will take a long time to raise, which will undoubtedly affect cultivation.
However, Lu Xiaotian thought that in Wangyue City, for those who could refine weapons, raise spiritual beasts, or make elixirs, know how to grow low-level spiritual grass, or know how to make talismans, various workshops and shops offered good prices.
It just so happens that there are more than a dozen purple spirit grasses in the barrier, which can also regenerate and can be used to refine Qi Gathering Pills. Lu Xiaotian thought about it and decided to start with alchemy.
The immortal cultivator spends a lot of money on elixirs, and it can still meet his own needs. Even if the effect of Qi Gathering elixirs is a little less good now, it is still better than nothing. Moreover, as a middle-stage Qi-refining and junior alchemist, he would not attract too much attention from others when he sold Qi-gathering pills.
After thinking about this, Lu Xiaotian went out again and bought all the other herbs as auxiliary materials needed to refine the Qi Gathering Pill, and also purchased a batch of charcoal. Except for purple spirit grass, the prices of these auxiliary materials are not expensive. It only cost two low-grade spiritual stones together.
Wood charcoal is made by burning low-level spiritual wood. To refine the elixir, you can also use the energy in the monk's body to directly condense the Yang Fire, but this consumes too much energy. Once the energy in the Dantian is exhausted and the fire lord cannot catch it, the elixir is likely to become a useless elixir.
After preparing the materials, Lu Xiaotian hesitantly looked at the environment of the room. The room was too small and not suitable for alchemy. But besides this room, he had no other place to use.
I can’t worry about that much anymore, I’ll practice first and then talk about it. Thinking of this, Lu Xiaotian became worried.
Take out the alchemy furnace that you bought from Luo Qing before. There are purple and yellow stripes on the alchemy furnace. This is a unique pattern made of purple black copper. It feels cold when you touch it with your hands. The texture is exquisite, with three arc-shaped feet supporting the small tripod on the ground.
He had memorized the recipe for the Qi Gathering Pill and started a fire according to the steps. The spirit wood charcoal burned at a very high temperature and quickly burned the small cauldron red. Lu Xiaotian followed the steps and put several auxiliary ingredients into it one after another, reducing the amount of charcoal. When a subtle fragrance came from the small hole in the lid of the small cauldron, Lu Xiaotian took out another purple spirit grass and put it in.
After a while, a strange fragrance rose from the cauldron, and Lu Xiaotian was shocked. It was exactly the same as the fragrance of the Qi Gathering Pill. However, according to the prescription of the pill, it was just the purple spirit grass in the furnace that turned into juice at this time. , the time of opening the furnace must be in place. If it is opened too early, the medicinal properties will be lost before the elixir is formed. The potency of the refined elixir is greatly reduced. It is opened too late. If the refining time is not enough, there is a high chance that it will be refined into a useless elixir.
Chi-——
Suddenly, the aroma of the medicine in the small cauldron stopped abruptly, and a choking smell of paste emerged.
Oops, I was only paying attention to the time to open the furnace to release the elixir, and forgot to control the heat. The firepower was too high, and the temperature in the cauldron was too high, so the unformed elixir liquid was directly burned to waste.
Bang bang
The door was banged hard. "Open the door, open the door! What are the people inside doing?"
"This smells like the elixir has been refined."
"I'm so ignorant. Refining elixir in such a small space would be a ghost if I don't refining it."
Staying in this inn together Several monks who were in the early stage of Qi refining were talking sarcastically.
"Ahem." Lu Xiaotian opened the door. The smell and the high temperature when the spiritual wood charcoal was burning made the inn waiter choke and look embarrassed. He coughed violently and it took him a while to come back. I was so angry that I didn’t have time to see Lu clearly. With Xiaotian's appearance, he loudly accused, "The inn is for people to live in, not a place for messing around. What did you do in there? If the whole inn is burned down, can you afford to pay for it?"
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"Go, you are not welcome in our inn, and you are not allowed to come to this inn again!"
The movement in the inn soon alerted the innkeeper. In view of the bad influence brought by Lu Xiaotian, he almost burned down the inn. The shopkeeper was shocked and angry and drove Lu Xiaotian out. Seeing that Lu Xiaotian was already a monk in the middle stage of Qi refining, he didn't say "get out". But the meaning behind the words is almost the same.
Lu Xiaotian put away the alchemy furnace and came out of the inn in a panic. He glanced at the inn angrily. What's the big deal? He didn't really burn down the inn. He thought bitterly in his heart.
“Just an ordinary monk who wants to become an alchemist is so ambitious.” There were other monks on the roadside who saw the smoke coming from the inn. After knowing the whole story, they shook their heads and left.
“Hey, isn’t this Brother Lu?”
A familiar voice came from the crowd. When Lu Xiaotian heard the sound, he looked and saw that it was the Luo brothers and sisters walking this way.
"Brother Lu, what is going on? This store is so unreasonable. I went to argue with him." Luo Yuan said very generously, but soon Luo Yuan reacted and said in surprise, "Lu Brother, what's your cultivation level?"
"This The thing is, I was wrong first." Lu Xiaotian pulled Luo Yuan with an embarrassed look, and explained, "I used some tricks before, but now it's my true cultivation."
Afterwards, Lu Xiaotian briefly talked about the inn.
"I see. So Brother Lu has nowhere to go now. How about moving to our place and staying with us?" Luo Qing said enthusiastically after hearing this.
"With you guys?" Lu Xiaotian frowned.
"That's it." Luo Qing continued.
It turns out that it is very troublesome to rent a place for casual cultivators in Wangyue City, and it is very disadvantageous to rent an inn alone, so I rented a small courtyard together with several other close friends. We have four rooms together and only cost a month. Ten spiritual stones, the space is larger than that of an inn, and there is a small courtyard. It happened that a friend who entered the Wangyue Mountains last time died unfortunately, so a room was left vacant. Although the price is slightly higher than staying in an inn, the stay is more comfortable. And it’s not as crowded as an inn.
Lu Xiaotian was a little moved, but after thinking about it, he still felt it was inappropriate. He had some secrets that he didn’t want outsiders to know. Even raising shadow ants is like this, so that they can unexpectedly defeat the enemy at critical moments. I thought to myself that I still have a lot of spiritual talismans on hand. If I sell some of them, I can solve the spiritual stone crisis at hand. So he refused, "No, I still have some spiritual stones on hand, and I want to rent a small courtyard by myself."
"Brother Lu is really wealthy when he rents a small courtyard by himself. I do know that there is a courtyard. It's not far from us. Brother Lu, if you want, you can go and have a look." Luo Qing smacked her tongue coquettishly, and then said.
In Wangyue City, usually except for some high-income alchemists, weapon refiners, or people in the late stage of Qi refining stage, people who are in the Dzogchen realm will rent a separate courtyard. Even in the later stage of Qi Refining, many people rented together with others.
"Thank you very much." Lu Xiaotian no longer refused, it would still take a lot of effort to find it by himself.
A few hours later, Lu Xiaotian moved into the new courtyard. It has three fewer rooms than the one at Luo Yuan's brother and sister's place, but only requires seven spiritual stones a month. The size is enough for him.
Having not raised shadow ants for a while, Lu Xiaotian took out the jade pond and sprinkled dozens of animal spirit pills. Get the shadow ants out of the jade gourd. The shadow ants are dormant in the jade gourd, but they haven't eaten for a long time.
The awakened shadow ants were eating anxiously. Some of them even bit each other because they had eaten the same animal spirit pill while eating. It seemed that they were starving. Lu Xiaotian quickly separated the biting shadow ants.
After feeding the shadow ants, Lu Xiaotian released the leopard from the spirit beast bag.
"Ouch." Hua Leopard also held it in the spirit beast bag for too long. After coming out, he complained and then rubbed his head tamely on Lu Xiaotian's trouser leg.
"Okay, let's go play and don't leave the yard." Lu Xiaotian patted the leopard's head and let it move on its own. The leopard has little effect on him now, but it used to be more effective when he was weak. At that time, if it weren't for Hua Leopard, he might have been a pile of withered bones at this time. Therefore, even if he keeps them idle, he will not sell useless spiritual beasts like some other monks.
(End of this chapter)