Chapter 861 Jade Bone Pill
Li Qing was extremely tempted by the rich opportunities hidden in Tianguang Secret Area, and even became a little unable to sit still.
But there are still some years before the opening of Tianguang Secret Realm. No matter how excited your heart is, you have to suppress this throbbing.
Before that, he had to find ways to improve his strength as much as possible. After all, facing the existence of several other powerful clans in the god transformation stage, Li Qing didn't think he could have much advantage.
"Other tribes will definitely send beings with the strength of the late stage of divine transformation into the Tianguang Secret Realm. After all, it only limits the existence below the Void Refining Stage."
"And my cultivation level is still a long way from the middle stage of divine transformation. Without a panacea, it will be difficult to improve in a short period of time."
"We can only start from other aspects and enhance our combat power as much as possible."
Li Qing whispered to himself, his eyes flashing constantly. He was thinking about ways to improve his strength in the near future.
When it comes to refining treasures, the spiritual materials currently on hand are limited. There is only a piece of ghost-eyed purple gold, which is not enough to refine a complete spiritual treasure.
"On the contrary, the Luo Yuchi fruits grown in Tianmiaoxian Mansion are already mature. Although they are not very old, they can already be used as medicine."
As he spoke, Li Qing flashed and entered a medicine field in Tianmiao Immortal Mansion.
The Luo Yuchi fruits that he planted with his own hands have already produced plump and plump fruits, each one bright red and full of vitality.
"I also have the recipe for Jade Bone Pill, and the steps for refining the pill are very detailed. There are still some auxiliary ingredients missing."
With that said, Li Qing has decided that he plans to refine the Jade Bone Pill himself. After all, there are a lot of Luo Yuchi Fruits in these medicinal fields, and he has enough room for error to try it.
Thinking of this, Li Qing picked the Luo Yuchi Fruits one by one with his own hands. Soon, the Luo Yuchi Fruits in the entire medicinal field were all picked and became bare.
The spiritual plant after the fruit was picked did not die, but became quiescent. Waiting for the next hundred years, or even that long, it will mature again and bear fruit one after another.
"A total of two hundred and twenty-three Luo Yuchi fruits were harvested this time, which is a lot of money. It is considered a big harvest."
Li Qing clicked his tongue and left Tianmiao Immortal Mansion.
If you want to refine the Jade Bone Pill, in addition to Luo Yuchi Fruit, you also need several other auxiliary ingredients.
Fortunately, these auxiliary medicines are not rare and difficult to find. They can be easily obtained in Xuangu City without even spending many contribution points.
In this way, Li Qing left the cave and came to the Xiuxianfang City in the city.
"Senior, these are the branches and leaves of Lao Huang Jing. Although they are not a rare item, our store is already selling them at the lowest price. You can't find a place in the city that sells them cheaper than our store!"
In a elixir shop called Bencao Pavilion, Li Qing frowned and held a rhizome covered with yellowing leaves in his hand.
This was the last elixir he lacked in refining the Jade Bone Pill. Several other elixirs were easily collected, but this one seemed to be a bit expensive.
Each one requires 300 points of merit, and no spiritual stone transactions are accepted unless it is a top-grade spiritual stone.
After a lot of searching, Li Qing still has over seven thousand merit points left. If he spent all of them on buying old Polygonatum foliage branches and leaves, he would only be able to buy about twenty pieces.
To refine a furnace of Jade Bone Pill, you need a branch of Lao Huang Jing as an auxiliary medicine. Even if you buy them all, you can refine more than twenty furnaces at most.
"This old Polygonatum foliage is obviously not a rare thing, but why is the price so high?" Li Qing asked with a frown.
The shopkeeper said with a smile: "Senior, if it were hundreds of years ago, these old Polygonatum foliage branches and leaves would be really cheap, but an alchemist restored a incomplete ancient prescription."
"The only auxiliary medicine needed in this ancient prescription is the branches and leaves of Polygonatum japonica. The elixir refined from that prescription can strengthen the body and is favored by many body refiners!"
Hearing this, Li Qing became enlightened and finally understood why the seemingly ordinary branches and leaves of Huangjing were so expensive.
In the end, he pinched his nose and spent all his merit points on buying twenty-six old Polygonatum twigs.
At this point, the merit he had earned some time ago was suddenly reduced to less than a hundred points, which can be said to be penniless.
"I can make twenty-six furnaces of Jade Bone Pill, and I hope I can make about ten furnaces." Li Qing sighed repeatedly and returned to the cave.
Returning to the cave, after a day or so of breathing adjustment and meditation, Li Qing took out the Great Sun Destroying Life Furnace.
This treasure furnace is no longer as dark as before. It is now glowing with brilliance, and the thirty-six golden fire patterns inside are close to the inner wall of the furnace.
The entire furnace is constantly changing between two states: destruction and vitality. The former is a great weapon for killing, while the latter is a sacred object for healing.
Bang!
Li Qing struck several palms at the Great Sun Annihilation Furnace, and streams of true energy fell into the furnace, quickly stabilizing the entire treasure furnace's form into a vital state.
Immediately afterwards, a golden spiritual fire as bright as the sun flickered in the furnace, illuminating Li Qing's cave.
Under the burning of the golden flame of the big sun, the life-killing furnace quickly warmed up, and traces of vitality continued to overflow.
“I don’t know how long ago it was since I last made elixirs with my own hands, but now I have made a lot of them.”
"At that time, Senior Bai Ling taught me step by step, but now I can only rely on myself."
It's not that he hasn't thought about spending merit points to ask the old man Jian in the city to make the elixir, but that may lead to the leakage of the Jade Bone Pill recipe, which will also increase the prices of other auxiliary medicines.
Moreover, if Old Man Jian is entrusted to refine a furnace of elixir, it will require 3,000 merit points, which is quite costly.
If it weren't for an elixir that was urgently needed like the Dust Falling Pill, Li Qing still wanted to refine it himself.
After all, to develop a pair of Jade Bones, just relying on a dozen or twenty Jade Bone Pills is not enough, it must be taken for a long time.
If you ask the alchemist to take action every time, the price will be too high.
As the temperature of the life-killing furnace came up, Li Qing strictly followed the steps in the elixir recipe and sent the elixirs into the life-killing furnace.
The only good news is that Li Qing is now a master who plays with fire. The spiritual fire of heaven and earth is under his control, almost like an arm.
The most critical link in refining medicine is controlling the heat, and Li Qing can do this very well.
"In the first half, the essence of several auxiliary medicines was extracted by the fire, and the essence of the elixir liquid was continued to be refined in the furnace."
"Finally, add the Luo Yuchi Fruit. When the fruit bursts open, turn to a slow fire and simmer slowly, quenching the essence of the Luo Yuchi Fruit into the liquid little by little."
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The steps for refining the elixir were very detailed. Li Qing had a strong spiritual consciousness and strictly followed every step of the elixir to refine it. He even felt that he was very handy.
After a long time, the stimulation of the golden flame of the sun was weakened to the extreme, and finally some residual heat was left to catalyze the liquid.
Finally, when a large ball of medicinal liquid in the furnace was about to solidify, Li Qing's mind suddenly moved.
Buzz!
The life-killing furnace trembled slightly, and the large group of elixir essence began to differentiate. This was the most critical step of dividing the elixir.
Li Qing was very bold and divided it into nine, directly aiming for the nine pills in the pot.
Of course, his expectation was that two or three of the last batch would be enough, so that he could recover the losses. "The last step, close the furnace, Wen Dan!"
Li Qing whispered, pointed with a single finger, and sealed the entire life-killing furnace with his strong true energy.
This step is the key to making the elixir. The last nine elixirs will completely absorb all the spirituality and finally condense into pills.
About half a quarter of an hour later, Li Qing slowly removed the true essence sealed on the life-killing furnace.
He couldn't wait to look over, wanting to see how many pills he had made during his first alchemy refining.
But after seeing the situation at the bottom of the furnace, the expectant expression on Li Qing's face slowly solidified.
This result made him feel greatly disappointed. In the life-killing furnace, six of the nine pills completely collapsed into waste, and the remaining three pills were extremely dim, with almost no trace of luster.
There is no doubt that if these three pills are eaten, the toxicity will be much stronger than the medicinal properties. I am afraid they are not Jade Bone Pills, they should be called Bone Erosion Pills.
Three pills were made in one furnace, but they were all useless pills!
"My alchemy qualifications are really that bad?"
"Obviously, there were no mistakes in following the steps of the recipe. At most, the technique was a little rough, but there is such a big gap?"
Li Qing's scalp felt slightly numb, because he hadn't even discovered his problem yet, which made him very frustrated.
This time, there was no outsider to give guidance. Even if there was a prescription for elixirs, he could only rely on him to explore and slowly make mistakes.
Refining alchemy is really quite different from refining weapons. It is not enough to just control the heat.
Li Qing slowly calmed down his anxious mood. He carefully recalled every step he had taken in refining the elixir, and then compared it with what was stated in the elixir recipe.
In his mind, some of the words and deeds of Senior Bai Ling slowly emerged.
Finally, he found some shortcomings in his previous refining and could make more improvements and improvements.
"My steps are indeed correct, but the technique is indeed too rough. After all, alchemy is a delicate job, and it cannot be as broad and open as hammering weapons."
"Some improvements must be made next, and they cannot be done overnight."
In fact, Li Qing has seen many alchemy inheritances over the years. Although he rarely practices them, he has a lot of corresponding knowledge.
Now, he put this knowledge into practice and began to refine the second batch of Jade Bone Pill.
The spiritual fire is boiling, and the cave is constantly shining with light.
Li Qing spent two days refining this time, which was much longer than the first time.
It is still refined according to the steps on the elixir recipe, but the technique is much more detailed, no longer so rough, and very calm.
Two days later, Li Qing once again opened the life-killing furnace and looked at the nine pills in the furnace.
This time, the result finally no longer disappointed him, and Li Qing's eyes showed surprise.
"There are five completed elixirs, but only one useless elixir!"
With a slight movement of thought, four round and full elixirs with a hint of light red floated out from the furnace and landed in Li Qing's palm.
The fragrance of the elixir penetrated Li Qing's nostrils, and the joy on his face could not be stopped. He was so excited that he couldn't help but smile widely.
Four jade bone pills were made in one furnace. Although there was some gap between the pill recipe and the pill recipe, Li Qing was satisfied enough.
In the second furnace, he successfully produced a complete Jade Bone Pill, which actually exceeded his expectations.
"Keep up the good work and continue refining!" Li Qing took a deep breath, cleared away the waste elixirs and elixir slag, and continued to start the third furnace of refining.
Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye it was more than thirty days.
After successfully refining a furnace of Jade Bone Pill, in order to grasp this hard-won feeling, Li Qing opened the furnace seventeen times in the cave in one breath!
His spirit was very powerful and he was incredibly energetic, with no time to rest at all.
Among these seventeen furnaces, a total of four furnaces failed to refining, and once the furnace almost exploded, but he saved it.
In thirteen furnaces, he harvested a total of seventy-four Jade Bone Pills, and now he has seventy-eight Jade Bone Pills on hand.
Just when Li Qing wanted to continue refining, his soul felt a sting. This was a state approaching the limit.
No matter how powerful his soul is, comparable to a monk in the late stages of spiritual transformation, he will still feel tired under such high-intensity concentration.
After all, there is a limit!
"Phew! Alchemy is really not an easy job." Li Qing rubbed his brows and tried his best to relax.
In fact, what he didn't know was that it was rare for an alchemist to open nineteen batches of elixirs in one go. This was a very crazy behavior.
Generally speaking, after an alchemist refines a furnace of elixirs, he will choose to rest for a day or two to adjust his condition and regain his consciousness before continuing to refine the elixirs.
But Li Qing didn't know about this at all. He knew very little about alchemy, and he just regarded it as his own weapon refining. As long as his soul did not reach its limit, he would keep refining it.
"The harvest is not small. It's time to take a rest. Nearly eighty Jade Bone Pills are enough for me to eat for a while."
"After that, I will continue to collect the branches and leaves of Huangjing. Currently, I only lack this elixir, so I can continue to refine the elixir until I can refine a body of jade bones."
"No, you can even sell some Jade Bone Pills in exchange for merit points in the future. With so many body refiners in Xuan Ancient City, the sales of this pill will definitely be very high."
"Even for fifth-level body refiners, it will have a big effect."
"This elixir cannot improve their physical skills, but it can strengthen their bones at the original level of body refining. It should be very popular."
Li Qing kept mumbling to himself and had already finalized some future plans.
Xuan Ancient City is located in a remote area, and Li Qing is certain that there is no elixir like Jade Bone Pill here. This may be because there are few monks ascending from the lower realms and there are not many contacts with human races from other continents.
Therefore, the Jade Bone Pill he brought from the lower realm can become his exclusive means of making money.
"If it were on a continent where humans mainly gather, such as Tianyuan Continent, I'm afraid the sales of this Jade Bone Pill would not be so good. Even if there is no identical pill formula, there will be better alternatives."
"The heritage of the human race in the spirit world must not be underestimated."
In this regard, he is very self-aware and does not dare to aim too high. He feels that with this Jade Bone Pill, he can practice without worries.
Thinking of this, Li Qing took out a Jade Bone Pill and swallowed it in one breath.
This elixir has a slightly sweet taste. It does not melt in the mouth, but falls into the stomach, slowly distributing its medicinal power.
Soon, Li Qing felt a slight cold feeling coming from the muscles and bones in his body.
(End of chapter)