Chapter 4: Alchemy and elixir recipes.

Chapter 4: Alchemy and elixir recipes.

Chapter 4: Alchemy and elixir recipes.

"I choose... the alchemy experience of a fifth-grade alchemist."

Looking at the three options that finally appeared, Xiao Wuji did not hesitate too much. It is true that the other two things are rare good things, but they are of little use to Xiao Wuji at the moment.

Purple Cloud Wings is a fighting skill that allows a person to fly freely, but his flying magic weapon can also be replaced.

The Life Devouring Pill can allow a person to break through to the Dou Wang level in one fell swoop, but it will only leave him with three years of life. If he were in an environment like the Dou Qi Continent, he might have given it a try. But in the mortal world, three years is not enough time for a retreat.

On the contrary, even though his experience in alchemy may not be applicable in the mortal world, the comparison between the two can make it easier for him to become an alchemist.

The memory of eight years of alchemy flooded into his mind like a tide. In the memory, he worked hard to memorize the properties of the medicine, to control the fire, and finally to refine one pill after another according to the recipe, as if all this was his real experience.

The lengthy memory made Xiao Wuji faint. When he woke up again, it was already the next day.

"I became a fifth-grade alchemist after waking up from a nap. This simulator is really awesome."

After carefully recalling his own experience in alchemy, Xiao Wuji suddenly felt that he might be very busy in the next six months. Even if he couldn't combine the alchemy techniques of the two worlds into one, he still had to learn the most basic fire control technique, which was also the most basic fighting method for alchemists.

The next day, Xiao Wuji weighed the spiritual stones in his storage bag, and used a volume of the first-grade elixir recipe as an ancient elixir recipe to exchange it with Master Ma from Baiyao Garden for a guarantee token for entering and leaving Yuelu Palace, and then hurried to Yuelu Palace. Well, he got the guarantee token last time in the same way.

After being teleported into Yuelu Palace, Xiao Wuji walked directly towards the passage with red characters engraved in front of it.

The passage was not long. After walking a dozen steps and turning a corner, a slightly larger house appeared at the end of the passage. There was a long table in the house, and an old man with a ruddy face stood beside the table, looking at Xiao Wuji with a smile.

Behind the table were several shabby shelves against the wall, filled with various tripods, raw materials, and some miscellaneous strange items that Xiao Wuji had never heard of before.

Before Xiao Wuji could say anything, the old man spoke with a smile on his face: "My young man, you look very new. Is this your first time here? There are fewer and fewer newcomers coming to this damn place nowadays! I'm tired of those guys with dull faces. It's great to have a younger newcomer here!" The old man said, shaking his head, with a rather nonchalant look on his face.

Xiao Wuji, who knew this man's character, immediately showed a look of fear and trepidation, and hurriedly bowed and said, "Junior greets Master Xu. This is my first time here. Please help me with some advice!"

If it were an ordinary time and place, Xiao Wuji would certainly offer two spirit stones to seek guidance, but everyone in the Dan Palace knows that if he didn't want the recipe for the Foundation Establishment Pill, he wouldn't have come here, so how could he waste two spirit stones in vain.

The old man nodded and asked, "Tell me what you are doing here?"

"I want to find some books related to medicinal properties and study the art of alchemy."

"A book about medicinal properties? Just go up these stairs!"

The old man casually took out a black token and cast a Taoist spell. Then, a stone staircase leading to the roof appeared out of thin air in the open space between him and the shelf.

Xiao Wuji showed a hint of joy and quickly walked to the stairs. Just as he was about to go up, Old Xu suddenly revealed a cunning look.

"Viewing the collection of books on the second floor costs one low-level spirit stone per hour. The originals are not allowed to be taken away from here. If you want to copy the contents, you will need to pay an additional copy fee of ten spirit stones per copy."

Before Xiao Wuji stepped onto the stairs, Mr. Xu, who was already behind him, slowly explained the relevant regulations, which made Xiao Wuji pause and he almost wanted to burst into curse.

Although he vaguely remembered that the prices here were very expensive, he didn't expect it to be this expensive. In other words, if he picked two more items, he would probably spend all his remaining money.

However, Xiao Wuji had a plan in mind, and he had to use the recipe for the Foundation Establishment Pill, so he had no choice but to go up.

Two dark bookshelves, a dirty table, and a broken chair. These were all the belongings in this room. Of course, there were still twenty or thirty yellowed old books on the bookshelf, and a few bundles of tattered bamboo slips on the table, and two jade tubes whose original colors could no longer be seen. It was these things that made Xiao Wuji's eyebrows jump. The Dan Palace of a great sect of immortal cultivation had fallen to such a state, using some mundane medical skills as a facade, which was simply a shame for the seven sects. He could guess without thinking that this was also the consequence of the family's control of the sect's power.

He patiently flipped through the twenty or so medical books on the bookshelf, and took out a book on poison and a secular medical book on pharmacology. After doing this, Xiao Wuji looked through the bamboo and jade slips.

There were a few recipes for pills suitable for the Qi Refining Stage in the bamboo slips, but unfortunately they were also secular recipes, the kind for making pills by hand, and their effect on his alchemy skills was not even as good as those in the prescription books.

He took out a few more books on medicine preparation, and then Xiao Wuji turned his attention to the two jade slips.

He placed the jade slip between his eyebrows, probed his spiritual consciousness into it, and browsed the contents.

After browsing through the recipe of the Foundation Establishment Pill, Xiao Wuji had a strange idea in his mind.

"Isn't this alchemy too much of a joke?"

Then Xiao Wuji looked at the recipe of the Rejuvenating Pill again, and finally he was sure that it was not a problem with the recipe, but a problem with the alchemy technique in this world.

Alchemy is generally divided into three steps: the first step is to extract the medicinal liquid, the second step is to fuse the medicinal liquid, and the third step is to condense the pill. Among them, condensing the pill is also the most critical step.

In the Douqi Continent, alchemy can only produce one pill per furnace in most cases in order to better stimulate the medicinal power. However, in this world, alchemy is worried about the excess of medicinal power, so there is an additional method of dividing the pill before condensing the pill, which can divide one pill into nine, or even more, and this method greatly reduces the difficulty of condensing the pill.

At this moment, Xiao Wuji also roughly understood why most of the elixirs in Douqi Continent were used to directly break through the realm, while the elixirs in this world were mainly used to increase the speed of cultivation. It was a waste.

However, he quickly figured out the problem. It was ultimately a problem of the meridians' tolerance. The meridians were fragile and could not bear too much medicinal power at one time.

However, what made Xiao Wuji most happy was that the method of refining the foundation-building pill was extremely simple. According to the classification of Douqi Continent, it was at most a second-grade pill. In other words, refining the foundation-building pill was something that Xiao Wuji could do with his hands at this moment.

This is one of the few good news about his behavior.

"One hour is up. If you continue reading, you will have to pay more spirit stones!" Suddenly, Mr. Xu shouted downstairs.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Wuji did not delay any longer. He picked up the books and the jade slip of the Foundation Establishment Pill that he had chosen and walked straight downstairs.

"Huh? So fast?"

Hearing Xiao Wuji's footsteps coming down the stairs, Mr. Xu showed a look of surprise, but after seeing the piles of books in his hands, he showed a look of joy. With so many books, it seemed that he could make a fortune.

"Copy this for me. I need to read a few more hours of books!"

Xiao Wuji placed the jade slip in his hand on Mr. Xu's desk, and after leaving twenty spirit stones, he turned around and went upstairs. This action made Mr. Xu so angry that he blew his beard and glared.

Xiao Wuji laughed secretly in his heart. If he wanted to earn his own spirit stones, he should think about it. Why bother to ask him to spend dozens of spirit stones to copy a book that he could memorize in a few hours? Even if he couldn't memorize it for a long time, he could just write it down on paper immediately after he got out.

Nine hours later, Xiao Wuji came down from upstairs on time, took back the jade slip that Mr. Xu had copied, and then left the place leisurely. Mr. Xu was so angry that he didn't even want to recommend the alchemy furnace, but because Xiao Wuji's actions were all legal and compliant, he could only stare blankly.

Then, Xiao Wuji entered the passage with the word "Qi" written on it, and did the same thing. Finally, he came to the Earth Fire Room and absorbed the Earth Fire for twenty days before leaving Yuelu Hall.

(End of this chapter)