Chapter 414: Mu Clan's Golden Core
f the demon whale's blood. 。"Look, there's a patch of blood moss over there." 。"We could probably extract quite a bit of demon whale essence blood!" Tao Jingyu had sharp eyes and excitedly pointed ah...Over the burning charcoal, Lingxu Ding constantly emitted waves of fragrant heat. This was the unique feature of Lingxu Ding: the burning charcoal wouldn't concentrate in one place, but its heat would be evenly distributed. Thus, the medicinal herbs inside wouldn't be overheated in one spot and become wasted during the refining process.
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Just having such a good furnace, but still failing so many times, can't use bad luck to cover it up. It should be that something in my own process is wrong.
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Lu Xiaotian pondered for a moment. Besides his main soul, he also brought over his second and third souls, which were originally responsible for studying the formation and practicing the second and third volumes of "Swallowing Souls," and focused all his attention on refining the Golden Core Pill.
As usual, several auxiliary spiritual objects were first thrown into the cauldron.
Soon, the Dǐng Nei emitted bursts of a strange fragrance. Lu Xia Tian then took out another wood-based Jing Jin fruit, also known as the Seven Apertures Exquisite Fruit, and threw it into the Ling Xu Ding.
Qi emanated from the seven orifices of the Condensed Gold Fruit, each orifice emitting an equal amount of spiritual energy. These seven streams of spiritual energy quickly merged with the liquid transformed by the auxiliary spirit objects inside the cauldron. The spiritual liquid inside the Lingxu Cauldron quickly fused into a ball, rolling back and forth, but during this process, Lu Xia Tian discovered that this ball of liquid seemed to be splitting apart. This was something he hadn't noticed before when using only his main primordial spirit. After all, he had to split his attention to watch the furnace fire. In most cases when he refined elixirs, due to the improvement in his alchemy level, he had already become accustomed to using only his main primordial spirit. Now, after experiencing too many failures, he gritted his teeth and used his second and third primordial spirits, only then did he unexpectedly discover this peculiarity of the elixir liquid's formation.
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Each kind of spirit creature, due to differences in their years of growth, contains different amounts of spiritual energy. Those that have grown for a longer time contain more spiritual power. Typically, after reaching a certain age, they stop growing.
And each furnace of alchemy, one can also choose the appropriate number of pills to refine based on the amount of spiritual power contained in the spirit creature. The higher the level of the alchemist, the more pills they can refine from a single furnace. Some alchemists can refine two, even three, or more pills from one furnace. (Thanks to book friend Fengfeng Feifei's suggestion, the previous setting of producing one pill per material was indeed somewhat inappropriate. Here is an additional explanation to make up for it.)
While those of lesser skill would attempt to create many at once, particularly for a precious elixir that required rare ingredients and was difficult to obtain, they'd choose safety first. They would aim to successfully refine just one pill initially. This way, the process of drawing spiritual energy wouldn't falter due to greed, leading to the failure of the entire batch of elixirs. As for the excess spiritual energy, it would naturally be wasted.
Lu Xiaotian, through his many years of alchemy experience, has achieved great proficiency in refining various pills. His Huitian Pills, Chizhu Pills, and Ziyang Pills required for late-stage foundation building cultivation all have a very high success rate. He would cultivate spiritual herbs to their peak within the barrier before refining them, allowing him to produce several pills from each furnace.
As for those unrefined golden elixirs, he would only cultivate them within the barrier until they reached a certain age. This way, he could save a lot of spirit stones from being wasted.
I never expected that after the Golden Fruit was refined into a elixir, it would produce seven streams of spiritual liquid of equal size. When they merged together again, such subtle splitting would occur. Every tiny change seemed to cause a small amount of spiritual energy to quietly dissipate.
Lu Xia Tian stared intently at the elixir in Lingxu Ding. Even when it finally solidified into a pill, it was only a Jindan with medicinal power of only five or six out of ten. It was still not very useful, but at least it could be transformed into a considerable amount of spiritual energy once placed inside the barrier.
However, Lu Xiaotian's eyes were filled with joy at this moment. By unexpectedly using three divine souls to refine the pill, he discovered the original reason for his previous refining failure. It turned out that it was due to the insufficient spiritual power he provided. During the process of condensing the Golden Core Pill in the pill liquid, those slight splitting effects, although he had stopped them, still resulted in a loss of spiritual power every time. Although he had mastered the control of the fire, once the consumed spiritual power exceeded a certain limit, the refined Golden Core Pill would naturally lose its spiritual energy and fail to achieve the expected effect.
Lu Xia Tian wasn't afraid of failure, but he was unusually annoyed by failures without a clear cause. At the root of it all, when he tried to accelerate the maturation of the golden condensing fruit within the barrier to minimize the loss of spirit stones, he only matured it to a certain age. Although he left some room for error, the margin wasn't enough to compensate for the lost spiritual energy. This was the root cause of his repeated alchemy failures over the past few years.
Having figured out the reason, Lu Xia Tian didn't immediately start refining the pills. Instead, after calming down the excitement in his heart, he methodically cleaned the alchemy furnace. He also nurtured another batch of spiritual creatures within the barrier, this time increasing their spiritual power by about twenty years.
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The process and previous experiences were exactly the same. The splitting process caused a loss of a considerable amount of spiritual energy. This refinement attempt also failed because, apart from the lost spiritual energy, the materials used for refining still had a surplus of spiritual energy after condensing into the entire Jin Dan. When Lu Xiaitian tried to blend this excess spiritual energy, it led to another failure in the refining of the Jin Guo due to an overload of spiritual energy.
Not only is the Golden Elixir, but all elixirs are like this: they need spiritual energy, but too much spiritual energy will also not work. A finished elixir is when the spiritual energy inside reaches a perfect balance, not one more, not one less.
Thus, this repetition continued until the third day at dawn.
A clear and bright laughter echoed from the back garden, rippling through the entire Maple Leaf Valley.
Several Qi Refining cultivators in Maple Leaf Valley were astonished, staring toward the backyard. They had never interacted with the strange silver-haired youth before and even found him somewhat displeasing. However, ever since witnessing the devastation left behind after his battle with the Black Abyss Elephant, they dared not look down upon him again. They wondered what good fortune had befallen him, causing him to smile so brightly. Could it be that he had made a breakthrough in cultivating some powerful technique Even from afar, the surging aura emanating from him was evident. Despite their slow reactions, they realized with shock that the silver-haired youth was actually a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator, his cultivation far exceeding theirs, perhaps even rivaling that of the Valley Master himself.
Lu Xia Tian retracted his laughter, fiddling with a jade green pill in his hand. It was incredibly translucent and filled with spiritual energy - the first Wood-type Gold Condensing Pill he had ever refined. After countless trials and errors, he had finally succeeded. The successful refinement of the Wood-type Gold Condensing Pill also marked his official status as a high-grade alchemist. In the entire Moon Viewing Immortal Cultivation World, or even in Tianqiong, Nanhuang, and other Immortal Cultivation Worlds, the value and status of a high-grade alchemist within any sect surpassed that of an ordinary Golden Core cultivator.
Lu Xiaotian rested his chin, put away the Mu-type Condensing Golden Pill, and closed his eyes to savor the process of alchemy he had just experienced. After a moment, the wheelchair creaked around, and the person was already outside the courtyard. Alchemy wasn't about constantly refining; understanding the process of alchemy was also a form of alchemy. Normally, Lu Xiaotian could quickly adjust his state of mind to be peaceful. But the immense joy brought by the successful refinement of the Condensing Golden Pill couldn't be forcibly quelled in a short time. With an unsettled mind, he would likely fail if he tried alchemy at his current level. Since he had successfully refined the first Condensing Golden Pill, there was no need to rush things for now.
(Sānqī Chinese)
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