dtnovels Chapter 156 Refining the Soul-Restoring Pill
Chapter 156 Refining the Soul-Restoring Pill
"Before I begin, I have a few words to say. I hope you can forgive me."
Yan Mengwan restrained her smile and spoke with a slightly more serious tone.
"Senior Sister Yan, you can talk as you please."
Wang Qiye quickly pricked up her ears. It was rare that she finally remembered her responsibilities.
"No matter what surprising scene you see later, don't scream out loud."
"Well, of course."
Wang Qiye nodded and glanced at Yan Mengwan casually. Suddenly, some strange thoughts popped up in his mind. Although he knew it was impossible, he felt his mouth dry at this moment.
"Then let's get started. These fourteen herbs were all sorted and ground by you two, Junior Brother Wang and Lingxi. You should still remember them."
Wang Qiye knew that this was meant for a layman like him, so he replied quickly.
"Of course I remember. The three main herbs are Huilingcao, Bailuhua, and Ziyushancha."
"The eleven auxiliary herbs are licorice, Panax notoginseng, centipede, Pu'er, camellia sinensis, bergamot, white chrysanthemum, nightshade, Gastrodia elata, Malan, and Dianthus chinensis."
"Junior Brother Wang is right. These are exactly the types."
Yan Mengwan nodded. It was a good thing that he could still remember it. It was really difficult for this second-generation Nascent Soul cultivator.
"Fire!"
Yan Mengwan cast a spell, and fire immediately rose under the idle alchemy furnace.
"This step is to heat the furnace, wait until it reaches the right temperature, then add the main ingredient, and then watch what happens next."
Wang Qiye stared at her movements closely, afraid of missing anything.
Yan Mengwan placed the Huiling grass in first, and waited until it was completely melted into liquid. Then she placed four auxiliary medicines in to blend with it. After they were all turned into liquid, she took out an unknown porcelain bottle from the storage bag and put everything in it.
Then start to throw in the next main ingredient, white deer flower. After it has also melted into liquid, add the three auxiliary ingredients. After they have all melted into liquid, put them all in a porcelain bottle.
Finally, he put in the main herb, Purple Jade Camellia, and waited for it to melt into liquid. Then he carefully threw in all the remaining auxiliary herbs. When they had also melted into liquid, he took out a porcelain bottle and put them in.
At this time, Yan Mengwan was sweating profusely, and her whole body looked as if she had just been fished out of the pool, which made Wang Qiye swallow his saliva.
Ye Lingxi stepped forward and wiped the sweat from her forehead, blocking Wang Qiye's sight. Yan Mengwan could no longer care about anything else, and quickly sat down cross-legged, meditating and regulating her breathing for half an hour before standing up again.
"The next step is the most critical one. Everything is difficult at the beginning. If you do this step well, the rest will be easy."
Wang Qiye quickly stared at the alchemy furnace and looked at it carefully.
Yan Mengwan just cast a spell and the fire at the bottom of the furnace, which had been extinguished, came out again. When the furnace reached a certain temperature, Yan Mengwan threw out the three porcelain bottles filled with liquid medicine and at the same time poured the refined liquid medicine into the empty furnace below.
“Temperature is critical at this time!”
After Yan Mengwan finished speaking, she put away the empty porcelain bottle and made a fire gesture with her hands. The fire seemed to double in intensity and melt people.
The air in the alchemy furnace was surging, and the medicinal liquid inside began to merge and rise with Yan Mengwan's various hand gestures.
After half an hour, the heat wave subsided, and the temperature in the furnace gradually decreased, finally maintaining at 200 degrees, and then stopped changing. The medicine liquid in the furnace stopped rising and began to rotate slowly.
"Sister Yan, is this all right?"
Seeing Yan Mengwan starting to finish her practice, Wang Qiye asked hurriedly.
"Well, next we just need to let the liquid medicine in the furnace ferment slowly at a specific temperature. Then every seven days, I will perform another technique, and after forty-nine days, we can collect the pills."
Yan Mengwan nodded and began to tidy up her clothes.
"Doesn't it take ninety-nine and eighty-one days?"
Wang Qiye was surprised. It was different from what he had learned.
"Fool, our Meng Wan is a third-level alchemist, so refining second-level pills is naturally a piece of cake. And this time, the elixir is also our Meng Wan's best, and she can refine it with her eyes closed, so naturally we can save a little more time."
"However, shortening the cycle of a second-level elixir by two days is already the limit. Even if you are a ninth-level alchemist, it will take 49 days to produce a pill."
Ye Lingxi looked pleased, as if all this was her credit.
"It's a pity that I'm not a fire magician, otherwise I could teach you how to control the temperature. But don't be discouraged, your water spiritual roots can be of great help when brewing medicine."
"I'm going to go change my clothes first, see you later."
Yan Mengwan then left in a hurry and ran back to her room.
"Ye Lingxi, how many spirit stones can this furnace produce?"
Wang Qiye stared at the alchemy furnace with envy. He couldn't wait any longer after just taking the medicine out of the furnace.
"If it's normal, I can earn 1000 spirit stones."
Ye Lingxi showed off proudly again.
"Oh my god, if you can make so much money, why don't you keep practicing this Huiling Pill?"
Wang Qiye was puzzled. Why was it necessary to refine the fasting pills that could earn 300 spirit stones per furnace?
"This is called finding the feel, don't you understand? Refining a pill frequently will form a mental inertia. So when refining a new pill, the alchemist will refine several furnaces of various types of pills, so that he can keenly observe the various changes of the new pill and accumulate experience."
Ye Lingxi snorted and showed off in front of this outsider again.
Wang Qiye nodded indifferently, feeling that he should understand.
"Let's go, let's go and pound the medicine."
Ye Lingxi said this, turned around and walked towards the door.
"Is this alchemy furnace no longer needed?"
Wang Qiye looked back again and saw that the underground fire was still quite stable.
"You don't understand the temperature, so why are you staying here? Read that medicine book ten times first, then talk about other things."
……
end of the month.
Qingyun Peak.
The cold moonlight hung on the branches, but the Red Moon Tower was crowded with people. Monks kept rushing there, and the entrance was very lively.
"Welcome, gentlemen. Do you have a reservation?"
A servant dressed in cool and bold red clothes came up to greet them with a smile.
"Table 25 on the sixth floor."
Nangong Yu opened his paper fan, looked around, and spoke.
"Guys, please come with me."
The red-robed attendant bowed respectfully and led the way.
Wang Qiye, Nangong Yu and Xiao Lanmei followed behind slowly.
"I've been either practicing or pounding medicine all day. If I don't come out for a walk, I'll get moldy."
Wang Qiye had already gotten used to the scent of herbs, but when he suddenly came to this earthly land, he was overwhelmed by all the smells. Fortunately, there were incense sticks in the Hongyue Tower, otherwise he would have fainted.
"That's right. This is cultivation. It doesn't involve drinking alcohol or eating meat. It involves lying on the lap of a beautiful woman while drunk. This is what we cultivate."
Xiao Lanmei smiled happily, and as he walked, he lingered on the beauties passing by. Sometimes he even touched the girls secretly when they were not paying attention. He was insulted by them, but he did not seem embarrassed. Instead, he laughed a few times.
"Mr. Nangong, come and sit over here!"
"Mr. Xiao, you are here. I missed you so much!"
Hong Qiang and Zi Yan warmly greeted the people who had just come up to the sixth floor, and stuck their bodies directly up. Only one person was still a little uncomfortable, standing there awkwardly, but today she did not wear a veil, and was still so pure and elegant.
"Master, you are here."
"Well, let's go there."
Wang Qiye followed the people in front, and Yu Miaolan also hurried to catch up. She didn't expect that this gentleman would give her 1000 spirit stones again today and asked her to accompany him for drinks.
Several people sat down in a booth one by one, each holding one in his arms. Amid the cheers, Yu Miaolan simply closed her eyes, sat next to Wang Qiye in the dim red moonlight, and buried her head in his arms.
Wang Qiye buried his nose in her hair, sniffed gently, and smelled a fragrance. Only then did he finally get a moment of respite in this rouge land.
"The alchemist has suffered a lot here." After joking in his heart, Wang Qiye waved his hand and a glass of wine on the booth was in his hand, and then he drank it all in one gulp.
"The damn Red Moon Tower really knows how to do business. They charge 100 spirit stones per table and give us the wine down the mountain?"
Wang Qiye couldn't help but complain, then he waved his hand, grabbed a fresh fruit and put it into his mouth.
"Don't be surprised, Mr. Qiye. When you see the courtesans competing for beauty, you won't think this wine is bad. If you think this wine is boring and want to order some spirit wine, we have that in Hongyue Tower."
Hong Qiang heard what Wang Qiye said and took the opportunity to escape from Xiao Lanmei's clutches. She came to the booth and filled up the empty wine glasses.
"Well, it depends on whether someone is willing to bleed?"
Wang Qiye spoke in a sarcastic tone and took the new wine handed to him by Hong Qiang.
"Brother Qiye, don't be impatient. Today is just the beginning. Three days later, we will go to Tianxianglou. Even if you want to drink up all the Tianxiangzui, we will make sure you have enough wine. Hahahaha——"
Nangong Yu laughed loudly, and just opened his mouth slightly, and drank the glass of wine that Zi Yan brought to his mouth.
"Being stingy is being stingy, no excuses."
Wang Qiye cursed and then began to look at the sixth floor.
There is not a single room on the entire sixth floor, but rather a large circular space. Shadows can be seen everywhere on the booths. Under the hazy red moon, people are toasting each other, making it difficult to see clearly.
The performance hadn't started yet, but 70% of the seats were already occupied, which showed that the Hongyue Tower's courtesan contest, held once every four months, was already well-known.
In the hazy red moon, a pair of sinister eyes pierced straight ahead without any disguise.
Wang Qiye followed his feeling and looked over. The eyes still showed no sign of avoidance. Although there were several booths between them, the lights were dim and the figure was blurry, Wang Qiye still recognized him at a glance.
“Even he is here.”
Wang Qiye underestimated it. If he hadn’t seen him today, he would have almost forgotten about him.
"Who's coming?"
The ostrich in his arms finally showed its face, looked around, and found that there were no newlyweds. Then, with a blushing face, he brought a glass of wine and handed it to Wang Qiye.
"Master, drink."
I was still a little uncomfortable with the crisp voice, and I dared not look down at Wang Qiye's eyes.
Wang Qiye didn't make things difficult for her. He took it but didn't drink it.
He didn't pay attention to the beauty beside him. He only saw that pair of vicious eyes leaning over the ear of the person next to him, whispering a few words, and another pair of contemptuous eyes looked over at him.
"Nothing, just a nasty fly that came by."
Xiao Lanmei followed his gaze and saw the two people walking over. She just grinned and rarely stopped her hand that had already reached into Hong Qiang's clothes. She grabbed a glass of wine and drank it all in one gulp.