Mortal's Purple Sky Cave Heaven

Chapter 15: Refining Qi-training Powder

Nie Zhaonan's eyes, as bright as stars, flashed with a few thoughtful glints: the purpose of this trip has been achieved, I have purchased a sharp magic weapon, learned a rough method of refining weapons, and made friends with Xin Ruyin, and the most important thing is the Qi Refining Powder and Zhenyuan Pill Spiritual Medicine Seeds. In the next few years, I can practice in peace in the valley and improve my cultivation.

In the evening, there were still a few streaks of golden light in the distant sky, but it was pitch black nearby.

"Husband, you're back. Did your trip go well?" Nie Ying sat up from the chair, trotted over and threw herself into Nie Zhaonan's arms.

Nie Zhaonan naturally hugged Nie Ying, patted her cute buttocks, and said lovingly: "Well, everything went smoothly. But Ying'er, why don't you stay in the house after dark? What are you doing sitting in the yard? Don't catch a cold."

Nie Ying said happily: "During the past few days when my husband was away, Ying'er missed him very much. Naturally, I wanted to wait for him in the yard so that I could see him first." Every word she said revealed her longing.

"Your husband has been thinking about Ying'er, too." As Nie Zhaonan spoke, his hands became even more dishonest. He picked up the delicate body in his arms by the waist and slowly walked into the house.

The night in the courtyard became silent.
The next day everything returned to normal.

Nie Zhaonan was in the Zixiao Cave Heaven, but since he entered the foundation-building stage, the Zixiao Cave Heaven had obviously expanded a lot.

Today, the entire Zixiao Cave Heaven is ten miles in radius, the medicinal fields have increased to twenty pieces, and the farms have increased from one to two. However, the two farms are empty and quite lonely.

Nie Zhaonan had already planned for these two farms, one for cultivating blood jade spiders and the other for gold-eating insects.

The Blood Jade Spider is related to the all-mighty spiritual treasure Xutian Ding. In fact, Nie Zhaonan also knows that Xutian Ding is just an ordinary spiritual treasure. Only those on the Chaos List of All Spirits in the spiritual world are the real all-mighty spiritual treasures.

However, this does not affect the importance of the Xu Tian Ding. Even if it is an ordinary spiritual treasure, it is a rare treasure for Nie Zhaonan. It is enough for him to use until the Spirit Transformation and Void Refining stages. Moreover, the Xu Tian Ding can greatly enhance Nie Zhaonan's strength, so he cannot let it go.

As for the gold-eating worm, it is an ancient strange worm that devours everything.

Moreover, the mature gold-eating beetle is golden in color and indestructible. A single one can rival a Nascent Soul cultivator and will not be at a disadvantage in a battle with a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Speaking of his experience, he can even catch up with the Taoist Ancestor of the Immortal Realm and is comparable to Han Li.

Nie Zhaonan skillfully took out the spiritual medicine seeds and planted them in the spiritual field according to their varieties.

Then he took out spiritual stones of various colors and placed them on the spiritual field to ripen the spiritual medicine.

Something unexpected happened to Nie Zhaonan. According to previous experience in ripening spiritual medicines, 1500 spirit stones were just enough to ripen more than 300 Qi-refining herbs in a spiritual field to years old, which was just suitable for refining Qi-refining powder.

But the fact is that the Qi Refining Grass has only reached a medicinal age of 150 years, which surprised Nie Zhaonan a little.

However, after a little thought, he understood its meaning: the spiritual medicines required for the Qi training stage and the foundation building stage are very different. In terms of the quality of the spiritual medicines themselves and the spiritual energy required for their growth, the spiritual medicines suitable for the foundation building stage must be much higher than those used in the Qi training stage, so naturally more spiritual stones are needed to ripen them.

In the future, when ripening higher-level spiritual medicines, the spiritual stones required for ripening will naturally increase.

Nie Zhaonan continued to place 1500 spirit stones on the spirit field. As expected, after the spirit field absorbed all the spirit stones, the Qi Refining Grass reached 300 years of medicinal age in a short while.

After seeing that there was nothing unusual, Nie Zhaonan continued to plant and ripen the spiritual medicines on the spiritual field.

At the same time, elixirs are picked using special techniques and stored in jade boxes to prevent leakage of spiritual energy and affect the quality of the elixirs.

Afterwards, the jade box was placed in the attic of the Zixiao Cave.

During this trip, Nie Zhaonan also collected some materials and initially built a ten-foot-wide, three-story attic for storing items.

The first floor is the Spiritual Medicine Pavilion, the second floor is the Magical Instrument Pavilion, and the third floor is the Martial Arts Pavilion.

This is just the initial version. I don’t have much energy and time to waste on it now. I will rebuild it after I reach the stage of Dan.

Nie Zhaonan spent most of the day ripening and collecting spiritual herbs before he finally filled the wooden shelves on the first floor of the spiritual medicine pavilion with them.

The talismans sold to the family were worth a total of 25000 spirit stones, the Rejuvenation Pills were sold at the secret shop for 5000 spirit stones, and two Rejuvenation Pills were auctioned at the Huangfeng Valley secret shop for 2 spirit stones, plus the net worth that had been accumulated over the years.

This time, the elixir was ripened by consuming all the 50,000 spirit stones in his body.

"Junior brother, rent a Divine Fire House." Nie Zhaonan said to a late Qi Refining disciple who was guarding the Divine Fire House.

The gatekeeper disciple who was distracted came to his senses at this moment, and seeing that it was a cultivator at the peak of Qi Refining, he quickly stood at attention and said, "The Earth Fire House can be rented for a month for 10 spirit stones. How long would you like to rent it for, senior brother?" "Let's rent it for three months first." Nie Zhaonan said casually, and then handed the gatekeeper disciple 30 spirit stones.

The guard took the spirit stone, and the disciple who was guarding the gate reminded him: "It doesn't matter if you exceed the time limit, brother. You just need to pay the spirit stone after you come out of seclusion. Here is the token." He handed over a wooden token with "No. 31" written in black font on it. It was obviously a forbidden token.

Nie Zhaonan took it and said thankfully, "Thank you, Junior Brother." Then he went into the house.

When the disciple saw Nie Zhaonan walk into the forbidden area, he complained to a companion on the other side in a bad mood: "Junior Brother He, why didn't you warn me when someone came? You made me leave a bad impression in front of my senior brother."

Junior Brother He murmured helplessly: "Senior Brother Zhou, I always remind you to be on guard, but you just don't listen. How can you blame me for this now? Besides, this senior brother flew very fast, and his steps were light and silent after landing. I almost didn't react myself, so how could I remind him?"

Senior Brother Zhou couldn't refute it after hearing this, so he continued, "Who is this senior brother? He is at the peak of Qi Refining, I've never heard of him before."

The topic gradually turned to Nie Zhaonan.

As soon as Nie Zhaonan entered the underground fire house, he immediately closed the door and opened the restriction. Then he took out the alchemy furnace from the storage bag and placed it on the underground fire.

Then he took out various spiritual medicines needed to refine the Qi Refining Powder from the Zixiao Cave.

300-year-old Refining Qi Grass and Purple Golden Ganoderma are the main ingredients, 150-year-old Qingxin Grass and Kuhe are the auxiliary ingredients, plus some common spiritual medicines such as Polygonatum sibiricum and Feipeng Grass
Qi training powder can improve the mana cultivation of cultivators in the early stage of foundation building, but its effectiveness is greatly reduced for cultivators in the middle stage of foundation building, and it is of little use. However, it is much more difficult to refine than the pills in the Qi training stage.

Nie Zhaonan cast the fire control technique on the underground fire to heat the furnace, and used his spiritual sense to observe the temperature inside the furnace. According to the records of the elixir recipe, he put the spiritual medicine and Qi-refining grass one by one, slowly refining them and removing the impurities. Putting the spiritual medicine in order, Nie Zhaonan meticulously controlled the underground fire and observed the refining of the spiritual medicine in the furnace with his spiritual sense, not daring to be careless.

After all the medicinal materials have been refined into liquid medicine and gathered together to blend their medicinal properties, use magic power to divide the liquid medicine into ten small balls, and then slowly heat the alchemy furnace to allow the liquid medicine to condense into pills.

All of this sounds simple, but the details of each link are difficult to control accurately. If you are not careful, it will affect the success of the pill.

Fortunately, Nie Zhaonan had a strong spiritual sense and was able to observe the alchemy process more carefully and make timely adjustments, so no major mistakes occurred.

Time passes slowly.
Gradually, a few beads of sweat appeared on Nie Zhaonan's forehead, but Nie Zhaonan did not dare to relax at all and still concentrated on refining the Qi-training Powder.

Gradually, a delicate fragrance drifted through the house, and the Qi-training powder was successfully refined!
Nie Zhaonan stopped using his magic power, withdrew his spiritual consciousness, wiped the sweat from his forehead with one hand, and opened the alchemy furnace with the other hand.

"I made 5 pills, but the quality is not the best. Each pill has some flaws. It's still a success." After carefully checking the quality of the Qi-training Powder, Nie Zhaonan gave a self-evaluation.

This kind of defective pill contains many impurities and has poor efficacy. Nie Zhaonan would naturally not take it, and usually sells it to other cultivators at a cheap price.

Nie Zhaonan sat cross-legged on the cushion, concentrating his mind and recalling carefully the whole process of refining the Qi Refining Powder. He thought carefully about his own inappropriate operations. After a long while, his eyes lit up and he continued to refine the pill.

"Four pills were made, all of excellent quality!" The second time of refining was significantly improved.

"Five successful pills!"

"7 pieces!"

As the number of times he refined pills increased, Nie Zhaonan's alchemy skills continued to accumulate experience and improve. Gradually, at least 8 pills of Qi-training were produced from each furnace, and occasionally 10 pills could be refined.

Nie Zhaonan was immersed in alchemy. Whenever his magic power was exhausted, he would meditate and rest to restore his magic power.

After more than a month, Nie Zhaonan had used up all the spiritual medicine for refining the Qi-training Powder.

After resting for half a day, Nie Zhaonan began to refine the Zhenyuan Pill.

Zhenyuan Pill is a pill that is taken by cultivators in the middle stage of foundation building to improve their magic power. It is naturally of higher grade than Lianqi Powder. Even though Nie Zhaonan has rich experience in alchemy and has carefully read the recipe of Zhenyuan Pill no less than ten times, his first attempt at refining the pill still ended in failure.

After several failures, Nie Zhaonan finally succeeded in refining the Zhenyuan Pill.

This success seemed to have opened Nie Zhaonan's eyes. Every time he opened a furnace, there would be a few Zhenyuan Pills lying quietly inside, and the number was showing a tendency to increase.

Countless days and nights passed outside the house, and bottles of pills were continuously put into the medicine pavilion in the Zixiao Cave.

After the last batch of elixirs for refining the Zhenyuan Pill was refined, Nie Zhaonan breathed a sigh of relief. He felt physically tired after refining the pill day and night.

Thank you to all the fellow Taoists for your collection, recommendation and monthly ticket support!
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