Fairy, listen to my explanation.

Chapter 5 Changes in Alchemy

Next, Qin Yu began to carefully test the strength of his mental power, and his emotions slowly calmed down.

Beginner's guide.

Although the spiritual power has transformed from invisible to visible, the strength is not very high. If I have to describe it...

Like a weed.

Like a strand of hair.

This is also the reason why the rag, which was only the size of a palm, fell down when it was only half held up.

Because the strength of mental power is very low.

However, Qin Yu was not depressed at all, because after his formal mastery of mental power, it meant that he could purify the medicinal liquid!
If you can purify the medicinal liquid, you can be considered a true alchemy apprentice.

Although he is just an apprentice, in the eyes of these monks in the outer city, he is an extremely remarkable existence.

Even in the pharmacies in the market town, it has a very high status!
After all, in the entire Linxian City, the number of real alchemists can be counted on one hand.

Each of them is a big shot with status and position in the city.

"Try?"

Once this idea came to mind, Qin Yu became eager to try it out.

However, he did not rush to refine the medicine directly, but closed his eyes first to recover the mental energy he had just consumed.

……

Alchemy is divided into three specific steps.

Step one: refine the medicinal materials into liquid medicine.

Step 2: Purification of the drug solution.

Step 3: Condense the purified medicinal liquid into pills.

What Qin Yu has been doing all along is the first step, refining the herbs into liquid medicine. This is also the simplest of the three steps. Although it requires certain skills, it is actually not difficult.

Otherwise, Qin Yu would not have been able to successfully refine the medicine by his own exploration.

After his mental strength recovered, he focused his attention on the alchemy furnace in front of him.

Although the cracks are very thin, if the furnace explodes one or two more times, I'm afraid it will be completely unusable.

There was nothing that could be done about it. Without anyone to teach him, Qin Yu could only keep trying and making mistakes, so furnace explosions were inevitable.

Then, Qin Yu took out some healing herbs.

Healing medicine is one of the most basic medicines and the most commonly used medicine by monks. It is basically a must-have for everyone.

Qin Yu checked carefully and confirmed that the amount of medicinal materials was correct, but he did not put all of them into the stove at once.

He was only at the second stage of Qi Refining, and his spiritual and mental powers were limited. It was impossible for him to refine a batch of herbs into liquid medicine in one go.

He first picked out one of the herbs and put it into the alchemy furnace.

"Oh!"

The spiritual energy turned into fire and began to burn under the alchemy furnace.

The most important thing in refining medicine, or even elixir, is... controlling fire.

If the heat is not controlled well, it will easily lead to failure!

As soon as it was ignited, Qin Yu felt that his control over the spiritual fire had greatly improved.

In the past, he could only try his best to control the flames so that they would not get out of control, but now, he seemed to be able to control the size of the fire.

Under the control of mental power, it was like an invisible giant hand was squeezing the rising flames.

This is actually very important!

Although the size of the flame is determined by the output of spiritual energy, if the temperature is not reached, it is impossible to refine the medicinal materials.

Otherwise, the spiritual fire cannot be used to refine medicine.

In order to reach a sufficient temperature, the output of spiritual energy must be increased, which will naturally easily lead to the flame getting out of control.

If the flames penetrated into the furnace, it would lead to failure or even explosion. At this moment, the fire looked fierce, but it was all below the waist of the furnace, within the absolute safety limit!
Qin Yu quickly suppressed the joy in his heart and continued to refine the medicine in an orderly manner.

In his perception, the medicinal materials in the alchemy furnace began to slowly refine under the high temperature of the spiritual fire.

"what?"

He also discovered that after the spiritual fire stopped running around like before, the temperature was concentrated in the lower half of the furnace, which increased the speed of refining medicinal materials.

After about an hour, all the medicinal materials in the furnace had been refined into liquid medicine!
"really!"

In the past, it took at least one and a half hours to refine these medicinal materials, but now, it actually saved half an hour.

The same steps not only save time, but also save spiritual energy and mental energy!

This situation made Qin Yu very happy.

In the past, it would take him a little over four days to completely refine a batch of healing herbs.

It’s not that the whole process takes four days, but during the refining process, he needs to spend a lot of time recovering the consumed spiritual power and mental energy.

And at the current speed, he can probably refine a batch of medicine in about three days!
Then, Qin Yu chose to recover.

Although it saves a lot of spiritual energy and mental strength compared to the past, the current state is obviously not enough to refine the next medicinal ingredient.

He closed his eyes, turned his five hearts toward the sky, and began to practice the Sensing Technique.

This is the most basic skill in the cultivation world, but it was also what Qin Yu obtained after a year of mining.

Then, in his perception, spots of light of varying sizes appeared between heaven and earth.

These spots of light are the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

However, around Qin Yu, these light spots were very sparse, like scattered snowflakes floating in the surrounding space.

This is the outer city.

Although there is some spiritual energy, it is not much!
As Qin Yu practiced the Sensing Technique, the spiritual energy within a one-meter area around him seemed to be pulled by a force, floating and falling towards him.

That’s right, it’s falling, not converging, and the affected range is only one meter.

This is due to two reasons.

One reason is that Qin Yu is just a low-grade mortal bone, and his affinity with spiritual energy is too low.

The second reason is naturally because the skills are too ordinary.

But Qin Yu has long been accustomed to this.

After absorbing the spiritual energy, the first thing to do is to refine it.

The spiritual energy between heaven and earth is like a knife or a sword. If it directly flows into the meridians, it will lead to very serious consequences.

The speed of refining spiritual energy depends on the technique!

Therefore, Dharma is an important part of the four major factors for a cultivator.

In Qin Yu's perception, Dantian is like a pond, and the meridians are ditches.

Strands of refined spiritual energy flowed along the meridians, gathered in the pond of Dantian, and slowly filled it up.

It took about an hour for Qin Yu's spiritual power and mental strength to recover. Next, he took out another kind of medicinal ingredient and put it into the alchemy furnace.

Qin Yu didn't leave the cubicle for the next three days.

Because he had told Lin Qianqian that he wanted to refine the medicine before coming in, the two sisters did not come to disturb him.

"It took a total of thirty-five hours!"

Looking at the refined medicinal liquid in the alchemy furnace, although Qin Yu's face showed fatigue, there was joy in his eyes.

In this way, even if he cannot purify the medicinal liquid, he can still earn a few more spirit stones every year because of the reduced time.

All of this is brought about after the mental power has reached the initial entry level.

"Try to purify it!"

If it can really be purified, then we won’t have to live such a tight life in the future.

(End of this chapter)