You, a druid, go to practice Taoism?.

Chapter 30: Refining Mutagenic Liquid
The second problem is that the fusion process requires a very high degree of detail integration.

There are extremely high requirements for details such as when to blend each elixir essence, how long to blend, to what extent to react before adding other medicinal essences.

This is a very complicated process. If there is any mistake, the entire medicine refining process will fail!

These two major problems have blocked countless cultivators. Without outstanding talent and a lot of practice, it is impossible to succeed in refining medicine.

Even though this is a relatively simple medicine refining process.

The difficulty of refining the medicinal liquid can give us a glimpse of the difficulty of alchemy.

Under normal circumstances, the difficulty of refining elixirs is at least ten times that of refining medicinal liquids. The process is also more complicated, and it also requires more precious alchemy furnaces and spiritual fires to assist in refining the elixir.

As for such precious and age-old elixirs as the Hundred-Year-Old Blood Ginseng and the Fifty-Year-Old Flowing Light Grass, they are so precious that ordinary immortal cultivators may have to wait several years to make back the money they earned after wasting one serving.

However, although Qi Ping was a little nervous about such a difficult task of refining medicine, he was not overly worried.

Because in his spare time of cultivating elixirs, Qi Ping had already practiced and practiced it several times!

Qi Ping has even refined the reduced version of the bloodline mutation liquid many times, even though it has not met the age requirement!
That's why Qi Ping had the courage to directly refine the blood mutation medicine after the Liuguang Grass and Blood Ginseng reached the required age.

In fact, after Qi Ping came back from Qingshifang City, he began to practice the technique of extracting elixirs in the forest.

This method of extracting elixirs is more of a skill than a spell, which any Qi-refining cultivator can practice, but the degree to which one can achieve it varies from person to person.

The reason for choosing the forest is that jungle druids can gain increases in most attributes such as perception, spiritual power, and spirit in the forest. This gives Qi Ping a unique advantage in extracting spiritual medicines and fusing their essences in the forest.

In addition to Qi Ping's wood spiritual roots, the jungle druid's affinity for spiritual plants, and the brewing craftsman's talent, Qi Ping has a keen talent for spiritual medicine.
With so many matching conditions, Qi Ping began to practice herbal essence extraction using common herbs in addition to cultivating spiritual medicines.

The extraction of ordinary herbal essences is not difficult, and Qi Ping quickly became proficient in it.

But when trying to extract the medicinal essence of blood ginseng, even though Qi Ping had so many unique conditions, he still failed in the early stages of the extraction.

The difficulty of extracting elixirs is much higher than that of ordinary herbs, they are not on the same level at all!
Qi Ping finally understood why alchemist is one of the most expensive professions.

Even with so many advantages, he failed many times before gradually becoming proficient in the extraction method of the elixir essence, and this is still the most basic extraction method.
By the time Qi Ping was completely familiar with the extraction method of the elixir, most of the dozen or so blood ginsengs had been ripped apart by Qi Ping. This was the result of Qi Ping's hundreds and thousands of times of practice.

Each time, he would cut a little bit without damaging the blood ginseng's vitality, then use the plant growth to restore the blood ginseng, and then practice the technique of extracting the elixir with very small amounts many times.

After practicing hundreds of times, Qi Ping gradually mastered the method of extracting blood ginseng.

Fortunately, the process of extracting this elixir generally does not cause the blood ginseng to lose its effectiveness. Regardless of success or failure, most of it can be used to make honey for the golden marrow bees, and only a small part is lost.

But even this small part still made Qi Ping heartbroken.

In the past nearly half a month, the Golden Marrow Bees have used the essence of elixirs that Qi Ping failed to extract or succeeded in extracting to make honey.

Finally, after many times of practice, Qi Ping not only mastered the technique of extracting the essence of elixirs, but also became familiar with the medicinal materials needed for the blood alienation medicine hundreds of times.

Because the hundred-year-old blood ginseng and flowing light grass would take almost a month to cultivate even if Qi Ping had the skill to grow plants.

Therefore, Qi Ping must use various methods to reduce the possibility of refining failure.

In the dense forest, under the ancient fir tree where Qi Ping usually practiced.

This is where the power of nearby plants and trees is most concentrated, and Qi Ping can get the greatest boost here.

At this moment, he was sitting cross-legged on the ground with a wooden table in front of him. On the table were all the herbs and several jade bottles prepared by Qi Ping.

"let's start!"

Everything was ready. Qi Ping took a deep breath, adjusted his state, and then began to refine the medicine.

First, Qi Ping divided the elixir on the table according to the recipe ratio of the blood alienation medicine.

After some effort, Qi Ping finally divided the medicinal materials into ten portions. Among them, there was a little more blood ginseng and twenty percent more flowing grass.

The main reason is that there are limited hundred-year-old blood ginsengs, otherwise we could have prepared a few more.

There are two reasons why they didn't extract all of them at once. One is that Qi Ping's spiritual power can't support the extraction of a whole blood ginseng at one time. The success rate will be higher if he extracts small portions at a time. The other is that Qi Ping estimates that his success rate in extracting the hundred-year-old blood ginseng may be around 70%. If he divides it into ten portions, as long as he is not too unlucky, he will definitely be able to succeed in more than five portions.

If all the extractions succeeded, it would be fine. If they failed, wouldn't it be a complete failure? The same is true when fusing spiritual medicine.

Anyway, when preparing the blood alienation medicine, as long as the proportions are correct, there is no requirement on the quantity.

After the herbs were divided, Qi Ping began to extract the elixir.

Qi Ping successfully extracted all ten common medicinal materials with almost no effort!
"Ordinary medicinal materials are not difficult to extract, and there is almost no possibility of failure in extraction."

"Next is the streamer grass."

It is better to use more streamer grass first to get familiar with the feel of it.

So Qi Ping picked up a piece of Liuguang Grass and skillfully wrapped it with spiritual power to temper it.

Following the smooth operation, the extraction failed as expected!

However, Qi Ping did not feel too upset, but became more confident.

"The medicinal properties of fifty-year-old Liuguang grass are much stronger, so the extraction steps and methods need to be slightly modified."

Second extraction. Still failed!

"Failed again? But I know where the problem is!"

A confident smile appeared on Qi Ping's face. He thought that there would be no problem next time. This was the confidence that Qi Ping had gained from practicing hundreds and thousands of times.

The third extraction. Success!

Fourth time. Success!

Ninth time. Failure!

Twelfth success!

In the end, Qi Ping failed three times and succeeded nine times!
"not bad!"

Qi Ping was quite satisfied with the result. The success rate was slightly higher than he expected.

More importantly, with the experience of extracting fifty-year-old Liuguang Grass, Qi Ping is more confident about extracting blood ginseng next.

After practicing the Wooden Shield Technique to restore some spiritual power, Qi Ping began to concentrate on tempering the blood ginseng.

First extraction. Failed!

“As expected.”

Qi Ping was not too worried. He estimated that the chances of success next time were very high.

Second time. Success!

The third time. Failure!

Fourth time. Success!

Tenth time. Success!

In the end, eight out of ten hundred-year-old blood ginsengs were successful.

"Very good! The success rate has reached 80%, which is higher than the 70% I estimated!"

This is a good start for Qi Ping.

Qi Ping now has a total of eight materials. How many of them can be successfully fused in the end depends on the success rate of the subsequent fusion into bloodline alienation liquid.
(End of this chapter)