Longevity Thunder Ancestor

Chapter 4: The effect of heaven
Ning Fa's eyes widened. He looked at these spiritual herbs carefully and recognized them easily.

"Bellflower, water heart grass, green leaves..."

"These are... the spiritual materials for refining Zeng Yuan Dan!?"

Ning Fa exclaimed in surprise. His predecessor had refined Zeng Yuan Dan countless times, so he naturally remembered it clearly and recognized it at a glance.

He frowned as he looked at the pattern on the mysterious scroll. On top was a pattern of five useless Zengyuan Pills, and below was a pattern of seven kinds of spiritual herbs connected by white lines.

A bold idea gradually formed in Ningfa's mind, making his heart beat violently.

Thinking of this, he held his breath and gently touched the patterns of the seven spiritual herbs below.

Suddenly, these spiritual herb patterns turned into a ball of white light, and then flew into Ning Fa's hands, wrapping the five useless pills.

Ningfa quickly let go of his hand, leaving only a ball of white light floating in the air, and countless tiny runes could be vaguely seen flashing in the white light.

After three breaths, the ball of white light dissipated, and the five Yuan Zeng Dan pills in the air also disappeared. Instead, there were several spiritual herbs of various shapes floating quietly in the air.

These are the seven spiritual herbs needed to refine the Zengyuan Pill, not one more, not one less.

Ningfa swallowed, then pinched himself and cried out in pain, but a look of ecstasy appeared on his face.

His guess just now turned out to be true. This mysterious scroll could actually restore the waste Zengyuan Pills into spiritual materials for refining them!
Even though Ning Fa had just arrived, after integrating the memories of his predecessor, he also knew about the ability to restore waste pills into spiritual materials.

Even in this mysterious world of cultivation, this is absolutely inconceivable and goes against the common sense of cultivators.

But now it was happening right in front of Ning Fa's eyes, and he had no choice but to believe it.

The effect of this restoration is also obvious, which is that it allows him to use these spiritual materials again to refine pills.

And let's make a bold guess. After he refines these spiritual materials into Zengyuan Pills and waste pills, can he use this mysterious scroll again to restore the waste pills into these spiritual materials?
In this case, doesn't it mean that the spiritual materials for a Zengyuan Pill can be reused, allowing him to continue refining pills?
You should know that the reason why it is so difficult to become an alchemist is that alchemy requires talent.

But in reality, it is a matter of practice makes perfect, and it requires a lot of spiritual materials to practice.

The spiritual materials for alchemy generally require precious spiritual herbs of a certain age and are very valuable, so it is difficult for ordinary cultivators to get enough spiritual materials to learn alchemy.

Even a foundation-building family as large as the Ning family can only barely support the supply of spiritual materials for a handful of alchemists.

This further demonstrates the miraculous effect of this mysterious scroll in restoring spiritual materials, which is equivalent to saving Ning Fa countless expenses on purchasing spiritual materials for alchemy.

Thinking of this, Ning Fa's heart became hot. With the help of this mysterious scroll, he saw the hope of truly making the Zengyuan Pill.

In that case, he would have a chance to become the family's alchemist and would be able to win the bet with Ning Huarong!
Ning Fa suppressed his excitement and looked at the mysterious scroll in front of him again.

Now the scroll is blank, and there is no longer any flashing mysterious white runes. Only the mysterious patterns still exist.

Ningfa tried to touch the scroll, and then it turned into a ball of white light and sank back into Ningfa's right arm, turning into the long white mark.

As Ningfa touched the white mark again, it turned into the mysterious scroll again.

Ningfa breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that this mysterious scroll could be used repeatedly.

But now he had no extra waste pills, and could not try again. Although his predecessor had refined a lot of waste pills before, he sold them all.

Although the efficacy of the waste pill is far inferior to that of the finished pill and there are still some side effects, the corresponding price is also very low, and it is still very popular among some low-level cultivators who are short of money.

Although we cannot experiment again now, the ready-made spiritual materials are here. We just need to refine the waste pill of Zeng Yuan Dan again.

Ning Fa chuckled and his confidence increased greatly.

Without further ado, Ning Fa immediately began to prepare to refine the elixir again.

He first tidied up the alchemy room, put the small alchemy furnace back to its original place, then sat in front of the furnace and thought quietly for a while.

He did not rush to start, but closed his eyes and searched the memory of his previous life's alchemy to experience it carefully. After all, he only had the memory but had never actually practiced it.

Three hours later, Ning Fa made sure that he had memorized the steps of refining Zeng Yuan Dan.

Then he took a deep breath, changed the spells with his hands, and chanted spells continuously. He was not very skilled at the beginning, but soon he was able to correctly perform spells of different colors, one after another, which hit the spiritual herbs floating in the air.

Wrapped in the light created by the spell, these spiritual herbs gradually began to deform and turned into balls of liquid.

Ning Fa's expression lit up with joy, as the first step of alchemy, extracting spiritual materials, seemed to be going smoothly.

Then, he cast another spell to hit the black stones under the alchemy furnace. These black stones immediately released blue flames and burned fiercely.

This is black saltpeter, which can burn for a long time and can be used as a fire source when refining low-level pills.

After all, the realm of Qi-cultivating cultivators is too low, and they cannot produce innate spiritual fire in their bodies to refine pills.

Ning Fa's hand was constantly casting spells, sometimes hitting the spiritual materials floating in the air, sometimes hitting the alchemy furnace.

During this process, his movements gradually became more skillful.

About half an hour later, the spiritual materials were finally extracted and the alchemy furnace was preheated.

Ning Fa's eyes lit up, he took a deep breath, pointed at the spiritual liquid material floating in the air, and then a ball of green spiritual liquid flew straight into the alchemy furnace.

Ning Fa hurriedly cast a spell towards the alchemy furnace, not even bothering to wipe the sweat off his face. He calculated the time in his mind, and at the tenth breath, he hurriedly put the second kind of spiritual liquid into the alchemy furnace, and then waited another sixty breaths before putting in the third kind of spiritual liquid.

In this way, Ning Fa gradually put all the spiritual liquids into the alchemy furnace, while at the same time, he kept chanting the magic spells in his hands.

But he felt a little uneasy in his heart, because he felt that the time interval between putting in the last few kinds of spiritual materials seemed to be a little longer.

As he was thinking about this, he even cast the last spell wrong. He heard a muffled sound from the alchemy furnace, followed by a burning smell.

Ning Fa's expression froze, knowing that this attempt to refine the elixir must have failed.

He opened the furnace and waited for the heat to dissipate. He could see only a charred mass of something in the furnace. The pill had not even taken shape and was far from being a waste.

Ning Fa sighed, but he was not too disappointed. After all, this was his first time to refine the elixir, and even though he had his memory, mistakes were inevitable.

(End of this chapter)