Sword Sect Outer Sect

Chapter 191 Sword Dao and Alchemy
Song Yan took out a Qilin scale from his Qiankun bag, and then rummaged through a corner to find a few pieces of cloud iron.

Cloud iron is a common forging material used in refining and repairing magical artifacts.

He used the merit points he had left over from exchanging Qiyang Pills during the previous Changping mission to exchange for these items.

He threw a piece of cloud iron and a Qilin scale into the fire pool.

As soon as the cloud iron entered the fire pool, it melted at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It transformed into a stream of scalding molten metal, flowing into the blade of Ji Linjun's sword.

At the same time, a black impurity was extracted from the tip of the sword.

The melting and forging of Qilin scales is relatively slow, but some results can still be seen.

Song Yan was both surprised and delighted.

The fire pool's effects far exceeded his expectations; it could not only repair sword wounds but also automatically melt and refine sword-forging materials.

He was no longer stingy and took out all the cloud iron he had previously exchanged, throwing it into the fire pool one by one.

Cloud iron is very common; you can just buy more from the weapon-refining workshop when you run out.

Qilin scales cannot be wasted.

However, based on the current rate of smelting in the fire pool, it should be enough.

Reforge the sword body of the Divine Beast Lord...

If it could be completely forged from cloud iron, and with the addition of two Qilin scales, the Qilin Lord could instantly become a top-grade magic weapon.

It means that he doesn't know any weapon-refining techniques. Otherwise, if he added some other weapon-refining materials, he might be able to achieve the power of a top-grade magic weapon.

"This 'Burning Flame of Karma' was indeed the right choice."

Without foolishly waiting for the melting process, Song Yan left the Yin-Yang Realm.

Sword energy converged, and a sword light flew out from the box behind him, hovering in front of him.

Unlike the solemn and thunderous winds of the past, this sword light was accompanied by a blazing spiritual flame.

"Um……"

Upon closer examination, compared to the Breath of Wind and Thunder, "Burning Like" seems to enhance the destructive power of the sword shadow.

However, it was slightly slower.

As he casually dispersed the sword shadows, a tremendous sense of emptiness washed over him.

Song Yancai realized that he didn't know whether it was because of refining the Burning Flame or because he used the Flame Pool in the Yin-Yang Realm to forge the flying sword.

In short, his spiritual power and sword energy were almost depleted at this moment.

He quickly set up a spirit-gathering array, took out spirit stones, and slowly began to recover.

……

Several hours later, the spiritual energy in his body had recovered to about 70-80%.

Song Yan finally had the energy to begin studying "Qian Dan Yi Fang".

The author of this book seems to be just an alchemy apprentice in a cultivation sect, who looked after the alchemy furnace for a certain "senior".

He calls himself "Chen Yi," but he dares not write the name of this "senior" he refers to in the book.

This senior's alchemy skills alone are "unparalleled in the world".

"What a boastful tone..."

The longer Song Yan stayed in the world of cultivation, the more insignificant he felt.

Upon seeing such a description, he could only conclude that this "Mr. Chen Yi" had somewhat underestimated the heroes of the world.

The art of alchemy is vast and profound; without accumulating a large amount of resources, it is difficult to achieve anything significant.

The Qi-Nourishing Pill that Song Yan had previously refined was really a rather childish thing.

Now that he is seriously resuming his alchemy practice, he naturally puts himself in an extremely humble position.

Just pretend you've never learned alchemy.

There are many factors that influence alchemy. But the three most important are materials, alchemical fire, and spiritual consciousness.

Every elixir has its own formula, which is the culmination of countless predecessors' exploration and experimentation based on the medicinal properties of elixirs.

Materials with similar properties can be substituted for each other, but the effects of the resulting pills will be slightly different.

For example, Mingjue Pill and Qiyang Pill are both breakthrough pills, but their effects are different.

They are even named separately because of their significant differences.

Divine consciousness influences every aspect of elixirs, including the heat and time of refining, and can even directly affect the efficiency of elixir formation.

All of these are related to the strength of one's spiritual consciousness.

In the basic alchemical texts that Song Yan had previously studied, the alchemical furnace and flames were also considered an extremely important part.

However, it is not mentioned at all in "Qian Dan Yi Fang".

Because this was originally a book that recorded unconventional alchemy techniques, a kind of "heretical" method.

As the senior alchemist Chen Yi said in his book, "When an alchemist fully understands the medicinal properties, proportions, and principles of pill formation..."

"So whether we use fire magic or lightning magic..."

"Sword energy or killing intent?"

"As long as the impurities of the medicinal materials can be removed and the essence required for alchemy can be extracted, then the biggest factor affecting whether the pill is formed and its quality is only divine sense."

Leaving aside methods like lightning and water magic for the time being, we found "Sword Qi Alchemy" in "Thousand Elixir Recipes".

Surprisingly, this niche field of alchemy research is actually the most extensive part of the Thousand Pill Recipes.

There is a short story at the beginning of this section.

It is said that this peerless alchemist had a swordsman friend who was also a leading figure in the cultivation world.

For a time, this senior sword cultivator came to chat with the senior alchemist.

The senior sword cultivator mentioned that one of his disciples was eager to learn alchemy. This person possessed a strong spiritual sense and remarkable talent for cultivation.

The only drawback is that she knows nothing about the properties and pharmacology of medicines.

No matter how hard I try, I just can't seem to learn anything.

Originally a cultivator with exceptional talent and remarkable comprehension, he turned into a complete idiot when it came to alchemy.

The swordsman thought to himself that he happened to have a good friend who was famous throughout the world for his alchemy skills, and he came to ask him for advice on the way.

The senior alchemist said, "If your spiritual sense is not weak, then memorizing the principles of medicine will certainly be no problem."

"However, most of you sword cultivators are single-minded. The problem may lie in the process of controlling the pill fire with spiritual power when refining pills."

"The methods of controlling spiritual power are completely different from the methods of using sword energy."

The senior swordsman sighed softly, "It seems that my disciple will have a hard time becoming an alchemist."

"That's not necessarily true." The senior alchemist shook his head: "Perhaps we can try directly converting spiritual energy into sword energy to refine pills."

This led to the two predecessors' ideas and discussions on alchemy using "sword energy".

Later, the senior sister who was called "the alchemy fool" by the swordsmanship master came to visit and painstakingly studied the method of sword qi alchemy with the alchemy master.

Senior Chen Yi was also very interested in this, so the two of them discussed and researched it together.

Sometimes, the senior alchemist would come and give them some pointers. After a long period of painstaking research, they finally developed a relatively complete method.

After confirming that it was not misleading anyone and after obtaining the approval of two seniors, the junior brother Chen Yi took the lead in writing, and the senior sister added annotations, and finally compiled this book, "Qian Dan Yi Fang".

Song Yan never expected that he could find traces of ancient sword cultivators in a book of alchemy.

However, this is probably not a coincidence.

After all, if he weren't a sword cultivator, he wouldn't have any interest in such an evil book.

Not to mention wasting a precious opportunity to exchange it from the books on the fourth floor.

(End of this chapter)