The primordial era began with the Upper Cave Man.

Chapter 141 Knowing five hundred years before and five hundred years after, three hundred years have passed in the Three Realms (Second Update)

The art of alchemy is not so mysterious. Taking advantage of his spare time, Luo Zu began to refine elixirs in the world within the gourd.

There is also talk of alchemy within the world within the pot. In a civilization with so many living beings, it is natural to have headaches and fevers. Sometimes ordinary people cannot use the supernatural powers of medical treatment, nor do they have strong bodies. So they can only seek medical advice and medicine, relying on their experience of curing many illnesses, and then summarize the treatment methods. Then doctors appeared, along with the decoction of herbs and the making of pills.

This trend then spread to the cultivation world, which led to the method of refining medicinal liquids, known as Jade Liquid.

As alchemy techniques gradually developed over the past three hundred years, the concept of "Jade Elixir" emerged, leading to the development of alchemy methods.

Each group has its own methods of alchemy. The small human race is divided into seven schools and nineteen families, the barbarian race has three lineages and six sects, and the demon race has only one simple method.

On the human side, there are seven schools: herbal alchemy, golden elixir alchemy, stone pill alchemy, blood alchemy, qi regeneration alchemy, water and fire alchemy, and primordial energy cultivation. There are a total of nineteen schools, which is quite a lot. If we delve too deeply into them, it would be considered a superficial approach. So, we will only talk about the Dragon and Tiger school, which is the top alchemy school that combines the water and fire alchemy and herbal alchemy schools.

The barbarian tribe has three lineages: alchemy, fire alchemy, and water alchemy. In fact, these three alchemy methods of the barbarians are not much different from those of the human tribe, except for some differences in techniques.

The demon race takes a more direct approach: they cultivate and refine an inner core, which then generates various kinds of elixir energy. Even their spit mixes yin and yang, harmonizing dragon and tiger, making it a top-grade elixir.

Therefore, if Luo Zu wanted to learn alchemy, the heroes of the human world could be his teachers.

However, the alchemy of the Wu clan seems to be more refined, capable of refining even the evil energy of the earth's veins. How could it be ordinary?

Therefore, both should be studied and summarized into one.

"If we're talking about who's the most skilled alchemist in the world... I wonder if it's Laozi?" Luo Zu wasn't quite sure.

In Journey to the West, Laozi was skilled in alchemy, and the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir he refined was truly formidable.

"I want to surpass Laozi... that's a bit arrogant." Luo Zu was about to make a wild statement, but then he took back his unrestrained words.

Then, he gently patted the alchemy furnace in front of him. "To do a good job, one must first have the right tools." This was a three-foot-long brass furnace with nine dragons coiled around it.

The shape is modeled after the Eight Trigrams Furnace from the classic novel "Journey to the West". The furnace is made of immortal gold that Luo Zu himself blended and refined, plus the talismanic spells and restrictions on iron furnaces learned from the Hot Witch, which are enough to make it withstand extremely high temperatures without melting. Of course, the temperature required for ordinary elixir materials will not melt gold and iron. Only those more powerful elixir materials can achieve this effect.

With Luo Zu's patting, the lid of the alchemy furnace was lifted, and then one by one, dark, shiny pills were expelled.

It rained down, covering the entire courtyard.

Upon careful counting, there were a total of 365 pills, which matched the number of the celestial sphere.

As for whether these pills are useful, Luo Zu can say for sure that at least they were not ruined. Moreover, Luo Zu used herbal techniques, and the raw materials were some of the precious herbs that the humans in the world of the pot considered to be precious.

Luo Zu brought over a large jar of pickled vegetables and collected the dark, shiny pills from the ground into the jar.

He gently patted the large vat; it was solid and already filled with pills.

Then he moved the large vat aside and placed it on top of two other large vats, and below these two vats were more than ten other large vats...

"Failure is the mother of success," Luo Zu sighed, looking at the foundation beneath the large vat.

He has many mothers who have contributed to his success in everything he does, including Qi refining, weapon forging, and alchemy.

He doesn't just daydream in his head; constantly strategizing without putting it into practice will inevitably be ineffective. So he always acts on his ideas as soon as they come to him. Efficiency is key to seeing visible results, recording and controlling numerous variables, and then improving upon them.

He put the mother of success back in place and then opened another oven.

But he stopped a moment after he made a move.

Bang bang bang!

Someone is knocking on the door.

"Old Immortal, Old Immortal, are you home? I have an urgent matter to ask you for help. Someone in my family has fallen seriously ill, and I hope you can come and treat them." The person outside the door was truly anxious, and his words were somewhat incoherent, without even organizing his thoughts.

Luo Zu understood his anxiety, so he readily replied, "The pills are already hanging at the door. Take them and leave three taels of silver at the door."

He casually agreed, and then calmly continued refining the pills.

He had already placed the pills there, not just now. Now, apart from the place where the primordial spirits gather, he can directly use the "Heavenly Dao" to calculate what will happen in a day in other places in the mortal realm.

Of course, there are always unexpected events. After all, sometimes one thing can trigger a series of chain reactions, which can render Luo Zu's calculations invalid.

But Luo Zu was not helpless about this. He calculated every day, adding these possible changes to the "Heavenly Way", and continued this daily deduction.

Sooner or later, he will also be able to know five hundred years into the past and five hundred years into the future, looking back at the past and predicting the future.

Even a minor immortal aspires to reach the level of a great immortal.

"Thank you, thank you." Words of gratitude rang out from outside the door.

But Luo Zu then stopped what he was doing and did not continue refining pills.

Because someone knocked on the door again, this time it was indeed unexpected.

Officials from the founding state came.

Yes, ten years have passed on the primordial land, and three hundred years have passed in the world within the gourd. So much has happened in these three hundred years, not only developing the Dao of Alchemy, but also transforming the human world and ushering in a new dynasty for the human race.

The cause began 290 years ago when the human race and the barbarian race went to war. This war ultimately led to an unbearable burden on the human people, and many hidden dangers sown in the past, such as enslavement, the martial arts world, and the demonic sects, directly erupted during this war, causing an internal strife. This even led the Ghost Immortal Yang, who was far away in the wilderness, to abandon the demon race's sacred mountain and return to the First Kingdom.

However, he could not stop the internal riots within the First Kingdom, and in the end, the last Tai was abolished, plunging the human race into thirty years of warring states.

Yang originally intended to recommend a new leader, but the barbarian and demon races suddenly launched an attack, forcing Yang and the Five Organs True Lord to lead the human elites to the frontier to confront them, thus missing the best opportunity to quell the internal strife.

The standoff lasted for thirty years, and the internal strife within the human race also lasted for thirty years.

In the end, the barbarians withdrew first, followed by the demons, which finally gave Yang and the Five Organs True Lord time to quell the internal strife.

However, this battle completely destroyed the once-prosperous situation of the human race, and their rule over the wilderness came to an end. They could only retreat to their original territory. Fortunately, their original territory was preserved, and the human race's elite forces were also preserved. They were not lost in the civil war and can continue to compete with the barbarian and demon races for dominance in the wilderness.

Thirty years of internal strife caused the people to no longer recognize the First Kingdom. Yang and the Five Organs True Lord had no choice but to establish another kingdom and adjust the laws of the First Kingdom. Thus, the First Kingdom came into being, and the current ruler of the First Kingdom is called Yuan.

(End of this chapter)