Calabash Fairy

"Unlike pills and powders, elixirs require more spiritual materials and are more complex to refine. They need to be made using an alchemy furnace and spiritual fire. Fortunately, the pill-making tradition includes methods for using spiritual fire, but this alchemy furnace..."

In the Qingfeng Secret Realm, Fang Yan looked at the Spirit Nourishing Pill formula in his hand, a glint of spiritual light flashing in his eyes, as if he were deducing something.

On the stone table beside him, a dozen palm-sized stone jars were filled with various powders and pills, which looked colorful and were constantly emitting their own unique fragrances, clearly indicating that they were of excellent quality.

At this point, half a month had passed since the day the underworld messenger visited.

Fang Yan used the spiritual materials at his disposal to refine more than ten kinds of basic pills and powders recorded in the Nongwan inheritance, which greatly improved his understanding of pharmacology.

Now, ordinary pills and powders are no longer a challenge for him. However, he doesn't have many spiritual materials left. If he continues, it won't help improve his pharmacology, and it will also be a waste of spiritual materials.

"Although I can't find a furnace for the time being, I wonder if it would be possible to use myself as the 'furnace' and set up a fire within the gourd space..."

Although the chaotic space within his body wasn't very large, it was more than enough to make room for alchemy.

In Fang Yan's view, the reason why alchemy uses a furnace is because the furnace is very beneficial for controlling spiritual fire, extracting the essence of spiritual materials, condensing and fusing pills, and so on.

But no matter which alchemy furnace he uses, none can match his familiarity and mastery over himself.

Furthermore, during this period, after he refined the Qi Gathering Powder, he frequently took it to aid his cultivation. Once the Qi Gathering Powder entered his gourd space, it would be quickly digested, helping him accelerate his cultivation, and leaving no impurities behind.

It's important to know that his gourd space, capable of condensing Chaos Seeds, is quite unique, possessing refining properties...

Fang Yan thought about it more and more and felt that this method was feasible.

He stood up and looked expectantly at the many spiritual materials in the spiritual field. Then, with a wave of his hand, these spiritual materials flew out and fell directly into his palm, disappearing from sight.

"Including what Leopard Two sent, we can only gather enough materials for five portions of the Nourishing Spirit Pill. We need to be careful when refining it. It would be better to try other prescriptions first."

While the Nourishing Spirit Powder can slightly increase the effects of cultivation, the cumulative effect over time is quite considerable. However, if there were a Nourishing Spirit Pill with even better effects, that would be ideal.

Furthermore, if this matter succeeds, he will not need to search for any alchemy furnace when refining other pills in the future.

Fang Yan suppressed his expectations, silently recited the sword scripture, cleared his mind of distractions, calmed his mind, slowly sat cross-legged on the ground, and closed his eyes.

Within the gourd space inside his body, as spiritual energy continued to gather, a ball of light blue spiritual fire appeared out of thin air and was burning fiercely.

The next moment, among all the spiritual materials floating in mid-air in the gourd space, a spirit-nourishing herb shaped like a light blue bamboo shoot slowly drifted down onto the spiritual fire.

Fang Yan was surprised to find that, inside the gourd space, his divine sense could perceive every subtle change in the spiritual materials and control them with great precision, much more easily and effortlessly than outside.

Soon, under his control, the blue spirit-nourishing grass was rapidly refined, leaving only a pool of light blue spiritual liquid quietly suspended in the fire, with the impurities within it continuing to decrease.

A moment later, once Fang Yan sensed that the impurities in the pool of spiritual liquid had been reduced to a minimum, he placed the remaining spiritual materials onto the spiritual fire to extract their essence and fuse them together...

Half a cup of tea's time passed.

Fang Yan, who was sitting cross-legged in the secret realm, slowly opened his eyes, his palm facing upwards. As the light flashed, a ball of crystal-blue spirit-nourishing powder was quietly floating in his hand.

"The Spirit Nourishing Powder I refined this time is of higher quality than any I've refined before. Using myself as a furnace to refine pills is actually entirely feasible."

"No, this is actually better than I expected."

Fang Yan's eyes were bright, and his smile grew even wider, as if a brand new road had opened up before him.

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Nishiki Village.

This village is different from Xiahe Village; it is located in a low-lying area, next to a mulberry forest.

On this day, as the heavy snow stopped, the villagers of Jinzhi Village went out to clear the snow from their yards, creating quite a lively scene.

Qiu'er, with her hair tied in two buns, was watching the white sheep eating hay and straw in the sheepfold with a bored expression.

This village was different from her home; almost every household had a spinning wheel, and there were many soft, white sheep she had never seen before. There were also large fields of ramie growing at the entrance of the village.

According to her master, most of the women in Jinzhi Village know how to weave clothes using spinning wheels. Common linen and cloth clothes can all be made in Jinzhi Village.

Besides that, what they make most often are warm quilts and blankets for winter.

It can be said that Jinzhi Village alone provided 80% of the textiles for several villages, and these textiles were exchanged for tools, food, and so on.

"Little Qiu'er, what are you doing here all by yourself?"

Hearing the old, gentle voice behind her, Qiu'er quickly turned around and looked at the old woman who was walking slowly with a wooden cane.

"Grandma Su!"

Qiu'er quickly ran to the old man's side, obediently took his hand, and whispered:

"My master's master is back, and they're chatting. They won't let me listen!"

The old man nodded and said kindly:

"Then why don't you go sit at Grandma's house for a while, Xiao Qiu'er? Grandma will steam some cornbread for you, how about that?"

"Great!"

On the other side of the courtyard, in Su Xueyi's room.

At this moment, Su Xueyi was kneeling before a woman dressed in a white dress with embroidered cloud patterns and wearing a white jade hairpin, and recounted everything that had happened during this period.

The woman looked to be not much older than Su Xueyi. She had fair skin and a pretty face, but her brows carried a sense of solemnity and composure that came with the passage of time.

"You mean, I've only been gone for less than two years, and I already have grand-disciples?"

"Um...yes, Master~"

Fairy Yunhua looked at the little girl kneeling in front of her, looking guilty, and sighed with a headache.

"Since you've already accepted her, then teach her diligently and see how far she can go. However, judging from Qiu'er's talent, she's far inferior to you. As her teacher, you should be prepared for that."

Upon hearing this, Su Xueyi's face immediately lit up with a joyful smile, and she nodded repeatedly.

"Please rest assured, Master! I will definitely teach Qiu'er well and not tarnish the reputation of our sect!"

At this moment, Su Xueyi, in front of Fairy Yunhua, was no longer the composed girl she had been in Xiahe Village. She was just a little girl who was acting coquettishly towards her master.

Seeing this, Fairy Yunhua's eyes softened, and she asked again:

"You just said that the mountain god who appeared in the area called Qingfeng Mountain is actually a righteous god of merit. Is that true?"

"Yes, Master, I witnessed this with my own eyes. The mountain god's divine aura was majestic and righteous, inspiring awe. And I cannot be mistaken about the incense burning with the aura of merit!"

Seeing Su Xueyi's serious expression, Fairy Yunhua nodded thoughtfully.

"When you met this person, were you courteous enough?"