Chapter 208 Locust Spirit Powder
Although Han Wangpeng is a monk in the Zifu period, he is not good at alchemy. The monk’s memory is far superior to ordinary people. He just read the notes of his predecessor’s golden elixir once and wrote down the locust spirit powder prescription in it.
Compared with ordinary third-level elixirs, the refining of Locust Spirit Powder is relatively simple. In addition to the compound eyes of the third-level East Pole Locust, the ingredients in the elixir are also relatively common. They can be easily solved at Wu Jia Yanlai Peak.
According to Zhang Zhixuan’s experience in alchemy, among the several third-level elixirs he has seen, the most difficult one is Wangyue Dan, followed by Sanyang Dan, and the easiest one is Locust Spirit Powder.
Although he has very little experience in refining third-level elixirs, Zhang Zhixuan has only refined one batch of Sanyang elixirs after decades of practice. However, his alchemy skills have not deteriorated over the years, but have made some progress.
Every five years, the family must refine one hundred furnaces of Golden Bud Pill, and every twelve years, it must refine sixty furnaces of Youhuan Dan. In order to ensure a higher success rate for this high-intensity alchemy work, It was all done by Zhang Zhixuan himself.
After more than ten years as a third-level alchemist, Zhang Zhixuan has become more and more experienced in refining spiritual pills, although he has not been promoted to a third-level mid-level alchemist.
Moreover, many years ago, he purchased the Xuanyang Furnace, a third-level medium-grade magical weapon, from Qingxuan Sect.
With the Xuanyang Furnace, Zhang Zhixuan’s alchemy skills are even more powerful. Although this is the first time to refine the Locust Spirit Powder, Zhang Zhixuan is more than 80% sure to refine the elixir.
Zhang Zhixuan got the Locust Spirit Powder Pill recipe and pondered it for a day. Once he became familiar with the theory in the recipe, he immediately started preparing to refine the pill.
After taking several auxiliary elixirs from Wu Xiangjie, Zhang Zhixuan immediately prepared to make elixirs.
The key to Locust Spirit Powder Recipe is its raw material, Insect King’s Compound Eyes. The reason why this kind of monster insect can control large-scale locust swarms mainly relies on the compound eyes emitting a strange pheromone.
Although many monks have spent a lifetime studying the details of this pheromone, there is currently no conclusive conclusion.
During the chaos of the locust monster that destroyed the world, countless monks in East Antarctica exhausted their ingenuity and summarized a variety of empirical methods to restrain the locusts in East Antarctica. It was at this time that Locust Spirit Powder was invented.
If the Dongji Locust reaches the fourth level, the pheromones in its compound eyes will change greatly, and it can easily suppress the efficacy of the Locust Spirit Powder. Instead, it can use the Locust Spirit Powder to help its third-level Dongji Locust advance. level.
There were also monks who used the compound eyes of the fourth-order Eastern Locust to make the fourth-order Locust Spirit Powder. Unfortunately, this elixir was a complete failure. Not only could it not kill the demonic insects, it could also promote the advancement of the Fourth-order Eastern Locust. order, almost causing a bigger mess.
In order to prevent people from using this elixir to cultivate the East Pole Locust and spreading this extremely harmful locust plague, the monks from the Alchemy Alliance issued a strict order prohibiting alchemists from refining the fourth-level locust spirit powder. If anyone dares to violate the ban, dozens of Nascent Soul sects in the Dan Alliance will unite and send out manpower to kill them all.
Zhang Zhixuan took out a piece of low-grade spiritual stone and crushed it into pieces, sprinkled it into the Xuanyang furnace, and then melted it with pure mountain spring water. He gently put the compound eyes of the third-order East Pole locust into the alchemy furnace, preparing to refine it with slow fire.
Although the Wu family has earth fire to use, Zhang Zhixuan has used real fire to make elixirs for many years, and he has more experience in using real fire. Using the true fire of the foundation-building monks and carefully tempering it for three hours, the compound eyes of the East Pole Locust can be melted.
Within this time, the control of the fire is very important, and there cannot be any mistakes. Whether it is larger or smaller, it can affect the success or failure of the alchemy.
He controlled the real fire in his body slowly, and waited until the compound eyes of the East Pole Locust completely melted before he began to increase the intensity of the real fire, and kept adding auxiliary elixirs one after another.
Different from ordinary elixirs, Locust Spirit Powder is a paste, and there is no need to condense the elixir or collect the elixir. You only need to control the real fire and refine the elixir into an ointment.
As time passed by, and two more hours passed, when the Xuanyang furnace had refined all the impurities, and only the solidified ointment was left in the alchemy furnace, the alchemy was completed this time.
Zhang Zhixuan opened the alchemy furnace, took out all the locust spirit powder ointment, and sealed it into a special jade box. He said regretfully: “In the past few days, we have killed four groups of third-level East Pole locusts, but because we don’t understand this kind of locust swarm, we only brought back one complete corpse, which can only be used to make a furnace of locust spirit powder. It’s such a pity.”
Liu Zixuan, who had been watching Zhang Zhixuan’s alchemy and helping him, also felt a little regretful.
“If I had known this, no matter what I say, I will bring back a few compound eyes of the third-order East Pole Locust. Fortunately, Senior Han is here, otherwise our three families will be seriously injured this time. Senior Han is sitting in charge of the overall situation, and there are With the help of several Taoist friends from Qingxuan Sect, we will definitely be able to solve the locust plague this time and kill all the locusts that are causing trouble in the Southern Wilderness.”
Seeing that Zhang Zhixuan had made the Locust Spirit Powder, Wu Xiangjie also wanted to try the effect immediately, and immediately said: “There is no regret medicine in the world. Now that the Locust Spirit Powder has been made, let’s find the nearest locust swarm to try the effect first. Now we are far away from Yanlai The nearest group of locusts on the peak is less than 4,000 miles away. I think it would be better to trouble Daoist friends Zhang and Liu to set off immediately to exterminate this group of locust monsters first.
Several Taoist friends from the Qingxuan Sect and I went to hunt the locust swarms farther away, first seizing the compound eyes of a few third-order East Pole locusts, and then refining several furnaces of locust spirit powder. Ancestor Han is stationed at Yanlai Peak. According to the escape skills of the Zifu monks, he is able to take care of Yanlai Peak, Lushan and Taibai Mountains, which are thousands of miles away. “
Zhang Zhixuan refined the Locust Spirit Powder and wanted to try the power of this elixir. However, after five hours of refining the elixir, he had already consumed two or three points of his magic power.
When operating in the Southern Wilderness, mana must not be lost. Although there are no third-level monsters within ten thousand miles of Yanlai Peak, Zhang Zhixuan is still very careful. He waited for another two hours for his mana to be fully restored before joining Liu Zixuan. , flying together towards the nearest locust swarm.
After entering the Southern Wilderness, they flew for only four hours and just over two thousand miles away. Zhang Zhixuan and the two were about to stop to restore their mana when they discovered a large black cloud hundreds of miles away.
Zhang Zhixuan and his wife have seen this kind of black cloud many times in the past few days. They are the swarms of East Pole locusts.
Millions of East Pole locusts gather together, and when they fly into the sky to migrate, they can cover the sky like a black cloud.
Even the weak third-order East Pole Locust can form a black cloud with a radius of more than ten miles.
Because they need a lot of food along the way, East Pole locusts migrate slowly and can only move a few hundred miles a day.
Both Zhang Zhixuan and Zhang Zhixuan knew this characteristic. They calmly recovered their magic power and then flew towards these terrifying black clouds, preparing to use them to test the effect of Locust Spirit Powder.
(End of chapter)