Chapter 217 Miaozhen
It has been three years since the prescription of Miao Zhen Dan came into Zhang Zhixuan’s hands. During these three years, Zhang Zhixuan would carefully study this prescription when he had time to practice. Now, he is familiar with all aspects of this prescription.
Feeling confident, Zhang Zhixuan asked Qing Chan to protect the Dharma, closed the door of the cave, and prepared to start refining elixirs in seclusion.
This alchemy refining is very important to Zhang Zhixuan. If the refining fails, not only will he lose the material money of 1,200 spirit stones, but the time to break through to the third level mid-level alchemist will also be delayed for a long time.
Xuanyin Fruit is very rare. Except for Qingxuan Sect, other families probably do not grow this elixir. It may take decades to get together a furnace of elixir.
After refining dozens of furnaces of Locust Spirit Powder, Zhang Zhixuan’s alchemy level has been greatly improved, and he has rich experience in refining third-level elixirs.
The only trouble with refining the Miaozhen Pill is that it takes a long time, requiring a full twenty-four days.
Without the Earth Fire Alchemy for such a long time, even if Zhang Zhixuan’s magic power was not inferior to that of a monk on the eighth or ninth level of Foundation Establishment, he still felt a heavy pressure.
However, building an alchemy room is very troublesome. You need to ask the Zifuqi monks to open the fire veins. This project takes three or four years. The Zifuqi monks who are not the most important ones are not willing to waste their precious time to help you.
Among the five major families, except for the Wu family in Yanlaifeng, which has an alchemy room with three fire caves for alchemy and weapon refining, other families do not have such conditions at all.
When the Zhang Chuyun ancestor was still alive, the Zhang family did not entrust him with opening a fire cave. If they missed the opportunity, there would be no consequences.
Maybe we have to wait until one of Qing Chan, Han Yan, and Zhang Zhixuan opens the Zi Mansion before we can be confident of building an alchemy room and improving the family’s conditions.
Zhang Zhixuan prepared everything, and even entrusted Han Yan to spend 300 good deeds to buy a third-level mid-grade Qi-Building Pill from Qingxuan Sect that could quickly replenish mana and restore vitality as a backup, and then began to refine the pill.
Zhang Zhixuan opened the Xuanyang furnace, first refined several furnaces of second-level elixirs, warmed the alchemy furnace, and then put the elixirs one by one into the alchemy furnace and began to warm the elixir liquid.
The most difficult level of Miao Zhen Dan is to warm and nourish the elixir. This process takes twenty-one days. During these twenty-one days, the monks need to input mana all the time without sleep, and cannot leave for even a single second.
A monk who is not a man of profound magical power would not be able to endure such a painful process. Moreover, Zhang Zhixuan did not have the firepower provided by the earth fire, so he could only use the real fire of the foundation-building monks to refine the elixir, which made it even more difficult.
If Zhang Zhixuan was not a Fire Spirit Root cultivator and was good at using Samadhi True Fire, even with his strong magic power, he would not dare to try such a thing.
As time passed, Zhang Zhixuan’s strong mana gradually began to dry up. On the eleventh day, most of Zhang Zhixuan’s mana had been consumed.
His mana is less than 30%, and every minute and every second is a torment for Zhang Zhixuan. A third-level mid-grade Qi-Building Pill can only restore 30% of his mana. But looking at the situation now, even if he takes the third-level Qi-Building Pill, Zhang Zhixuan cannot He could not persist in refining alchemy for less than twenty-four days.
Faced with this difficult situation, Zhang Zhixuan could only rack his brains to think of ways to save mana, and began to slowly weaken the consumption of real fire in his body, hoping to maintain it for a longer time.
If the intensity of the true fire in the body is weakened, the temperature of the alchemy furnace may not be enough, and there will be a trace of residue in the elixir liquid. When the elixir is condensed, it will condense into a highly toxic waste elixir.
Zhang Zhixuan is very aware of this hidden danger, but now he has no choice. If he doesn’t do this, the alchemy will completely fail this time, and the investment of more than a thousand spiritual stones will be in vain.
Although the family’s finances have improved now, for long-term considerations, the salaries for Zhang Zhixuan and other foundation-building monks have remained unchanged.
Their family salary is only three hundred spiritual stones a year, but Zhang Zhixuan has alchemy skills and Qing Chan has talisman making skills. Both of them have rich experience in alchemy and talisman making, and they can earn a lot of good deeds for the family every year. The total annual income exceeds a thousand spirit stones, which is already more than most foundation-building monks.
With the spiritual energy provided by the family’s spiritual veins, Zhang Zhixuan and the two of them do not need to consume additional spiritual stones to practice. In addition to consuming some material resources, the two of them can accumulate a large amount of resources every year.
Moreover, both Zhang Zhixuan and Qingchan both have a high-grade spiritual stone. Although they have invested all their money in the family, they have not seen any money back yet.
But the family’s finances have begun to improve, and there will be a large amount of spiritual stones to pay off the accounts in a year or two.
With the intensity of the real fire reduced, Zhang Zhixuan could only be more careful, increase his awareness at all times, and pay attention to the details in the alchemy furnace.
Zhang Zhixuan has been practicing Samadhi True Fire for thirty years. Although the Heavenly Fire Golden Sword Jue technique is incomplete, its power is indeed extraordinary and is no less powerful than the techniques taught by disciples of sects such as Qingxuan Sect.
Even though Zhang Zhixuan reduced the intensity of the real fire, there was still enough firepower to warm the elixir.
In this way, by weakening the intensity of the real fire, Zhang Zhixuan persisted for another six days.
Finally, on the night of the seventeenth day, when Zhang Zhixuan felt that his mana was about to be exhausted, he took the third-level Qi-replenishing pill that he had prepared for a long time.
The effect of the third-level mid-grade Qi-Building Pill is indeed extraordinary. As soon as Zhang Zhixuan took the elixir, trickles of mana were absorbed into his Dantian.
Because Zhang Zhixuan’s magic power was no less than that of a monk at the eighth or ninth level of foundation building, the effect of this elixir was not as good as expected, and it only restored 20% of his magic power.
With this 20% mana, Zhang Zhixuan finally completed the most difficult step before his mana was almost exhausted, warming up the elixir.
After successfully warming the elixir liquid, Zhang Zhixuan no longer needs to continue to activate the real fire. He can rest for a day or two, wait for the elixir liquid in the alchemy furnace to slowly cool down, and prepare to condense the elixir in three days.
Even though he has completed the most difficult level, Zhang Zhixuan will not be careless and carefully stares at the elixir in the alchemy furnace.
After the elixir liquid slowly cooled down, Zhang Zhixuan began to activate his magic power to slowly rotate the elixir liquid in the alchemy furnace. Each time the elixir liquid rotates around, it shrinks slightly. Slowly, these elixirs gradually condensed into three solid small dots. Zhang Zhixuan already knew at this time that the step of condensing the elixirs was mostly completed.
Zhang Zhixuan suddenly made a magic spell and opened the top cover of the alchemy furnace. A strong fragrance rushed out of the alchemy furnace. When he smelled this breath of alchemy energy, Zhang Zhixuan suddenly felt refreshed and full of energy.
He did not dare to delay for a moment, so he took out three jade bottles containing elixirs, and immediately cast a magic pill collection method. Three auras of light were also absorbed into the alchemy furnace, and the three elixirs inside were collected.
(End of chapter)