Chapter 44: First Test of Dan Fire
After putting away all the items on the table, Song Jie first meditated cross-legged and performed Changchun Gong to restore the spiritual power in his body.
In the previous life-and-death fight, all his spiritual energy was exhausted, and he had only recovered a little at this moment.
However, using the Dan Fire Technique to refine elixirs requires continuous consumption of spiritual energy.
With the little spiritual power Song Jie has left now, he can’t maintain the Dan Fire Technique for long.
Therefore, he had to meditate and practice first to restore the spiritual power in his body.
As the Changchun Kung was operating, the free spiritual energy in the room began to gather into wisps of light and penetrated into Song Jie’s body.
Along the path of Changchun Gong, the spiritual energy entering the body is gradually refined into drops of spiritual power, nourishing the dry Dantian.
Two hours later, the spiritual power in Song Jie’s body became full again.
After slowly exhaling a breath of turbid air, Song Jie suddenly opened his eyes, as if a ray of light burst out.
“It seems that his cultivation level has improved a bit.”
With a thought in mind, Song Jie opened the attribute panel and looked at the realm column.
[Realm: Third level of Qi refining stage (6/100)]
“Sure enough, the progress of cultivation has improved a bit.”
When he was using the Changchun Kung just now, the previous life-and-death fight scenes kept flashing through his mind.
Every picture seems to represent a hint of insight, which is constantly being digested during the cultivation process.
After all these insights were digested, his cultivation level naturally improved a little.
“It seems that fighting to the death will not only help improve the proficiency of spells and body techniques, but also speed up the improvement of cultivation level.
“With life as a bet, without these improvements, it really cannot be justified.
“But even so, I still have to try my best to avoid fighting with life and death. This is a survival concept that cannot be shaken!”
Vaguely, Song Jie felt that his Taoist heart seemed to be much stronger.
“Let’s start making alchemy next…”
He stood up and came to the stove. With a thought, Song Jie’s mind naturally came up with the technique of casting Qingming Youhuo.
He opened his hand and pointed it at the iron pot on the stove.
With a “thump” sound, a cluster of faint blue flames appeared out of thin air in the big iron pot.
After feeling it silently, Song Jie couldn’t help but have a gleam of surprise in his eyes.
“The flame has no temperature, and it seems unable to transmit light energy.”
Somewhere in the dark, Song Jie felt that if he cast the Green Fire in a dark environment, he might not be able to use it as a lighting tool.
In other words, in a dark environment, only the existence of the Qingming Fire itself can be seen, and the things around it cannot be seen.
“Is this Dan Fire Technique?
“It is indeed quite magical. It is fundamentally different from normal flames.”
After feeling it for a while, Song Jie stretched out his other hand and put the medicinal ingredients of the Vajra Dragon and Tiger Pill into the pot one by one.
The next moment, under the shroud of the Qingming Fire, the various medicinal materials in the pot made a “sizzling” sound.
Song Jie just watched helplessly as the medicinal materials were gradually melted into a paste by the Qingming Fire, constantly twisting and changing shapes.
It was as if there was an invisible hand kneading the paste.
Song Jie maintained the Qingming Nether Fire while observing the color of the paste.
“It should be almost ready to be turned into a pill.”
Smelling the aroma of the medicine wafting from the pot, Song Jie vaguely felt an evil fire rising in his belly.
Immediately, his eyes focused, and he controlled the Qingming Nether Fire to separate the paste into smaller lumps.
Then, under the calcining of the Qingming Nether Fire, the lumps of paste gradually collapsed toward their respective centers, shrinking in size and becoming rounder bit by bit.
In the end, it magically turned into round pills.
“It’s done!”
Take out the Vajra Dragon and Tiger Pill from the pot, pinch one, and bring it to your eyes to look at it carefully.
“Judging from the appearance alone, it is more rounded and shiny than the previously refined Vajra Dragon and Tiger Pills, and it looks pretty good.
“There are also a lot less impurities. Just smelling it makes you feel invigorated, and the efficacy of the medicine is obviously enhanced.”
Song Jie quickly picked up a few other Diamond Dragon and Tiger Pills and observed them for a while.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk… they are all of high quality.”
This was the first time that he had refined a high-quality Vajra Dragon and Tiger Pill.
Before that, he had only been able to refine the Bigu Pill of high quality.
“There’s something really good about this Dan Fire Technique, and the speed of refining a pot of Diamond Dragon and Tiger Dan is nearly twice as fast as before.
“However, spiritual power is consumed very quickly. After refining just one pot, almost half of my spiritual power was consumed.
“No wonder it takes a monk at the third level of the Qi Refining Stage to refine a first-grade elixir. With the spiritual power at the second level of the Qi Refining Stage, it may be difficult to persist until the moment when the elixir is ready.”
Song Jie couldn’t help but clicked his tongue.
Although the alchemy effect of Dan Fire Technique is good, it also consumes a lot of spiritual power.
With his third-level spiritual power in the Qi Refining Stage, he was only able to refine two pots of elixirs.
“Another advantage of using the Dan Fire Technique to make elixirs is that you don’t have to rub the elixirs, you can directly control the elixir fire and compress the elixirs into shape.
“The elixir refined in this way will be more round and smooth in appearance.
“It can also lock the power of the medicine in the pills to slow down the loss of the medicine’s power.
“To put it simply, the elixir refined by the Dan Fire Technique will have a longer shelf life.”
After just one refining process, Song Jie discovered the many wonderful uses of the Dan Fire Technique.
“No wonder the elixirs refined by first-level alchemists are of better quality.”
Song Jie sighed, and then continued to refine the next pot of Diamond Dragon and Tiger Pill.
Song Jie no longer used the Dan Fire Technique to refine this pot.
After experiencing this life and death fight, Song Jie has made up his mind to maintain at least half of his spiritual power in his daily life.
Try not to use up all your spiritual energy. Even if you are at home, there is no guarantee that you will not be attacked.
When you go out, you must be in full spiritual power before you can go out.
Although this will not allow your spiritual power to be fully utilized, it is better than safety.
A few more days passed like this.
“Huh… finally finished refining all the elixirs.”
The total time he spent refining the elixir this time was almost a day and a half less than before.
On the one hand, it has the help of Qingming Netherfire.
Every time Song Jie’s spiritual power is fully restored, he will use Qingming Nether Fire to refine a pot of elixir.
On the other hand, the Dan Dan mold helped him improve the efficiency of Dan Dan rubbing, and it was not hot to the touch.
The first two times he went out to the stall, he had already given the design drawings to Li Caiwei and asked her to take them back and ask her husband to help build a pill-making mold.
Li Caiwei was also very efficient. She brought the mold to Song Jie the last time he showed up.
Because the two were already old acquaintances and had received guidance from Song Jie before. After setting up a sign, business improved a lot.
So Li Caiwei only received five spiritual stones from Song Jie, which was almost the cost price.
“This pot of Yuanyang Pill was not refined with Qingming Netherfire, but it is actually of the highest quality. Has the proficiency level been exceeded?”
Looking at the round Yuanyang Pill on the chopping board, Song Jie had a look of thought in his eyes.
Then with a thought, he opened the properties panel.
(End of chapter)