Chapter 273 Dual Element Sword Technique
Qingyang planned to learn alchemy for this reason. A large number of spiritual flowers and spiritual honey are hard to come by, so he couldn't pin all his hopes on alcoholic bees. It happened that the last time the Drunken Immortal Gourd was upgraded, a large number of spiritual herbs and spiritual medicines ripened, which could be used for him to learn alchemy and refine pills to improve his cultivation.
First use low-level spiritual herbs to improve alchemy, and it's not a pity if it fails. When the alchemy is improved to a certain level, try to refine high-level spiritual herbs. Even if the success rate is not high, the spiritual herbs in the Drunken Immortal Gourd can also refine a batch of Qi Gathering Pills. At least he won't be too short of pills in the early stage of Qi training.
In the days that followed, Qingyang divided his time into two parts. At night, he practiced the Five Elements Forging Immortal Technique to improve his cultivation, and during the day, he used it to study alchemy, without delaying each other.
Daily meditation has little effect on Qingyang's cultivation. Almost no growth can be seen. At least hundreds or even thousands of such days and nights are needed to improve by that much. But he was not scared, because he knew that cultivation was an extremely boring thing, and he had to be able to endure loneliness. Without accumulating small steps, one cannot reach a thousand miles. As long as he practiced diligently, he would have a breakthrough sooner or later.
In addition to practicing, Qingyang also tried to practice the sword techniques recorded behind the Five Elements Forging Immortal Technique. Qingyang's divine consciousness was much higher than that of the cultivators of the same level. He had already possessed the ability to control magic tools. It was naturally more effective to connect them. It took only a few days to learn the single-attribute sword techniques such as the Jinyuan Sword Technique and the Muyuan Sword Technique.
Qingyang tried it in the training field. He stood there motionless, then used his divine consciousness to control the Red Flame Sword, and used the Fire Element Sword Technique to chop at a boulder in the field. I saw a flash of red light in the air, and in the blink of an eye, the boulder broke into several pieces. This power is much stronger and more casual than directly chopping people with magic tools in your hands. This is the method of immortals.
With Qingyang's current strength of mind and the amount of true qi in his Dantian, using the Fire Element Sword Art to drive the Red Flame Sword attack can support him to use it continuously for more than ten times, and then his true qi will be insufficient and his soul will be exhausted. This is because the level of the Red Flame Sword is relatively low. His mind is strong and the attributes of the technique are powerful. If other cultivators at the first level of Qi training were to perform it, it might be enough for seven or eight times.
After learning the single sword art, Qingyang tried to learn the dual sword art. He only had a Red Flame Sword in his hand, so he used the Judge's Pen that he had obtained from Helan Peak as a magic sword, and used his mind to control the two magic tools at the same time to attack.
The power of the dual sword art is even greater. The huge stone in the training field was just swept by the sword, and it was instantly shattered to the ground. If it is used against the enemy, even if the opponent is a Qi training cultivator and has made sufficient defense, it may not be able to stop it. However, the consumption of the dual sword art is also huge. With Qingyang's current strength, it can only be performed twice in a row.
As for the Three Yuan Sword Art, there is no need to think about it for the time being. With his divine power, it is difficult to control three magic weapons at once, not to mention using them to form a sword formation to attack. Moreover, the three swords will consume a huge amount of true energy. Maybe one attack can drain him dry. It is better to wait until he is stronger before considering it.
Learning the sword art is equivalent to having the means to control the sword to attack. In the future, when you disagree with the enemy, you can use the magic weapon to attack. This is the correct use of magic weapons and spiritual weapons. Only in this way can the power of magic weapons and spiritual weapons be maximized. When I was in the Kaimai realm before, the method of using magic weapons to chop people was really a waste of heaven's resources when I think about it now.
Qingyang spent most of his daytime time learning to make pills. Alchemy is not so easy to learn and requires a lot of experience. In the first two months, Qingyang collected a large number of spiritual references and atlases. He started by getting familiar with various spiritual materials, spiritual herbs, and auxiliary medicines, and mastered the appearance, growth environment, medicinal properties, and mutual generation and mutual restraint principles of various common spiritual medicines.
Every time I get a medicinal material, I can instantly remember their names, characteristics, uses, storage methods, precautions, etc., and guess their approximate years, growing environments, and medicinal power, so that I know the common spiritual herbs like the back of my hand.
In the next two months, Qingyang mainly learned the refining and purification methods of various medicinal materials, the use of fire, and the commonly used alchemy techniques, etc.
Before each medicinal material is used, it needs to be initially refined and purified. Different medicinal materials have different refining and purification methods. Some may need to be forged, some may need to be rinsed, some may need to be ground, some may need to be stewed, and some may need to be pressed. Any step that is not handled properly may affect the final success rate of the pill.
Alchemists also have high requirements for the use of fire. High-level cultivators can generate pill fire themselves and control it at will. As long as they can ensure that the true essence is sufficient, the fire will not have much impact on alchemy. Low-level cultivators cannot generate alchemy fire, and rely entirely on external ordinary fire to refine the elixir. This requires controlling the size of the fire at all times, making it big when it should be big, small when it should be small, lighting it when it should be lit, and extinguishing it when it should be extinguished. There can be no hesitation or delay, so as not to affect the final success rate of the elixir due to the problem of fire.
As for the techniques of alchemy, they are also very complicated, including furnace baking, medicine crushing, refining, purification, stirring, fusion, reaction, slag removal, medicine mixing, dusting, patting the cauldron, collecting liquid, refining ointment, gathering spirits, carving arrays, drawing patterns, condensing elixir, collecting medicine, etc. Performing it once is no less than a fierce battle with cultivators of the same level. It not only consumes divine thoughts, but also consumes a lot of true energy. Without great perseverance, you can't hold on.
Low-level recipes are better, as they use fewer medicinal materials. As long as you master the main steps and follow the steps, there will be no major mistakes.
Some high-level recipes require hundreds or even thousands of main and auxiliary medicines. The requirements for each medicinal material are different. Some need to be processed in advance, and some can only be processed temporarily when refining the pill. A slight mistake can lead to a thousand miles of error. Any detail problem may cause a furnace of pills to fail. In high-level recipes, each spiritual medicine is priceless. Failure once is a huge loss. Without superb alchemy skills, no one dares to try it casually.
However, for Qingyang, a beginner, there is no need to consider such far-reaching things. What he needs now is to master each step proficiently and practice basic skills.
Qingyang spent a full four months, all of which were used to learn the basic skills of alchemy. Now, he has a preliminary understanding of thousands of common spiritual medicines, spiritual materials, and auxiliary medicines, mastered their characteristics, habits, and pharmacology, and is familiar with the basic techniques and steps of alchemy.