Chapter 66 Guidance
"Going back this time to inherit the family property will be somewhat risky. We might even face Foundation Establishment Stage monks. It seems we need to be well prepared... huh?"
In the cave, Lin Chen, who was preparing to return home, had his eyes flickering and thinking deeply, but at this moment, he suddenly froze and turned to look in the direction of the door.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Only the knock on the door was heard in the silent cave.
"In the past, when it was not developed, no one came. But with the recent rise, the front door has become a lot more lively." Lin Chen smiled softly, snapped his fingers, the door opened by itself, and said directly, "Come in!"
Liu Qiqiang, who was outside, looked at the open door, took a deep breath, and finally stepped across it with some restraint.
"Brother, disciple Liu Qiqiang pays homage to Senior Brother Lin." Liu Qiqiang stood aside, bowed and said respectfully.
"Oh?" Lin Chen turned his eyes, glanced at him, and said, "Why are you waiting here?"
"Last time at Danxia Peak, Senior Brother Lin's words gave this disciple a lot of encouragement and help, so this time I came here specifically to thank Senior Brother."
As Liu Qiqiang spoke, he took out a jade bottle from his body and presented it to the table with both hands.
Lin Chen seemed to be interested and opened the jade bottle, only to see a perfect quality Bigu Pill lying inside.
In Lingnan, the place where immortality is cultivated, the quality of elixirs is divided into ordinary, fine, and perfect according to the amount of erysipelas.
Among them, ordinary elixirs have the most erysipelas and require a lot of time to be refined after taking them, followed by fine elixirs and the least perfect elixirs.
As for the non-toxic Qi pill that Lin Chen developed, it is a peerless pill that can only be refined by a true alchemy master, not a real alchemy master as others call him.
"Although there is only one Bigu Pill, since it has reached perfect quality, the price should not be affordable by ordinary monks. You are really interested!" Lin Chen played with the pill in his hand and looked at Liu Qiqiang with a half-smile. One glance.
"Senior brother, you are serious. Compared with senior brother's help, this thing is far from valuable." Liu Qiqiang replied sincerely.
"Oh?" Lin Chen smiled and looked directly at him. Even though he didn't emit spiritual pressure, Liu Qiqiang couldn't help but feel nervous.
After a while, he suddenly heard Lin Chen say: "Are you learning to refine Huangya Dan?"
"Ah?" Unexpectedly, Lin Chen suddenly mentioned this. Liu Qiqiang suddenly raised his head, with a look of surprise on his face, "Senior brother is really awesome, I really admire him!"
"Did the recent refining fail several times due to poor fire control?" Lin Chen continued.
"This..." Liu Qiqiang's pupils shrank. He could see what kind of elixir he had refined, which was already very powerful. He could also see the reason for the recent failure, which was enough to tell that this senior brother was not simple!
Fortunately, I met this senior brother and had some contact with him, so I must seize the opportunity and hold on to this thigh!
"Junior brother is not good at learning, I hope he can give me some advice!"
Lin Chen smiled slightly and asked, "What do you think is the most important thing in alchemy?"
Liu Qiqiang observed Lin Chen's face and said cautiously: "The heat?"
Lin Chen smiled and said nothing.
"The weight of the medicinal materials and when to use them... Junior brother is stupid, I hope my senior brother can give me some advice!" Seeing that Lin Chen's expression did not change, Liu Qiqiang immediately bowed his head and said respectfully.
"It's the medicinal properties." Lin Chen said slowly, "The temperature of the fire will vary depending on the influence of the ground fire. It is difficult to make the weight of the medicinal materials the same, and you can control the time of applying the medicine to a few seconds..."
"These things will vary from time to time, place and person, so how can they be the foundation of alchemy? Therefore, the foundation of alchemy lies in grasping the properties of medicine!"
"The medicinal properties that senior brother mentioned refer to the four qi, five flavors, meridian tropism, etc." Liu Qiqiang said in confusion.
"That's right." Lin Chen smiled upon hearing this, "In general, it is something we can refine and turn into for our own use."
"For example, the Huangya Dan you refined has Huanglingcao as the main ingredient, and the auxiliary drugs are Juyuanhua, Goblin, etc. Huanglingcao lives in humid places, and its earthly aura is cold and cold, so it will be in Huanglingcao's body. The medicinal properties of yin and cold are formed, and when refined into the human body, it will cause great harm. This is the so-called erysipelas..."
"And the heaven and earth are filled with spiritual energy of various attributes. These spiritual energy are absorbed by the spiritual medicine and form medicinal properties of different properties in the body. If a monk absorbs medicinal properties that do not belong to his own spiritual root, it will accumulate in the body and affect Progress, this is also the origin of erysipelas..."
"After these two kinds of erysipelas are removed in turn, the only remaining medicinal properties are composed of the initial swallowing of the spiritual veins and the non-attributed spiritual energy dropped from the sky. It can be refined by monks with different spiritual root attributes. This is what we call a perfect elixir. "
"On top of that, there is also a method of extracting different medicinal properties according to one's own needs and turning them into pure elixirs of non-toxic Qi Dan..."
"But that kind of refining method, when you can easily refine a pot of perfect quality elixir, you can come to me, I don't mind teaching you." Lin Chen turned his head and said with a smile.
"This..." Liu Qiqiang seemed a little confused after hearing these words, "If according to what the senior brother said, medicinal properties that are different from one's own spiritual root properties will form erysipelas, then, for the Five Spirit Root monks, wouldn't it be possible to combine all the medicinal properties? After absorbing all of it, why is it said that the spiritual roots are wasted?"
"Spiritual roots also have different strengths. If the five spiritual roots have the same strength attributes, they can complement and restrain each other. Not only can the cultivation speed be comparable to the natural spiritual roots, but even many elixirs can be taken as perfect elixirs." Lin Chen explained lightly.
"But if the strengths of various spiritual roots are uneven, then not only will they not complement and restrain each other, but they will drag each other down. The medicinal properties of various attributes will not only fail to be perfectly refined, but will also entangle with each other, forming more difficult to remove elixir poisons that affect progress. Do you understand what I mean?"
"Junior brother understands!" Liu Qiqiang bowed, and was full of admiration in his heart.
After so many years of alchemy, Liu Qiqiang found that no one had ever explained the essence of alchemy so clearly!
"Then I would like to ask, senior brother, how should the medicinal properties be extracted and preserved?" Liu Qiqiang asked anxiously.
"Fire method decomposition, distillation, water method extraction, ice method condensation..." Lin Chen listed more than a dozen methods at random, which made Liu Qiqiang understand.
Although these are just the most basic insights of Lin Chen's understanding of the Dao of Alchemy, in Liu Qiqiang's opinion, this is already a superior Dao of Alchemy!
He even felt that if it weren't for Lin Chen's guidance, even if he had refined it thousands of times and asked the famous alchemists in the sect for advice, he would probably have learned nothing but the weight of the spiritual medicine and the changes in the temperature, such trivial details!
"Thank you, Senior Brother Lin, for letting me understand the essence of alchemy. If there is anything I can help with in the future, just ask me, I will definitely go through fire and water without hesitation!" Liu Qiqiang said with gratitude.
"What I teach you is not only to comprehend the essence of alchemy, but also to learn to explore the essence of everything."
As Lin Chen spoke, a hint of teasing suddenly appeared on his face, and then he said meaningfully: "For example, your gift this time, on the surface, is to express gratitude to me, but in essence, you want to establish a connection with me, so as to use my fame to accomplish your own things. I wonder if what I said is right?"
As soon as the voice fell, the smile on Liu Qiqiang's face froze on his face, his mood fluctuated greatly, and he felt cold all over, as if he had suddenly fallen into an ice cave!