Li Shiming was sitting in a corner of the Dan Ding Hall, he was refining the 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill', which was an auxiliary pill for the initial stage of foundation building. It was also the Shushan Sect's own pill recipe, which was developed by a senior alchemist of the Shushan Sect.
The advantage of 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' is that it is a first or second grade spiritual medicine, which is cultivated in all sects. The cultivators can use contribution points to exchange for the spiritual medicine in the pill recipe, or they can use contribution points to directly redeem 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill'.
At this time, Master Ma ignored him and was busy with his own things.
Master Ma had already demonstrated to Li Shiming once how to refine the 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' and also explained the secrets involved, without holding back at all.
During Master Ma's alchemy process, he even allowed Li Shiming to use his spiritual power to investigate.
This gave Li Shiming first-hand data on refining the second-grade elixir. Although he did not do it personally, he had experience in refining first-grade elixirs, which made it easy for him to get started.
He controlled the temperature of the spiritual carbon in the three-turn Tianbao furnace, accurately adjusting the temperature required for alchemy.
The aroma of medicine was already wafting out from the third-turn Tianbao furnace. Master Ma, who was standing next to him, raised his head and glanced at him, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, seeming to be in a good mood.
Li Shiming flicked his fingers and used the Seven Finger Pill Collection Technique. After seven fingers, seven elixirs flew out of the Three-Turn Tianbao Furnace and fell into the jade bottle.
He couldn't help but shook his head. He didn't have a full pill, and there were only two high-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills', and the rest were intermediate. This meant that he still had problems controlling the medicinal properties.
He was not satisfied with his alchemy performance. With IBM z15 collecting data and analyzing all problems in the alchemy process, he was essentially using a cheating device to make the alchemy. Such a result would not make him feel qualified.
He cleaned the Three-Turn Tianbao Furnace, which was the alchemy furnace given to him by Master Ma. He refined it to 30% in one night, barely meeting the requirements for alchemy.
Li Shiming once again refined the 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill'. Since the materials were provided by Master Ma, he did not need to worry about the material problem.
The second time he refined the 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill', he obtained ten 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills', most of which were high-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills'.
After repeating the alchemy for the fifth time, he was able to master every step of refining the 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' 100%, and raised the quality of the 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' to a high level.
Master Ma had stopped the work in his hands and was looking at Li Shiming's refining process with some confusion.
He was surprised by Li Shiming's error correction ability. Once he made a mistake, he would never make it a second time. This was completely different from other alchemists.
What alchemists like to talk about most is a feeling, and they are also pursuing this feeling of alchemy, but Li Shiming seems to have a standard in his heart and is constantly approaching that standard.
"Master, I have learned how to refine 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills'!" Li Shiming raised the jade bottle containing ten high-grade 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills' and reported to Master Ma beside him.
"Then continue refining it. This will be considered as you completing the sect's mission. It will be a good opportunity for you to accumulate some elixirs for your own cultivation!" Master Ma waved his hand and ordered.
In fact, Master Ma was not calm inside. Li Shiming had learned a type of elixir that had an advanced standard. He wanted to see if Li Shiming could make the same demands when refining more difficult elixirs.
In addition, what Li Shiming lacks now is the experience in refining second-grade elixirs, which requires a lot of refining to make up for.
The 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' is the pill that Li Shiming needs for his practice. With his level, two pills can be left for him for his own use in each furnace without any waste, and he can also get more pills for his practice during the practice.
Li Shiming obeyed Master Ma's orders and came to the Danding Hall every day to make elixirs in the following days.
The 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' he refined would be mixed and exchanged with low- and mid-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill', so the sect monks who exchanged 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' these days discovered that in a bottle of 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill', a rare high-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' actually appeared.
You should know that those who normally refine 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' are generally intermediate alchemists. Even an intermediate alchemist who has been refining 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' for many years cannot guarantee that he can refine a high-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill'.
However, the high-level alchemists and alchemy masters who are able to refine the high-level "Shushan Hunyuan Pill" will not refine this kind of elixir for the initial stage of foundation building.
Therefore, among the 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills' exchanged in the sect, high-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills' are rare. Of course, this is for ordinary cultivators. True disciples can exchange for high-level elixirs, which is the benefit of true disciples.
Three days later, Li Shiming was refining a furnace of 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills'. When he lightly tapped the three-turn Tianbao furnace to produce pills, a pill caught his attention.
This pill exudes a purple aura, which is the sign of a top-level elixir, and it is extremely easy to identify.
He actually refined a top-grade elixir. This was the first time he refined a top-grade elixir.
The top-level elixir is known as the perfect elixir. Not only is it extremely effective, it also will not cause drug resistance. As long as you have enough top-level elixirs, you can keep taking them without having to consider changing to other elixirs due to drug resistance.
Of course, this is almost impossible. Top-level elixirs are hard to come by. Even a master alchemist cannot be sure that he can refine a top-level elixir. Everything depends on luck for a top-level elixir to appear.
"Why did a top-level elixir appear?" Li Shiming did not believe that this was luck. There must be some reason that he did not understand.
Fortunately, IBMz15 faithfully recorded his every step of the alchemy process, allowing him to retrieve all the alchemy data for research.
From the vast amount of data, he did not find any difference between this batch of pills and the previous ones. With his nearly perfect coordination of 'Golden Sun Fire Controlling Technique', 'Green Willow Spirit Sensing Technique' and 'Seven Finger Pill Collecting Technique', theoretically all pills should be of the same quality.
Neither he nor IBMz15 could analyze anything special from the data. It was just as Master Ma said, the top elixir was entirely a product of luck.
When he cleaned the Three-Turn Tianbao Furnace again, he had a feeling that there seemed to be slight changes in the medicinal gas inside the Three-Turn Tianbao Furnace.
His heart moved slightly and he thought of a possibility.
"Master, can I take the elixir back to the cave to refine it?" he asked Master Ma.
Here with Master Ma, being watched by the master, it is not convenient for him to use some tricks.
"Take a hundred doses of 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' back with you, and then just deliver the handed-in 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' to me later!" Master Ma was very confident in his alchemy skills and would not refuse his request.
Li Shiming is able to refine elixirs for the initial stage of foundation building, which is already the highest level of elixirs that an intermediate alchemist can refine. If he wants to improve his alchemy level further, he can either continue to learn the alchemy inheritance and raise his own alchemist level to advanced level.
Either cultivate the Red Sun Spiritual Fire until it can be used. The second-grade Red Sun Spiritual Fire is enough to refine any second-grade spiritual medicine. By then, even if you still use the methods of an intermediate alchemist, all spiritual medicines in the Foundation Establishment Period can be refined.
Master Ma will not force progress. Li Shiming has only been learning alchemy for a short time. Although his level is very high, he lacks experience in alchemy. It would be best for him to lay a solid foundation before upgrading his alchemist level.
Li Shiming returned to Chijian Peak with the materials of 100 "Shushan Hunyuan Pills" on the sword light. In the air, he sensed the breakthrough of Li Yuanba's sword intent in the distance. He smiled slightly, and a sword intent on his finger turned into a silk thread, flying in the air.
Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible to pass on the sword intent mastered by the clone Li Yuanba to others.
The meaning of sword is something that can be understood but not expressed in words. It is a kind of understanding and experience of the sword, and also a kind of innate ability.
But Li Yuanba and Li Shiming are one. Except for some of Li Yuanba's sword cultivation methods that require the coordination of exercises, Li Shiming can easily share everything else, including sword intent, from Li Yuanba.
Especially in terms of talent in swordsmanship, Li Shiming's talent is far inferior to that of his clone Li Yuanba.
Before becoming an avatar, Li Yuanba was trained by Elder Baili as a sword cultivator. He practiced the 'Sword Demon Secret Book' and had a golden spiritual root, which made him a top-level sword cultivator.
Li Shiming just wanted to sit back and reap the benefits. Wasn't it because of this benefit that he cultivated Li Yuanba as his clone?
Returning to the cave residence on Chijian Peak, Li Shiming no longer had any scruples. He put the third-turn Tianbao furnace into the machine room.
Inside the computer room, he has micron-level control and can also use the 'Golden Sun Fire Control Technique' and the 'Green Willow Spirit Sensing Technique'. As for the 'Seven Finger Pill Collecting Technique', it can be completely replaced by spiritual thoughts.
Besides, the micron-level control is all-round, even without using these secret methods, he can directly refine the elixir.
He gave the IBM z15 an order and began to record the process of alchemy.
Especially the situation inside the third-turn Tianbao furnace. With his spiritual sense, his micron-level perception is enough to sense any subtle changes in the furnace.
It takes about an hour and a half to refine a batch of pills, and he can refine a maximum of three batches of pills a day.
The last time was when the top-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' appeared in the tenth furnace. In the machine room, the speed could not be increased. However, since he was in his own cave, he could refine it whenever he was free and could refine a few more furnaces every day.
He made a plan for himself to refine five furnaces of 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' in the cave at most every day, so that the time taken would not affect his other cultivation.
The 'Purple Air Coming from the East' every morning is never interrupted. This is his most important practice, and at present it is even more important than his main practice.
'Purple Air Coming from the East' is making up for his natural weaknesses, which will affect his future path to becoming an immortal, so he dare not take it lightly.
He couldn't stop refining his body every day. His great success in refining allowed him to feel the improvement of his Taoist body every time he practiced the 'Vajra Body Protection Divine Art' and the 'Sword Demon Secret Book', and he was slowly catching up with the cultivators in the late stage of foundation building.
Li Shiming understood his own advantages. The reason why he was able to achieve his current achievements with the talent of three spiritual roots was largely due to body refining. Even Elder Su once praised his talent for body refining.
He needs to maintain the advantage of body refining, which is the guarantee for him to fight against the enemy during the foundation-building period.
In the machine room, the spiritual carbon ignited and heated the three-turn Tianbao furnace. Under the control of consciousness, it was no different from what he was doing in the outside world.
The process of refining the 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' for the first time was uneventful. The result was ten high-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pills', and their quality was even higher than that of pills refined outside.
This is because in the computer room, Li Shiming was refining the elixir completely from a God's perspective. He was able to sense the micron-level changes in the elixir furnace and made the alchemy data previously analyzed by IBMz15 extremely precise.
He looked at the time and continued to refine the second batch of 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill'.
Maybe it was bad luck, but he had been refining the Shushan Hunyuan Pill for several days in a row. The micron-level perception in the computer room allowed IBM z15 to collect more comprehensive data on the alchemy.
But the top-level elixir he wanted never appeared once. He had already refined more than twenty furnaces of 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill', and this was the double time it took for him to get the first top-level elixir.
Only then did he understand that the top-level elixir that Master Ma mentioned had no trace of its appearance and was entirely dependent on luck.
Finally, on the sixth day, another top-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' was refined.
"Finally it's been refined!" Li Shiming waved his hands excitedly.
The mystery of the top-level elixir was finally unveiled in front of him. Through the records of IBMz15, he saw the entire process of the formation of the top-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill'.
The alchemy process in the computer room involves changes in various substances at the micron level, and such monitoring is only possible in a computer room.
He discovered that there was a special substance in the Third Revolution Tianbao Furnace that was extremely rich, and at the moment of pill formation, this 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' absorbed these special substances and raised its quality to the top level.
He checked the previous alchemy records again and found that this special substance was produced during the alchemy process, and only a very small amount was produced each time.
About ten furnaces can produce a top-level elixir. It can only be said that his luck was absolutely amazing when he refined the top-level 'Shushan Hunyuan Pill' for the first time. The amount of this special substance that could produce a top-level elixir just happened to trigger the appearance of a top-level elixir.
While checking the records of alchemy in the computer room, he found that a large amount of these special substances were lost. After reaching a certain concentration, they did not fuse with the elixir, or they fused with multiple elixirs at the same time, thus failing to reach the foundation for producing top-level elixir.
After knowing the reason for refining top-level elixirs, Li Shiming began to prepare to turn this probabilistic refining into a normal practice.
For other alchemists, even alchemy masters, it is completely impossible to extract that special substance mixed with various other substances from the alchemy furnace.
But in the computer room, under his micron-level control, every particle of special matter can be controlled by him. He can collect the special matter produced by each furnace, and thus create the basis for the production of top-level elixirs by himself.