The Silver Spirit ranks 20th in character, so naturally he is also very domineering.

Under Kong Ju's gaze, he watched as the silver light slowly covered Shangguan Yuzhou's skin. In less than three or five breaths, it completely turned into bright silver, looking like a silver man.

Fortunately, Kong Ju had complete confidence in Shangguan Yuzhou's talent. He just took a few glances and looked away after finding that there was no major problem.

"Absorbing the essence of heaven and earth can take half a day or three days. I have nothing to do, so I might as well have some fun."

Muttering softly, Kong Ju seemed to have thought of something interesting.

He slapped the storage bag on his waist and with a happy look on his face, he shook out all the pill recipes he had snatched from the Blood Robe League disciples, as well as the miscellaneous elixirs he had collected in the past few days.

Of course, there are also two alchemy furnaces whose quality seems to be not very good at first glance.

There are seven pill recipes in total, and only one of them is of good quality, which is the Guyuan Pill he mentioned earlier.

The so-called entry-level elixir means that the value of the elixir refined is enough to help the cultivators in the late stage of Yanglun.

Pills that are only effective in the middle and early stages of the wheel-nourishing stage are low-grade.

Of course, the entry level is only the first level, corresponding to the Yanglun realm.

The second-grade elixir corresponds to the Ascension Wheel Realm.

The third-grade elixir corresponds to the great realm of palm life.

And so on.

Once the elixir is refined, its value will increase more than tenfold.

Even though there are seven pill recipes, only one is for a low-grade pill.

That one card alone is worth the remaining six.

Whether the elixir can be of good quality is also a reflection of the level of the alchemist.

Even though Kong Ju now has Ge Feng's twenty years of alchemy knowledge in his mind, there is still some gap between theory and practice.

It is almost impossible to refine high-quality elixirs from the beginning.

"Let's take it step by step and don't waste the elixir." With Ge Feng's knowledge of alchemy as a foundation, Kong Ju was very cautious and was not in a hurry to refine the Guyuan Pill.

Instead, he focused his attention on the remaining six pill recipes.

The six kinds of elixirs each have their own effects, but Kong Jue thinks only two of the recipes are valuable.

A Qi-nourishing Pill can improve the cultivation level of cultivators in the middle stage of Qi-nourishing Wheel or below.

But only the first three pills are effective. The effect is halved with each pill taken.

A Qi-restoring pill, which can restore spiritual power for cultivators in the middle stage of Yanglun or below.

It is similar to Guiling Liquid.

It’s just that the Guiling Liquid is of higher quality.

Kong Ju planned to start his journey as an alchemist with these two recipes.

However, he couldn't just refine whatever he wanted. It depended on whether the herbs included the necessary ingredients for the two kinds of pills.

Kong Jue rummaged through the scattered medicinal herbs and based on his memory, he only gathered the herbs for the Qi-nourishing Pill.

"I think these spiritual medicines were specially collected by the Blood Robe League disciples who collected these Qi-nourishing Pills. They are a bargain for me."

Kong Ju, who roughly guessed the reason, smiled lightly.

Then he took the recipe, placed it in front of himself, and after reading it twice, he analyzed the steps of refining the Qi-nourishing Pill one by one based on Ge Feng's knowledge and experience of elixirs in his mind.

After I had a rough idea in my mind, I took one of the two rough alchemy furnaces.

Inject spiritual power into the alchemy furnace.

There is a special formation in the alchemy furnace that converts spiritual power into the fuel needed for alchemy. This is the most basic ability of an alchemy furnace.

Therefore, the moment Kong Ju's spiritual power came into contact with the alchemy furnace formation.

"Puff!" A faint blue flame rose from the alchemy furnace.

Feeling the increasingly hot temperature in the alchemy furnace, when the temperature reached a certain limit, Kong Jue casually opened the lid of the furnace and threw in the first medicine.

His skillful movements seemed like he had performed them thousands of times.

When the essence of the first medicinal ingredient has been refined and the medicinal fragrance has been emitted, Kong Jue judges that the heat is about right and then throws in the second ingredient.

Every time medicine is put into the furnace, it is strictly time-controlled. Since the fire resistance of each medicine is different, the slightest negligence will waste these herbs.

Fortunately, thanks to Ge Feng's experience, the first two steps went smoothly.

This continued until all the herbs had been added. Kong Jue, with his hands on the spiritual power injection point of the alchemy furnace, could judge that the medicinal power of all the herbs had been extracted based on the medicinal fragrance emanating from the alchemy furnace.

"We can start now!" Kong Ju murmured softly, and then he mobilized his spiritual power, swept across the formation of the alchemy furnace, and poured it directly into the furnace.

Use spiritual power to control the medicinal materials that have been refined to produce medicinal effects, purify them repeatedly, and discharge the unwanted medicinal residue from the slag outlet of the alchemy furnace.

Then begins the most important step.

Casting pills.

Control the essence of the medicinal materials remaining in the alchemy furnace, and use the firepower of the furnace to fuse their medicinal effects together until they become pills.

This step is the most difficult and the one that tests the alchemist's skills the most.

If there is any mistake, all previous efforts will be wasted.

Even the steps of pill making will directly affect the quality of the finished pill.

It might be because Kong Ju's spiritual power was too cold. He did not control the amount of spiritual power well when refining it for the first time, and the cold air poured into the furnace, causing the essence of the medicinal materials that had not yet been completely integrated to take shape directly under the icy spiritual power.

But the pills were not destroyed, proving that the pill furnace was not useless.

He had no choice but to bite the bullet and finish refining this furnace of pills.

After one stick of incense, a faint medicinal fragrance emanated from the furnace. Kong Ju removed the remaining spiritual power in the furnace, put his hand on the furnace cover, and silently counted the time to open the furnace.

"one two three!"

After counting to three, Kong Ju opened the alchemy furnace.

Five green pills with rough surfaces lay quietly in the pill furnace.

"It's done!" Kong Ju, who didn't expect to succeed on his first try, looked bright-eyed and immediately picked up the pill from the furnace.

But when he held them in his hands and saw their quality, the joy on his face diminished a bit, and he muttered, "It doesn't even have the basic color of the elixir. This is a batch of inferior goods."

The first attempt at refining the medicine did not fail, but the quality was not very good. It was of inferior grade and had only 30% to 40% of its efficacy.

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

Only pills that retain 60% of their efficacy can be considered passing.

Of course, even so, these pills can still be sold for money.

Kong Ju casually collected them. Even though their quality was poor, there were many disciples in the Cangwu sect who were willing to pay for these five pills.

After putting away the pills, Kong Ju did not start refining the second batch immediately, as there were only two batches of medicinal materials for the Qi-nourishing Pills.

That means he only has two chances left.

He immediately analyzed the process of this pill refining and murmured, "It's definitely because of my spiritual power. It's too cold, so the pill-making process ended prematurely. The medicinal power hasn't been fully integrated yet, and the pill has been formed. It's strange that the quality is good."

"I still don't have enough control over my spiritual power. When forging pills, the amount of spiritual power can't be too much, nor can it be too concentrated. I have to control it well."

After recalling the steps of alchemy several times in his mind, Kong Jue, who had experience, immediately started the furnace and made the second batch.

The second time went much more smoothly, all the way to the pill-making stage.

Kong Ju had already carefully controlled the amount of spiritual power injected, and dispersed it intentionally so as not to affect the pills in the furnace.

But the fire from the alchemy furnace was still unable to suppress the chilling force of his spiritual power.

It only lasted five or six breaths longer than before.

Then the elixir is made.

Maybe because it took five or six more breaths, the quality of the second furnace was 20% to 30% better than before, and 60% of the medicinal power was retained.

It's considered passing.

Looking at the Qi-nourishing Pill in his palm, which had a deeper color and a slightly green and smooth coating, Kong Ju was finally satisfied.

That smooth layer of red is called red.

"Alas, the whole process went smoothly, but the spiritual power of my frost and snow essence was too overbearing. I can obviously refine a higher quality pill."

The problems that trouble other alchemists are always the process of refining medicinal materials and the problem that the pill may collapse at any time when casting the pill.

When it came to Kong Ju, all the problems were gone and it became a problem of his spiritual power.

Kong Ju, who didn't believe in evil, started the third and final furnace again.

This time, he used almost all his strength, concentrating his mind highly to control the injection of spiritual energy.

He used deliberately suppressed spiritual power to impact the formed pill over and over again, causing the medicinal effects in it to blend more tightly, and finally it lasted three more breaths than before.

The quality of this furnace has reached 65%.

The danyi became smoother.

"My control over spiritual power is still too rough. I will practice slowly after returning to Cangwu Sect." After putting away the last furnace of pills, Kong Ju ended his first alchemy.

There were also fourteen more Qi-nourishing pills in his pocket.

The quality of these Qi-nourishing pills is too low, Kong Jue will not take them.

He would only take the pill if it was at least 70% effective. After all, the first pill of the Qi-nourishing Pill would have the best effect.

Alchemy is an extremely time-consuming process. In the beginning, Elder Zhou Shangxiang waited for two months for a furnace of pills.

Even if the Qi-nourishing Pill was not of high quality, it took Kong Ju half a day to make it through three furnaces.

On the other hand, Shangguan Yuzhou's refining of the Blooming Spirit Essence was nearing completion.

Bang! Two silver rays burst out from Shangguan Yuzhou's eyes and hit the rock on one side of the vein, creating two fist-sized holes.

Shangguan Yuzhou completely refined the essence of blooming silver.

His cultivation is even stronger than before. Facts have proved that absorbing the essence of heaven and earth can improve one's cultivation.

"Congratulations! Senior Brother Shangguan, you have cultivated the wheel of essence." Kong Ju, who had been waiting for a long time, put away the alchemy furnace and immediately went up to greet him with a smile.

"I should thank Junior Brother Kong. If you hadn't saved me and brought me to this mine, I would never have been able to find the essence of blooming silver." Shangguan Yuzhou was in a good mood as he looked at Kong Ju who was walking towards him, and bowed with emotion.

Shangguan Yuzhou naturally did not realize that the acquisition of this Blooming Silver Essence was entirely guided by his own chance.

Kong Ju was too lazy to explain such illusory things, as some people might not believe them.

So he just smiled and shook his head without saying anything more.

Instead, he glanced at the entrance to the mine and said softly, "We should leave too."

(End of this chapter)