Chapter 171 How can alchemy have so many steps? Get rid of bad habits quickly (First update!)
The train runs fast because of the locomotive.
If you want your employees to get more done, their minds must be clear first.
Your brain must be washed. Let me make it clear first that this is not a business. You are not working for the sect. This is a great cause. You are fighting for the hundreds of millions of fellow cultivators in the Qingtian world.
Yao Xuan had already fallen into the trap, and then Lu Yuan taught him the art of alchemy.
Before this, Yao Xuan had already learned the Supreme Medicine Ancestor Technique and raised his realm to the Foundation Establishment Stage in a very short period of time.
When one reaches the foundation-building stage, one's own spiritual power is sufficient to support one's work.
Besides, Yao Xuan himself has a strange fire called Xuanbinghanhuo. With the strange fire, refining pills will be faster and easier.
After Lu Yuan introduced the sect's alchemy philosophy to Yao Xuan, he began to introduce him to the alchemy furnace and the method of refining the instant-kill pill.
"We in Daluo Sect don't refine pills as delicately as ordinary pharmacists do. We only refine a dozen or twenty pills in one furnace, and we stop working after refining a few hundred pills a day. Do we deserve to be called pharmacists if we only do that little work every day?
For a true alchemist (employee), refining 100,000 pills is just a way to warm up their hands, and producing hundreds of millions of pills a day is just enough to reach the passing line. "
Yao Xuan was stunned when he heard this. He thought, "One hundred thousand pills are just for fun? Producing hundreds of millions of pills a day? Is this a human being? You can't even use a mule like this."
Yao Xuan recalled his past experience of refining pills. Although he was an eighth-grade alchemist, his daily output was only a few thousand pills at most. He really couldn't understand how he could refine so many pills? How big a furnace would it take to make a hundred thousand pills? The next second, Lu Yuan released the pill furnace in front of him with a bang. Yao Xuan looked at the furnace in front of him, which was bigger than a house and could be divided into a three-story villa. He couldn't hold it anymore.
"Master, what is this?"
“This is the alchemy furnace.”
"Is this an alchemy furnace? For refining people?"
"What are you talking about? Our Daluo Sect is a famous and upright sect. What kind of person are we refining? We are refining pills."
"But this is not how you make pills. How can a furnace for making pills be so big?"
"What does the small size of the alchemy furnace outside have to do with our Daluo Sect? In our Daluo Sect, the alchemy furnace is only this big."
Yao Xuan: “…”
In Yao Xuan's opinion, only the furnace used by the Demon Sect to refine human beings was so big, because if it was smaller, the human body would not fit in it. Did the alchemy furnace of the Daluo Sect contain an expansion agent? How could such a large furnace be used to refine alchemy?
Yao Xuan couldn't understand, if he stuffed all the herbs into the furnace, could he control the refining and shaping of the herbs inside? It was just like cooking, if the pot was too big, the outside of the pill would be burnt while the inside was not cooked.
This is unscientific! It's a pity that Lu Yuan didn't know what Yao Xuan was thinking now. If he knew, he would probably roll his eyes.
This is fucking fantasy, you're talking to me about science? Seeing that Yao Xuan couldn't understand, Lu Yuan didn't say much. It didn't matter if he didn't understand. He would understand it after seeing it with his own eyes. Then Lu Yuan personally turned on the fire to heat the furnace, allowing Yao Xuan to witness what real medicine refining was like.
Sect Master Lu slapped the huge furnace hard. With a dull sound of the furnace lid opening, the huge furnace lid slowly opened.
Lu Yuan threw out a storage bag, and countless Blood God Flowers poured out of the storage bag and piled into the alchemy furnace.
After putting in a certain amount, Lu Yuan threw out other storage bags and put in other spiritual medicines until the spiritual medicines filled up the alchemy furnace. Only when it was full and could not be stuffed any more did Lu Yuan stop and cover the furnace.
Yao Xuan: "Hey, this, this... Master, don't you need to cut and divide the medicine first? Your medicine is not washed."
Have I studied in vain for so many years? Yao Xuan remembered that this was not what his master taught him when he was learning to make medicine!
To refine medicine, one must first divide the medicine accurately and control the amount of each pill precisely. Some difficult-to-refine medicines even need to be cut into small pieces. It is an extremely delicate job.
How come when it comes to Sect Master Lu, not only do the elixirs not need to be divided or cut? Is this making pills or cooking?
He didn't even wash it? He didn't even pretend to be a doctor? Can the pills he made be eaten? Can the food be guaranteed to be safe?
Lu Yuan said: "What's the point of separating and cutting the herbs? Once all the herbs are refined in the furnace, they will naturally separate. If the herbs cannot be refined, it means the fire is not strong enough. If the herbs are not refined evenly, it means you haven't learned it well yet.
How can alchemy be that troublesome? Washing herbs? What herbs should be washed? Good herbs don’t need to be washed, and dust won’t kill people. "
Lu Yuan's words woke Yao Xuan up from his dream. It was the first time he heard such a statement.
The reason why the medicinal materials cannot be refined is that the fire is not strong enough, and the reason why the inside and outside are uneven is that the technique is not good enough.
Yao Xuan: "Then how do you estimate the amount of medicinal materials?"
Lu Yuan just poured the medicinal materials without weighing or measuring them. Can it be accurate if a large amount of medicinal materials is poured in all at once?
Lu Yuan: "Just follow your heart when refining medicine. It's fine as long as it's almost done. Why do you need to be so precise?"
Do you think carving tofu is so precise? Alchemy is like cooking, just use the right amount of seasoning. A mature chef... a master of alchemy must have a sense of scale in his heart without a scale in his hands.
Use the right amount as appropriate. If you are in a good mood, put more. If you are in a bad mood, put less. It won’t kill you! Yao Xuan learned something new.
This must be kept in mind.
1: The furnace must be big, because the bigger the furnace is, the greater the output will be, and the bolder the person is, the greater the output will be!
2. Make medicine as you like and use the right amount of medicinal materials.
Three: Just don’t kill anyone.
…
Lu Yuan began to refine the elixir, using fierce fire to extract the essence and turning it into pills. His techniques varied in thousands of ways, but all were completed in an instant.
In Yao Xuan's eyes, it just means firing - the end.
Yao Xuan didn't even see the details of Lu Yuan's alchemy, and Lu Yuan had already finished.
"Okay, it's over!"
Before Yao Xuan could see clearly, Lu Yuan had already started the furnace and put the pills in.
Large quantities of Blood God Pills poured out like mountains of soybeans and were put by Lu Yuan into sacks that had been prepared in advance.
Looking at these already refined Blood God Pills, Yao Xuan: "Ah?"
"Wait a minute, Master, didn't we just start firing? How many seconds has it been?"
Is this how elixir is made?
Lu Yuan: "It's enough to form a pill. As for the pill, you refine the medicinal materials into spiritual liquid, and then fuse the spiritual liquids to form a pill to stimulate the medicinal properties. How long will it take for these two steps?"
Yao Xuan: "What? There are only two steps to making an elixir? Don't you need to purify, remove impurities, season, sugar-coat, add fragrance, and shape it?"
Yao Xuan said: I remember there are quite a lot of steps in alchemy, which is different from what I learned!
When Yao Xuan was learning to make elixirs, his master taught him too many steps.
Selecting herbs, dividing them, cutting them, washing them, boiling them, cooking them, purifying them, removing impurities, seasoning them, boiling sugar coatings, adding fragrance, laden and shaping them...
A dozen steps for simple ones and dozens of steps for more complex ones.
Now you tell me that refining an elixir only requires three steps? Put the herbs in, refine them, and let the spirit liquid take shape?
Then what did I learn before? Lu Yuan was also stunned when he heard Yao Xuan's words.
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What? Purification, decontamination, flavoring, sugar coating, flavoring, shaping? What is this mess?
What's the point of talking about purity? Medicinal materials grow naturally, there are no impurities in them, they are all good stuff! Flavoring and sugar coating to enhance the flavor? Why is it so troublesome to make a pill? Get rid of bad habits quickly, as long as it doesn't kill people.
Lu Yuan: "What crooked ways, refining medicine is not that complicated. Apart from the medicine itself, everything else is unnecessary and can be optimized. Just follow what I teach you."
Yao Xuan: "This... okay."
It turns out that the most complicated things he had learned before were the most useless things. Yao Xuan suddenly felt that he had learned a lot.
Lu Yuan taught him step by step and imparted to him the Laojun alchemy technique.
Yao Xuan accepted the alchemy skills taught by Lu Yuan. Lu Yuan was a very good alchemist with great talent in alchemy. After accepting the alchemy skills from the upper realm, Yao Xuan instantly gained enlightenment.
"It turns out that elixirs can be refined this way..."
"It turns out that fire can be controlled in this way..."
"It turns out that spiritual medicine can be refined in this way..."
Yao Xuan was excited when he received the inheritance. The alchemy techniques of the upper realm were indeed all-encompassing and exquisite! He only learned a little bit of it and it would be of great help to him. If he could slowly digest all of these advanced alchemy techniques of the upper realm, Yao Xuan felt that it would be easy for him to break through to the ninth-grade alchemist.
No wonder the master told me that the eighth grade is just the starting point. There are indeed higher grades above the ninth grade! Yao Xuan began to learn and gradually turned into Lu Yuan's shape. Soon he began to practice.
Following Lu Yuan's hands-on guidance, Yao Xuan optimized 90% of the redundant steps and specialized in the two steps of refining and shaping. Sure enough, his pill refining speed improved by leaps and bounds, and with the help of the alchemy skills from the upper realm, his pill success rate was greatly improved.
Although Yao Xuan was an eighth-grade alchemist before, his pill success rate was actually not very high. It was not just him, the entire Alchemist Alliance actually had a low pill success rate. An 80% pill success rate for a furnace of pills was already very high.
But now the steps of alchemy have been reduced to only two steps. His success rate has greatly improved, instantly rising to more than 95%. Moreover, as his technique becomes more and more proficient, the success rate is still increasing.
96%, 97%...
Theoretically, it can reach 100%, and Lu Yuan is 100%.
As for why the success rate of alchemy increased so much, Lu Yuan's explanation was: the more you do, the more mistakes you make; the less you do, the fewer mistakes you make; and if you do nothing, you make no mistakes.
The alchemist alliance's alchemy method has too many steps, ranging from a dozen to dozens. With too many steps, the error rate increases. How can it not fail? The Daluo Sect's alchemy only has two steps. If these two steps are done well, it is considered a success. How can the success rate be low? It can't be lower at all.
Yao Xuan: I feel like I’m getting stronger and stronger!
When Yao Xuan had almost mastered the art and was getting better at it, Lu Yuan patted him on the shoulder.
"My disciple, do you remember that when I was shaping your body, I added three heads and six arms to it?"
Yao Xuan: “?”
Before Yao Xuan could come to his senses, Lu Yuan extracted nine new large alchemy furnaces in one breath.
"These are all prepared for you. The more capable you are, the more work you will do. The greater your ability, the greater your responsibility! From now on, the Daluo Sect's elixirs will all depend on you."
Yao Xuan was confused.
The more I do, the more things I have to do. Are these nine furnaces all for me?
Yao Xuan suddenly felt as if he was carrying nine mountains on his shoulders and was under tremendous pressure, but then he thought about the ideas that his master had instilled in him at the beginning.
This is not just a business, it is a great cause that will change the future of the world.
Yao Xuan suddenly became energetic again.
He suddenly transformed himself into a being with three heads and six arms, and nine large furnaces started firing at the same time. Tens and millions of pills were refined one after another.
Jiang Ming came to the Alchemy Institute to find his master.
"Master, the Seventh Prince of Daqian has arrived and is asking to see you at the mountain gate."
Lu Yuan nodded when he heard this: "Master, I understand."
As soon as Jiang Ming entered the yard, he saw Yao Xuan, a man with three heads and six arms, controlling nine large furnaces to refine medicine, with purple smoke rising straight into the sky from the furnaces.
Looking at Yao Xuan who was busy in front of the alchemy furnace and looked dizzy, Jiang Ming shook his head.
The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. It's so scary. Fortunately, I have little ability...
Lu Yuan turned around and went to meet the guests with Jiang Ming. Before leaving, he told Yao Xuan: "Continue to refine. More herbs will be delivered soon."
Yao Xuan nodded his three heads: "Yes, Master."
(End of this chapter)