Chapter 23: Refining the Ultimate Pill
All the spiritual plants were removed of impurities and turned into spiritual liquid, which began to be mixed and heated up to form a pill.
Gu Xin unconsciously observed Mu Qi's movements, which were exactly the same as his own.
He felt a little emotional. Junior Sister Mu was indeed as talented as she said. He didn't need to see what happened to know that as long as nothing unexpected happened, the quality of Junior Sister Mu's furnace of pills would be good.
However, when he was about to send his spiritual sense into Mu Qi's alchemy furnace, he found that the temperature was much higher than he had imagined, so he retracted his spiritual sense.
He frowned. Why did Junior Sister Mu turn up the temperature so high? Did she not remember what he just said?
If the temperature is too high, the control over the spiritual liquid is insufficient, and if the mixture is not well mixed, it will be difficult to make the pill.
Soon, Mu Qi's first pill was completed.
She had been patient again and again. The process could obviously be accelerated, so why was it so slow? She turned up the temperature, and sure enough, the speed of pill formation increased without affecting the result. Invisible impurities were even removed due to the high temperature, making the pill more perfect.
Mu Qi curiously opened the furnace lid and looked inside. Ten round pills with patterns on them were lying there. Each one was round and cute, and had a strong fragrance.
Mu Qi couldn't help but smile. It turned out that refining elixirs in the world of immortal cultivation was so simple.
Her wood spiritual power is equivalent to that of eight or ten separation machines. Not only can it separate impurities, but it can also easily sense the state of spiritual liquid mixing. Isn't this much more convenient than observing under a microscope or various machines?
The efficiency was amazing. She couldn't be more satisfied. However, she felt it could be faster. Putting the spiritual plants one by one was too slow.
Gu Xin came to the side at some point and stared at Mu Qi's ten pills with patterns on them with his eyes wide open.
Is this a top-grade elixir?
The strong fragrance of elixir, the taste, the texture, there is no way it can be wrong!
Gu Xin's eyes changed when he looked at Mu Qi. Was this really her first time making an elixir? ?
He didn't complete it as he said, but instead made a top-grade elixir? ?
Gu Xin began to doubt his life.
Although it is only the simplest first-grade spiritual elixir, it is extremely difficult to refine it to the ultimate grade.
To be able to refine the best quality elixir, the entire process of refining must be perfect, but this cannot be achieved perfectly just by following the process.
Just like the same dish, some people cook it with great appearance, aroma and taste, while others cook it poorly.
Gu Xin was speechless for a long time, the only thing left in his mind was Mu Qi's words praising him: I am very talented!
That’s right, Junior Sister Mu is extremely talented!
Gu Xin was brought back to his senses by Mu Qi waving his hand.
"Brother Gu, Brother Gu, my elixir was successful, right?"
Gu Xin stared at Mu Qi, who was standing in front of him with an excited look in his eyes, and nodded with a straight face, "Junior Sister Mu, you will be the face of our Danfeng from now on. Work hard! You can do it!"
Mu Qi: ???
How come she is the face of Danfeng???
"Brother Mu! How is my elixir?"
"A pill, top-grade!" Gu Xin patted Mu Qi's head, "Junior Sister Mu, I can't teach you anymore. I'll report to Elder Su and let him teach you later."
Mu Qi has beautiful black eyes. Did she hear it right? Top quality?
Hahahaha, I haven’t lost my old job, it’s done!
Mu Qi happily put away the pills. Seeing a group of little kids staring at her with envy and disappointment on their faces, she suddenly felt guilty for bullying children.
She has been doing pharmaceutical research for so many years, and now it's just a different form. It's certainly not something these little rascals can compare to, and she really doesn't mean to hit them hard.
Slipped away. Slipped away.
After asking Gu Xin, Mu Qi went to the separate alchemy room alone and started to make the elixir according to her ideas.
At this time, the gossip about Mu Qi in Tianxuan Sect caused a sensation again. She was already a celebrity in the sect. It was no exaggeration to say that if there was any slight movement, it would spread throughout the sect in just one minute.
"What? Junior Sister Mu refined a top-grade elixir for the first time?"
"Oh my god, Junior Sister Mu is so amazing!"
Mu Qi had no idea that she had once again become the center of attention because of her alchemy. Once she started making the alchemy, she once again turned a deaf ear to everything else.
She took her monthly allotment and stayed in the alchemy room, making elixirs without sleep.
This time she used her own fire spiritual power. In order not to waste the spiritual plants, she tried countless times and finally found the same temperature as the previous earth fire before, and then she began to refine the pill.
She found that it was easier to control her fire power to make pills than to use earth fire. She could adjust the temperature slightly lower or higher at any time. And she didn't know if it was because she had grilled too much meat or something, but her control over the fire was very precise.
She threw the spiritual plants into various corners of the furnace. Her fire spiritual power was divided into several parts, which could evenly control the refining of each spiritual plant. This way, not only was the efficiency of alchemy higher, but also a single spiritual plant was refined to the extreme, and the patterns of the refined pills were clearer.
She tasted the elixir she had refined and felt it was better than the previous one. She felt relieved and satisfied.
She practiced over and over again, and after an unknown amount of time, Mu Qi began to feel a headache.
[You should take a break. Controlling the refining of multiple spiritual plants over and over again at the same time has consumed too much of your spiritual consciousness.]
Mu Qi rubbed his head and realized belatedly that refining the elixir was so exhausting in terms of mental effort. It was not like he could replenish his spiritual power by taking elixirs when it was exhausted, but how could he replenish his brain power?
With no other options, she had to put away the ten newly refined pills and prepare to give her brain a rest.
"Dandan, I didn't expect you to know this."
[…I told you not to call me Divine Artifact Egg!]
"What's your name?"
[I don’t remember, I’ve been asleep for too long and I’ve forgotten a lot of things, but my name is not Dandan! It sounds ugly!]
"Okay, then I'll call you Yuanyuan?"
[What kind of naming skills are you, bitch! I want a domineering name! ]
"Heaven-swallowing egg?"
[Hmm? That’s the name! This divine weapon is the Heaven-Swallowing Egg!]
Mu Qi smiled and said, "Okay."
She thought of swallowing thunder with eggs, then thought that swallowing thunder with eggs didn't sound good, but swallowing the sky was pretty good.
The egg in Mu Qi's mind shook with satisfaction.
Mu Qi began to meditate, intending to calm her mind through practice. After all, practice did not consume any mental energy. When she felt her mind was calmed, she began to make pills again, and she repeated this process over and over again.
Ten days passed in a flash, and Mu Qi had refined all the first-grade pills. If she hadn't used up a month's supply of spiritual plants, she wouldn't have planned to stop.
When she walked out of the alchemy room, she saw a disciple sticking his head out, and then running out. Mu Qi thought this little disciple was really weird, so he touched his head and walked out the door.
After walking a few steps, Elder Su came over, stroking his beard. He smelled the rich aroma of top-grade elixirs on her body and nodded with satisfaction, "Not bad. Alchemy requires endurance like this. Mu Qi, I was right about you. Come and learn how to refine second-grade elixirs from me starting tomorrow."
Mu Qi nodded obediently, and when she saw Elder Su was about to leave, she hurriedly called out to him out of embarrassment.
"Elder Su, can you give me some bottles of medicine?" Mu Qi blushed after saying this and opened his mouth to ask for something.
Elder Su stroked his beard and smiled, then took out a storage bag and handed it over.
Mu Qi took it and thanked him repeatedly: "Thank you, Elder Su!"
Elder Su disappeared again.
Mu Qi opened the storage bag and found hundreds of medicine bottles in it, more than 10 of which were used to store high-level elixirs that could retain their medicinal properties. He was immediately moved.
She muttered silently, "I will definitely repay you."
Mu Qi took out the pills that he had casually thrown into a large box and put them into ordinary bottles. Although these were top-grade, they were just ordinary first-grade pills. It would feel like a waste of resources if they were put into high-level pill bottles.
Mu Qi had just packed half of it when the Danfeng disciples who heard the wind rushed over and surrounded Mu Qi.
"Wow! Junior Sister Mu, you refined so many pills?"
Mu Qi was confused. Why was she so popular?
Staring at the top-grade elixirs scattered on her box, someone exclaimed in exaggerated admiration, "As expected of Junior Sister Mu, you are so talented. These elixirs are really top-grade!"
"Wow! Junior Sister Mu has not only refined one top-grade elixir, but these detoxifying pills and essence-replenishing pills are all top-grade!" Someone couldn't help it and pointed at the different elixirs with shaking hands.
Mu Qi couldn't help swallowing her saliva when she was surrounded by so many people. When she was doing research before, she was never as lively as these people!
So scary!
Her hands were shaking as she distributed the pills. She didn't know what to say for a moment, so she just nodded to everyone, "Hello, brothers and sisters."
Seeing an acquaintance, he nodded to the other party, "Hello, Senior Sister Liuyun! Hello, Senior Sister Lian, Hello, Senior Brother Mu..."
Mu Qi's nodding like a chick pecking at rice made everyone laugh.
"Haha, Junior Sister Mu, why are you so cute!"
"You're so good!"
After Mu Qi called out to the person, he shyly withdrew his gaze and continued to pack the pills.
"Junior Sister Mu, let me help you." Gu Xin smiled.
"I'll also help Junior Sister Mu." Lian Hanruo squatted down.
Mu Qi had no choice but to say, "Thank you, senior brother and sister."
Seeing a bunch of people still surrounding Gu Xin, he said, "Go do what you need to do, don't scare our junior sister."
After everyone left, Mu Qi breathed a sigh of relief and the pills were quickly packaged.
"Sister Lian, where should I go to hand in the pills?"
Inner disciples can receive spiritual plants for free every month, and it doesn't matter how many they receive. However, they must hand in 7 pills for every set of pill recipes they receive. Even if they cannot refine that many, they have to find a way to hand in that many. This is to prevent disciples from just receiving spiritual plants without cherishing them.
With this rule, disciples can freely practice alchemy, and the sect will not be afraid of wasting the spiritual plants they have worked so hard to grow. The more disciples practice alchemy, the faster their level will improve.
As disciples actively make pills and hand them in, the sect has more pills and its overall strength increases faster. This is a virtuous cycle.
Mu Qi particularly likes this rule. She can make pills without any worries. With her success rate in making pills, she is not afraid of not being able to hand them in.
"Junior sister, come with me. I will take you to make the connection and also help you get familiar with Danfeng. I should have taken you there half a month ago, but you were in seclusion."
"Thank you, Senior Sister Lian."
"Oh, don't be so polite. We are all fellow sisters."
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