Chapter 96: Men's Speed Bumps Plus 1
Mya Dan Pavilion.
Chu Ning came back not to buy elixirs.
"Senior, do you want to buy alchemy?"
The female cultivator was somewhat shocked.
"When you introduced it earlier, didn't you say that you had pill formulas and alchemy techniques for sale? Why, are you trying to trick me?"
"No... no, there are some for sale."
The female cultivator quickly shook her head, and then explained: "Alchemy requires one hundred spirit stones. As for the recipe, different recipes have different prices. If you buy the alchemy, we will give you a recipe for the Qi Condensation Pill for free."
"Okay, I'll take this."
Learning alchemy was something Chu Ning considered after careful consideration.
Compared to other cultivators, his biggest advantage is his longevity, and the path of cultivation cannot be separated from elixirs.
Take the foundation building as an example. Almost 99% of the cultivators need foundation building pills to break through the foundation building, because the energy required for each realm impact is too huge, and it is a qualitative change.
No matter how much energy the body can store, it cannot store so much energy at once.
My immortality fruit can help me break through to the foundation-building stage naturally, but it does not mean that it will be effective for my future realms.
It is necessary to learn alchemy in order to prepare for a rainy day.
It’s okay if you have less talent. You can always catch up if you spend several times more time than others.
A quarter of an hour later, Chu Ning walked out of the Alchemy Pavilion carrying an alchemy furnace that was more than one meter high. He did not continue to walk around and chose to go home directly.
After returning to his room, Chu Ning first paid close attention to some details in the house. He would be able to notice if someone entered the house.
The reason for being so cautious was that he had placed a treasure in this room. The flying sword that he had taken from Liang Dehai and could only be used by a strong person in the Foundation Establishment Stage was buried under the yard by him.
In the next month, Chu Ning began to study the book on alchemy.
This is an elementary theoretical book on alchemy, which mentions many alchemy terms, the effects of some elixirs, and the appearance and effects of some medicinal materials.
"There are three major factors that affect the success rate of making pills: the quality of the materials, the pill furnace and the pill fire, as well as the strength of the alchemist himself."
Chu Ning whispered softly, the most important of these three elements is the materials, after all, a good cook cannot cook without rice.
A good alchemy furnace and some natural fire can improve the quality of the elixir.
As for the alchemist's own strength, it can control the success rate of the elixir.
However, the second and third elements complement each other. If the alchemist is not strong enough and cannot control the temperature well, no matter how good the furnace and earth fire are, it is impossible to refine the best elixir.
After spending a month to understand the contents of the book, Chu Ning went out to purchase materials.
Bought a lot of materials for refining Qi Condensation Pills.
Qi Condensation Pill is the most commonly used elixir for cultivators in the early and middle stages of Qi Condensation, and the recipe is also very common, which is why Miao Dan Pavilion gave this recipe to Chu Ning.
Chu Ning bought hundreds of materials for Qi Condensation Pills, spending almost ten spirit stones.
In other words, as long as the elixir is successfully refined, based on the assumption that a bottle of Qi Condensation Pills contains thirty pills, one can earn more than twenty spirit stones, which is three times the amount.
However, this is the profit calculated based on the assumption that every piece of material can be successfully refined. In fact, being able to refine sixty pills is already very good.
The Qi Condensing Pills are only made by first-grade alchemists. Powerful alchemists will not be able to make Qi Condensing Pills, so naturally the success rate is not high.
There is no separate alchemy room in the courtyard where Chu Ning lives, but there is no need for an alchemy room to refine Qi Condensation Pills. Chu Ning directly uses the utility room as an alchemy room.
What you learn from books is always superficial. You must practice it yourself to know it.
No matter how much theory you read, you won’t make as much progress as if you put it into practice.
On the first day, Chu Ning ruined five sets of materials for the Qi Condensation Pill, and he felt a little painful.
The next day, seven portions were ruined, and I felt sad.
On the third day, I ruined five portions, but I didn't feel too sad anymore.
On the fourth day, six portions were destroyed and I felt numb.
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"Failure is the mother of success. Those who have just learned to make pills, unless they have a powerful force behind them, definitely don't have the luxury of wasting materials like me."
Chu Ning comforted himself in this way. With this kind of investment regardless of cost, his level of alchemy was constantly improving.
Previously, the materials would be almost wasted halfway through the refining process, but now at least the entire alchemy process can be completed.
That's progress.
At the same time, through alchemy he also gained some experience in controlling fire.
After a month, all the materials were refined.
Chu Ning held a black waste pill and boasted to Black Snake, "Old Black, I was finally able to condense the pill into shape."
Black Snake rolled his eyes humanely and ignored Chu Ning.
However, Black Snake was still very shocked. He had been in Sanqing Mountain for so many years, and he knew that the old Taoist was best at alchemy. He had even seen the old Taoist teaching the young Taoist to make alchemy.
The little Taoist's progress in alchemy is only slightly better than Chu Ning's, but what is the little Taoist's identity? He is the successor of the old Taoist, and was carefully selected by the old Taoist.
The black snake ignored him, and Chu Ning didn't care. The reason why he was so obsessed with refining the elixir this month was because he found that after refining the elixir, his spiritual awareness improved a lot compared to before.
His spiritual consciousness had not changed much during this period of time since it appeared. However, in just one month of alchemy, the range of his spiritual consciousness had increased by two meters.
After thinking about it, Chu Ning understood the reason.
Alchemy requires full concentration of mind and body. One has to sense the condition of the elixir in the furnace and also pay attention to the temperature. This is a great exercise for the mind and body.
Spiritual consciousness originates from the soul, and a strong mind will make the soul more stable, which in turn promotes the improvement of spiritual consciousness.
Watching the flames burning the alchemy furnace, making a slight sound, Chu Ning muttered: "A man's speed bump, in addition to repairing donkey hooves and forging knives, should now add alchemy."
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"Is this person staying in the house to learn alchemy?"
Yang Chaolie was a little stunned when he heard the news reported by his subordinates. What kind of operation was this? He sold his lifespan and then learned to make elixirs?
He started learning it when he reached the late stage of Qi Condensation. He wouldn't be daydreaming about refining the Foundation Establishment Pill by himself.
"There is no need to pay attention to this person anymore. During the disciple assessment of Wenjin Sect three years later, this person will not pose a threat to me."
Yang Chaolie asked his men to withdraw. He originally paid attention to Chu Ning because he was afraid that the other party was also coming for Wen Jincheng's disciple assessment three years later.
There are no less than a hundred cultivators in the late Qi Condensation stage in the entire inner city, but the city only recruits ten outer disciples every three years. One more cultivator in the late Qi Condensation stage means more competition.
But now it seems that Chu Ning did not come here for this, otherwise he would not have sold his life, let alone learn alchemy at this time.
In fact, Yang Chaolie was not the only one who noticed Chu Ning, but after knowing what Chu Ning had done, these late Qi Condensation masters all made the same decision as Yang Chaolie.
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The next day.
Without the materials for the Qi Condensation Pill, Chu Ning prepared to go to the market again to buy medicinal herbs.
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Not long after leaving the hospital, Chu Ning ran into Su Yue.
Still wearing a green gauze dress, she stood under the peach tree, her delicate hands fiddling with the petals. The hem of her long gauze palace dress was slit, revealing her white and beautiful legs.
What a beautiful picture of a beautiful woman enjoying flowers.
As if she had heard something, Su Yue turned her head. When she saw Chu Ning, her beautiful eyes flickered and she said in a clear voice, "Hello, Senior Chu."
"Um."
Chu Ning nodded in response and continued walking forward, leaving Su Yue standing there in shock.
How could this happen? She had dressed up carefully and had been waiting here for seven or eight days in a row. Today, Senior Chu finally came out.
This was completely different from the subsequent plot she had imagined.
Chu Ning didn't know that Su Yue had been guarding him for several days, but the moment he saw Su Yue, he knew what this girl was going to do.
Isn't this what young girls want to do, that they can find an older man so they can work less for ten years?
It’s not that Chu Ning is a saint and hates this kind of women.
The most important thing is that Su Yue doesn't look like the kind of person who would settle for less.
Once involved with this kind of woman, it would easily bring trouble to myself. Now that I am still unstable in Wen Jincheng, it is not appropriate for me to be involved with this kind of woman.
This time, Chu Ning did not wander around. It took him just over an hour to reach the market, which was half the time than before.
After buying some herbs at the herbal medicine store, Chu Ning was about to go back when he was stopped by the waiter in the store.
"Senior, my shopkeeper invites you to gather in the backyard."
Chu Ning raised his eyebrows. The medicinal herbs he bought only cost a few dozen spirit stones in total. It shouldn't be enough to alarm the owner of the medicine shop.
But he still didn't refuse and followed the waiter to the backyard of the pharmacy.
"I am Qin Shan, nice to meet you, Fellow Daoist Chu."
"Hello, Fellow Daoist Qin. I wonder what's the important matter that Fellow Daoist Qin wants me to meet?"
Chu Ning looked at the old man in front of him, who was in the late stage of Qi Condensation, but his blood was not very vigorous. It seemed that his life span was about to decline.
"Brother Chu has been learning alchemy recently, right?"
"That's right."
Qin Shan smiled slightly, "The way of alchemy is not difficult to get started, but the difficult part is the later part, because all kinds of advanced alchemy recipes are controlled by major forces, and they will not let the recipes leak out."
"Brother Qin, please just say what you want to say. I don't like beating around the bush." Chu Ning interrupted Qin Shan directly.
"Ahem... Fellow Daoist Chu is straightforward, so I'll be frank with you. I want to make a deal with you."
"What deal?"
"I have a second-grade alchemist's notebook here. I can give it to Fellow Daoist Chu. This notebook also contains the recipe for the Condensation Pill."
Chu Ning narrowed his eyes. A second-grade alchemist is one who can refine foundation-building pills.
Alchemists are divided into grades. The lowest are those like Chu Ning who are not of the highest grade. Then there are the first-grade alchemists who can refine elixirs needed by Qi Condensation cultivators. Next are the second-grade alchemists who can refine elixirs needed by Foundation Establishment cultivators.
Each grade corresponds to the elixir required by cultivators at each realm.
In the entire Wenjin City, there is only one third-grade alchemist, and that is the alchemy elder of the Wenjin Sect.
"What do you want me to do?"
"Sell me ten years of your life."
Chu Ning's face changed drastically and he turned and left without saying a word.
"Fellow Daoist Chu, don't be anxious."
"Fellow Daoist Chu, since you have already sold one year of your life, I think you are not over a hundred years old now. With your current state, you still have nearly a hundred years to live. This old man only needs one year."
Qin Shan became anxious when he saw Chu Ning turn around and leave, and shouted quickly.
"It's easy to say. Selling one year of my life was a decision I made after careful consideration. I regret it every day when I think about it. You still want me to sell ten years of my life? Impossible!"
Chu Ning had an angry expression on his face, and said with a wave of his sleeves: "Let's not talk about this anymore!"
"Fellow Daoist Chu, please listen to my last words. If you still insist on leaving, I will not stop you."
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