Chapter 74: Want to create a new recipe for the Beast Taming Sect? Genius is not enough to describe it...
Xing Yan might not be a beast from the world of cultivation. There is no place in the world of cultivation where the sun's true fire forms a circle.
In addition to the common spiritual beasts and demon beasts, there are also divine beasts, mysterious beasts, underworld beasts, holy beasts, etc. Nan Sining feels that Xing Yan is definitely a divine beast starting from the beginning, and there is no upper limit.
It was the first time for them to deal with the people from the Beast Taming Sect. Both sides had a very pleasant conversation. If it wasn’t for the late hour, the people from the Beast Taming Sect would have wanted to stay at Cijian Peak forever.
"I'll leave the matter of alchemy to my friend Nan." Elder Li lowered his posture very low.
Nan Si Ning said, "I will be loyal to the person who entrusted me with this. Please rest assured, Elder Li. If you have any concerns, you can come and watch me practice tomorrow."
Elder Li was immediately pleasantly surprised: "Is this... is this really possible?"
The Medicine King was somewhat annoyed by his hesitation: "My dear nephew, if she has spoken, it must be true. She is not a stingy person."
Elder Li and the other disciples of the Beast Taming Sect all looked overwhelmed by the surprise. They expressed their gratitude again and took the initiative to leave half of the reward to show their sincerity.
"Ci Lie Sword Master teaches his apprentice very well! Very good!" Elder Li praised repeatedly before leaving.
When the Medicine King heard others praising Ye Hongci, he was even happier than when he was praised himself, and his beard twitched.
Master Zhu Feng was so badly beaten by the Beast Taming Sect that he left in disgrace with his men.
He was also very jealous of the good things sent by the Beast Taming Sect. Unhappy, he went directly to Zhao Shiquan to complain, accusing Ci Jianfeng of accepting the benefits and not handing them over to the sect.
It's not that Nan Sining and the others are unhappy, but they don't have this concept. The people of Cijian Peak are used to supporting themselves and have not benefited much from the sect. When they get benefits, they even think of sending gifts to Medicine King, Qin Xueyang, and Xiao Jingwen, but ignore the sect.
At night, Nan Sining was refining some basic pills while looking through the animal pill recipes collected by the system.
Compared to human elixirs, animal elixirs have obvious characteristics: the spiritual plants used are low-level and cheap, the alchemy techniques are crude and simple, and the elixirs have a high level of residual poison...
It clearly highlights the "counterfeit and shoddy" products.
Of course, there are also some recipes that require high-level raw materials and complex methods, but they are extremely rare. Perhaps it is people who truly love their contracted beasts and have studied this direction, but the results are indeed very few.
Nan Si Ning couldn't help but pinch Xing Yan's little nose: "You are much luckier than your predecessors for following me."
Xing Yan showed a proud look: "Sister is the best! I have good taste too!"
Nan Si Ning was amused by him: "Now you have learned to brag? That's great! As someone like me, Nan Si Ning, you should be so confident!"
Xing Yan blinked his eyes, not quite understanding what confidence meant, but seeing his sister so happy, he felt that it must be a good thing.
The next morning, the people from the Beast Taming Sect arrived early, all with happy and expectant expressions on their faces.
Elder Li explained somewhat embarrassedly, "They were so excited last night that they couldn't even calm down to meditate and practice, so they had to rush over early."
Qin Sangyue smiled and replied, "It's a great thing that the Beastmaster Sect's disciples are so eager to learn."
Seeing that the people from Cijian Peak did not blame him, Elder Li felt relieved.
When they just came up, they heard the sounds of sword practice from several places on Cijian Peak. Elder Li was quite surprised that the disciples of Cijian Peak had arrived earlier than them.
After Nan Sining came over, Qin Sangyue went to practice on her own.
Not long after, Medicine King also came with Qin Xueyang, Xiao Jingwen and several other disciples.
Nan Si Ning had just finished entertaining the two groups of people when he heard a message from the mountain gate saying that Master Yu Feng had also come with his disciples.
Nan Sining scratched his head. The sect was preparing for the next secret realm competition, which required a huge amount of elixirs. How did Master Yu Feng still have time to bring people over?
Upon entering, Peak Master Yu greeted Medicine King and Elder Li, then complained, "Junior Brother Nan, since you want to publicly refine the elixir, why didn't you inform us at Medicine Peak? We have to find out about this from other people."
Nan Si Ning said, "Master Yu has misunderstood. The elixir we are refining this time is for beasts, not for cultivators, so..."
Master Yu Feng immediately said, "That's fine. The elixirs used by humans and animals are all elixirs. They have something in common."
A pill recipe can give the chief disciple an epiphany, and a furnace-shaking technique can give him an epiphany and allow him to break through to the third-level alchemist in one fell swoop. It can be seen that Nan Si Ning's alchemy is something that cannot be missed.
"Well... okay..." Nan Si Ning gave up arguing. If they want to watch, then let them watch. Yaofeng is now considered the number one ally of Cijianfeng in the sect, and it is only right to take care of the ally.
Nan Si Ning thought about it and felt relieved when he felt that he had not left anyone behind.
She looked at the Medicine King, then at Master Yu Feng and Elder Li, and was a little confused about who should preside over today's affairs.
The Medicine King saw her hesitation and said, "Today you are the host, and everyone else is the guest. It's all up to you to decide."
Master Yu Feng and Elder Li also nodded.
It's good to have everyone on your side. Nan Si Ning suddenly felt proud of being the most handsome guy in the room and said, "Since that's the case, I won't be polite. Last night, after looking through many animal pill recipes and comparing them with human ones, I came up with a lot of ideas. I'll discuss them with everyone in the Beast Taming Sect first, and then try to refine the pills. What do you think?"
Naturally, others had no objection.
Nan Sining nodded secretly and took out a notebook, which contained the questions and thoughts recorded last night.
Seeing how attentive she was, the people from the Beast Taming Sect felt that they had come to the right place and found the right person.
"After a night of reading and comparing, I discovered that the biggest problem with animal elixirs isn't the low-level spiritual plants used, nor the level of the alchemists, but the fact that, after tens of thousands of years of development, there's still no clear and rational system. The elixirs used by cultivators are classified into different spiritual energy categories based on different spiritual roots, and are also graded based on the value of the spiritual plants used, the difficulty of refining, and the effect of the elixir. However, animal elixirs lack such a clear concept, and don't even differentiate the affinity of different spiritual powers based on the different physical constitutions of spirit beasts and demon beasts. It's truly careless."
These words silenced the people of the Beast Taming Sect again.
Compared to sword cultivators, alchemy cultivators, weapon cultivators and other cultivators, beast taming can be considered a niche. Most people who enter the field of beast taming do not understand the art of alchemy, and most alchemy cultivators who are willing to devote themselves to beast taming are poor and have no talent. It is already good enough for them to research many alchemy recipes. How can they have the ability to establish a system!
Elder Li, as expected of the Beastmaster Sect's top external communications expert, reacted quickly and asked, "Since Young Friend Nan has pointed out this problem, do you have a plan in mind?"
Nan Si Ning blushed and said, "I'm ashamed. I only had a few thoughts, but I didn't take any concrete action."
The people of the Beast Taming Sect have become numb, with only one thought in their minds: a genius is a genius!
Elder Li immediately said, "Young friend, you are too modest. It has only been one night, and it is already very rare that you have such ideas. It is a great blessing for all cultivators in the world to have such a talent as you in the alchemy world!"
Medicine King and Master Yu Feng also joined in the praise, making Nan Si Ning feel embarrassed.
So she quickly brought the topic back on track: "The classification of animal pills requires the joint efforts of all the seniors. I hope you will be generous with your guidance when the time comes. This matter concerns the art of beast control and will not be accomplished overnight. Let's stop here for today and move on to the next question."
When it comes to business, Nan Si Ning is much more relaxed.
Wang Xuan and other disciples who were accompanying her could see that when Nan Si Ning was praised by several seniors, she was more humble and reserved than proud. This attitude made the other disciples sigh that Junior Sister Nan had cultivated such a demeanor at such a young age, and they wanted to emulate her.
At this time, all the disciples of Yaofeng had already submitted to Nan Sining.
Nan Sining spent the entire morning discussing the issue of alchemy with several bigwigs. Although the elixirs for animals are quite different from those for humans, they do the same thing, which is to extract the medicinal essence from spiritual plants and integrate them together, so there are many similarities.
After this discussion, both parties gained some inspiration and benefits.
The afternoon is the time to make elixirs.
Nan Sining had modified the recipes for the Rejuvenation Pill, Soul-Replenishing Pill, and Spring Breeze Pill that the Beast Taming Sect desperately wanted last night. When he started refining them for the first time, he invited the people from the Beast Taming Sect to watch, thinking that if they could see some problems with their own eyes, they could avoid many detours.
When Yuntian was refining the elixir in the gold-carved furnace, the entire furnace looked extremely gorgeous, which made the people of the Beastmaster Sect sigh in admiration again.
The first batch of beast rejuvenation pills came out of the furnace. Elder Li and others were excited when they smelled the fragrance of the pills: "Great! Great! This must be a top-notch rejuvenation pill!"
Xing Yan on the side twitched his nose, but he was not that excited and obviously not very interested.
Nan Sining opened the furnace, and there were more than a dozen white pills in the furnace. She distributed them to everyone for observation.
The disciples of the Beast Taming Sect were amazed:
"I've never seen such a good animal rejuvenation pill! I'm so tempted I want to try one myself!"
"I used to think that animal rejuvenation pills were gray, but I never thought they could be this white?"
"It turns out those rejuvenation pills really do have too much poison in them. Sigh... so many spirit beasts and demon beasts in the sect have been harmed by the poison..."
They took out the animal rejuvenation pills refined in the sect and threw them away after comparing them.
I feel even more sorry for the animals in the sect.
Medicine King, Master Yu Feng and others also took out the rejuvenation pills for humans and those for animals for comparison, and found that the ones for humans were much better than those for animals. The quality of the ones for animals was at most comparable to the mid-grade ones for humans. Looking at the excited expressions of the disciples of the Beast Taming Sect, they felt a little sympathetic.
Nan Si Ning waited until they had all observed it before saying, "This batch of rejuvenation pills is just a test batch, and it's not yet of the best quality. During the refining process, I discovered many problems. Some herbs clearly have mutually exclusive properties, yet they were still put together in the same recipe. Some herbs with extremely strong fire spiritual power cannot be completely eliminated, but I didn't consider replacing them with herbs with much weaker properties but no less effective. This will definitely counteract water- and ice-attributed spirit beasts. The control of fire power in the recipe is very vague and general, so this time I'm just experimenting. I'll refine another batch and test my own understanding of fire power... Do you seniors and fellow Taoists have anything to say?"
The Beastmaster Sect disciples were immediately even more excited. This wasn't even the best rejuvenation pill! She, she, she, she! She said it needed improvement!
"Senior Sister Nan! I have an unwelcome request!" A disciple of the Beast Taming Sect hurriedly asked.
Nan Si Ning sighed softly. This person changed his words too quickly. He just called her fellow Taoist, and now he called her senior sister.
The difference between senior brothers and sisters and junior brothers and sisters is generally described in the order of the time they embarked on the path to immortality. However, if someone enters later but has higher strength, the order will be reversed, and the stronger ones will be respected. This is also the reason why everyone in the world of cultivation is working hard to improve their strength.
"What's the matter?" Nan Sining asked.
"Can I...can I use the photo stone to record your alchemy process so I can study it when I get back?"
Although the photo stone is not an important treasure, it is not cheap. Only wealthy people like Yaowang City can use it without regret.
The fact that the Beastmaster Sect's disciples were willing to use the photo stone to record her alchemy practice shows that they truly admire her alchemy skills. The Beastmaster Sect's disciples' eagerness to learn is also worthy of recognition.
"Don't record it this time. The second furnace is still a test product. When I'm 80% sure, I'll let you use the image stone."
Seeing that Nan Si Ning agreed and even gave some useful advice, the other party blushed with excitement: "Thank you, Senior Sister Nan, thank you, Senior Sister Nan!"
Nan Sining waved her hand to indicate that it was nothing, and then asked Master Yu Feng and Medicine King for any advice. Both of them said that she was right.
"This animal elixir should be modified from the human elixir formula. If my nephew wants to make the animal elixir more suitable for spirit beasts and demon beasts, it would be best to directly abandon the human elixir formula and create one of his own." The King of Medicine said in a calm tone, throwing down a thunderbolt.
Creating a new recipe? That would be too much trouble! Even if it was created, how much benefit would the alchemist get? This is really too much trouble.
Elder Li stood up excitedly and was about to say something when Nan Si Ning raised his hand to stop him: "Senior, what you said makes sense. This is an interesting idea. We can try it."
As she spoke, she sat down again, flipping through the experience and interpretation of the beast pills she had obtained from the system last night with one hand, and began to pick and choose among the spiritual plants with the other hand.
"This... is this the beginning?" This time, it was Yao Feng's disciple who was so surprised that his voice changed.
Creating a new recipe! How could it start so easily and casually?!
Wang Xuan shouted in a low voice: "Shut up!"
They had only watched others refine pills before, but had never witnessed the creation of a pill formula. With the development of the cultivation world to this point, creating a new pill formula was extremely difficult. Even a senior like the Medicine King had to retreat for months to come up with a new pill formula, and there was no chance to see it. Now, Junior Sister Nan—no, Senior Sister Nan was starting in front of everyone. Wasn't this everyone's chance?
Medicine King and Master Yu Feng were slightly surprised, then they immediately took out their jade tokens and ordered the other disciples to hurry over.
Elder Li of the Beast Taming Sect was a little upset. He thought they had brought too few disciples this time! He should have brought all the disciples in the sect who knew how to make pills!
Nan Sining was not affected at all and used his hands very quickly.
Xing Yan on the side was also very skillful. He would take out whatever medicinal herbs Nan Si Ning recited, and put away those that were not needed with quick eyes and hands. He was the most caring little assistant possible.
While Nan Si Ning was busy, a large number of disciples rushed to Cijian Peak. Those who were unaware thought they were going to attack Cijian Peak. After seeing that they were all Dan cultivators, they realized that was not the case.
Soon, Cijian Peak was crowded with alchemy practitioners. Fortunately, everyone was orderly and not noisy.
The Medicine King waved his hand and summoned several magic weapons, allowing his disciples to sit safely in the air and see Nan Si Ning who was surrounded by the crowd.
Alchemists all know how rare an opportunity it is to see someone create their own pill formula. Even if it is just a pill formula for animals, it is a big deal.
The alchemists were very excited to have the opportunity to observe such a major event, and they consciously kept quiet. Some were afraid that they would not be able to control themselves, so they took Qingxin Pills to stay calm.
Nan Sining noticed that more and more people were coming, but she didn't care too much. All her attention was focused on the new pill recipe, which was what mattered to her most at the moment.
After the spiritual plants were almost prepared, Nan Sining did not delay and immediately started to refine the elixir.
She kept in mind the principle that practice is the only criterion for testing truth, and whether her own recipe was correct or not had to be tested by actually refining the elixir.
The sun's true fire rose, and the Yuntian gold-engraving furnace began to shine again.
This time, no one cared about the strange fire and the colorful alchemy furnace that looked like a marquee. Everyone's attention was on the result of this furnace.
Medicine King and Master Yu Feng both took out formation plates to separate the disciples from Nan Si Ning, so that any actions of the disciples would not disturb her.
The alchemy process was uneventful. There was no furnace explosion and no unusual phenomena. It was just like an ordinary alchemy process.
The smell of medicine turned into the smell of elixir. After a while, it seemed that the elixir was successfully condensed. Nan Sining removed the fire under the stove and opened the furnace directly.
Everyone stretched their heads to look over and saw a nest of white pills in the furnace, which looked ordinary.
Nan Sining frowned, obviously dissatisfied with this batch of pills.
Since he started refining pills, this was the first time that Nan Sining had refined a batch of pills that only had medium and low-grade pills, no high-grade pills, and no top-grade or divine-grade pills.
She waved her hand and took the pills into her hand, carefully observing each one, sniffing it carefully, injecting spiritual energy to explore it... Using the four methods of testing pills, she carefully examined each one, sometimes frowning, sometimes nodding, sometimes showing a confused look, and sometimes muttering a few words...
Seeing her like this, others didn't dare to disturb her. They held their breath and waited for Nan Si Ning to say something, or hoped that she would say something.
After checking more than ten pills, Nan Si Ning said nothing. He just waved his hand and snapped his fingers, distributing more than ten pills for everyone to see.
As soon as the Medicine King received the elixir, he gave his conclusion: "The elixir of this new recipe has been refined."
Master Yu Feng also quickly agreed: "It can be considered a mid-grade pill, which is really rare. Many new pill recipes require several furnaces of spiritual plants and medicinal materials to be used before they can condense the pill into a pill."
This means that if a new pill recipe can produce a few low-grade pills, it is considered a successful pill recipe, and then it can be adjusted and improved on this basis and continuously perfected.
A recipe like Nan Sining's, which can produce mid-grade elixirs in the first batch, is definitely a very successful recipe!
In other words, Nan Sining took less than half a day to create a new, usable pill recipe for the Beastmaster Sect!
Genius is not enough to describe her!
Elder Li was even more surprised. He didn't expect that today he just wanted his disciples to learn how to refine elixirs for beasts, but Nan Sining gave them an innovative elixir recipe for taming beasts.
At this moment, he felt as unreal as if he was in a dream.
It was not until he heard the foolish exclamations of the disciples behind him that he calmed down and confirmed that it was true.
After thanking the seniors for their praise, Nan Si Ning said, "Could you please help me see if there is any problem with this recipe, or if there is something wrong with the alchemy process? How can I improve it?"
Master Yu Feng and Elder Li first looked at the Medicine King, after all, he was the number one master in alchemy.
The Medicine King didn't hold back and said directly, "You refined the ingredients in this pill recipe, including the Wei Ye, Su Xin Stone, Jiao Li Zhi, and Qing Yun Ta Yu Er, according to the traditional method, right? Think about the intensity of the fire, the duration of the fire, the order of the ingredients... Can you adjust them? How can you make it more appropriate?"
Nan Si Ning took careful note, and the Medicine King then gave her some key points on condensing the medicine and forming the pill: "The medicinal properties of some spiritual plants and materials must remain relatively intact, so don't put them in too early when condensing the medicine, and don't squeeze too much when condensing the pill. The hand seals and incantations also need to be adjusted accordingly."
Nan Sining nodded repeatedly, feeling that his thoughts were becoming clearer.
After Medicine King pointed out a few points, Master Yu Feng also raised a few details. Master Yu Feng could guess that Medicine King did not raise them directly because he wanted to leave him some room to speak. Otherwise, with Medicine King's level as a seventh-level alchemist, it would be impossible for him not to see them.
Elder Li didn't have much to say about the process of alchemy. He only put forward his ideas, hoping that the elixir would be less toxic and more effective, and most importantly, it should be easy to use.
Their Beast Taming Sect does not have a genius alchemist like Nan Si Ning, and their disciples cannot perform many operations.
Nan Si Ning thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll develop several versions of this recipe. A low-level one is easier to use, but has weaker medicinal properties and is more toxic. A high-level version has better medicinal properties and is less toxic, but can be made by alchemists with advanced alchemy skills. How do you think?"
Elder Li felt that there was nothing better, and he praised it repeatedly, expressing his gratitude. The Beast Taming Sect disciple behind him even said that Nan Sining had saved his life.
After hearing Nan Si Ning's words, the Medicine King paused stroking his long beard. It suddenly occurred to him: could the pharmacopoeia and alchemy manuals in Medicine King City also be divided into different levels of difficulty, as Nan Si Ning had suggested? Last time, he and his eldest disciple, Shen Tangyuan, discussed Nan Si Ning's idea that the same elixir could have different recipes, with different levels of difficulty and different spiritual plants, which greatly inspired him.
This time his thinking was also broadened. Since the disciples had different talents and understandings, why not divide the versions of the elixir into different levels of difficulty? Disciples with average talents could learn the simpler versions, while those with outstanding talents could learn the more difficult versions. This would not only improve efficiency, save a lot of materials and time costs, but also better train those outstanding disciples, and ordinary disciples could also develop more abilities.
Thinking of this, Medicine King was already too excited to hold back and quickly sent his scribbled idea to Shen Tangyuan.
Anyway, Shen Tangyuan could understand what he meant and could implement his ideas.
When Shen Tangyuan, who was in Yaowang City, received the message from his master, he realized that his master must have been watching the junior sister from Cijian Peak making pills again, which gave him this inspiration.
Thinking of how Third Junior Sister had nagged her several times about how it would be great if she could steal the Junior Sister from Cijian Peak, Chen Tangyuan actually felt that Third Junior Sister's idea was a good one.
Master had been cultivating to the seventh level for over a hundred years. During that time, he'd struggled to come up with new recipes for pills and had few new ideas. He'd also grown increasingly lazy in his management of Medicine King City, becoming increasingly adept at being a hands-off manager. After Junior Sister Nan regained her consciousness, Master seemed to have a new lease on life, with more ideas emerging. He even began to pay some attention to the cultivation of Medicine King City's disciples.
If Junior Sister Nan had always stayed by Master’s side, who knows how much she would have inspired him!
After Chen Tangyuan's thoughts wandered for a while, he returned to his master and asked him to record the process of Junior Sister Nan's alchemy with the photo stone. Only then did he start writing the documents to implement his master's new method.
On Cijian Peak, Nan Sining had listened to the opinions of the alchemists present, and after integrating and digesting them, he started refining the elixir for the second time.
The second batch came out under everyone's expectant gaze, and it was a batch of top-quality and the best quality!
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