Chapter 221: Alchemy and the Way (1)
Back at Ruoyu Peak, Taoist Hua Shen had once tested Luo Xuanyi on a new elixir he had spent sixty years refining, called Sweeping Cloud Drink. Luo Xuanyi's every encounter with Taoist Hua Shen was with the resolve of a dying man, and so that scene was particularly profound.
Just one bottle of Sweeping Cloud Drink could allow one to enter the Dao Realm and comprehend the Dao of the Sword. If one did not voluntarily withdraw, one could remain in the Dao Realm until the end of the enlightenment. At that time, Luo Xuanyi did not understand how much shock this elixir could bring to the world of immortal cultivation.
At that time, at the request of Taoist Hua Shen, Luo Xuanyi smelled the fragrance carefully and identified it, and gave an answer that satisfied Taoist Hua Shen. At the same time, she also memorized the recipe of Saoxia Drink.
The Saoxia Drink contained sixteen medicinal properties, primarily for controlling Qi, supplemented by sword intent. These sixteen medicinal properties were simply the sixteen herbs used by Taoist Hua Shen, but after reacting, they produced a total of seventy-two different medicinal suspensions, not to mention sword intent.
In reality, sword intent was the primary ingredient in the Sweeping Cloud Drink. Taoist Hua Shen captured and sealed the sword intent within, forcibly preserving the essence of the sword's path. Initially formulated as a pill, it was subsequently modified numerous times before finally becoming a liquid. The other ingredients merely served to create a deceptive shell for the sword intent, fooling it into thinking it hadn't been unsheathed, thus sealing it in absolute silence.
Saoxia Drink is definitely a ninth-grade elixir. Logically, only top-level alchemists can refine it, but the alchemy principles followed by Taoist Hua Shen are "minimizing costs" and "mass production." In short, it is the pursuit of ultimate simplicity.
He loathed the randomness of individual results, and was even more infuriated by the varying quality of his elixirs due to individual influences. For him, elixirs should be absolutely objective, flawless, and perfect. Therefore, he dedicated himself to eliminating all harsh external conditions, using the simplest materials and alchemy methods least influenced by the alchemist's skill, to benchmark his own elixirs against the standards.
Therefore, although the Saoxia Drink looks complicated, the medicinal materials used are all cultivated by Shenglu Pavilion, which is responsible for the artificial cultivation of spiritual medicines. The highest grade is only grade four. As long as you master the recipe and can capture the sword intent, any alchemist who has entered the alchemy path and mastered the alchemy fire can refine it.
Under the guidance of Taoist Hua Shen, Luo Xuanyi, although not as obsessed with alchemy, was able to refine the elixir with ease. Moreover, she was refining the elixir within her body, and her control over the medicinal power was even more exquisite.
However, the Sweeping Cloud Drink refined by Taoist Hua Shen is used to seal the sword intent, while Luo Xuanyi wants to change it to seal the essence of the formation.
It seems difficult, but with the Saoxia Drink, the impossible becomes possible. The method has been demonstrated, and she is already standing on the shoulders of giants. With the knowledge of pharmacopoeia mastered by Luo Xuanyi, plus ten months of time, she is absolutely confident that she can succeed in refining it.
If this is not enough, then all the suffering she endured because of Bodhi Pills was in vain.
With a light snap of his fingers, Luo Xuanyi's body immediately left the sea of consciousness and sat cross-legged on the grass.
Compared to a month ago, Luo Xuanyi's physical appearance had clearly changed. Previously, the golden lines of the Soul Locking Technique had only crisscrossed her back, but now, her pale, downcast face, sitting cross-legged, was covered in countless golden lines, giving it a subtle, sacred air.
Luo Xuanyi had no time to care about the small world in which she was born. She closed her eyes and sensed her body.
The small world, once born, was no longer this world. Therefore, Luo Xuanyi's physical body remained unaffected, remaining as it was when she had just left her physical body and begun cultivating the strange ways. Her internal organs were simulated with various medicinal fluids, and her blood vessels, skin, and flesh were also filled with fluids of varying medicinal properties. These contained all forty-one medicinal properties of heaven and earth, transformed by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. They were incredibly pure, even purer than ordinary spiritual herbs, devoid of any impurities.
Luo Xuanyi carefully sensed the flow of the medicinal liquid, taking her time. She needed to fully master the sensation of its flow, without a single mistake. Once she had fully recalled the control of her body, Luo Xuanyi began the next step. As she manipulated the sixteen medicinal properties, thin streams of liquid emerged from her internal organs, shoulders, and upper arms, flowing towards her dantian.
She had to refine the Sweeping Cloud Drink first and master its refining reaction. Of course, she lacked the sword intent to smelt it, so adding the sword intent in the final step was impossible. However, the final step was only to seal the sword intent, so if she wanted to understand the workings of the Sweeping Cloud Drink, she could still achieve her goal without the final step.
Sixteen medicinal liquids slowly swirled around her dantian, forming a vortex. Each layer remained separate, gradually curving into a dazzlingly beautiful circular plane. Luo Xuanyi's mind shifted, and a pure dan fire was conjured up, landing on her dantian.
The main ingredient of Saoxia Drink has the property of controlling Qi, while the medicinal guide is cold in nature. The medicinal guide is used to suppress rather than neutralize the violent reaction formed by the medicinal liquid, but the timing of adding it must be well grasped.
Luo Xuanyi remained calm, casting aside distracting thoughts as she meticulously prepared the Sweeping Cloud Drink according to the recipe. Two streams of auxiliary medicinal liquids, simulating the strengthening of the essence, were first separated from the circular disc and injected into the Dantian. Although the two streams exerted the same medicinal properties in the Sweeping Cloud Drink, there were still subtle differences, preventing them from being combined.
At this time, instead of adding the cold-relieving auxiliary medicinal liquid, a dose of the main soul-soothing auxiliary medicinal liquid was added. The soul-soothing medicinal liquid was extremely overbearing, and once it entered the Dantian, it tried to suppress the two medicinal liquids, but the two medicinal liquids refused to stop, and the Dantian immediately began to violently stir.
Luo Xuanyi calmly observed the reaction of the medicinal properties and continuously added medicinal liquids of different properties. Sometimes there were waves of medicine crashing in the dantian, and sometimes it was as calm as dead water, constantly mixing and reacting.
Gradually, the medicinal liquids reached their peak of mutual repulsion! The sixteen medicinal liquids continuously reacted and transformed, generating a total of seventy-two medicinal liquids! These medicinal liquids were all large droplets, and they still did not blend with each other at all. Even at this moment, before adding the medicinal lead, Luo Xuanyi's mind moved, and the Dan Fire immediately rushed towards the medicinal liquid!
All the hanging drops of medicinal liquid evaporated into water mist in an instant. Luo Xuanyi added the medicinal liquid as the lead. The cold medicinal liquid was not completely affected by the burning of the pill fire. It gradually changed from a liquid flow to an extremely thin liquid plane, which slowly shrank under the flames, covering all the water mist.
Adding the main ingredient in the penultimate step was a bold decision. Normally, main ingredients are difficult to refine, resulting in uneven distribution of their medicinal properties. However, as soon as the Qi-controlling main ingredient entered the nearly completely sealed liquid sphere, all the water vapor immediately attached to the main ingredient, transforming into a liquid flow once again. This time, everything merged into a single stream.
As the main medicine spun into a pill embryo with the medicine as the center, the liquid spherical membrane formed by the medicine suddenly collapsed and shrank into all the liquid flows. Suddenly, a red light flew out from Luo Xuanyi's dantian!
Third update~ In a modern if, these two are considered model teachers and students in terms of research philosophy, but Hua Shendao's final outcome will be "Today's Statement: Why the Genius Professor Was Sentenced to Death for Crimes Against Humanity." He will be eliminated for illegal human medical experiments hh
Sister Yi is more flexible. She is the type who walks on the gray edge of social rules. She sacrifices her relatives for the sake of justice (referring to reporting Hua Shen Dao Ren). She is also a victim (one of the subjects of human experiments). She has high academic achievements and finally gains both fame and fortune.
(The fourth update will be out soon, there are some minor bugs in it, I will fix them as soon as possible)
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