Chapter 34 Viewing the Pill
Luo Xuanyi's choice of the Star-Swallowing Pill was the result of careful consideration. For alchemists, the lower third-grade Star-Swallowing Pill was an easy entry-level elixir to refine, but due to the complex recipe, it was rarely refined and sold.
The Star-Swallowing Pill is a low-grade cultivation elixir. After taking it, meditate and circulate spiritual energy for a full cycle. It will then begin to frantically absorb the surrounding spiritual energy for its own benefit. For twelve hours, this spiritual fluid, transformed from spiritual energy, will continuously stimulate and widen the body's meridians. Its effectiveness depends on the environment of the cultivation site. Worse still, if the surrounding spiritual energy is turbid or contaminated with impurities, these impurities will accumulate to a certain level and will unreservedly poison the body's meridians, but this is difficult to detect before the poison takes effect.
Besides being overly dependent on the environment, the length of the recipe is also enough to discourage people from pursuing this path. If one can gather the eleven medicinal ingredients required to refine one furnace, they can directly refine three furnaces of mid-grade cultivation pills. A mid-grade third-grade cultivation pill allows one to directly simulate the earth's spiritual veins and draw spiritual energy, without having to worry about polluted environments contaminating one's Dao body.
Luo Xuanyi carefully sealed the mineral powder collected today and began to divide the pile of medicinal materials into ten portions.
Different from the alchemy steps recorded in the collection, Luo Xuanyi did not need to process the medicinal materials in a delicate manner. Instead, he directly put sufficient medicinal materials into the pill mouth according to the pill recipe, without even separating the main medicine, auxiliary medicine and medicine guide.
A complete set of medicinal materials was placed into the elixir chamber. Luo Xuanyi hesitated, wondering how the furnace would determine which elixir to refine. But this question was quickly resolved. As soon as the elixir chamber entered, a shallow rectangular recess appeared on the bronze elixir furnace's surface. The Taoist priest on the elixir furnace had been waiting for a long time. After receiving the medicinal materials and examining them, he immediately pulled a "brush" with only three lines from his sleeve and began to quickly write a few lines on the bottom of the recess.
"Main ingredients: one peacock fruit, three Xuanlian leaves, two Sanyuan flowers..."
The Taoist priest wrote down the complete formula for the Star-Swallowing Pill with a dashing brushstroke. He paused, then stared at it. Hesitantly, Luo Xuanyi leaned in for a closer look, only to discover two dimly written characters beneath the formula: "Accurate" and "No." She tentatively placed her finger on the "Accurate" character, and it immediately lit up.
The Taoist priest took a deep look at the bottom line of the recipe. Luo Xuanyi unexpectedly saw numbness, obedience, and profound fear on the face of the figure depicted there. She quickly cast aside her doubts and focused her eyes on everything in the furnace.
The Taoist priest first extracted the main ingredient, enveloped it with spiritual energy, and placed it in the fire, where the red flames were easily extracted. His control of spiritual energy was exquisite, like a fishing net designed with an ink mark. The outer flames of the red flames easily penetrated the spiritual net without being affected by the spiritual net.
The herbs were arranged haphazardly, but each one was thoroughly processed by spiritual energy into a mass of medicinal liquid, so that even when they were huddled together, they remained completely unmixed. The residue was collected by the side of the furnace and not thrown directly into the red flames to avoid affecting the flame's power.
After moving the main herb away from the flames, the Taoist priest quickly processed the auxiliary herb using the same method, and then moved on to the medicinal lead. The medicinal lead and the auxiliary herb were processed differently. One was quickly ground into powder using spiritual power, while the other was extracted with precise spiritual power to extract a tiny drop of medicinal essence from the herb.
All processed herbs were placed in the topmost cauldron, where the three main ingredients were mixed with their respective auxiliary ingredients. The properties of the main ingredient changed with each auxiliary ingredient. From Luo Xuanyi's perspective, even the minute flow of spiritual energy diverged slightly, yet the medicinal properties underwent a profound transformation. The fusion of the three main ingredients required the addition of a medicinal guide, which was added with even greater caution, even allowing for the fusion to proceed piece by piece.
The effects of these medicinal ingredients were even more miraculous. The flow of spiritual energy remained unchanged, only the velocity of some changes. Different medicinal powers, flowing at varying speeds, gradually stratified into layers, forming a multi-layered structure resembling a Hundred Workers' Ball. Upon reaching this point, the Taoist priest immediately altered his spiritual energy output, his spiritual net suddenly converging to encircle, suppress, and refine the essence. He then urged the Red Flame to surge, raising it almost to the bottom of the elixir furnace, using the condensed outer flames to repeatedly penetrate the elixir.
This process took a full five and a half hours, finally squeezing the medicine down to the size of a fist. The Taoist priest divided the liquid into three pills, immediately extinguishing the heat and cooling them. As the three Star-Swallowing Pills took shape, they immediately shone brightly, drawing in the surrounding spiritual energy. After an incense stick of time, they dimmed and fell to the opening of the pills, becoming three dark golden pills brimming with spiritual energy.
In order to prevent the loss of medicinal power, Luo Xuanyi immediately took out a porcelain bottle and put the pill into it. After thinking for a while, he divided the Star-Swallowing Pill into three porcelain bottles and sealed them carefully.
After watching the Star-Swallowing Pill refining process four more times and finally memorizing the flow of the Taoist's spiritual power, Luo Xuanyi finally extinguished the pill fire and decided to start trying to refine the pill in his body.
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