Three years of elixir
"A-choo!"
The scent of the flowers in the Baicao Garden was so charming that her nose was itchy and she sneezed while tending to the flowers and plants. She rubbed her nose and sighed.
She has been in this strange space for a year, and Butterfly Grandma didn't tell her where this place is, so she still doesn't know where it is.
Moreover, her cultivation simulator is useless here!
It’s impossible to predict the future!
"Little Black Ding, oh Little Black Ding, where on earth have you taken me?"
Grandma Butterfly was lying on a chair beside her, with purple spirit fruit, heavenly spirit fruit, ginseng fruit beside her... She was chewing all these rare treasures that were hard to get outside.
The gray-haired old man was fanning himself with a palm-leaf fan, picking his teeth while crossing his legs. "Carrot, you've been here for a year now. I see your fire control skills are getting better and better. You can cook soup at just the right temperature, and stir-fry dishes at just the right temperature too."
"Hahaha, it's all thanks to grandma's good teaching!"
Qianluo smiled on the surface, but she was actually complaining in her heart that she had been here for a year. Apart from cooking for her, she had to take care of the flowers and plants for her. She had to be both a chef and a gardener, and she was exhausted!
However, she had practiced fire control well and could control the size, temperature and burn range of the fire.
For a year, she hadn't had a chance to refine pills, because Butterfly Granny was tired of eating the monsters on the shelf. Sometimes she wanted to eat the fire beasts in the sea of fire. She would fight with the fire beasts and kill them. Then she would make delicious food for Butterfly Granny to enjoy.
Therefore, the fire beasts in the sea of fire would flee madly when they saw her, but the sea of fire was so small that they could not escape because they could only stay under the sea of fire and survive on flames.
The fire beasts in the sea of fire have different levels, generally they are 1-4 level monsters, and the highest is only the late foundation building stage. She is in the middle stage of foundation building and fighting with these fire beasts. Her fighting skills are getting better and better. In addition, she absorbs spiritual energy in the Baicao Garden all day long, and sometimes she can eat spiritual fruits that are more than a hundred years old. Therefore, her cultivation has improved greatly within a year, and she is already in the late foundation building stage.
Just today, she went to great lengths to kill the fire beast with the highest cultivation level in the late foundation building stage.
Qianluo stood in the middle of the sea of fire, her toes tapping the crocodile's head, her face covered in ashes. "We've caught the Silver Fire Crocodile. Granny Butterfly, what are you going to eat today?"
There are all kinds of strange fire beasts in the sea of fire, and she caught this crocodile with great difficulty!
Granny Butterfly didn't even raise her eyelids: "I'm tired of eating meat. I won't eat it today!"
"What about the crocodile?" Qian Luo picked up the crocodile with a sword and threw it into the Baicao Garden, splashing dust all over the ground. She became more and more proficient in using the Dragon Roar Sword, but with her cultivation level in the late stage of foundation building, she could not fully unleash the power of the Black Gold Dragon Roar Sword.
Because the Black Gold Dragon Roar Sword is a mid-level spiritual treasure, she was shocked when Grandma Butterfly said it!
She, who is in the late stage of foundation building, actually has such a powerful treasure!
Granny Butterfly sighed, found a small white tripod and handed it to her: "Here, go make the elixir."
"ah?!"
Qian Luo looked at the white alchemy cauldron in front of her in shock. It was engraved with extremely complex runes, mysterious and profound, and exuded bursts of spiritual energy. It was not simple at first glance!
"I just found this little white tripod randomly. It shouldn't be worth much. It's probably a magic weapon. Feel free to use it!"
"The skin, flesh, bones, and blood of the crocodile can all strengthen bones and nourish yin, replenish qi and nourish the skin. Find the jade slip I gave you and try to refine the Guyuan Pill and the Meiyan Pill."
Guyuan Pill and Meiyan Pill are third-grade elixirs, just right for her to practice. The ingredients in the pill recipes are all spiritual plants under a hundred years old in Baicao Garden.
As the name suggests, Guyuan Dan strengthens the foundation and nourishes the essence. It is an advanced version of Yangqi Dan, which stabilizes spiritual energy and nourishes the spirit.
Beauty pills are a low-end version of anti-aging pills. They can beautify and nourish the skin, but they cannot maintain a good condition for a long time. They can only keep the skin translucent and white for a short time.
“Thank you, Butterfly Granny!!!”
Qianluo rushed forward to give Grandma Butterfly a big hug. She felt like she had worked so hard for a whole year and thought her days were over. She wanted to run away, but she found out that the company had given her a surprise year-end bonus of 100,000 yuan!
Grandma Butterfly, who was being hugged, was surprised. She lowered her eyes and looked at the energetic girl in front of her. An inexplicable warmth surged in her heart.
She coughed a few times, her voice unnatural: "Make the elixir yourself and eat it yourself, don't expect me to taste it for you."
"I know!"
Afterwards, Qianluo searched the Baicao Garden for the ingredients needed for the Guyuan Pill and Meiyan Pill: fifty-year-old Guyuan flowers, spiritual cultivation herbs, spiritual nourishing fruits, Meiyan flowers, and purple jade fungus...
The small white tripod was placed where the iron pot was originally located, and the fire was lit to preheat it, the spiritual energy was evenly distributed, and the required ingredients from the spiritual plants were extracted. It was simmered over low heat and the liquid was pressed into a pill until the mist dissipated and the pill liquid took shape. Then the round pill with three dan patterns was ready!
"So fast! I just successfully refined 7 pills in just 15 minutes, and they are all third-grade pills!"
Her success rate in making pills is much higher than it was a year ago!
Sure enough, a year of working as a chef was not in vain!
"Grandma Butterfly, look, I have 7 of them, all of them are third-grade. My Gu Yuan Dan was successful!"
Qianluo couldn't wait to show it to Grandma Butterfly. Grandma Butterfly seemed to be in a bad mood. She turned over in her chair, stood up, and sat cross-legged on the ground. "I've eaten so many spiritual fruits and spiritual meats in the past year, and my spiritual energy has exploded. Now I need to digest it well. If you don't have anything to do, don't bother me. The jade slip I'm giving you contains the recipe for the pill. Just learn to make it yourself!"
"You can use whatever materials are on the shelf!"
"I still say the same thing, don't touch the spiritual plants over 300 years old in Baicao Garden!"
"Ah..." What happened to Grandma Butterfly?
So serious all of a sudden?
Qianluo looked at the sea of fire outside and found that it was bubbling. Many fire beasts had sunk and dared not show their heads.
Even large patches of dark clouds appeared in the sky. There was a sense of oppression in the air, and there was also a prying gaze, which made her feel very uncomfortable. She had never asked about Butterfly Grandma's life experience before because Butterfly Grandma never asked about her past.
As she tried to capture the fire beast, she tried to break through the sea of fire. Although the sea of fire was small, a formation blocked her way. It was like a diamond shield covering the isolated island, preventing her from escaping forever.
No matter how many times she swung her sword, she couldn't break the formation. Even with her late foundation building cultivation, she couldn't break it, let alone Butterfly Granny, whose cultivation was even more advanced than hers.
She didn't know the Butterfly Granny's cultivation level, but it was definitely not lower than the Nascent Soul stage. The person who set up this formation must have a very high level of cultivation to be able to trap a Nascent Soul cultivator.
From the current situation, she could guess that Grandma Butterfly was imprisoned here. Trapped in a sea of fire, she could never escape, left alone to frantically refine elixirs, forever lonely and isolated.
If her arrival had not broken the peace of Butterfly Grandma's life and brought her a lot of joy, Butterfly Grandma would still be obsessed with alchemy and continue to go crazy.
"Okay, mother-in-law."
There was no movement outside. Qian Luo felt like she was facing a great enemy, thinking that someone would come to attack her, but she was overthinking it. Three days passed and no one came out.
And the prying eyes disappeared.
She finally breathed a sigh of relief, pulled the curtain in front of her, turned around and continued to refine the beauty pill. She was very quick and succeeded in a short while.
Perhaps because she was in danger in life, the pressure on her was increasing, and her motivation was also increasing. Within a month, she had completed the refining of all the third-grade pills.
Beauty Pill, Essence Strengthening Pill, Soul Cleansing Pill, Detoxification Pill, Shape-Transfiguring Pill...
Then she tried to practice the fourth-grade elixirs, which included: Foundation Establishment Pill, Marrow Cleansing Pill, Beauty Pill, True Essence Pill, Life-Sustaining Pill, and Soul-Strengthening Pill...
They are all advanced versions of basic elixirs. She tried to refine an advanced version of the beauty elixir, which can keep the face unchanged for fifty years. The required material is a hundred-year-old spiritual plant.
Light the fire, preheat, and harmonize the spiritual energy...
"Bang!" The furnace exploded!
Perhaps because it was a century-old spiritual plant with rich spiritual energy, she couldn't decompose it well...
Qian Luo wiped her face, gritted her teeth and persisted, and continued to work hard. In the next two years, she repeated refining pills, cultivating spiritual plants, tending to the spiritual plants, and feeding pills to the fire beasts. She raised the fire beasts to be fat and white, and they were willing to play with her and were not afraid.
Looking at the chubby fire beasts in front of her, Qian Luo touched the fire beast's head with a gentle look. She missed Chi Zhao a little. Unfortunately, the spirit beast bag, storage bag, and cultivation simulator could not be opened!
She was currently using the storage bracelet given to her by Grandma Butterfly. It was more advanced than a storage bag, with a storage space of tens of thousands of cubic meters. It was silver-white in color, radiant with light, and inlaid with nine gemstones. It could be categorized to store spirit stones, spirit plants, elixirs, talismans, formations, magic tools, and refining materials...
You can also become invisible so that people can't tell that you are wearing a storage bracelet.
She put the refined third-grade elixirs into jade bottles and stuffed them into the storage bracelet. Then she processed the monster skins, flesh, bones and blood on the shelves one by one, refining the elixirs for them and cooking them for them. In short, they all had their own places.
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By the time Qianluo refined the first batch of the fourth-grade Dingyan Pill, more than half a year had passed. Granny Butterfly was still in seclusion practicing. No matter how many times she blew up the furnace, she never woke up.
She had a feeling that her time here was almost up. So she hurried to refine a batch of foundation-building pills. Foundation-building pills were the elixir she needed to refine. Because the cultivators in the lower three districts needed the aid of foundation-building pills to build their foundations!
The hundred-year-old Heavenly Spirit Fruit that is missing from the Foundation Establishment Pill can be found in the Hundred Herb Garden.
Therefore, Qianluo hurried to refine the foundation-building pill!
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. The success rate of the first batch of Dingyan Pills she had just refined was only 20%, which was too low.
Feeling the leaping of the strange fire, the fullness of spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy of the spiritual plants, I slowly calmed down, just like cooking, simmering over low heat and then simmering over high heat until the sauce thickens.
Under the burning flames, the hundred-year-old Tianling Fruit slowly released a sweet scent, mixed with other alchemy materials, and then aggregated, condensed, and took shape.
Surrounded by clouds and mist, its true appearance slowly revealed.
"Three foundation-building pills!"
"It's done!"
Qian Luo almost jumped up with joy. She touched the round pill in front of her and confirmed that it was correct with its four patterns. It was emitting bursts of pill fragrance, which made her feel refreshed and happy just by smelling it.
It turned out that she wanted to refine pills just to advance and avoid being controlled by the Immortal Cultivation Alliance. Now, the more pills she refined, the more mysterious she felt about alchemy.
After successfully refining the elixir, I also felt a sense of accomplishment and peace of mind.
During the two years in the sea of fire, she kept refining pills until she had refined all the fourth-grade pills, and Butterfly Grandma also woke up.
"Is this the elixir you made?"
Qianluo was holding a wooden tray in her hand, which contained freshly picked purple spirit fruits, still wet with water, and each one was plump and round. When she lifted the curtain, she saw that Butterfly Grandma had woken up. She was so excited that she dropped the wooden tray into the water.
"Grandma, you're awake!"
Granny Butterfly flicked her sleeves, steadied the wooden tray, and began to eat the purple spirit fruit: "Don't tell anyone that I taught you how to make pills when you go out. In a year, you're only a fourth-grade alchemist!"
Qianluo blinked and defended herself: "I have tried very hard..."
She also tried to refine a fifth-grade elixir, but either the furnace exploded or a pile of dregs was produced, which was completely useless and ended up in the stomach of the fire beast.
"Tsk tsk..." Grandma Butterfly sat on the recliner, chewing on the purple spirit fruit while directing Qianluo, "You refine the foundation-building pill, let me see."
Qianluo's fourth-grade elixir had a relatively low success rate. Out of ten ingredients, only five Foundation Establishment Pills could be made. She continued refining the elixir as usual, but when she reached the step of extracting the spiritual plants, Granny Butterfly interrupted her: "No! Your extraction method is wrong!"
"Ah..." But has she always extracted it this way?
Are there any methods to extract spiritual plants?
"Go on!"
Qianluo could only bite the bullet and continue processing the spiritual plants and condensing the pills. In the end, only four pills came out. Maybe because Grandma Butterfly was watching her, she was too nervous and her performance was even worse than before.
Grandma Butterfly didn't even look at Qianluo's foundation-building pill. She was waving a palm-leaf fan. Her hair was gray and her face was covered with wrinkles, but her eyes were clear and transparent, like the spiritual jade in the Baicao Garden, extremely translucent.
"Your extraction method is wrong. Different spiritual plants have different characteristics. You need to coordinate the techniques to best extract the ingredients."
"Although the foundation-building pill formula is fixed, different flames have different characteristics. Your flame is a fusion of three different kinds of fire, and it is extremely powerful. It is too strong for fragile spiritual plants. You should pay attention to the order of the spiritual plants, starting with the weak and then the strong, or starting with the strong and then the weak."
"This pill recipe is a common one. Based on the characteristics of your strange fire, I think directly replacing the hundred-year-old Huangjing with a hundred-year-old spirit crystal will guarantee you an 80% success rate!"
Qian Luo listened to the teachings of Butterfly Grandma and suddenly her eyes were opened. She learned Butterfly Grandma's extraction method and put in spiritual plants in a different order than before, replacing the hundred-year-old Polygonatum with a hundred-year-old spiritual crystal.
With a "bang", the furnace did not explode, but eight foundation-building pills appeared before his eyes!
Qianluo looked at Granny Butterfly with admiration: "Granny! You are so amazing!"
It actually worked! Originally, she could only make 5 Foundation Establishment Pills in one furnace, but now she could actually make 8. She had never thought that the extraction method, the order of spiritual plants, and the modification of the pill formula could increase the success rate of the pill. She had never thought of this before!
Especially when it came to modifying the pill formula, she just followed it verbatim and never thought there was anything wrong with the formula. She never expected that a slight adjustment could yield such a huge benefit!
"Not bad this time!" Grandma Butterfly took the Foundation Establishment Pill and took a look. It had a strong medicinal fragrance, was round in size, and had four pill patterns, so it was considered successful.
"The pill formula was compiled by our predecessors, but that doesn't mean it's infallible. You can change it to suit your needs. For example, for the Beauty Pill and the Beauty Pill, I can combine the two pills into one, which can both beautify and stabilize your complexion!"
Qianluo's eyes lit up: "Yeah, why didn't I think of that!" She picked up the small white tripod and began to make it, but looking at the beauty flower, the beauty flower, the jade grass, and the purple cloud juice in front of her...
Undecided, what should I do?
Grandma Butterfly lay in a chair, saying leisurely: "Think it through, should we add, subtract, or swap..."
Qianluo frowned. The Beauty Flower and the Fixing Flower were the main ingredients, and they definitely couldn't be replaced! The Jade Grass had a rich spiritual energy, and the Purple Cloud Juice tasted sweet, but they were only supplementary ingredients. As for the others...
"That's right! Purple Spirit Fruit!"
The sweet taste of the Purple Spirit Fruit is one of the important ingredients of the Rejuvenating Pill. The Rejuvenating Pill is a higher-level pill than the Dingyan Pill and the Meimei Pill. The Rejuvenating Pill can both preserve youth and beautify the skin. However, the Rejuvenating Pill is a sixth-grade pill because the Rejuvenating Flower in it is the rarest, blooming for a thousand years and as precious as the Ginseng Fruit.
Therefore, only alchemists of the sixth rank or above can refine the anti-aging pill. One anti-aging pill can keep one's appearance unchanged for a thousand years, and one will not age even when one's lifespan is about to end. This is the magic of the anti-aging pill.
The Purple Spirit Fruit is an important ingredient in the Rejuvenating Pill, and it has never appeared in the recipes of the Rejuvenating Pill and the Beauty Pill, because no one has ever questioned the recipe from ancient times to the present!
Granny Butterfly was munching on a purple spirit fruit, her eyes curved like a kind old lady: "Then you try it, maybe there will be a surprise!"
So, Qianluo took out the purple spirit fruit, beauty flower, and firming flower... and slowly blended the spiritual energy.
The layers of mist faded away, and a purple fourth-grade elixir appeared before her eyes. Qian Luo blinked: "I haven't refined a purple elixir yet!"
She worried: "I don't know how the medicine works!"
Grandma Butterfly: "Have you tried it?"
Qian Luo looked at the purple fourth-grade pill in front of her and closed her eyes, feeling a sense of sacrificing her life for justice. Because she had never taken Dingyan Pill and Meiyan Pill before, she just kept them in bottles.
Now that I'm suddenly taking this new pill, I always feel a little uneasy.
"Forget it. If you, a young man, take this pill, there will definitely be no change. Why don't I try it?"
Qianluo: “Huh?”
While she was still confused, Butterfly Granny swallowed her new pill in one gulp.
All she saw was Butterfly Granny surrounded by a ball of purple light. Mist gradually rose, making it hard to see clearly. Qian Luo was anxious: "Granny Butterfly, you'd better spit it out. What if she gets sick from eating it?"
"Haha, it's just a small pill, how can it be harmful if eaten?"
This voice is actually much younger!
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