novelweb Chapter 654: Refining the Great Medicine and Teaching the Way of Alchemy
Chapter 654: Refining the Great Medicine and Teaching the Way of Alchemy
The twelve shikigami were thrown into the Shennong Medicine King Cauldron. The mouth of the cauldron was sealed by Chen Yang. The twelve shikigami tried their best but could not rush out. They were like fish on the chopping board and lambs to be slaughtered.
In desperation, some shikigami thought of self-destruction, preferring to self-destruct rather than be used by Chen Yang to make pills and as a medicine. And if they self-destructed, they might also drag Chen Yang to be buried with them, to show their determination and avenge themselves.
However, when a golden holy mark chain came through and pierced the bodies of the twelve Shikigami one by one and strung them together, they found that even self-destruction became a luxury, and all their magic power was almost turned into nothing by the golden holy mark of the Medicine King Cauldron.
Ahhhhh!
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In this state, the twelve Shikigami could do nothing but howl in pain.
"Alchemy is a delicate science that does not tolerate any mistakes or negligence. The way of alchemy is also the way of heaven, and the heart of alchemy is also the heart of heaven, exhausting the mysteries of the changes in the universe. If you want to become a true master of alchemy, you must learn to think."
"Spiritual elixir and holy elixir are two completely different concepts. Spiritual elixir only has a trace of spirituality and is essentially an ordinary elixir. On the other hand, holy elixir must be recognized by the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, tempered in thunder tribulation, sublimated in thunder tribulation, and successfully branded with the holy mark of the Great Dao. Therefore, the difficulty of refining a holy elixir is more than a hundred times greater than that of a spiritual elixir."
"In order to refine a holy pill, flames are very important. They must be pure enough, at least at the level of the flames deep in the earth's lungs. The refining of the medicinal materials must also be controlled to the extreme. If the quality of any medicinal material is not controlled enough, it may lead to the failure of the final refining of the holy pill."
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Chen Yang spoke while controlling the Shennong Medicine King Cauldron, as if he was a teacher giving a lecture, calm and at ease.
His words were addressed to Chen Jiuyang, and also to all the elders and disciples of the Medicine God Sect. There is no distinction between the two, and anyone who wants to listen can come and listen.
Even Wu Xueer and Wu Yaner were listening attentively with their big round eyes. As the saying goes, more skills are better than less. Alchemy is like a new world to them, full of curiosity. They learn as much as they can.
It was funny to say that Chen Yang came to Yaoshen Sect to seek revenge. He originally wanted to teach Yaoshen Sect a lesson, but he didn't use a single sword or knife against Yaoshen Sect, and didn't kill any soldiers of Yaoshen Sect. He only killed outsiders who interfered.
The Yaoshen Sect’s attitude of admitting its mistakes was pretty good, especially the Sect Leader Chen Jiuyang, who almost knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Chen Yang a few times.
Knowing mistakes can be corrected, and doing good things is great.
Chen Yang and Yaoshen Sect have turned hostility into friendship.
This time he taught the Medicine God Sect the art of alchemy just for the sake of convenience and to do a favor.
Furthermore, the thousands of medicinal ingredients for his transformation pill were almost all provided by the Medicine God Sect, so it was only right that he should give them some benefits.
He can teach the method of refining this holy elixir, but he doesn't care whether the other party can learn it or not.
As for Chen Jiuyang's offer to take him as his master, forget it. He would feel uncomfortable taking someone older than his grandfather as his master, and he didn't have enough time to teach him.
Chen Jiuyang also said that he would be the leader of the Medicine God Sect, but he would not even consider it. He did not have the time or the ability to manage such a large sect. He was used to being free and undisciplined. If he was bound to the Medicine God Sect, it would be like putting a bird in a cage, which was an extremely cruel and brutal act.
Whoohoo!
The flames deep in the earth's lungs burned violently, the green flames presenting a unique beauty, the temperature in the cauldron was high enough to melt steel, no matter how thick-skinned and tough the twelve Shikigami were, or how immortal they were, they could not withstand it.
The roar coming from the cauldron became smaller and smaller, and after half an hour, the roar became completely silent.
The next step is to refine the twelve shikigami into medicinal ingredients.
This was a relatively long project. It took Chen Yang three full hours, almost half a day, to refine the twelve shikigami into a pool of thick golden liquid, about half a bowl in size.
At first glance, it looks like honey, and it is the wild and original kind without any water. It makes people want to take a sip.
This is the essence of the twelve Shikigami, which can be taken directly as liquid medicine. It can transform a person and help him reach a higher realm. It is extremely precious.
But for Chen Yang, the essence of these twelve Shikigami can only be used as a medicine.
It's not even the whole medicine, just a part of it.
Then Chen Yang took out the half-mature dragon grass.
When seeing this dragon grass, Chen Jiuyang and several elders of the Medicine God Sect were stunned.
“Isn’t this Dragon-Transforming Grass already extinct? How could he...?” muttered an elder of the Medicine God Sect, his jaw almost dropping to the ground in shock.
"The ability of the little Alchemy Saint is not something we can know. Let's see how he refines this great medicine. If I'm not mistaken, this Dragon Grass should be the most critical ingredient for the holy elixir he wants to refine." Chen Jiuyang said.
The Transformation Pill, this kind of unconventional pill, was not even recorded in the Medicine God Sect, let alone its refining method.
The more unconventional the elixir recipe is, the more difficult it is to refine.
Therefore, compared with the Dahuan Dan, the difficulty of refining the Huaxing Dan is several times greater.
Chen Yang was not even 100% sure that he could succeed in refining it, but things depended on human efforts, so he would try his best and do everything he could.
The addition of a semi-holy medicine, the Dragon Grass, soon filled the cauldron with a rich medicinal aroma, and the entire cauldron also shone brilliantly.
Faintly, one could even see a shadow of a small dragon circling in the cauldron. That was the Dao mark generated by the semi-sacred medicine. Unfortunately, the Dao mark was incomplete, and the dragon generated was not complete either, appearing and disappearing from time to time.
If it was a genuine holy medicine dragon grass, the little dragon born from the Dao mark would be much clearer and much larger, and could even make the sound of a real dragon.
It took two hours to refine a plant of Dragon Grass before all of its medicinal power was squeezed out. The resulting medicinal liquid was completely integrated with the essence of the twelve Shikigami.
The cauldron was radiating with precious light, and the mist was rising. The rich aroma of medicine could be smelled from a long distance away, and just one sip of it would give people an epiphany and make them suddenly enlightened.
Obviously, even a fool knows that the elixir being refined in the cauldron is extraordinary.
And this is just the refinement of the medicinal ingredients, the refining of the transformation pill is just the beginning.
Next, Chen Yang took out the medicinal herbs he had collected in the Yaoshen Sect’s medicinal herb warehouse from his space ring. More than a thousand kinds of medicinal herbs were piled up on the ground into a small hill.
Golden Spirit Fruit, Tianshan Snow Lotus, Jadeite Ganoderma, Azure Flower, Purple Bodhi, ...
In an instant, the faces of all the elders and disciples of the Medicine God Sect turned green, as if they had eaten a dead fly, and were extremely ugly.
Even the corners of Sect Leader Chen Jiuyang's eyes twitched and he felt great pain in his flesh.
There are so many medicinal materials, many of which are aged, hundreds or even thousands of years. The total value is more than tens of billions.
This is simply snatching the lifeblood of the Medicine God Sect.
The Medicine God Sect is not short of money, but it is short of medicinal materials!
Because these old medicines that are hundreds or thousands of years old are almost all non-renewable resources. They have been plucked out of the earth and it is difficult to find new ones in nature. Almost every plant is used up.
Sure enough, there is no free lunch in the world. How could Chen Yang not take some benefits from them when he taught them how to make the holy elixir?
Unfortunately, a defeated general cannot be called brave!
"The refining of elixirs can omit the step of quenching the medicine, but the refining of holy pills must not be omitted. Before putting the medicinal materials into the alchemy furnace, they must be fired once to reduce the impurities and harmful components carried by the medicinal materials as much as possible. Even the steps of identifying and selecting the medicines must be cautious enough. If the quality of any medicinal material is unqualified, it is possible that the refining of the holy pill will fail, and it will not be able to attract the thunder tribulation, or survive the thunder tribulation." Chen Yang said in a deep voice, highlighting the key points, and had already started quenching the medicine.
More than a thousand medicinal herbs need to be quenched and cooked one by one.
The temperature must be strictly controlled in this process. If the temperature is too low, the medicine will not be quenched, and if the temperature is too high, the medicine will be burnt.
Chen Yang's movements were as smooth as flowing water, as if he was an assembly line. He could completely refine a medicine in a few seconds at the fastest and dozens of seconds at the slowest.
The quenched medicinal materials were directly put into the cauldron.
Even with the accumulation of thousands of years of Medicine God Sect, they can only gather the recipe of this Transformation Pill. If it fails, Chen Yang will cry without tears. It is unknown when he will be able to gather the medicinal materials needed for the recipe.
Therefore, he was extremely serious in refining it, and was cautious in every step, grasping every detail to the utmost, not daring to be careless in the slightest.
When more than a thousand kinds of medicinal herbs were all refined, several hours passed and it was already the next day.
Chen Yang didn't sleep the whole night. If nothing unexpected happened, he wouldn't be able to sleep well for several nights to come.
The refining of the holy elixir is not something that can be done overnight. The elixir has to go through nine transformations, and each transformation takes several hours at the fastest and several days at the slowest.
It is normal to take ten days, half a month, or even several months to refine a furnace of holy elixir.
Since Chen Yang didn't sleep, Chen Jiuyang and the other elders of the Medicine God Sect naturally didn't dare to sleep either. They just watched in amazement.
The two girls from the Wu family were very curious at first, but later they became more and more bored and uninterested. After all, they were not professionals and outsiders could only watch the fun. The Medicine God Sect prepared a guest room for them and they fell asleep peacefully.
Boom boom boom!
The vigorous flames of the Earth Lung burned continuously, constantly scorching the alchemy furnace. Chen Yang slapped the furnace from time to time, causing the herbs and liquid medicine inside to tumble for better fusion and smelting.
This is just like tossing the wok when cooking so that the food is heated evenly.
This may seem like a rough job that requires no technical skills, but it actually requires some technique.
The elders of the Medicine God Sect were seen holding a stove each, and following suit, they banged the stove until it made a banging sound, like beating a gong or a drum.
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It is said that when Chen Yang was refining the elixir in Yaoshen Sect, the martial arts and magic circles in Dongying were experiencing a commotion. A pessimistic and desperate mood spread.
The Amemiya family wanted to avenge their ancestor Amemiya River, so they sent out a ninja suicide squad. There were six or seven jonins alone, who were like six or seven martial arts masters, and they almost wiped out all the jonins in the Japanese country.
The result was that the suicide squad was completely wiped out!
What makes the Japanese people even more desperate is that the contemporary Japan's number one Onmyoji, the patriarch of the Anbei family, Anbei Tianming, also died in this act of revenge.
The statues at the shrine dedicated to Anbei Haruaki and the shrine dedicated to the Twelve Shikigami were collectively shattered.
This shows a more terrifying reality. Not only did Anbei Tianming die, but his ancestor Anbei Qingming and the twelve Shikigami were all dead.
The entire country of Japan was shrouded in an atmosphere of grief, and a feeling of despair spread in the martial arts and magic circles.
Facing the great Eastern power, they no longer have any sense of superiority.
For at least fifty years, Japan's martial arts and magic circles no longer have the capital to compete with the great Eastern powers.
To some extent, this is also one person suppressing an entire country!
Before he knew it, Chen Yang had overturned the entire Japanese martial arts and magic world by himself.
At this moment, Chen Yang was far away in the depths of the Ten Thousand Mountains in the southwest, but he didn't know that he had become famous both at home and abroad. His information appeared on the desks of relevant departments in many countries, especially those of super organizations.
The birth of a divine realm is enough to arouse the vigilance of the entire world and is regarded as a thorn in the eyes of countless people.
Because the divine realm is so terrifying, one person can defeat an entire country, which is an extremely unstable factor.
If the Divine Realm is a nationalist, the top leaders of those countries standing on the opposite side of the Eastern great power will be unable to sleep or eat, fearing that they will be attacked in their countries.
Secretly, Chen Yang has been put on the kill list of some national super organizations, and he will never be allowed to continue to grow.
He has just broken through the divine realm, so it is still possible to kill him. If he grows up and reaches higher levels in the divine realm, it will be extremely difficult to kill him.
By then, even a powerful country like the Star-Spangled Empire would have to act according to his instructions and would not dare to disobey him in the slightest.
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While the outside world was in turmoil, the Medicine God Sect, located deep in the Ten Thousand Mountains, was peaceful and harmonious. Chen Yang didn't even know how much of a stir he had caused in the outside world.
The backyard of the alchemy factory was brightly lit, with rosy rays of light radiating all day long. All kinds of essences were boiling, making the surrounding flowers, plants and trees grow several times more luxuriant.
Boom! Boom!
From time to time, a sound like a loud bell rang out, spreading far away and deafening.
The Shennong Medicine King Cauldron floated up and down in the earth's lung flames, emitting a light as dazzling as the sun.
The whole tripod is made of a kind of divine copper, and looks ancient and vast, as if it is a product of the ancient mythological era. In fact, this is exactly the case. Isn't the era when Shennong, the King of Medicine, lived the ancient mythological era?
The body of the tripod is carved with flowers, birds, insects, fish, rivers, lakes, seas, the sun, the moon, the stars, ancient people... Every pattern is vivid and full of Taoist charm, like a Ukiyo-e of the vast world.
Chen Jiuyang and several elder alchemy masters sat cross-legged around the Shennong Medicine King Cauldron, making hand gestures to control the temperature. From time to time, one of them would slap the cauldron, causing it to shake violently and the pills inside to tumble.
Before they knew it, the elixir had already transformed three times. Four ping-pong-ball-sized elixirs were rolling and jumping in the cauldron, glittering and shining, being tempered and honed. They were sublimating in transformation, and constantly transforming in sublimation.