Above the source of Tao

Senior Sister He warmly invited Yun Changan to enter the warehouse, and he placed several large sacks of fresh vegetables he brought with him in a corner of the warehouse. Looking around, he noticed that there were all kinds of items piled up here, and one huge cabinet was particularly conspicuous. This cabinet was cleverly designed into countless small grids, and each small grid contained precious spiritual medicinal materials, which was exactly the purpose of Yun Changan's trip.

Senior Sister He personally brewed a cup of red Pu tea for Yun Changan. The color of the tea in the cup was very red, which is one of the characteristics of red Pu tea. It has a calming effect. Drinking a cup will make you relax.

"I heard that Master Zhao Xian had a conflict with an elder from the inner sect recently and was even injured. What exactly happened?" After tasting the red Pu tea, Yun Chang'an curiously asked Senior Sister He about Master Zhao Xian's recent situation.

"That's all Master's old story. I don't know the details, but I heard it was because of a woman."

Oh? Senior Sister He's answer surprised Yun Changan. He didn't expect that Master Zhao Xian would argue with the elders of the sect for a woman. This was a big mistake in the sect.

Forget it, I'm not the kind of person who likes gossip, so I'd better focus on my own business first.

So he asked Senior Sister He for some useless spiritual herbs of lower quality. After a pleasant conversation with Senior Sister He, Yun Changan was ready to leave. Senior Sister He also enthusiastically found a lot of spiritual herbs for Yun Changan and generously gave him a large piece of deer meat.

Yun Changan had already finished the deer shank that the senior brother had given him. He had only been eating stir-fried vegetables and rice these days, so he hadn't eaten meat for a long time. He was a little greedy.

Without declining Senior Sister He's kindness, he took half a bag of spiritual herbs and a piece of deer meat and left the warehouse.

On the way home, he met Feng Ping and Guan Zhong on the road. The two greeted Yun Chang'an enthusiastically. Now the two no longer had any hatred towards Yun Chang'an. Instead, they called Yun Chang'an "little junior brother".

Since then, when Yun Chang'an fought the Red Fire Lion alone and distributed the vegetables grown in his vegetable garden to them, the two men's views of Yun Chang'an changed a lot. At the beginning, they were dissatisfied only because Yun Chang'an did not offer them offerings like the two new disciples.

After these two incidents, Yun Chang'an's ability to selflessly give away the vegetables he grew and not be greedy for credit from the Red Fire Lion made the two of them look at him with admiration.

Therefore, my view of Yun Chang'an became more friendly.

After returning home, Yun Chang'an untied the rope that tied the sack and poured out all the spiritual herbs. He arranged them into categories and counted them carefully. There were more than two hundred spiritual herbs. Senior Sister He was nicer to me. Although Senior Sister He didn't know what I wanted these spiritual herbs for, she still gave me so many.

Yun Changan felt grateful.

Yun Changan knew most of the magical herbs, most of which were common ones, including Gentiana scabra, Asarum sieboldii, Dendrobium officinale, Morinda officinalis fruit, Miwu flower, Coptis root, Trachelospermum officinale leaf...

Yun Chang'an took out the alchemy furnace given to him by Brother Xi Que. He had never looked at this alchemy furnace carefully before. This alchemy furnace was very thick and heavy. It felt very heavy in the hand.

It is square, three feet long and three and a half feet wide. It is not deep, but the furnace walls are very heavy.

The outside of this alchemy furnace is engraved with intricate patterns on all four sides, and an unknown ferocious beast is carved on each corner, which looks very exquisite.

Yun Chang'an placed it on the flat ground. According to the "Alchemy Manual", he had to stabilize the furnace first so that it would not move while refining the elixir.

The next step is to adjust the medicine. The so-called adjustment of medicine is to remove the impurities from the medicinal materials themselves. This step is the basis. After the pill is made, the quality of the pill and whether there are impurities depends entirely on this step, so this step is very important.

After the medicine is prepared, the next step is to light the fire to increase the temperature inside the furnace. This step requires the use of fire energy, which is gathered in the furnace. When the temperature of the furnace reaches a certain level, the next step can be carried out.

After the fire is started, the next step is to throw the spiritual herbs into the alchemy furnace and use the fire energy to refine the herbs into gas. This step is extremely important for the medicinal properties of the herbs and the control of the flame temperature. If you are not careful, the spiritual herbs will be burned to ashes by the fire energy.

After refining the elixir into essence and transforming it into qi, you can then use the fire energy to fuse it. The control of the fire energy is particularly important at this step. As long as there is a trace of the real thing, the medicinal materials will not fuse and will instead dissipate.

After fusing the spiritual herbs, the final and most important step in alchemy is to transform the qi into a form. If you don't have a deep understanding of fire, it will be very easy to explode the furnace. Therefore, this step is often the easiest step for alchemists to fail.

After that, the fire is stopped, the lid is sealed and the pill is ready. When the pill smells fragrant, it means the pill has been successfully refined.

The above five steps are the basic steps of alchemy.

What Yun Changan has to do now is to mix the more than two hundred spiritual herbs into medicine. After an hour of mixing, Yun Changan finally removed all the impurities.

He stood up and stretched his waist. It was not an easy task to remove impurities from more than two hundred spiritual herbs. Since this was his first time to make pills, he was a little unskilled.

An ordinary alchemist could remove all the impurities from the spiritual herbs needed for alchemy in just a few breaths, but Yun Changan took an hour to complete this step.

Yun Chang'an brewed a cup of red Pu tea, which was given to him by Senior Sister He. Yun Chang'an drank it in big gulps. This tea really made people calm down. It must be worth a lot of money. Usually, Senior Sister He brewed a pot of tea for Master Zhao Xian every day, so other people couldn't drink it.

After resting for a while, Yun Changan felt refreshed and it was just the right time to start practicing alchemy.