The original repairer

Improving the art of Dan requires a lot of practice, as well as sufficient patience and carefulness. Only after a lot of practice can one master the techniques and rules.

Talent is the key factor in practicing all arts.

As the genius said, if hard work is useful, everyone in the world would be a genius.

Keep trying and gradually improve your skills.

As the number of pills he refined increased, Shi Chen's alchemy skills improved significantly. He was now able to refine pills faster, with a higher success rate, and he often produced full pills. Even the production of mid-grade pills increased by 10% to 20%, reaching 30% to 40%.

Such results made Shi Chen very satisfied, but also made him realize a problem.

His current success rate and quality of pills are much higher than those of normal alchemists, and must not be exposed.

Some monks who asked him to refine pills on their behalf wanted to watch the alchemist refine the pills on site and even promised to pay more spirit stones for this, but Shi Chen refused all of them.

Alchemists rarely allow others to watch them refining their elixirs, regardless of the reason. Each master has his or her own methods, techniques, and secrets for refining elixirs. Unless they are successors, even their disciples are merely servants, forced to leave the alchemy room during refining.

In order to improve his alchemy skills, Shi Chen decided to use the lowest-cost elixir to refine it, so that he could become familiar with the alchemy furnace and save spirit stones.

After a month of hard work, his alchemy skills had reached the point where he could do it effortlessly. Once the fasting pills were made, the output was almost a top-grade pill.

Unfortunately, he has never seen a top-grade elixir in his alchemy career.

During this time, Shi Chen had already discovered the patterns of the copper blast furnace before the flames erupted, or rather, some of the phenomena before the flames erupted.

Shi Chen has five inferior spiritual roots, which include gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and can sense the five types of spiritual energy.

Before he entered the Qi Refining stage, at the beginning of sensing Qi, in order to make his cultivation level faster in the future, he drew the five types of spiritual energy into his body, comparing the advantages and disadvantages of each, and figuring out which type of spiritual energy would improve his cultivation level faster.

I have been practicing for five or six years now. Although I cannot fully understand all kinds of spiritual energy, I am at least familiar with them.

After nearly two weeks of pill refining, he had discovered that before each burst of flame, the spiritual energy near the furnace would gather and tremble, a very brief and subtle phenomenon. For those without a deep understanding of the Five Elements spiritual energy, it was difficult to perceive it. Just like in the first half of the month, Shi Chen had not sensed these tiny spiritual energy changes.

All the keys have been found, and what remains is how to solve them.

To solve this problem, after refining the elixir every day, he would go to the Treasure Building to ask the weapon refiners for advice. After five days of unremitting efforts, he sent out ten bottles of medium-grade nourishing qi pills. Two first-grade weapon refiners in the Treasure Building gave him two solutions to the flame explosion.

The first is to stop the flame before it breaks out, or to forbid the spiritual energy it requires.

The second is to eliminate or expel the power of the flame when it breaks out.

Both of these have corresponding prohibition controls.

So, Shi Chen expressed his idea: "Masters, please engrave these two restrictions on the outside of the copper blast furnace to prevent flame explosions. When the time comes to open these two restrictions before the flame explosion occurs during the elixir refining, the impact of the flame explosion on the elixir refining can be eliminated."

This idea was approved by the two weapon refiners, who felt it was a perfect solution.

However, when Shi Chen told the two weapon masters his request, he was laughed at by them.

Ouyang Ting said, "During the refining process, artifacts are engraved with spiritual patterns. The formation of restrictions and formations requires corresponding spiritual materials. Once the spiritual patterns are engraved and specially refined by the artifact master, they can become artifacts for cultivators to use. The quality of the artifact depends on the refiner's skills and experience. It is difficult for ordinary artifact refiners to add new formations and restrictions to a finished artifact. Adding new formation patterns and spiritual patterns to a finished artifact will destroy the original spiritual patterns and formation patterns, rendering the artifact's restrictions and formations ineffective."

Jia Tianshi continued, "It's also very difficult to remove the spiritual patterns that have been engraved on the artifact. Legend has it that weapon refiners above the seventh level have methods to remove the restrictions of the artifact. It's also difficult to increase the restrictions of the artifact. Generally, you can only add restrictions to the outside of the artifact. A third-level weapon refiner can do this, but external restrictions have limited effect on the original restrictions of the artifact. They only have the effect of three or four layers, and the better ones can have five layers."

In order to eliminate the impact of the flame explosion in the purple copper blast furnace, whether it is cutting off the spiritual energy supply or eliminating the power of the flame, it cannot be achieved in Kimura Market because there are no refiners above the third level here.

The two first-level weapon refiners from the Treasure Building were sent here for a few years and will return to the Liehuo Gate after a while.

If he went with them to the Fiery Gate, he would have a chance to ask a third-level weapon refiner to refine a cheat restriction. Shi Chen had never considered going to the Fiery Gate. With his current level of cultivation, he would be slaughtered wherever he went.

At least in Qingxuan Sect, he is familiar with it, has someone to look after him, and can still stand firm. If he goes somewhere else, he will only be placed under house arrest and exploited.

Another half month passed, and Shi Chen stopped using the copper explosive furnace to refine pills. He decided to refine pills for one last month, then customize a pill, and return to Qishafang City early after receiving it.

During this month, he increased the number of elixirs he refined to ten furnaces a day, in order to recover the loss of the furnaces as much as possible.

Over the past two months, Shi Chen had refined a total of 525 furnaces of elixirs. He collected 685 mid-grade elixirs and 546 low-grade elixirs, receiving 1,100 low-grade spirit stones as refining fees. It could be said that he had made a huge profit.

I stopped refining elixirs for three days, claiming to be in seclusion. Then I wandered around the Kimura Market for two days. I saw a few suitable instruments, but unfortunately they were too expensive, 20% to 30% more than at the Treasure Equipment Building. Finally, I bought a mid-grade robe at the Treasure Equipment Building for 560 low-grade spirit stones. Three levels of restrictions: rock-hard defense, aura concealment, and invulnerability to water and fire.

Shi Chen decided to go back to Qisha Market. Before leaving, he went to Kimura Market to make an alchemy furnace.

Rushing to the Treasure Building, two weapon refiners were waiting for Shi Chen while sipping tea. The red-faced weapon refiner, Ouyang Ting, said, "There's an opportunity for you. Do you need it?"

"Yes, Master Ouyang, please inform me of the situation." Shi Chen bowed hurriedly.

"Let me tell you," said Jia Tianshi, the weapon refiner next to him. "We've received news that a third-grade weapon refiner will be here at the end of this month. We'll let you know the time. Then it'll depend on whether you have the opportunity to ask him for help. If he can help you refine an artifact, your chances of success will increase significantly."

"You two should know this weapon refiner. I beg you to introduce one or two to me when the time comes. I will pay for all the necessary etiquette and fees, so that your hard work will not be in vain." After Shi Chen finished speaking, he took out two bottles of medium-grade Qi-nourishing Pills from his storage bag and gave them to the two men.

After receiving the pills, the two weapon refiners promised repeatedly: "I will definitely recommend you, I will definitely recommend you."

Then Shi Chen returned to the rented cave and ordered the hired female cultivator to put up a sign and continue to refine pills on his behalf, still ten furnaces a day.