Ball Ball Cultivation

The group finally arrived at Liuyun City's famous snack street. This street was famous in the world for being passed down by the Peng clan, descendants of the God of Cooking. It is unknown how much of the heritage is still preserved, but there are always crowds of people.

Maybe it's because it's closer to the North Ice Field, so there are more small spiritual foods with various water and ice attributes, and they are cheap. Qiuqiu and the other two now each have a portion of cuttlefish balls, which they eat while walking. The taste is fragrant and has a faint spiritual energy. No wonder one spiritual stone only buys three strings.

While walking, eating and strolling, Qiuqiu was suddenly attracted by a burst of sour, spicy and fragrant smell, which reminded him of the hot and sour noodles in his hometown. He followed the smell and found a relatively clean small shop. There was already a serious female monk eating spicy green crab inside. The smell just now came from here. The person serving the dishes was a little girl about ten years old. She put down the stone plate and said, "Enjoy your meal, fairy."

The more serious female cultivator nodded. Perhaps the little girl noticed that the female cultivator didn't like to talk to people, so she saw Qiuqiu and his group coming in and greeted them quickly.

"This way, please. See what you need. We're a thousand-year-old shop on this delicious street. We're absolutely authentic!"

As he spoke, he pointed to the mural on the wall, which told the story of the origin of this restaurant. The Yi family inherited part of the legacy of the food god Peng family, and started their own unique method of culinary training. The Peng family followed the way of nature and brought out the value of the ingredients themselves; while the Yi family added various condiments to stimulate and harmonize, and developed a branch, commonly known as the heavy flavor style!

Qiuqiu ordered spicy and sour golden perch fish and sweet Lingba. In order not to reveal the fact that he was a country bumpkin, he asked Xiaohuang to order two more, so that the three of them and the bird could eat them!

After the dishes were announced, everyone waited patiently. Then a boy of eight or nine years old ran in and said, "Yi Yang, do you have three empty rooms at home? A group of people came and asked for three rooms. I only have one room left."

"There are only two rooms left in my house. You know, apart from the yard where my mother-in-law and I live, my house only has four rooms. There are already a man and a woman living there. You can ask your seventh uncle's family. His place is big, but it's not on the main street."

"Okay, they didn't mention any requirements. I'll go ask."

After saying that, he ran away!

At this time, the female cultivator at the next table asked, "How many spirit stones are needed for one night's stay?"

The little girl immediately replied, "Eighty low-grade spirit stones. The slightly larger rooms around here cost a hundred low-grade spirit stones."

"I want one, and this is three days' worth of spirit stones."

Qiuqiu discussed with the two little ones, "Shall we stay for three days too?"

The two little ones nodded in unison.

Qiuqiu also took out spirit stones and booked for three days!

When the food comes, there is nothing to say. The rich aroma accompanied by sour and spicy taste goes straight to the nose!

"Tasty enough!"

The three of them and the bird couldn't wait to dig in! This truly wasn't comparable to those small spiritual foods out there. While the ingredients weren't top-tier, the cooking method was definitely the best they'd ever tasted! The flavors collided and ignited within their taste buds, and spiritual energy rapidly flowed through their veins, warming their internal organs. The fish was sliced ​​very thinly and melted in their mouths. The sour, spicy, and fragrant flavors slowly spread across their throats and tongues, layer upon layer, leaving a lasting aftertaste.

As the spiritual energy penetrates deeper, impurities are discharged from the pores.

Sweet Lingba, crispy and sweet, brings a different taste experience. The spiritual energy soothes the heart like a little hand, and makes the mood feel inexplicably happy. It turns out that sweets can really bring people a good mood.

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When he finally cleared the bowls and plates for eight dishes and one soup and paid eight hundred and sixty spirit stones, Qiuqiu didn't feel any pain and paid readily.

Arriving at a small room of less than 50 square meters, it was considered a small dwelling in the world of immortal cultivation, so it was no wonder it was so cheap. After checking everything, he found nothing unusual. He activated a fourth-grade protective array disk and a fourth-grade isolation array disk. Anyway, the top-grade spirit stone still had some spiritual power left, and he had to use it all before it turned to ash.

After entering the space, the three of them reflected on what they had seen and heard:

Bai Er: "It really costs a lot of spirit stones to buy things, and the food is so delicious. I'm going to advance tonight."

Bai Yi: "I will work hard to make money. That fish is more effective for me and can cleanse my marrow and strengthen my meridians."

Xiao Huang: "I will recover as soon as possible and not eat for free." Don't think I don't know that even if I eat a little, you will think it's too much.

Qiuqiu: "I should have learned alchemy earlier. Grandpa taught me before, but I just lacked practice. I didn't expect that if I sold spiritual plants and made them into pills and then sold them, we would need at least ten times more spiritual stones!"

"Make pills and earn spirit stones, then eat delicious food! With the pills in hand, I have the spirit stones!" Qiuqiu said in a somewhat childish way.

Thinking of spirit stones, Qiuqiu's enthusiasm for alchemy increased!

After summoning the Five Elements Spirit Fire, it indeed seemed to be a little stronger than before the foundation was established. Before, it seemed like it would go out at any time, and I was embarrassed to use it except for the necessary materials for setting up the formation!

He took out the red stone bought from the market that was sensitive to flames and brought it close to the Five Elements Spiritual Fire. The Five Elements Spiritual Fire suddenly enlarged and wrapped the stone. Soon, tiny things entered the Five Elements Spiritual Fire from the small stone. In less than a moment, the red stone turned into gray powder and fell down. The Five Elements Spiritual Fire didn't seem to have changed much, but a closer look revealed that the core of the flame was even more condensed.

In fact, this is a bit of the original residue after the spiritual fire dissipated, and only the spiritual fire can sense it. The Five Elements Spiritual Fire is just a small wisp that has been sealed for many years. When it was about to dissipate, it was obtained by Qiuqiu. The origin in this red stone just filled some of it. In the future, when I upgrade myself, in addition to getting the feedback from Qiuqiu, I can also devour other fires. I was too weak before and could only be devoured!

Qiuqiu took back the Five Elements Spirit Fire, nurtured it, meditated and practiced, and after calming down, he began to recall the alchemy knowledge and various alchemy techniques taught by his grandfather.

I recalled the refining process I watched today, repeatedly pondering the differences with what I'd learned. Whenever I encountered a puzzle, I consulted my backup notes! I also watched Master Mu's alchemy video twice during the day. I concluded: Grandpa's alchemy was very meticulous in dividing the dosage, probably due to a lack of spiritual plants. Master Mu emphasized the unity of mind and body, and the control of subtlety! I dug out the recipes I'd bought previously, and practiced the various hand gestures for combining and making the elixir until I mastered it!

Qiuqiu started his first alchemy in his life, and the fire he used was contracted with his own mind.

Bigu Pills are one of the most common elixirs in the world of cultivation. A low-grade Bigu Pill can satisfy a person for one to three days, a mid-grade one for seven days, a high-grade one for half a month, and a top-grade one for a month. This first-grade pill only contains six common spiritual plants. As the spiritual energy in this space grows richer, these plants are proliferating!

Qiuqiu first used the method taught by his grandfather to extract the effective medicinal parts of the spiritual plants and accurately measure the amount of medicine. For the ground root grass, only the middle part of the root was used, and a jade knife was used to cut out one portion and divide it into several parts; the flesh of the belly spiritual grass was also divided equally; the kudzu fruit was extremely hard and needed to be crushed with external force, but the crusher in the laboratory was more useful!

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Qiuqiu prepared the herbs in order, then took out the broken cyan cauldron, summoned the Five Elements Spiritual Fire, and began refining the elixir: cleaning the cauldron, preheating it, adding the herbs, combining the herbs, preparing the medicine, locking the medicine, releasing the pills, and collecting the medicine, all in one go. Qiuqiu's spiritual awareness was powerful, and when he practiced his mental power in the interstellar laboratory, he would divide his mental power into dozens of strands to complete different tasks. So he was good at controlling the medicine and kicking out the residue. However, when he changed the medicine, he couldn't find the right balance between the heat and the time of mixing the herbs. Over-roasting the herbs produced new elixir poison. Moreover, the hand gestures and the pill making didn't work well together. This time, he only refined four low-grade pills, and they were of poor quality.

The green broken cauldron is still very resistant to burning. Although the Five Elements Spiritual Fire is not a famous spiritual fire, it is also a spiritual fire, comparable to medium and high-quality earth fire. It has four vents on the top and bottom. It seems that it is true that it can be used to refine high-level pills. It is at least an alchemy furnace that can refine seventh-grade pills. Later, I will find good materials to see if I can repair it. I don’t dare to let go of the high fire to refine the pills!

When Qiuqiu saw the horrible result of his alchemy, he comforted himself and took out a pen and paper, starting with the good habit of taking notes formed in school. He wrote down his thoughts and feelings, and also emphasized his shortcomings and mistakes. This is the benefit of making a collection of wrong questions.

The second time I refined the elixir, I obtained nine pills, five of which were mid-grade...

After five times, a top-grade pill appeared. Although there was only one, Qiuqiu was still very happy.

After more than twenty times, the number of pills produced stabilized at ten, including three to five high-quality pills, three to five medium-quality pills, and the rest were low-quality pills.

Qiuqiu switched to refining the Buling Pill, which is also the most common first-grade pill, requiring seven kinds of medicinal materials for refining. The first time Qiuqiu refined the Buling Pill, he also repeatedly pondered the process and rehearsed it in his mind many times before starting to refine it. Everything went smoothly, and he produced ten full pills and three mid-grade pills on the first try. After refining it more than a dozen times, it was almost as good as the Qigong Pill, and it was difficult to make any further progress.

He began refining the common first-grade Nourishing Spirit Pill, used to nourish and restore consciousness! The heat was crucial. The main ingredient, the Spirit-Clearing Grass, needed to be heated evenly; if the temperature was too high, it would turn to ash. This made it one of the more difficult first-grade pills to refine. He could only wrap the ball with his consciousness, carefully heating it until it slowly dissolved into liquid. He finished eight pills, five of which were mid-grade. After repeated practice, until his spiritual power was exhausted and his consciousness was depleted, he was able to match the number of pills he produced with the previous two methods.

Qiuqiu felt that the main reason he failed to meet the requirements was that he made mistakes in some aspects. There was no harm in not having a master to guide him. Alas... the alchemy furnace was also a problem. It seemed that what the boss said was right. He could only refine some low-level pills. The first grade was okay, but the second grade was a problem. For the first grade pills with a slightly higher difficulty, the formation at the bottom of the furnace was not very stable and it felt like it was about to collapse. Did he have to buy another alchemy furnace?

The formations I've learned are quite different from this one. The formations and restrictions on magic weapons are all engraved or hammered in by the initial spiritual consciousness. Qiuqiu can understand a little bit, but it won't recover. I have to spend another sum of spirit stones! I don't know if the pills I've refined for a day and a night will be enough to buy a new furnace!

After recovering from his breathing exercises, Qiuqiu left the alchemy room. It was the original experimental area, with its multiple flares. The heating equipment was incredibly advanced, capable of precise heating to the exact temperature and time, down to the millisecond! Before he contracted the Five Elements Spiritual Fire, Qiuqiu would process and refine ore here, and now he was also refining alchemy here. The thermal insulation and explosion-proofing here were exceptionally well-maintained!

Qiuqiu came to the pool. Bai Yi and Bai Er were watching by the pool. "Mom, my brother and I's lotus seeds have sprouted. They are the two lotus seeds that the old monkey gave us." Bai Er's voice came excitedly!

"Oh, let me see." Qiuqiu walked closer to observe carefully, and saw a small white bud three fingers long, with a yellow tint and green at the top, it had indeed sprouted.