48: First Alchemy
The next morning, Li Xuan got up early and took his horse to eat some grass nearby.
The Douluo Continent is vast and sparsely populated, and most of the land has not been cultivated, so there are a lot of weeds growing here. After walking the horses for a while, the horses will be full, saving Li Xuan from cutting grass to feed them.
After walking the horses, it was time for Li Xuan to have breakfast, so he took out a piece of bread and had a bite.
After eating, Li Xuan returned to the carriage and used the small green bottle to cultivate another Kongming Pearl and put it in his belt.
In the future, Li Xuan did not have any big requirements for natural treasures, so Li Xuan decided to focus on cultivating Kongming grass in the next period of time to enrich his storage space.
The belt designed by Li Yu has 36 sections and can store 108 Kongming Pearls, but Li Xuan is wearing 24 sections now, so it can store 72 Kongming Pearls.
That is 216 cubic meters of storage space, and when 108 Kongming beads are collected, ten Kongming crystals can be generated. The capacity of Kongming crystals is 100 cubic meters, and ten Kongming crystals means 1,000 cubic meters of storage space.
In this way, the storage space is definitely enough for Li Xuan to use. The next time he enters the city, Li Xuan can purchase some more supplies.
"Don't think about these, it's time to set off." Li Xuan smiled indifferently, then harnessed the carriage, raised the whip, and drove towards Tiandou City.
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As the sun set, Li Xuan stopped in a valley.
After a day's journey, Li Xuan was exhausted.
"If I had known earlier, I would have bought a slave! Then I wouldn't have to drive myself." Li Xuan jumped off the carriage and said angrily.
After stopping the carriage, Li Xuan led the horse to eat weeds in the valley.
The horse was full, and Li Xuan also took out two hot dishes, accompanied by a bowl of rice, and ate them deliciously.
After eating and drinking, Li Xuan lay down in the carriage and began to rest his mind with his eyes closed.
Although Li Xuan was a little tired today, he was not sleepy.
"I'm in good shape today. How about trying to refine pills?" Li Xuan said on a whim.
As soon as he said it, Li Xuan jumped off the carriage and took out a bunch of grinding and crushing tools from the Kongming Pearl.
Finally, he took out the medicinal materials needed for refining pills.
Refining pills is not a simple matter. It is not just opening the furnace, throwing the medicinal materials in, and burning them continuously. That is only suitable for top alchemists.
Li Xuan has just started, so he is not suitable for the kind of refining method that is scattered.
Refining pills requires a very good understanding of the medicinal properties of the medicinal materials and the ability to accurately control the medicinal effects of the medicinal materials, so that the medicinal properties in the pills can promote each other and achieve significant medicinal effects.
Otherwise, it is easy to waste pills, which not only have no benefit to cultivation, but may even be highly toxic.
This time, Li Xuan was going to refine the Soul-Enriching Pill, because it was the easiest of the three kinds of pills to refine.
Li Xuan also wanted to know if he had the talent to become an alchemist.
By checking the medicinal properties of the herbs, Li Xuan determined the dosage of the herbs, and then ground all of them into powder. This
was Li Xuan's first time refining a pill, so he prepared five portions of the herbs, enough for Li Xuan to make five mistakes.
After doing all this, Li Xuan took out the most important thing in the process of refining the pill.
A copper pot!
Well...
Of course, Li Xuan had no other way. There were no soul masters who could refine pills in Douluo Continent, so there was no qualified alchemy tripod at all. As for customizing an alchemy tripod, Li Xuan didn't have time to wait for the blacksmith to forge the tripod.
After careful consideration, Li Xuan bought a particularly heavy copper pot.
This was a pure copper soup pot, which was round in shape, the size of a pumpkin, and had a very thick pot wall, which was three or four centimeters thick.
Li Xuan put the copper pot on the ground, then placed the herbs around the copper pot, and sat cross-legged on the ground, holding his breath and concentrating on adjusting his state.
After a while, Li Xuan felt that his condition had been adjusted very well, so he stretched out his hand and began to activate his soul power.
As the green soul seal on the back of Li Xuan's hand gradually turned red, a green lotus shadow appeared in Li Xuan's hand. However, at this time, one of the petals on the blue lotus shadow had turned golden red.
"Go!"
With Li Xuan's light shout, the next second, the blue lotus slowly flew into the copper pot.
"Stay!"
Li Xuan shouted again, and a ball of Burning Heart and Bright God Flame instantly rose from the heart of the blue lotus, instantly filling the entire copper pot, scorching the copper pot very hot.
However, as the master of the Burning Heart and Bright God Flame, Li Xuan is naturally immune to the scorching heat of the Burning Heart and Bright God Flame, so there is no big problem to get closer.
Feeling that the temperature of the flame has stabilized, Li Xuan poured a portion of the powdered medicinal materials into the copper pot.
But the next second, something strange happened.
"Puff!"
Li Xuan did not control the temperature of the flame. When he poured the medicinal materials just now, the flame was temporarily out of control because of the action, and a portion of the medicinal powder was burned into ash and carbon. This kind of medicinal material can no longer be used.
"Oh my god! I just relaxed for a breath, and the temperature of the flame actually increased so much!" Li Xuan looked at the copper pot in front of him in shock, with disbelief written all over his face.
However, Li Xuan was not someone who gave up easily. He thought about the reason for this mistake, then re-controlled the flame and picked up the second batch of herbs.
Holding his breath and concentrating, Li Xuan controlled the temperature of the flame while carefully pouring the powdered herbs into the copper pot.
Li Xuan absorbed the lessons learned from the last time and strengthened the control of the flame, so there was no sudden increase in temperature.
Li Xuan controlled the flame to burn the powdered herbs in the copper pot, and soon burned away the impurities in the powdered herbs, leaving a little bit of blue powder.
"The main medicine is done, it went quite smoothly." Li Xuan looked at the blue powder in the copper pot and nodded with satisfaction. This was the essence of the main medicine of Yunling Pill after removing the impurities.
Feeling that the time was almost right, Li Xuan threw the second and third herbs in.
As Li Xuan controlled the flame and removed the impurities of the herbs, only the white and red essences of the two herbs were left.
Next, the fourth, fifth...
were thrown into the copper pot one by one.
After extracting all the essences, Li Xuan put his hands together, and injected the soul power in his body into the copper pot crazily. The temperature of the Burning Heart and Bright God Flame in the copper pot suddenly rose.
These powders slowly melted under the high temperature.
Li Xuan used the power of the flame to push these herbs together, and let them fuse together through the high temperature.
Ten minutes later, a layer of fine sweat beads appeared on Li Xuan's forehead.
Li Xuan ignored the sweat, pushed his hands forward again, and heated the flame again.
The essences extracted from various herbs have been completely fused together, but Li Xuan still did not relax at all.
The last step of making the pill is the most critical step. Li Xuan closed his eyes, controlled the temperature of the flame, and used his soul power to sort out the medicinal properties in the pill to improve the effect of the pill.
After another half an hour, Li Xuan felt that the various medicinal properties in the pill had almost been fused.
"Make the pill!" Li Xuan stretched out his hand and slapped the copper pot fiercely.
The next second, two black pills flew out of the copper pot. Li Xuan quickly grabbed the pills in his hand, took out the porcelain bottle that he had prepared long ago, and put the pills into the porcelain bottle.