Three days have passed since Xiao Ping broke through to the three-star Grand Fighter.
"Medusa's men have begun searching for the whereabouts of the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire in the Tagor Desert!"
Although Xiao Ping has been obsessed with cultivation, it does not mean that he is indifferent to the outside world. On the contrary, Xiao Ping uses his special soul detection ability every day to monitor every move in the Tagor Desert.
"Time is running out! Hurry up and refine the Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill and the Purple Heart Body Protecting Pill!"
Before, because Xiao Ping's soul realm was stuck on the soul entity, it was not until two and a half months ago that he took that step with the help of the Ancient Soul Sutra and truly stepped into the early stage of the mortal realm. In addition, the desperate alchemy during this period has also consolidated this realm. However, it is still quite difficult to refine the Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill and the Purple Heart Body Protecting Pill, which are both at the peak of the fourth grade. But time waits for no one, so he can only give it a try!
Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill, a fourth-grade peak pill, can make a Grand Fighter upgrade one star level after taking it, and can also take two pills in a row without developing too much resistance. In other words, if Xiao Ping is lucky, he can be promoted two more stars to reach a five-star Grand Fighter. In this way, the chance of conquering the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire is also greatly enhanced.
Purple Heart Body Protection Pill, a fourth-grade peak pill, is a matching pill with Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill. The main material for refining the two pills is the purple spirit crystal obtained before. However, unlike Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill, Purple Heart Body Protection Pill is not used to improve defense in a short time. After taking it, a purple crystal armor will be formed on the surface of the skin all over the body, which can resist the full force attack of a strong man with a cultivation level below five-star Dou Ling. The time limit is half a quarter of an hour, and the specific situation depends on the strength of the opponent.
Although it cannot directly lead to a breakthrough in cultivation, it seems that it is not as good as Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill. Originally, with Xiao Ping's soul realm having just entered the early stage of the mortal realm, if he wanted to refine the Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill and the Purple Heart Body Protecting Pill,
he had already exceeded his own ability limit, not to mention the fifth-grade Blood Lotus Pill. Don't even think about it. "Man proposes, God disposes! The pill must be refined
!"
Again, if you don't try hard, how do you know it won't work? Therefore, without thinking too much, Xiao Ping directly took out the old alchemy furnace and shot out a ball of purple-red flame from his fingertips, instantly burning the entire alchemy furnace to an extremely red glow. Looking at the condition of the alchemy furnace, it is likely that it will be completely scrapped after refining these pills.
"Alas, I have to find a way to get a better alchemy furnace in the future!"
Sighing slightly, Xiao Ping shook his head and adjusted his mentality, "The first step is to protect the furnace with spiritual liquid!"
Xiao Ping waved his hand, and three rhizome-shaped medicinal herbs were thrown into the furnace. With his current alchemy level, he can refine three medicinal herbs at the same time. Of course, to refine the fourth-grade peak pill comparable to the fifth-grade in the Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill, only one furnace-protecting medicinal herb is not enough to completely protect the entire furnace. Wall, at least three
"five fire ganoderma" are needed
. After refining that medicinal material, Xiao Ping followed the next step of refining. After all, he had been refining pills for more than a year. The previous steps were relatively easy. Soon, Xiao Ping successfully refined three Coptis chinensis essences, five dragon beard grasses, and three red flame fruits.
"Bang!"
However, just when Xiao Ping threw a few indigo flowers in, an accident happened. The indigo flower had just come into contact with the blazing beast fire when it exploded violently. It directly destroyed all the medicinal liquid that had been refined in different categories. If Xiao Ping had not increased the dosage of the furnace-protecting liquid, otherwise, this extremely old alchemy furnace would have turned into a pile of scrap copper and iron in the explosion!
"Damn it!"
Xiao Ping felt extremely distressed when he saw the various medicinal liquids that had been burned into white ash by the fierce fire. You know, these medicinal materials are not the kind that can be found easily even in the Magic Beast Mountain Range. They are so precious that even Xiao Ping has only collected the medicinal materials for refining seven Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pills in the past six months, and the medicinal materials for the Purple Heart Body Protection Pill are even fewer, with only five portions collected.
"Damn it!"
After spitting a mouthful of bitter water on the ground, Xiao Ping couldn't help but take a few deep breaths of air, "What a waste!"
Although Xiao Ping had specially reminded himself to pay attention to the step of refining the indigo flower before refining, what he didn't expect was that the indigo flower had such high temperature requirements. It was so sensitive that Xiao Ping didn't even have a moment to react and adjust before the refining process failed.
"Try again!"
Although the refining process failed, Xiao Ping was not discouraged. After all, this was a top-level fourth-grade elixir. In terms of efficacy, it was comparable to a fifth-grade elixir. Therefore, if it wasn't difficult to refine, the Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill wouldn't be so precious. It could almost be said to be priceless. Even if you were rich, you wouldn't necessarily be able to get it.
"There are still six chances! One of them will succeed!"
After encouraging himself and cleaning up the residue in the alchemy furnace, Xiao Ping once again ejected a ball of purple-red flame and started refining the Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill from the beginning. "Fire Ganoderma Lucidum, five plants!"
"Three Coptis Essences!"
"Five Dragon Beard Grasses!"
"Three Red Flame Fruits!"
The first few steps passed quickly and smoothly for Xiao Ping. However, when it came to the crucial step of the indigo flower, Xiao Ping couldn't help but swallow his saliva. He poured almost all of his soul power into the alchemy furnace, trying his best to strengthen his control over the flame temperature.
"Puff..."
Unfortunately, soon after the indigo flower was thrown in, a low, muffled sound was heard, followed by a bitter, burnt smell from the alchemy furnace. Clearly, the flames were a bit too hot. While they didn't explode directly, they completely destroyed the essence within, leaving only useless residue. Undoubtedly, the Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill had failed again!
Looking at the residue cleared from the alchemy furnace, Xiao Ping's face was grim. This was already his second failure!
"There are still five chances!"
After being silent for half an incense stick of time, Xiao Ping exhaled a deep breath of hot air, and re-activated the beast fire to heat the alchemy furnace.
"Sizzle..."
The third time, the indigo flower did not explode or burn, and he managed to extract a little black-blue medicinal liquid, which just reached the maximum upper limit of the indigo flower refining temperature. However, when refining two third-order fire magic cores, the fire energy contained in the fire magic cores themselves caused the black-blue indigo flower extract to be burnt. What followed was Xiao Ping's third failure
. The fourth time, because the refining temperature was too low, the composition of the indigo flower itself changed. The standard dark blue liquid turned into a purple-red color like the beast fire, and the purple core was completely gone. The effect of the Barrier Breaking Pill
was shown for the fifth time. The temperature was just right and a dark blue standard indigo flower liquid was extracted. However, when it was fused with the purple spirit crystal powder, the fusion failed due to negligence. All the efforts turned into broken bubbles again.
"Only the last two doses are left!"
Xiao Ping looked at the increasing number of residues on the ground, and his heart became a little nervous. "It was almost successful just now! It's a pity that I got carried away and failed in the last step!"
Xiao Ping deeply summed up his mistakes for the failure of the fifth refining. As an alchemist, no matter when and where, no matter what accidents happened, there should be no panic or carelessness. This has been the life motto that Xiao Ping has set for himself since he taught himself the art of alchemy.
"Very good! Believe in yourself!"
"I can do it with my ability!"
He took some time to breathe and cleared away all the original nervousness and panic. For the sixth refining, Xiao Ping also changed his previous seriousness and solemnity, and replaced it with a calm confidence. As an alchemist, confidence cannot be lacking at any time!
"Fire! Refining!"
Suddenly, Xiao Ping shouted, and a ball of purple-red flames directly enveloped the entire alchemy furnace. He lightly touched the ring with his right hand finger. A white light flashed, and three rhizome-shaped medicinal herbs shot into the alchemy furnace like a stream of light.
"Fire Ganoderma!" "Coptis
Essence !" "Dragon Beard Grass
!"
"Red Flame Fruit!"
"Huh..."
After refining the three red flame fruits, Xiao Ping also took a deep breath, and then looked intently at the blazing purple-red flame in the alchemy furnace. He shook his head slightly, pursed his lips, and slid his fingers to the ring. He took the indigo flower in his hand, gently put it to his nose and sniffed it. "Indigo flower, one!"
As soon as the voice fell, Xiao Ping flicked his fingertips and threw the tempting indigo flower into the center of the flame. "Refining!"
Just when the indigo flower was about to touch the terrifying flame, Xiao Ping changed his handprint. Suddenly, the purple-red flame in the alchemy furnace also changed shape. As Xiao Ping's handprint fell, it turned into a purple A red whirlwind sucked the indigo flower into it, and the uniform suction force extracted the essence of the indigo flower one by one, leaving only blue and white residue.
"Dang!"
At this time, Xiao Ping slammed his big hand on the alchemy furnace. The sharp shock wave shook the five balls of medicine liquid together, and those residues fell to the bottom of the alchemy furnace.
"Third-level fire attribute magic core!"
At this time, Xiao Ping grabbed two fiery red crystals in his palm, and another ball of purple-red flames gushed out of his palm, covering the two magic cores completely. "Refine!"
The raging fire broke through the hard shell of the magic core almost instantly, and the fire attribute contained in it was extinguished. All the energy liquid was extracted. "Explode!"
Another word was uttered from Xiao Ping's mouth. Xiao Ping clenched his hands fiercely, and the ball of red energy liquid was directly grabbed and exploded into a large ball of mist in the air. "Go!"
Xiao Ping stretched out a finger and quickly circled three times at the ball of red mist in the air, and drew the energy mist that was squeezed into gas into the furnace. Then, it collided with the flame whirlwind in the furnace. As the two whirlwinds collided with each other, the energy contained in the two slowly merged together.
"The last step! Fusion of purple spirit crystal!"
Looking at the perfect fusion of the two whirlwinds, However, Xiao Ping 's expression did not change at all. Instead, he calmly took out a small piece of purple spirit crystal and placed it on the square of the flaming whirlwind. He gently let go and let the purple spirit crystal fall into the depths of the whirlwind.
At this moment, Xiao Ping took a deep breath, then put his hands together. In an instant, the flaming whirlwind separated into three pillars of fire, slowly impacting the purple spirit crystal. This step was the most critical moment in the entire refining process, because the purple spirit crystal itself was extremely brittle. Once the temperature around it was slightly different, the entire piece of purple spirit crystal would instantly shatter.
"The pill is done!"
As Xiao Ping shouted, the sixth time he refined the Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill was successful!
Xiao Ping placed his palm on the top of the alchemy furnace. In his palm, a stream of emerald green fighting spirit slowly condensed into a vortex, completely replacing the flame whirlwind in the alchemy furnace. Compared with the previous steps, this final step in the process of refining the pill did not have a direct impact on the refining of the Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill, but its importance could not be underestimated. If you are careless, the efficacy of the refined pill will be two or three points lower. For a pill used to improve cultivation, let alone a difference of three points, even if it is only one or half a cent, its value is a world of difference.
"Take it!"
Just as the Dou Qi vortex completely replaced the flame whirlwind, Xiao Ping also controlled his Dou Qi and sucked the purple crystal-shaped pill from the alchemy furnace into his palm.
"Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill"
Looking at the pill in his hand, which exuded a strong fragrance, Xiao Ping also breathed a sigh of relief. Although the quality of this pill could only be considered mid-grade among the four grades of low, medium, high, and extreme, for Xiao Ping, who was refining a pill of this level for the first time, it was already very rare!
"There is only one last batch of herbs left..."