Ten days ago, Master Zhongli did not teach Xiao Mo anything. He just asked Zuo Xiutong to come and watch when he needed to open the furnace and refine the alchemy.

Then, Master Zhongli kept guiding Xiao Mo to get some things. For example, when he refining the Soul Pill, he asked Xiao Mo to obtain various materials for the Soul Pill, such as the Soul Pill, the Heart Soul Grass, the Song Shuhua, and the Star Moon Qinlan...

When refining the Heavenly King Baoxin Pill, Xiao Mo also asked Xiao Mo to obtain the three main ingredients for refining the Heavenly King Baoxin Pill, such as the heart-free fruit, Jiusheng Wangcao, Baizigen, etc.

The medicine ages required for refining different soul-stabilizing pills are different. However, the heartless fruits, Jiushengwang grass, Baizigen, etc. used to refining the Heavenly King Preservation Pills also differ.

For example, the second-grade primary elixir, the short soul-determination pill requires the age of the fixed beetle grass between five and ten years, while the heart-hun grass takes more than ten years; while the second-grade medium-grade elixir, the medicinal materials required for the second-grade medium-grade elixir, the age range has increased. The fixed beetle grass takes between ten and thirty years, while the heart-hun grass is more than twenty years...

As for the second-grade high-grade elixir, the Great Soul-Ding Pill, it takes between thirty and fifty years to determine the beetle, and the Heart Soul-Ding Grass takes more than fifty years to...

Each medicinal material has different medicinal properties and changes its appearance. Master Zhongli asked Xiao Mo to learn to debate medicine and deal with medicinal materials in the process of constantly picking and handing over the grass.

Memorizing the entire "Spiritual Medicine Appreciation" does not mean that everything will be fine. There is a clear difference between talking about war on paper and getting started with actual combat.

Just like Xiao Mo, before this, he memorized the medicinal properties and pharmacology of Dingfengcao and Xinhun Grass, but when Master Zhongli really started to refine alchemy and asked him to go to the front yard to select a few combined Dingfengcao and Xinhun Grass, he stood among the piles of herbs in the front yard, and stood for half an hour.

First of all, there are obvious differences between the pictures and the actual objects. How to accurately choose which one of the herbs is Dingfeng, Heart and Soul Grass, and Light familiarity with the spiritual medicine to identify Dingfeng, the image of Heart and Soul Grass has no effect. Only when you have truly seen it with your own eyes and slowly overlap it with the book can you truly understand the appearance of a herb.

In addition, knowing the appearance of herbs and how to quickly distinguish it from many herbs, and finding out its age, medicinal properties, and origin are all very tests. It is difficult to reach that level without long-term immersion.

Finally, it is necessary to quickly remove some parts of the body that cannot be used as medicine, clean them up, and finally send them to Master Zhongli, which is also a unique skill.

At this point, Xiao Mo realized that even the alchemy chores who had always thought were simple and lowly before were not simple. They usually chose, identified, and then classified them, and sent the processed herbs to the backyard and handed them over to Master Zhongli to refine alchemy.

Among them, various processes such as just debating medicine, classification, processing, preservation, etc. are very complicated and difficult, and they also contain rich pharmacological knowledge.

After two days, Xiao Mo was finally able to quickly distinguish the appearance of the grass and the heart and soul grass, and roughly distinguish the age of the medicine from their appearance and smell, and then clean it up and deliver it to Master Zhongli.

Seeing this, Master Zhongli smiled with satisfaction and began to teach Xiao Mo the next step.

Control the fire!

For the refining of elixirs, it is far from enough to know which medicines to use to refine elixirs.

The so-called alchemy is to use many herbs through the king and ministers to assist in the envoys. After the main and secondary separation, the fire is used to clean the impurities and retain the essence, and finally neutralize it to form a pill. It can exert special effects. It can either increase cultivation, break through bottlenecks, nourish muscles and produce blood, eliminate poisons and fasting, or prolong life...

Different elixirs require different herbs. However, if the fire is not well controlled, no matter how good or precious the herbs are, they will be destroyed in an instant. Even if you know more elixirs, you will not be able to refine even a pill.

Therefore, it is very important to control the fire to keep it at a stable level, neither intense nor soft.

First, Master Zhongli used a small elixir furnace to test Xiao Mo casually. He first put in a few low-level herbs and then asked Xiao Mo to turn them into medicine liquid.

For the first time, Xiao Mo let out a "bang", fearing that the flames were not big, so he directly made the herbs in the alchemy furnace burn into ashes in an instant, and a stream of black smoke came out...

Xiao Mo: "..."

Master Zhongli looked at his expression and smiled slightly: "It will happen if you control the fire for the first time. It is either too high or too low. It's normal. Let's try again!"

When Xiao Mo heard this, he nodded and was not discouraged. He waited for the elixir to cool down, cleaned it up, then put in a few low-level herbs and tried it.

This time he didn't dare to burn the flames too much, so he was careful and added one by one. As a result, half an hour passed, the entire furnace temperature did not heat up, and Master Zhongli knocked a chestnut: "Stupid, when will you be able to melt it into medicine liquid in this year, and you haven't even melted the medicine liquid, let alone the subsequent alchemy steps!"

Xiao Mo was anxious, the flames rose, and with a "bang", the herbs in the alchemy furnace were burned to ashes again.

Seeing this, Zhongli Shan smiled and did not blame him. Instead, he encouraged: "Actually, when you came on the first day, I found that your soul perception is extremely strong. If you try to wrap the alchemy furnace with your soul perception and feel the changes in the herbs inside, perhaps, it will be easy for you to master the secret of controlling the fire."

"good."

Xiao Mo nodded, cleaned the medicine furnace again, put the pills back in. Then, instead of rushing to increase the fire, he spread his soul's perception out first, and finally wrapped the entire pills in it like a layer of silkworm cocoon.

He then began to lit the fire. In an instant, with a "boom", a burst of heat rose in his soul's senses, licking the alchemy furnace. The herbs in the alchemy furnace softened a little, but obviously they did not reach the melting point.

Seeing this, Xiao Mo knew it. This time he was careful and added a little firepower. In an instant, the elixir furnace turned red. Then several herbs in the elixir softened at the same time, and then turned into clear and transparent medicine liquid, flowing around in the elixir furnace.

Seeing this, Xiao Mo hurriedly lowered the elixir temperature and slowly merged with the medicine liquid. However, in the end, he had to truly refine the elixir and fuse the medicine liquid and refine it into the elixir. The furnace temperature was too high, and the medicine liquid inside evaporated instantly. However, the furnace temperature was too deed, and the medicine liquid could not be fused, and the elixir was eventually failed.

However, when Master Zhongli saw this scene, he smiled with relief. It would be difficult for others to master the fire without three or five years of learning. However, Xiao Mo's soul perception is inherently powerful. As long as he can use his soul to sense all the situations in the furnace at any time, it is not difficult for him to control the fire.

Three days later, Xiao Mo was finally able to initially control the fire, and then Master Zhongli truly taught Xiao Mo various knowledge about the alchemy.

First of all, the grades of herbs, elixirs, and alchemists.

On the Heart Saint Continent, if you want to become an alchemist, you must not be unfamiliar with the classification of herbs, elixirs, and alchemists. This is the most basic knowledge. Only by mastering the basics can you learn other things.

Various herbs in the Heart Saint Continent are divided into eleven levels including ordinary herbs, gray level, green level, yellow level, green level, blue level, purple level, red level, orange level, fairy level, magical medicine, etc. Each level is divided into four levels: low, medium, high, and top.

Such as the green-level low-level spiritual grass Dingfeng grass, and the green-level intermediate spiritual grass Heart and soul grass.

Ordinary herbs correspond to thousands of ordinary people, and are herbs used by people in the mundane world, such as hemostatic herbs, Duhuo, Angelica sinensis, etc.... These cannot be called spiritual herbs, but they correspond to ordinary diseases.

And the herbs start from the gray level and are considered real spiritual herbs. The gray level corresponds to the state of entering into the world of mind cultivation, the green level corresponds to the free and illusory realm, the yellow level corresponds to the realm of Qiwu, the green level corresponds to the health realm, etc., and so on…

The higher the level of spiritual medicine, the more precious it is, the more difficult it is to collect. Correspondingly, the higher the level of spiritual medicine, the refined elixirs are also more expensive, with higher quality, and the higher the level of alchemist required.

Corresponding to herbs is the grade of the elixir, from the first to the ninth grade, each elixir is divided into first, middle, high and extreme fourth grade, such as the second grade primary elixir, small soul-determining pill, third grade medium elixir Tianwang protecting pill, fifth grade primary elixir Hongchen refining pill, etc.

The higher the level of elixir, the longer the main medicine required, the higher the grade. There are few sayings that gray-level herbs are used to refine second-level elixirs. Even if there is, it is an auxiliary medicine and has little effect. The main medicine of second-level elixirs is generally at least green-level.

The main medicine of the third-grade elixir is the yellow level.

The price of each elixir is very different due to the different medicinal materials used, the difficulty of refining, and the price is very different. Some are not valuable at all, while others are worth tens of thousands of dollars a pill, and there is no market price.

As for alchemists, they are generally calculated based on the highest-grade elixirs that can be refined normally.

Those who have just entered the alchemy field and have never successfully refined any grade of elixirs are alchemy apprentices like Xiao Mo. Those who have successfully refined first-grade elixirs after the alchemy apprentice are called low-level alchemy masters, also known as first-grade alchemy masters.

Those who can successfully refine second-grade pills are intermediate alchemists, also known as second-grade pills, third-grade pills, fourth-grade pills, also known as fourth-grade pills, that is, the level of Master Zhongli.

The fifth-grade alchemy master, the sixth-grade alchemy master, the seventh-grade alchemy king, the eighth-grade alchemy saint, and the ninth-grade alchemy immortal.

In the entire Zhidao Academy, there are only three alchemy masters. They can refine fourth-grade elixirs at the highest level, while there is only one alchemy master, who is high above, that is, the current master of the alchemy hall, Qiu Baimei Qiu Alchemy Master.

All the elixirs above the fifth grade of Zhidao Academy were made by him. In addition to refining medicine for the mountain master and several deputy mountain masters, the other elixirs he refined were pitifully few, and even fewer of them could be spread outside.

So if the fourth-grade elixir is said to be expensive, the fifth-grade elixir is often sky-high and cannot be bought even if you have money.

Of course, for Xiao Mo now, he is a guy who is not even an alchemist, so he should not want to refine the fourth-grade or fifth-grade pill at the level.
Chapter completed!