Chapter 124: Pseudo Emperor Cauldron
During the chat, Li Fei learned that an advanced advanced alchemist, that is, one of the hard standards of the "master", was to use the only pseudo-"tian"-level tripod of the Danji Sect to successfully refine a furnace of alchemy.
The reason why the word "fake" is added is because the function of this tripod is far greater than that of the ordinary "earth"-level tripod, but it is obviously different from the real heaven-level tripod. The biggest difference is that this fake emperor tripod is very large and cannot be refined, and can only be fixed in one place. Another headache is that a large amount of spiritual medicine must be added at one time. If it is too little, it will not be able to be refined successfully, which seriously limits the conditions for use. Normally, no one is willing to take such a big risk, use a large handful of spiritual medicines to gamble to save that time, and use a general earth-level tripod to refine it multiple times, and there will be more risks.
According to the fact, most of the monks who have advanced to "masters" are forced to use some lowest-level spiritual medicines to pass this level, and they will not suffer too much loss if they fail. This also leads to the Pseudo Emperor Cauldron being idle for a long time and no one has used it for many years.
When Li Fei heard this news, he was attracted by its positive effects. Although the pseudo-Emperor Cauldron has obvious shortcomings, it also has obvious benefits. First of all, it can refine a large amount of elixirs at one time, saving a lot of time.
Li Fei is already impatient with spending a lot of time to refine the spiritual transformation pills now. At the current speed, the remaining spiritual transformation pill materials are enough to refine for eight to nine years. If they can be done with the pseudo-Emperor Cauldron at one time, most of the ten years will be saved, and it will be very beneficial whether it is used to practice or refine other elixirs.
Secondly, due to the high level of the pseudo-Emperor Cauldron, it can improve a certain success rate compared to the earth-level cauldron. In terms of the quality of the pill, there is a higher chance of high-quality pills, and there are also lower possible best pills.
In general, if you have a good grasp of refining a certain elixir and can withstand the losses of failure, it is still a good choice. After comprehensive consideration, Li Fei decided to challenge it based on full preparation.
In the next three months, Li Fei only refined all the spiritual elixirs and no longer refined the spiritual elixirs. After all the refining was completed, he asked Teacher Wujing for two months off to officially challenge the Pseudo-Emperor Cauldron.
Li Fei applied for a two-month period to the alchemist who managed the Pseudo Emperor Cauldron for the reason of observation, but unexpectedly he was approved very smoothly. This is because although there are very few people using the Pseudo Emperor Cauldron, there are not many disciples who want to visit, and they usually go and see it to increase their knowledge.
Half an hour later, Li Fei came to a medium-sized extinct volcano in the central area of Huangshi Academy. Due to the unique status of the pseudo-Emperor Cauldron, there are no other alchemy rooms in this medium-sized extinct volcano, only one super large alchemy room with the pseudo-Emperor Cauldron. For the safety of the tripod, various reinforcement and defense restrictions are extremely powerful. Even if there is a large eruption in this extinct volcano, it will not cause any damage to the alchemy room.
Due to countless powerful bans, this alchemy room did not arrange personnel to guard it, but was inspected regularly by the management department. Therefore, Li Fei opened dozens of bans with a special spiritual sign and successfully entered this super alchemy room.
As soon as he entered, Li Fei was strongly shocked by the huge pseudo-Emperor Cauldron in front of him! The pseudo-Emperor Cauldron, which is more than five zhang high and three zhang in diameter, was placed in the center of the hall! Under the pseudo-Emperor Cauldron, there are nine alchemy furnaces alone, arranged according to certain rules. Near the pseudo-Emperor Cauldron are two large movable multi-functional elixir test cabinets, and there are a circle of stone doors ten feet away from the pseudo-Emperor Cauldron, and there are estimated to be dozens of rooms.
To be cautious, Li Fei first carefully checked the hall and each room, but found no abnormalities. He only found that three of the rooms were shaped elixir rooms, probably for some preliminary work, and finally started to check the pseudo-Emperor Cauldron.
Li Fei made five magic tricks in succession. After a "buzzing" sound, the cauldron cover slowly opened and finally hovered several feet above the mouth of the cauldron. Li Fei jumped gently, jumped up, stood in the mouth of the cauldron and observed, and found that except for dozens of big buckets of spiritual medicines, the finally collected channels of the elixirs were densely packed, with dozens of layers, and various different formations were counted.
Although the interior of the Pseudo Emperor Cauldron was well maintained, it took Li Fei three days to clean it as he asked, and finally he automatically cleaned it three times according to the method recorded on the Pseudo Emperor Cauldron before he restored the cauldron cover. After Li Fei cleaned the Pseudo Emperor Cauldron, he carefully checked and cleaned the spiritual medicine cabinet, and then turned on the alchemy furnace one by one to check the operation of the alchemy furnace.
After completing all the inspections, Li Fei took a top-grade spiritual transformation pill and started practicing. Three days later, Li Fei finished practicing, took a bath, changed his clothes, and adjusted his condition to the best, and officially opened the furnace to refine the alchemy.
The basic process of alchemy is not much different from that of Li Fei's previous use of the ground-level tripod. The main reason is that the preheating time in the early stage is longer. The most important step is to refine alchemy. Because there are too many spiritual medicines loaded at one time, the magic formula needs to be converted frequently during the alchemy process, and extremely skillful techniques and adaptability are required. If you are not careful, you may lead to failure. Of course, the preliminary preparation work is still the basic prerequisite for success.
After Li Fei practiced all the steps and details in his mind, he used a trick to turn on the first alchemy furnace and preheat the alchemy cauldron. Then, he turned on all the alchemy furnaces one by one according to the corresponding opportunity.
One hour later, Li Fei made the last spell on the alchemy furnace, adjusting the flames of the nine alchemy furnaces to the right level, and evenly preheating the Pseudo-Emperor Cauldron. As the preheating of the Pseudo-Emperor Cauldron was almost completed, a faint sound of wind and thunder came from the Pseudo-Emperor Cauldron.
Three hours later, Li Fei had already turned the flame of the elixir furnace into lilac. After two hours of preheating, the pseudo-Emperor Cauldron had returned to calm. He quickly made a series of magic tricks, and with a dull "boom", the cauldron cover flew up, hovering in the air about one foot away from the mouth of the cauldron and stayed still.
Li Feiyue climbed the steel ladder prepared in advance and checked the situation inside the Pseudo Emperor Cauldron. At this time, the yellow fog in the Pseudo Emperor Cauldron kept rolling, and thin electric sparks appeared and disappeared. After Li Fei used his divine thoughts to test that there was no result, he had to continue to observe the changes in it with his naked eyes.
When the pseudo-Emperor Cauldron was relatively calm and the yellow fog appeared a faint red, Li Fei began to get busy in a nervous and orderly manner, quickly putting the refined large amount of spiritual medicine into the big bucket in the alchemy tripod, and strictly controlling the stability of the spiritual medicine flow in the big bucket, and fine-tuning the firepower of different furnaces in the timely manner...
The process of alchemy lasted for nine days. After covering the cauldron, he finally entered the relatively relaxed stage of elixir accumulation. Although Li Fei felt very tired, his accumulation of alchemy experience over the years and the improvement of his cultivation finally did not exceed his previous expectations and successfully completed this critical step.
Taking advantage of the relatively stable gap when he had just entered the pill stage, Li Fei relaxed for a while, and then continued to cheer up and watch the progress of pill. After years of continuous pill refining, Li Fei summarized his own set of methods for pill refining. He no longer maintained a high tension state, but relaxed in moderation. During a relatively safe period, relax as much as possible and restored his physical strength and energy, so that he could better adapt to the high-intensity pill refining process, reduce artificial mistakes, and increase the success rate of pill refining.
This time the stage of the Pill Convergence lasted for eighteen days. An accident occurred during this period. In the final stage of the Pill Convergence, the pseudo-Emperor Cauldron suddenly vibrated a little, as if a beast was locked inside, shaking endlessly. Fortunately, the duration was not too long. After Li Fei blessed more than ten stable bans, he slowly returned to his peace.
Li Fei didn't know why this situation occurred, so he could only hope that it would not have a major adverse effect on the elixir, otherwise he would be in tears. Although Li Fei was mentally prepared for failure when he decided to use the Pseudo Emperor Cauldron to refine the alchemy, he still felt great loss when he could actually have a failed ending. He felt that this price was too great and that ordinary monks could bear.
After a long torture in the last few days, Li Fei finally survived. When he smelled the faint fragrance of medicine, Li Fei was so excited that he danced with joy. He really hoped that someone could share the happiness at this moment! The suppressed nerves were instantly liberated, and the joy similar to the survivor of the disaster was hard to describe in words...
As the entire hall was filled with the fragrance of medicine, a muffled sound came from the pseudo-Emperor Cauldron, and the cauldron cap was automatically opened. Li Fei laughed and jumped up the steel ladder. Looking at the dense and uncountable spiritual transformation pills, he felt so happy... After completely closing all the pill furnaces, he was ready to harvest the results.
In order to extend this rare joy, Li Fei did not use the function of the pseudo-Emperor Cauldron to collect all the elixirs in one large container at a time. However, for a while, Li Fei really didn't have a suitable container to collect so many elixirs, so he would not be able to use a plastic bucket to hold it. In that case, it would be unfavorable to preserve the elixirs.
Since Li Fei had harvested a large amount of various jades in previous battles, he decided to temporarily make dozens of large jade bottles that can contain thousands of spiritual pills.
More than an hour later, Li Fei made forty or fifty super-large jade bottles in one breath, and almost used up all the large pieces of jade that could be used.
In order to facilitate screening of different quality spirit-making pills, Li Fei decided to take only one hundred pills at a time and then put them into three different large jade bottles. During the collection process, Li Fei was surprised to find that the number of high-quality and medium-quality spirit-making pills was much higher than he thought. Not long after, when a bottle of thousands of jade bottles filled with ordinary spirit-making pills, Li Fei got twenty-six pills alone! More than three hundred medium-quality spirit-making pills.
Chapter completed!