Zhang Xiaokai sat on the stool and stared at the copper elixir furnace.

On the square stove in front of you, there are three layers of suspended cauldrons.

In the middle is a sea of ​​water made of fire and silver, used for cooling and isolation.

The upper and lower floors are refining the main elixir and the secondary elixir respectively.

Each furnace of elixir must be designed into two chambers, imitating the human body with one heart and two petals. The advantage is that the main elixir and the secondary elixir can be compared. Different temperatures have different effects and properties. Each elixir refining is not only refining the elixir, but also refining the elixir.

Continue to improve the recipe.

When selling, the main elixir and the secondary elixir are also divided into two categories: excellent and good, and the prices are marked according to the quality.

In the Jindan Kingdom, these records will be compiled and sent from the Alchemy Workshop to the Alchemy Department for comprehensive verification, and the prescriptions of existing elixirs will be further improved.

Zhang Xiaokai moved his gaze downwards and looked at the bottom of the platform.

The magic energy brought by the magic bottle continuously replenishes the fire element crystal structure in the stove, allowing the temperature to remain stable.

In the past, setting the temperature was a troublesome matter. Even firewood and coal with the same weight would cause considerable difficulties due to unpredictable changes in weather and different burning degrees caused by different types and ages of wood.

For a long time, alchemy has had very high requirements on location, alchemy furnaces, fuel, and people, and the seasons and times when the furnaces can be opened are fixed each year.

Now you don’t have to worry about these. Just select the specific number of fire element crystal structures, such as one crystal and two crystals, which represent the number of combinations of standard crystal structures. Even people who don’t know anything can prepare the corresponding ones according to these requirements.

device.

By the time the sun was about to set, the new batch of [Calming Pills] main and secondary elixirs had been completed, with a yield of over 30%. For a small workshop, this was pretty good.

Zhang Xiaokai divided the elixirs into packages, sealed them, and labeled them.

Then he showed today's results to his boss.

The boss handed him a piece of green money: "This week's salary. Once you have saved enough money, go and study. You are still too young. It is the time when you should go to the Forest College to study."

Zhang Xiaokai took it happily: "I understand, boss!"

This is the newly issued currency of the Yao people. It is a round metal coin plated with expensive light gold material. The word "1" is engraved on it, which represents the face value of 100 seashells.

As an alchemy furnace assistant without an alchemy license or apprenticeship certificate, this weekly salary is reasonable.

Zhang Xiaokai took the money and went to the corner store to buy four hot meat pies and a bottle of sunrise wine. He put it in his backpack and wrapped it in a cloth, and then ran all the way to the sand dunes outside the city.

Over the hill, in a dense cactus area, he saw the person he was looking for.

"Master Alchemist, here I come!"

A stone stove was set up among the cacti, and sitting beside the stove was a girl in green clothes with her face covered.

She has thick, silky white hair hanging down her shoulders, and her eyes are pure and bright silver. Even if her nose and mouth are covered, she can still tell that she is a beauty.

Being beautiful is certainly attractive, but what Zhang Xiaokai cares about more is her alchemy skills.

However, there was one more person beside the alchemist today.

She was a very dark-skinned woman, probably in her twenties, with a red birthmark around her eyes.

She was standing next to a sand-making furnace, wearing thick gloves, and was using a long iron pipe to burn the sand into an enamel bottle. This is sand-based enamel, and it is also one of the unique technologies of Shacheng.

But normally, doing this job requires a lot of strength, and it can usually only be done by strong men or extraordinary people. However, this ugly woman is very strong, and her eyes are focused on her enamel.

Zhang Xiaokai didn't know who this was, but he still handed the meat pie and wine to Lianzi first.

"Master, please use it."

Alchemist greeted the person next to him: "Shali, it's time to eat."

"Yes, master."

The dark-skinned woman over there carefully put down the stick, closed the lid, extinguished the fire, took off her gloves and came over.

She wiped her rough fingers with a towel, took the cake and started to nibble on it.

master?

Zhang Xiaokai was a little surprised: "Master Alchemist, don't you have no apprentices?"

"I just collected it today."

Alchemist said.

"Congratulations to Master Alchemist for gaining a disciple. She is very talented in alchemy... she is definitely not like me, with mediocre qualifications." Zhang Xiaoxin felt a little sour, but still forced a smile.

"Sha Li doesn't know how to make elixirs. She is an enamel craftsman, and the enamel she makes is very beautiful."

Zhang Xiaokai suspected that he heard wrongly: "She doesn't know how to make elixirs. Could it be that you asked her to make enamel?"

"Hmm. The container containing the elixir is also very important."

"..."

Alchemist's eyes were serious and determined.

Zhang Xiaokai couldn't help but said: "But isn't the elixir the most important thing in alchemy? No matter how beautiful the bottle is, it can't help anyone?"

"You're right. But if the bottle looks good, people will be willing to take a second look at it and carry it with them. It's necessary to look good. I taught her how to make elixirs. In the future, the elixirs and bottles can be promoted together, which will make them more popular."

Just because of this?

Teaching people alchemy for the sake of bottles?

Zhang Xiaokai was spinning all over for a moment, and he was a little unsteady on his feet.

I was obviously the one who came first!

Whether it’s getting to know the alchemy master or asking her for advice on alchemy, I always come first.

But this black-faced woman got in first!

hateful!

Zhang Xiaokai clenched his fists and felt very unwilling: "Master Alchemist, you are willing to accept a layman like her who has no foundation, why are you unwilling to accept me as your disciple?"

Shali next to him was just chewing the cake and said nothing.

"Ah? Do you want to be my apprentice?"

Alchemist looked surprised.

Zhang Xiaokai's face twitched.

Any normal person can see it!

I asked for advice on alchemy, gave me food and drinks, spoke kind words and treated me with respect. Of course it was to learn skills, or could it be because I like to serve others?

Although you are good-looking, I, Zhang Xiaokai, am not the kind of wimp who can’t walk when he sees a beautiful woman!

"I really want to be your disciple. Please accept me too!"

Zhang Xiaokai knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"no problem."

The alchemist readily agreed: "If you want to be my disciple, just tell me. How will I know if you don't tell me? I thought you were just exchanging skills with me. Sha Li just said that you want to learn some alchemy techniques from me."

, in order to make better elixir bottles."

Zhang Xiaoxin felt regretful for a while, empiricism really kills people.

According to the tradition of the Golden Alchemy Kingdom, alchemy is either practiced through an alchemy workshop or under the name of an alchemist. Either way requires a strict apprenticeship process.

The master needs to assess the disciple's character and ability. Usually, he must first become an alchemy boy in the "Xuelu Garden" and then become an alchemy apprentice, and then he is qualified to become a master.

In the end, when she got to Alchemy, she just said a word.

Originally he was supposed to be a senior brother, but now he has become a junior brother.

well.

He was angry in his heart.

The old apprenticeship system of alchemists has long been out of date!

…

Although there were some minor twists and turns, Zhang Xiaokai finally got his wish and became a disciple of Alchemist.

The rest are minutiae, and learning alchemy skills is important.

Zhang Xiaokai still remembers that when he was looking for cockroach shells in the sand dunes, he saw a girl wearing a helmet wandering alone in the desert, like a ghost.

The area she set foot on was the haunt of the Huayun Monks.

Those immortal monks wander among the sand dunes like clouds. As long as you don't actively provoke or attack them, they won't hurt others, they just wander around.

Zhang Xiaokai wanted to warn the other party of the danger.

When he ran over, he saw the girl pounced on a Huayun Monk. She was like a bird catching insects or a farmer harvesting wheat. She easily held down the Huayun Monk and kneaded it.

Tucked into her helmet.

Then she took off her helmet and began to stuff various medicinal powders into it to suppress. She heated her hands with fire and then removed the impurities, repeating this step.

As the medicine was being refining, white gas rose up in the pot, like a stretched and thin monk's shape. Finally, she used beeswax to shape the medicine powder, and it turned into a crystal bright yellow elixir.
To be continued...