Chapter 19: Refining the Elixir

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  Refining the Xuan Yang Dan pill requires Xuan Yang Cao as the main ingredient, along with some other materials. These materials are not particularly rare or expensive, so they can be found in Xiao Yao Zi's storage. Some of these materials were leftover from when Xiao Yao Zi previously refined the Xuan Yang Dan, while others were added later on. After experiencing the benefits of the Xuan Yang Dan for himself, Xiao Yao Zi made it a point to collect and store materials needed to refine the pill whenever he had the chance, hoping that one day he would be lucky enough to obtain more Xuan Yang Cao.

  Xiaoyaozi never got the Xuan Yang grass again, but he kept those materials, which benefited Xiao Liuxing. Although Xiaoyaozi had not practiced alchemy before, he was a master in theory because he was originally a grandmaster of alchemy.

  Sitting cross-legged on the empty land over 100 meters in front of a small wooden house, Xiao Liu Xing held an object about 10 cm high with three legs and resembling an incense burner. Xiao Chun Tian was watching him from the doorway of the small wooden house. The object was taken out by Xiao Liu Xing from his storage ring and was the only top-grade treasure inside. The higher the grade of the Dan furnace, the higher the quality of the elixir refined. Naturally, Xiao Liu Xing would choose the best one.

  Like refining the flying sword before, Xiao Liuxing did not plan to refine the Xuan Yang Dan at first. What if one control was not good, those materials would be completely scrapped. Xiao Liuxing is not worried about his own Xuan Yang Grass now, what he worries about are those matching materials!

  "Qing Xin Dan" is the pill that Xiao Liu Xing has prepared to experiment with. This pill is very common in the Xiuzhen world and is a healing type. Xiao Liu Xing chose it because it is easy to refine, requiring only three materials to succeed, and the materials needed to refine it are the most abundant in the Xiao Yao Sect, able to withstand his experimental consumption.

  First, slowly inject the Chaos Qi into the alchemy furnace in your hand, letting it slowly leave your hand and float up, gradually increasing in size. When it flies to a distance of over one meter from Xiao Liuxing's chest, reaching a size similar to half that of a water vat, floating in mid-air, Xiao Liuxing stops inputting Chaos True Qi. At this time, the alchemy furnace starts emitting a burst of green light. Xiao Liuxing quickly adds the prepared materials inside, then covers it with the lid. The three types of materials are added in three batches. Both quantity and timing must be well grasped.

  After adding the first material, Little Meteor began to transport the Chaotic Fire. The gray flames of the Chaotic Fire floated under the alchemy furnace, burning fiercely with a "crackling" sound, and Little Meteor's divine sense completely enveloped the furnace at this time, and the changes inside the furnace were fully reflected in his mind. The materials that were originally added to the furnace slowly melted into white under the burning of the Chaotic Fire.

  When half of the material inside had turned into **, Little Shooting Star added a second type of material. When this second type of material had also completely melted, a third and final type of material was added by Little Shooting Star, at which point the ** in the alchemy furnace turned yellow. The third material took about half an hour to melt completely, at which point the yellow ** turned green.

  All three materials turned into **, and the small shooting star had not yet extinguished the primordial fire. As time passed, the blue ** began to boil, producing a blue gas. The gas grew more and more abundant, and the pressure in the alchemical furnace also grew greater and greater. When all of the ** had transformed into gas, about ten minutes later, the small shooting star suddenly extinguished the primordial fire. The high temperature of the primordial fire rapidly dissipated, and the blue mist began to condense. With a loud "boom", the entire alchemical furnace shook violently. The first attempt at refining the elixir had been a perfect success.

  In Little Meteor's mind, more than 20 pellets of cyan Dan medicine lay quietly at the bottom of the alchemy furnace. With a satisfied smile, Little Meteor took out a porcelain bottle from the Carefree Ring and put those Dan medicines into this porcelain bottle, then put the porcelain bottle back into the Carefree Ring...

  Xiao Liuxing refined the "Qing Xin Dan" several times, totaling over a hundred pellets. Twice, he intentionally ruined it to grasp the size of the fire and the timing of adding materials. When he felt that his control over the fire and the addition of materials was almost proficient, he ended his experimental move. He began preparing to cultivate the Xuan Yang Dan.

  The preparation of Xuan Yang Dan involves over a hundred types of materials, added in more than ten stages. Among them, the Xuan Yang herb needs to be added together with several other materials at the beginning, and the fire temperature cannot be too high or too low. Xiao Liu Xing knew about this situation from the start, so he intentionally ruined two batches of "Qing Xin Dan" for experimentation purposes.

  According to the memory of Master Xīyángzǐ, Xiǎo Liúxīng strictly followed the steps. The entire process lasted for about three hours, or six hours, at which point all the materials had been added to the alchemical furnace and had transformed into **.

  Unlike the refining of "Qing Xin Dan", at this time, the heavenly yuan energy around the alchemy furnace began to drill into the alchemy furnace. The lid of the alchemy furnace slowly rose and stopped about three centimeters above the alchemy furnace. At the beginning, it was still a small range, relatively slow, but as time passed, the range gradually increased, and the speed became faster and faster. Finally, an energy vortex formed above the alchemy furnace, with the center of the vortex being the alchemy furnace itself. At this time, Xiao Liuxing increased the chaotic fire, allowing the entire chaotic fire to burn except for the position of the lid, wrapping everything else in flames.

  The energy vortex existed for about an hour and then disappeared, and the lid of the alchemy furnace fell back onto the furnace, sealing it. At this time, ** began to produce gas inside the alchemy furnace. The situation became similar to refining "Qing Xin Dan" again. The only difference was that "Qing Xin Dan" took about an hour and a half to turn into gas.

  The materials inside the alchemy furnace have completely turned into gas, but it took a whole three days! During these three days, Xiaoliu continuously burned the alchemy furnace with the Chaotic Fire, and the temperature didn't change in the slightest.

  It was another loud "boom", and the elixir furnace shook violently again. This time, the shockwave was extremely strong. If Little Liuxing hadn't been prepared to suppress the lid with the Chaotic Air at the critical moment, who knows how far the lid would have flown out!

  The cauldron floating in the air was lowered to the ground, and the lid was opened. A refreshing fragrance wafted out, and even before eating the dan, just smelling the fragrance emitted by the dan medicine made Xiaoliu Xing feel comfortable all over, and the fatigue of refining the dan medicine for three consecutive days disappeared. In the cauldron, three green dan medicines, each about the size of a large marble, quietly sat in the middle. This was the Xuanyang Dan! It was the Xuanyang Dan refined by Xiaoliu Xing using the yellow Xuanyang grass!

  At the door, Xiaochun Tian was also attracted by that refreshing fragrance, "Brother, is this the Xuan Yang Dan you were talking about? It smells so good, it must be delicious!" Xiaochun Tian's eyes widened with curiosity as she stared at the Xuan Yang Dan in Xiao Liuxing's hand. Seeing her drooling expression, Xiao Liuxing chuckled and handed her a pill, "Here, take it and eat it, then sit down to refine it. I'll help you guard against evil spirits by your side. After eating this one, you can break through to the later stage of Bi Gu, and it won't be far before you reach Jijie Jin Dan."

  Xiao Chun Tian was overjoyed when she heard that she could gather the Golden Elixir as quickly as her brother after eating it, and immediately stuffed the Xuan Yang Dan into her mouth. Because Xiao Liu Xing had promised to help her refine a flying sword once she gathered the Golden Elixir, she had been looking forward to flying in the air for a long time.

  Xiao Chun Tian broke through easily, breaking through to the late stage of the Void Valley, not far from the Golden Elixir. The Xuan Yang Dan increased Xiao Chun Tian's cultivation by about 500 years. It's estimated that with one more pill, she can break through to the Golden Elixir stage. However, Xiao Liu Xing is not ready to give it to her yet, having just broken through to the late stage of the Void Valley, and her realm has not stabilized. If she increases her cultivation by several hundred years again, it's easy to fall into demonic possession, after all, "desire for speed will not reach". Anyway, the elixir is here and won't run away.

  Xiao Chun Tian opened her eyes and knew she had broken through, happily bouncing up and down several times. This made Xiao Liu Xing burst out laughing again. Xiao Liu Xing found that since being with Xiao Chun Tian, he had laughed many more times.

  He calmed down the excited Little Spring, letting her fully experience the new realm. Then he began to refine the Xuan Yang Dan again. Master Xiao Yao had saved several sets of refining materials for the Xuan Yang Dan. So Little Flowing Star could still refine it. This time, Little Flowing Star decided to use golden Xuan Yang grass to refine it. Since there were only a few sets of materials, he didn't know if he would find those materials again in the future. To be on the safe side, he decided to refine one set with 1000-year to 500-year-old Xuan Yang grass and the rest with 5000-year to 1000-year-old Xuan Yang grass! The red and pink ones were at least 5000 years old or more; if that Xuan Yang Dan was refined, he wouldn't dare eat it even if he died a few times over!

  It can't be done now, when he feels that his alchemy skills have reached a certain level, he still has to practice, and if he doesn't dare to eat it, he can just put it away first. The carefree ring has a special space for storing elixirs, which is not big but can keep the elixir very well, no matter what kind of elixir or medicine, as long as it is placed inside, it will never go bad! According to his master's memory, in the entire cultivation world, only his carefree ring and the storage ring of the Lord of the Valley of Divine Doctor have this function. It can be seen how rare it is. Xiaoliu Xing is also thinking of refining other Xuanyang Dan because he knows about this function of the carefree ring. Can't eat now, wait until own cultivation is higher to eat, so as not to want it later but don't have it.

  Xiao Liuxing continued to sit cross-legged on the ground, and the gray Chaos Fire began to burn under the alchemy furnace that had already added materials. Xiao Liuxing's expression was extremely solemn. A new round of alchemy had begun.