Chapter 181: Pill Formation

Zhang Zhiwen returned to the house, sat down to meditate, and then calmly looked at some materials for refining Xuanling Pills in front of him.

There were ten sets of these materials, all provided by He Yu. For He, ten sets of materials for Xuanling Pills were not too difficult to come by, and Xuanling Fruit was naturally among them, but the Xuanling Fruit had been dried long ago, but the seeds should still be usable.

In addition, there were naturally some other medicinal materials, such as Peiling Fruit and Guxian Fruit, as well as various prescriptions, and various beast pills and bones, but the beast pills and bones had been ground into powder, which was convenient to carry, and did not affect the refining of pills or spiritual tools, etc.

The Xuanling Pill materials that Zhang Zhiwen had worked so hard for were now within reach. Although there were only ten portions, these ten portions of materials should be able to refine dozens of Xuanling Pills, or at least ten Xuanling Pills. Of course, this was Zhang Zhiwen's inference, and it might not be the case, because he had never refined Xuanling Pills, and He Yu did not say how many pills could be produced, because He Yu must have thought that Zhang Zhiwen must know the yield of Xuanling Pills, after all, He Cuiying knew how to refine Xuanling Pills.

However, these alchemy materials were not what Zhang Zhiwen cared about the most, and Zhang Zhiwen had a purpose in helping the He family, otherwise why would he go to such great lengths to pretend to be He Cuiying?

Zhang Zhiwen was of course thinking of using this identity to sneak into the He family, and in the future, the alchemy materials would naturally be inexhaustible, and he would be able to enjoy them by embezzling some of them at will. This was Zhang Zhiwen's real intention, and to achieve this step, he would definitely help He Yu get more resources at tomorrow's exchange meeting, so Zhang Zhiwen would have such a plan, which could be regarded as helping others and himself, and from beginning to end, Zhang Zhiwen did not want to provoke He Yu, as for He Cuiying, that guy was looking for death, and he had to provoke Zhang Zhiwen, so Zhang Zhiwen could not just sit there and wait for death, so Zhang Zhiwen never thought that he had to become an unforgivable bad guy, but he would not be a soft egg that could be easily controlled by others. If the gap in strength was too big, he, Zhang Zhiwen, would of course choose to lie dormant, and if he could fight back, he would naturally fight back without hesitation at the first time, which was his way of survival.

However, it is too early to talk about other things now. Let's refine the Xuanling Pill first, otherwise everything will be in vain. Refining the Xuanling Pill requires experience in alchemy, which Zhang Zhiwen is not too worried about. He has refined a lot of pills from Lingqi San to Peiling Dan, and he has quite a lot of experience in alchemy.

In this way, Zhang Zhiwen did not waste time. Now time is precious. It takes a lot of time to refine all the ten alchemy materials. He started to refine the pills. Of course, he started with the materials given by He Yu and succeeded in refining the Xuanling Pill first.

Therefore, Zhang Zhiwen took the first batch of materials to try his hand. This batch of materials can usually be refined into ten furnaces, and one furnace takes about one stick of incense. However, Zhang Zhiwen did not intend to waste time. He took out all the alchemy furnaces and put them together. There were five alchemy furnaces in total. At this time, he did not care much about the difference in the quality of the alchemy furnaces. How bad could He's alchemy furnace be? The Seven-aperture Fire Thunder Cauldron is similar to these alchemy furnaces. Of course, the Immortal Mansion Token must be put away. He Yu also knows this. This is to prevent other elders of the He family from spying. He Yu also asked Zhang Zhiwen to do this. It can be seen that there are intrigues and deceptions within the big family. This is naturally in line with Zhang Zhiwen's idea. So no one is supervising Zhang Zhiwen at this moment. He Zhiwen can refine the elixir as he wants. He is very free.

Five alchemy furnaces are refined together, and the efficiency must be much higher. Five furnaces of elixir can be produced in one incense stick. No matter whether it is a waste elixir or a finished elixir, one portion of medicinal materials will be consumed within two incense sticks, and then ten portions of medicinal materials will take about five hours, which is just in time for tomorrow's exchange meeting.

However, this was also the first time that Zhang Zhiwen used five alchemy furnaces to make pills together, so he still needed to be cautious. But after opening the furnace, Zhang Zhiwen found that it was actually no different from refining pills with one alchemy furnace. He just had to pay more attention to the temperature. With his current seventh-level Qi Refining cultivation, it was not a problem to pay attention to the temperature. It could even be said that it was more than enough. The really difficult part was the details of alchemy. Zhang Zhiwen was already quite experienced in these things. In this way, Zhang Zhiwen quickly completed the refining of five furnaces of pills. As expected, all five furnaces of pills were scrapped, and the success rate was infinitely close to zero.

Seeing such a result, Zhang Zhiwen had no worries. If he had never refined pills, he might still be worried, but he had refined a lot of pills and had seen many such situations, especially the first time he opened a furnace to refine a new pill, it would inevitably fail in large numbers. So, he continued to refine the second batch of pills, and also refined five furnaces of pills at the same time. After one stick of incense, the five furnaces of pills had been refined. As expected, they were all scrapped.

At this time, Zhang Zhiwen stopped to think for a while. After two consecutive failures, he needed to sum up his experience, otherwise he would fail again next time. This was also his habit in refining the alchemy. Combining his past experience with what he had just seen, he roughly figured out some things that he was not familiar with before. For example, this Xuanling Pill seemed to be a wood-attributed pill. Therefore, he had to lower the temperature of the flame slightly, and then try to keep the alchemy furnace at a certain humidity, that is, wrap the alchemy furnace with some water aura. This might be much better.

This kind of thing is not recorded in the Dan Dian, it all depends on experience, and Zhang Zhiwen has this ability. He has experience in alchemy, so he continued to refine the third batch of five furnaces of elixirs, and this time the speed of alchemy was not slow but faster. Before the end of one stick of incense, all five furnaces of elixirs were refined, and one of the furnaces was finally successful. The fragrance of medicine floated out of the furnace. This fragrance was extremely refreshing, and it also had a little bit of the warmth of water and wood attributes. The efficacy of the Xuanling Pill that was refined was already better than the Xuanling Pill refined by He Cuiying.

At this moment, there was a little movement outside Zhang Zhiwen's door, and only a cough was heard. Zhang Zhiwen certainly knew what happened. It was He Yu outside. He Yu was anxious about refining the elixir, so he squatted outside the door all night waiting. The elixir had just been made, and he smelled the fragrance. He was so excited that he coughed.

However, Zhang Zhiwen still pretended not to know and shouted outside: "Father, are you outside?"

"Ahem... um... um... well, I just came outside to relieve myself and happened to pass by. It's okay, you continue to make pills, I'll go back first."

He Yu's voice was quite embarrassed, but he seemed quite happy, but soon, his footsteps faded away. Obviously, even his father couldn't covet Zhang Zhiwen's alchemy skills, which was also a taboo.

Zhang Zhiwen didn't care much, anyway, he was not worried about being discovered by He Yu. Now he used the materials provided by He Yu to make pills, and the alchemy furnace was also given by He Yu, so there was nothing shameful.

However, after He Yu left, Zhang Zhiwen could make pills more easily and freely. Later, he continued to make pills, which was also the fourth batch of five furnaces of pills, and this time, he also succeeded in making only one Xuanling Pill.

Two sets of alchemy materials have been consumed, and only two Xuanling Pills have been produced. Of course, Zhang Zhiwen is confident that he can produce one Xuanling Pill for every five furnaces in the future. This success rate has basically reached 20%, which is quite good. You must know that this is a high-level Qi Refining Pill. With such a high success rate, it is also thanks to Zhang Zhiwen's extremely rich experience in alchemy. It is difficult for others to imitate Zhang Zhiwen's experience in alchemy. Who can refine so many Peiling Pills like him? Not to mention the He family, even if several He families are combined, it is difficult to provide such rich alchemy experience to a single child. After all, there are too many children who refine mid-level Qi Refining Pills. Once there are too many people and resources are dispersed, they will not be able to compare with Zhang Zhiwen.

This is not like refining the high-level Qi-refining elixir such as Xuanling Pill. The family will most likely choose one or two outstanding alchemists to train and refine Xuanling Pill. For example, He Cuiying is such a child, but there are not so many materials for Xuanling Pill. Therefore, He Cuiying's experience in alchemy is actually far less than Zhang Zhiwen's. So it is not that Zhang Zhiwen has a high talent for alchemy. In this case, it is more about hard work, not talent.

With the experience provided by these two materials, Zhang Zhiwen has a good understanding of the refining of Xuanling Pill. Now he only needs to take out the Xuanling Pill he personally refined, and he must have a certain advantage in the exchange meeting. So, Zhang Zhiwen took out another alchemy material and continued to refine two Xuanling Pills, but he still felt that this seemed not enough, so he planned to cultivate Xuanling Fruit himself, and even Peiling Fruit and Guxian Fruit. He wanted to use his exclusive Xuanling Pill to compete with the Xuanling Pills of all the alchemy families in Feixian City, so that the He family could get more resource allocation, and then this was his ultimate goal!

So, Zhang Zhiwen entered the Immortal Mansion and took a little bit of Xuanling Fruit seeds for cultivation. The seeds of Xuanling Fruit sprouted and grew quickly, and then it was time to cultivate spirit stones. The consumption of spirit stones was within Zhang Zhiwen's estimation, about the consumption of a medium-grade spirit stone!

The process of cultivating Xuanling Fruit was not too troublesome, Zhang Zhiwen had experience, and Xuanling Fruit was different from Peiling Fruit. It was not a spirit fruit with yin and yang, but a very simple wood-attributed spirit fruit, even simpler than Guxian Fruit. After flowering and fruiting, it only produced one Xuanling Fruit. The Xuanling Tree was not big, about six feet high, but the trunk was quite strong. Zhang Zhiwen felt that the trunk could not be cut by a high-level spirit tool. No wonder the Xuanling Tree could be used as a variety of refining materials. It was indeed unique.

In this way, Zhang Zhiwen cultivated seven Xuanling fruits, which was almost enough. Among the remaining seven alchemy materials, Zhang Zhiwen picked out all the dried spiritual fruits. He wanted to use the fresh spiritual fruits he cultivated to refine Xuanling Pills.

This time, Zhang Zhiwen was quite looking forward to it. He wanted to know what the efficacy of the Xuanling Pills made from the spiritual fruits he cultivated himself would be, and whether it would be far better than the Xuanling Pills made from ordinary medicinal materials.

Therefore, Zhang Zhiwen continued to refine the pills. Similarly, he still refined five alchemy furnaces at once. He was now quite familiar with this refining method. And as before, considering the wood-attributed ingredients of Xuanling Pills, he still did not change the original refining method. In this way, in less than an incense stick of time, all five furnaces of pills were completed, but unexpectedly all failed again.