Chapter 131 Xu Zhenren Lays the Foundation of Alchemy
The essence of alchemy is probably not simple.
Qifu, the heaven and the earth are furnaces, and good fortune is a workmanship. Yin and Yang are charcoal, and all things are copper.
Study the changes of physical properties, understand the principle of metamorphosis, and then create all things in one furnace, refine the world, refine the sun and the moon, and refine all living beings.
Dan Dao is the way of good fortune.
This is a bit scary.
Xu Ke thought of the legendary Taishang Laojun. Perhaps, the way of good fortune is the highest state of alchemy.
The intention of the Sutra of Hunyuan Yiqi is that the innate Qi of primordial origin evolves all things in the world.
This "way of good fortune" is very suitable for the derivation of all things from the primordial qi, so it is necessary to work hard to study the way of alchemy.
Of course, this "way of good fortune" is just a "dream" for Xu Ke now, and you can think about it when you dream.
Right now, we still have to keep our feet on the ground and face reality.
Putting away the "Returning Qi Pill" that had just been refined, Xu Ke sat cross-legged on the ground, released the magic weapon "Hunyuan Yiqi Taichu Charm", and began to explore the Huiqi Pill.
With the help of the power of the magic weapon, Xu Ke can also infiltrate his own consciousness into the elixir along with his spiritual power, and perceive the situation inside the elixir.
This is more reliable than "microscope".
A wisp of Hunyuan spiritual power wrapped the consciousness and penetrated into the elixir. Xu Ke found that... the various spiritual powers integrated in the elixir were transformed into Hunyuan spiritual power in an instant.
In less than a moment, the various spiritual powers in the Huiqi Pill were all transformed into Hunyuan spiritual power.
This is the reason why Huiqi Dan is "universal".
After taking the elixir, the monk uses his own spiritual power to refine the elixir. This refining process is equivalent to using one's own spiritual power as a guide to transform all kinds of spiritual power in the Huiqi Pill into the nature of the monk's own spiritual power.
What spiritual power is used to refine the Huiqi Pill, and what kind of spiritual power will be transformed.
In order to verify this conjecture, Xu Ke also used the magic weapon "Hunyuan Yiqi Absolute Beginning Rune" to transform metal, wood, water, fire, earth, and spiritual powers of various natures.
After the spiritual power penetrated into the Huiqi pill, the various spiritual powers integrated in the Huiqi pill were transformed into corresponding spiritual power.
Through this test, Xu Ke already knew the reason why "Huiqi Pill" can be used universally.
The various spiritual powers fused in the elixir are at a critical point of "being unresolved". The spiritual power of the monk refining the elixir will destroy this critical point, triggering the transformation of the spiritual power inside the elixir, and then transforming the corresponding spiritual power.
Other general-purpose elixirs must be the same.
It's just...how is this critical point of "unification" achieved?
This must involve "physical property changes".
Xu Ke put down the elixir, turned his head to look at the various alchemy materials placed on the storage shelf in the alchemy room, with a helpless wry smile on his face.
By the way, is there a "Periodic Table of Elements" in the practice world? !
It is necessary to sum up the laws of "physical property changes" from various materials and substances. The workload is too huge, right?
This kind of knowledge must exist in the practice world.
It's just that Cangmangyuan is a rural place, only bumpkins form gangs, and there are no "institutions of higher learning".
well…
Xu Ke let out a long sigh. Without the opportunity to acquire advanced knowledge, he could only study slowly by himself.
Fortunately, there is no need to rush to complete the research on the "Laws of Changes in Physical Properties". It should be regarded as a long-term research and accumulated slowly.
Xu Ke stretched out his hand and took out various materials for refining Huiqi Pill.
Then, with the help of the magic weapon "Hunyuan Yiqi Taichu Divine Talisman", a wisp of consciousness was released, penetrated into the alchemy materials, observed the internal structure, observed the aura of the medicinal materials, and then recorded them one by one with the jade slips.
In the knowledge of alchemy, of course, there is also the content of identification and treatment of medicinal materials.
However, those contents are just superficial knowledge such as "what a certain medicinal material looks like, what method needs to be collected, and what method is used to preserve it".
The "property" that Xu Ke needs is completely absent.
Not long after, Xu Ke thoroughly "observed" the various medicinal materials for refining Huiqi Pill, and also recorded the characteristics of the various materials in jade slips.
Then...Xu Ke encountered another hurdle.
What is the material in the practice world made of? Is it "qi"? Or the elementary particles of that world?
Or, all "Qi" are all elementary particles with corresponding attributes?
For example, the fire-type aura is the elementary particle of the fire attribute? Will there still be "wave-particle duality"?
It's so difficult! Can't figure it out!
Xu Ke rubbed the center of his brows, only to feel pain in his head.
Still don't study so deep, so far, let's start from the most basic.
Therefore, Xu Ke stopped thinking about what matter is made of, and regardless of whether the aura is a particle or a wave, he directly took each medicinal material as the research object.
What will happen and what will happen after this medicinal material and another medicinal material are refined.
This kind of research is more intuitive, simpler, and even... more practical.
Through this kind of research, Xu Ke easily grasped the "medicinal properties" of each medicinal material in Huiqi Pill.
According to this "property of medicine", various "properties of medicine" can be refined into various elixirs through different combinations of "properties of medicine".
After reducing the difficulty, the research became very smooth.
People should not embarrass themselves too much. The goal is set too high, which is not realistic.
Xu Ke couldn't help but smile wryly.
Sure enough, the state is still not enough, the knowledge is not enough, and it is impossible to do the kind of research involving the origin of heaven and earth.
It’s not okay to be ambitious, let’s start from the most basic!
Next, Xu Ke put the research object on the "medicinal properties" of medicinal materials, and no longer insisted on the "law of physical property changes".
That thing involves the "way of good fortune", which is not something that Xu Ke can get involved in at present.
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Time passed slowly in Xu Ke's painstaking research.
In the blink of an eye, three months have passed.
It is now October and it is the beginning of winter.
Xu Ke’s spiritual fields, orchards, tea gardens, and mulberry forests that Xu Ke planted on the island in the middle of the lake are taking shape. The perennial medicinal materials are still in the growth stage, but some spiritual rice grains are beginning to fringe.
Because the planting was relatively late, and the Bishuitan was protected by a large formation, Xu Ke planned to wait another month to harvest the grains regardless of the time of day.
Of course, there is no need for Xu Zhenren to do such trivial things. The monkey is already a mature monkey, and he has to learn to farm and support his family.
In the past three months, the battle between Haoyangzong and the Four Faction Alliance was still tepid, there were small fights every day, and there was no major fight.
If Li Muzi hadn't talked about the progress of the war from time to time, Xu Ke would have almost forgotten that the sect was still fighting with others.
During the past three months, another Jindan Daoist was born in the Zongmen.
After Wang Changqing received Xu Ke's teaching, his cultivation was steadily advancing. Just a few days ago, Wang Changqing came to Bishuitan with a complete body of cultivation, and with the support of Xu Ke, he successfully achieved the golden elixir.
Si Nong Dian has two Golden Elixirs and two true sects, which makes the Si Nong Dian more and more popular. Many wood spirit root and water spirit root disciples seek connections and apply to be transferred to the Si Nong Dian to farm.
Sinong Hall's farming disciple has become a good position that countless people yearn for.
Xu Ke himself has gained a lot in these three months.
After three months of practice, Xu Ke's "Hunyuan Yiqi Mantra" was officially promoted to the third level of foundation building, and he practiced the three true talisman treasures of "spiritual energy", "devil energy" and "monstrous energy".
From then on, Xu Ke can cast magic spells and demon cultivation spells at will without the help of the magic weapon "Hunyuan Yiqi True Talisman".
Xuantan, Chisong, Hanzhu, and the unknown tree that Xu Ke casually named "Jianmu" have also successfully entered the "Qi training period", and there is already a monster in the body.
If you are wise, you haven't found it yet, and you still need to wait.
As for the research on alchemy... Great progress has been made.
Regardless of the "laws of physical properties", Xu Ke specializes in the study of "medicinal properties". During these three months, he has studied all the medicinal materials for alchemy in Haoyangzong, and compiled a "pharmacopoeia".
In this "pharmacopoeia", Xu Ke summarized the "medicinal properties" of various medicinal materials based on the theory of yin and yang and five behaviors, and based on the phenomenon of changes in the spiritual power of medicinal materials during the alchemy process.
From the perspective of "properties of medicine", it is naturally much simpler and easier to understand the principles of alchemy than "laws of changes in physical properties".
Actually, the so-called "property of medicine" is just a "phenomenon", not the essential law of alchemy.
The real essential law must be the change of physical properties.
It's just that, that's the way of good fortune. No matter from which point of view, Xu Ke is still too far behind.
This is the difference between "pharmaceutics" and "chemistry".
Xu Ke is not very satisfied with the "Pharmacopia", but the master of the Danding Palace feels like a treasure.
Didn't the master of the alchemy tripod give a golden alchemy-level treasure tripod? Xu Ke took the "pharmacopoeia" he had compiled as a return gift and gave it to the master of Danding.
Then, the master of the Danding Palace blushed with excitement, his eyes glowed, and he called this "the foundation of the alchemy way, the true teaching of the Dharma".
With this pharmacopoeia, all the alchemists in the Danding Temple have a "foundation of alchemy", instead of a "alchemy" that can only follow alchemy recipes.
Thus, the master of the Danding Palace named this pharmacopoeia "Kunwu Pharmacopoeia", and regarded it as the fundamental scripture of the alchemy of the Danding Palace.
The word Kunwu, of course, comes from Xu Ke's "Kunwuyuan".
When Xu Ke knew this name, he was stunned for a long time, so... I somehow got a Taoist name called "Kunwu Zhenren"?
"Dayan Immortal" is better than "Kunwu Immortal", right?
I hope that no one in this practice world knows how to read the word "Kun" apart, otherwise...Xu Zhenzhen is wise all his life, and he will pay for it!
After thinking about it, this name is at least better than "Mang King Kong" and the like, which also makes Xu Ke a little psychologically balanced.
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Hengduan Mountain.
Since receiving Wang Changqing's advice, Zhuang Yuting went deep into Hengduan Mountain, collecting high-grade spiritual wood for Xu Ke everywhere.
Especially after learning that Wang Changqing had successfully formed an alchemy, became the second Jindan Daoist in the Hall of Si Nong, and created a water-system True Inheritance Dao, Zhuang Yuting couldn't sit still.
"Fangzheng, we have collected a lot of spiritual wood these days, these are the seeds."
A former disciple of Bishuitan took out a box of seeds from the storage bag, handed it to Zhuang Yuting, and said, "It's just the spirit wood of Jindan grade...it's too rare."
"Thanks for your hard work."
Zhuang Yuting took the seeds and thanked him, but felt a little regretful.
It’s just a spiritual plant seed at the foundation level, so it’s impossible to get it out!
How precious is the opportunity to form a pill? Could it be that the seeds of the Foundation Establishment Spirit Tree can be exchanged?
At least there must be seeds of Jindan Lingmu.
Even so, it is only a chance to meet the Hall Master, and it is still uncertain whether he can get the Dharma from the Hall Master!
When Zhuang Yuting was secretly worried, another former Bishuitan disciple ran over.
"Fangzheng, Fangzheng, I heard a piece of news."
The disciple hurried up and said to Zhuang Yuting: "Some time ago, when the master of the formation led a team to explore the spiritual veins in various places in Hengduan Mountain, someone found a Jindan-level spiritual tree in the northern part of Hengduan Mountain."
"Is this true?"
Zhuang Yuting was surprised and delighted, and asked repeatedly.
"I heard it from Peng Zhengqing. He said that he was just sitting on the flying boat of the master of the formation at that time, and didn't go down to take a closer look. Judging from the fluctuation of spiritual power, it should be a golden core-level spiritual wood."
As the disciple said, he took out another jade slip, "There is a map on it, whether it is real or not, you have to go and see it to find out."
"Yes! Whether it's true or not, you have to check it out."
Zhuang Yuting took the jade slip and thanked the disciple, "Thank you for your hard work. Thank you brothers for your help. If you get something in the future, you will never forget your love."
"Fang Zheng is being polite!"
Several former Bishuitan disciples next to him bowed their hands and returned the salute.
Back to the residence, Zhuang Yuting picked up the jade slip map and looked at it, frowned slightly, this place is a bit far away!
The position marked on the map has reached the northernmost "break" of Hengduan Mountain.
The origin of the name Hengduan Mountain is that the northernmost part of this mountain range, where it connects to the Cangshan Mountains, was suddenly disconnected, as if cut off by a knife.
Hengduan Mountain, which is known as "a radius of ten thousand miles", refers to the width of the mountain system derived from the Hengduan Mountain Range.
The northernmost fracture of Hengduan Mountain is more than 30,000 miles away from the gravel field. The distance between Haoyangzong and Manghe Sword Sect is not that far!
It's a little far away, but it's not a problem.
The Golden Core Demon King of Hengduan Mountain is already finished, even if he travels tens of thousands of miles alone, there is not much danger.
At the flying speed of the foundation-building spiritual weapon flying boat, it is only a few days of continuous travel.
Therefore, Zhuang Yuting immediately prepared all kinds of materials needed for long-distance travel.
Three days later, Zhuang Yuting set off from Heilongling, a gravel plain, in a flying boat, heading all the way to the crack of Hengduan Mountain tens of thousands of miles away.
The flying boat flew through the air, from south to north, directly crossed the entire Hengduan Mountain Range, and then reached the northernmost gap.
According to the location on the map, Zhuang Yuting quickly found a towering tree growing in a mountain depression near the gap.
This is a purple golden nanmu tree. Judging from the fluctuation of spiritual power, it is definitely a golden elixir grade spiritual material, and the branches are still bearing fruit.
Since so many seeds have been hanged, there is no becoming a demon.
Each seed is very important for the spirit tree that has become a demon, and it will not bear fruit easily.
Zhuang Yuting released a spiritual weapon, flew towards the purple golden nanmu, circled around the treetops, and easily removed several seeds.
Successful!
Zhuang Yuting smiled all over his face, put away the seeds, took off in a flying boat, and prepared to return.
Just turning around, Zhuang Yuting suddenly felt that there seemed to be something moving on the opposite side of the gap in Hengduan Mountain.
Turning his head to look, he saw a large black flag suddenly erected on the cliff opposite the gap.
A blood moon was drawn on the pitch-black flag, and below it was the head of a dog with thick fangs.
"Woo..."
The desolate trumpets echoed between heaven and earth.
Under the cliff opposite the gap, countless monsters with dog heads and human bodies, howling and screaming, swept towards them like a wave.
Interracial?
The alien race in Cangshan Mountain intends to invade Cangmangyuan?
Zhuang Yuting's complexion changed drastically, he quickly drove the boat, turned around and ran away.
"Shhhhhhh..."
A series of pitch-black crossbow arrows roared towards Zhuang Yuting's flying boat, surging with dazzling blood.
Damn it!
Zhuang Yuting broke out a popular phrase of Haoyangzong, dodged crazily, and fled in embarrassment.
(end of this chapter)