The Romance of the Immortal Cauldron

Time flies, more than a month has passed.

After this period of practice, Matthew's cultivation has reached the second level of Qi refining.

Today, he packed up all his things and prepared to go into the city.

The Qi-nourishing pills on his body have been consumed by him. Without the pills, it would be difficult for him to cultivate.

After changing his outfit, Matthew returned to Wangxian City.

Although I haven't been back for several months, the city is still as lively as before.

Matthew even felt that there were more monks in the city than before.

He still has hundreds of spirit stones on him, but they are not enough to buy Qi Nourishing Pills.

For this reason, he came to Baodantang again and bought two low-grade marrow-cleansing pills in the store.

After returning to his home, Matthew immediately purified the two marrow-cleansing pills.

The last time he went to the city, he bought an extra marrow-cleansing pill. With the two on hand, he already had three middle-grade marrow-cleansing pills.

After thinking about it for a while, Matthew decided to sell two marrow-cleansing pills in Baibaolou and sell the other one in another store.

In this way, he will have a lot of spiritual stones in his hands.

However, he had other plans in mind.

Buying elixirs for a long time will definitely attract the attention of others over time.

So, he decided to try alchemy himself.

He has Master Wang Xian's book on alchemy in his hand, and he will read it whenever he has free time during this period.

It also taught him more or less some things about alchemy.

Only then did I have the confidence to try to make elixirs myself.

Going out with three middle-grade marrow cleansing pills, Matthew successfully exchanged them for more than a thousand spiritual stones.

This was the first time that he had so many spirit stones, and he was inevitably a little excited.

Afterwards, he left the shop selling marrow-cleansing pills and went to an unfamiliar store to buy several hundred Qi-nourishing pills.

Although you have to refine the elixir yourself, you still need to prepare some Qi-nourishing elixirs. After all, cultivation cannot stagnate.

When he came out of this shop, Matthew sighed in his heart that this spiritual stone was really useful.

More than a thousand spirit stones had been spent on him before he could even warm himself up.

After that, he continued to wander around the city.

There were several prescriptions for elixirs in the back of Wang's Alchemy Book, and he only needed to buy the medicinal materials needed in them.

In addition to buying the ingredients for Qi Nourishing Pills, Matthew also bought a lot of ingredients for Bigu Pills and Rejuvenation Pills.

Although he rarely uses those two elixirs, they are the best elixirs for hand training.

This is what he saw in Wang's elixir solution. Master Wang also started refining the elixir bit by bit from the most basic elixir, and finally was able to successfully refine the Qi Nourishing elixir.

In addition to purchasing the materials needed for alchemy, you also need to purchase spiritual wood.

If a monk wants to make elixirs, there are roughly two ways to deal with flames.

Those with low cultivation levels need to use external forces, such as lighting spiritual trees or relying on earth fire to refine elixirs.

The difficulty with this method is that the flame is difficult to control. A little carelessness will lead to unstable heat and failure.

The other method is limited to monks with advanced cultivation, such as Dan Fire monks using Dan Fire and Nascent Soul monks using Baby Fire.

Both the elixir fire and the infant fire are transformed by one's own magic power. If one can control it easily, the chance of becoming an elixir will be greatly increased.

Matthew didn't know if there were alchemy or Nascent Soul monks in Wangxian City. Even if there were, how could such an expert help him refine elixirs?

With no other option, he could only buy a large amount of spiritual wood and make elixirs himself.

During this period, Matthew also passed by Baiyao Hall.

Seeing that the shopkeeper inside had changed, he didn't go in again.

When he went out, his storage bag was still flat, but when he came back, it was bulging and full of things.

When Matthew returned home, he did not rush to refine the elixir. Instead, he cleaned the house and lay on the bed and fell asleep.

During this period of time, he had been practicing hard, which made him feel quite tired mentally. It was time to take a rest.

After sleeping for more than ten hours, Matthew was full of energy when he woke up.

After a brief wash, he began to try to make alchemy.

Making alchemy for the first time will inevitably make you a little confused.

Not surprisingly, his first potion of elixirs failed within a short period of time.

Smelling the pungent burnt smell, Matthew opened the window.

After cleaning up the burnt medicine residue in the alchemy furnace, Matthew was not in a hurry to continue refining the elixir.

Instead, he took out a pen and paper from his storage bag and began to write down his elixir-making process on it.

Being able to find out the reasons for failure is already one step closer to success.

Seeing that almost all of the paper was wrong, Matthew was not discouraged and made alchemy again.

When he started practicing, Matthew was full of confidence and thought that he only needed to do every step well.

But the reality is that he simply cannot make every step perfect.

Especially the control of the flame is really difficult.

Although spiritual wood is more resistant to burning than ordinary wood, its flame intensity is also stronger than ordinary fire.

Matthew had no way to control the flame. Several times, he saw the fragrance of medicine wafting out of the alchemy furnace, but the sudden fluctuation of the flame directly caused the entire furnace of medicine to turn into dregs.

After failing more than a dozen furnaces in succession, Matthew fell to the ground and closed his eyes to rest.

Although he felt frustrated, he did not give up on alchemy because of this.

However, this alchemy is also very draining on the spirit.

Especially when refining alchemy, you must concentrate on it without any slack.

This made Matthew, who had just started refining alchemy, feel extremely tired.

After resting for a while, Matthew sat up from the ground, took out another piece of paper and started writing.

The previous piece of paper was already filled with his writing.

Put two pieces of paper in front of you and write down in your mind the areas that need improvement bit by bit.

Suddenly, Matthew had an idea.

After putting away the paper, he cleaned the alchemy furnace and started refining the elixir.

Matthew was already familiar with the previous steps. First, light the spirit wood, let the alchemy furnace heat evenly, and then put the medicinal materials into the alchemy furnace one by one.

After about a cup of tea, wisps of medicinal fragrance floated out of the alchemy furnace.

At this time before, the burning flames of the spiritual wood would fluctuate, and Matthew also failed here.

It was the same this time, and the flames began to beat again.

Matthew's eyes narrowed, he stretched out his hand to grab the object in the air, and used the object-repelling technique.

Under the control of the expulsion technique, the originally beating flames gradually stabilized, and the medicinal aroma in the room became a little stronger.

At this time, the flame became unstable again.

Matthew, who had been prepared for a long time, used his magic power to control the flames.

After controlling the flame again, wisps of white gas floated from the top of the alchemy furnace.

"It's done!"

Matthew was overjoyed and hurriedly withdrew his magic power to open the lid of the alchemy furnace.

But before he could take action, the flames underneath suddenly shot up and enveloped the entire alchemy furnace.

Seeing the white gas turn into black smoke, Matthew froze.

After sighing softly, he put out the flame and began to clean the alchemy furnace.

However, there was no trace of annoyance in his eyes at this time, but only excitement.

Through the attempt just now, he already knew how to control the flame, and the failure was only because he was too anxious.