Immortal Mansion: With mediocre qualifications, I have no choice but to live forever

"To be honest, Manager Lin, my companions still have several Qingxincao plants with different auras. Although they cannot be sold at a high price, they are still treasures for us casual cultivators."

"So Li is planning to buy a pill furnace and give it a try."

Zhou Yiqiao said shyly.

"Fellow Daoist Li, do you want to learn the art of alchemy? Alchemy requires a lot of family resources, so you should think carefully about it."

Manager Lin did not respond, but instead spoke to dissuade him.

Zhou Yiqiao seemed to struggle for a long time after hearing this, and finally gritted his teeth and said.

"Rogue cultivators have had financial difficulties along the way, and our companions feel like brothers. Now there is a brother who has some talent in alchemy, and we want to compete for him!"

Seeing this, Manager Lin no longer tried to dissuade him, but just took out a talisman, recited a few words to it in a low voice, and spoke to Zhou Yiqiao.

"Fellow Daoist Li came at the right time. Our pavilion now happens to have two alchemy furnaces suitable for Qi refining monks. I will ask someone to send them here."

After a while, two low-level female cultivators wearing gauze entered the room, each holding an ancient wooden treasure box.

Manager Lin motioned to the two women to open the treasure box, pointed to the purple one near Zhou Yiqiao and introduced it.

"This is the Purple Cauldron, a first-class top-grade medicinal cauldron. As its name suggests, the tripod is made from a first-class purple jade that is abundant in Wangtian Temple in Xuzhou."

"The alchemy skills of Monk Wangtianguan are far superior to those of other sects in Liang Kingdom. When he cast this cauldron, he naturally knew how to improve the success rate of alchemy and was quite ingenious."

"The price is 800 spirit stones. I will give Fellow Daoist Li a 10% discount, so it only costs 720 spirit stones."

Then he pointed at another pure white medicine cauldron that was obviously much smaller and opened his mouth.

"This cauldron is called the Beast Tooth Cauldron, even though it is made of the tusks of the Trichodontus, which is about to break through the foundation-building stage."

"However, the person who made the cauldron seems to be in a playful mood. Firstly, this stack of tusks is not suitable for refining the cauldron. Secondly, its refining method is not conventional, so after it is cast, it can only reach the first-level mid-grade. , it has not been sold in my Duobao Pavilion for several months."

"This cauldron sells for two hundred and fifty spiritual stones. After 10% off, it only costs two hundred and twenty spiritual stones."

Zhou Yiqiao looked at the two medicine cauldrons, thinking a lot in his mind.

Manager Lin seemed to be polite, but in fact, what he did was hidden and had evil intentions.

The price of this purple ling cauldron was obviously far beyond what Zhou Yiqiao could afford. Manager Lin praised it so highly that he was testing whether he had any extra hundred-year-old Qingxincao.

If you don't hear the mystery, and ripen the elixir again to gather enough spiritual stones, you will be labeled as a "foolish person with a lot of money and inexperienced in the world" at best, or you will be killed at worst.

In the flash of lightning, Zhou Yiqiao had already thought about it.

He struggled and patted the storage bag, took out the two hundred and twenty spirit stones, and said honestly.

"Manager Lin was joking. The Ziling Cauldron is something we low-level casual cultivators can afford, so we should choose the Beast Tooth Cauldron."

It was just a superficial test. Although he didn't get the answer he wanted, Manager Lin still took the spirit stone with a smile and completed the transaction.

"Fellow Daoist Li is really courageous. From now on, when you come to my Duobao Pavilion to make purchases, you can give me my name and it will save you a lot of trouble."

"That's natural. Li has important matters to attend to, so I'll take my leave now!"

Zhou Yiqiao stood up, cupped his hands, and left generously.

……

Leave Duobao Pavilion.

Zhou Yiqiao secretly sighed that in this world of immortality, strength really still matters.

The joke "low-level monks are plotting against each other, while high-level monks are happy to grudge each other" now seems more and more reasonable.

"Now that everything is ready, we need to improve our strength as soon as possible."

Thinking in his mind, Zhou Yiqiao was not in a hurry to leave Yaoyang City. Instead, he walked around several shops in the city and changed his outfit several times without anyone noticing.

By the time he got the spiritual plant seeds he wanted from a spiritual medicine shop, he was already dressed like a jade-faced young man.

With the final goal achieved, Zhou Yiqiao stopped lingering and left quietly from the west gate mixed in with the crowd.

After leaving Yaoyang City and walking for ten miles, he changed into the black robe that symbolized the outer disciples of Yaoyang Sect, then turned back and walked quickly towards the sect.

……

It wasn't until the moonlight became scarce that Zhou Yiqiao returned to Purple Jade Mountain. He swept the jade tokens with him and quickly returned to the wooden house.

After calming down, his spiritual consciousness came to the moon stone space.

Place a piece of spiritual stone on the withered spiritual soil, wait until it returns to a dark color, and begin to ripen various necessary spiritual plants.

In the blink of an eye, another half month passed.

Looking at the last spiritual stone left in his hand, Zhou Yiqiao's body ached.

"This practice of cultivating immortality is indeed a waste of money."

During this period, Zhou Yiqiao used all the spiritual stones to ripen the elixir in the moon stone space.

Fortunately, the elixir years required for the Shengyuan Pill are mostly ten years, and the spiritual earth and spiritual energy consumed is far less than the previous century-old Qingxin grass.

In this way, he also got sixty pieces of spiritual grass for refining the Shengyuan Dan.

After finishing today's daily practice, Zhou Yiqiao felt blessed and spoke softly.

"Today is the time to start refining the elixir."

In the past half month, he has tried to figure out the basic alchemy skills several times, and has conceived countless steps of alchemy in his mind, and now he just has to put it into practice.

Zhou Yiqiao did not plan to refine the elixir in the wooden house to avoid leaving traces.

He came to a stream beside the medicine garden, cleared a clearing, took out the animal tooth cauldron, and placed it in the middle of the clearing with a bang.

The Basic Alchemy Technique only records the most basic alchemy techniques. Nowadays, it is as simple as possible. This advanced alchemy technique can only be used after the cultivation level is improved.

……

Zhou Yiqiao placed his left hand on the small formation carved on the body of the tripod, slowly outputting spiritual power.

With just one breath, the formation glowed with red light, a flame appeared in the cauldron, and a heat wave hit his face.

Zhou Yiqiao, who was sitting cross-legged in front of the cauldron, calmly reduced the output of his spiritual power and maintained the tea-cup skill in this posture.

This is the skill of warming the body of the cauldron. Only in this way can the cauldron avoid accidents when refining the elixir.

Seeing that the time had come, Zhou Yiqiao patted the storage bag on his waist with his right hand, took out a portion of the elixir, and put one of the elixirs into the cauldron.

When the elixir entered the cauldron, the original mentality faded away in an instant and turned into a fragrant green essence.

He pinched the magic formula with his hands and put this green essence into the jade bottle that had been prepared.

Afterwards, he followed the same method and turned the remaining elixirs into essences and bottled them separately.

After doing this, Zhou Yiqiao turned pale, extinguished the cauldron fire, and resumed his meditation.

An hour later, when Zhou Yiqiao's spiritual power returned to its original state, he repeated the method of warming the tripod's body again and opened all the jade bottles that stored the essence.

Next, comes the most important step in the art of alchemy, and the last step that marks the success of alchemy, condensation!