Volume 1 Chapter 22 Learning Alchemy

Chapter 22 Learning the Art of Refining

Sixteen years in the cave, only sixteen days outside. Lin Sen wandered around the Five Spirits Garden, checked some jade slips, and came to find Zhang Pa. He happened to see the golden elixir just forming. Zhang Pa played three roles and kept talking. Lin Sen stopped him: "Stop, you're going crazy. What kind of broken skill are you practicing? I have something to tell you."

Zhang Pa collected his thoughts, and the three elixirs in his mind merged into one. He stood up and said: "Uncle Lin, what's the matter?"

"Everything in this cave is good, but there is no refining material. I flipped through the refining jade slips. The materials for practicing with the scales of the Fu Shen Snake are extraordinary. I want to go out of the cave to find some. It will take two or three days at the fastest, and two or three months at the latest." Lin Sen was very kind to Zhang Pa.

Zhang Pa disagreed: "Uncle Lin, if there is no material, I won't practice. It's no big deal. I will come back to you to practice after I get the materials."

Lin Sen explained: "I can go underground to look for ore."

Zhang Pa still disagreed: "If there is really ore under the boundless grassland, wouldn't you have found it long ago?"

Lin Sen was more stubborn: "You must have a life-saving magic weapon. The world is dangerous and there are many villains..."

Zhang Pa interrupted him: "No matter what, I don't agree with you going out. If you go out, then I will go out too, and I will talk about revenge for you later."

Lin Sen said it simply, but Zhang Pa knew that looking for refining materials is not like buying rice and vegetables. You can go to the market to find them, especially the precious casting materials are hard to find. Although he can look for ore underground, who knows what will happen if he leaves the boundless grassland? If Uncle Lin is injured, wouldn't his hundreds of thousands of years of seclusion be in vain?

Hearing Zhang Pa say this, Lin Sen stared at him for a while and smiled gently: "Okay, I'll listen to you. I'll teach you the art of refining weapons and alchemy from tomorrow. If you come across good materials by chance, you can refine them yourself, and you don't have to run back and forth."

Zhang Pa bowed all the way: "Thank you, Uncle Lin."

Lin Sen helped him up: "We don't know who should thank whom yet." He took out the snake skin from his waist and gave it back to Zhang Pa.

From that day on, Zhang Pa had to learn more about refining weapons and alchemy. This kind of magic is actually a useless magic. Practicing refining will definitely affect the normal progress of cultivation. Whether you practice to the stage of forming a pill or the stage of the primordial infant, what you need is a strong soul, not how powerful the magic weapon you made is.

However, practicing these methods will give you the opportunity to have powerful weapons and magical pills, which are essential for immortal cultivators. Not only can they defeat the enemy and save their lives, but they may even break through the ranks and upgrade. With such good conditions, who wouldn't be tempted?

But only when you really start practicing, you will know the true meaning of chicken ribs. Whether it is alchemy or instrument making, materials are needed. The world is so big, there are more than tens of millions of materials. You need to remember, identify, refine, extract, classify, and remember various alchemy recipes and instrument techniques. When refining, you also need to grasp the time and temperature. The time and energy spent is definitely no less than cultivating the soul. And these are still based on the refining materials. If there are no refining materials, everything above is a waste!

Therefore, most immortal cultivators use their natal soul alchemy fire to cultivate their natal magic weapon. First, the effect of cultivation is not worse than the instrument refining technique. Second, it is simple and easy to use. The disadvantage is that they can only cultivate one natal magic weapon. As for elixirs, most people buy them directly, after all, the materials are hard to find.

Such a situation directly leads to a significant reduction in the number of people practicing instrument making and alchemy, and also leads to the fact that magic weapons and high-level elixirs are in short supply and hard to find.

Lin Sen had lived for too long. Excluding the time in the Nitian Cave, he had been in the outside world for nearly a thousand years. In addition, there were many kinds of herbs in the Five Spirits Blessed Land, so he was definitely a rare master in the world in terms of alchemy. Correspondingly, his instrument making skills were slightly worse.

The time in the Nitian Cave was not considered time at all. Ten or twenty years passed in the blink of an eye. When he left the cave, he realized that only a dozen days had passed. Zhang Pa stayed in the Nitian Cave for another fifteen years. He learned all the herbal medicine collections and alchemy recipes compiled by Lin Sen, and could easily refine low-level elixirs. His instrument making skills were worse. Although he knew a lot about the materials and learned a lot about the refining methods, he had no materials to experiment.

Lin Sen specialized in refining an alchemy cauldron and an instrument refining furnace, and recorded all the treasures and materials he knew into a book and gave them all to Zhang Pa.

The gods who created the Nitian Cave left some jade slips, utensils, and methods of refining elixirs in the cave. These were sorted out by Lin Sen, made into jade slips, and given to Zhang Pa together.

Zhang Pa and Lin Sen became more and more familiar with each other, and he dared to say anything: "Uncle Lin? Didn't the immortal leave any magic weapon?"

Lin Sen glared at him: "Don't say there is no magic weapon. Even if there is, I won't let you use it. What if he comes back? If the magic weapon is gone, will you pay or I pay?"

"How is it possible? Important magic weapons are carried with them. If they can be left behind, it must not be a good thing..." At this point, Zhang Pa suddenly remembered something and looked up at Lin Sen.

Lin Sen felt uncomfortable being looked at by him, and hurriedly said: "There is really no magic weapon left."

Zhang Pa shook his head and said slowly: "What if one day, the god comes back?" Lin Sen said: "What can we do? It's the same now as before." After answering Zhang Pa's question, he suddenly understood the implication of Zhang Pa's words, and sweated coldly.

For a while, the two did not speak for a long time. Zhang Pa asked: "What do you want to do in the future?" Lin Sen's face was pale. After thinking for a long time, there was no answer. He smiled and said: "He won't come back."

"What if?" Zhang Pa continued to ask.

No one knows why the god left. When he left, the underground cave was empty except for the grass on the ground and the fish in the water. He probably didn't expect that the spiritual ginseng would be cultivated into a human. It is absolutely impossible to estimate how effective the spiritual herbs cultivated into human form are, but everyone knows that they are extremely precious. The god created the Nitian Cave to plant medicine and make pills. What would he do if he knew that Lin Sen was a human-shaped spiritual ginseng with a lifespan of more than 700,000 or 800,000 years?

Lin Sen didn't want to think about this question and stood there in a daze.

Zhang Pa suggested moving, but Lin Sen didn't answer.

After 31 years in the Nitian Cave, Zhang Pa and a bunch of little kids like Fu'er got to know each other. Fu'er was a spiritual ginseng, Lu'er was a Polygonum multiflorum, Shou'er was a Ganoderma lucidum, and there were 13 big fat kids including Xi'er and Yuan'er, each of whom had a lifespan of nearly 100,000 years. In addition, they usually ate spiritual pills and lived in a place with abundant spiritual energy, so they had unimaginable spiritual energy. What should they do?

Lin Sen can restrain his aura, but these dolls can't. If they move away from here, as soon as the dolls appear, they will surely attract countless jealous people to chase them madly.

The two stood there for a long time, and Lin Sen forced a smile and said, "Why think about these shadowless things? Drink."

This time, the two drank alone.

After the wine was gone, Lin Sen was still drunk, and Zhang Pa entered the Five Spirits Cave. In order to increase the success rate of alchemy, he used spiritual energy crazily, and he wanted to replenish it in the Five Spirits Pool.

But today, I was worried, and when I gave the order to the God Tears in my mind, I was still thinking about Lin Sen and the god. The order was conveyed, and the five elements of spiritual energy in the God Tears accelerated to absorb the spiritual energy in the pool.

Zhang Pa stood there, thinking about it, and suddenly felt the familiar sadness again. Since the God Tears came, I have never felt that feeling again. Today, I was worried, and I was once again affected by sadness and was shrouded by sadness again.

I don't know how long it took, but I calmed down. Strange, why hasn't the God Tears stopped absorbing? Normally, it would have ended long ago. He subconsciously checked and found that the spiritual energy in the God's Tears was compressing crazily. The spiritual energy was compressing itself? Zhang Pa didn't know what was going on.

The spiritual energy in the God's Tears was compressing, and the spiritual energy outside kept pouring in; then it continued to compress and continue to pour in. Zhang Pa wanted to see when it would end.

This lasted for a month. Zhang Pa had no idea how much spiritual energy there was. He knew that there was a lot of spiritual energy in the God's Tears, so much that it was unimaginable, but in this month, the spiritual energy in the God's Tears had become unimaginable beyond imagination.

Lin Sen also noticed this situation. Although he was curious, he was more worried that Zhang Pa might get into trouble, so he stayed by his side.