God Rewards Those Who Work Hard: No Pains, 100% Gains

The essence of the skill of alchemy is probably not simple.

Qifu, the world is a furnace, and nature is a work. 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.

Dandao is the way of good fortune.

This is kind of 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 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.

For now, we still have to keep our feet on the ground and face reality.

Putting away the "Returning Qi Pill" he had just 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 was able to infiltrate a strand of 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 ray of Hunyuan spiritual power wrapped the consciousness and penetrated into the elixir. Xu Ke discovered that... all kinds of spiritual power integrated in the elixir were transformed into Hunyuan spiritual power in an instant.

In less than a moment, all kinds of spiritual power in Huiqi Pill were transformed into Hunyuan spiritual power.

This is the reason why Huiqi Dan is "universal".

After the monk took the elixir, he used 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 kind of 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 Taichu Magical Talisman" 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 the "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.

The same principle must be true for other general-purpose elixirs.

It's just...how is this critical point of "unification" achieved?

There must be "changes in physical properties" involved.

Xu Ke put down the elixir, turned his head to look at the various alchemy materials placed on the shelf in the elixir room, with a helpless wry smile on his face.

By the way, is there a "Periodic Table of Elements" in the practice world? !

Is it too much work to sum up the laws of "physical property changes" from various materials and substances?

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 "higher education institutions".

well……

Xu Ke let out a long sigh. Without the opportunity to acquire high-level knowledge, he could only study slowly by himself.

Fortunately, there is no need to rush to complete the research on the "Laws of Change 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 One Qi Divine Talisman of Absolute Beginning", 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 jade slips.

In the knowledge of alchemy, of course, there is also the content of identification and treatment of medicinal materials.

It's just that those contents are just superficial knowledge such as "what does a certain medicinal material look like, what method needs to be collected, and what method is used to preserve it".

The "physical nature" 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 "gas"? Or the elementary particles of that world?

Or, all "Qi" are all elementary particles with corresponding attributes?

For example, the aura of the fire element 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.

It's better not to study so deep and so far, let's start from the most basic.

Therefore, Xu Ke no longer thinks about what matter is made of, and does not care whether aura is a particle or a wave, and directly takes each medicinal material as the research object.

After this kind of medicinal material and another kind of medicinal material are refined, what will happen and what will happen.

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 be too hard on themselves, the goal is set too high, it 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 enough to be too 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 Xu Ke can get involved in at the moment.

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Time passed slowly in Xu Ke's painstaking research.

In the blink of an eye, three months have passed.

It's already October, and it's 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 sowing was relatively late, and the clear water pool was protected by a large formation, Xu Ke planned to wait another month to harvest the grain, regardless of the time of day.

Of course, there is no need for Xu Zhenren to do such a trivial matter. The monkey is already a mature monkey, and he has to learn how to farm and support his family.

In the past three months, the battle between Hao Yangzong and the four faction alliances was still tepid, there were small fights every day, and no big fights happened once.

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.

In the past three months, another Jindan Daoist was born in the sect.

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.

The two golden elixirs and the two true traditions of the Si Nong Dian made the Si Nong Dian more and more popular, and many wood spirit root and water spirit root disciples sought connections and applied to be transferred to the Si Nong Dian to farm.

The farming disciple of the Temple of Si Nong 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 Zhenjing" was officially promoted to the third level of foundation building, and he practiced the three true talisman treasures of "spiritual energy", "devil energy" and "demon energy".

From then on, Xu Ke could cast sorcery spells and demon cultivation spells at will without the help of the magic weapon "Hunyuan Yiqi True Talisman Treasure".

The four saplings of "Spiritual Wisdom Experiment" have grown very lushly.

Black sandalwood, red pine, cold bamboo, 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 it is wise, it has not been discovered yet, and we need to continue to wait.

As for alchemy research... 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 the Haoyang School 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.

Interpreting the principles of alchemy from the perspective of "medicinal properties" is naturally much simpler and easier to understand than "laws of changes in physical properties".

In fact, 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. Xu Ke is still too far behind no matter what angle he looks at.

This is the difference between "pharmaceutics" and "chemistry".

Xu Ke was not very satisfied with the "pharmacopoeia", but the master of the Danding palace felt 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 formulas.

Therefore, the master of the Danding Palace named this pharmacopoeia "Kunwu Pharmacopoeia", and regarded it as the fundamental scripture of the true teaching of the alchemy of the Danding Palace.

The word Kunwu, of course, comes from Xu Ke's "Kunwuyuan".

When Xu Ke knew the name, he was stunned for a long time, so... for no reason, I got a dao name called "Kunwu Zhenren"?

"Dayan Immortal" sounds better than "Kunwu Immortal", right?

I hope that no one in this practice world knows how to read the word "Kun" apart, otherwise... Xu Zhenren 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 more psychologically balanced.

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Hengduan Mountain.

Since receiving Wang Changqing's advice, Zhuang Yuting has gone deep into Hengduan Mountain to collect high-grade spirit trees for Xu Ke.

Especially after learning that Wang Changqing had successfully formed the alchemy, became the second Jindan Daoist in the Hall of Si Nong, and created a water system true transmission path, Zhuang Yuting couldn't sit still anymore.

"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 the spiritual plant seeds of the foundation building level, which can't be taken out at all!

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 the seeds of the golden elixir spirit wood.

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 Palace led a team to explore the spiritual veins in various places in Hengduan Mountain, someone found a golden core-level spiritual tree in the northern part of Hengduan Mountain."

"Is this true?"

Surprised and delighted, Zhuang Yuting asked repeatedly.

"I heard it from Peng Zhengqing. He said that he was just sitting on the flying boat of the master of the array 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! Regardless of whether it is true or not, we must go and see it."

Zhuang Yuting took the jade slips and bowed his hands to thank the disciple, "Thanks for your hard work. Thank you brothers for your help. If you get something in the future, I will never forget the love you brothers have given you."

"Fangzheng is being polite!"

Several former Bishuitan disciples next to him bowed their hands and returned the salute.

Back at the residence, Zhuang Yuting picked up the jade slip map and looked at it, frowned slightly, this place is a bit far away!

The location 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 Mountain Range, was suddenly disconnected, as if cut off by a knife.

The 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 bit far, 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 the long-distance trip.

Three days later, Zhuang Yuting set off from Heilongling in the gravel field 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. Judging from the fluctuation of spiritual power, it is definitely a spiritual material of the golden elixir level, and the branches are still bearing fruit.

Since so many seeds have been hanged, there is no becoming a demon.

Every seed of the spirit tree that has become a demon is very important, 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.

Got it!

Smiling all over his face, Zhuang Yuting put away the seeds, took off in the flying boat, and prepared to return.

As soon as he turned 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 a dog's head 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.

Alien?

Are the alien races in Cangshan Mountain planning to invade Cangmangyuan?

Zhuang Yuting's complexion changed drastically, he hurriedly flew the boat, turned around and ran away.

"Shhhhhh..."

A series of pitch-black crossbow arrows roared towards Zhuang Yuting's flying boat with dazzling blood.

Fuck!

Zhuang Yuting broke out a popular phrase of the Haoyang School, frantically dodged and fled in embarrassment.