FWF #175 - The benefits of alchemy!
#175 - The benefits of alchemy!
Just as Gu Yuan grabbed the Dan Spirit, a line of small words appeared before his eyes:
[You have captured a Thousand Transformations Dan Spirit (Red). Do you wish to tame it?]
This Dan Spirit is a kind of strange creature, formed by absorbing the essence of many spirit pills and herbs, and inheriting a trace of the Qi of Creation.
It possesses the strange ability to sort out medicinal properties and stabilize the furnace fire.
Many alchemy masters often raise one, which can play a significant role in daily alchemy.
Medicine King Mountain is a major sect of the Dao of Pills, especially a place in the back mountain called Hundred Poison Gorge, where the spiritual energy is abundant and rich, and many spiritual herbs grow.
However, because it is shrouded in highly poisonous miasma all year round, the harvesting of spiritual herbs is often difficult, resulting in many spiritual herbs and exotic flowers rotting into the soil because they have passed their expiration date and no one harvests them.
In addition, the disciples of Medicine King Mountain later intentionally or unintentionally threw some discarded spirit pills, and even poisonous and inferior pills, into Hundred Poison Gorge.
Over time, the medicinal and toxic properties accumulated together, emitting entanglements, combined with the original special conditions of Hundred Poison Gorge, and ultimately created this strange place.
In addition to various spiritual herbs, strange creatures such as Dan Spirits occasionally breed in Hundred Poison Gorge.
Therefore, Medicine King Mountain also has an additional source of income.
Gu Yuan asked Real Person Crane Feather and learned that this Dan Spirit can only survive and grow by absorbing medicinal properties.
In other words, it feeds on spirit pills and herbs.
Gu Yuan had already suspected after seeing this Dan Spirit that it might possess a talent that would help with alchemy.
Therefore, the reason why he decisively agreed to this bet with Liu Xinjun was also related to the Dan Spirit.
Since he has joined Medicine King Mountain, Gu Yuan intends to dabble in the outer path of alchemy.
Alchemy is the outer path by which Medicine King Mountain made its fortune. The various spirit pills produced by Medicine King Mountain every year are often snatched up by major sects in other states as soon as they appear, and are even in short supply.
Medicine King Mountain's Jade Essence Pill, Scarlet Yang Pill, and several other pills are hard currency equivalent to spirit stones.
Some high-quality spirit pills can even be exchanged for various cultivation resources at a premium in the market and auction houses, and are very popular.
Usually, when the disciples of Medicine King Mountain go out, they do not need to bring spirit stones, they only need to carry spirit pills with them.
Today's Medicine King Mountain still has an alchemy grandmaster, three alchemy masters, a dozen alchemists, and hundreds of alchemy apprentices.
The status of any alchemist is by no means inferior to that of an inner disciple, and is even enough to be on par with a true disciple.
Regardless of whether this person is male or female, old or young, what their status is, or how high or low their cultivation is.
As for alchemy masters... they can refine the great medicines and spirit pills needed by Yin Spirit and Yang Spirit great powers to improve their cultivation, as well as various spirit pills.
Their status is detached, even higher than the position of the Nine Elders!
Even the Sect Leader must treat them with courtesy and respect.
The status of an alchemy grandmaster is naturally even higher, as they can refine the external medicines and spirit pills needed by Nascent Soul True Immortals.
According to Real Person Crane Feather, this alchemy grandmaster is the Supreme Elder Danxia Ancestor of the Sect lineage.
This old ancestor is a Yang Spirit great power. Although in terms of cultivation and divine abilities, he is somewhat inferior to the other Supreme Elder Purple Firmament Monarch of the aristocratic family faction, it is precisely because of his other identity as an "Alchemy Grandmaster" that the aristocratic family faction and the Sect lineage, although fighting openly and secretly, still exercise restraint and have not reached the point of tearing their faces apart.
Gu Yuan wants to learn alchemy for three reasons.
The first is that it is always good to have more skills, and after learning alchemy, he can completely refine pills himself to feed the five little ones, accelerate their growth, and his own cultivation also requires various external medicines.
The higher the cultivation level, the more cultivation resources are needed. It is somewhat unrealistic to rely solely on the sect's support, after all, Gu Yuan is not in a high position.
So what he can rely on is himself.
With alchemy, he can refine spirit pills and exchange them for other cultivation resources.
The second reason is that Medicine King Mountain is, after all, a major sect that started with the Dao of Pills, and attaches great importance to alchemy.
If he can show enough talent in the Dao of Pills and become an alchemist, or even an alchemy master, the voices against him within the Sect lineage will definitely disappear at the first moment.
Even the aristocratic family faction will probably try every means to win him over and dare not easily offend him.
As for the third reason.
Alchemy is the way of external elixir, while the Golden Elixir is the cultivation of the internal elixir method.
There is a lineage of inheritance in the ancient Daoist sect, which cultivates the internal elixir method, with a total of nine revolutions.
The first revolution is a Golden Elixir great cultivator, the third revolution is a Dragon Gate Yang Spirit, the sixth revolution is a Nascent Soul True Immortal, ascending to immortality. The ninth revolution can achieve an immortal and indestructible transcendent Dao fruit in the Immortal Realm!
The current cultivation system borrows from the internal elixir method, with the Yin Spirit after the Golden Elixir, and the Yang Spirit after the Yin Spirit.
The external elixir path and the internal Dao method have many similarities and commonalities.
If he can become an alchemist, he will have a three or two percent greater chance of forging a high-grade elixir in the future when he builds the Golden Elixir.
If Gu Yuan is an alchemy master, even if the elixir is forged into the first grade at that time, it is definitely very possible!
The fact is that alchemy has countless benefits for forging the inner Golden Elixir.
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It is equivalent to simulating the process of forging the Golden Elixir many times in advance. There may be many differences, but there are also many similarities.
Therefore, Gu Yuan has sufficient reasons to learn alchemy.
Moreover, with the pet system, he can acquire its talents by taming pets.
Even if this Dan Spirit does not have a talent that helps with alchemy, the world is so big, there are always special monsters and spirit beasts with special talents that can help with alchemy.
At the very least, there are fire crows that help with fire control, and green carp that help with water control.
Even ginseng dolls and ganoderma horses, which are kinds of medicine kings, can help him familiarize himself with medicinal properties.
As long as he tames spirit creatures, Gu Yuan will naturally be able to acquire their talents.
In today's cultivation world, refining pills with true fire is the mainstream, but refining pills with water is also a method that is not inferior.
Water is gentle and lingering, without the explosive heat of fire. It is even more convenient in refining medicinal properties and removing impurities.
Now, seeing that this Dan Spirit is a red-quality spirit pet, Gu Yuan vaguely feels that he has not guessed wrong.
He just doesn't know where the name "Thousand Transformations Dan Spirit" comes from and why it is called that.
"Tame!"
As soon as Gu Yuan finished speaking, he felt a strand of his mental power being drawn out and condensed into a phantom-like talisman, which fell into the Dan Spirit.
Gu Yuan's current cultivation and vision are no longer what they used to be. He can already see that this talisman is simple and mysterious, faintly revealing a trace of vast and ancient aura.
This is a mysterious talisman that Gu Yuan has heard of. It has unfathomable power. After being condensed, it directly nails into the origin of the Dan Spirit and disappears.
Obviously, the mystery of the pet system is still above Gu Yuan's understanding.
Even now, Gu Yuan cannot see its origin and origin.
Then...
[Taming successful. You have obtained the pet Thousand Transformations Dan Spirit!]