Chapter 1940 Magical Qiuwa (26)

After several setbacks, Xu Yicai finally believed what was said in an alchemy notebook: There is one path to alchemy, one elixir and ten thousand methods. If you don't understand it, you will be like a blind man trying to figure out an elephant.

Alchemy is a very mysterious thing. If you can't get to the advanced stage, you can't get started. If you don't get started, you can't communicate with each other about its principles.

To put it bluntly, just reading some classics and doing some experiments does not mean you are getting started.

Because the medicinal properties of medicinal materials are so complex. For example, in the preparation of Yuan Dan, the main medicinal properties of the three herbs are very clear, but they must also have miscellaneous medicinal properties. For the same herb, different soils and years will be destined to have different miscellaneous medicinal properties. Often this microscopic difference can determine the success or failure of an auxiliary agent.

In addition, everyone's alchemy techniques are microscopically different, so the same medicinal materials can produce different finished products in the hands of different people.

To put it more simply, alchemy is not an assembly line production. The same raw materials and production equipment can be used by any skilled worker to produce the same product.

It is precisely because of various micro differences that form the threshold for entry.

It is precisely because of microscopic differences that one elixir and ten thousand methods are formed. The so-called ten thousand methods are not the differences in the elixirs, but the differences in the alchemists.

For example, when refining Yuan Dan, the recipe is never the most important thing.

The most important thing is actually the rate of elixir formation. If the rate of elixir formation is guaranteed, it proves that an alchemist can relatively stably control microscopic differences.

Why are the people from the Gongxue Club not receiving the respect they deserve and not being treated differently by the Xuanqing Sect’s senior officials even though they have refined the Yuan Dan?

Because everyone knows that even if an alchemist below the spiritual level can refine the Yuan Dan, it is only by chance.

This kind of serendipity is extremely difficult to replicate.

Investigating the root cause, it is difficult for monks below the spiritual level to have the strength to stably control microscopic differences.

In one sentence, the entry threshold for alchemy lies in understanding this microscopic difference. Otherwise, no matter how much experience is summed up and how many experiments are done, it will be difficult to achieve real results.

This kind of microscopic differentiation varies from person to person and is difficult for others to teach.

Only when you have passed this threshold can you truly get started, and can you have effective exchanges on alchemy theory with other alchemists.

Otherwise, how can a person who is still memorizing multiplication tables get involved in discussions about calculus and linear algebra?

At that time, although Xu Yi had heard about the principles of alchemy in this area, his understanding was not as profound as his own practice.

He now understood that no one else could help him at this level. He had to pass it by himself. As for whether he could pass it, he had no idea at all.

This is completely a process of enlightenment. Once you understand it, you will understand it. If you don't understand it, you will not understand it. It may be solved in ten days, or it may not be solved in ten years.

Gradually, crossing the threshold of the alchemy path became Xu Yi's obsession, and he continued to experiment with alchemy all day long.

For this reason, he even spent two hundred Yuan Dan to purchase the Earth Fire monthly subscription service.

Soon, the first dose of the medicine was exhausted, and more than half of the second medicine was consumed. Xu Yi didn't even touch the formed auxiliary agent.

"Uncle Beard, what are you doing? I haven't seen you for many days."

On this day, on the seventh day of Xu Yi's retreat to refine alchemy, Qiu Wa broke in and was dissatisfied.

In the past, although Xu Yi was refining elixirs, he still remembered to take time to spend time with her, but now he has been obsessed with her for a lifetime, as if he was possessed by a demon.

At this moment, Qiu Wa was shocked when she saw Xu Yi. If Xu Yi's eyes weren't still gentle, Qiu Wa would have screamed.

The Xu Yi in front of him was pale and skinny, with a lot of beard and hair, dirty, messy, knotted and hairy.

Xu Yi waved to her and said, "Uncle Beard is refining elixirs. You can go and play. After a while, Uncle Beard will break through and come looking for you."

After saying that, he focused on the changes in the green furnace.

Although Qiu Wa loves to play, she also knows the importance. Seeing Xu Yi's appearance, she knew that this matter was serious, so she stopped urging her. However, she felt that the green stove was burning brightly in the fire. It was really beautiful and interesting. , then stood quietly aside, just watching the excitement.

In the blink of an eye, another hour passed, and Qiu Wa's little brows furrowed higher and higher, because his omnipotent Uncle Beard failed three more times.

"No, Uncle Beard, no, the airflow to the west cannot flow or mix with the airflow to the east, otherwise..."

Qiu Wa suddenly spoke, and before she finished her words, a burning air came. The green furnace flashed, and the burning air dissipated immediately. A ball of waste was thrown from the base of the alchemy furnace into the ground fire, and was burned.

Xu Yi was stunned. After more than ten breaths, he turned his head and stared at Qiu Wa with a scary look. Qiu Wa whimpered and was about to cry.

Only then did Xu Yi react and quickly hugged her and comforted her repeatedly.

Qiu Wa then stopped crying, wrinkled her nose and ignored Xu Yi. Suddenly, she covered her nose again, jumped away from Xu Yi's arms, and shouted, "It stinks, it stinks... Uncle Beard must have not taken a shower for a long time. …”

Xu Yi smiled awkwardly, "Okay, Uncle Beard, take a shower right away, take a shower right away. But before that, you have to tell Uncle Beard, how do you know that the two streams of air cannot mix together? Quickly, tell Uncle Beard."

Before Qiu Wa could finish her words, the alchemy failed. Xu Yi definitely didn't think it was a coincidence.

Qiu Wa smiled proudly, "What's so strange about that? I watched it four times and you did this the first three times and then failed. Don't you know how to learn from experience?"

Xu Yi stared at Qiu Wa in disbelief, "You said all four of my operations were ruined by this step. What on earth is going on?"

In Xu Yi's eyes, every operation he performs is different, and the properties and spiritual energy of the medicine are constantly changing every time.

Qiu Wa's words made him extremely puzzled.

Qiu Wa said, "Don't you want to blend the two qi of rushing and fishy? As a result, every time you refine it, impurities will invade. Every time before the two qi of rushing and fishy are refined, you start to blend. Once the impure red and fishy gases gather in one place, there will be a mushy smell coming from your stove."

Xu Yi couldn't understand a single word of Qiu Wa's voice, which was like a clear oriole.

Seeing Xu Yi's confused face, Qiu Wa took a piece of black root grass from a bamboo basket not far away. He waved his little hand and a pure color halo appeared in his palm.

The next moment, the black root grass disappeared, replaced by a spectrum of different colors. Generally speaking, the spectrum is divided into four, light cyan, dark green, thick lead color, and light variegated colors, among which light cyan, dark The green and thick lead colors are also mixed with variegated colors in some parts.

Qiu Wa said, "What are you looking at, Uncle Beard? I haven't input your spiritual energy into it, feel it, and see if it's different from the alchemy furnace."