Chapter Eighty-two: The Great Alchemy of Dan Medicine

  Yang Tianwen opened the alchemy furnace, and inside lay a dozen or so perfectly round pills that looked just like chocolate beans. Yang Tianwen picked up the pills, sniffed them to confirm whether they were as described in the "Alchemical Scripture", then used his spiritual discernment technique to check again, confirming that they had indeed been successfully refined and not wasted. His heart couldn't help but feel greatly excited. He thought: This alchemy is actually quite interesting, it's been a long time since I've felt this kind of satisfaction.

  These are just some basic elixirs, they belong to the kind that is popular among the masses, and their quality isn't even ranked.

  Grade is a level determined by the comprehensive evaluation of Dan medicine ingredients, efficacy, color and other factors. The same type of Dan medicine, for example, the current best-selling and most scarce Zhuji Dan, also has different grades. Let's talk about how this grade is determined. Zhuji Dan, as its name suggests, doesn't need explanation, and its grade is fourth among various Ling Dans. The higher it goes, the more advanced it becomes. A tenth-grade Ling Dan is hard to come by, let alone a Xian Dan that surpasses it. Two identical fourth-grade Ling Dans are further divided into four grades: Tian, Di, Xuan, and Huang, due to differences in effect and color. When using a fourth-grade Tian Zhuji Dan, the success rate of building the foundation is definitely higher than when using a fourth-grade Huang Zhuji Dan.

  Yang Tian asked, the elixirs used for practice were just some first- and second-grade common goods, not worthy of evaluating their grade. Nowadays, the strongest and most precious elixir in the cultivation world is the ninth-grade Silent Elixir, which is specifically used to cross the tribulation. Having it is equivalent to having the help of two high-level cultivators who have crossed the tribulation period, greatly increasing the success rate of crossing the tribulation. Another one is the Tribulation-Obstacle Elixir, which is an eighth-grade elixir but has effects comparable to a ninth-grade elixir. It's like an upgraded version of the Foundation Establishment Elixir, and in addition to having 100% foundation establishment effect, it also has 100% core formation, 100% infant transformation, and 50-70% success rate of crossing the Void Period. It is the treasure that every cultivator dreams of. As for how many more elixirs of this level exist in the cultivation world, no one knows.

  Yang Tianwen took out the medicinal herbs for practice again, enlarged the dan furnace a bit, and put all of them in. This time it was even more demanding on his skills.

  Half a time later, Yang Tian asked again harvested 100 spiritual pills, also one or two grade ordinary goods, familiar with the process, this time really prepared to come.

  Zengyuan Dan is one of the most suitable elixirs for Yang Tianwen's Qi-refining period, recorded in the "Dan Jing". It belongs to the fifth-grade elixir. Yang Tianwen plans to use the top four grades of demon elixir to blend and refine it. This is the first time refining such a high-level elixir, so he wants to test it out a bit before proceeding, being cautious as one would when sailing a ship for ten thousand years. In the obtained elixir formula, Zengyuan Dan also has a description. It can be said that it is the only kind of fifth-grade spiritual elixir with the lowest cost and strongest practicality among all spiritual elixirs. However, its success rate is also relatively lower than other fifth-grade spiritual elixirs. Of course, this success rate can be improved by enhancing the refining components. The success rate using fourth-grade demon elixir is 10%, fifth-grade demon elixir is 40%, and sixth-grade can reach 70%. Even if a Dan-refining master were to refine it, they could only increase the original success rate by 30%. But would a Dan-refining master bother with Zengyuan Dan, this fifth-grade spiritual elixir that is only effective for cultivators below the Dan-forming period, including those in the Dan-forming period?

  If the outside world were to know that Yang Tianwen, a rookie who had only refined two dan medicines, came to challenge the fifth-grade Xuan Yuan Dan, which is even higher than the foundation-building dan medicine, it would likely shock more than half of the cultivators. The way of alchemy is like cultivation, and one cannot be sloppy; one must advance step by step, level by level, because high-level dan medicines are not comparable to ordinary goods, and the control of the fire mouth requires precision down to the minute.

  Yang Tian asked, it's not possible that he was arrogant and ignorant, but rather had a certain degree of confidence, having faith in the Xuanhuo Dan fire, an extraordinary flame recorded in the ancient top-tier manual "Zi Xiao Bao Lu".

  Perhaps in alchemy, Yang Tianwen was a novice, but his mastery of the Heart Fire had been honed in the mundane world. He divided the majority of the elixirs he refined into two portions, giving one to Xiao Bai to slowly savor. After all, it was still a spiritual elixir, even if its grade was somewhat lower.

  Xiao Bai is not picky, for him, eating these dan medicine is more nutritious than eating roasted wild boar, although the taste is not as good as roasted wild boar, but in terms of quality, it can't beat roasted wild boar.

  Yang Tianwen began to refine the Yuanyuan Dan, with main materials such as Clear Spirit Water, Hundred-Year-Old Yellow Essence, Hundred-Year-Old Polyporus, Fourth-Grade Demon Dan, and so on. He combined them with seven layers of Wen fire and three layers of Wu fire, alternating between them for more than four hours. There could not be the slightest mistake or pause in the middle, and the order of placement of the materials was also very particular.

  The difficulty lies in the fire throat, ordinary people refining the elixir, more than two hours are generally using the earth's heart fire to refine the elixir, very few people use their own true fire to refine, because this is too consuming of spiritual power. The earth's heart fire is convenient, as long as you find the right place, it won't consume your true yuan, but the drawback is that the fire throat is difficult to control, because it's not your own true fire. Using true fire to refine for four hours can only be done by some high-level alchemy masters who have strong cultivation, however, these people don't need to refine the elixir at all.

  The consumption of Lian Xin Dan Huo is much less than that of Zhen Huo, and with the recovery speed of Xian Tian Zi Qi and its large reserve, it's a perfect match. It's not difficult to persist for three months. In the future, when the cultivation is deeper, it's also common to persist for decades or even hundreds of years. Moreover, the transformation of Lian Xin Dan Huo is controlled by the heart, making it more obedient and agile than the true fire in an ordinary cultivator's body.

  Four periods, that is eight hours. If an ordinary person concentrates for eight hours, they might collapse. Fortunately, Yang Tianwen was a Qi Refiner and a cultivator, so this difficulty wasn't a problem. He carefully controlled the fire mouth, and his mind repeatedly went through the entire process of refining the elixir, striving to make no mistakes, or else all his previous efforts would be wasted. Yang Tianwen understood that he couldn't afford to waste his resources recklessly.

  Four hours later, the elixir was indeed successful, with a total of twenty pellets in one furnace! It's an absolute fifth-grade Spirit Refining Elixir, but it's slightly weaker in terms of quality. The highest is only fifth-grade Mystic Rank, and most are fifth-grade Yellow Rank. However, this was refined using fourth-grade Demon Elixir, which has an extremely low cost. Being able to succeed is already good enough. Yang Tianwen isn't greedy for high-quality elixirs; as long as it's successful, that's all that matters. Next, Yang Tianwen enthusiastically threw himself into refining the elixir.

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