Chapter 76: Refining Heavy Water

  Although the Cloud and Rain Token is not worth much, having to go get three thousand of them at once is a daunting task. That's equivalent to three thousand large barrels of Spiritual Spring Water, enough to flood the entire Treasure Pavilion, which is three stories high, in an instant.

  Li Ran Dao smiled and continued: "Nada Shixiong, at the same time, I also want a large bottle of bitter spirit jade essence for condensing water, do you have it here?"

  "There is... can..."

  Nadan's face was bitter and he couldn't say anything.

  Li Ran Dao burst out laughing and said, "The number of things I want is too many, and the Spirit Medicine Valley doesn't belong to just one person, so I'll pay some points in exchange instead. Otherwise, the other fellow disciples might have opinions."

  Nadan let out a long sigh, and with a bitter smile shook his head: "Feng Ruo, thank you for understanding me so well. So many things, all brought out at once to give away, it's really troublesome for Shixiong. Alright, I'll sell them to you at the lowest price. These items add up to 40 points, Feng Ruo, can you take them?"

  Li Ran's heart was delighted, and he casually took out four yellow knives and handed them over.

  Nadan handed four yellow knives to Aqiao behind him and instructed, "Aqiao, help Ranshao Shidi prepare the necessary items, we need a big pack of 3,000 Cloud Rain Symbols. Humph, after preparation, let him carry it himself."

  Li Ruo and A Jiao burst out laughing at the same time.

  The cloud and rain symbol was only the size of a palm, thin and tough. However, with 3,000 of them, they still filled up a large package that was half the height of a person. Li Ran naturally didn't mind the weight and carried the large package for a long time on the mountain road before entering the Xuanhuo Cave and opening the door. Tu Shun's face was full of surprise as he stared at the large package and asked:

  "Flaming sword, what you're carrying is..."

  It's a package of cloud and rain symbols.

  Tú Shùn was even more shocked: "Rán Dāo, did you rob the Líng Yào Gǔ? They had all their Yun Yuè Fú stolen by you! What do you want to use so many Yun Yuè Fú for?"

  Li Ran Dao mysteriously smiled and said: "I want to refine the elixir."

  Tú Shùn burst out laughing and closed the cave door tightly behind Lǐ Rán's back, saying: "Refine the elixir? Who are you kidding? I think you're more like preparing something sinister. Do you want to figure out the principle of the Cloud Rain Symbol and use the spring water to attack people during battle? Impossible! The Cloud Rain Symbol doesn't have that kind of power..."

  Li Ran couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity of it all. When he told the truth, no one believed him; wasn't that strange?

  Ignoring the scenery, he turned into a long stone cave behind him, returned to his own cave, prepared some essential things, and Li Fenger carried a large package of Yunyu symbols on his back into the narrow and steep cave. He walked down the stone steps for an unknown depth, saw a thick stone gate, pushed open the door, and a room full of light poured out.

  Li Ran squeezed in with his knife and turned around to close the stone gate, looking at the green Dan Ding in front of him, his heart was filled with joy.

  Heavy water is a very magical thing in the world, and some elixirs require this as an assistant medicine.

  According to the records of Yao Jing, in the mountains of Shiwan Da Shan, there is a kind of bluestone with an extremely mysterious structure. The internal texture is layered and stacked inward, forming a centripetal suction force. Some of the bluestones have depressions on top, where dew condenses and is compressed and aggregated by the centripetal suction force.

  Year after year, countless dew drops are gathered together, and the dew drop becomes more and more spiritual, eventually forming a water droplet like amber, which is the heavy water recorded in the alchemical classics.

  Heavy water is even harder to find than the elixir of life. In a past life, there was once when Baicao Daoist was refining pills and urgently needed this spiritual object but couldn't get it, he became extremely anxious, packed his clothes and prepared to leave the mountain to search for it. Li Ruo Knife followed behind his master, watching as his master carefully folded each piece of clothing into a bundle, suddenly had an epiphany and thought of a plan. After explaining it in detail to Baicao Daoist, he too couldn't help but feel great joy, thinking that there was a possibility of success.

  Li Ranno's idea is - folding, compression.

  So a large piece of clothing, after folding, suddenly becomes a small dot, and a small package can hold many pieces. Then, if you make a few-meter-long and wide Rain Symbol, like clothes, fold it up, what effect will it have?

  A small piece of Condensed Rain Symbol can condense a bucket of mountain spring water. Folding up a large piece of Condensed Rain Symbol that is several meters wide makes it look like the size of a fist, but it can still condense dozens of buckets of mountain spring water. Isn't this equivalent to folding and compressing the mountain spring water into one place? Isn't this equivalent to refining heavy water?

  The ability of Ba Cao Dao Ren Yu Fu to make jade symbols far surpasses Li Ruo's theory, a fist-sized piece of jade essence, and it is unknown how many horizontal stripes are compressed into it.

  Put the jade essence in the alchemy furnace, the hundred grass Taoist uses the fire of the alchemy furnace to refine the mountain spring water, turning it into a mist that is quickly absorbed by the jade essence. Li Ran Dao was responsible for carrying water, bucket after bucket of water poured into the alchemy furnace, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into mist and was sucked away by the jade essence. Li Ran Dao watched with his eyes wide open in amazement.

  He didn't even remember how many buckets of water he had carried, and for three whole days and nights, the master and apprentice were busy to the point of being delighted. In the end, Yu Jing absorbed the misty water, and Bai Cao Dao Ren smashed Yu Jing into pieces, successfully producing a small drop of heavy water that was as crystal clear as amber.

  Recalling those past events, Li Ruo's heart felt intimate and warm. Those days were among the few memories of kinship in Li Ruo's life.

  Thinking of his master's sound and appearance, Li Ran's eyes moistened quietly.

  With a forceful wipe of his eye corners, Li Ruo sat cross-legged on the ground and recalled his past life's Master Jingyu's method of creating talismans. He thinly spread out the large bottle of jade essence, condensing it into countless dense horizontal lines. Then, he carefully folded the jade essence and compressed it fiercely. In Li Ruo's palms, a small, round, and translucent jade ball gradually took shape.

  The palm followed the direction of Dan Ding's virtual texture and rotated. The Jing Yuan force operated lightly, and with a loud noise, the lid of the cauldron popped open.

  Li Ran's knife inserted the jade ball and more than a dozen cloud and rain talismans into the alchemy furnace at the same time, covered it with a lid, and pressed his palm against the secret pattern on the furnace body. The pure yuan energy was lightly spat out, and the power of the mysterious fire below the alchemy furnace was like a sharp tongue of flame that suddenly shot out, instantly shattering and melting one of the cloud and rain talismans. Suddenly, the sound of gurgling water came from inside the alchemy furnace as it was submerged in a large bucket of spiritual spring water.

  Li Ran's knife slowly warmed the Lingquan water in the full tripod, and when the Lingquan water came into contact with the Xuanhuo, it was constantly refined into a mist that was absorbed by the jade ball.

  With Yunyu Fu, Li Ran's knife was spared from the arduous process of carrying water.

  Li Ran's knife was refining the essence of the elixir non-stop, and more misty vapor was being distilled out. For a whole day and night, Li Ran sat beside the tripod, busily and joyfully refining the elixir.

  One by one, the cloud and rain talismans were refined, finally using up more than 2,800 cloud and rain talismans before that jade essence orb was full, unable to absorb any more mist.

  Li Ran Duan lifted the lid of the tripod, took out the jade ball, and felt it warm to the touch, its weight much heavier than before.

  With a burst of energy, the jade ball was crushed by Li Ran's knife, and droplets of water splashed out, refracting seven-colored light, emitting an icy aura, and rolling continuously among the broken jade.

  Li Ruo was overjoyed, knowing that the heavy water had been successfully refined. He took out a jade bottle and carefully poured the drop of heavy water into it, sealing it with a stopper, feeling extremely satisfied for the moment.

  Now all the materials for refining the Washing Marrow Pill have been prepared and everything is ready, only waiting to start firing the pill.

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