SFS Chapter 168 Dan Patterns Appear, Thunder Tribulation Manifests
Chapter 168 Dan Patterns Appear, Thunder Tribulation Manifests
Because the pills being refined this time were relatively special, Jiang Yuchuan did not refine them in his spatial dimension.
Since breaking through to the twelfth-grade Golden Core stage, the spiritual power within his body has been more than a hundred times that of the Foundation Establishment stage, which is more than enough to support him in refining a dozen or even dozens of batches of pills in the spiritually sparse outside world.
Most importantly, refining Ice-Breaking Pills in an environment with sufficient cold air will not only increase the success rate of pill production, but also slightly improve the quality of the pills.
After all, Jiang Yuchuan didn't know the exact situation deep within that magma. Since the temperature there made him feel a sense of danger, he absolutely couldn't be careless.
He had to be fully prepared before daring to venture into it.
After setting up a defensive formation in the cave, Jiang Yuchuan took out all the herbs needed to refine the Ice Soul Pill.
These herbs were all carefully cultivated by Jiang Yuchuan in his spatial herb field. Each one exudes a rich spiritual energy and has long since transcended the realm of ordinary herbs.
Especially the Ice Heart Lotus, after Jiang Yuchuan watered it several times with spiritual spring water, its color became even deeper than before, and the coldness it emitted was no less than that of the cold spring water.
The dozen or so herbs that Jiang Yuchuan took out from his spatial storage were all directly usable for alchemy without any further processing. The only troublesome thing was the pool of cold spring water he had just retrieved.
Even though this cold spring water possesses an extraordinary chill, it is still an ordinary thing, and it doesn't contain much spiritual energy.
If it is used directly for alchemy, even if it does not conflict with other herbs during the refining process, the quality of the resulting pill will be greatly reduced.
Therefore, Jiang Yuchuan had to condense and compress the cold spring water before using it, and then mix it with the spiritual spring water so that its coldness would not be reduced, but its grade would also be improved.
This step isn't difficult, but it does take a bit of time.
It took Jiang Yuchuan five whole days to successfully condense all the cold spring water in the storage bracelet.
The cold spring water that filled an entire storage bracelet was reduced to just enough to fill five palm-sized porcelain bottles after Jiang Yuchuan condensed and compressed it.
With everything ready, the next step is to formally refine the Ice Soul Pill.
Without a pill furnace, Jiang Yuchuan still had to refine pills by hand. Fortunately, the Ice Soul Pill was not too difficult to refine, and Jiang Yuchuan's cultivation and experience were enough to handle it.
After meditating for a while and calming his mind completely, Jiang Yuchuan's spiritual energy began to circulate rapidly. He pointed two fingers into the air and took out all the cold spring water from one of the porcelain bottles in front of him. Then he took one portion of the dozen or so herbs that had been divided into five equal portions in advance and wrapped it all in the cold spring water.
Driven by spiritual energy, the herbs enveloped in the cold spring water began to rotate slowly and rhythmically.
Jiang Yuchuan's expression turned serious, and his hands quickly formed hand seals.
Strands of azure light emerged from Jiang Yuchuan's constantly changing hand seals, quickly converging below the floating sphere of cold spring water to form a green array plate with a square inner circle and a circle outer circle, covered with concentric runes.
After completing the array plate, Jiang Yuchuan stopped what he was doing, his eyes flashing with a blue light. He pointed his hand in the air, and a cluster of golden flames appeared on its own, blazing fiercely beneath the array plate.
This wisp of golden fire is Jiang Yuchuan's Golden Elixir Fire.
The pill fire condensed from the twelfth-grade golden pill is extraordinary. Even compared with the rare and precious flames that are naturally born in the cultivation world, it is in no way inferior!
While using such powerful alchemical fire to refine pills can achieve twice the result with half the effort, one must be extremely careful that the refined product does not melt into ashes.
It was precisely because of this consideration that Jiang Yuchuan added a magic array between the two.
This was Jiang Yuchuan's first attempt at this, so he dared not be careless in the slightest during the refining process, and always focused on observing the changes in the cold spring water on the array plate and the medicinal materials encased within it.
Two hours later.
Under Jiang Yuchuan's skillful control, all the medicinal herbs in the cold spring water were transformed into clumps of medicinal liquid, and the cold spring water was compressed again under the scorching heat of the alchemical fire, becoming only the size of an egg.
The next step was the pill-forming process. Jiang Yuchuan increased the output of spiritual power, making the pill fire under the array plate burn even more vigorously.
At that moment, Jiang Yuchuan placed his hand on his brow and drew out a strand of bluish-yellow spiritual energy, as thin as a hair, and injected it into the cold spring water on the array plate, which was constantly writhing due to the scorching heat of the pill fire.
With the blessing of this trace of spiritual energy rich in vitality, the cold spring water, along with the clumps of medicinal liquid it contained, instantly calmed down.
After completely absorbing this wisp of spiritual energy, the cold spring water and the medicinal liquid began to rapidly merge together, gradually condensing into the prototype of a pill.
"It's done!"
Jiang Yuchuan's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately removed the array plate, allowing the liquid that was about to condense into a pill to fall directly into the pill fire.
Under the intense heat of the golden flames, three pills with a faint blue luster were fully formed.
Stop the fire and retrieve the elixir.
Three pills, one deep and two shallow.
"One high-grade, two medium-grade."
Jiang Yuchuan looked at the three pills emanating a chilling aura in his hand, feeling quite satisfied.
After the pills were carefully collected according to their grade, Jiang Yuchuan immediately began the second round of refining.
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The day passed quickly.
At this point, Jiang Yuchuan had completed the fourth refining process.
In these four refining processes, Jiang Yuchuan obtained a total of fifteen Ice Soul Pills.
This includes seven medium-grade stones, seven high-grade stones, and one top-grade stone.
This top-grade Ice Soul Pill was created by Jiang Yuchuan during his fourth attempt at refining it. He seemed to have suddenly realized something, and with a flash of inspiration, he slightly changed the refining method.
In order not to let this extremely rare feeling disappear, Jiang Yuchuan immediately rolled up the last batch of medicinal materials and began the fifth refining process.
Soon, Jiang Yuchuan, who was completely absorbed in the process of refining the pill, entered a very mysterious state. Although his eyes were focused on the refining of the pill, he was as if he were in a meditative state. A blue light flowed around his body, and a blue-green dot surrounded by golden light appeared between his eyebrows.
Upon closer inspection, the tiny dot, no bigger than a mung bean and surrounded by a thin ring of golden light, that appeared between Jiang Yuchuan's eyebrows was exactly the same as the spiritual pearl in his sea of consciousness.
Jiang Yuchuan was completely unaware of the changes in himself, immersing himself entirely in enlightenment.
As the five pills slowly took shape in the alchemical fire, the previously clear and cloudless sky outside suddenly turned gloomy.
Just then, one of the five pills that were constantly rotating in the alchemical fire suddenly burst out with a strong light, and then a pattern of auspicious clouds gradually emerged on it.
The moment the auspicious cloud pattern appeared, dark clouds quickly gathered above the snow-capped mountain where Jiang Yuchuan was located.
Streaks of lightning flashed continuously within the dark clouds, as if they were about to strike down at any moment and blast the entire mountain into dust.
Amidst the continuous flashes and roars of thunder, Jiang Yuchuan recovered from his state of enlightenment.
Although it was an epiphany, Jiang Yuchuan was still able to sense everything happening outside. Seeing that he had actually refined a spirit-patterned pill that could trigger a lightning tribulation and was far superior to the best quality, he was naturally extremely excited.
It should be noted that even some alchemy masters who have been practicing alchemy for hundreds of years cannot simply refine this Spirit Pattern Pill at will.
To refine a Spirit Pattern Pill, in addition to the high quality of the materials and the advanced alchemy techniques, the right timing, location, and people are also indispensable.
The gains from this epiphany were far more than just a single spirit-pattern pill for Jiang Yuchuan. His understanding and skills in alchemy also experienced a leap forward!
As for the lightning tribulation that was descending from the sky outside, powerful enough to destroy the pills, Jiang Yuchuan didn't take it seriously at all.
Compared to his Golden Core tribulation, this lightning tribulation was insignificant and posed no threat whatsoever.
However, even though the power of this lightning tribulation was small, Jiang Yuchuan did not intend to let it go for nothing.
This wool, bestowed by the rules of heaven and earth, is too good to pass up; why not take advantage of it?
The moment the pill was fully formed, Jiang Yuchuan instantly opened his hand.
"It's time to let you out for some fresh air!"
Sensing Jiang Yuchuan's summons, the Golden Silk Green Thunder Vine, which had been quietly growing in the Qi Sea, excitedly twisted and turned, splitting off a side branch from its thick body and transforming into a green light that flew away.