Chapter 609
byYang Kai scratched his head. He originally thought that more than one hundred and fifty crystals were already a good fortune, but when it came time to use them, he realized that these crystals were still too few.
“Don’t look at me either. I don’t have any crystals on me.” Shui Ling was helpless. She had lived in Zhongdu for more than two years, and the crystals she originally carried had long been exhausted.
Yun Xuan had been listening by the side. It was not until this moment that she gritted her teeth and said, “I have a piece of Empty Cicada Jade here.”
Yang Kai looked at her in surprise.
“Anyway, it’s not of much use to me. I’ll give it to you.” While speaking, Yun Xuan reached out and took out a fist-sized piece of jade that was as white as jade and crystal clear from the Qiankun bag around her waist.
Yang Kai frowned. thought for a moment, and then reached out and took it over, saying, “Consider it as if I borrowed it from you.”
“No need.” Yun Xuan smiled slightly.
Master Ma looked at Yang Kai and then at Yun Xuan, somewhat unclear as to why Miss Yun seemed to be very nice to this boy and even generously gave away such a precious material as Empty Cicada Jade.
who came out of a remote corner, did he have any investment value? Master Ma was lost in thought.
Yang Kai handed the Empty Cicada Jade and the Icy Flame Star Sand to Master Ma together. Master Ma took them and coughed lightly, “You’re not a disciple of my Du Ao League. Logically speaking, the cost of refining and repairing the secret treasure should be increased by twenty percent…”
Saying this, he looked at Yun Xuan and smiled slightly, “However, for the sake of Miss Yun, this old man will charge you one hundred spirit stones this time… You should always have this many spirit stones, right？”
This youth clearly looked as poor as a church mouse. Master Ma didn’t dare to ask for too much, lest it make Yun Xuan lose face.
Yang Kai nodded and took out a hundred spirit stones and handed them over.
Master Ma revealed a satisfied expression and said, “Come and pick it up in ten days. By then, I’ll return a brand new secret treasure to you. I guarantee it won’t disappoint you！”
“Then we’ll take our leave first.” Yun Xuan slightly nodded and led Yang Kai and Shui Ling back the same way.
After leaving the Secret Treasure Hall, Yang Kai only then opened his mouth and asked, “That piece of Empty Cicada Jade, exactly how many spirit stones is it worth？”
Yun Xuan smiled but didn’t speak. Shui Ling, however, quietly gestured a number to him.
Yang Kai’s face turned dark.
He didn’t have many precious things on him that he could give to Yun Xuan as compensation. He didn’t plan to expose the Myriad Medicine Spirit Liquid and such. All the Ice Flame Star Sand had also been given to Master Ma. Originally, he had wanted to share some with Shui Ling, but now he could only give up on that idea.
Anyway, Shui Ling was the little princess of the Water God Palace. Presumably, she wouldn’t care about these gains and losses.
“I will return it to you.” Yang Kai reaffirmed. He didn’t like owing people favors, especially those he wasn’t familiar with. Yun Xuan’s show of friendliness was clearly because of Shui Ling’s sake.
Yang Kai knew his own limitations very well. Yun Xuan wouldn’t give away such precious materials just to make friends with him.
“I said it’s okay. You, a man…” Yun Xuan pursed her lips and giggled, shaking her head continuously. “Well, if there’s nothing else, let’s go back.”
“I still want to buy something.” Yang Kai said.
“Oh? What do you want to buy? I’ll show you the way.” Yun Xuan looked at him with interest.
“Buy some medicinal herbs.”
“What for？” Yun Xuan asked like this, and suddenly her beautiful eyes lit up： “Are you an alchemist？”
Yang Kai shook his head： “Just have some interest in alchemy and want to study it.”
“No way?” Shui Ling was also dumbfounded. She had spent a considerable amount of time with Yang Kai, but had never seen him refine any pills. She did know that Yang Kai had a very close relationship with Xia Ning Shang , and Xia Ning Shang had a deep atoning in alchemy. But a person who had never been in contact with alchemy actually said such a thing at this moment, and Shui Ling didn’t quite understand.
“Just for fun.” Yang Kai smiled.
Anyway, there was nothing to do now. Master Ma also said that he could only go to get the bone shield ten days later, so Yang Kai naturally wanted to use this time to do something serious.
And alchemy was something he had always wanted to do but didn’t have time for.
Don’t refine pills until you reach the Divine Movement Realm. This was the teaching of Xiao Fusheng from Yunyin Peak in the Medicine King Valley！ Yang Kai had long since been promoted to the Divine Movement Realm and also met this condition.
Yang Kai didn’t need to worry about the elixirs he used to consume for cultivation. With his senior sister around, she could concoct any kind of elixir. But now, he was alone in the Tongxuan Continent. Shopkeeper Meng and the others had vanished without a trace. Yang Kai had to make plans for his own future.
Having a skill was always better than having no skills at all.
“I don’t understand you.” Shui Ling shook her head.
“Then come with me. I’ll take you to buy the required medicinal materials. What kind of medicinal materials do you want？”
“The lower the grade, the better！” Yang Kai said seriously.
Yun Xuan was stunned： “The lower the grade, the better？ You’ve never concocted elixirs before, have you？”
Only some apprentices who had just entered the path of elixir concocting would choose low-grade medicinal materials to practice with.
“He really hasn’t！” Shui Ling smiled sweetly.
“You’re really just playing around.” Yun Le laughed and didn’t have any intention of stopping them. She led Yang Kai and Shui Ling towards a direction in the city.
The further they walked, the more secluded it became. The quality of the things they saw along the way also became lower and lower. Even the level of the martial artists coming and going here was no longer as high as what they had seen before.
Yang Kai knew that this should be the trading area for the low-level martial artists and low-level materials in Du’ao City.
Soon, the three of them arrived at a medicinal herb shop. There were all kinds of low-grade materials here, a dazzling array. There were many elixir concocting apprentices and weapon refining apprentices looking for materials here to practice with.
The quality of the materials is low and the price is cheap, but because the usage is very large, the business here is also relatively brisk.
Under the guidance of Yunxuan, Yang Kai bought a large number of low-grade medicinal materials with fifty spirit stones and left contentedly.
Back at the residence of Yunxuan’s team, Yang Kai closed the door, set up a barrier outside the room, and started the road of alchemy with high spirits.
The essence and mystery of alchemy, he knows well in his heart.
Over the years, the information continuously spied from the True Alchemy Secret Art has made his knowledge of alchemy even more abundant than Xia Ning Shang .
The structure and function of various spirit arrays, the selection of medicinal materials, the control of the heat, the experience and insights of various alchemy masters, and so on and so forth, no one can surpass him.
What Yang Kai lacks is only practical experience.
Moreover, the attributes of his true yuan and spiritual consciousness are also quite suitable for alchemy.
The scorching True Yang Yuan Qi can more easily condense and exert the medicinal efficacy of the medicinal materials.
It can be said that in terms of alchemy, Yang Kai has unique and incomparable conditions for many people. Although it cannot be compared with Xia Ning Shang ‘s Medicine Spirit Saint Body, the conditions are much better than those of other alchemists.
Poured out all the low-grade materials purchased in the Black Book space and took out that small censer again.
This incense burner was a treasure that appeared when the third page of the black book was unsealed. But ever since he had glimpsed the mysteries of the true alchemy formula, Yang Kai knew that it was not just an ordinary incense burner.
It was also a pill furnace that could be used for alchemy！
This incense burner and the true alchemy formula should coexist and complement each other. But for some reason, the true alchemy formula was hidden in the statue of the Alchemy Saint in the Medicine King Valley. If it weren’t for the accident, Yang Kai might have missed the mysteries of the true alchemy formula.
The original owner of the black book seemed to have no intention of letting Yang Kai embark on the path of alchemy and did not mean to pass down the true alchemy formula.
However, it had been proved that his plan had failed.
Reaching out and touching the small incense burner, Yang Kai poured true yuan into it. According to a certain route, he let the true yuan swim inside the incense burner.
Soon, lines of light like patterns flickered on the incense burner. With the appearance of the light, the small incense burner suddenly expanded and became as big as a water tank.
Yang Kai stopped and nodded with satisfaction.
The size of the pill furnace, to a certain extent, could intuitively reflect whether an alchemist’s skills were excellent.
The larger the required pill furnace, the worse the level of this alchemist. Because when alchemy, the alchemist needed to use true yuan to engrave different spiritual arrays in the pill furnace, let the spiritual arrays play a role, fuse and catalyze the medicinal effects. Let the medicinal materials conflict and act in the pill furnace, and finally condense the pills.
And for an alchemist with superb skills, no matter how small the cauldron is, he can precisely engrave the spiritual array without any deviation and also master the heat.
The cauldron the size of a water tank is suitable for Yang Kai to practice. With such a large cauldron, the error tolerance rate is slightly higher. It doesn’t matter if a little more true essence is poured in.
Recalling the configuration of a certain pill, Yang Kai found the corresponding medicinal materials from that pile of low-grade materials and placed them aside. Then, he continuously made hand seals with both hands and poured true essence into the cauldron.
Soon, a simple spiritual array was formed in the cauldron.
Since it was for practice, Yang Kai chose a spiritual array that increased the success rate of alchemy. This spiritual array was a basic one and not too complicated.
Yang Kai had the ability to control the formation and stability of this spiritual array.
After checking the spiritual array in the cauldron, Yang Kai was extremely satisfied.
He put those selected low-grade materials into the cauldron in sequence. While putting them in, he poured in true essence and used the scorching True Yang Qi to condense the medicinal effect.
During this process, the precious insights and experiences of those alchemy masters in the Alchemy True Secret gradually emerged in Yang Kai’s mind, allowing him to compare them with the current situation.
These alchemy masters were once completely ignorant of the way of alchemy and had a blank understanding of the mysteries of alchemy.
But through their own efforts and talents, they gradually reached a respected height.
Yang Kai controlled it with extreme caution Because the amount of True Yuan injected directly related to the condensation of the medicinal efficacy. If too much was injected, the medicinal materials might be burned; if too little was infused, the medicinal efficacy would not be fully exerted and it would also be impossible to form a pill.
Pill refining was an extremely delicate task and had very strict requirements for the control of one’s own True Yuan.
One after another, the medicinal herbs melted under the effect of Yang Kai’s True Yuan, merged together, and underwent a gratifying change.
However, just when Yang Kai thought that this time it would almost succeed, a cloud of black smoke suddenly emerged from the pill furnace, and the pungent smell of charring quickly filled this room.
Yang Kai stopped the input of True Yuan and furrowed his brows.
He knew that this pill refining had completely failed. There seemed to be some problem with his pouring in of True Yuan strength he exerted was a little too great, resulting in all the medicinal materials being burned.
Taking out the burned waste in the pill furnace, Yang Kai did not rush to continue. Instead, he calmed down and recalled the feelings just now, verifying them with the correct method.
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