Chapter 93 Matching
As soon as Lin Mu landed on Danxia Peak, Tai Ning came forward to greet him.
"Junior brother, you are finally here. Sister Han Bing is still waiting at the top of the peak. You should go quickly." Tai Ning said hurriedly.
Lin Mu asked, "Brother, do you know why Sister Han Bing wants to see me?"
"I don't know about that either." Tai Ning said apologetically, "Just go. You will know when you get there."
Lin Mu smiled at Tai Ning and turned to fly to the top of the peak.
Danxia Peak is located in the fire vein. The fire of the underground lung is extremely strong. Many alchemy rooms have been opened up on the hillside for disciples to make alchemy.
But few people know that the largest fire vein of Danxia Peak is led to the top of the peak to make alchemy for Fairy Han Bing.
Fairy Han Bing is a cultivator with a single fire spirit root, but unlike other cultivators with fire spirit roots, she is extremely indifferent and doesn't care about anything.
Lin Mu came to the top of the peak and stopped in front of a huge courtyard.
Just as Lin Mu was about to knock on the door, the courtyard door opened without wind, and the faint voice of the Ice Fairy came from the courtyard: "Come to the East Wing."
Lin Mu's heart trembled, and he hurried to the East Wing.
After entering, Lin Mu found that the East Wing was an alchemy room, and the Ice Fairy was standing in front of a purple alchemy furnace, preparing to make an elixir.
Lin Mu hurriedly saluted: "Meet Master Ice."
Seeing Lin Mu coming in, the Ice Fairy did not raise her head, still sorting out the spiritual herbs and medicines, and replied faintly: "Senior Brother Luo Yan intends to take you as his apprentice, but I heard that you have a good talent for alchemy, and I am afraid that you will be buried, so I want you to learn alchemy from me."
The Ice Fairy's tone was flat, and there was no emotional fluctuation, but Lin Mu was overjoyed after hearing it.
Learning alchemy with the Ice Fairy?
This is really a pleasant surprise.
For alchemy, Lin Mu has always had a half-understanding, and no one has ever taught him. Many processes are groping by himself, and he has taken many detours.
If there is guidance from the Ice Fairy, Lin Mu believes that his alchemy skills will surely improve by leaps and bounds.
Lin Mu hurriedly thanked her and said, "Thank you, Elder Luo Yan, thank you, Sister Han Bing."
Ice Fairy was extremely cold and did not respond at all.
Although Lin Mu knew the character of Ice Fairy, he still felt extremely embarrassed in the face of this situation and had to stand up by himself.
Ice Fairy was not polite to Lin Mu at all. She threw a storage ring and a jade slip and said, "Classify the medicinal materials in it and sort out the materials for refining the foundation-building pill."
Lin Mu hurriedly took the storage ring and jade slip.
After getting the jade slip, Lin Mu input spiritual power into it. After checking it, he found that it actually recorded the recipe of the foundation-building pill. It recorded the refining process of the foundation-building pill in detail, and the content was much richer than the recipe given by Mu Qing.
Lin Mu was in a state of confusion. He had spent a lot of effort to get the recipe from Mu Qing, but he didn't expect that Fairy Han Bing would give him the recipe so easily.
The storage ring contained all the spiritual herbs and medicines for refining the foundation-building pill.
It takes a total of 16 kinds of spiritual herbs to refine a foundation-building pill, which is the largest number of pills Lin Mu has ever seen.
The number of each spiritual herb is also inconsistent. Lin Mu compared it carefully and found that although the types of spiritual herbs in the recipe Mu Qing gave him were the same, the proportions of the spiritual herbs were not consistent and there were subtle differences.
For example, in Mu Qing's recipe, only two plants of second-grade cold tobacco were needed, but in Fairy Han Bing's recipe, one more plant of cold tobacco was needed, and three plants were needed.
This made Lin Mu a little confused. The recipe Mu Qing gave him looked like it had been around for a certain period of time and didn't look fake.
But why were the two recipes different? Lin Mu couldn't figure it out.
There was a master of alchemy standing in front of him, but Lin Mu thought of her cold personality and didn't dare to ask. After hesitating for a long time, Lin Mu finally mustered up the courage to ask: "Master Han Bing, is the number of spiritual herbs in the recipe of this foundation-building pill strictly controlled? Are there different ratios for the same pill?"
"Yes." Fairy Han Bing said.
Lin Mu tilted his ears and listened carefully, thinking that he must not miss this part.
But after a long while, Fairy Han Bing's voice did not sound again, and Lin Mu was stunned.
Is that the answer?
She dismissed herself with just one word. This answer was too concise. One word is worth a thousand gold, right?
Lin Mu had the urge to vomit blood, but after hesitating again and again, he didn't dare to ask again, for fear of being dismissed with one word again.
Fairy Han Bing's hands did not stop, and the materials were quickly sorted out under her hands. Although the foundation-building pill is only used by Qi-refining cultivators to build their foundation, it is of the third grade. To refine it, not only does it require a high level of alchemy, but it also requires a certain level of cultivation, at least above the foundation-building stage.
Elder Luo Yan asked Lin Mu and Han Bing Fairy to learn alchemy. Han Bing Fairy didn't take it seriously. Is alchemy really that easy to learn? It's not that if you are good at refining first-grade pills, you can refine second-grade pills, not to mention third-grade elixirs. She didn't believe that Lin Mu could learn to refine the foundation-building pill.
At the beginning, she learned to refine the foundation-building pill, but she suffered a lot and wasted a lot of fire dragon grass.
She didn't have much hope for Lin Mu, as long as he didn't cause her trouble.
She didn't plan to let Lin Mu take action either. The fire dragon grass was extremely rare and couldn't be wasted easily. She just wanted Lin Mu to watch it carefully, retreat when he knew it was difficult, work hard to practice swordsmanship, and stop having hope in alchemy.
The alchemy industry is not something that anyone can step into.
If you don't have a strong character and a smart mind, don't learn to make alchemy.
Having these two things alone is not enough, the most important thing is to have a rich family.
As long as you have a rich family, even if you are a little stupid and lazy, as long as you have enough materials, even if you are a pig, you can make alchemy.
Alchemist is an extremely expensive profession. Without the vigorous cultivation of the sect, it is difficult to cultivate an outstanding alchemist.
It is even more foolish to think that you can become a talented person by yourself.
There are many geniuses in the world, but that doesn't mean you are one of them.
Seeing Lin Mu dumbfounded, the Ice Fairy looked expressionless and threw another jade slip over.
Lin Mu hurriedly reached out to catch it. After inputting spiritual power into it, Lin Mu started reading eagerly.
This jade slip mainly talks about the ratio of foundation-building pills.
However, Lin Mu only had one feeling after watching it.
Profound, so profound!
It stands to reason that the proportion of a medicinal material is not complicated. You only need to proportion it according to the number recorded on the prescription.
But this jade slip is different. It discusses in detail the principles of proportioning different medicinal materials and the effects they can achieve.
Just take one of the sixteen kinds of spiritual herbs for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill, Cold Tobacco, as an example. Different ratios of Cold Tobacco will result in completely different effects of refining the Foundation Establishment Pill. The main ingredient of the Foundation Building Pill is fire dragon grass. Fire dragon grass is a fire-based spiritual herb. Its medicinal effect is so powerful that it is difficult for ordinary people to bear it. It needs to be neutralized with cold tobacco.
If there are two cold tobacco plants, the neutralizing effect on Fire Dragon Grass is not very good, but the efficacy is still overbearing. The foundation-building pill refined in this way is full of impact, and it is very likely to succeed in building the foundation in one fell swoop. But it is also possible that the spiritual power will be out of control, the meridians will be severed, and the cultivation will be destroyed.
If three cold tobacco plants are used, the Foundation Establishment Pill refined in this way will have a stable effect, but the impact is not as good as the previous one, but it is safer and is the choice of most disciples.
There is another ratio, which is to use four cold tobacco plants to neutralize the efficacy of fire dragon grass. Because some water-type single spiritual root cultivators are naturally incompatible with the fire-type, for ordinary people, foundation-building pills with stable effects may not be affordable.
For such people, a combination of four cold tobacco plants is suitable.
However, due to the excessive amount of cold tobacco, sufficient water spiritual power, and suppressing the medicinal properties of fire dragon grass, the success rate of foundation building is even lower.
Lin Mu put down the jade slip, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes.
Too complicated!
Among the sixteen kinds of spiritual herbs, just one of them, Cold Tobacco, has so much analysis. More than a dozen other spiritual herbs also have different functions according to the mutual support and restraint of the five elements.
If you want to study it carefully, you don't have a month to understand the principles.
At this point, Lin Mu realized that he had always been a frog in the well when it came to alchemy.
Before he even started refining the elixir, just the ratio of medicinal materials made Lin Mu anxious.
But this also made Lin Mu feel excited. He felt that refining elixirs in this way was the real refining of elixirs, as it would not be like a blind man touching an elephant, and his eyes would be completely dark.
In the next few days, Lin Mu never left the alchemy room, painstakingly studying the jade slips given by the Ice Fairy.
After several days of research, Lin Mu figured out that according to the ratio of medicinal materials, at least fifty kinds of elixirs could be combined.
These prescriptions are all foundation-building pill prescriptions.
Depending on the ratio of medicinal materials, it is suitable for different people.
The spiritual roots of cultivators are different, and the formulas of the foundation-building pills used are also different.
But that's not all. In many cases, even two people with the same spiritual roots may not necessarily use the same Foundation Building Pill.
Some people have deep cultivation and a high chance of building a foundation, so there is no need to take risks and just use mild elixirs.
But some people fail to build the foundation repeatedly. Such people need to use powerful elixirs to attack the foundation with all their strength.
Only now did Lin Mu realize how profound and profound the art of alchemy was, and all his previous conceit was thrown out of the window.
Only then did Lin Mu truly understand why the elder wanted his disciples to concentrate on sword practice.
Because the life of a cultivator is limited, if you want to succeed in cultivation, you must make some sacrifices and specialize in one discipline.
But alchemy is too important to Lin Mu, and the existence of the rotating moon space is destined to make it impossible for him to leave alchemy, and he cannot give up alchemy.
The qualification of Five Elements Spiritual Root makes him fully dependent on elixirs.
Lin Mu decided to learn how to make alchemy no matter what and climb to a higher level.
With this idea in mind, Lin Mu has been working for the Ice Fairy for more than half a month, helping to prepare different foundation-building elixir recipes, from which Lin Mu has benefited a lot.
More than 900 fire dragon grass plants seemed to be a lot, but the final prepared materials were divided into more than 30 types, each suitable for more than 30 people.
Calculated in this way, each group of people only has about 30 materials. The Ice Fairy's alchemy level cannot reach 100%, and the number of Foundation Establishment Pills that can be refined will be much less.
In this way, it is not easy to find the foundation-building pill that suits you.
There will be many people who receive a Foundation Establishment Pill that is not the most suitable for them. Such a Foundation Establishment Pill will greatly reduce their chances of building a Foundation.
Lin Mu suddenly felt that a simple ratio was so important.
It is related to whether a person's foundation building can be successful and what the probability of success is.
All of this is in the hands of the alchemist.