Becoming a God from a Water Monkey

Chapter 698 Dragon Beard Pill

"Sir, the precious elixir you ordered in our store yesterday, one bottle of three elixirs for the full refining method, two bottles in total, and one bottle of three elixirs for the split refining method, four bottles in total, please count them."

"No problem, thank you."

"You're welcome, Your Excellency."

The servant bowed, with difficulty withdrawing his gaze from the little white dragon dancing in the air in the yard, and stepped back.

Qingsong Street in the imperial capital.

There are many large alchemy workshops here, including but not limited to Xuanxuan Lianzhentang, Yunyin Danlu, Lingxi Baolufang and other famous shops. They excel in different alchemy techniques and schools, and have court masters and grand master-level alchemists as guests. They are famous far and wide, and there are even many masters from other prefectures who come all the way to Qingsong Street in the imperial capital to ask for elixirs.

After the auction.

Liang Qu was not in a hurry to take the dragon whiskers. Instead, he asked Yuantou to catch more than ten ox-horn pomfret of basically equal mass, and go to Yunyin Danlu, which was famous for refining treasure beast pills, to refine treasure fish pills using different techniques in order to compare and verify one thing.

Can alchemy preserve the essence of water?
If it can be saved, how much can be preserved?
What are the influencing factors?
The snow in the corners was stained with a layer of yellow-gray, and the frozen moss broke into small pieces.

Liang Qu picked up the first bottle with the note on it, poured out a blood-red pill, twisted it between his fingertips, and a bright white light flashed.

Full refining method!
One Dan is one ox-horn pomfret!
He had eaten precious beast pills before, such as the sturgeon bone pill from the sturgeon demon and the snake bone pill from the snake demon.

Both belong to this category.

Unfortunately.

I don't know if it's because it's been stored for too long or what, but it's like keeping a spiritual fish in captivity for too long will cause its spiritual power to be lost and evaporate into thin air.

The amount of water essence in the two kinds of pills is pitifully small, but it is better than nothing, and basically only the medicinal effects themselves are left.

As a result, Liang Qu was not very keen on using precious beasts to make elixirs before.

Unless they are like fish bones or snake bones, which are too big and hard to swallow, they can only be used to make elixirs to utilize their remaining energy.

For others, refining it into a precious pill can enhance absorption and increase the efficacy of the medicine.

A rare treasure of "main medicine", combined with other "ministerial and assistant" auxiliary medicines, can achieve 120% or even 130% of the miraculous effect of the "main medicine"!

But for Liangqu, without the essence of the water, it would be more cost-effective to eat it directly.

However, at the auction yesterday, the Vast Sea Black Whale Pill that Lu Jia mentioned was refined using an entire giant monster, with the main features of "original flavor" and "concentrated essence", which opened the door to a new world for him.

There are so many strange and wonderful methods in the world.

Could it be that the alchemy technique has an impact on the retention of the essence of the water?
How long can the pills be kept?
These two items must be determined.

It is more difficult to refine elixirs from precious plants, such as the withered and flourishing lotus and the double-lived flower. The medicinal properties of the plants are too complicated, and ordinary alchemists simply do not have so many good things to practice with, and it is easy to ruin the elixir if they are not careful.

Therefore, making plant elixirs requires strict requirements on the elixir formula and the alchemist.

The pill formula must be accurate and good. It cannot be a castle in the air or rely solely on pharmacological analysis. Some pharmacological analyses may be fine, but when they are refined, they are not only useless, but may even become poisonous pills.

Alchemists must either be experienced and have practiced before and are familiar with the process, or they must seek help from a master who has a steady hand.

The conditions are too harsh.

Costs and profits are hard to say.

Some alchemists know that you can’t find anyone else, so they will wait for a higher price and deliberately block you.

Animals are different.

With animal nature as the "main medicine" and Baozhi as the "auxiliary medicine", it is much more inclusive!
I'm not afraid of you practicing it.

Two hundred thousand taels of silver.

People can't help but pay attention to it.

Profits must be maximized!

If you really don't damage the essence of the water, the essence + the original effect of the materials + the extra gain of alchemy, two becomes three, and the benefits are visible to the naked eye!

By then, two hundred thousand taels of dragon whisker would have the effect of eating three hundred thousand or even four hundred thousand taels!
grunt.

The blood pill enters the stomach.

[Water Essence +18]

There is essence!
Liang Qu's eyes lit up.

"I don't know if it's less or not..."

Liang Qu turned his head.

Taotao ran into the yard holding two grilled fish caught in the wire mesh. Hot mist was rising, and inside were grilled black pomfret, which was even a little burnt.

The whole fish was basically not processed at all, with the blood, bones and gills all retained. It would be difficult to swallow if it wasn't crispy.

Click click click.

[Water Essence +17]

[Water Essence +18]

Almost the same!

Let’s look at the others.

The second bottle was changed to fish meat pills, fish bone pills and fish offal pills, which were taken at the same time.

[Water Essence +7]

[Water Essence +6]

【Water Essence +3】Same as when split up, sixteen points!
Several precious fish were carefully selected, of similar size, and a slight difference in water essence was reasonable.

Two points...

"Splitting them up might have an impact. So, the biggest loss is time?"

Keep it in mind secretly.

Day three.

Take two more pills.

[Water Essence +16]

[Water Essence +16]

Fourth day.

[Water Essence +14]

[Water Essence +13]

The three pills that were split out were reduced to only eleven points.

Taking eighteen as the standard, there is definitely a problem if there are four, five or even seven essence points missing.

"If it is truly refined into a pill, the essence of the water will fade over time."

Liang Qu covered the medicine bottle.

It's clear at a glance.

After the precious beast is refined into elixir, the essence of water and moisture will dissipate very quickly, and the initial difference between the two refining steps is almost the same, but it will dissipate faster.

As for cooking...

Have to try that as well.

In the past, I would just eat it as soon as it was cooked, and never thought about whether the essence would be lost over time. So today I decided to study it thoroughly.

Taotao took out a piece of precious fish that had been cooked five days ago and reheated it.

The grilled fish was left frozen in the yard for five whole days. Wild cats and mice often came to steal food in the middle of the night, but Otter chased them away with a stick.

[Water Essence +12]

Liang Qu put down his chopsticks and confirmed it thoroughly.

The elixir can be refined.

The first choice is full refining, refining the entire line, and the second choice is fractional refining, splitting it into several parts.

There is a difference between the two, but the gap is not big.

Compared with the increase brought by the elixir, as long as it is fresh enough, you can eat it on the day the furnace is opened, which is pure profit.

Got it figured out.

Dragon Beard makes the elixir before eating it!

Now open the five kinds of elixirs given by Tianbo Chamber of Commerce.

Each has its own focus.

"The Dragon Beard Blood Pill strengthens the physique and increases Qi and blood. The Sensing Spirit Pill strengthens perception and predicts good and bad luck. The Rejuvenating Pill heals injuries. The Breaking Barrier Pill helps break bottlenecks. The Magical Power Pill improves wind and water magic skills..."

Give up the Barrier Breaking Pill first.

There are Ze Ling and Chuan Zhu.

bottleneck?

What bottleneck?
Apart from some strange techniques in tiger hunting, Liang Qu could reach other small realms if he cultivated his spirit and blood enough.

The Sensing Spirit Pill can strengthen the great martial artist's "spur of the moment" and allow him to sense certain dangers in advance.

Useful, but not critical.

It is powerful and has high tolerance for mistakes. After choosing and choosing, Dragon Beard Blood Pill is the most suitable and the best elixir.

in the afternoon.

The main ingredients, the auxiliary ingredients, the "main medicine" dragon's beard, and the remaining key ingredients are not difficult to find. They are all in stock in the Tianbo Chamber of Commerce in the imperial capital. Just pay for it and spend another 28,000 taels.

His wallet was suddenly reduced to 60,000 taels.

The unprecedented "poverty" after the excavation of the mermaid relics in Xiangyi County.

Fortunately, as the owner of the Dragon Beard Bidder and the Regular Customer Card, I don’t have to worry about the remaining expenses for hiring an alchemist.

"Sir, this pill is too valuable. I'm afraid something might go wrong on the way and we'll get entangled. So I'd like to trouble you to come and get it in person tomorrow at noon, or choose a servant to hold your regular customer card."

Liang Qu thought for a moment and said, "I'll come get it myself tomorrow."

"Thank you for your understanding." The steward bowed, then called the waiter and brought out two exquisite ivory lamps.

"This is……"

"Tonight is the Lantern Festival, I will give you two ivory lanterns."

(End of this chapter)