Starting from the Greyhound, seventy-two changes.

Chapter 98 Alchemy
The cold wind blows down the yellow leaves, and the branches of the dead trees become bare.

Although Shang Yunfang is a martial artist, his injuries have not fully recovered and he is still in the recuperation stage, so he wears a leather jacket to keep warm, but his movements do not look bloated.

He handed the box in his hand to Chen Ku and said:
"My Medicine King Hall has 124 pill recipes of all sizes. The most precious one is called the 'Five Elements Great Rejuvenation Pill', which is a 'sixth-grade pill recipe' corresponding to the sixth-level warrior..."

Chen Ku nodded and said, "I have heard of this. It is said that this Five Elements Great Rejuvenation Pill can not only bring the dead back to life, but also cure all internal and external injuries and increase power. One pill can give you thirty years of energy..."

"Resurrection is an exaggeration. Life and death are determined by fate, and life span is determined by heaven. If you want to break the cycle of life and death, you must go against the will of heaven and step into the realm of legend. This cannot be achieved with just one pill."

Shang Yunfang first denied the most false claim of "resurrection from the dead", and then said:
"But it is true that it can cure most internal and external injuries and increase strength by thirty years. Unfortunately, it has been more than 150 years since the establishment of Medicine King Hall. Only the founder of the Medicine King Hall has successfully refined it. It can make nine pills at a time. In my entire Medicine King Hall, even the head shopkeeper can only take one pill in his entire life. Outsiders are not allowed to see it, let alone sell it."

"Even the master chef is not qualified to get one?" Chen Ku asked curiously.

Shang Yunfang shook her head: "If it was fifty years earlier, it might have worked, but today, the number of Five Elements Great Rejuvenation Pills is probably no more than two, and there may even be only one left..."

Chen Ku understood.

With the cold wind blowing on his face, Chen Ku was listening to teachings in the yard.

Shang Yunfang said slowly: "The reason for telling you this story is very simple. The people in the Medicine King Hall of all generations have been able to refine fifth-grade elixirs, but no one can refine the sixth-grade elixir of the founder. This is the sadness of each generation being inferior to the previous one... Therefore, I must find someone with better talent and physique than me."

Chen Ku looked at the box in his hand and asked carefully, "What is the recipe in this box?"

He was not so narcissistic and bold as to think that the box would contain the sixth-grade pill recipe.

"There are 24 Hundred Beasts Pills in my Tujie Academy. Although the quantity is not as good as that of the other two academies, the quality is not inferior at all..."

Shang Yunfang pointed at the box in Chen Ku's arms and said:
"This is a recipe for a first-grade Seven Blood Pill. It uses three kinds of demon blood, four kinds of fierce beast blood, a total of seven kinds of blood, and seven kinds of marrow and seven kinds of bones, a total of twenty-one kinds of animal medicine."

Chen Ku opened the prescription and took a look.

Seven Blood Pills.

In one pill, take 6 liang 3 qian 2 fen 5 li of black pigeon blood, 8 liang 7 qian 6 fen 1 li of iron-horned deer blood, 5 liang of blue-feathered eagle blood... 10 jin of tiger blood, 10 jin of leopard blood...

Tiger marrow, ox marrow, deer marrow, ox marrow...

Pangolin bones, elephant bones, leopard bones...

Chen Ku wrote down the ratio.

"When making medicine and alchemy, the most important thing is the ratio. One cent less or one cent more will affect the efficacy of the medicine and make the pill fail. That's still a small matter. Some medicinal properties conflict with each other. What's missing is just that balance... Once the balance is broken, the pill will not be a pill, but a poison."

Shang Yunfang said to Chen Ku:

"I have prepared twenty-one portions of each of the twenty-one raw materials needed for the Seven Blood Pills. Come with me into the room now, grind, pulverize, and mix the materials for ten pills by yourself. I will see how many mistakes you make. If you can perfectly control the amount of any one of them, we can try to make the pill today."

"Well, I'll go get the medicine first."

After Chen Ku became a disciple, the pharmacy was no longer a forbidden place for him. In the past half month, he often went there to observe the pharmacist making medicine...

However, I have never seen an alchemist making elixirs.

Obviously, alchemists in Yaowang Hall are mostly kept secret and protected. They do not easily disclose their names and information to the outside world and live in anonymity.

Even Chen Ku doesn’t know who the alchemists who make pills for Yaowang Hall are. He only knows that they do exist and are usually ordinary masters, or even the master chef in the kitchen.

Identity remains confidential.

It is not only for their own safety, but also to ensure the confidentiality of Yaowangtang's elixir formula so that it will not be targeted, kidnapped, and leaked by those with ulterior motives.

Therefore, when it comes to matters related to alchemy, people would not go to the pharmacy to get the medicine, but would do so secretly in private.

As for the Alchemy Pavilion, half of the masters from the Guard Academy are guarding it day and night.

Walked into Shang Yunfang's house.

There were fourteen jars and seven large bags on the ground. The bags were filled with tiger bones, leopard bones, etc.

Some of the jars contained processed blood powder, while others contained fresh blood...

There is also a small scale and some grinding tools next to it.

Shang Yunfang looked at Chen Ku squatting on the ground, while he sat on the armchair, poured himself a cup of tea, and planned to wait patiently.

Chen Ku began to sort, prepare and grind on the ground, weighing carefully bit by bit according to the ratio in the recipe. As there was no ready-made Seven Blood Pill for him to refer to, he could only hang Ling'e on it to concentrate his mind and ensure that there would be no mistakes.

With the help of his spiritual power, Chen Ku replaced his eyes with the golden-eyed eagle's...

With his freely controllable vision, he can distinguish the perfect amount of blood, marrow and bone in the most subtle details.

Shang Yunfang gave Chen Ku a day.

While sitting and drinking tea, he was also observing Chen Ku, wondering if time was a little tight.

After all, getting the proportions of the elixir right is a delicate job that requires time and effort...

There are still ten copies in total.

Even when he first refined this pill, it took him three full days and three nights to barely make a perfect batch.

But he also expected Chen Ku to be better than himself.

Shang Yunfang soon discovered that something was wrong with Chen Ku.

"Wait...he is..." He was not paying attention and saw Chen Ku grind the bones into powder and then started preparing the medicine.

The serious concentration, the fingers and the medicine spoon that were motionless and steady as a rock, were so strange that Shang Yunfang felt as if it was her late alchemy master who was preparing the medicine...

His master, a deceased fifth-grade alchemist from Yaowang Hall, had successfully refined three kinds of fifth-grade elixirs. He also mastered sixty elixir recipes of Yaowang Hall in his lifetime. He was a living treasure of the hall.

But the old man had passed away thirty years ago.

A trance.

Shang Yunfang seemed to see the old master dispensing the medicine here again, with such steady hands and such a serious and focused expression, as if he was completely absorbed in the act of dispensing the medicine.

He unconsciously began to vaguely recall the time when he was a young apprentice and dispensed medicine in a pharmacy.

Old people often think about the past, and their memories become yellowed.

Suddenly, Chen Ku's voice awakened Shang Yunfang, who had been lost in her memories for who knows how long.

"Master, I have finished preparing ten portions. Please take a look. It seems that there is nothing wrong. All ten portions can be used."

Shang Yunfang came back to her senses slightly.

"Oh, it's finished..."

He stood up slightly.

suddenly,

He looked up, as if he had heard it wrong, and looked at Chen Ku:
"What did you just say? Ten copies? Nothing wrong?"

Shang Yunfang couldn't believe it and felt like her ears were broken.

But Chen Ku slightly turned sideways and moved the table behind him. There were ten large jars on the table, containing the raw materials for ten portions of Seven Blood Pills.

Shang Yunfang had actually already smelled a faint scent of blood elixir, but she still immediately went to the ten large jars and looked at them one by one.

I saw that among the ten large jars, there were already ten basins of medicinal paste, and a faint layer of gold floated on the blood-red color.

"This is actually the golden ratio..."

Shang Yunfang couldn't believe it. This was the golden ratio that could only be presented when the Seven Blood Pill was perfectly proportioned. Only in this way could the refined Seven Blood Pill not be blood red, but a light golden red.

Only then can it be called "pill".

"You, how did you do it?" Shang Yunfang's voice trembled with excitement.

Chen Ku said tactfully: "Just concentrate a little, look more carefully, and be gentler with your hands, and you will be able to separate them..."

Who gave him the eyes of an eagle, the nose of a dog, and the mental power of an extra person?

"Is it that simple?" Shang Yunfang murmured, "Is it that simple?"

At this moment, he looked at Chen Ku again...

All his stuff.

If the disciple is not as good as the master, what is the point of keeping him?
If the disciple is stronger than his teacher, what's the point of keeping him?
He was eighty years old this year when he finally accepted Chen Ku as his disciple. What he wanted in his heart was to teach his disciple everything he knew.

If the disciple is not motivated and cannot learn, what is the use of his experience and inheritance? He can only take it into the coffin.

But if the disciple is stronger than him, why would he keep him? He would just chase him with things and feed him, and pour it all into him!
"Let's go and make the elixir now!"

Shang Yunfang only felt that the blood in her body was heating up.

The first time he prepared medicine, he was able to prepare ten golden ratio pills. He is definitely a natural born "pharmacist".

If you could put these golden ratio ingredients into the alchemy furnace, extract the impurities, condense the essence, and gather the fire essence into one pill.

Wouldn't that mean that Medicine King Hall would have an extra alchemist who is only seventeen years old? !

Shang Yunfang hurriedly took Chen Ku and the ten jars of raw medicine to the most confidential alchemy pavilion in Yaowang Hall, where there were six large alchemy furnaces.

Opened the smallest furnace.

"The most important thing in alchemy is fire. The fire used under this alchemy furnace is not ordinary charcoal or coal, but a kind of 'fire stone' produced in volcanoes. After burning, it can burn for up to ten days with stable firepower... To refine the Seven Blood Pill, you need to use the gentle and strong fire seven times. It is written on the pill recipe when to use the gentle fire and when to use the strong fire... You can try it."

Shang Yunfang said expectantly:
"Pour all the raw medicine into these ten holes. It will go through thousands of twists and turns in the furnace. Whether it can be made into a pill in the end depends on tomorrow morning."

Chen Ku did as he was told.

Then, this night was spent in the alchemy room.

Shang Yunfang accompanied Chen Ku and asked him to pay attention to the recipe of the elixir, knowing when to fan the fire into a strong fire and when to turn the fire into a gentle fire.

the next day.

The golden rooster announces the dawn.

"Okay, let's turn on the furnace and see."

(End of this chapter)