Extraordinary Cultivation Continent

Chapter 43: Understanding the Tao of Instruments

After Zhang Chaofan had planned the path of Taoism he would take in the near future, he did not want to waste precious practice time. Then he calmed down and took out the four principles of alchemy, the artifact refining book, the Nei Jing Qi Huang Lu, and the world's treasure records from the Najie. This book comes. These four scriptures have been lying in his Najie for a long time. They were prepared by Luzhu for him when he first entered the world of peace. Since the focus of his cultivation at that time was to improve both the immortal way and physical training. In terms of realm, most of the time is spent on realm cultivation. Nowadays, it is difficult to improve the realm. There is no need to spend time on cultivating the realm. If you have a lot of free time, can you practice and comprehend the alchemy way and the weapon way?

The content of these four classics can be roughly guessed from their names. "General Guide to Alchemy" is an alchemy classic, "Weapon Refining Book" is a book used to practice weapon refining, and "Nei Jing" "Qihuang Lu", which is a classic book for practicing medical skills, and "Records of Treasures from the World", which is a classic book that specifically talks about the rare and rare treasures in the world. Whether it is elixir refining, weapon refining, or medical skills, all kinds of materials and equipment are inseparable. Therefore, "Treasure Records of the World", which systematically records and explains various treasures in the world, is the only way to practice alchemy, weapon and medicine. Only after mastering the "Records of Treasures of the World" can you realize the successful cultivation of alchemy, equipment and medicine with half the effort.

"Records of Treasures from the World" systematically records all kinds of rare treasures in the discovered world, their shapes, characteristics, functions, efficacy and methods of use. This classic is full of pictures and texts. As long as you are familiar with the contents of "Treasures of the World", you can easily identify different treasures. Even those treasures with similar appearances are displayed together in "Records of Treasures of the World" to explain them in detail. The subtle differences between them are taught to practitioners, identification methods and precautions. Especially for those substances that may be toxic to the human body and dangerous to the life of the user, they also focus on giving methods to prevent and avoid dangers. This classic book "Records of Treasures from the World" mainly teaches practitioners to start from recognizing, identifying and understanding treasures, and then achieve the purpose of using and utilizing treasures. Recognizing, identifying and understanding treasures is the foundation and the main content of this book. The use and utilization of treasures are only briefly introduced so that practitioners can roughly know the uses of treasures. For example, the use of treasures suitable for alchemy can be explained in detail in the "General Guide to Alchemy"; the use of treasures suitable for refining can be explained in detail in the "Refining Manual"; the treasures suitable for treatment can be explained in detail. The usage method is explained in detail in the special "Nei Jing Qi Huang Lu".

After understanding this, Zhang Chaofan picked up the book "Records of the World's Treasures" and opened the cover. What caught his eye was the general outline. He saw that this book systematically classified the world's treasures into categories, such as: Alchemy Category , weapon refining type, edible type, auxiliary type, collection type, unique type, etc. As the name suggests, the alchemy type is a type of treasure that is suitable for use as alchemy materials; the weapon refining type is a type of treasure that is suitable for use as material for refining; the edible type is a type of treasure that is suitable for direct ingestion; the auxiliary type is this type of treasure. One type of treasure has the function of auxiliary practice and is suitable for use as an auxiliary practice; the collection type means that this type of treasure only has collection value. Maybe their true function has not been discovered yet, so they should be collected first for the future;

This book contains too much treasure information, with a total of one hundred and eight thousand items. Zhang Chaofan first made a thorough overview of these contents, memorized them again and again, and stored this information in his mind. Since his qualifications have now reached a very high level and his soul is powerful, so, It was not difficult for him to remember this information. He only had to flip through the book continuously and take a quick glance at it to write down the content, and then keep it in his mind. After reading a book, it only took Zhang Chaofan more than ten minutes. Then, he organized and categorized this information in his mind. In the process of categorizing, his understanding and memory became more profound, and he also gained a further understanding of the uses of various treasures.

He referred to the information in the "Records of Treasures of the World" to identify the various treasures and equipment he had obtained over the years, especially the things he obtained during his recent training, and carefully identified them. Zhang Chaofan's doing this is also a process of combining theory and practice, which can deepen his memory of various information and his understanding of treasures. This is a two-way promotion process, which can also promote Zhang Chaofan's ability to use treasures.

With these necessary preliminary preparations, Zhang Chaofan felt that he could truly practice weapon refining. First, he also read through the "Weapon Refining Manual" to understand the various refining methods and choose the one that suits him. After selecting the general direction and method, he will have an in-depth understanding of this method, strive to master the essence of this method, and memorize each step and detail. His current purpose in refining weapons is mainly to use his own trials to refine tools that can extract useful ingredients from various materials during the alchemy process. In fact, this is not too difficult, because these utensils have physical and chemical laboratories on the earth. There are corresponding prototypes in them. He only needs to copy the physical and chemical purification and separation vessels in his mind. It is enough.

Most of the utensils on the earth are made of glass. There is no ready-made glass material in this world, and Zhang Chaofan does not intend to refine glass. He thought about whether any of the precious materials he obtained on the hill during his training were Less crystal stones, these crystal stones only need a little refining and processing before they can be used as glass, and their performance will be much better than ordinary glass. Zhang Chaofan took out enough crystal ore from the Najie and prepared to start refining the purification and separation vessels he needed. To refine these utensils, Zhang Chaofan does not need to use any of the methods and means in the "Tool Refining Manual". He wants to use the industrial production methods on earth. First, he uses special materials to make molds, and then uses his own magic power that contains the element of fire. , melt the crystal ore into liquid, and after removing the impurities in the liquid, pour the molten liquid into the mold that has been prepared long ago, and then shape it in one go. Because it adopts industrial production methods, the refining efficiency is very high. It took less than a day for Zhang Chaofan to refine all kinds of utensils he needed, large and small, and different shapes.

In addition, Zhang Chaofan does not want to refine elixirs like ordinary alchemists. He wants to be able to refine elixirs in batches quickly, regardless of time, any conditions, and the realm of the alchemist. As long as there are enough alchemy materials, he can continue to refine elixirs. Refining the required elixir. Zhang Chaofan knows that if he wants to achieve such a goal, he must create a pill production line like the one on Earth. If he wants to obtain such a production line, he can start by improving the existing ordinary pill furnaces to increase the efficiency of ordinary pill furnaces. If it can really be refined, refining alchemy will become a not too difficult task.

In order to refine such an alchemy magic weapon, Zhang Chaofan felt that it was very necessary to refine the various components of the alchemy magic weapon he imagined. The first step is to refine the part of the magic weapon that crushes the materials, so that the alchemy materials are crushed in this part; after the materials are crushed, they need to be further ground, and the magic weapon component with the grinding function is also indispensable. It would be very inconvenient to carry around so many different parts of the magic weapon when making alchemy. These functional parts must be organically combined and then placed in the alchemy furnace in order to be convenient and practical and improve the efficiency of alchemy.

If you want to refine a magic weapon with superior functions, it is impossible to accomplish it without knowing the formation method. Thinking of this, he immediately contacted Luzhu and asked her to find him an entry-level classic on formations. After a while, Luzhu sent a copy of "Introduction to Elementary Formations" to him. This classic After getting it, Zhang Chaofan immediately started reading. It took him more than an hour to memorize all the contents of this classic in his mind, fully understand the basic introductory content, and master a few very basic, but also very important Commonly used formations, such as spirit gathering formation, forbidden formation, supercharging formation, reinforcement formation, etc. Zhang Chaofan felt that mastering these formations first would be enough for basic weapon refining. He just became more familiar with it, then stopped and continued to understand the formation. Judging from this approach, Zhang Chaofan is a typical pragmatist.

He destroyed all the molds he had made previously, and then, after re-imagining it, he tried to make a new mold using the mold material he had just destroyed, and engraved the reinforcement formation on the mold, because , if the manufactured crystal device is not reinforced with a reinforcement array, such a crystal device will be easily damaged. Because Zhang Chaofan wanted to refine a special alchemy furnace magic weapon. This alchemy furnace should save time and effort, be extremely efficient, and have low requirements for the alchemist who uses it.

Zhang Chaofan imagines adding a crushing and grinding function to a common alchemy furnace, and using mana to activate the crushing and grinding function. This is many times more efficient than real fire smelting directly converted by mana, and it is also very convenient to control. . Then, the crushed and ground materials, such preliminary pre-products, are added with the corresponding solvent (for example: water), these pre-products are dissolved to form a solution, and then through steps such as distillation and separation, the useful ingredients are gathered Go to the next step of the refining process, and store the useless impurities directly in a specific space (because it is very difficult to refining space magic weapons, it is difficult for a novice like him to do it, so he had to transform a ready-made Na Ring for use. ), wait until the alchemy is finished, and then focus on cleaning up the impurities stored inside. Although these impurities cannot be used to make elixirs, they still contain certain residues of useful substances, which can still be used for certain purposes. For example, these impurities can be put into elixir plantations as fertilizers, which can promote the growth of elixirs, spiritual objects, etc. of.

In fact, Zhang Chaofan's ideas were greatly influenced and inspired by the mechanical manufacturing methods on the earth. He just wanted to apply the machinery, instruments and other structures on the earth to this special alchemy furnace, and then use these parts borrowed from the earth, Deploy the battle method and modify it to be driven by mana, thus integrating the best of the two worlds. As long as the refining is successful, he will be able to obtain a new alchemy furnace magic weapon with high alchemy efficiency that he expected.

Following this idea, Zhang Chaofan collected all the previously discarded mold materials and redesigned the crushing and grinding devices to make them as miniaturized as possible, because the materials used for alchemy are basically treasures, and the volume is generally Not big, even if the treasure is larger, it is impossible to put the whole thing into the alchemy furnace at once, and only a part of it will be used. Therefore, the crushing and grinding device does not need to be too large. At least it must be able to be easily accommodated by an ordinary alchemy furnace, and it only occupies a very small space in the alchemy furnace. Of course, it can't be too small to fit even ordinary materials. He asked Luzhu to take out a very ordinary alchemy furnace, and after observing the internal space of the alchemy furnace, he made a decision on the size of the entire pretreatment device after he had an idea.

With those early preparations, Zhang Chaofan really started to practice. First, he used high-temperature-resistant plastic materials to make molds for each part of the preprocessing process, and carved appropriate formations on each part of the mold. Of course, the formations carved were nothing more than the Spirit Gathering Formation. Basic formations such as , Forbidden Formation, Supercharged Formation, Reinforcement Formation, etc., because they are pre-processing, the requirements for formations are not very high. Then, he connected the crushing, grinding, stirring, dissolving, distillation, separation and other parts of the molds with tubular connections so that the processed materials in the previous place could smoothly reach the next link, so that the pretreatment could be consistent and Proceed without interruption. After Zhang Chaofan connected the various pretreatment components, he did not forget to mark the connecting parts with reinforcement arrays to prevent these connecting parts from becoming the weak link of the entire pretreatment device. Finally, Zhang Chaofan injected mana into each formation carved on the mold to test the effect of these formations. Among them was one formation, which was the formation on the mold of the grinding part. There was no response after injecting mana. He carefully After inspection, it was found that one of the formation lines was not clearly drawn and was very blurry.

After carefully making the mold for the entire pretreatment device, he searched for suitable refining materials for each part of the refining in the contents of "Records of Treasures from the World" in his mind. Finally, he determined the three parts of crushing, grinding, and mixing. Black iron is used to refine it, but the three rings of dissolution, distillation, and separation are better to be refined with crystal stone ore.

After confirming the refining materials, Zhang Chaofan immediately started refining. He asked Lu Zhu to take out a stove for refining, and after saying hello to Lin Xiaoyun, he took the stove himself to the training room. Zhang Chaofan took a closer look and found that there was already a training stove inside. Anyway, he had no special requirements for this training stove. It was only used for melting and purification. Melting and purification are the most basic features that a training stove should have. function, so he did not hesitate and decided to use the existing training stove in the training room and put away the stove he prepared for Lvzhu.

Zhang Chaofan came directly to the training furnace, took out enough black iron ore from the Najie, and put them into the training furnace. After thinking for a while, he took out three small pieces of mithril ore from the Najie and put them into the furnace. Because, if only black iron is used, Zhang Chaofan is worried that it may not be flexible enough, and the refined parts will become brittle. When used, even if the reinforcement formation is engraved, it will easily break. After adding mithril, because Mithril is flexible, and with it, the resulting alloy will also be flexible, and even the original brittle material will no longer break easily.

Although there is no natural ground fire in this training room, when Bahuang Academy built the cave, it deployed a conversion array in the training room, which can convert the spiritual energy in the cave into heat for the residents living there. For people in the cave to use, if they are ordinary students, they have to consume their contribution points before they can use it. Twelve points are consumed for twelve hours a day, which is one contribution point per hour. As a benefit of the academy, traineeships If you are a tutor or above, you can use it for free, and no contribution points are required.

This happened to be an advantage for Zhang Chaofan. If he needed points, he was not afraid, because during the assessment, although he did not need grades, because he achieved many firsts, the college rewarded him with considerable contribution points. The details are like It must be about 100,000 points. He didn't bother to find out how many points he got in a specific item. He just knew a rough total. He thought that with his ability, it would not be difficult to earn some contribution points in the academy. If there was really no other way, he could exchange some holy tea liquid for a lot of contribution points. Zhang Chaofan didn't want to delay the time. After observing for a while, he came to a chair and sat down. He reached out and held a handle in front of the chair. This handle was connected to the conversion array, and controlled the operation of the conversion array through this handle. You need to inject an appropriate amount of mana into this handle to control the speed of the conversion array, thereby controlling the size of the furnace fire, and you can control the temperature of the furnace at will.

Zhang Chaofan was completely unfamiliar with it. He poured some mana into the handle and saw a burst of fire suddenly burst out from under the furnace. Fortunately, Zhang Chaofan was far away, otherwise it might burn him, and the furnace instantly turned red. When Zhang Chaofan saw something was wrong, he immediately reduced his mana output, leaving only a trace of mana in the handle. He controlled that trace of mana and slowly swam in the inner space of the handle. In this way, he saw the furnace The flames at the bottom also dimmed. He understood the method of controlling the furnace fire, and that was how it should have been. The trace of his mana was not used for transformation, but only for control. If his mana is used for conversion, then even a little mana will not be enough. If the exercise required takes a long time, the mana in his body cannot be consumed. Of course, since he is now a master of the Nascent Soul Realm, the quality of mana in his body is quite high compared to those in the lower realms. Therefore, even if it is a little mana, its power is incomparable. , and this conversion formation is not designed to be used exclusively by the Nascent Soul Realm. Those below the Nascent Soul Realm also need to use it. Therefore, the driving mana cannot be too much, otherwise, those at lower realms will not be able to use it. Of course, those with lower realms will not be able to use it as easily as Zhang Chaofan.

Others who refine weapons or elixirs must put their spiritual consciousness into the furnace, understand the conditions inside the furnace, and adjust the furnace temperature according to the conditions in the furnace to achieve the desired effect. Zhang Chaofan has a great advantage over others. , he can use the Taixu Purple Immortal Eye to observe directly into the furnace at any time. One advantage of doing this is that he can better grasp the various situations in the furnace, and by grasping the situation, he can make corresponding adjustments instantly. , let the temperature in the furnace change as you like. After doing this, it will be difficult to achieve poor exercise results.

Zhang Chaofan used Taixu Purple Immortal Eyes to stare at the inside of the smelting furnace. He first controlled the temperature in the furnace and heated the black iron and mithril ore at a constant temperature. The melting point of mithril ore is lower than that of black iron, so it was melted first. The impurities turned into small particles and sank to the bottom together with the black iron, while the pure mithril floated on the surface. Zhang Chaofan's spiritual consciousness entered the furnace, first wrapped the mithril, and then increased the control to make the fire at the bottom of the furnace more powerful. The temperature in the furnace rose higher, accelerating the melting of black iron, and soon the temperature in the furnace rose to the black iron level. At the melting point of iron, black iron also melted. Zhang Chaofan continued to smelt, removing possible impurities in mithril and black iron, and after a period of forging. After Zhang Chaofan was convinced that there were no more impurities in the mithril and black iron melts, most of the impurities were vaporized and went out of the pores, with only some stubborn impurities sinking to the bottom. Zhang Chaofan didn't care about these impurities. He just removed the spiritual consciousness that wrapped the mithril and allowed the mithril melt to seep into the black iron melt and let them fully merge together. In this way, the result will not be pure black iron. Iron and mithril, but an alloy of dark iron and mithril, possess the characteristics of two single materials, both hard and flexible.

He used his consciousness to control the black iron and mithril alloy melt to form a thin line and fly out from the furnace. This bright black melt flew into the mold that had been made long ago and was poured into the mold. corresponding part. Zhang Chaofan was very careful during this process, fearing that he would be careless and have to start all over again.

If you want to know what happened next, the next chapter will be more exciting.

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