Chapter 41: The Method of Cultivating the Original Qi into a Furnace

  The method of forming the primordial Qi into an oven

  Zhou Yuan obtained the Seven Leaf Flower and didn't rush to refine it. Firstly, although he was very familiar with the Dan Wang Xin Jing, he had never actually refined any elixirs before.

  It's easy to imagine how precious the Seven Leaf Flower is. If it were carelessly refined, it might fail, and the consequence would be waste, which was obviously something Zhou Yuan couldn't afford.

  At this time, he still carefully read the Dan Wang Xin Jing, mainly the one that refined the giant yuan dan. Zhou Yuan had been reading for a long time, and he wanted to remember every detail carefully, without any mistakes, which concerned whether he could break through to the Shu Fa realm.

  Once refined, under the impact of a huge amount of yuan force, it will definitely help him break through the shackles and reach the realm of spellcasting. At that time, he can truly cultivate thunderbolt magic.

  "I've got the method for refining elixirs and I have the materials, but I don't have an elixir furnace. What can I do? An elixir furnace is something that must be personally crafted with one's own life on the line. If you just buy one casually, you definitely won't get a high-quality furnace, but if it's ordinary and you're not familiar with it, it will be very disadvantageous for refining elixirs. If you're even slightly careless, you'll end up ruining an entire batch of materials."

  Zhou Yuan was very anxious, previously he had never thought that he would start his first alchemy so soon, and had not considered the matter of the alchemical furnace at all. Now that he wanted to break through the boundary, alchemy was imminent, and it was impossible not to refine the elixir, the alchemical furnace became the main problem.

  Going to buy one now is definitely not feasible, as it's impossible to fully grasp the habits of a good dan furnace. Moreover, good dan furnaces are usually unattainable and can only be replaced with ordinary ones, which greatly compromises the quality of the elixir being refined.

  Zhou Yuan, who had been feeling anxious and uneasy for a long time, had already made arrangements with Feng Ao Xue and Luo Shui Tian to not look for him for the next two days. He had even bought a lot of dry rations from the cafeteria and locked himself in his room, deeply immersed in thought.

  These two days, Zhou Yuan almost flipped through the Dan Wang Xin Jing, and with his super strong memory, it's not an exaggeration to say that he can recite it backwards like a note.

  "Bang!" In the fireplace of the room, charcoal was crackling and popping.

  Zhou Yuan sat by the stove, and although it was early spring, the weather was still very cold.

  "Alas, without a dan furnace, I won't be able to refine the elixir. Am I supposed to learn from that Qian Man and eat the Seven Leaf Flower raw? That would waste at least half of its medicinal power!"

  Bang!

  At this moment, something unexpected happened. The originally vigorous stove suddenly had a piece of charcoal explode, and sparks flew out, coincidentally falling right onto the Dan Wang Xin Jing in Zhou Yuan's mind.

  Sigh...

  The King of Dan's Heart Sutra was made of unknown material, but it caught fire as soon as it touched the spark. It burned rapidly and was completely incinerated in no time. Zhou Yuan was scalded and flung his hand out, tossing the King of Dan's Heart Sutra to the ground.

  In the blink of an eye, the Dan Wang Xin Jing was reduced to ashes.

  Zhou Yuan's heart ached as he thought of the treasure that Dan Yao Lao had given him, the Earth-grade Alchemy Manual. It was the only one in the entire Zhou family and extremely precious. He couldn't believe it had been destroyed by his own hands in the blink of an eye.

  Zhou Yuan sighed with regret and a sense of guilt arose in his heart.

  Suddenly, Zhou Yuan discovered a different place. This Dan Wang Xin Jing was burned to ashes, but its shape had not changed, still in the form of a book.

  Zhou Yuan bent down and stretched out his hand to grab, and the Dan Wang Xin Jing immediately turned into flying ash. However, Zhou Yuan's hand actually grasped something real - a piece of tin foil paper.

  The top was densely filled with small characters, and Zhou Yuan's eyes scanned it, immediately overjoyed.

  "The method of Yuanqi Chenglu!!" On this piece of tin foil, a legendary alchemy technique was actually recorded - the method of Yuanqi Chenglu.

  Zhou Yuan had once seen it in the Dan Wang Xin Jing, saying that some alchemy masters do not need a dan furnace and can release the yuanqi from their body to set up a dan furnace. Since it is not a physical entity, there are no impurities, making it the best dan furnace for alchemy, with almost zero loss.

  This is exactly what all alchemists have been dreaming of.

  Zhou Yuan suppressed his excited emotions and began to study this unparalleled technique. Although the Dan Wang Xin Jing was a top-grade alchemy manual, the hidden method of forming the yuanqi furnace within it was more precious than any other technique, even surpassing the heavenly-grade alchemy manuals that didn't have this method.

  This is a rare treasure, once leaked out, it will definitely bring fatal disaster, the entire continent may be shocked by it, because the Dan Wang Xin Jing records that the method of forming the yuanqi furnace is still left over from ancient times, and there are absolutely no more than three people in the entire Zhongzhou continent who know about it.

  Zhou Yuan slowly got up, and in no time, he had already fully grasped this shocking and astonishing alchemy technique. However, he still didn't rush to refine the Seven Leaf Flower because he had no experience with alchemy. In the words of an expert, he still needed to test his hand.

  The management of Zhen Wu Academy for its disciples is relatively relaxed. Disciples can come and go freely, as long as they are present when the academy summons them.

  Zhou Yuan couldn't wait to walk out of the Zhenwu Academy, strolled around the streets of Fawang City for a few rounds, and finally found a pharmacy, walking in.

  This is a pharmacy called Liji, as soon as Zhou Yuan walked in, he was surrounded by the strong smell of medicine. It has to be said that this Liji pharmacy has a wide variety of medicines, with ordinary ones and precious ones, even some that are extremely rare.

  Zhou Yuan even saw a thousand-year-old ginseng placed on a separate shelf, sealed all around, one to prevent dust and the other to prevent theft.

  Zhou Yuan was well-versed in the Dan Wang Xin Jing and naturally knew the value of this thousand-year-old ginseng. Although it was only a single medicinal herb, its value could already be compared to that of a top-grade artifact.

  Because ginseng is the main ingredient of the Resurrection Pill, and the effect of the Resurrection Pill makes everyone yearn for it. As long as the injured person still has a breath left, they can be saved.

  However, Zhou Yuan didn't care about these things. When he escaped from the Zhou family, he was in a hurry and didn't bring much silver with him, so he couldn't afford to buy good medicinal materials. He could only buy some ordinary medicinal materials, but this was enough for him. His goal was just to go back and practice his skills, mainly to refine the Jiuwu Dan.

  The shopkeeper was a very astute young man, in his twenties, with narrow eyes that kept darting back and forth, having the shrewdness of a businessman while also giving off an air of slyness.

  The shopkeeper saw Zhou Yuan walk in and immediately came over enthusiastically, "Sir, what kind of medicine do you need?"

  "One hundred stalks of purple grass, one hundred stalks of wisteria vine, one hundred red fruits. Additionally, give me ten stalks of thistle and eight stalks of nourishing air grass!!"

  "Is that all?" The shopkeeper's enthusiasm suddenly disappeared. These zi cao, huai teng, hong guo are all the most common medicinal materials for refining yuanqi dan, with low prices and low profits. Jing lan and yang qi cao are slightly more expensive, but Zhou Yuan bought a small amount, so the shopkeeper won't make much money this time.

  Zhou Yuan nodded, "Right, that's all!!"

  The shopkeeper nodded, although there was no big profit, he also knew the reason for smiling and welcoming guests, and still took out these medicines one by one in an orderly manner and handed them over to Zhou Yuan.

  "Thirty taels of silver in total!"

  Zhou Yuan finished paying and left, he was anxious to refine his elixir, wanting to quickly break through to the realm of implementing techniques.

  Back at his residence, Zhou Yuan didn't linger and immediately began refining the elixir.

  He followed the method of forming a furnace with yuanqi, and began to try to release a strand of yuanqi from his body. Then, with a movement of his mind, he started to control this strand of yuanqi, forming a dan furnace in a unique way.

  The yuanqi is a strand of the body's yuanli, it is one's own power, unlike external elements that are easy to control. Zhou Yuan uses his spirit to guide and slowly controls the yuanqi, then tries to gather them together.

  Soon, the yuanqi gathered according to Zhou Yuantong's method, slowly forming into a spherical shape. This sphere was actually an alchemical furnace, and as long as medicinal materials were thrown in, they could be refined into dan medicine.

  Just as this sphere was about to be fully formed, the originally gentle primordial energy suddenly became violent and began to resist this unique fusion.

  Wow!

  A loud crack, and this sphere completely collapsed, the first attempt failed.

  Zhou Yuan did not give up at all, he was still trying continuously.

  Failed again...

  Third time... failed again.

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  The fifteenth failure...

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  The nineteenth time, success!!!!!

  Finally, Zhou Yuan successfully gathered a yuanqi furnace, although it was a bit small, but it really succeeded, and he could put in medicinal materials to refine dan medicine.

  However, Zhou Yuan did not rush to refine the elixir. Although this yuanqi furnace was successful, he felt very unstable. If he started refining the elixir now, there was a high possibility that it would collapse, and the consequence would be that all the medicinal materials would be wasted.

  Zhou Yuan practiced for a while, until he completely mastered this unparalleled technique, before starting to refine the elixir.

  He threw a purple grass, a wisteria vine and a red fruit into the yuanqi furnace, then continuously poured yuanqi into the yuanqi furnace. Gradually, the yuanqi furnace started to rotate slowly.

  The medicine inside also starts to melt.

  *silence*

  Suddenly, a wisp of blue smoke rose from the Yuán Qì Zhī Dān, and then it turned pitch black inside. Seeing this scene, Zhōu Yuán couldn't help but sigh in frustration. This was because he hadn't grasped the timing well, causing the medicinal materials inside to be ruined.

  Although this yuanqi furnace is not like an ordinary dan furnace, which requires fire to be raised, relatively speaking, the input of yuanqi is just like the fire of an ordinary dan furnace. If you don't grasp the amount of yuanqi input well, it's equivalent to not grasping the fire timing well.

  The first attempt at alchemy ended in failure.

  All of this was within Zhou Yuan's expectations, and he hadn't thought that it would be successful in one attempt, so he bought a hundred sets of yuanqi dan's refining materials.

  Zhou Yuan continued to practice repeatedly, and finally, after half a time, Zhou Yuan had completely mastered the method of refining, and the first yuanqi pill was also successfully refined.

  Zhou Yuan took the pill, his first work, and the effect was quite good. Although it was just an ordinary medicinal material refined into a yuanqi dan, since it was a yuanqi furnace without any loss, the refined yuanqi dan still had a very good medicinal effect.

  Brothers, we've finally reached 100,000 words! It's not easy, is it? The updates have been going on for a thousand years without ever stopping. I don't ask for much, just some free flowers and collections would be great. That's my motivation...