Chapter 214 – House of Earthly Fire

　　”Hee hee! Good, good! I’ll arrange it for Senior Brother!” When the ugly man saw that Han Li was actually giving a middle-ranked spirit stone, he was instantly enraptured.

　　One must know that although it was said that one hundred low-order spirit stones for one middle-order spirit stone was the recognized exchange rate in the Immortal Cultivation World, in reality, there were very few who were willing to exchange a middle-order spirit stone for a low-order spirit stone.

　　Because everyone knows, under the same circumstances, the middle-order spirit stone can absorb the speed of spiritual qi, can be much faster than the low-order spirit stone. Based on this, everyone would like to keep the middle-order spirit stones, and naturally they don’t care much about the lower-order spirit stones.

　　Of course, the same was true for the exchange of upper-order Spirit Stones for middle-order Spirit Stones.

　　After the ugly man received the fire-attribute spirit stone with a smile on his face, he became even more attentive to Han Li. He immediately led Han Li to the huge colorful stone door, and pulled out a purple token-arrow-shaped item from his pocket, aiming it at the stone door.

　　With a flash of red light on the purple token arrow, a flash of haze shot out from it and accurately struck the door, instantly causing the multicolored streams of light to rapidly rotate. As a result, “creak” “creak” several loud sounds, the stone door slowly rose, revealing a black channel behind the door. This passageway was about ten feet tall and square in shape.

　　”Senior brother, after this dock stone passage, it’s the room with the earth fire, let’s go over there now!” After squeezing out a few smiles, the ugly man said curtly to Han Li.

　　”Uh-huh!” With a noncommittal nod, Han Li took the lead and walked into the passageway.

　　”Although this dock stone isn’t considered a rare item, it’s not an ordinary material in the secular world either. To be able to find so many at once. And to use it as bricks and stones to build passages and houses, this is also the result of several Great Avatar Ancestors of previous generations. Took a lot of effort to accomplish. However, just by virtue of the dock stone’s odd characteristic of being resistant to high temperatures and not afraid of being melted by the earth fire, there has never been any major accidents in this land of earth fire since it was opened!” The ugly man said with a few moments of showing off while leading the way in front.

　　Han Li listened with great interest. He couldn’t help but touch the black stone wall on one side with his hand, which turned out to be slippery and cold!

　　”This dock stone, where was it produced? To be able to resist an earth fire that’s three times more powerful than a true fire, it’s really peculiar.” Han Li opened his rare mouth to agree, and casually asked.

　　”What about this? I’ve heard that although it’s not something too rare, our country of Yue really doesn’t produce this thing, it’s the masters and grandfathers who get it from other countries in the far west, it’s very troublesome!” Ugly Han spoke out to explain.

　　Just like that, Han Li followed behind Ugly Han, and in the blink of an eye, he passed through another two equally tall stone doors. Finally, he stepped out of the dockstone passageway and appeared within an oversized circular hall.

　　This hall was also made of dock stone. But with a diameter of forty to fifty feet and a height of more than ten feet, it is really huge and shocking! Around the hall, a white stone door of the same size was evenly distributed, with more than thirty rooms.

　　At this time, there was not a single silhouette in the hall, only the ugly man who had only just arrived and Han Li.

　　After Han Li curiously surveyed the area. He heard the ugly man say with a smile, “This hall is the most vigorous gathering place for earth fires down here, so this sect has opened up a total of thirty-six earth fire rooms for refining weapons and alchemy, and the best alchemy rooms are the eighteenth and nineteenth.

　　However, number eighteen has already been occupied by a senior, so senior brother should still use room nineteen! Although it is slightly inferior to number eighteen, the firepower and stability are both extremely outstanding as well.” The ugly man said as he led Han Li to a door painted with the two golden lacquer characters “nineteen” and said with a grin.

　　Han Li didn’t say anything as he listened, silently nodding his head in agreement.

　　Seeing this, the ugly man immediately fished out a white jade tablet and pasted it onto the door. The white stone door then opened automatically. Then, Ugly Han and Han Li entered the house.

　　This house was a square building. The area is general, only seven or eight feet in size, but in the center of the house there is a ten feet wide round dun, four walls also hang a fist-sized gourd, not far from the corner of the wall there is also an emerald green futon.

　　Round dun is also made of dock stone, very flat, only half a foot high. But on the outside of the round dun, but inlaid with eight fire-red miniature dragon head, lifelike. And the dragon head mouth slightly raised, just to the center of the dun in the air, do spitting posture, very realistic.

　　After seeing the situation inside the room clearly, Han Li was slightly surprised, but before he could open his mouth to ask, the ugly man had already walked to the vicinity of the round dun and took the initiative to explain it to Han Li.

　　”Senior brother, this is the ground fire port of this house, the ground fire needed for alchemy is spewed out from these eight dragon heads. And according to the need, can also self-adjust the flame size and height, the specific driving method, is carved on the outer wall of the stone pier.” Ugly man pointed to the explanation of the round dun.

　　But then he pointed to the four gourds on the wall and said, “Inside these gourds, loaded with Mars Sand, can temporarily strengthen the power of the ground fire, if senior brother feels that the temperature of the ground fire is not enough, enhance the power, only the duration will not be too long. In addition, this jade tablet senior brother keep it to himself. Once the door of the house is closed, it will be cut off from all contact with the outside world. Unless several JieDan stage cultivators combine their efforts, no one will be able to enter from the outside, so feel free to rest assured that there will never be any disturbances!”

　　Hearing this, Han Li’s heart secretly rejoiced, such a completely closed environment was exactly what he needed, and his face couldn’t help but reveal a few hints of joy!

　　At this time, the ugly man saw that the explanation was almost done, so he bid farewell and left.

　　Han Li saw the ugly man out of the house, and immediately drove the jade token to seal the stone door once again. Then he walked over to the round dun with great gusto and circled around it several times before carefully examining the eight spitting dragon heads.

　　Han Li had purposely spent a great deal of time studying the art of alchemy over the past few years in order to refine the Foundation Building Dan this time around. Thus, he was not considered a stranger to the way of alchemy. He knew that the success or failure of an elixir mainly lay in the control of the fire when refining the elixir, and the timing of opening the furnace to take the elixir.

　　As for the composition and quantity of raw materials, after countless times of practice by the ancestors, it has long been clearly stated on the formula, so there is no need to consider. Of course it is possible to appropriately increase or decrease the number of pills at one time. As long as a fixed ratio, the same increase or decrease in the number of raw materials can be.

　　But it was easy to say, but it was a thousand times harder to do!

　　Accurately controlling the fire of the furnace and grasping the opening time of the furnace, these two major difficulties had overwhelmed many so-called alchemy masters.

　　Even the world’s most renowned alchemists have to admit, is that they personally hand, the probability of being able to become a Dan is not too high, only about half, and this is still refining their most skillful pills. Therefore, not to mention other ordinary alchemists!

　　Therefore, whether or not an elixir could be successfully refined depended on whether or not the alchemist had a lot of experience. The more times an alchemist has made an elixir, the greater the chances of it becoming a successful elixir. Therefore, the alchemist is the two most expensive professions in the Immortal Cultivation World alongside the talisman maker, and of course, the most popular two professions.

　　Han Li had inquired about these things, and knew that with a rookie like himself, wanting to be able to refine a Foundation Establishment Dan in one go was purely a dream. So he had planned it out from the start, preparing to refine the Foundation Establishment Dan one by one!

　　In this way, even if he failed many times in front of him, he wouldn’t be overly distressed by the spirit pills. The amount of spirit pills he had prepared was enough to refine more than a hundred times, and he believed that so many ingredients would be enough for him to accumulate experience in front of him.

　　Han Li, who had made up his mind, memorized the method of driving the dragon head. Then he pinched his hand and struck eight red lights in a row on the dragon’s head, which immediately absorbed the red light, and then the dragon’s mouth opened slightly, respectively spewing out a chopstick-thin purple fire. Immediately, the air in the room was filled with a scorching heat, causing Han Li to be secretly surprised.

　　Subsequently, Han Li attempted to change the thickness of the flames, as well as the height of the dragon head’s jets and other subtle maneuvers until he was comfortable with the maneuver, before extinguishing the dragon head’s ground fire. Then, he went to the futon and sat down on his knees, refreshing himself.

　　Han Li sat for half a day, conscious of his mental and physical strength are all in the best state, before he opened his eyes and stood up, ready to start alchemy. However, it is fortunate that Han Li’s technique has passed the 10th layer, and can already be used to dispel the grain, so there is no need to eat.

　　Now, from his storage bag, Han Li first pulled out the Silver Silk Tripod that he had bought that day and struck a floating spell into it, causing it to stop in thin air right above the round dun. This spell was also something Han Li had especially practiced for today’s matter, and it took quite a few days to break it.

　　Han Li once again struck red light into the dragon’s head, stimulating the release of the purple earth fire in the dragon’s head.

　　Because the tripod hadn’t yet been put into the raw materials, Han Li controlled the ground fire so that it was very tiny, only as thick as a silk thread. Then the Silver Silk Tripod began to slowly rotate out of thin air under the preheating of the eight lines of fire.

　　After a quarter of an hour, the Silver Silk Tripod had already heated up, emitting an astonishingly high temperature.

　　Seeing this, Han Li pointed to the small tripod, resulting in the lid of the Silver Silk Tripod, which immediately flew up, revealing the mouth of the tripod. With a flick of his right hand, a white jade vial appeared in his hand, the vial containing a prepared precise portion of spirit medicine powder.

　　Controlling the vial, Han Li poured all of the medicinal powder in the vial into the Silver Silk Cauldron, then immediately threw the vial away, took out another vial from his storage bag, and continued repeating the same action.

　　In this way, Han Li poured the required dozens of spirit medicine powders into the Silver Silk Tripod, and finally put the lid back on. The first step was finally all completed, and it seemed to be perfect, with no mistakes.