Chapter 215 – Alchemy and Foundation Building
The violet fire spewing out from the eight dragon heads turned from thin to finger-thick under Han Li’s maneuvering, while the speed at which the Silver Silk Tripod rotated gradually slowed down and began to tremble slightly in the flames.
As the time passed a little, the small tripod emitted a silky medicinal fragrance, letting people smell the spirit of invigoration. But Han Li is clear, at this time from the Dan is still very early, at the very least, but also with a more violent ground fire, instantaneous condensation of the Dan, so that the formation of the Dan pill is possible.
Thinking of this, Han Li control of the purple fire more and more dazzling, and even reached the point of the bowl thick, the entire silver silk tripod are wrapped in its inside. Therefore, from afar, the small tripod has become a large fireball, and the medicinal flavor has become more and more intense.
No need to guess Han Li also know, this is the powder began to condense dan, so more and more on the heart.
But at this time, the tripod came a muffled bursting sound, although the sound is not big, but let Han Li heart sank, face somewhat ugly.
After hesitating for a moment, Han Li sighed and stopped the earth fire. Then with a wave of his hand, he opened the lid of the still-hot tripod and stuck his head out to take a look.
There were several pieces of cracked light blue solid in the cauldron, and it appeared to be the spent dan that had not yet been condensed!
Shaking his head, Han Li took out a jade box and placed it on the ground before controlling the Silver Silk Cauldron to flip it over, pouring these waste dans into the box before storing it away. Even if these are waste dan, but is also a variety of spirit medicine powder cohesion into, Han Li can not afford to throw away, maybe in the future can also have another use it!
After all this, Han Li returned to the futon to meditate until the Silver Silk Tripod had completely cooled down. Only then did he start refining the pills again.
The same steps, the same powdered ingredients. The same fire control techniques, but unfortunately, this time it still failed at the step of condensing the dan.
This time Han Li’s face was expressionless, and when the state was adjusted, he silently started the next round ……
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A month’s time passed, and the ugly man saw that Han Li had yet to come out of the Earth Fire House. Slightly surprised, but more excited, because this way, he could extract more and more fees.
Two months later, still did not see the stone door of the eighteenth open, ugly Han in his heart beautiful, but also greatly shocked.
Three months ……
Six months later, Han Li still did not have the slightest sign of coming out. At this time, the ugly Han, that happy energy has long disappeared without a trace, the only thing left is a face full of sadness and a belly full of uneasiness.
Nearly half a year’s time, for alchemy or refining weapons, is not a rare thing. It was even longer, and the ugly man had seen it several times. But those who spent such a long time inside the Earth Fire House were at the very least disciples above the Foundation Establishment Stage ah! It was really the first time he had seen a disciple like Han Li who was only at the Qi Refining Stage but stayed inside for so long to refine pills.
Moreover, the Qi Refining Stage disciple’s refining could only last for a month only, could it be that this disciple of Master Li’s ancestor had even brought something to eat and drink along with him, and that’s why he was able to persevere so far? The ugly man thought with a belly full of doubts.
Inside the Earth Fire House, Han Li sat cross-legged on a futon, looking at the two dozen or so bluish Foundation Establishment Pills floating in front of him with a contemplative look on his face.
These pills were all that Han Li had gained from the countless efforts he had poured into them over the past half year. Getting them had been incredibly difficult!
In the initial twenty or so times of refining, Han Li couldn’t even get past the level of condensing the pills. Looking at the ruined dan over and over again, his heart ached beyond measure. He was almost about to give up, planning to go back and learn formal alchemy from other alchemists. Then he would come back to re-refine the Foundation Establishment Dan. Although the delay this way would definitely be long and incomparable, it was better than wasting the elixir for nothing!
But when he was on his way out, he ghostly opened the cauldron and refined it once more. This time, as if by divine help, he was able to condense the dan, and when he opened the furnace to take the dan, he miraculously succeeded in taking the dan at one time, allowing him to get the first Foundation Establishment Dan that he had made with his own hands.
This Foundation Establishment Dan, except for the slightly smaller size, was exactly the same as the original three pills. This greatly lifted Han Li’s spirits!
With this encouragement, Han Li gritted his teeth, dismissed the idea of going back, and quietly continued.
Not to mention, with this successful experience, Han Li’s chances of condensing pills in the back immediately rose wildly, with one successful condensation in three refinements. With regards to opening the furnace, Han Li was even more surprisingly talented, surprisingly more than half of the pills were able to take the dan successfully in one go, which was something he himself had never expected!
During this period, when Han Li felt that his stomach was starting to get hungry, he would take the bottle of grain-expelling pills that he had gotten from the little old man and eat one of them, and then he would be able to hold on for another month! This bottle of Grain Expelling Pill was something he had exchanged for a few hundred year old herbs that he had acquired from the outside under the pretext of a few plants! Now, it came in handy.
Just like that, when the ingredients in Han Li’s hands were depleted, he obtained this astonishing amount of Foundation Establishment Dan, which far exceeded his original expectations.
At first, when he heard about the difficulties of alchemy, he thought that he would be lucky to get seven or eight of them! But now it seemed that opening a furnace to refine pills didn’t seem to be so exaggeratedly difficult as rumored in the Immortal Cultivation World! Could it be that those alchemists were misleading other Immortal cultivators? Or do you really have a talent for alchemy?
Han Li was slightly confused!
In fact, Han Li was thinking left, alchemy was actually three times more difficult than what was rumored in the outside world. An ordinary level alchemist could not be cultivated without twenty to thirty years of time and the expenditure of an almost astronomical amount of wealth.
As for Han Li’s current level of refining on the Foundation Establishment Dan, he could already be ranked in the upper echelon of ordinary alchemists! The reason why such an incredible thing had happened was all thanks to Han Li’s nearly half a year of uninterrupted refining of the same kind of pills.
One must know that even the most wealthy and generous sects could not allow any alchemist to have enough rare materials to refine the same pills every day, and for half a year at a time.
This kind of thing, unless it happened with the lowest-ranked pills, would still have a few possibilities! However, if it’s a low-ranking elixir, then there’s no need to specialize in training to accumulate experience, anyway, the raw materials aren’t expensive, and it’s just a matter of starting over again if you’ve made a bad one.
Han Li didn’t understand this, so naturally he didn’t think through the matter, but after a slight consideration, he let it go. Because he now suddenly rose the idea of immediately swallowing the Foundation Establishment Dan and coming to the Foundation Establishment Rush on the spot.
This thought was so strong that Han Li couldn’t help but seriously consider the possibility of secluding himself in this Earthfire House.
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Eleven months later, the earth fire house where Han Li was located, the stone door was still tightly closed, without the slightest sign of opening.
On this day, the ugly man stared blankly at the eighteenth stone door, his face full of sorrow! At this time, he was certain that something had definitely happened to Han Li inside. Otherwise, even a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator should have come out.
It wasn’t that he was worried about Han Li as a person, but he was honestly afraid that Master Ancestor Li would be angry with him because of his disciple’s accident. Although he was a close relative of Sect Leader Zhong and managed this place with this talent, the ugly man knew very well that if Master Li really got angry over this, this backer would never stand up for himself.
Just when the ugly man is full of worry, suddenly the stone door in front of a flash of white light, and then actually noiselessly opened, and then a person full of spring from the inside out, it is in the house to stay for nearly a year of Han Li.
A good while before reacting to the ugly man, suddenly surprised and happy, hurriedly stepped forward a few steps, mouth full of complaints, said: “Senior brother, how come out only now ah, to know that if you don’t come out again, I’m going to be ……, eek! You ……!”
Only opened his mouth to say a few sentences of the ugly man, suddenly his eyes glared round, as if he had seen a ghost, pointing straight at Han Li with his mouth open, what words could not be said!
”What’s wrong, what’s wrong with me?” Han Li looked at the ugly man, face glittering light, smiled and said.
”You …… your gong method! How do I …… hardly …… Could it be that you are at the Foundation Establishment Stage?” The ugly man old half a day to come back to God, a face of confusion and shocked color of, finally stuttered and asked.
”Hm! After I finished refining the dan, I felt that the environment here was good, so I took a Foundation Establishment Pill and closed the door for a while. As a result, I succeeded in my seclusion, and I am indeed a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator now!” Seeing the other party ask such a question, Han Li stretched his back and said in a grand manner.
”Building the foundation here?” The ugly man looked at the earth fire house behind Han Li and then at Han Li, still unable to believe it! It was really the first time he had heard of foundation building in an earth fire house that specialized in refining pills and weapons!
However, after moving his lips a few times, he still didn’t say the question that was on his lips. Not only was the other party a disciple of Master Ancestor Li, but just the identity of a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator was already not something that he, a Qi Refining Stage disciple, could mess with.
”What, no?” Han Li glanced lightly at the other party and said nonchalantly. Immediately, that kind of pressure unique to Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators immediately radiated out. It caused the ugly man, who was only a stone’s throw away from him, to immediately be forced back several steps, sweating profusely.
”Of course not, there are no such unsympathetic rules up there, congratulations to Senior Uncle for his great success in seclusion!” The ugly man was also very good, immediately nodded and smiled, even the name was changed from the previous “senior brother” to “senior uncle”.
The other side now since the success of the foundation, then later can be counted as his elders, a little bit of obedience, this is also should be.
The ugly man is very thoughtful, and has a very thorough understanding of the strength-based approach of the Immortal Cultivation World.