Immortal cultivation starts with copying.

Chapter 340 Milk of the Earth

Master Feng arranged a quiet room for the five of them and asked them to deduce how to refine this kind of elixir.

In three days, Chen Yunhao refined nearly a hundred furnaces on the floating island, and all of them failed without exception.

After every failure, Chen Yunhao would carefully review the process and make a little progress each time, but when it came to the final moment of forming the elixir, he was still unable to form the magic pill.

After hundreds of refining processes, all the mistakes that should have been made have been made, and all the improvements that should have been made have been made.

However, at the last moment, the spiritual liquid would inexplicably dissipate. This was not a technical problem, but a problem with the recipe itself.

It is not easy to determine that there is a problem with the pill formula and to eliminate the problem.

The combination of the monarch, minister, adjuvant and guiding ingredients in the entire prescription should be taken in order according to the medicinal properties, and these need to be re-verified.

There are also about twenty or so kinds of elixirs. It is necessary to check one by one whether there is an extra ingredient or the medicinal properties of two ingredients are incompatible.

It is also possible that there is a missing magical medicine that can harmonize all the medicines. In that case, he will need to add another one that he thinks is suitable. There are more than thousands of magical medicines in the world, and it is so difficult to find one.

Master Feng said that everyone should get together every three days to discuss the results of their respective deductions and pool their wisdom, so they can always find the correct refining method.

As soon as the third day arrived, Master Feng gathered everyone together to see which master had made a breakthrough.

The cultivator sent by Shangyuan Palace was obviously also an alchemist, but his level might be a little lower.

"Brother An, you have the most experience, do you have any idea?"

Master Feng smiled and looked at the oldest Master An.

"Excuse me, I've just been working on some medicinal compatibility studies these past few days. Let me share my thoughts for your reference..."

Master An frowned and said.

Master An is worthy of being the one who has been famous the longest among the few. His medicinal combinations, that is, the monarch, ministers, assistants and envoys, are almost the same as Chen Yunhao's.

Chen Yunhao spent more than 10 to 20 furnaces refining before he finally determined the order and priority of the ingredients.

The others all nodded in agreement with Master An's speculation, believing it to be the most reasonable, so this one was temporarily recorded.

Master Feng looked at Master Li again.

Without waiting for him to speak, Master Li smiled and turned to ask the monks from Shangyuan Palace.

"My dear friend, can you provide any more detailed information about this pill recipe?"

"This recipe was found in a damaged ancient book. The method and names of the refining ingredients have been lost, and some of the medicinal herbs are blurred and unrecognizable. I sent a master alchemist to fill in the blanks..."

After hearing this, the others didn't know what to think, but Chen Yunhao understood it in his heart.

No wonder I couldn’t condense the pill after trying so many times. It seems there is a problem with the pill formula or the elixir.

The incomplete elixir formula was completed by later generations through guesswork, so it is bound to be full of loopholes.

Shangyuan Palace had also tried to refine the elixir using this recipe many times but failed, so they thought of utilizing the wisdom and experience of more than a dozen alchemy masters from several continents.

After listening to it, Master Li nodded silently, and then talked about his understanding of this pill recipe.

Master Li took a different approach. Based on his experience, he thought that several elixirs were redundant, so he changed the recipe and reduced some of the ingredients.

Since the recipe has been changed, there must be a reason for it, Master Li explained slowly.

Others don’t know, but Chen Yunhao was indeed inspired by what he heard, because Master Li’s understanding of the medicinal properties was quite unique.

According to Master Li's guess, the several elixirs he deleted would affect the overall efficacy of the medicine, but would make them easier to refine. In short, there are pros and cons.

Chen Yunhao decided to go back and try to refine it himself according to Master Li's recipe.

Next is Master Tao, who pays more attention to details, such as the order in which each elixir should be added, the connection between the additions, the control of the fire temperature, etc.

As the saying goes, details determine everything, and these details will indeed affect the entire alchemy process.

The one who picked it up was Master Shao from overseas. Master Shao didn't say much during the trip and was a very taciturn person.

Seeing that everyone was staring at him, Master Shao blinked his eyes.

"I think this recipe is unreasonable...!"

Master Shao's words were shocking. Not only that, he also made a major change to the entire prescription.

He deleted some spiritual medicines that he thought were unreasonable, and added a few spiritual medicines that he thought could be added. He adjusted nearly half of the spiritual medicines in the entire prescription.

Chen Yunhao sighed inwardly, he was indeed a master, everyone had his own understanding, his own tricks, and none of them were easy to refute.

Seeing that everyone's eyes were on him again, Chen Yunhao smiled slightly.

If I had to say who knew the recipe best among the people present, I would have to say I had simulated refining it for nearly a hundred times.

But Chen Yunhao would not say anything, even though several old guys were waiting to laugh at him.

"What the seniors said is quite correct. I only have one question. None of the spiritual herbs in this recipe are from the upper realm. How can we be sure that we can refine a fourth-level spiritual pill in the future with only some spiritual herbs from the lower realm?"

In fact, Chen Yunhao had this doubt a long time ago. To refine the fourth-level elixir, one must have the corresponding elixir.

Chen Yunhao’s spiritual island is planted with many spiritual medicines from the upper realm, and he has also made comparisons.

There is still a big difference between the spiritual medicines in the upper world and those in their world, and it has nothing to do with the age of the medicine.

Even if it is the same kind of spiritual medicine, it has one effect when grown in the Tianyuan Realm and another effect when grown in the Ling Realm.

In fact, Chen Yunhao has always had doubts in his mind. Even if these spiritual medicines can be barely refined into spiritual pills, they are at most pseudo-fourth-level spiritual pills, and their effects are still different from those of real fourth-level spiritual pills.

"My dear friend, have you ever heard of the Milk of the Earth..."

The so-called milk of the earth is a true essence of heaven and earth. Simply put, it is like the milk generated by the earth, also called the essence of earth milk.

This item is extremely rare and belongs to the same level as the Nourishing Spirit Tree. In the eyes of ordinary cultivators, it is really a treasure that is only heard of in legends.

Chen Yunhao had seen records about this thing in the classics of Thunder Mountain, and it had many wonderful uses.

I won’t talk about its other wonderful uses, let’s just talk about those related to alchemy. If you add a drop of this during the alchemy process, you can improve the level of the elixir.

In other words, a top-grade third-level elixir can be directly upgraded to a fourth-level elixir, which shows how amazing this thing is.

"As expected of the Zhongyuan Continent, it's rich in resources...!"

Master Li sighed and shook his head.

Since he is willing to add the milk of earth, there is no doubt about Chen Yunhao.

"So, fellow Taoists, as long as you can deduce the best refining method and the dosage of the pill formula, Shangyuan Palace will reward you handsomely..."

After some discussion, everyone dispersed.

It is difficult to deduce without actual refining, but the materials are hard to find and expensive, and cannot be wasted.