nyslfriends Chapter 82: Li Yourong
Chapter 82: Li Yourong
three days later.
January 20th, sunny.
Li Feiyu led them to a spirit island on an outer island, a place with fiery ley lines.
The island is called Little Flame Island.
There is an alchemy hall here.
There are three floors inside, which are specifically for the Li family to refine elixirs.
First floor: a first-level alchemy room.
The second floor is the second-tier alchemy room.
The third floor is the third-tier alchemy room.
To this day, apart from the ancestor of the Azure Flame Immortal Sect, the Li family has no third-tier alchemists.
The lotus leaf flying boat slowly came to a stop above a training ground.
"So, another immortal cultivator from another race has come to learn alchemy?"
"What 'immortal seedling'? He's just a farmhand of the Li family!"
In the training ground, a Qi Refining cultivator from the Li family looked up.
There was much discussion.
Some people were driven by curiosity.
Some people looked disdainful.
Hearing these people's words, Lu Wenzheng clenched his fists, feeling somewhat dissatisfied.
Although he knew he had come to the Li family to beg for a living.
However, it is based on the principles of mutual benefit and win-win cooperation.
Being looked down upon like this, he naturally felt resentful.
Yang Jiuli, however, remained calm and composed.
Most of the people below are ordinary Qi Refining cultivators with low-grade spiritual roots, and it will be difficult for them to even reach the Foundation Establishment stage in the future.
When the time comes, they will all turn into dust.
Therefore, Yang Jiuli did not take their quick wit and sharp words to heart at all.
Having gained experience from several lifetimes, he pursued immortality, possessed a tranquil mind, and was rarely disturbed by anything.
On the lotus leaf flying boat, Li Feiyu's gaze sharpened as he scanned the entire scene.
Immediately, all the cultivators from the Li family fell silent and timidly dispersed.
They were all clearly afraid of Li Feiyu and the Foundation Establishment cultivator behind him.
"You need not worry about them. Once you become alchemists, these people will naturally bow their heads!" Li Feiyu said.
"Yes!" Lu Wenzheng clenched his fist, thinking to himself, "I must become an alchemist!"
Liu Yuelong shrugged, not taking it to heart.
Yang Jiuli remained completely calm.
Led by Li Feiyu, the group headed to the Alchemy Hall.
The main hall is very spacious.
There are many rooms on the first floor.
There is an apprenticeship room...
There is an alchemy room...
There's also a medicine room...
Yang Jiuli and the others were led into the apprentice room.
Apprentice Room:
An ancient bronze door.
Li Feiyu knocked on the door.
"Please come in!" A pleasant voice came from inside the house.
The voice was ethereal, soothing and captivating.
"Such a beautiful voice..." Lu Wenzheng murmured.
"Are there female apprentices too?" Liu Yuelong asked with curiosity.
Li Feiyu pushed open the door to the apprentice's room and walked straight in.
As Yang Jiuli entered, the first thing that caught his eye was a spacious alchemy room.
Four rows of nine-foot-long alchemy platforms were built on either side of the alchemy room.
There are five altars in each row.
Each alchemy platform has a red copper alchemy furnace.
Each alchemy furnace has a two-foot-wide fire opening at the bottom.
This fire pit is connected to the fire vein below, and the array on the alchemy platform and furnace can be used to draw the fire from the earth vein to refine pills.
Without this fiery earth vein, only cultivators who practice fire-attribute techniques can refine pills!
After glancing at the alchemy furnaces, Yang Jiuli's gaze shifted and landed on a woman dressed in light green.
The woman looked to be in her early twenties, with a beautiful face and clear, bright eyes that were full of spirit.
Her skin was like jade, and her figure was slender. The magnificent presence that her green dress could not conceal made Yang Jiuli take another look.
"This woman is so beautiful, she's almost as beautiful as Sister Zhixue!" Lu Wenzheng murmured.
"Is this the seedling of immortality sent to learn alchemy?" Just then, the woman's eyes flickered as she looked at Yang Jiuli and the others. Her lips parted slightly, and her beautiful voice was captivating, causing Lu Wenzheng and Huang Cheng to lower their heads in embarrassment.
Yang Jiuli glanced at the woman in front of him.
"Seventh level of Qi Refining..." Yang Jiuli thought to himself, "To have reached the seventh level of Qi Refining at such a young age, it seems he is also a direct descendant of the Li family."
"These promising young talents are all quite remarkable!" Li Feiyu said with a smile. "With Sister Rong by my side, I'll have to trouble you to teach them the art of alchemy this time!"
This woman was Li Feiyu's cousin, named Li Yourong. She was also twenty-three years old, but she was already a mid-grade first-level alchemist. High-level alchemists have precious time, and the Li family has recruited several batches of promising young talents in recent years, so there are not many people suitable to teach apprentices.
Although Li Yourong was only a mid-grade first-level alchemist.
However, he was more than capable of teaching these apprentices.
Li Yourong nodded slightly.
Li Feiyu then left the alchemy room.
Lu Wenzheng and the others stood nervously in the alchemy room.
"My name is Li Yourong, a direct descendant of the Li family... a mid-grade first-level alchemist... For the next five years, I will teach you alchemy. If you are still unable to become mid-grade first-level alchemists after five years, you will lose your qualification to learn alchemy!"
Li Yourong glanced at the four people and said.
Although her words were pleasant to hear, they carried a hint of sternness, and the aura of someone at the seventh level of Qi Refining spread out, making it difficult for people to breathe.
"Did you understand?" she said sternly.
"Understood!" Lu Wenzheng looked up and said timidly.
Huang Cheng nodded weakly.
Liu Yuelong nodded generously; he had been looking forward to alchemy for a long time.
Yang Jiuli remained calm throughout.
"Alright, each of you choose a pill-making platform..." Li Yourong nodded with satisfaction.
She knew that these people had come to the Li family to learn a trade, hoping to make a future, and most of them would study hard.
Whether one can become an alchemist depends entirely on personal talent.
Yang Jiuli and the others each stood in front of a pill-making platform.
Lu Wenzheng and Huang Cheng were on the left-hand side of the alchemy platform.
Liu Yuelong and Yang Jiuli were in the right row.
Ever since witnessing Yang Jiuli's extraordinary abilities, Liu Yuelong has enjoyed staying close to Yang Jiuli.
"You all need to listen carefully to what I'm about to say!" Li Yourong glanced at everyone and said in a serious tone.
Everyone looked up and stared intently at Li Yourong.
"The art of alchemy... has three main points:"
Firstly: On fire!
Secondly: It is in God!
Thirdly: In the furnace!
……
fire:
One is the control of the flame...
The second is real fire...
Ordinary cultivators who have not yet cultivated true fire can use alchemy furnaces and alchemy platform formations to draw upon the fire of the earth's veins to refine pills.
This method has two drawbacks:
Firstly, it is difficult to control the flames effectively.
Secondly, it has limitations as it does not allow people to refine elixirs anytime and anywhere.
……
Cultivators with fire-based magical abilities have a higher affinity for flames, increasing their chances of successfully refining pills by two times compared to ordinary cultivators.
Li Yourong explained the essentials of alchemy in detail.
Lu Wenzheng and the others listened attentively.
Liu Yuelong, however, was secretly pleased with himself.
His spiritual root has the highest compatibility with the fire attribute.
Therefore, he specializes in fire-based magic, making him most suitable for alchemy.
"Yang Jiuli... low-grade spiritual root, attribute compatibility 39. Judging from the fluctuations of your magical power, you should be cultivating a wood-attribute technique, right?" Li Yourong blinked her long eyelashes, her gaze shifting as she looked at Yang Jiuli, and said.
"Exactly!" Yang Jiuli nodded in response.
"Wood fuels fire... but it doesn't offer much benefit for alchemy... You're getting on in years, and if you don't achieve anything in alchemy, it will be difficult for you to catch up with others in the future. So, you'd better work hard!" Li Yourong blinked her beautiful eyes and smiled.
Clearly, she was encouraging Yang Jiuli and informing him of the importance of learning alchemy.
"Thank you for the reminder, Master Li. I will definitely study alchemy diligently and never slack off!" Yang Jiuli bowed and said.
"Very good!" Li Yourong nodded with satisfaction and said, "Although true fire enhances alchemy... the control of the flame by divine sense is also extremely important... Next, I will tell you the key to alchemy: Divine..."
"After the medicinal herbs are refined into a medicinal liquid... a powerful spiritual sense is needed to assist in the condensation of the medicinal liquid into a pill..."
"In addition, if you encounter medicinal herbs with strong medicinal properties, or demon cores... you will need powerful divine sense to suppress them."
"Although many alchemy furnaces have auxiliary formations..."
"But formations also require cultivators to control them with their divine sense..."
Li Yourong explained it in great detail.
Everyone listened attentively.
Although Yang Jiuli had long mastered these basic alchemy knowledge, he pretended to listen attentively.
In fact, Yang Jiuli's mastery of alchemy far surpasses that of Li Yourong, and even all the alchemists in the Li family.
In his previous life, Yang Jiuli spent decades learning alchemy in order to achieve Nascent Soul formation.
He also sought out many alchemical lineages and has become a third-level alchemist.
He is only one step away from becoming a fourth-level alchemist.
"Go back and thoroughly digest today's alchemy techniques," Li Yourong instructed in the afternoon.
That concludes today's lesson.
It was already dusk.
Li Feiyu came to pick them up and take them back to Jinyun Island.
For seven consecutive days.
Yang Jiuli and others learned about alchemy.
This includes the properties of medicinal herbs.
Li Yourong also gave the four of them several copies of the "Spiritual Herbs Classic" so that they could learn about the properties of medicinal herbs.
Finally, a month later, Li Yourong began to instruct everyone to start the furnace and refine medicine.
"To refine medicine, one must first understand the properties of the herbs... know at what temperature and for how long they will turn into liquid... For example, this Green Luozhi... it needs a 120-degree flame, heated for ten minutes, to begin turning into liquid..."
Li Yourong took out a green Ganoderma lucidum.
Lu Wenzheng and the others listened attentively.
"Before the medicinal herbs are put into the furnace, the furnace needs to be warmed up slowly..." Li Yourong first demonstrated.
Only after she had refined the medicinal herbs into a medicinal liquid did she instruct the others on how to make medicine.
……
Three months later, Yang Jiuli and others had already learned the basics of refining medicine into liquid.
Li Yourong walked alongside the group and began to watch the apprentices refine the medicinal liquid.
"The temperature of your flame isn't stable enough..."
"Fluctuating temperatures can affect the potency of the medicine..."
"I suggest that if you really want to refine pills, you could consider switching to fire-based cultivation techniques..."
When Li Yourong noticed that Huang Chenglian's control over the flames was extremely unstable, she offered a suggestion.
Refining elixirs with the fire of the earth's veins is ultimately not as effective as using one's own true fire.
Therefore, when Liu Yuelong refined the medicine into liquid, the quality was higher than that of others.
Yang Jiuli was next.
Huang Cheng and Lu Wenzheng were slightly inferior.
Over the past three months, Li Yourong has promptly corrected and offered suggestions whenever she saw others making mistakes.
He is a fairly responsible pharmacist.
……
Time flies by in the blink of an eye.
In the blink of an eye, a year has passed.
Yang Jiuli has now turned twenty-five.
He learned how to refine medicinal liquids six months ago, and began formally learning how to refine first-grade low-level pills three months ago.
Although some have already begun to form pills.
However, the quality of the pills was very poor, and most of them were inferior products.
Therefore, he has not yet entered the ranks of a first-class low-grade alchemist.
Huang Cheng followed Li Yourong's advice and switched to fire-based cultivation techniques. Although his cultivation speed was slower, he found it much easier to refine medicine.
A month ago, Huang Cheng successfully refined the medicine, finally gaining initial mastery of a skill for making a living, and he can take it a step further in the future.
Huang Cheng came to the Li family carrying the hopes of his clan. The clan elders wanted him to learn alchemy so that he could earn more spirit stones.
In this way, if a genius emerges in the family in the future, there will be an opportunity to cultivate a Foundation Establishment cultivator and completely change their fate.
Most of these outsider immortals who joined the Li family came with heavy responsibilities for their families.
The Li family was quite generous; after Huang Cheng's powers were depleted, they gave him a meridian-protecting pill, which enabled him to quickly recover.