Li Yuan and Old Sun continued to walk east and found a store with the Wang Family brand in the third row.
The facade is small, a stone house with a semi-open shed, and a wooden sign hanging on the door with the words Wang Shop written on it.
The wooden sign is newly carved, the writing is neat, and the paint has not yet dried.
There are already people in the store.
A monk in his thirties was sitting behind the counter. He had a square face and was wearing a Wang Family gray cloth robe with a Token pinned to his waist. He stood up when he saw Li Yuan and Old Sun coming in.
"My surname is Wang and my name is Wang Zheng. I have been guarding here for almost two months."
He glanced at the things on the backs of Li Yuan and Old Sun.
"There are two empty rooms in the back room. Let's put things away before we move on."
The two put their luggage into the back room.
The room is not big, with a wooden bed, a table, and a chair. It is much simpler than the stone house in the Talisman Hall, but it is better than living in a shed outside.
After settling in, Wang Zheng gave an overview of the store's situation.
"The Rogue Cultivator here mainly come to the Secret Realm to find things, and a few of them are collecting medicine and hunting monsters in the peripheral mountains. Consumables are the fastest, Fireball Talisman, Vajra Talisman, Rejuvenation Talisman, Blood-Replenishing Talisman, people ask about it every day. Medicinal Pill is also in short supply, Qi Replenishment Pill and Origin Recovery Pill are the most popular."
He pulled out a thin booklet from under the counter.
"The previous Talisman was shipped from Fangshi. It took more than a day to travel, and you might encounter Demon Beast in the process. The freight is not cheap. Medicinal Pill is more troublesome. If the storage conditions are poor, the efficacy of the medicine will be reduced."
He pushed the book onto the table.
"This is the shipment record for the past half month. Take a look and you will have an idea."
Li Yuan turned two pages. Fireball Talisman sold the most, followed by Vajra Talisman and Rejuvenation Talisman. The price was 30 to 40% higher than Yunyang Marketplace, and 50 to 60% higher than Qinghe Market.
Supply exceeds demand.
Wang Zheng also explained a few rules about the perimeter. Yuanyang Sect's Patrol Team walked around the perimeter twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, and caught anyone who did anything. Fighting was not allowed within the stone pillars, and was not allowed within thirty miles outside the stone pillars, but no one was in charge of it beyond thirty miles.
"You work in the store during the day, and pay attention to safety at night. Although there are Yuanyang Sect people around, it's better not to wander around in the middle of the night."
Li Yuan nodded.
In the afternoon of that day, Li Yuan set up a table under the shed of the shop, rolled out Talisman Paper, and started Talisman Making.
Fireball Talisman, Vajra Talisman, Rejuvenation Talisman, Blood-Replenishing Talisman, four kinds of rotating paintings. Talisman Crafting Art After Minor Accomplishment, the success rate is extremely high. The scrap rate of Low-grade First-Order Talisman is reduced to less than 10%. When I draw fast, I can produce seven or eight pictures in an hour.
The shed is not covered, and Rogue Cultivator passing by can see someone inside Talisman Making at a glance.
In less than half an hour, someone came over.
"How to sell Fireball Talisman?"
"Three pieces Spirit Stone each." Wang Zheng answered from behind the counter.
Then Rogue Cultivator hesitated for a moment, then took out Spirit Stone and bought three.
The next afternoon, seven or eight people came one after another. Fireball Talisman sold twelve tickets, Vajra Talisman sold five tickets, and Rejuvenation Talisman sold three tickets.
In the evening Old Sun also started working.
He set up the Old Iron Alchemy Furnace in the back room by the window. The stove was brought by himself, and it was larger than the one Li Yuan bought before. There was no hidden writing on the stove wall, it was just an ordinary old stove.
Li Yuan leaned forward and asked twice how to make Qi Replenishment Pill.
"Show me your Qi Replenishment Pill's Pill Formula." Old Sun wiped the stove again and stretched out his hand towards Li Yuan.
Li Yuan took out Qi Replenishment Pill's Beast Skin Booklet from the storage bag and handed it over.
Old Sun took it and flipped through two pages, muttering something in his mouth. After flipping through, he returned the booklet to Li Yuan.
"Simple. Qi Replenishment Pill is the most basic Low-grade First-Order Medicinal Pill. I have practiced a lot before. If you want to learn, I will teach you."
He paused.
"If I don't charge you any money, I just owe you a favor."
Li Yuan glanced at him.
Old Sun threw a handful of Green Spirit Herb into the furnace and said with a smile while pouring spiritual power into the bottom of the furnace.
"I feel like your future will be good, so invest now."
He spoke casually, as if he were talking about a trivial matter.
Li Yuan did not refuse.
"Okay."
Old Sun started by demonstrating the complete refining process of Qi Replenishment Pill.
Green Spirit Herb is used as a base, and the spiritual power is heated until the grass leaves become soft and juice is produced. Then Astragalus Root is added. Astragalus Root requires a higher temperature to extract the active ingredients, but high temperatures will evaporate the Green Spirit Herb liquid.
"Here's the key." Old Sun tapped the furnace wall with his fingertips.
"The temperature requirements of the two medicinal materials are different. You have to heat them in zones in the furnace. The temperature at the bottom is higher for Astragalus Root, and the temperature at the top is lower to preserve the medicinal solution of Green Spirit Herb."
"Spiritual power control is the foundation. Your spiritual power control accuracy should be enough, but Alchemy's requirements for spiritual power control are different from Talisman Making. Talisman Making is about precision, and Alchemy is about coordination. You have to control the heat, the state of the medicinal materials, and the concentration of the medicinal liquid at the same time. Three things are changing at the same time, so you have to keep an eye on them at the same time."
Old Sun puts Atractylodes Slice and Poria Powder in sequence.
"Soul perception is very important in this link. You can't see the status of the medicinal materials in the stove, you can only rely on soul perception to detect it. But this stove..."
He knocked on the hearth wall.
"It's a little worse. The iron wall is thick, and the spiritual power is not transparent. The soul's perception is greatly lost across the furnace wall. Good Pill Furnace has transparent spiritual power, and the soul can directly pass through the furnace wall to see what's going on inside. I can't do this, and can only rely on the feel of the spiritual power to control it."
Li Yuan nodded.
Alchemy Insights's Affix is still on me. Every point Old Sun talks about, there is a vague sense of familiarity in my mind, as if I have seen similar descriptions somewhere. The insights that poured in when I equipped Pill Furnace are corroborating with Old Sun's explanations.
After Old Sun finished the demonstration, he gave the stove to Li Yuan.
Li Yuan put Green Spirit Herb into the furnace, and the spiritual power poured into the bottom of the furnace from the palm of his hand.
The control of the fire is more subtle than imagined. At Talisman Making, the spiritual power follows a fixed route, guided by Spirit Pattern. At Alchemy, the spiritual power is scattered in the furnace, and there is no route to follow, it all depends on the feel.
Old Sun is watching from the side and occasionally reminds me.
"If the heat is increased a little more, the liquid will be almost mushy."
"Poria Powder put too much, next time it will be half less."
The liquid medicine condenses.
Li Yuan slowly withdrew his spiritual power, and the temperature in the furnace slowly dropped.
Open the furnace lid.
A ball of dark blue ointment was condensed at the bottom of the furnace, with an irregular shape and pitted surfaces.
It is far from the round and smooth shape that Medicinal Pill should have, but the smell of medicinal effect is definitely there.
"It's barely done." Old Sun came over and took a look. "The efficacy of the medicine has been compromised, and it is only about 60 to 70% of the normal Qi Replenishment Pill. The heat control is not that good, and the amount of Poria Powder needs to be adjusted as well."
He took the ointment out of the stove and rubbed it on his fingertips.
"But you can do it in the first try, which is pretty good. You really have a strong foundation in spiritual power manipulation."
Li Yuan Put the ointment into the porcelain bottle.
Panel popped out.
[First-Order Alchemy Art-Not Entry Level(8/100)]
At the same time, part of the effect of Alchemy Insights Affix was activated during the Alchemy process.
The improvement rate of Divine Soul Strength has increased a bit from the base value.
Although it's not much, I can feel that the clarity of my soul's perception is a little better than before.
Li Yuan made two more furnaces in succession.
The second furnace was much better than the first furnace. The shape of the ointment was close to a circle and the surface was smoother. The third furnace was a step further. The ointment could already be called Medicinal Pill. The dark blue round pill was placed in the palm of the hand, exuding a faint medicinal fragrance.
Old Sun took it over, smelled it, and nodded.
"This furnace can be used. The efficacy of the medicine is about 80-90% of the normal Qi Replenishment Pill. Just practice it a few more times."
Li Yuan Put away the finished products from the three furnaces respectively.
The refining process of Qi Replenishment Pill has been figured out. The only thing left is to practice repeatedly to improve the accuracy of heat control and medicinal material ratio.
The sky outside the window has darkened. The lights in the surrounding settlements are scattered and bright, and occasionally low beast roars can be heard coming from the direction of the mountains in the distance.