Ye Chen spent a little money to find someone to inquire about in the black market, and soon found a place selling Monster Blood.
There is almost nothing fake about Monster Blood because it is easy to see.
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Black Market, Old Ghost Shop
Ye Chen came here. It was dark. As soon as he entered, he smelled a very unpleasant smell. These strange smells were emitted from the materials on the demon's body.
"Boss, I want to buy Monster Blood!"
Ye Chen whispered.
At this time, a short old man came over from behind the dark stage and asked: "What level of Monster Blood do you want?"
"Monster Blood of the first-level demon!" Ye Chen said.
Monsters are divided into realms such as Little Monster and Great Monster, while Little Monsters are also divided into Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4, and Level 5, which correspond to the realms of Martial Artists such as the skin-dermabrasion realm.
The first-level demon is also the most common demon. Its realm is equivalent to that of the Martial Artist, but its strength, vitality, speed, and recovery ability far exceed those of humans. Under normal circumstances, demons of the same realm can defeat several human Martial Artists.
Therefore, it is very difficult to hunt monsters.
"A piece of Monster Blood from a first-level demon sells for 10 taels of silver!" the boss quoted.
The price is not expensive. A secret medicine made from Monster Blood plus some medicinal materials can even be divided into ten parts. If the secret medicine is of high quality, the price will be even more expensive.
Therefore, as long as the secret medicine is refined, it will be a big profit!
"I want ten copies!" Ye Chen said.
Soon, the boss brought ten copies of Monster Blood, a total of ten small wooden bottles.
Ye Chen opened the ten copies of Monster Blood in sequence. In addition to the fishy smell, he could also sense a strange power. He knew it was Monster Blood at a glance.
After confirming that it was Monster Blood, he put away the ten copies of Monster Blood, paid one hundred taels of silver, and then turned and left.
After leaving the black market, Ye Chen stared behind him very cautiously, for fear of being followed, but he still thought too much. He didn't take out much money in the black market in total, and it was not worthy of others' attention.
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Subsequently.
He went to various major stores in the outer city and purchased several medicinal materials from each store. It took him a lot of time to collect the required medicinal materials.
"I need to buy a bigger yard. The previous home was too small. If I made medicine at home, it would be too easy to be exposed."
He planned to buy a villa in an area between the Qinggang Martial Arts Hall and the Blacksmith Shop.
Houses in the outer city were not expensive, and a small villa cost only two hundred taels of silver.
He had accumulated a lot of money from forging weapons before.
If you have a little money and haven't spent it all yet, buying a small villa is not a problem.
Soon, he took a fancy to a small villa that was for sale. It was also very complete, and the owner sold it for 220 taels of silver.
He didn't hesitate and bought it directly. Then he followed the other party to the Yamen to go through the transfer procedures and successfully bought this small courtyard.
After that, he spent a few days transforming one of the rooms into an alchemy room and purchased a new medicine furnace.
After all preparations were in place, he began to study alchemy.
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He first studied Cang Yuanzi's alchemy records day and night. Although he didn't actually do it, his experience value in making Dao Fruit was still increasing.
More than ten days later, he began to make medicine for the first time.
Refining medicine seems to be very simple. You only need to mix some medicinal materials in a specific order, boil them in a flame, and then stir the medicinal materials using the secret method of refining medicine to allow them to complete a special qualitative change.
However, if there is a mistake in any of these steps, the batch of medicinal materials will be ruined.
In addition, there is another important step, which is to remove the demonic nature in Monster Blood. If it is not removed completely, it will affect the quality of the secret medicine.
This alchemy secret book records a common secret method of refining medicine—Cangyuan Alchemy Technique. The Cangyuan Alchemy Technique not only records the method of refining medicine but also how to get rid of demonic nature.
If you don't have the talent for alchemy, it's almost impossible to master the Cangyuan Alchemy Technique.
But Ye Chen, who had mastered the alchemy Dao Fruit, felt that the Cangyuan Alchemy Technique was not difficult. He first tried to practice the Cangyuan Alchemy Technique, and he mastered it easily, and then began to use Monster Blood to practice the Cangyuan Alchemy Technique.
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Every piece of Monster Blood contains powerful demonic nature.
The Cangyuan Alchemy Technique is used to add spiritual power and erase the demonic nature in it.
This also requires a certain amount of strong spiritual power, otherwise it will be easy for the demonic nature to impact the spirit, resulting in mental damage.
In the process of fighting against the demonic nature, the alchemist's spiritual power also gradually improves. Any alchemist who grows up has strong mental power.
Ye Chen had just blessed his spirit in the way recorded in the Cangyuan Alchemy Technique, trying to erase the demonic nature in Monster Blood. In his perception, the demonic nature turned into a demonic wolf and impacted his spirit.
Ye Chen used the Cangyuan Alchemy Technique to strengthen his spirit and withstood the demon wolf's attacks again and again, which would gradually consume the demonic nature in Monster Blood.
Soon after, Ye Chen's mental power was consumed a lot, and he immediately stayed away from Monster Blood.
After he recovered, he continued to erase the demonic nature in Monster Blood.
A few days later, he successfully erased a portion of the superficial demonic nature in Monster Blood.
There was also a deeper demonic nature hidden inside, which required the power of fire and alchemy techniques in the process of refining the medicine.
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Completely eradicating its demonic nature was crucial; otherwise, the secret medicine would fail and become a defective product.
At this time, Ye Chen still did not prepare to refine the medicine. He continued to erase the demonic nature of other Monster Blood, which also improved his Cangyuan Alchemy Technique.
Soon, his Cangyuan Alchemy Technique broke through to the Basic Accomplishment realm, which also strengthened his mental strength a lot, which was an unexpected gain.
Five days later, the Cangyuan Alchemy Technique broke through to the realm of Great Accomplishment, and the alchemy Dao Fruit also broke through to level lv1. A large amount of alchemy knowledge suddenly emerged.
With this knowledge of alchemy, his success rate in refining medicine would be greatly improved.
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"It's time to refine Bai Ling's secret medicine!"
The Bai Ling secret medicine refined by Ye Chen is one of the three secret medicine formulas. It should have a better skin-grinding effect than the Qingyuan secret medicine, but it has no recovery effect, and its value should be lower than the Qingyuan secret medicine.
But as an introduction to alchemy, Bai Ling's secret medicine is very good.
Immediately, he started refining medicine for the first time.
He put in the ingredients one by one in order, controlled the heat during the process, and ensured no mistakes in the Cangyuan Alchemy Technique.
Finally, after the process of transforming the medicinal materials with Monster Blood as the primer, Ye Chen successfully completed his first batch of Bai Ling secret medicine.
Though only low quality, it marked the start of his alchemy journey!