Wandering Gods of Day and Night-Chapter 1163 - 446: The Alchemy Dilemma

Alchemist Bai Lu transformed into a human shape, with his head lowered slightly towards the Star Sky Scroll, making it easier for him to observe the painting closely.

The Star Sky Scroll was covered with dense scarlet stars, which connected into a formation creating a nebula.

Each nebula sometimes shone brightly and sometimes lay dormant, changing unpredictably.

Bai Lu Alchemist’s mind was captivated by the enchanting scenery, and he involuntarily reached towards the Star Sky Scroll. As his fingertip touched the scroll, a radiant flare appeared on the canvas.

The intense light burst instantly, causing Zhou Xuan and Bai Lu Alchemist’s eyes to hurt slightly.

Zhou Xuan hurriedly knocked away Bai Lu’s hand and complained, "Just look at it properly, don’t touch it, otherwise you might ruin my painting."

"Great master, your painting is indeed mystical. I wonder where you obtained it from."

"It’s best not to ask where it came from."

Do I really need to tell you that I used three nine-sticks of incense sacrifices to exchange this painting from the Heavenly Venerate’s hand?

Zhou Xuan urged, "I’m just asking you if you can understand this painting?"

He said irritably.

"I can understand it, I can understand it." Bai Lu Alchemist explained carefully to Zhou Xuan, "This painting shouldn’t be unfolded directly and viewed plainly like that..."

"How should one view it then if not plainly?" Zhou Xuan asked.

"This is how."

Fearing another intense flare, Bai Lu Alchemist said to Zhou Xuan, "Great master, may I ask if you can control this painting?"

"Yes, of course I can."

"Then shape this painting into a dome."

Bai Lu Alchemist guided Zhou Xuan.

Zhou Xuan linked his aura with the Star Sky Scroll.

Suddenly, the painting slowly rose, reaching two meters above the ground, Zhou Xuan’s hands waved simultaneously, as if rolling dough,

and the sides of the scroll contracted towards the center under his control, forming a dome of the scroll.

Bai Lu Alchemist pointed to the dome and said to Zhou Xuan, "Great master, doesn’t the dome of the Star Sky Scroll resemble the top of a pill furnace?"

"It does resemble that, and then what?"

Zhou Xuan asked.

"Great master, this painting is both an elixir recipe and a pill furnace design—or , let’s put it this way, some elixir recipes are actually pill furnaces."

"See those nebulas scattered in the sky, their arrangement in alchemist’s terms is called Fire Eye, but the sequence to light these Fire Eyes is categorized in order."

"The Fire Eyes light up one after another, forming clusters of fire with distinct layers, refining the alchemy materials repeatedly until finally achieving the Human Golden Core."

Bai Lu Alchemist continuously explained, and Zhou Xuan listened attentively. When Lao Bai’s words paused, he still felt a bit unsatisfied and asked,

"Finished? That’s all you’re explaining?"

"This scroll doesn’t have much else to explain."

Bai Lu Alchemist said, "Also, we can state it more straightforwardly. This scroll is equivalent to the supreme master giving you an elixir recipe,

as long as you follow the recipe, prepare the pill furnace and alchemy materials, then introduce a Heavenly Fire, the Fire Eyes contained in the recipe will automatically refine the elixir for you,

without requiring you to have any alchemy skills."

"Does it mean, fully automated?"

"Exactly, the recipe is the blueprint for the furnace, and the blueprint is the recipe, once the furnace is built, the elixir naturally follows."

Bai Lu Alchemist said, "However, this automatic alchemy method has a downside."

"What’s the downside?"

"The furnace built with great effort can only refine one type of elixir, unlike other furnaces that can refine hundreds of types of elixirs." Bai Lu Alchemist said.

"That’s still quite good; after all, it’s an automatic alchemy furnace, requiring no alchemy skills from me. If I can produce one type of elixir, I am quite satisfied."

Zhou Xuan was sometimes greedy but mostly content with what he had.

Moreover, he absolutely didn’t expect this time the Blood Well really went all out, knowing his alchemy incense hadn’t yet emerged, they first delivered him a ’production line’, even though it’s just the blueprint of the production line.

But with the blueprint in hand, are the remaining matters hard?

"Pretty hard."

Bai Lu Alchemist gave Zhou Xuan a cold splash of water, saying, "With the blueprint, you still need to build a pill furnace, gather alchemy materials, and prepare for a Heavenly Fire."

"First, let’s talk about alchemy materials. May I ask, great master, what is the purpose of the elixir produced by this furnace?"

Bai Lu Alchemist asked.

He was an alchemist, but not a fortune teller. Just looking at the Fire Eyes in the picture, he couldn’t deduce what kind of elixir this recipe could produce.

"The elixir is used for Heaven and Earth Exchange."

Zhou Xuan said.

"Oh, this kind of elixir is a Qi Pill, and the material is Human Desire Power." Bai Lu Alchemist said, "But looking at the countless Fire Eyes in the picture,

The more Fire Eyes, the more materials required, and the Human Desire Power needed amounts to a tremendous figure, reaching astronomical numbers."

"Don’t worry about the Desire Power."

Residing in Mingjiang Prefecture, Zhou Xuan might not have much else, but as for Desire Power, isn’t it provided continuously?

"Lao Bai, just get to the next difficulty point."

"The next difficulty point is to introduce a Heavenly Fire."

Bai Lu Alchemist said, "To us alchemists, Heavenly Fire is essentially Heaven’s Thunder, during a thunderstorm, whenever a Heaven’s Thunder flashes across the sky, the alchemist needs to guide the Heaven’s Thunder into the pill furnace’s chamber,