Chapter 190 Alchemy Workshop
Upon hearing that Lin Qingshan was going to demonstrate it himself, Fang Chen also entered the alchemy room.
The main purpose was to verify whether the function of this alchemy fairyland was the same as he imagined.
"When refining the elixir, you only need to put the medicinal materials in through this opening, and then adjust the flame intensity and time according to the instructions on the elixir recipe through the formation here. The medicinal materials will be automatically refined inside. You can also do other things during this time. Just wait until the medicinal materials are refined and then come over to condense the elixir..."
As Lin Qingshan spoke, he placed the blue silver flower in his hand into the hole on the left side of the wall, and then pressed several numbers on the cushion.
That’s right, when he took a closer look, Fang Chen discovered that this cushion was not simple. It was a bit like a calculator from his previous life, with lowercase numbers from zero to ninety written on it.
Ever since he promoted this lowercase number in Yuehua Fairy City, the happiest person was Lin Qingshan. For example, the numbers of the mother-and-child jade slips were all recorded in lowercase numbers.
In addition to these ten lowercase numbers, on the left and right sides of zero are written flame and time.
You don't have to think about it to know the meaning.
"If you need to adjust the flame intensity, just press the flame, then enter a number, and then press the time to set how long to maintain the flame intensity."
After finishing the operation on the futon, Lin Qingshan also introduced the operation method of the futon to the three people.
"What are the patterns on it?"
Ye Qingyang had never seen lowercase numbers before and thought that there were some difficult to understand restrictive patterns on the cushion.
"This is a lowercase number, corresponding to zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine. It is a very useful numerical symbol created by the city lord."
Lin Qingshan gave a brief explanation. Ye Qingyang was not stupid and knew a little bit about counting. Moreover, when Lin Qingshan said the ten numbers, he pointed out them one by one. He immediately remembered the corresponding relationship between the so-called lowercase numbers.
Then, he had a new question: "How did you determine the values of flame intensity and time? I remember that although the flame intensity is recorded on the pill formula, it is usually low fire, medium fire, high fire, or gentle fire, strong fire, what are the corresponding values?
"There is still time. Alchemy requires extremely precise time. A split second can cause the alchemy to fail. How can we control this time?"
Fang Chen and Xu Qiyun also looked at Lin Qingshan, waiting for his answer.
Especially Fang Chen.
Time is easy to say, but as for the value of flame intensity, isn’t it just temperature?
The word "temperature" exists in the world of cultivation, but it only roughly refers to cold and warm, and there is no specific measurement.
He wanted to know whether Lin Qingshan's so-called flame intensity value was a symbol for low fire, medium fire, or high fire, or a temperature value with a measurement standard.
The two represent completely different meanings.
"Let's talk about the intensity of the flame first. This was Qianqiu's idea. He considered the intensity of the flame when the water was frozen to be zero, and then used the Red Sun Technique that could control the temperature. Every time he consumed a piece of spiritual energy equivalent to a low-grade spiritual stone, the increased intensity of the flame was considered to be one, thus achieving the goal of measuring the intensity of the flame with a numerical value."
Lin Qingshan’s introduction made Fang Chen ecstatic.
The so-called flame intensity value is the temperature.
So he couldn't help but ask: "Have you tested the flame intensity below zero?"
"Uh... Of course not. If it's the intensity of the flame, how can it be less than zero?"
Lin Qingshan was very puzzled by Fang Chen's question. What they measured was the intensity of the flame. If the flame intensity was zero, the water would have frozen. If it was lower than zero, it would be freezing cold. How could there be any flame intensity?
"Then let's not call it flame intensity, how about calling it temperature? You can test the temperature below zero next."
Fang Chen first changed the name of the flame intensity value to temperature, which was more in line with his habits.
What's more, as Lin Qingshan said, if we continue to call it flame intensity, then the value below zero will be meaningless.
Of course he couldn't allow such a situation to happen.
As for why Fang Chen is so obsessed with temperatures below zero, it is mainly because he wants to know what the absolute zero degree in this world is.
Or maybe it doesn't exist at all.
According to his previous inference, this world has a certain connection with the world he originally lived in, so absolute zero cannot exist in this world.
If it really exists, by converting the value of absolute zero with the value of the previous life, perhaps we can get some basic parameters of this world.
Most likely these parameters have no effect.
After all, this world has the extraordinary power of spiritual energy, which can affect the laws of nature. But it is more or less just a wish.
"Temperature? I see."
Lin Qingshan nodded, and went on to explain how they knew the temperature values corresponding to low heat, medium heat, and high heat.
“As for the low fire, medium fire, and high fire recorded in the recipe, after our experiments, it is only an approximate flame strength, uh, temperature range. The alchemist needs to try out the most suitable flame and temperature value by himself, which can also increase the success rate.
"By the way, we have already tested the temperature value of the Huiling Pill. The recipe states that it requires a low fire, but the actual temperature required is 60 degrees."
After saying it several times, Lin Qingshan finally got used to the term temperature, and even used the unit degree above zero that Fang Chen blurted out.
"This is a great contribution. With this set of temperature values, we can accurately know the temperature required to refine pills. Combined with the Alchemy House that can be adjusted to the corresponding temperature, even novices who have little experience in alchemy can become alchemy masters after a period of time."
After listening to Lin Qingshan's introduction, Ye Qingyang couldn't help but admire him.
He never thought that alchemy could be done this way.
What made him even happier was that the person who proposed this method was Lu Qianqiu, and Fang Chen also promised that he would let Lu Qianqiu return to Tianfeng Fairy City in the future.
He has decided that the future mayor of Tianfeng Fairy City will be Lu Qianqiu.
Firstly, Lu Qianqiu is close to Yuehua Fairy City and is also Lin Qingshan's disciple. Secondly, with such outstanding talent in formations and quick thinking, he is indeed worthy of this position.
As for cultivation, to be honest, after seeing Fang Chen's ambition, he was not worried about it at all.
"City Lord Ye, you are too kind. We still have time. Alchemy is indeed as you said. Opportunities are fleeting, so we have also spent more time on time..."
Lin Qingshan gave a long explanation. In short, they did not use traditional hours and minutes to express time, but used the time required for one breath as the minimum measurement.
Lin Qingshan and the others called it a breath, which was roughly equivalent to three seconds in Fang Chen's previous life.
That is one three hundredth of a quarter of an hour.
As for how to calculate the time required to refine medicinal materials, alchemists also need to experiment themselves.
Lin Qingshan and his disciples did not have that much time, nor was there any need to test all the pill recipes, so they only tested the Huiling Pills.
"Di Di-"
"The blue silver flower is almost ready for refining."
Just after the introduction, there were two dripping sounds from the wall. Lin Qingshan said something and began to condense the pill through the hole on the right.
After a while, a Huiling Pill rolled out from the hole on the right and fell into his hand.
"Ten breaths away from the set time, the wall will give a prompt."
Lin Qingshan also explained the source of the dripping sound just now.
"Okay, okay, you did a great job."
Fang Chen nodded. The function of this alchemy fairy residence was almost the same as he imagined, so he said, "Since this kind of custom-made fairy residence cannot be lived in, let's not call it a fairy residence. Let's just call it a fairy workshop and then classify it into different categories. For example, this one is called the alchemy workshop. In the future, the workshops for refining tools, making talismans, etc. will also be named in this way."
"Yes, City Lord."
Lin Qingshan took the order and had no objection to it.
After all, what Fang Chen said was reasonable. This alchemy fairyland was indeed not suitable for people to live in, so it was not quite right to call it a fairyland.
Now there is a unified name, Xiandao Workshop, as well as separate names for each category, which makes it obviously easier to manage.
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PS: This paragraph is newly added. My colleagues asked me to go out for dinner, so I guess I won’t have time to update the next chapter. I’ll make up for it with four chapters tomorrow.
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