Chapter 7 Refining Medicine for the First TimeIn the alchemy room, the purple flame soared in the hands of the Fire Elder like a fire elf, and its flames lit up the entire room. Elder Huo looked calmly at the rapidly rising purple flames in the medicine cauldron. He kept taking out herbs from his storage ring and throwing them into the cauldron. Under the devouring flames, each herb turned into powder or liquid essence and remained in the cauldron. Xiao Yun stared closely at the flame in the medicine cauldron. Although the flame was burning fiercely, he could feel that the temperature of the flame had been suppressed to an extremely low level by his teacher. Therefore, although the flame seemed extremely fierce, it would not harm the essence of the medicine. Instead, it would continue to refine and purify it. Normally, the alchemist cannot be disturbed by anyone during the process of refining medicine, otherwise the furnace will explode and the elixir will be destroyed. However, Elder Huo is a fifth-grade alchemy master, and the elixir he is refining is a first-grade elixir suitable for a novice like Xiao Yun to observe. Therefore, Elder Huo seems very relaxed and even explains every step of the refining process to Xiao Yun. Soon, the medicinal essence in the cauldron merged together to form a pill with a bumpy surface. Under the scorching flames, liquid continued to repair the large and small pits on the surface. After the repairs, a round red pill prototype finally took shape slowly in the medicine cauldron. The moment the pill took shape, Elder Huo used his fighting spirit to collect it, stuffed it into a jade bottle and threw it to Xiao Yun. "This is a first-grade Qi-restoring pill, which can restore a small amount of fighting spirit. Did you see clearly how I refined the pill just now?" "I see clearly, teacher." "Very good. Come here and familiarize yourself with the medicine cauldron first. Put your hand on the fire mouth, and then circulate the fighting spirit in your body into it." Elder Huo gave up his seat and sat aside.
Following Elder Huo's instructions, Xiao Yun placed his hand on the medicine cauldron and circulated his Dou Qi to his palm. A fiery red glow appeared on his palm and was immediately sucked into the medicine cauldron, transforming into a fiery red flame. Seeing the flames spurting out of his palm, Xiao Yun was startled and almost pulled his hand back reflexively. However, he felt relieved when he realized that his palm did not feel hot. Looking at the flames that kept rolling in the medicine cauldron, Elder Huo nodded with satisfaction, "Now use your soul power to sense the trace of wood energy in your body and lure it into the flames." Hearing this, Xiao Yun closed his eyes, calmed down, and used his soul power to search for that trace of wood energy. After more than ten minutes, he finally found that trace of wood energy in his body. An extremely weak green airflow appeared on Xiao Yun's palm, and was slowly injected into the medicine cauldron by Xiao Yun. When the green airflow entered the medicine cauldron, it immediately entangled with the flame. The flames that had been constantly surging also calmed down. Although they did not look as violent as before, Xiao Yun knew that under the influence of this trace of wood energy, the flames were more stable and lasting than before. "It took him such a short time to find the wood energy. It seems that my disciple's soul power is very strong." Elder Huo opened his mouth in surprise, thinking back to the first time he refined medicine, it took him a full hour to find that trace of wood energy. Even so, his teacher still praised him as a genius in refining medicine. It seems that my disciple not only has an extraordinary talent for cultivation, but also has a talent for alchemy that is one in a million. I actually accepted this peerless genius. Elder Huo was very happy in his heart, but he quickly calmed down and said seriously: "Now that you have found it, follow the steps I just demonstrated." Xiao Yun nodded. He had the herbs for refining the Qi-restoring pill in his ring. He flipped his left hand and a trumpet-shaped emerald green herb appeared in his hand. After controlling the flame, Xiao Yun carefully put the herb into the medicine cauldron. Wow! As soon as the medicinal materials entered the medicine cauldron, flames quickly wrapped around them. Before Xiao Yun had time to react, the originally emerald green medicinal materials turned into a pool of dark brown liquid and were discharged by the special device of the medicine cauldron. Looking at the pool of liquid, Xiao Yun felt a little distressed. Although it was only the medicinal material for a first-grade elixir, it would cost a lot of gold coins to buy it, but he burned it in a mere instant. "Go on, don't worry about the loss of medicinal materials." Elder Huo said lightly. Xiao Yun did not say anything. He looked at the flame in the medicine cauldron with a more focused expression and took out herbs from the ring and put them in again. After burning more than a dozen herbs in this way, Xiao Yun finally grasped the flame temperature that the emerald green herbs could accept, and used his soul power to suppress the flame temperature. After a while, under the scorching flames, the emerald green medicinal material's skin continued to fall off and finally turned into powdered medicinal essence. Xiao Yun didn’t feel anything when he saw Elder Huo refining medicine before, but after he tried refining it himself, he realized that being a pharmacist is not that easy. After wiping the sweat off his forehead, Xiao Yun continued to take out other medicinal herbs from his storage ring and put them into the medicine cauldron...
After an unknown amount of time, Xiao Yun sensed that the fighting spirit in his body was about to run out. Dozens of pools of black liquid appeared next to the medicine cauldron, and he finally extracted all the essence of the medicine. Under the flames, all the medicinal essences merged together and finally formed a bumpy pill. Xiao Yun quickly pulled his hand back and used his limited fighting spirit to take out the pill and handed it to Elder Huo. "Hahaha, how does it feel to refine a pill?" Elder Huo took the pill with a smile, looked at it carefully, and sniffed it. "Well, it's not bad. Although the surface of this pill is bumpy and there is no fragrance, it is already a successful pill. The Qi-recovering Pill is a medium-grade pill. It is not easy for you to refine it like this on your first try." Xiao Yun, who was pale and panting, smiled bitterly and shook his head. He originally thought that alchemists were all elegant and graceful, and could summon fire with a wave of their hands to refine elixirs that the world was crazy about. He looked cool and relaxed. But now that he was refining the elixir himself, he realized how much energy and effort it took, and it was much more tiring than mining coal and minerals. “Okay, I just refined a first-grade pill and I’ve already exhausted you like this. Don't think that you are a first-class alchemist just because you have made a first-class elixir. The quality and success rate of your current elixir are too low. You are not a real alchemist at all." Elder Huo waved his hand, and a pile of medicinal herbs and dozens of jade bottles appeared on the ground. The medicinal residue that Xiao Yun had destroyed before also disappeared. "When your fighting spirit is gone, take the Qi-restoring pills. When you are tired, meditate and practice. You continue to refine these herbs. When you are done, come out and find me." "No, teacher, can you refine less herbs?" "No! You must refine it all. If you dare to destroy it on purpose, don't blame me for not letting you off easily!" Elder Huo put down the herbs and left, leaving Xiao Yun, with a sad face, alone in the empty alchemy room. …… After becoming the disciple of Elder Huo, Xiao Yun's alchemy career did undergo tremendous changes. The good news was that Elder Huo was wealthy and powerful, so Xiao Yun no longer had to worry about the resources for alchemy. The bad news is that Elder Huo is a little too wealthy. After this, Xiao Yun's life became regular. He went to the teaching department for classes in the morning, and was forced by Elder Huo to make medicine in the afternoon. Xiao Yun was not idle at night either. He replaced sleeping with cultivation and worked overtime to cultivate his fighting spirit. Xiao Yun has always had a sense of crisis in his heart. This sense of crisis came from his memory. In the future, the Xiao clan's mortal enemy, Emperor Hun Tian, has been planning for a thousand years. It is unlikely that all things will develop in the original time and space. Emperor Hun Tian and Xuwu Tunyan, two nine-star Dousheng, it is impossible for them to just stay in the Soul Clan and do nothing. Moreover, when the former breaks through to the Dou Emperor level, he might then refine all the living beings in the entire Douqi Continent to aid his cultivation. It is impossible for Xiao Yun to pin all his hopes on Xiao Yan. In the Douqi Continent, the strong prey on the weak and strength is respected. If you don't want to be refined in the future, the only way is to become stronger! From then on, Xiao Yun attended classes to refine medicine during the day and practiced fighting spirit at night. Occasionally, when he had questions about practice or refining medicine, he would ask Elder Huo for answers. After all, Elder Huo was a Dou Wang powerhouse and a fifth-rank alchemist, so his guidance was easy for a newbie like Xiao Yun. Time flies by like a white horse, quietly slipping away in Xiao Yun's self-disciplined life. Half a year later, in the alchemy room of the Alchemy Department of the External Academy of Canaan College. Xiao Yun sat in front of a red medicine cauldron, waving his hands constantly and making various complicated seals. As his fingers danced, the dark blue flame in the cauldron in front of him rolled up and down, constantly refining the medicinal materials in it. He skillfully took out a medicinal herb from the side and threw it into the medicine cauldron. Under the roasting of the flame, it quickly shed its skin and turned into medicinal essence. Now, Xiao Yun has undergone half a year of rigorous training from Elder Huo and is supplied with countless medicinal herbs. He is no longer the newbie who had a hard time refining medicinal herbs. "Concentrate!" Seeing all the herbs in the medicine cauldron turned into essence, Xiao Yun's eyes focused and he concentrated on the cauldron. The seals in his hands kept changing, and he controlled the flames with the power of his soul to wrap up all the essence of the medicinal properties into a sphere. At the same time, his soul power also probed into the sphere, sensing the reaction caused by the fusion of different medicinal essences, and then promoting their fusion by adjusting the flame.
After a while, the prototype of a pill appeared in the medicine cauldron. With the appearance of the pill prototype, the energy in the cauldron became agitated, constantly repairing the bumpy surface to make it round. Refining, condensing, and forming the pill! These three steps are the entire process of refining medicine, and Xiao Yun has now reached the last step. As long as there is a slight mistake, the pill will become a waste pill, and all efforts will come to nothing. However, Xiao Yun had no idea how many times he had refined first-grade pills in the past six months, and he was already familiar with the process. He simply used his soul power to control the flame to start rotating, and the repair work on the pill's surface also became rapid. It soon turned into a fiery red pill, emitting a fragrance. "My success rate in making pills is now around 80%, and even for first-grade advanced pills I have a 60% chance of making them. It's time to take the alchemist exam and become a real alchemist." Xiao Yun raised his hand to catch the flying pill, and then sealed it in a jade bottle with his backhand. (End of this chapter)
