Chapter 7: First Alchemy Refining
In the alchemy room, the purple flame soared in Elder Fire's hands like a spirit in the fire, and its flames lit up the entire room.
Elder Fire looked at the rapidly rising purple flame in the medicine cauldron calmly, and continuously took out herbs from the ring and threw them into it. Under the devouring of the flame, each herb turned into powder or liquid essence, which remained in the medicine cauldron.
Xiao Yun stared closely at the flame in the medicine cauldron. Although the flame in the medicine cauldron was burning fiercely, he could feel that the temperature of the flame had been suppressed to an extremely low level by the teacher. Therefore, although the flame seemed extremely fierce, it would not harm the essence of the medicinal properties, but would instead continuously refine and purify it.
Originally, the pharmacist could not be disturbed by anyone during the process of refining medicine, otherwise the furnace would explode and the pill would be destroyed. However, Elder Huo was a fifth-grade master of refining medicine, and the pill he was refining was a first-grade pill suitable for a novice like Xiao Yun to observe, so Elder Huo seemed very relaxed and even explained 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 flame, liquid continued to repair the big and small pits on the surface. After repairing, a round red pill prototype finally took shape slowly in the medicine cauldron. At
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 that can restore a small amount of Dou Qi. Did you see clearly how I refined the pill just now?"
"Yes, teacher."
"Very good. First, come over and familiarize yourself with the medicine cauldron. Put your hand on the fire mouth, and then circulate the Dou Qi in your body into it." Elder Huo made way and sat aside.
Following Elder Huo's instructions, Xiao Yun placed his hand on the medicine cauldron and circulated the Dou Qi to his palm. A fiery red fluorescent light appeared on his palm, which was then sucked into the medicine cauldron and transformed 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 in the medicine cauldron, Elder Huo nodded with satisfaction, "Now use your spiritual power to sense the wood energy in your body and lure it into the flames."
Hearing this, Xiao Yun closed his eyes, calmed down, and used his spiritual power to search for the wood energy. After more than ten minutes, he finally found the wood energy in his body.
A very weak green air flow appeared on Xiao Yun's palm, and was slowly injected into the medicine cauldron by Xiao Yun. When the green air flow entered the medicine cauldron, it immediately entangled with the flames, and the flames that had been constantly surging calmed down. Although it did not seem as turbulent as before, Xiao Yun knew that under the effect of this strand of wood energy, the flames were more stable and lasting than before.
"He found the wood energy in such a short time. It seems that my disciple's spiritual power is very strong." Elder Huo opened his mouth in surprise. He thought about the first time he refined medicine, but it took him a full hour to find that strand of wood energy. Even so, his teacher still praised him as a genius in refining medicine.
It seems that my disciple is not only gifted in cultivation, but also has a talent for refining medicine. I actually accepted this genius from the past. Elder Huo was very happy in his heart, but he quickly calmed down and said seriously: "Since you have found it, let's do it according to the steps I just demonstrated."
Xiao Yun nodded. The herbs for refining the Qi-restoring Pill were in his ring. He flipped his left hand and a emerald green herb with a trumpet-like appearance appeared in his hand. Controlling the flame, Xiao Yun carefully put the herb into the medicine cauldron.
Wow!
As soon as the herb entered the medicine cauldron, the flame quickly entangled it. Before Xiao Yun had time to react, the originally emerald green herb turned into a pool of dark brown liquid and was 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 the first-grade elixir, it would cost a lot of gold coins to buy it, and he burned it in just a moment.
"Go on, don't worry about the loss of medicinal materials." Elder Huo said lightly.
Xiao Yun didn't say anything, but looked at the flame in the medicine cauldron more attentively, and took out medicinal materials from the ring and put them in again. After burning more than a dozen medicinal materials in this way, Xiao Yun finally grasped the flame temperature that the emerald green medicinal materials could accept. He used his soul power to suppress the flame temperature. After a while, under the scorching of the flame, the epidermis of the emerald green medicinal materials continued to fall off, and finally turned into powdered medicinal essence.
Xiao Yun had not felt much when he watched Elder Huo making medicine before, but after he tried it himself, he realized that being a pharmacist was not that easy.
After wiping the sweat off his forehead, Xiao Yun continued to take out other herbs from his ring and put them into the medicine cauldron...
After an unknown amount of time, Xiao Yun sensed that his fighting spirit was about to run out, and there were dozens of black liquids next to the medicine cauldron, so he finally extracted all the medicinal essences. Under
the flames, all the medicinal essences merged together, and finally formed a pill with pits and dents. Xiao Yun quickly pulled his hand back, and used his limited fighting spirit to take out the pill and hand it to Elder Huo.
"Hahaha, how does it feel to refine the elixir?" Elder Huo took the elixir with a smile, looked at it carefully in front of his eyes, and sniffed it, "Well, not bad, although the appearance of this elixir is bumpy and there is no elixir fragrance, but it is already a finished elixir. The Qi-recovering elixir is a medium-grade elixir. It is not easy for you to refine it to this level for the first time."
Xiao Yun, with a pale face and panting, smiled bitterly and shook his head. He originally thought that all pharmacists were elegant and could summon flames to refine the elixir that the world was crazy about with a wave of their hands, with a cool and relaxed look. But now that he has started to refine the elixir himself, he realized how much energy it takes and how much more tiring it is than mining coal.
"Okay, you've just refined a first-grade pill and you've become so tired. Don't think that you're a first-grade pharmacist just because you refined a first-grade pill. The quality of your pills and your success rate are too low now. You're not a real pharmacist at all." Elder Huo waved his hand, and a pile of medicinal materials and dozens of jade bottles appeared on the ground. The residue of the medicine that Xiao Yun had refined before also disappeared.
"Take Qi-restoring pills when you run out of fighting spirit, and meditate when you are tired. You can continue to refine this batch of herbs. When you are done, come out to me."
"No, teacher, can you refine less herbs?"
"No! You must refine them all. If you dare to deliberately destroy them, don't blame me for not letting you off!"
Elder Huo put down the herbs and left, leaving Xiao Yun alone in the empty medicine refining room with a tearful face.
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After becoming a disciple of Elder Huo, Xiao Yun's medicine refining career has indeed changed dramatically. The good news is that Elder Huo is very rich, and Xiao Yun does not have to worry about the resources for refining herbs now. The bad news is that Elder Huo is a little too rich.
After that, Xiao Yun's life became regular. He went to the teaching department to attend classes in the morning, and was forced by Elder Huo to make medicine in the afternoon. Xiao Yun was not idle at night. He replaced sleep with cultivation and worked overtime to cultivate Douqi.
Xiao Yun always had a sense of crisis in his heart. This sense of crisis came from his memory. In the future, the enemy of the Xiao clan, Emperor Hun Tian, might become an emperor one day. At that time, he might refine all the creatures in the Douqi Continent to help him practice. Xiao Yun could not put all his hopes on Xiao Yan. In Douqi Continent, the strong prey on the weak, and strength is respected. If you want to avoid being refined in the future, the only way is to become stronger!
Since then, Xiao Yun took classes to refine medicine during the day and practiced fighting spirit at night. Occasionally, when he had problems in practice or refining medicine, he would ask Elder Huo for answers. After all, Elder Huo was a powerful Dou Wang and a fifth-grade pharmacist, so his guidance was easy for Xiao Yun, a rookie.
Time passed like a white horse, quietly slipping away in Xiao Yun's self-disciplined life.
Half a year later, in the alchemy room of the Department of Refining Medicine in the Outer Court of Canaan College.
Xiao Yun sat in front of a red medicine cauldron, waving his hands constantly, forming various complex seals. As his fingers danced, the dark blue flame in the medicine cauldron in front of him turned up and down, constantly refining the medicinal materials in it.
He skillfully took out a herb from the side and threw it into the medicine cauldron. Under the scorching flame, it quickly shed its skin and turned into medicinal essence. After six months of rigorous training by Elder Huo and the supply of countless herbs, Xiao Yun is no longer the newbie who had a hard time refining herbs.
"Condense for me!" Seeing that all the herbs in the medicine cauldron had turned into essence, Xiao Yun's eyes condensed and he focused on the medicine cauldron. The seals in his hands kept changing, and he controlled the flames with his soul power to wrap all the medicinal essences into a sphere.
At the same time, his soul power also penetrated into the sphere, sensing the reaction between the different medicinal essences caused by the fusion, and then adjusted the flames to make them merge together.
After a while, the shape of a pill appeared in the medicine cauldron. With the appearance of the pill, the energy in the medicine cauldron became agitated, constantly repairing the bumpy surface to make it round.
Refining, solidifying, and forming a 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 be in vain.
However, Xiao Yun has no idea how many times he has refined first-grade pills in the past six months. He has already mastered this process by heart. He just uses his soul power to control the flame to start rotating. The repair work on the pill surface also becomes rapid, and soon it turns into a fiery red pill, while emitting a fragrance.
"Now my success rate of making pills is about 80%, and even for high-level first-grade 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 pill that flew out, and sealed it in a jade bottle with his backhand.