Adrian was browsing through the book leisurely.
One of the secrets of the king of slaughter was that he was an alchemist and a rune master.
Virtually no one knew that he could concoct pills and could draw runes.
What made it more special was the fact that all his knowledge was obtained from an ancient sect ruin he chanced upon in his younger years.
For the ruins to be considered ancient by the sage of slaughter who had lived for about 100,000 years, it could only be imagined how old it would be for the current Adrian.
The sect was one that specialized in secondary practices.
Mainly alchemy and rune mastery. The knowledge they had accumulated over who knows how long was what enabled the sage of slaughter to be able to reach the height he was able to achieve.
In fact, the only reason he was able to break through and reach the pinnacle of the world was due to a pill he had concocted.
So imagine Adrians surprise when he found out that the metgod of alchemy that was depicted in the book was different from the one in his mind.
In the book, pills are concocted by adding the ingredients one by one, purifying them and drawing out their medicinal essence individually before combining them at the end to make a pill.
It was the standard way of alchemy that all alchemists agreed with.
However, in his inheritance, the alchemist creates a vortex using their spirit energy while adding all the ingredients.
This 'little' addition increased the difficulty multiple times.
First of all, an alchemist already has to use his spirit energy to create,fuel and control the flames used in the alchemic process.
Too hot and the ingredients would burn and not hot enough and they would be unable to extract the medicinal essence.
Adding on the vortex to all that and a normal alchemist would run out of spirit energy before he even finished purifying the ingredients.
However, with risk, there would be rewards.
The benefits of making pills this way was also very great.
The pills made would have virtually no impurities and would have a larger chance of forming pill veins and even pill clouds.
Pill veins were formed when a pill reached 80% purity and a pill cloud would be formed when a pill reached 90% purity.
For comparison, an ordinary alchemist could at most reach about 60% purity.
An alchemy genius would be able to reach about 75% purity.
This showed the difficulty of creating pill veins on a pill.
Adrian was conflicted, on one hand, he could either go the safe route and increase his chances while forsaking quality or he could go for the other route that increased the chances of both failure and purity at the same time.
After pondering for a few moments, he came to a decision. He would rather practice the ancient method of alchemy.
Alchemy required a strong soul, will, and determination and with his current resolve, he felt that it was the most appropriate route for him.
Besides, it was the inheritance of the sage of slaughter. If other people heard that he had obtained the inheritance but was hesitant to use it, they would bang their heads with rage.
After making up his mind, he brought out the bronze cauldron.
He then created a fire beneath the cauldron as the runes on the body of the cauldron started to light up one by one.
He brought out several batches of rank 1 herbs.
He was going to be making a normal rank 1 healing pill.
This was the most basic pill that every alchemist started out with.
As the cauldron was heating up, he started adding the ingredients one by one.
There were about 5 ingredients needed to make this pill with the main ingredient being the rejuvenation flower.
The rejuvenation flower could heal both fatigue and injury.
It was used in tandem with another herb known as the numbing herb.
From the name, one could guess the use of this herb. It was able to numb the pain of whoever consumes it.
These two herbs in addition to a few others were what was used to make the healing pill.