While Senior Zeng and Luo Yixiao continued to do their exercise, Su Yang said to Cai Yan, "Since you have never concocted pills before, I am going to teach you step by step."
"How much of the technique did you learn?" He then asked her.
"I understand most of it, Master."
"Good. That will make things much easier," he said.
"What should I do, Master?" Wang Shuren suddenly asked him, feeling slightly left out now that there were other disciples beside herself.
"Hm? You can do whatever you want until it’s your turn." Su Yang said.
"I understand..." Wang Shuren sighed inwardly before going to concoct so pills.
"Now, let’s begin your lectures." Su Yang said once Cai Yan sat before the cauldron.
"Before we can even start concocting pills, we need to see what kind of Alchemy flas you were born with."
"Not everyone is born with alchemy flas, but I can sense it in your spiritual energy, so you should have it."
Cai Yan nodded and closed her eyes to focus on the technique she’d been practicing for the past month.
A few minutes later, a small ball of pale green flas appeared before her.
"Oh? Your alchemy flas actually turned out to be Jade Flas? That’s a very pleasant surprise." Su Yang said.
Just like Zhu ngyi in the Holy Central Continent who was born with unique Azure Flas, Cai Yan was gifted with her own unique alchemy flas that are known as Jade Flas, a powerful but hard to control type of alchemy fla.
"What? Unique Alchemy Flas?" Wang Shuren stopped concocting pills to turn around and stare at the green flas floating above Cai Yan’s palm. While she has heard rumors before, this is actually her first ti seeing soone with unique alchemy flas.
"How lucky! If only I was born with unique alchemy flas, my life as an alchemist would be much easier..." Wang Shuren sighed loudly.
Hearing her sigh, Su Yang looked at her and said, "Being gifted with unique alchemy flas does not always an having an easy life as an alchemist."
"What do you an? Unique alchemy flas are basically a superior version of regular alchemy flas, right?"
However, Su Yang shook his head and said, "While having unique alchemy flas may indeed be advantageous in many situations, but because of their own uniqueness they are also much more difficult to control and master."
"It’s like being born with a Heavenly Constitution but not knowing how to train that body properly, which might cause more harm than good to your cultivation."
"And if a novice like Cai Yan with her Jade Flas is taught by soone incompetent, her life as an Alchemist would only beco miserable, perhaps even ending in a tragedy."
"Anyway, if you also want to have unique alchemy flas, it’s not impossible." Su Yang suddenly said to Wang Shuren, causing her eyes to widen with shock.
"You an I can also have unique Alchemy Flas?! I thought you can only be born with it!" Wang Shuren exclaid in a bewildered voice.
"No, you too can have unique alchemy flas if you absorb one. However, I doubt you will be able to find any alchemy flas in this world, as they require hundreds of thousands of years to grow."
"You can absorb unique alchemy flas?! This is the first ti I’ve heard of this! And what do you an ’grow’? How does one grow alchemy flas?!" Wang Shuren quickly asked him.
"Alchemy Flas are no different than Spiritual Treasures in the sense that they can both be created naturally, but Alchemy Flas normally take longer to appear due to their unique nature.
"..."
Wang Shuren was speechless. However, her heart throbbed with excitent knowing that she might be able to use unique alchemy flas in the future.
"Anyway, if you want to know more about alchemy flas, I will tell you all about them later." Su Yang said before returning to Cai Yan.
"Now that we know you have Jade Flas, I will have to change your training thods."
Cai Yan nodded with a calm face.
"It will take so ti for to write the techniques, so I will have you familiarize yourself with the Jade Fla for now."
He then said to Wang Shuren, "I want you to teach her the basics of fla control and make sure that nothing goes wrong while I create the techniques for her."
"Just the basics, right? You can leave this to ." Wang Shuren nodded with a confident expression on her face.
Once Su Yang went away to write the new techniques for Cai Yan, Wang Shuren said to her, "The easiest way to familiarize yourself with your alchemy flas is simply by using it. Here, try to light a fire underneath the cauldron by controlling your spiritual energy and imaging a fire appearing under the cauldron." Wang Shuren pointed at her cauldron.
Cai Yan nodded and took a deep breath before creating a small fla under the cauldron.
"Good. Now keep it like that for as long as possible."
However, the Jade Flas disappeared only a few seconds later, and Cai Yan began panting heavily, seeming out of energy already.
"Eh? What happened? That wasn’t even ten seconds!" Wang Shuren asked her with a dumbfounded face.
"I...I don’t know..." Cai Yan said in an exhausted voice. "I tried to keep the alchemy flas active, but my spiritual energy depleted before I even realized."
"Do unique alchemy flas really consu that much spiritual energy? Even novice Alchemists at the Elentary Spirit Realm can maintain their alchemy flas for around 10 ten minutes before they run out of spiritual energy, but you can’t even do it for a full minute while being at the fourth level True Spirit Realm! This is too weird!"
"Perhaps this is what Su— Master ant when he said that having unique alchemy flas does not automatically an having an easy life as an alchemist..." Wang Shuren finally understood Su Yang’s words.
"What should I do now, Senior Sister?" Cai Yan asked her with a dejected look. How will she ever concoct pills if she cannot even maintain her alchemy flas long enough to heat up the cauldron, much less concoct a pill?
"You can only increase your spiritual energy at this point, right? But how much spiritual energy would you need to maintain such energy-consuming alchemy flas?" Wang Shuren shook her head a mont later and sighed, "I guess I am the ’incompetent’ teacher Master ntioned in this situation..."
"Well, there’s not much we can do at this point but wait until the Master finishes whatever he’s doing." Wang Shuren said.
However, Cai Yan wasn’t willing to give up so easily and continued to try to maintain her Jade Flas.
Soti later.
"Haaa... haaa... This is impossible..." Cai Yan eventually gave up after failing a dozen tis. "Maintaining the Jade Flas is not possible when it quickly consus all of my spiritual energy and I have no control over it..."
"Why don’t we ask Senior Zeng? Although he might not be at Master’s level, he’s still a very prominent Alchemist with decades of experience. Perhaps he might know a thing or two about your Jade Flas. I’m going to wake him up." Wang Shuren said before nudging Senior Zeng awake from his slumber.
"Huh? Did I fall unconscious again from exhaustion?" Senior Zeng sat up with a tired look.
"Yes, you did, but that’s not why I woke you up." Wang Shuren said, and she continued, "Do you know anything about unique alchemy flas?"
"Unique Alchemy Flas? Now that’s a term you don’t hear every day." Senior Zeng nodded.
"Although I know a thing or two about unique alchemy flas, I cannot say that I know very much about it because they are extrely rare. Why do you ask?"
Hearing his question, Wang Shuren turned to look at Cai Yan and said to her, "Show it to him."
A few monts later, Cai Yan summoned the Jade Flas for a brief mont.
However, that brief mont was more than enough to shock Senior Zeng wide awake.
"Unique Alchemy Flas?! You actually have unique alchemy flas?! Heavens! This is only my second ti seeing soone with such a gift!" He exclaid with excitent.
"Oh? So you know soone else who has unique alchemy flas?" Wang Shuren’s eyes flickered with interest.
However, Senior Zeng’s expression darkened after hearing her inquiry, and he spoke in a solemn voice a mont later, "Yes, I knew of soone who used to have purple-colored alchemy flas. However, that person died in an accident when he lost control over his own alchemy flas, burning himself until only his ashes were left."
"..." Wang Shuren and Cai Yan stared at him with a horrified look on their faces.
"T-This person burned himself to death using his own alchemy flas?" Cai Yan asked for confirmation.
Senior Zeng nodded before sighing, "He was a talented young man who was also my first disciple. However, because I knew nothing about his purple flas at that ti, I was unable to guide him properly, which ended in that horrible accident."
"..."
Wang Shuren was speechless, as she didn’t think that he would have such a tragic history!
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