33: Chapter 32: Hu Guyue’s Discovery_1 33: Chapter 32: Hu Guyue’s Discovery_1 These piles of residual herbs from the alchemy process were indeed a result of his failure.
When Xiao Chen really started to work with the dicine materials, he realized how truly difficult it was to beco a real alchemist.
Even with his exceptional talent and supre alchemy inheritance, a career in alchemy wasn’t sothing anyone could handle lightly.
All alchemists were practitioners who have fed on countless spirit dicine, honing their skills through ten thousands of trials until they could manipulate herbs with skill and ease.
Underneath the alchemy furnace was top-class charcoal.
Xiao Chen carefully manipulated the charcoal, ensuring that the fiery blaze did not unintentionally reduce the herbs to ashes.
Despite nurous failures, Xiao Chen’s strong perception allowed him to feel the violent factors within the fla.
Whenever these violent factors gathered and were likely to erupt, like a shadow, his soul perception would disperse them, keeping the fla in a submissive state.
Once the first herb had been refined, Xiao Chen squinted his eyes slightly, going over the prescription in his mory once again.
“One Strengthening Bone Grass, one Vitality Fruit, two Blood Flowers, Heavenly Star Grass…”
At the mont, Xiao Chen was working on a prescription from the “dicine Collection” for a Bone Strengthening Powder that practitioners in the Bone Tempering Realm could use.
It was a basic dication.
If Xiao Chen succeeded in brewing this, he would be steps away from becoming a junior alchemist.
After confirming the quantity of the dicinal materials from his mory, Xiao Chen looked at the dancing flas through the Pill Furnace.
His soul perception tightly suppressed the violent movents of the fla.
Placing the Vitality Fruit into the Pill Furnace, and with the experience from refining the Strengthening Bone Grass earlier, Xiao Chen didn’t feel as flustered as he initially did.
The vibrant fruit, despite its hard shell, couldn’t resist the intense heat for long before it gradually started to lt away, revealing a deep yellow flesh within.
In no ti, Xiao Chen, a newbie in Alchemy, had refined the Vitality Fruit.
The essence of the Vitality Fruit turned into powder and was placed into a specially prepared wooden box.
In the dimly lit Stone House, the flaming furnace danced underneath, casting an odd glow on Xiao Chen’s face.
After sitting consecutively for around two hours in front of the furnace, where a large amount of Combat Qi was constantly transford into erald energy, Xiao Chen was physically exhausted.
Having managed to clean the Pill Furnace, he sat in a ditation position to fully recover the Combat Qi within his body.
After more than an hour of recovery, his dried ridians once again beca luminous, and he found that the flow between the Combat Qi seed smoother.
Stretching lazily to get rid of the fatigue in his body, his bones popped pleasantly.
Feeling refreshed, Xiao Chen swiftly straightened up and once again, returned to his task of refining dicine.
For the past few days, Xiao Chen had been fully imrsed in the world of Alchemy.
The path, which drove countless people mad with obsession possessed an infinite charm, that made him vow not to rest until he succeeded.
Familiarity breeds assurance.
Two successful attempts gave Xiao Chen trendous confidence, his control over the violent fla highly refined, becoming gentler and more obedient.
In the following process, several dicinal herbs were smoothly refined into essences, so beca crystalline powder particles and were placed into the wooden box, while others were transford into liquid and stored in porcelain bottles.
Gazing at the different herbal powders in front of him in the wooden box, Xiao Chen knew that the next step was crucial.
It involved the rging of different herbal essences, the miracle of turning the rotten into a marvel.
When it cos to accomplishing a great task, the final step is the hardest.
This last step was the stroke that would bring the dragon to life!
Heaving a deep sigh, Xiao Chen suppressed the excitent in his heart.
With practiced hands, he placed the pink fluid from the porcelain bottle back into the furnace and lowered the temperature of the charcoal fire, slowly heating it until it started to simr.
His right hand quickly added the pale yellow Strengthening Bone Grass powder into the mixture.
As the pale yellow powder entered the furnace, it instantly dissolved into the pink liquid and disappeared.
He then introduced another type of dicinal powder into the furnace, and sothing unexpected happened.
The dicinal powder and the pink liquid repelled each other like two poles of a magnet, refusing to rge together.
Xiao Chen, watching the two dicinal materials intently, was sweating profusely, his efforts to no avail.
He racked his mory for the knowledge ingrained in him through the Alchemy Path inheritance, and before long, he understood the problem.
Just as every object has a lting point, each dicinal material has a unique fire resistance.
The two materials must reach their respective critical points before they can perfectly blend.
This is when the power of Soul Perception truly shines, and why alchemists are so rare.
With weak Soul Perception, one could not detect the optimal mont for the materials to rge.
Everything he had done up till now had been in vain, and he had wasted precious dicinal materials.
Once the problem was identified, the process beca tediously simple: He needed to control the temperature of the fla to find the ideal point of fusion through trial and error.
As Xiao Chen was fretting, an old man and a young boy were frolicking amidst the bustling crowd.
Strangely, no matter how packed the crowd was, anyone who approached the pair would involuntarily change direction, veering off to one side.
The pair seed to be enthralled by the surging crowd.
Their previous displeasure was cast aside.
Looking at the proud and confident Gu Yuan Tribespeople, the boy started to have second thoughts about his original perception of Xiao Chen.
Without realizing it, the pair arrived near Xiao Chen’s tribal chief residence.
At the entrance stood two stoic ard War Soldiers, silently watching passerby’s.
Suddenly, the elder stopped in his tracks and sniffed the air aggressively.
The boy looked at him, a little taken aback.
After a mont, the elder said, “Strengthening Bone Grass, Vitality Fruit, Blood Flower, and what seems to be Heavenly Star Grass.
Soone must be concocting the Bone Strengthening Powder, but the Heavenly Star Grass isn’t part of the original recipe.”
Being a Grand Alchemist, the elder was well-versed with the elixirs for Martial Art Repair.
He had learned and morized recipes like Bone Strengthening Powder decades ago.
“Elder Hu, are you sure?
An alchemist residing in such a desolated place is rather astonishing.”
The boy’s initial reaction to the old man’s claim was disbelief.
Alchemists were not easy to co by, even more so in such a remote area.
In the stone house, Xiao Chen, after surviving several dangerous incidents, finally rged all the dicinal materials together.
Under high temperature, impurities were continuously burned away into smoke.
When no more impurities surfaced, the dicinal materials had been transford into several soybean-sized granules.
However, these pills varied in size, shape was uneven, and had a dark hue.
At that mont, an anomaly occurred in the furnace – several elixir suddenly burst open and disappeared into thin air.
Looking at the remaining three, unevenly-shaped, pitch-black pills in the furnace, Xiao Chen nearly broke down in tears but took solace in the fact that at least there were three left.
Just when Xiao Chen was putting away the pills, a voice ca from outside, “Chief Xiao, there are foreigners here to see you.”
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