"Hundred Flower Pill, no wonder Old Long's dicinal garden is full of flowers. So that's the reason."
Long Xuan's eyes sparkled with excitent.
An alchemist! He realized that he might be able to beco an alchemist.
Using his clairvoyance and slight X-ray vision, Long Xuan observed Elder Long's entire alchemy process. He could secretly learn alchemy and occasionally steal a few pill recipes.
The more he thought about it, the more excited he beca.
In this world, alchemists are even rarer and more esteed than Gu practitioners.
They are extrely secretive about their skills and rarely pass on their knowledge. Alchemy techniques and pill recipes are practically impossible to buy anywhere.
As a result, every alchemist possesses several unique pill recipes, each forming their own distinct sect, with strong sectarianism.
Given the opportunity to secretly learn alchemy, how could he not be thrilled? He had been excited many tis today.
This rarity made alchemists extrely valuable, with highly esteed statuses.
Spirit pills can enhance a Gu practitioner's breakthrough rate, create life-saving elixirs to heal injuries, and even transform Gu insects, allowing them to undergo a tamorphosis.
Thus, the spirit pills alchemists create have a fatal attraction for every Gu practitioner, leading them to flatter and even serve alchemists wholeheartedly.
Every alchemist in this world has terrifying connections and broad social networks, capable of associating with all sorts of prominent figures.
Offending an alchemist could result in incurring countless powerful enemies.
Because of their rarity, spirit pills are equally rare, unlike in other worlds where they are commonplace.
Long Xuan had never seen spirit pills in market stalls, possibly due to the poverty of this area. Spirit pills could probably only be found at auctions.
If he could beco an alchemist and produce Hundred Flower Pill, his cultivation speed could increase tenfold through consistent pill consumption.
The thought made Long Xuan ecstatic. He was fed up with the excruciatingly slow cultivation speed.
Since his aptitude was lacking, he would make up for it with resources.
If he couldn't buy spirit pills, he would create them himself. After Hundred Flower Pill becos useless, he would create Thousand Flower Pill and then Ten Thousand Flower Pill. quickly planning his future cultivation path.
Determined, Long Xuan focused entirely on observing Elder Long's alchemy process, enlarging and closely examining every detail to quickly master the technique.
A day passed quickly. Exhausted, Elder Long finally ended his work and fell into a deep sleep, snoring loudly enough for Long Xuan to hear from afar.
Long Xuan, also tired, put away his Eye of Heavenly secret, Despite his exhaustion, his face was full of excitent.
The day's spying had yielded significant rewards.
He quickly sat at the table, taking out pen and paper to got to work.
Soon, the paper was filled with writing. At the top, he wrote "Purple Demon Fla," then put down his pen, feeling satisfied.
Fla is an alchemist's closely guarded secret, more important than the pill recipes themselves.
Alchemy cannot use ordinary firewood flas.
During the Spirit Gathering stage, one can use fire spiritual energy to refine first-grade spirit pills.
However, to refine second-grade or higher spirit pills, special flas are necessary. Without special flas, one can only ever refine the lowest-grade first-grade spirit pills.
Legendary natural Heavenly Flas aside, most alchemist flas co from three sources.
One can find a magma location and use Earth Fire for alchemy. Alternatively, one can kill fire-attribute spirit beasts and use Beast Fire.
The last option is artificial spirit fire.
Spirit fire is a unique fla created by alchemists using various rare materials and mystical thods. The recipes for spirit fire are extrely precious.
So spirit fire recipes can rival the legendary Heavenly Flas in power.
At this mont, Long Xuan had recorded a spirit fire recipe called "Purple Demon Fla," a secret of Elder Long, which he must've gotten from Long clan.
Yet, Long Xuan had easily obtained it due to Elder Long's carelessness in taking such an important recipe out of his storage bag.
Holding the morized spirit fire recipe, Long Xuan was ecstatic.
With this recipe, he could create the Purple Demon Fla. Using special flas for alchemy could enhance the potency of spirit pills, boosting his cultivation speed further, making him wildly joyful.
However, his smile soon faded, replaced by hesitation and growing calmness.
In this world, secretly learning others' guarded secrets is a grave taboo, punishable by death if discovered.
Though he could secretly use it without detection, every caught thief thought the sa.
Why are unique Gu recipes so hard to steal? Can't they kill and torture to extract them? No, they can't.
The sa kind of Gu insects can sense each other from a distance. If you dare to refine a large clan's unique Gu recipe, be prepared for relentless pursuit by the entire clan.
If Gu insects can sense each other, could spirit fire have a similar trait?
If he created the Purple Demon Fla, would Elder Long imdiately sense it and co angrily to kill him?
Long Xuan shivered, feeling a chill down his spine.
It was possible. He didn't dare to gamble, even with a one percent chance of being detected.
No matter how low the odds, gambling with his life was foolish.
Long Xuan took a deep breath. Since he couldn't use it, he would have to create his own spirit fire. Why not invent one himself?
His eyes brightened with excitent.
Before obtaining the Purple Demon Fla recipe, he couldn't have created a spirit fire recipe because he knew nothing about the process.
But now, with a template, he knew the materials and thods to use.
Following the recipe's rules, creating a new spirit fire might not be so hard.
It was just a matter of effort.
Long Xuan beca excited again, taking out a blank sheet of paper with renewed vigor.
The first step in creating a spirit fire was deciding what kind of fla to make, its characteristics, and abilities.
Long Xuan imdiately thought of the cold flas often described in novels from his previous life.
But this world wasn't a novel; it was a real world where such illogical flas didn't exist.
No cold flas had ever appeared in this world.
Burning releases heat; without heat, burning is impossible. Burning without releasing heat is contradictory and scientifically impossible, a pseudoscience.
However, Long Xuan still wanted to give it a try.
Since creating sothing costs him nothing but ti, why not try? What if he succeeded?
He first created a na for this spirit fire, writing "Divine Ice Fla" on the paper.
With the na set, if the resulting fla had nothing to do with cold, the progress would stall due to inconsistency with the title.
Title-based creation increased the difficulty and ti cost.
After writing the title, Long Xuan first thought of the ice-making principle of saltpeter from his previous life.
Saltpeter existed in this world too, rich in spiritual energy and likely more effective for ice-making.
So without hesitation, he wrote "saltpeter" below the title, specifying "in large quantities."
As his pen touched the paper, a progress indicator of [0.1%] appeared, making Long Xuan overjoyed.
He realized he had succeeded. The fictional fla from novels might just be possible in this real world...
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