Pill Refinement
Next, Xiao Yan and Elder Hao discussed the "tickets" in detail. All Alchemist who wanted to observe had to refine Second Grade Pill "Beast Nurturing Spirit Liquid" and have Zi Yan confirm that they had passed the test.
Zi Yan's eyes lit up. After wiping the drool from the corner of her mouth, she hurriedly grabbed Xiao Yan and went to find Medicinal Herbs.
Xiao Yan could only give Elder Hao an apologetic smile and follow Zi Yan's footsteps.
Xiao Yi Xian then went to find Qing Lin to see if he could exchange some Medicinal Herbs with the students of the Inner Courtyard.
At the same time, the Dragon Blood Ganoderma does not actually absorb the power of dragon blood; it simply grows in places where the blood of several kinds of Snake Magical Beast has been splashed. Therefore, it will be much easier for Qinglin, who possesses the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils Qing Lin, to find the Dragon Blood Ganoderma.
Xiao Yan, along with Zi Yan, roamed freely through the forests and mountains, searching for the Vajra Bodhi and the Purple Spirit Body Sculpting Flower.
Although many Magical Beast live in the forest, it was cleared out in the past years because it was near the Jia Nan Academy. Now, Fifth Grade Magical Beast are the best among them, and Sixth Grade Magical Beast are extremely rare.
While Xiao Yan and Zi Yan working together might not be able to guarantee a victory against all Sixth Grade Magical Beast, they could at least escape unscathed with ease.
Therefore, the two scourges swaggered around and, after collecting four Vajra Bodhi and five Purple Spirit Body Sculpting Flower, left in a carefree manner.
At this time, Qing Lin found three Dragon Blood Ganoderma, while Xiao Yi Xian bought one Dragon Blood Ganoderma and one Vajra Bodhi.
Xiao Yan's Green Fire Crystal Card returned to his hand, and its Fire Energy remained unchanged at 770 points, presumably from the two Medicinal Herbs that Xiao Yi Xian had purchased out of his own pocket.
Elder Hao spent these days setting up a platform, surrounded by nearly a hundred seats—naturally, this was a place prepared for Xiao Yan to refine medicine.
Alchemist, rarely seen on ordinary days, gathered together. Dozens of Alchemist of different ranks sat in order of the number of Beast Nurturing Spirit Liquid they submitted. Among them, the most eye-catching was Elder Huo, who had submitted a total of one hundred portions of Beast Nurturing Spirit Liquid.
Zi Yan, who was in charge of receiving the Beast Nurturing Spirit Liquid, naturally ate to her heart's content, her little belly round and full, and she couldn't stop burping.
After all the Alchemist were seated and remained silent, Xiao Yan sat down in the center of the platform, took out the Myriad Beast Cauldron, and first placed the Purple Spirit Body Sculpting Flower inside before injecting the Green Lotus Sea Heart Flame.
The temperature required to refine the Purple Spirit Body Sculpting Flower is the lowest, so it is best to put it in before the cauldron is heated.
Purple flowers tumbled in the indigo flames, petals falling off one by one and separating.
These petals are the real Medicinal Herbs; the rest are burned to ashes in the indigo flames, then expelled from the flames and fall into the bottom of the cauldron.
Under the scorching heat of the Green Lotus Sea Heart Flame, only one hour had passed, and a drop of purple liquid had been extracted from each petal.
These purple liquids gathered together, forming a clump the size of a finger, while the dried petals were naturally burned to ashes and fell below, not participating in the subsequent alchemy.
Seeing that the Purple Spirit Body Sculpting Flower had been refined, Xiao Yan added the Dragon Blood Ganoderma.
Dragon Blood Ganoderma is inherently cold and will die upon contact with fire. To extract its medicinal essence, other medicines are needed to neutralize its cold nature.
The medicinal liquid refined from the Purple Spirit Body Sculpting Flower acted as a neutralizer, enveloping the Dragon Blood Ganoderma and forming a thin purple film on its surface.
As the thin film forms, the blood-red color of the Dragon Blood Ganoderma gradually fades, and pieces of blood-red pink skin peel off from the Dragon Blood Ganoderma.
A moment later, the blood-red powdery skin of the Dragon Blood Ganoderma completely peeled off, and its color turned pale.
Xiao Yan didn't devote much effort to the pale Dragon Blood Ganoderma, but casually burned it to ashes and scattered them into the medicine cauldron.
The true essence of the Dragon Blood Ganoderma lies not in its interior, but in its crimson pink skin. Only this crimson pink skin is what Xiao Yan truly needs.
The purple liquid clump, enveloping the blood-red skin, tumbled and boiled in the indigo flames.
As the liquid clump churned, the crimson powder skin also transformed into crimson liquid, merging seamlessly with the purple liquid to form a purplish-red medicinal liquid about half the size of a fist.
Seeing that the two had merged, Xiao Yan suddenly increased the temperature of the flames, causing the volume of the purplish-red liquid to shrink continuously, and correspondingly, its color became increasingly intense.
After nearly another hour of refining, the purplish-red liquid had shrunk to the size of a thumb.
Xiao Yan moved the liquid droplet aside and used the Green Lotus Sea Heart Flame to isolate the medicinal liquid from the air to prevent the medicinal power from evaporating before adding the Vajra Bodhi.
The Vajra Bodhi tree is extremely hard and requires intense heat to break through; however, the medicinal liquid it contains cannot withstand high temperatures.
Therefore, the Alchemist needs to reduce the flame temperature the instant the Vajra Bodhi body is damaged, which is undoubtedly a huge test of the Alchemist's timing and Fire Energy.
Ordinary Alchemist, lacking the confidence to achieve this, can only use the temperature that the internal medicinal liquid can withstand, grinding it for several days and nights with meticulous care until the main body is broken down.
This is not only time-consuming and laborious, but it also easily causes the Vajra Bodhi body and the medicinal liquid to fuse together and become inseparable, thus reducing the purity of the medicinal liquid.
Moreover, even the temperature that the Vajra Bodhi medicinal liquid can withstand is different from the temperature of the medicinal liquid refined using Purple Spirit Body Sculpting Flower and Dragon Blood Ganoderma.
If the Alchemist cannot control two flames of different temperatures at the same time, he can only put the purple liquid in Jade Bottle first. This back and forth will cause the quality of the Pills to drop.
However, Xiao Yan's control over the flames was as easy as eating and drinking, so he naturally chose to control two flames at the same time and use the fierce fire to refine the Vajra Bodhi.
Under the terrifyingly high temperature of the Green Lotus Sea Heart Flame, a tiny crack appeared on the main body of Vajra Bodhi in just four hours.
Noticing this change, Xiao Yan immediately reduced the temperature of the flames by several levels.
"Click click click..."
The sudden change in the temperature of the flames caused the main body of Vajra Bodhi to shatter into several golden fragments.
Another hour passed, and drops of brilliant golden liquid continued to seep out from these Medicinal Herbs fragments, gathering into a fist-sized ball of liquid.
After squeezing out the last drop of the medicinal liquid from the Vajra Bodhi, Xiao Yan casually waved his hand, burning the useless fragments to ashes and discarding them.
Under the scorching heat of the Green Lotus Sea Heart Flame, the fist-sized liquid gradually shrank, eventually transforming into a dazzling golden liquid the size of a thumb.
After completing the refining of these three Medicinal Herbs, Xiao Yan took out the Jade Bottle containing the Earth Heart Body Tempering Milk and added a thumb-sized amount of viscous, jade-like liquid to the medicine cauldron.
Xiao Yan took a deep breath, and the three drops of medicine of different colors collided together instantly.