32. 5-Minute Quick Pill Refining! [Seeking Flowers, Collections, and Reviews!]

(I saw the comment section and realized I made a huge mistake [manual facepalm]. I unlocked One-Click Alchemy at Automated Monster Hunting Level 1—sorry, sorry! But since it's already written, to not affect everyone's reading experience, you can just treat it as a new feature unlocked at Automated Monster Hunting Level 1, no big deal~ Also, sincere thanks to whoever pointed out the error, much appreciated~)

Just put in the corresponding materials, and it automatically refines pills...

This function... is just too damn awesome!

Su Xiaobai almost shouted out in surprise!

After all, why are alchemists so precious?

Because of special aptitudes.

Because of special alchemy techniques.

These are things no one can imitate no matter how hard they try!

Many warriors might have rare and precious heavenly treasures in hand, but without an alchemist to refine them, they could never turn those mountain spirit herbs into pills with miraculous effects!

This is precisely why alchemists are held in such high regard.

But that's not all.

An alchemist's status is even more valuable than a warrior's, and naturally, the resources invested in an alchemist far exceed those spent on a warrior!

What does alchemy require?

Beast Spirit Fire.

Using ordinary flames for alchemy is no different from stir-frying vegetables.

You must use a special Beast Spirit Fire harvested from unique fierce beasts, infused with spiritual energy, to truly fuse the properties of various heavenly treasures and mountain spirit sea treasures into priceless pills!

But is Beast Spirit Fire so easy to obtain?

Even the lowest-grade Beast Spirit Fire must be harvested from an A-class Fierce Beast... that is, a Martial General-level fierce beast!

From this, you can see how much risk is involved in obtaining Beast Spirit Fire!

Next is the cauldron.

How can an ordinary cauldron withstand the burning of a powerful Beast Spirit Fire? And how could an ordinary cauldron have the effect of condensing qi and gathering spirit?

It must meet the spiritual energy tolerance standard, at least a cauldron at the "Beginner Spirit Artifact" level!

If you're refining higher-grade pills, the required cauldron level increases accordingly!

And all of these require spending a fortune to purchase... sometimes, even with money, you can't buy them, and you have to seize them by force from other major families!

Then there are all the miscellaneous auxiliary items needed for alchemy.

Also.

If you ask an alchemist for help, can you do it without paying a price? Would they work for nothing?

Finally, the most important point—success rate!

Even the most skilled alchemist can't guarantee a 100% success rate every time... because during the refining process, differences in material formulas, flame intensity, alchemy techniques, and so on often result in pills that are practically useless.

This is also why warriors, when entrusting alchemy to an alchemist, prepare several extra sets of the same materials... and there's an unwritten rule: if the alchemy fails, the warrior must never blame the alchemist or cause trouble for them!

So the higher an alchemist's rank, the more sought-after they are... after all, with higher rank comes more experience, and naturally a higher success rate than ordinary alchemists!

The One-Click Alchemy system solves all these pain points!

Beast Spirit Fire?

Not needed, the system provides it!

Cauldron?

Also not needed, the system handles it!

Success rate?

As long as you place the materials, it's 100% successful, just a matter of time!

As for all those miscellaneous auxiliary items, none are needed at all!

The only things required are two—alchemy materials and the recipe!

"Unlock, unlock immediately!"

With such a new cheat tool before him, why would Su Xiaobai hesitate?

Of course, he'd unlock it without a second thought!

"Ding! Activation successful!"

"Congratulations, host, you have unlocked the 'One-Click Alchemy Function'!"

The system notification sounded, and beside the three spaces for One-Click Cultivation, One-Click Skill Practice, and Automated Monster Hunting, a fourth brand-new space appeared.

Inside the space, a cauldron for alchemy slowly floated, wreathed in immortal mist, ethereal like a painting.

"Host, please place the alchemy materials and select the pill you wish to refine!"

The system said.

"I don't have any alchemy materials here either... Wait! Among those Loot items just now, weren't there quite a few heavenly treasures?"

Su Xiaobai remembered.

He hurried to where the loot was stored and picked out all the Mountain Spirit Sea Treasures.

"Scanning alchemy materials complete, host. Please select an alchemy recipe!" the system prompted.

"Alchemy recipe?"

"Let me look again!"

Su Xiaobai rummaged through the loot for a while longer.

Alchemy recipes weren't rare items—after all, even if you knew what materials to use, without an alchemist's help, you couldn't refine anything. That was why many recipes were public knowledge... Their only purpose was to tell you which materials to gather. Once you had them all, you had the capital to hire an alchemist to make the pills!

Sure enough, Su Xiaobai actually turned up several alchemy recipes!

"Trauma Relief Pill, Spirit Enhancement Pill, Marrow Cleansing Pill... These are all the most in-demand pills on the market, the cheapest and easiest to refine!"

"Trauma Relief Pill can heal wounds and replenish blood. I'll start with this one!"

Su Xiaobai made his choice.

"Scanning host's brain. Trauma Relief Pill recipe detected!"

"Materials automatically placed!"

"Refining in progress..."

As the system's prompts rang out one after another, certain materials vanished into thin air, teleported into the Alchemy Space.

The lid of the Alchemy Furnace floated up, and all the materials added themselves in.

As the lid closed, a nameless flame surged to life. Above the furnace, a seven-colored progress bar appeared!

The progress bar was slowly filling.

Su Xiaobai roughly estimated that, at this rate, it would take about five minutes for the bar to finish completely!

"Five minutes to refine a batch of pills?"

"Holy shit... This refining speed is unbeatable!"

Su Xiaobai clicked his tongue in amazement.

He didn't know the specifics of alchemists' work.

But alchemy was a technical craft, and an especially time-consuming, energy-draining one at that... Even the most common Trauma Relief Pill required an alchemist to sit in dull meditation beside the furnace, toiling away for several hours straight!

Yet the One-Click Alchemy Space only needed five minutes...

At this speed, even those Pill Kings who had been famous for years would weep with emotion and kneel on the spot!