Coagulation Powder

The final step, Pill Fusion, was also the most difficult.

Fortunately, Xiao Yang was refining the First-grade Pill Coagulation Powder.

He did not need to actually refine it into a pill.

To make it into medicinal powder, he only needed to fuse together the powders extracted from the four medicinal materials.

Compared to refining a pill, this skipped the step of pill condensation.

In fact, Pill Fusion could sometimes be quite dangerous.

After all, many pills contained Magical Cores among their ingredients.

The energy within a Magical Core was extremely violent.

If a major mistake occurred during Pill Fusion, it could result in a Furnace Explosion.

Once a Furnace Explosion occurred, at best, one would lose some medicinal materials and a Medicine Cauldron; at worst, the Alchemist himself could be seriously injured or even killed!

Xiao Yang controlled the Flame Temperature and cautiously began adding the previously refined medicinal powder.

Although it was best to refine the medicinal materials continuously and proceed directly to Pill Fusion afterward,

Xiao Yang was still a beginner and could not yet do that.

So he could only refine them first for later use, then put them all in together now.

Following the steps in the Pill Recipe, he gradually added the refined medicinal powder into the Pill Furnace.

As time passed, he could sense the medicinal powder inside the Pill Furnace beginning to fuse.

A trace of delight flashed through Xiao Yang's eyes.

However, he immediately suppressed it and calmed himself down.

One had to remain calm while refining pills.

Otherwise, a strong emotional fluctuation could easily raise the Flame Temperature and burn all the medicinal materials to ashes.

Very soon, the powders from the four Herbs finally fused together.

The System Prompt Tone also sounded in his mind.

[Mission: Refine one portion of Coagulation Powder. Reward: First-grade Pill Proficiency +1, one Blood Crystal Bamboo. Completed. Claim reward?]

He suppressed the excitement in his heart and slowly withdrew the Dou Qi from within the Pill Furnace.

After the flames went out, Xiao Yang waved his hand, and the lid of the cauldron opened automatically.

A mass of white medicinal powder flew out from within.

He had finally succeeded!

There were still some black impurities in the medicinal powder, proof that a small portion of the medicinal materials had been burned.

His batch of Coagulation Powder could be said to have merely passed.

However, for Xiao Yang, who had only just begun learning alchemy, it was already quite good.

He divided the medicinal powder into one hundred portions and packed them into one hundred glass bottles.

One batch of Coagulation Powder could be divided into one hundred portions for use.

In fact, many First-grade Pills were like this.

Especially powder-type pills like these.

That was why some First-grade Pills cost only ten Gold Coins per portion.

Although this Coagulation Powder was simple, its medicinal effect was considered quite good among healing medicines.

He estimated that each portion could sell for at least more than ten Gold Coins.

In other words, this mass of medicinal powder he had refined could sell for twelve or thirteen hundred Gold Coins.

One had to know that those four medicinal herbs had been worth less than one hundred Gold Coins!

A profit of more than ten times!

That was why Alchemists were wealthy.

Of course, the costs were also high.

The medicinal materials Xiao Yang had burned just now had already been worth several hundred Gold Coins.

After putting away the Coagulation Powder, he directly claimed his reward.

The next moment, some First-grade Pill refining experience appeared in his mind.

Not just experience for Coagulation Powder—there was even refining experience for other First-grade Pills!

At the same time, a Blood Crystal Bamboo appeared in the System Space.

It was one of the main ingredients for certain Second-grade Pills and was worth roughly four to five hundred Gold Coins.

After fully absorbing that alchemy experience, Xiao Yang created another mission.

[Mission: Refine one portion of Coagulation Powder. Reward: First-grade Pill Proficiency +1, one First-order Wood Attribute Monster Core.]

Hmm? The reward had actually changed?

He guessed that rewards for this type of alchemy mission might be random.

However, a First-order Wood Attribute Monster Core was more valuable than Blood Crystal Bamboo.

He composed himself and continued fusing the remaining two portions of medicinal materials.

However, this time, he only successfully fused one portion.

The other portion failed outright.

Xiao Yang did not feel discouraged. Failure was normal. Although the system provided alchemy experience, he had only just reached the Beginner level, after all.

After putting away the two portions of Coagulation Powder and several portions of refined medicinal powder, he did not waste the remaining burned medicinal materials.

They were still good fertilizer, so he directly stored them in the Medicinal Field within his System Space.

Next, Xiao Yang took out the bathing barrel containing Foundation Building Divine Liquid from his Storage Ring.

After taking off his clothes, he stepped directly inside.

Although his cultivation technique was comparable to the Mysterious Tier and he possessed a considerable amount of Dou Qi,

he had refined so many medicinal materials and performed Pill Fusion three times.

Less than thirty percent of Xiao Yang's Dou Qi remained.

It was the perfect time to cultivate and recover his Dou Qi at the same time.

Only Xiao Yan knew about this place.

He knew Xiao Yang needed quiet when refining medicine and would not come over to disturb him.

So Xiao Yang felt completely at ease.

Time passed, and two days went by in the blink of an eye.

During those two days, Xiao Yang alternated between practicing Eight Extremes Collapse and refining Coagulation Powder.

Over those two days, he succeeded another seven times.

At that moment, inside that Cave, he was fusing the medicinal materials for another portion of Coagulation Powder.

Within the Pill Furnace before Xiao Yang, four portions of medicinal powder gradually fused beneath the intense heat of the flames.

Soon, the familiar voice of the system sounded in Xiao Yang's mind.

[Mission: Refine one portion of Coagulation Powder. Reward: First-grade Pill Proficiency +1, one Flame Qi Grass. Completed. Claim reward?]

Xiao Yang did not hesitate and directly claimed the reward.

The next moment, a small amount of First-grade Pill refining experience flooded into his mind.

Immediately afterward, another System Prompt Tone rang out.

[Mission: Raise First-grade Pill Proficiency to Minor Accomplishment. Reward: Alchemy Technique Proficiency +1. Completed. Claim reward?]

After digesting the experience in his mind, Xiao Yang claimed the reward again.

Over the past two days, his Alchemy Technique Proficiency had only increased by one point.

As for the system, it had not given any rewards related to Alchemy Technique Proficiency.

So rewards for Alchemy Technique Proficiency only came after the realm of First-grade Pill Proficiency improved.

After claiming it, a considerable amount of alchemy experience appeared in his mind.

Most of it concerned Alchemy Techniques.

It was mainly experience related to Pill Fusion.

After fully absorbing this experience, Xiao Yang opened the cauldron lid, removed the medicinal powder inside, and skillfully divided it into one hundred portions.

He now had one thousand bottles of this Coagulation Powder.

They could probably sell for more than ten thousand Gold Coins!

One had to know that, including the medicinal materials that had been burned, the cost of refining all this was less than two thousand Gold Coins.

Five or six times the profit—an enormous windfall!

He planned to wait until he had refined this whole batch of medicinal materials, then sell them all together to recover some funds.

At the same time, he could buy some precious First-grade Pill medicinal materials and refine pills he could use himself.

For example, the most difficult pill to refine among the First-grade Pill Recipes provided by the system—the Fighter Pill.

After taking it, a Dou Zhe could raise his cultivation by one to two stars.

A person could only take one in their lifetime.

Having read the Original Work, Xiao Yang had no psychological resistance to using pills to increase his cultivation.