Brewing Wine

Though brewing wine, refining pills, and concocting great medicines ultimately led to the same destination by different paths, they still differed in how they were manifested.

A Great Apothecary was the sovereign of great medicines. Materials were the foundation, and through absolute rule and suppression, all manner of ingredients were fused into whatever they desired. At its core, a Great Apothecary's method of concocting great medicines was simply using tyrannical power to suppress everything and make it serve their own ends.

Thus, aside from the necessary ingredients, there was much room for expansion. This was also why Great Apothecaries reigned supreme among these three great systems.

The relationship between an alchemist and pills was more like that of a general commanding his own affairs. A general oversaw troop deployments and battle formations; to arrange a powerful military formation, the soldiers needed to cooperate to the utmost.

Therefore, what alchemists needed most were soul power and medicinal herbs. Recombining herbs and turning them into pills was their specialty, while flame became an important catalyst in the process.

A winemaker's relationship with ingredients could be described as that of partners. The winemaker's own fermentation starter was the main cause of the ingredients' transformation: preparing the materials, clearing away impurities, then fermenting them with the starter at the proper temperature.

After separating and purifying them, the essences were fused and distilled into wine—a heavenly treasure born from the purification and blending of ingredients.

A winemaker's fermentation starter was the key, and its quality determined the winemaker's rank. Their top-secret techniques established their standing.

Thus, the medicinal cauldrons Su Jiuniang required while brewing were all transparent, with tube after tube resembling straws linking three enormous medicinal cauldrons together.

"Buzz, buzz, buzz!"

A great quantity of medicinal herbs was carried out by the demonic beasts