Alchemy Talent That Defied the Heavens, Yao Lao Was Stunned

Alchemy Talent That Defied the Heavens, Yao Lao Was Stunned

It was Xiao Yan's first time refining medicine, so he lacked experience and did not use the stronger Mystic Yellow Flame.

The Great Flame Mantra gave him absolute control over flames, but he had never noticed the trace of wood-attribute power Yao Lao had mentioned.

Slowly closing his eyes, Xiao Yan steadied his mind and used his powerful soul perception to carefully search for the faint trace of wood power within himself.

The wrinkles on Yao Lao's old face crinkled into a smile as brilliant as a blooming chrysanthemum.

Kid, alchemy was not so easily mastered.

Especially with such a high starting point and such great power. That only made it harder to control.

After carefully searching, Xiao Yan quickly discovered a thread of pale green airflow within his body.

This must have been the wood power Yao Lao had mentioned.

It had always been there; he had simply never taken it seriously enough to seek it out.

With a thought, he guided that nearly imperceptible pale green airflow into the medicine cauldron. The pink flames suddenly trembled, and the already gentle Peach Blossom Flame became even more docile.

"Found it?" Yao Lao was greatly surprised by the change in the flames. It had not even been three minutes.

When he had first searched for the wood power in his body, it had taken him nearly half an hour.

This showed just how formidable Xiao Yan's soul perception was.

Over the years, Xiao Yan had cultivated more than just Dou Qi. He had also cultivated his soul power.

However, Yao Lao had always focused on fighting for Xiao Yan's Dou Qi and had overlooked the soul power that had been steadily growing all along.

After years of accumulation, Xiao Yan's soul power had already nearly reached the low level of the Mortal Realm.

With soul power strong enough to be ranked, Xiao Yan's soul power had already surpassed that of many alchemists.

Having finished controlling the Peach Blossom Flame, Xiao Yan tapped his storage ring with a finger. A somewhat dark-red Blood-Coagulating Herb flew into the medicine cauldron.

The moment the Blood-Coagulating Herb entered the cauldron, the docile Peach Blossom Flame surged toward it.

In an instant, the dark-red blades of grass rapidly turned scorched yellow.

The formula for Blood Coagulation Powder might have been extremely difficult for an ordinary novice alchemist, but for Xiao Yan, whose soul power was exceptionally strong, it was as simple as a high school senior reviewing a first-year textbook.

Xiao Yan used his soul power to control the temperature of the Peach Blossom Flame, bringing it to the temperature described in the formula.

Faint flames carried a neither hot nor cold warmth as they slowly baked the Blood-Coagulating Herb suspended above them.

As the heating continued, drops of crystalline liquid began to seep from the surface of the Blood-Coagulating Herb.

As they churned within the flames, the liquid was roasted into tiny specks of pale white powder.

As more and more pale white powder appeared, the Blood-Coagulating Herb rapidly shriveled.

When the last drop of liquid had been squeezed out, its body turned into black ashes and fell to the bottom of the medicine cauldron.

Benefiting from the Peach Blossom Flame, a fifth-tier beast flame coveted even by veteran alchemists, Xiao Yan's refining speed was astonishingly fast. The entire process took only two or three minutes.

Watching Xiao Yan succeed so smoothly, Yao Lao was utterly shocked.

"Such powerful soul power! He is about to reach the low level of the Mortal Realm! For an eleven-year-old boy, this is simply a miracle."

"And despite using such powerful soul power, he can still control the flames with such precision!"

"Xiao Yan's current alchemy ability is already no weaker than that of a second-tier alchemist."

It would have been one thing if he had cultivated Dou Qi while still in the womb, but was his talent for alchemy also innate?

Xiao Yan's talent in alchemy far exceeded Yao Lao's imagination.

Even as Yao Lao marveled inwardly, Xiao Yan had already taken out a Qi-Replenishing Fruit and refined it into tiny particles with a slightly black tint.

With his deep understanding of medicinal ingredients and their properties, Xiao Yan knew that these particles could disperse blood stasis and promote circulation.

In the wild, experienced injured mercenaries would often grind Qi-Replenishing Fruits into pulp to ease their injuries when they lacked sufficient healing medicine.

Having refined two medicinal ingredients, Xiao Yan felt that he had gotten the hang of it. Without the slightest hesitation, he took out two Millet Poppy Flowers and tossed them into the medicine cauldron.

After refining them into a pale red liquid, Xiao Yan suddenly shouted, "Fuse!"

Yao Lao's eyes narrowed as he stared into the medicine cauldron.

Wrapped in soul power, the three medicinal ingredients immediately began to turn into a dark-red paste.

Different ingredients had different resistance to heat, and different formulas required different refining temperatures. The entire process did not maintain one fixed temperature but changed at intervals.

At the fusion stage, the varying heat resistance of the materials made the differences in flame temperature even greater. A single mass of flame had to display several different temperatures.

This was the greatest test for an alchemist!

Many alchemists failed at this final step because they could not properly control the temperature in one part of the flames, causing the entire refinement to fail.

That was because the final fusion was several times more difficult than simply refining and purifying individual ingredients.

Under Xiao Yan's control, the Peach Blossom Flame shifted seamlessly between high and low temperatures. He perfectly controlled the temperature of every part of the flames, allowing each ingredient to fuse flawlessly at the proper temperature.

As the final bit of paste finished refining, the entire mass became increasingly dark red and gave off a rich medicinal fragrance.

He removed the paste, his palm wreathed in pink flames. Like a sharp blade, they sliced it into more than a hundred small portions of paste, which he placed into jade bottles.

Picking up one jade bottle at random, Xiao Yan finally experienced firsthand just how formidable an alchemist was.

From the same medicinal ingredient, the medicinal power refined with an alchemist's flames was several times purer than that refined with ordinary fire.

Ordinary medicinal ingredients could produce the effects of rare ingredients in an alchemist's hands, while premium ingredients would become even more effective.

If he had possessed such methods earlier, the medicinal ingredients he had previously expended could have been used to make several doses of Yama Bows His Head with even stronger effects.

Staring at the dark-red jade bottles, Yao Lao was stunned!

It had succeeded on the first attempt, and this Blood Coagulation Powder was practically a perfect reproduction of the formula's records!

Generally speaking, due to differences in an alchemist's strength and condition, every batch of medicine would differ somewhat, fluctuating only within the range of a successful formula.

For someone like Xiao Yan to perfectly reproduce the formula's specifications, even an alchemist who succeeded a hundred times might find it difficult to achieve once.

It was one thing for his comprehension in cultivating techniques and Dou Skills to defy the heavens, but did his comprehension in alchemy defy the heavens too?!!!

Just as the cave fell silent, a low humming sound rang out. A cluster of mysterious yellow flames emerged in Xiao Yan's palm.

This time, he would use a Heavenly Flame to refine medicine.

Even a healing medicine like Blood Coagulation Powder still had room for improvement.