Soul Cultivation Technique! Begin Refinement!

Soul Cultivation Technique! Begin Refinement!

Delaying a talent of this caliber, even for a little while, was practically a crime.

Everyone had their own period of rapid growth.

Once that period was missed, growing quickly afterward would become far more difficult.

Wang Chen was precisely at such a stage now, and Medicine Elder did not want him to waste this golden period.

If the Sixth-Rank Beast Flame had not been such a tremendous help to Wang Chen's growth, and if he had not been prepared to ensure Wang Chen could refine it successfully,

Medicine Elder truly would not have wanted Wang Chen to risk refining a Beast Flame at this time.

It was only because he had just returned from a long journey and needed some time to recover and readjust. Otherwise, he would already have begun teaching Wang Chen the tricks of refining a Beast Flame.

Fortunately, Beast Flames were not Heavenly Flames, so refining them was nowhere near as difficult.

It would not be a problem for him to study the notes himself first and gain some experience.

"Oh, right. Once you have refined the Beast Flame, the academy will grant you a Soul Cultivation Technique."

Just as Wang Chen turned to leave, Medicine Elder remembered something else and told him.

It was not that Jia Nan Academy was stingy with Soul Cultivation Techniques.

To Jia Nan Academy, Soul Cultivation Techniques were certainly important, but compared to top-tier talent, they were not quite as important.

With the talent Wang Chen had displayed before, he was fully qualified to receive a Soul Cultivation Technique.

Unfortunately, Soul Cultivation Techniques were simply too precious. Even Jia Nan Academy did not possess a complete inheritance.

They only had a fragment, which imposed certain requirements on its practitioners.

Not only did one need Soul Power at the middle stage of the Mortal Realm, but one's Dou Qi cultivation had to be at least at the Da Dou Shi level.

The soul realm Wang Chen had displayed before naturally met those requirements completely.

Unfortunately, the Dou Qi strength Wang Chen had displayed was insufficient.

Now that Wang Chen had only just publicly revealed his breakthrough to Da Dou Shi, Jia Nan Academy immediately granted him a Soul Cultivation Technique.

That showed just how highly they valued Wang Chen.

Wang Chen simply did not know any of this. If he had, he would have been furious enough to spit blood.

After all, he had gone to great lengths to obtain a Soul Cultivation Technique.

He had spent a considerable amount of time on alchemy, highlighting his talent as an alchemist.

All in the hope of obtaining Jia Nan Academy's Soul Cultivation Technique.

Yet unexpectedly, after striving for nearly half a year, he had gotten absolutely nothing.

Wang Chen had even begun preparing to give up, only for events to take a sudden turn, and the Soul Cultivation Technique had fallen right into his hands.

Hearing his teacher's words, Wang Chen froze for a moment.

He nearly thought he had misheard.

The Soul Cultivation Technique he had dreamed of was actually about to be his just like that.

Although it had not yet reached his hands, refining the Beast Flame posed no problem at all for Wang Chen.

Was that not practically the same as already having the Soul Cultivation Technique?

With a Soul Cultivation Technique, his Golden Finger could be fully utilized.

"Thank you, Teacher."

Forcibly suppressing the excitement in his heart, Wang Chen immediately expressed his gratitude.

"It was your own talent that earned the academy's recognition. It had little to do with me."

Medicine Elder waved his hand indifferently, as though this matter had nothing to do with him at all.

Of course, that was impossible.

No matter how much Jia Nan Academy valued talent, it would still examine a person's character.

Jia Nan Academy was not a charity hall.

They did not demand that students repay the academy, but they at least had to ensure they would not nurture some ungrateful wretch who would later return to retaliate against it.

If not for the guarantee of a Peak Fifth-Grade Alchemist like Medicine Elder, even if Wang Chen could obtain a Soul Cultivation Technique, he would have had to wait at least another two and a half years.

That would give the academy enough time to assess Wang Chen's character and ensure there would be no repeat of the farmer and the snake.

After returning to the dormitory, Wang Chen did not follow his usual routine.

Sitting cross-legged on his bed, Wang Chen took several deep breaths in succession and adjusted his condition.

What had happened today had indeed struck him hard.

Not only had his teacher expended effort to find him a top-tier Sixth-Rank Beast Flame, but he could also obtain the Soul Cultivation Technique he had long dreamed of.

With all of that happening at once, Wang Chen had no mood to continue cultivating.

After calming himself for two and a half minutes, he finally settled the excitement in his heart.

Then he took out the notes of experience his teacher had given him and began studying them carefully.

Although these things were of no use to him, he still wanted to take a look.

After all, his teacher might test him later, and Wang Chen did not want any mistakes.

After reading for a while, Wang Chen had to admit that the experience summarized by a Peak Fifth-Grade Alchemist truly had some value.

The knowledge within about controlling and refining flames was useful even to Wang Chen now.

After finishing the handwritten notes, Wang Chen examined the Storage Ring Medicine Elder had prepared.

Inside were Cold Spring, the Tier 5 Medicinal Pill Blood Lotus Pill, and Spirit Nucleus.

There were also some Medicinal Pills for replenishing Dou Qi and healing injuries.

However, the three most important items were those three, all of them crucial for refining the Beast Flame.

Cold Spring could reduce a Beast Flame's violent nature and lower the difficulty of refinement.

The Blood Lotus Pill could form a blood scab within the body's meridians, protecting the inside of the body from flame damage.

As for the Spirit Nucleus, it was used to store the Beast Flame.

After all, a Beast Flame was not inherently part of the human body, so it could not be completely harmless.

If the Beast Flame's grade was low and one's own strength was sufficiently high, then there would be no need for a Spirit Nucleus.

But Wang Chen's situation was precisely the opposite. The Beast Flame was extremely terrifying, while his own strength was not high.

Without a Spirit Nucleus to store it, successful refinement would be absolutely impossible.

It was precisely because of these preparations that Medicine Elder allowed Wang Chen to absorb and refine the Beast Flame at this stage.

Otherwise, he would never have agreed to it.

Of course, that was without considering the Golden Finger.

With the Golden Finger, Wang Chen did not need to go through so much trouble.

He only needed to use the Golden Finger to strengthen it once, and he could completely refine this Sixth-Rank Beast Flame.

However, there was no way he could reveal something like the Golden Finger.

He could only pretend to use the normal method to refine this Beast Flame.

Fortunately, even with the pretense, the difficulty was not great.

Medicine Elder had already made sufficient preparations. Even if Wang Chen were merely a Da Dou Shi, he could still refine it successfully.

Not to mention that Wang Chen was now a Dou Ling.

He also had the support of two Beast Flame Spirits, and his cultivation technique greatly countered Beast Flames.

It could be said that even without using the Golden Finger, Wang Chen could still refine the Beast Flame with absolute certainty through these advantages alone.

In the blink of an eye, two days passed.

Over those two days, Medicine Elder recovered to his peak condition.

During those two days, Medicine Elder also took the time to personally guide Wang Chen, ensuring that no accidents would occur during the Beast Flame refinement process.

Once all preparations were complete, Medicine Elder summoned Wang Chen to a specially prepared Secret Chamber, intending to begin assisting him in refining the Beast Flame.

(End of Chapter)