Getting Started
With a deeper understanding of the Heaven-Earth Yin-Yang Flow, Xiao Yan only needed to adjust a few parts of his body when refining medicine, compared to adjusting his entire limbs and bones. This significantly reduced the overall difficulty.
Inside the cauldron, tiny black particles burst open at the right temperature, slowly merging into the paste.
Soon, the pale red paste darkened in color.
Just then, Xiao Yan treated the two things that were beginning to merge as a single attack, and the flames he controlled were meant to wear down his own attack.
The process of integrating medicinal herbs is a process of wearing down attacks to a safe level, which is very similar to the Cosmic Life-and-Death Way.
The force applied must be controlled neither too strong, lest it be wasted, nor too weak, lest the attack land on you.
Under this understanding, the tiny black particles refined from the Vitality Fruit gradually burst into black powder, completely blending with the paste.
After the last of the black powder drifted into the paste, Xiao Yan put away the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and breathed a sigh of relief.
Controlling the flame temperature with such concentration is no easy task.
Xiao Yan's current cultivation technique is a very rare Quasi-Earth Tier Intermediate technique. His internal Dou Qi is very strong, so refining such a batch of Blood Coagulation Powder does not consume a lot of energy.
However, the mental challenge involved is extremely demanding; the slightest distraction can lead to failure in the refining process.
Seeing the deep red paste flying out of the medicine cauldron, emitting a strong medicinal aroma, the Medicine Elder was truly dumbfounded.
Without the guidance of Medicine Elder, he actually mastered the basics in just seven days?!
Although Medicine Elder is now in dire straits, his family was once quite illustrious, being one of the Ancient Clan with Dou Di Bloodline, the Yao Clan.
Within the Yao Clan, alchemy is highly valued, and powerful individuals abound.
Even so, it would be difficult to find a genius whose talent can rival Xiao Yan's.
However, Medicine Elder did not believe that Xiao Yan was truly exceptionally talented.
A single success is nothing more than a blind cat catching a dead mouse, pure luck.
Although Blood Coagulation Powder is something that only Alchemist can refine, it is only a beginner's prescription. It is very simple, and one lucky success does not mean that it will be successful every time.
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Throughout his life, Medicine Elder had witnessed far too many geniuses who achieved too much success in their youth, making it difficult for them to achieve anything significant in the future.
Xiao Yan's talent isn't particularly outstanding; he's far inferior to even his former disciple Han Feng. Furthermore, he hasn't experienced Han Feng's trials or the fall from grace, so he'll likely remain a minor character in the future.
After carefully Blood Coagulation Powder, Xiao Yan smiled happily. He truly possessed extraordinary talent in alchemy.
After reflecting on his experience throughout the entire alchemy process, Xiao Yan activated his Storage Ring and took out some Bone-Washing Flower, Purple-Leaf Orchid Grass, and two first-tier wood-attribute Magic Core.
A Tier 1 Magic Core costs around 400 to 450 gold coins. These two wood-attribute Magic Core were toys he had asked for before.
Now, they can be used to refine medicine, while the Bone-Washing Flower and Purple-Leaf Orchid Grass are leftover medicinal materials.
Seeing the materials Xiao Yan took out, Medicine Elder immediately knew what he was going to do.
To actually attempt to refine Foundation-Building Spiritual Liquid of Grade Two? What a pipe dream! Medicine Elder chuckled to himself, controlling the ring to create a slight distance between himself and the cauldron.
If the cauldron explodes in a moment, I hope it won't affect him. Medicine Elder could already foresee that if the flame temperature control went wrong, the violent impact of the exploding cauldron would blast Xiao Yan away, leaving him upside down like a turtle with its shell flipped over.
After reviewing the prescription for the Foundation-Building Spiritual Liquid and finding no problems, Xiao Yan began to skillfully release the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to warm the cauldron.
Following that, Xiao Yan threw a whole Purple-Leaf Orchid Grass into the medicine cauldron.
According to the prescription for the Foundation-Building Spiritual Liquid, the older the Purple-Leaf Orchid Grass, the better. The one Xiao Yan used was at least fifty years old, making it a top-quality Purple-Leaf Orchid Grass.
The powerful effects of the Medicine Spirit Sacred Body meant that Xiao Yan, at the Dou Qi stage, couldn't keep up with the speed at which the herbs ripened, and this was only the last batch, which was of relatively poor quality.
In the past, Xiao Yan had been consuming century-old Purple-Leaf Orchid Grass, which was more than twice as potent as fifty-year-old Purple-Leaf Orchid Grass.
Thanks to the ability of the Medicine Spirit Sacred Body to accelerate the ripening of medicinal herbs, obtaining a hundred-year-old Purple-Leaf Orchid Grass only takes ten days, which is extremely simple.
Tsk tsk... The Medicine Elder noticed the age of the medicinal herbs and shook his head inwardly. The older the herbs, the stronger their medicinal power. Xiao Yan was probably afraid that the explosion wouldn't kill him.
With his eyes fixed on the eerie white flames inside the medicine cauldron, Xiao Yan's heart sank.
As the quality of the prescriptions improved, he quickly came to understand the difference.
Because the Purple-Leaf Orchid Grass used in the Foundation-Building Spiritual Liquid is of a higher grade than the Vitality Fruit used in the Blood Coagulation Powder, the medicinal power it contains cannot be refined in a short time.
Xiao Yan frowned, and the flames suddenly surged, enveloping the entire Purple-Leaf Orchid Grass and burning it at a higher temperature than when refining Blood Coagulation Grass and Vitality Fruit.
After a meal's time, the Purple-Leaf Orchid Grass finally showed some activity, its medicinal power slowly emerging, with drops of crystal-clear, emerald-green liquid clinging to its surface.
In no time, a Purple-Leaf Orchid Grass was burned into a lump of green liquid.
Sensing the energy contained in the liquid, Xiao Yan was still somewhat surprised, even though he knew that Alchemist' skill in refining medicinal power far surpassed that of ordinary physicians.
The medicinal liquid extracted from just one herb is almost equivalent to the amount from several Purple-Leaf Orchid Grass he consumed.
After a quick glance, Xiao Yan picked up the Purple-Leaf Orchid Grass again and threw it into the medicine cauldron.
So, all three Purple-Leaf Orchid Grass were thrown in, and the mass of green liquid continued to grow larger.
Xiao Flame God. He lowered the temperature of the raging flames and slowly roasted the impurities in the green liquid with a gentle, grinding motion.
Because he was controlling the flames according to the principles of Cosmic Life-and-Death Way, Xiao Yan remained as still as a mountain, appearing very serious and focused, but he no longer felt the pressure of refining medicine for the first time.
As the flames burned, the fist-sized liquid dwindled to about the size of a thumb, with impurities largely removed.
Next, Xiao Yan used the same method to extract the medicinal essence from the two Bone-Washing Flower.
Although the Foundation-Building Spiritual Liquid recipe doesn't have any requirements regarding the age of the Bone-Washing Flower, Xiao Yan doesn't have ordinary Bone-Washing Flower; they're at least fifty years old.
After a while, the medicinal liquid from the Bone-Washing Flower blended into the original green liquid.
The two steps proceeded smoothly, and Xiao Yan's confidence grew considerably. He then began refining the wood-attribute Magic Core.
As he refined the Magic Core, Xiao Yan used the Star-Surging Heaven Qi and the scorching heat of the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to continuously forge the hard crystals of the Magic Core.