Alchemist

To refine medicine, he needed to switch cultivation techniques and convert his dou qi into fire-attributed dou qi.

Xiao Yang took out the scroll of the Flame Manipulation Art that Xun'er had just given him.

After taking out the Flame Manipulation Art, Xiao Yang saw a prompt.

"Would you like to select the Flame Manipulation Art as your cultivation technique?"

Xiao Yang did not hesitate and directly chose yes.

The next moment, the dou qi in his dantian involuntarily surged into the meridians throughout his body.

The dou qi then circulated once on its own along the route of the Flame Manipulation Art.

His originally milky-white dou qi transformed into red, fire-attributed dou qi.

On Xiao Yang's game panel, the cultivation technique section now displayed the Flame Manipulation Art.

At that moment, he felt that he had much more dou qi than before.

Not only that, its quality had also improved.

Xiao Yang raised his arm and opened his palm.

With a thought, a ball of red flame appeared in his hand!

Condensed solid flame!

Normally, only a Fourth-Rank Alchemist could condense solid flame like this!

Yet Xiao Yang, a Fighter who had just broken through and was not even an alchemist, could already condense solid flame.

This was because of the Flame Manipulation Art.

This was the difference between a good cultivation technique and an ordinary one.

Compared with other ordinary One-Star Dou Practitioners, Xiao Yang possessed three times as much dou qi!

And that did not even account for the quality of his dou qi!

Even if he used ordinary Yellow-Rank dou techniques, his strength was still two or three times that of an ordinary One-Star Dou Practitioner!

This was the difference a cultivation technique could bring.

This was only at the Fighter stage. As his cultivation rose, the gap created by cultivation techniques would become increasingly apparent.

Cultivating a low-grade technique even made it difficult to break through to higher realms.

Now that he had the technique Xun'er had given him, Xiao Yang had saved a great deal of shop points.

Otherwise, he definitely would have needed to upgrade his cultivation technique.

Once he sensed that his dou qi had fully transformed, Xiao Yang got up and left the Xiao Household, heading toward the Mittel Auction House.

Soon, after buying some medicinal ingredients and a medicine cauldron, Xiao Yang returned to his small courtyard.

He took out the two-flame-port cauldron he had just purchased.

This medicine cauldron had two fire outlets.

On the Dou Qi Continent, the more fire outlets a medicine cauldron had, the better its quality generally was.

Of course, cauldrons on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking were exceptions.

Xiao Yang took a look and found that medicine cauldrons comparable to those on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking were very cheap in the shop, costing only a few million at most.

It could not be helped. For artifact refiners, refining a medicine cauldron comparable to a heavenly cauldron was not particularly difficult.

It was only because the Dou Qi Continent lacked capable artifact refiners that heavenly cauldrons were so rare.

Even a seven-flame-port cauldron only cost five hundred thousand shop points.

Xiao Yang could easily buy a five-flame-port cauldron.

However, since he was still a beginner, a two-flame-port cauldron was more suitable.

He took out his medicine cauldron and gently placed his hand on it.

Xiao Yang easily injected his dou qi flames into the medicine cauldron.

After all, he cultivated the Flame Manipulation Art and could directly condense solid flame.

The next step was to refine the medicinal ingredients.

Among the several First-Grade Elixir formulas he had obtained, Xiao Yang had purchased the ingredients for a First-Grade Elixir called Healing Injury Powder.

A single batch of ingredients for Healing Injury Powder cost only a few hundred gold coins, making it extremely cheap.

Moreover, one batch of Healing Injury Powder could be divided into dozens of portions for sale, so the profits were not low.

He first took out a stalk of Blood-Coagulating Grass and tossed it directly into the medicine cauldron.

The next moment, the red flames swallowed it, and the Blood-Coagulating Grass instantly turned to ash.

Xiao Yang's expression did not change in the slightest. He casually took out another stalk of Blood-Coagulating Grass and tossed it in.

Very soon, after only a few hours of practice, Xiao Yang had refined several batches of ingredients for Healing Injury Powder.

His alchemy experience directly increased by over twenty points!

Whenever Xiao Yang exhausted his dou qi, he simply added one point of experience to restore it.

Thus, his experience in alchemy rose extremely quickly.

Looking at the more than twenty portions of medicinal essence around him, Xiao Yang took out one batch of ingredients for Healing Injury Powder.

He was ready to attempt fusing the medicinal essences!

Just then, a quest suddenly appeared before Xiao Yang.

[Side Quest—First-Grade Elixir: Refine a First-Grade Elixir for the first time.

Reward: Random First-Grade Elixir Formula +1, Random First-Grade Elixir Ingredients x3, Universal Experience +300, Shop Points +10000.]

When Xiao Yang saw the quest, his eyes immediately lit up.

This quest was great!

He had not expected that refining an elixir could trigger a quest. This was simply a huge profit!

After closing the panel, he immediately began attempting to fuse the medicinal essences.

Xiao Yang's soul force tightly wrapped around the several portions of medicinal essence.

Unfortunately, his first fusion attempt ultimately failed.

But just then, a notification sounded in Xiao Yang's mind.

"Failed to refine a First-Grade Elixir. Alchemy Experience +2, Shop Points +20."

Wait, there were rewards even for failure?

Xiao Yang stared at the reward before him, utterly stunned.

Although it was only alchemy experience, it was still incredibly valuable!

As Xiao Yang gained alchemy experience, insights into refining First-Grade Elixirs immediately flowed into his mind.

However, since it was only two points of experience, the insights were limited.

Xiao Yang did not hesitate and immediately tried to fuse another batch of medicinal essence, but it still failed.

After three attempts, Xiao Yang finally succeeded on the fourth!

Two system notifications immediately sounded in his mind.

"Congratulations, player. You have completed the quest—First-Grade Elixir. Reward: Random First-Grade Elixir Formula +1, Random First-Grade Elixir Ingredients x3, Universal Experience +300, Shop Points +10000."

"Congratulations, player. You have refined a First-Grade Elixir. Reward: Universal Experience +10, Shop Points +100!"

Xiao Yang decisively claimed the rewards.

He had not expected that successfully refining an elixir would directly grant universal experience.

Of course, he discovered that his alchemy experience had also increased by three points, reaching 85.

He was now extremely close to the threshold of becoming a First-Rank Alchemist.

Xiao Yang decisively continued his attempts. He planned to raise his secondary profession to the level of First-Rank Alchemist today!

Soon, Xiao Yang continued refining medicine until midnight, finally raising his secondary profession to First-Rank Alchemist.

The next moment, a system notification sounded in his mind.

"Congratulations, player. You have completed the quest—First-Rank Alchemist. Reward: Random First-Grade Elixir Formula +5, Random First-Grade Elixir Ingredients x20, Universal Experience +2000, Shop Points +50000."

At that moment, Xiao Yang's eyes were filled with wild delight.

The reward included a full two thousand points of universal experience!

He now had nearly six thousand points of universal experience!

He could now even directly raise his cultivation to Seven-Star Dou Practitioner!

Just then, another quest appeared before him.

[Side Quest · Second-Rank Alchemist: Become a Second-Rank Alchemist.

Reward: Random Second-Grade Elixir Formula +5, Random Second-Grade Elixir Ingredients x20, Universal Experience +20000, Shop Points +500000.]

Hiss—

Twenty thousand universal experience!

Seeing the quest rewards, Xiao Yang's eyes turned red!