After hearing that, Xu Qingtong understood most of what was going on. So this senior sister was no good at alchemy and only liked brandishing blades and spears!
"Senior Sister, my cultivation is still shallow. If I can learn alchemy first, I'll be able to raise my cultivation faster. It won't be too late to study swordsmanship with you then."
Du Siwen pondered for a moment, then said, "I'm not particularly proficient in alchemy. I have a Jade Slip here that Master gave me. Take it and read it first. Your cave abode already has earthfire. Get Xiao Chuzi to find you an Alchemy Furnace and start practicing. If there's anything you don't understand, you can ask Second Senior Brother. I still have some things to do, so I'll be going." With that, she left Xu Qingtong's cave abode as though fleeing.
Seeing his senior sister's embarrassment, Xu Qingtong could not help finding it amusing. He picked up the Jade Slip and went into the stone chamber on the right, where he meditated and cultivated.
He sank his divine sense into the Jade Slip and examined it carefully. It covered the foundations of alchemy in far greater detail than the Jade Slip Yu Xuzi had given him. Most of the contents of Yu Xuzi's Jade Slip had been beyond his understanding.
This Jade Slip primarily described the preparations needed before refining pills, covering everything in detail, from equipment to medicinal herbs, from fire control to forming the pill embryo.
From this Jade Slip, Xu Qingtong learned that alchemy was actually extremely complicated, not something one could learn overnight as some wildly imaginative people in certain novels claimed.
First came the Alchemy Furnace and earthfire, the most basic requirements for alchemy. Next came the pill recipe and medicinal herbs. A pill