"Brother Yan, never mind ninth-tier pills-refining third-tier pills in less than an hour is probably impossible, isn't it?" a somewhat stiff young man asked with a frown.
The other Alchemy Masters nodded in agreement.
"Some of you may not be familiar with third-tier pills yet, so I'll use a second-tier elixir as an example.
Take the Fast-Acting Qi-Boosting Pill. It contains thirty-seven medicinal ingredients. During refinement, some ingredients that are harder to refine can be processed alongside others that are easier.
Spirit-linking flower can be refined together with flower bone, pearl white eye, seven-leaf branch, three-light root, and willow leaves. Fire orchid can be refined together with heart-harmony orchid, silver fruit core, licorice, and five-grain stalk...
This is much faster than your usual refinement method. During extraction, you need to concentrate and take care not to extract the medicinal essence too early or too late, to avoid losing its potency."
While Tang Yan spoke, the Pill Cauldron had already been set before him, and the medicinal ingredients had been tossed inside. Refinement and extraction were now underway.
At Tang Yan's words, every Alchemy Master stared wide-eyed. Alchemy could be done like this? He wasn't fooling us, was he?
But when they saw Tang Yan working in all seriousness beside the pill furnace, a measure of anticipation appeared in their eyes.
"During refinement, bring each ingredient to as high a purity as possible. This will greatly increase the success rate of forming pills during fusion."
A quarter of an hour passed before Tang Yan's voice rang out again. "All right, extraction is complete. Now we'll begin pill fusion."
"What? You're done?" Everyone looked at Tang Yan doubtfully. Had he refined and extracted all thirty-seven ingredients in just a quarter of an hour?
They had never even heard of such speed, let