Now, as for the laws of alchemy.
Of the laws Ao Tu had mastered, his command of the Five Elements Laws approached the Great Luo level. Though his grasp of the Eight Trigrams, yin and yang, creation, and other laws was weaker, it had still reached an extremely high level.
The Alchemy Furnace was a Houtian Spiritual Treasure.
The medicinal ingredients had been grown in Taishang Laojun's medicinal garden.
All Ao Tu lacked was mastery of and familiarity with the techniques. Compared with the former requirements, this was the easiest part.
Next, refining the Three-Turn Golden Elixir required adding another eight thousand four hundred operations to every step of the first and second turns.
Having read the Elixir Classic, Ao Tu had left room for the steps required for the third turn from the very beginning of the first, so the refining went quite smoothly.
Yet just as Ao Tu was more than halfway through refining the Three-Turn Golden Elixir, the Jade Emperor's Divine Official arrived.
Seeing this, Jiangzhu hurried to the Elixir Chamber to tell Ao Tu.
"True Lord, a Divine Official of the Jade Emperor is outside with an imperial decree. He wishes to see you!"
Ao Tu said, "I'm refining elixirs and can't leave just now. Who is this Divine Official? Do you recognize him?"
Jiangzhu said, "I don't."
Ao Tu said, "Then what is he wearing?"
Jiangzhu said, "The standard divine robes."
Ao Tu said, "Invite him in and brew him a pot of Kunlun Immortal Tea first. Tell him I've gone to Douniu Palace to meet with the Host of Stars, and ask him to wait a moment. Give him a few pieces of immortal medicine as gifts, too."
Jiangzhu said, "Yes."
Jiangzhu went out, invited the Jade Emperor's Divine Official inside, led them to