Refining a Grade-One Pill from Inferior Medicinal Ingredients?

After they arrived at the novice alchemy room,

Wang Pei was refining a low-level grade-one Blood Coagulation Pill.

Everyone in the novice alchemy room watched Wang Pei refine the pill without taking their eyes off him.

Seeing this, Ye Nan swallowed the Medicinal Fire Pill.

Once he had swallowed it, a miraculous power inside him rapidly refined the Medicinal Fire Pill.

Ye Nan also felt a searing power appear inside him.

About ten minutes later,

he had completely refined the Medicinal Fire Pill.

He went over to a corner.

Once there, he opened his palm.

An intensely rich cyan medicinal flame appeared in the center of his palm.

This medicinal flame should be the highest grade, right?

Ye Nan smiled to himself.

The system really is awesome. This optimal refining and usage method sounds ridiculous, but it actually works.

With medicinal flame of this caliber, plus the Super Alchemy Brain,

refining the high-level grade-three Spirit Forging Pill that suits me best right now should be easy, right?

I'll get some free medicinal ingredients and try refining a pill first.

After asking a staff member, Ye Nan found the free alchemy room.

When he arrived, he found several other people inside.

"Sir, each person can claim free medicinal ingredients once. Please register first."

A staff member spoke to Ye Nan.

Hearing this, Ye Nan registered his information.

Once he had registered, the staff member took him to the place where he could select free medicinal ingredients.

"Sir, since you came to the Alchemist Alliance to refine pills for free, you should know a thing or two about medicinal ingredients, right?"

After saying that, the staff member said nothing more.

In the staff member's eyes, the people who came to the Alchemist Alliance to pick free medicinal ingredients were there to make fools of themselves.

On the surface, the Alchemist Alliance wouldn't pass up a single genius.

But in reality?

In all his time working in the free alchemy room,

not a single alchemy genius had ever appeared there. Most were crooked melons and split dates.

As for whether Ye Nan actually recognized the medicinal ingredients, he didn't care.

After all, he had nothing to lose.

Ye Nan looked at the free medicinal ingredients before him and knew they were all meant for refining inferior pills.

What were inferior pills?

Pills below grade one were considered inferior pills.

That was perfectly normal. For an alchemist just starting out, trying to refine a grade-one pill right away was undoubtedly too difficult.

Ye Nan then activated the Super Alchemy Brain.

Under its influence, countless medicinal ingredient combinations appeared in his mind as he worked through the possibilities.

Finally, a combination appeared in his mind:

"Wild Vermilion Fruit, Moon Flower, Black Lotus, Green Wood Needle..."

This combination could be used to refine a low-level grade-one pill.

The resulting pill was called the Wild Rage Pill, and it could heighten rage and cause blood to surge.

The Wild Rage Pill existed on Blue Star, but it was an obscure pill even among obscure pills.

Ye Nan's goal was to attract the Alchemist Alliance's attention and thereby obtain the medicinal ingredients for refining the Spirit Forging Pill.

If I don't pull a few tricks, how can I shock the Alchemist Alliance?

He then selected the medicinal ingredients for refining the Wild Rage Pill.

"Uh..."

The staff member beside him froze when he saw the ingredients Ye Nan had chosen.

Though he was only a staff member, he had picked things up from what he had seen and heard.

He knew the ingredients Ye Nan had chosen were a complete mismatch.

Others who came to the free alchemy room at least knew how to choose medicinal ingredients.

After seeing Ye Nan's choices, the staff member shook his head inwardly.

"Sir, you can't take the pill you refine with you, because..."

"I know."

Before the staff member could finish, Ye Nan cut in.

With that, Ye Nan went over to an alchemy station.

"So aloof?"

The staff member watched Ye Nan go to the alchemy station, somewhat displeased.

He turned his gaze to Ye Nan, thinking he would first see what kind of medicinal flame Ye Nan had.

He knew that although Ye Nan couldn't choose medicinal ingredients, he definitely had medicinal flame.

In his opinion, however, Ye Nan's medicinal flame was bound to be the lowest grade.

When Ye Nan reached the alchemy station, he looked at the ordinary medicinal cauldron on it.

Then he opened his palm.

A medicinal flame appeared in the center of his palm.

"Tch, that's your medicinal flame? I thought..."

When the staff member saw the medicinal flame appear in Ye Nan's palm, he had originally intended to mock him.

But when he took a closer look at the flame, he was instantly struck as if by lightning, his eyes wide and mouth agape.

"I... am I fucking seeing things?"

The staff member was stunned and quickly blinked several times.

But no matter what he did, the top-grade medicinal flame in Ye Nan's palm remained.

What grade of medicinal flame is that?

"Wait, don't get ahead of yourself!"

The staff member tried to calm himself down.

He thought that even if Ye Nan had top-grade medicinal flame, he had still chosen the wrong medicinal ingredients.

But even if he had chosen the wrong ingredients, the top-grade medicinal flame still showed that Ye Nan possessed exceptional alchemy talent.

The staff member swallowed several times and hurriedly fixed his gaze on Ye Nan's alchemy station.

He saw that Ye Nan had already lit the medicinal cauldron and begun adding the ingredients.

"Damn, that fire control..."

The staff member's eyes widened further and further, his face full of shock.

Even if he had never eaten pork, hadn't he seen a pig run?

The staff member could naturally tell that Ye Nan's fire control was incomparably proficient.

It was just like that of the senior alchemists in the Alchemist Alliance.

A few minutes later, the flames inside the medicinal cauldron vanished.

"Did he fail?"

The staff member swallowed again, his eyes round as saucers.

He thought that since the flames in the medicinal cauldron had gone out so quickly, the refinement must have failed.

Just as the staff member breathed a long sigh of relief,

he saw Ye Nan take a pale black pill out of the medicinal cauldron.

Hiss!

Looking at the pale black pill, he sucked in a breath of cold air, as if struck by five bolts of lightning.

Distinguishing a pill's grade was simple.

One only had to look at its color.

Grade-one pills were black, grade-two pills were cyan, grade-three pills were blue, and so on!

Pale black meant that this was a low-level grade-one pill.

The staff member hurriedly rubbed his eyes. He simply couldn't believe it was real.

As far as he knew, the medicinal ingredients in the free alchemy room were all meant for inferior pills.

How could ingredients meant for inferior pills be used to refine a low-level grade-one pill?

There was no way Ye Nan could have cheated, either.

He had seen Ye Nan take the low-level grade-one pill out of the medicinal cauldron with his own eyes.

"Y-you, you..."

The staff member went up to Ye Nan, wanting to say something to him.

But he was so shocked that he couldn't get the words out.