"You should familiarize yourself with the medicinal cauldron first. Your 'Heavenly Flame' is very difficult to control, so you should first use the flame of an ordinary alchemist. Place one of your hands on the flame and channel your battle energy into it.”Yao Lao sat in the cave and commanded.
Nodding his head, Xiao Yan touched the fire outlet and shut his eyes. The Dou Qi vortex within his body fluctuated slightly and wave after wave of jade-green Dou Qi gushed out. Finally, it illuminated his palm until it was suffused with a green light.
The jade-green Dou Zhi Qi became quiet after reaching his palm. Then, as if it was being sucked by a strong suction force, it actually came out from his palm and entered the cauldron through the fire hole.
"Puff…"
A muffled sound rang out. After the jade-green airflow passed through the fire mouth, it was suddenly transformed into a substantial flame. It continued to churn and burn within the medicinal cauldron.
Xiao Yan's hand suddenly spewed fire, causing his heart to be startled. However, it was fortunate that his hand was still ice-cold. Only then did he suppress this feeling.
"Hmm, not bad. You can transform into flames on your first try.”
Yao Lao nodded as he looked at the churning flame within the medicinal cauldron. He said in a deep voice,"The flame that you have summoned is not a pill refining flame. Now, you should focus on controlling the trace of wood attribute within your body and pour it into the medicinal cauldron!”
Xiao Yan obediently shut his eyes. His enormous Spiritual Perception repeatedly scanned the thread of faint Wood Strength within his body.
This was the first time Xiao Yan had searched for the Strength of Wood within his body. Even he had used a full two minutes before he opened his eyes.
"Found it?" Yao Lao asked in a somewhat surprised manner when he saw Xiao Yan open his eyes. He involuntarily praised in his heart after seeing Xiao Yan nod his head. Back then, he had used nearly half an hour to search for the Wood Strength within his body. From this, one could see just how powerful Xiao Yan's Spiritual Perception was.
Xiao Yan extended a finger and gently pressed it on the other fire outlet. An extremely thin green-colored airflow was slowly poured in.
The green-colored airflow had just entered the medicinal cauldron when the churning flame within it appeared to have produced a chemical reaction and suddenly quieted down. At this moment, even though Xiao Yan had yet to control the flame within it, he could sense that the wild and violent elements within the flame had already been neutralized by the Strength of Wood. Moreover, due to the principle of wood producing fire, the current flame clearly possessed a longer endurance and control than before.
"Alright…" Nodding his head in satisfaction, Yao Lao extended his finger and touched Xiao Yan's forehead. A message was transmitted into the latter's head.
"This is a self-concocted healing medicine formula. You can try to refine it. I will remind you to control the temperature of the flame and the composition of the extracted medicinal ingredients at any time.”
Xiao Yan narrowed his eyes to sense the information in his head and nodded slightly.
"Blood Clotting Powder, one Blood Clotting Grass, one Vitality Fruit, two Poppies…"
After memorizing the number of medicinal ingredients in his mind, Xiao Yan's Spiritual Perception gradually invaded the medicinal cauldron and tried his best to control the relatively gentle flame.
Xiao Yan flicked his finger on the Storage Ring and a somewhat dark red Blood Clotting Grass appeared in his palm. After hesitating for a moment, Xiao Yan threw it into the coiled snake head at the top of the medicinal cauldron.
The moment the Blood Clotting Grass entered the medicinal cauldron, Xiao Yan did not even have the time to control it when the flame fluttered up. In an instant, a stalk of Blood Clotting Grass turned into dark-black ashes. Finally, it was expelled from the medicinal cauldron by a special setting.
Seeing his first mistake, Xiao Yan smiled awkwardly.
"Continue." Yao Lao said faintly.
Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Xiao Yan once again threw in another stalk of Blood Clotting Grass. This time around, the Blood Clotting Grass lasted a little longer in the flame before it was still turned into black ashes.
"The temperature is too high."
Xiao Yan wiped off his cold sweat. It was his turn to refine a medicinal pill. He finally knew that this task was indeed not something that anyone could easily handle.
After persistently burning a total of seven to eight stalks of Blood Clotting Grass, Xiao Yan finally managed to feel the temperature adaptation point of the Blood Clotting Grass.
Xiao Yan threw in another stalk of Blood Clotting Grass. His face was solemn. His Spiritual Perception firmly compressed the temperature of the flame. His eyes passed through the ice mirror and stared intently at the Blood Clotting Grass suspended on the flame.
After churning within the flame for a moment, the Blood Clotting Grass finally began to gradually shed its turf. The juice contained within the grass was also roasted into a little pale white powder. The essence of the Blood Clotting Grass was finally successfully extracted by Xiao Yan.
At this moment, Xiao Yan heard the system notification: "Learned skill: Basic medicinal herb extraction method proficiency-1/5"
After refining the Blood Clotting Grass, Xiao Yan finally understood that he had been fooled by Yao Lao. In the past, Yao Lao only needed to extend his hand and randomly burn the medicinal pill a couple of times, and the medicinal pill that caused a countless number of people to go crazy over it would be hot and come out of the furnace. Such a simple process had also left Xiao Yan with the impression that refining medicine was extremely easy. However, now that he had personally refined it, he knew how difficult it was to refine medicine. Once again sitting in front of the medicinal cauldron, Xiao Yan expressionlessly began to refine the essence of the other two medicinal ingredients.
With the experience of refining the Blood Clotting Grass earlier, Xiao Yan was clearly much more relaxed this time around. After burning two Vitality Fruits and three Poppy Flowers, he successfully extracted the things needed to concoct the healing medicine from the two medicinal ingredients.
The thing extracted from the Vitality Fruit was a kind of slightly black fine grain. These fine grains had the effect of removing blood clots and promoting blood circulation. In the wild, some experienced injured mercenaries often crushed the Vitality Fruit into minced meat to reduce their injuries if they did not have enough healing medicine.
What was extracted from the poppy flower was a light red liquid. This liquid had the effect of paralyzing the nerves and could be used to relieve pain.
Eyeing the three types of medicinal ingredients neatly placed in front of Xiao Yan, Yao Lao nodded slightly and softly said,"The required materials have been refined. Now, let's fuse their medicinal effects together.”
Xiao Yan inhaled a deep breath of air and nodded his head with a solemn expression. He skillfully threw the pure white powder into the medicinal cauldron and used a warm fire to roast it for over ten minutes. After the pure white powder had turned slightly red, he swiftly poured the liquid of the Poppy Flower into Martial Yin Yang.
The liquid had just entered the medicinal cauldron when it wrapped around the pure white powder. It rolled for a moment within the flame before the two gradually merged into a pale-red viscous liquid, Martial Yin Yang. His Soul Perception was working hard to control the temperature of the flame, slowly roasting the light red sticky liquid. Under the continuous roasting of the flames, the viscous liquid gradually turned into a dark red paste shape. Staring intently at the cluster of dark red paste in the medicinal cauldron from the transparent mirror, Xiao Yan hesitated for a moment before throwing the black letter grain of the Vitality Fruit into it.
The black letter entered the medicinal cauldron, but there was no change. The large cluster of fine letter bounced back and forth within the flame, refusing to fuse into the dark red paste as it wished.
"All kinds of materials have different resistance to temperature. Therefore, you must learn to control the temperature of the flame in any part of the cauldron as you wish. You must suppress the flame in places that require low temperature. You must release the suppression and raise the temperature of the flame in places that require high temperature…"
"Bam…"
On one hand, one's Spiritual Perception had to maintain the temperature of one side of the flame while on the other hand, it had to raise the temperature of the other side of the flame. This kind of multitasking requirement really gave Xiao Yan a headache. She, who had always done everything smoothly, had finally encountered some difficulties.
However, after experiencing several dangerous situations, Xiao Yan finally calmed down. He wiped the cold sweat off his forehead and exhaled deeply. The Dou Qi in his body poured into the fire outlet.
The tiny black particles within the medicinal cauldron finally could not withstand the rising temperature and burst apart. Pecks of dark-black powder slowly drifted into the cluster of pale-red paste, dyeing the latter's color even darker…
When the final pinch of black powder floated into the flour paste, Xiao Yan let out a long sigh of relief. His hand slowly left the fire mouth. Following the withdrawal of Xiao Yan's hand, the flame within the medicinal cauldron also gradually extinguished.
Eyeing the slightly panting Xiao Yan, Yao Lao smiled slightly. He waved his hand and the lid of the medicinal cauldron was lifted. With a beckon of his right hand, a large cluster of dark-red flour paste within the cauldron flew out of thin air and finally floated in the air above the mountain cave.
Yao Lao glanced at the cluster of dark-red paste that was emitting a rich medicinal smell. His hand cut down from the air. Following a wave of his hand, the cluster of dark-red paste that was continuously flowing was also divided into at least a hundred tiny pieces of paste liquid.
Taking the red storage ring from Xiao Yan's hand, Yao Lao flicked his finger and over a hundred small jade bottles immediately filled the narrow cave.
Yao Lao randomly waved his hand after arranging the jade bottle. The paste liquid in the air accurately fell into the jade bottle.
Casually taking a jade bottle, Yao Lao smiled and handed it to Xiao Yan. He said with a teasing smile,"Congratulations on your first successful concoction!”
Xiao Yan impatiently received the jade bottle. He eyed the dark-red medicinal liquid that was not very pure and an excited feeling involuntarily surged into his heart.
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