Seeing how anxious the Elder was, Qin Chu nodded to Qian Xun and followed the Elder.
The Elder led Qin Chu into a Pill Room, which contained seven Pill Furnaces arranged in a row. At this time, two people, two thirteen or fourteen-year-old medicine boys, were cleaning the Pill Furnaces.
“This Seat is going to refine the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Medicinal Pill next. After the furnace is opened later, you will help this Seat stabilize the Pill Fire of one Pill Furnace,” the Elder said to Qin Chu.
Qin Chu nodded. He had learned about the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Medicinal Pill in a Pill Book. It was a sixth-tier King-grade Medicinal Pill, and its refining process was very complex. Its efficacy was to clear meridians and strengthen muscles and bones. The Materials required were also very complex. Generally, a Medicinal Pill had one main ingredient and several auxiliary ingredients, but the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Medicinal Pill had seven main ingredients and several auxiliary ingredients, and they had to be refined separately. After the seven refined Materials were combined, they would solidify into a Medicinal Pill.
Qin Chu was a little puzzled. Why did this Elder come to him for such an important matter? If he couldn't do it, then he would have harmed someone.
While arranging the Materials, the Elder looked at Qin Chu, “You refine a furnace of Medicinal Pills first, let this Seat see.”
While Qin Chu was thinking, the Elder also became a little uneasy, because Qin Chu was too young.
There were Materials in the Pill Room. Qin Chu found a set of Fasting Pill Materials and casually refined a furnace of Fasting Pills.
“Your basic skills are acceptable. Be careful later and just help this Seat watch over one Pill Furnace. If you succeed, this Seat will reward you handsomely,” the Elder said to Qin Chu.
After the Elder prepared the Materials, he opened the furnace for Alchemy. Seven Pill Furnaces started firing simultaneously, and then the Materials began to be placed into the Pill Furnaces.
Qin Chu took over one Pill Furnace and maintained the Pill Fire under it to the same level as the other six Pill Furnaces.
“Senior, there are many Alchemists in the Alchemist Guild, why don't you ask others for help?” Qin Chu asked, puzzled.
“This Seat's Disciple had an urgent matter and went out temporarily. Every Alchemist in the Alchemist Guild has their own things to do,” the Elder explained the reason to Qin Chu.
While maintaining the flame, Qin Chu observed the Elder's Alchemy techniques. An Alchemist who dared to refine a sixth-tier King-grade Seven-Orifice Exquisite Medicinal Pill was naturally a sixth-tier King-level Alchemist. Every Alchemy technique and Alchemy experience of a high-level Alchemist was something other Alchemists needed to learn from and comprehend.
The Elder threw the Materials one by one into the Alchemy Furnace. The Materials turned into medicinal liquid, which continuously churned and condensed.
In the blink of an eye, two hours passed. Beads of sweat appeared on the Elder's forehead. Controlling six Pill Furnaces and considering the heat of the medicinal liquid made him quite tired.
After a moment of thought, Qin Chu waved his arm and took over another Alchemy Furnace. His Dantian contained the flame from the Vermilion Bird Holy Land, which gave him strong control over flames. The consumption generated in these two hours was nothing to him; he could still handle it.
The Elder looked at Qin Chu in surprise, then continued with Alchemy.
Controlling and maintaining the flames of two Pill Furnaces was also not a problem for Qin Chu. He still had enough energy to observe the Elder's Alchemy.
Suddenly, the Elder's expression changed, “Is this still going to fail?”
“Senior, what's wrong with that furnace of medicinal liquid?” Qin Chu noticed that the color of the medicinal liquid in the leftmost Pill Furnace was off.
“There was a problem with one auxiliary ingredient. The Blue Beard Grass and Blue Spirit Grass were mixed up. They look exactly the same on the outside and smell exactly the same. You can't tell until you refine them into medicinal liquid. I don't know who was managing the Materials and didn't sort them well, damn it!” the Elder cursed.
“Then Senior, quickly replenish a furnace,” Qin Chu said.
“No, this Seat doesn't have that much energy!” the Elder sighed.
“This Junior will help you guard another Pill Furnace.” Qin Chu's Origin Qi surged, and he took over another Pill Furnace.
The Elder looked at Qin Chu in surprise, then flicked his sleeve, sweeping aside the Pill Furnace that had gone awry. Then he took out a Pill Furnace from his Storage Ring. While maintaining the state of three Pill Furnaces, he reopened the seventh Pill Furnace.
While accelerating the refining of the medicinal liquid in the seventh Pill Furnace, the Elder also reminded Qin Chu to keep the rhythm of the three Pill Furnaces he was controlling consistent with the three Pill Furnaces the Elder was controlling.
Qin Chu nodded. He could only do his best now. Whatever extent he could achieve, that was it. Even if this furnace of Medicinal Pills failed, the responsibility would not be his.
The Elder accelerated the refining of the medicinal liquid in the seventh Pill Furnace, constantly catching up with the gap between it and the other six Pill Furnaces.
Two hours passed, and the medicinal liquid in the seven Pill Furnaces reached the same rhythm.
“Young man, are you still okay? You just need to watch two Pill Furnaces,” the Elder said to Qin Chu.
Looking at the beads of sweat on the Elder's forehead, Qin Chu shook his head, “This Junior is still fine!”
After half an hour of nourishing the medicinal liquid, the Elder took over the seven Pill Furnaces. He combined the seven main ingredients, which had been condensed to their limit, from the seven Pill Furnaces and began the final stage of Medicinal Pill formation.
Qin Chu's task was completed. Maintaining the flames of three Alchemy Furnaces continuously had exceeded his endurance, making him somewhat tired. So, as soon as the task was completed, he sat aside, resting and watching the Elder's final refining.
The final Medicinal Pill formation was not difficult for the Elder. In a short time, a Medicinal Pill full of halos was released from the furnace. The Elder put it into a Medicinal Pill bottle and then sat beside Qin Chu.
“Young man, what is your name?” the Elder asked Qin Chu.
“This Junior is called Qin Chu,” Qin Chu said.
“You are not a third-tier Alchemist, are you?” the Elder asked.
“This Junior is a fourth-tier Alchemist,” Qin Chu did not hide it, because controlling the Pill Fire of three Pill Furnaces was not within the ability of a third-tier Alchemist.
“This Seat is Chu Shan, one of the Elders of the Alchemist Guild. This time, I was entrusted to refine a Seven-Orifice Exquisite Medicinal Pill. Fortunately, it did not fail. Let's go, this Seat will take you there. You are indispensable for the successful refining of this Seven-Orifice Exquisite Medicinal Pill!” Chu Shan said to Qin Chu.
“This Junior will go wash his face first,” Qin Chu said with a smile. After spending most of the day in front of the Pill Furnaces, his face was also covered in a lot of sweat.
After washing his face, Qin Chu followed Chu Shan out of the Alchemist Guild.
At the entrance of the Alchemist Guild, Qin Chu saw Qian Xun.
Qian Xun had been waiting because she hadn't seen Qin Chu come out.
“I'm going out with Senior for a bit. I'll return to the inn later, you don't need to wait for me,” Qin Chu said to Qian Xun. At this time, he had a deeper understanding of Qian Xun.
Chu Shan led Qin Chu forward. After arriving at their destination, Qin Chu was stunned, because it was an extremely magnificent mansion.
“This is the City Lord's mansion,” Chu Shan said, then led Qin Chu in, with no one stopping them.
“Elder Chu is here,” a middle-aged man in a brocade robe appeared.
Chu Shan nodded to the man in the brocade robe, then handed him the Medicinal Pill bottle, “I have fulfilled my mission.”
“Someone, set up a banquet,” the man in the brocade robe shouted to his servants, then welcomed Chu Shan into the mansion's main hall.
Qin Chu knew that, without a doubt, this man in the brocade robe was the City Lord of Tianjian City.
After entering the main hall, the man in the brocade robe's gaze fell on Qin Chu.