Chapter 208: Chapter 145: Alchemy Technique Improvement, Fourth Grade Alchemist Assessment
Translator: 549690339
Looking at the remaining energy value on the panel, Lu Yun pondered for a moment, then put it away and started studying the pill recipe.
With a sweep of his spiritual power, the refining method, details, and precautions for the Three-Striped Azure Spirit Pill on the pill recipe immediately appeared in his mind.
Ten minutes later, Lu Yun memorized the key points and combined them with the experience already in his mind, making them thoroughly understood.
With a flick of his sleeve, a force struck the top of the alchemy furnace, and the cover flew off.
Immediately after, Lu Yun’s right index and middle fingers closed together, and with a slight pull, a faint suction lifted the spirit herbs from the jade box, and then carefully placed them into the alchemy furnace.
With a mental command, a white flame leaped from his fingertips, and with a flick, the spark swelled rapidly and rushed into the alchemy furnace, enveloping the spirit herbs and began fiercely burning.
As the flames tumbled, Lu Yun, who was staring closely at the interior of the alchemy furnace, suddenly exclaimed softly. He found that the speed of refining spirit herbs was very fast, even much faster than refining Second Grade spirit herbs in the past.
“Hehe, this White Lotus Flame is truly a heaven and earth spiritual fire. With it, my pill refining efficiency will greatly increase in the future.”
Chuckling softly, Lu Yun carefully manipulated the white flame, burning the spirit herbs in the alchemy furnace.
As the flame rose, before long, a Fourth Grade spirit herb worth more than a dozen spirit crystals was thoroughly refined into a ball of medicinal liquid.
With a wave of his hand, another burst of white flame gushed from his palm into the alchemy furnace, and the temperature of the white flame soared. In a short while, small yellow residues appeared on the surface of the medicinal liquid.
As the white flames tumbled continuously, the yellow residues appeared and were stripped away, burning into ashes. The remaining ball of medicinal liquid became increasingly clear and translucent. In the white flames, it was like a transparent elliptical bead, emitting a faint glow, extremely dazzling and attractive.
“Not only has the refining speed greatly improved, but the purification has also become more perfect, nearly refining out all the residues in the medicinal liquid.” Mumbling to himself, Lu Yun began refining the second type of spirit herb.
With the help of the White Lotus Flame, he found that both refining and purification had become much easier, so he no longer satisfied with refining one spirit herb at a time.
With a grasp, three spirit herbs from the jade box directly flew into the alchemy furnace.
Different spirit herbs required different maximum temperatures for refining, and a slight mistake would result in the spirit herbs being burnt into residues, so Lu Yun had to be fully focused.
Three balls of white flame were burning a spirit herb each, and the temperatures were not all the same. For the manipulator, it was a considerable pressure and challenge.
Lu Yun’s face became extremely serious at this moment, as he used both hands simultaneously, without any relaxation in his attention. Now, he must control the heat of the three flames perfectly; otherwise, if any of the herbs were burned into waste residues, the other two would not escape the same fate.
In such a case, his loss would be several dozen spirit crystals.
In the small alchemy furnace, the three flames burned around three different spirit herbs, forming a tripod-like situation, colliding with each other but unaffected by each other thanks to the control of a pair of powerful hands.
Dividing his attention into three parts was somewhat difficult and the pressure was quite high, but Lu Yun was surprised to find that the connection between his mind and the White Lotus Flame became more and more tacit, and his control over the White Lotus Flame grew stronger, just like the control of the Aura Origin, gradually approaching the level of being able to do whatever he wanted.
As the flames surged wave after wave, one of the spirit herbs was refined first and required a change in the flame’s temperature to be purified.
Meanwhile, the other two spirit herbs were still undergoing refinement, requiring the fire to remain steady. This presented a new challenge for him.
Fortunately, Lu Yun persisted and successfully completed the transition from refinement to purification.
With a sizzling sound, yellow residue continuously rolled out from the three clumps of liquid medicine, stripped away and turned into ashes under the tempering of the white flame.
Having experienced the first success, Lu Yun’s subsequent operations became much smoother, and as his control over the White Lotus Flame improved, it became easier for him to refine several different spirit herbs at the same time.
If it weren’t for the small size of the red Furnace and its limited internal space, he would have wanted to refine and purify even more spirit herbs simultaneously…
After purifying all the spirit herbs, eight clusters of translucent liquid that gleamed like crystals appeared inside the Furnace. The energy contained within each cluster was enormous, far surpassing the energy when refining Third Grade spirit herbs.
Within the rolling white flames, the eight pearl-like clusters of medicine liquid remained in a stalemate for a while before gradually drawing closer under the pull of a powerful force.
In the red Furnace, white flames rose and burned while the eight crystal-clear, pearl-like medicine liquids leaped and rolled.
“Merge!”
At this moment, Lu Yun let out a soft shout, and a powerful aggressive aura surged forth from his palm, striking the Alchemy Furnace. With a muffled sound, the eight clumps of medicine liquid inside the furnace violently collided.
At the same time, the white flame roared like it was immensely stimulated. The boiling flame filled the entire Alchemy Furnace, with excess flames howling out through the Toad Mouth.
Lu Yun had no time to worry about the howling white flames. A powerful aggressive aura swept out, enveloping the energy that was suddenly released from inside the Alchemy Furnace.
This energy was terrifying. If some of it were allowed to escape, the low-level Alchemy Furnace would not be able to withstand it and would easily burst.
“Get back in there!”
Lu Yun shouted harshly, and a powerful aura surged forth, instantly covering the entire red Alchemy Furnace. All the flames and energy furiously flooded back, converging towards the center of the furnace.
“Condense!” With a sudden roar, Lu Yun forcefully struck the top of the Alchemy Furnace. In the center of the blazing white flames, a burst of green light suddenly radiated, swiftly illuminating the entire room.
As the green light surged out, large swaths of white flames roared out from the Toad Mouths, along with the lid of the Alchemy Furnace.
At this moment, a rich pill fragrance slowly rose, eventually forming a cloud of spiritual mist in the room.
“Hahaha, the pill is complete!” Inside the Alchemy Furnace, the white flames slowly extinguished, and ten green lights burst out of the furnace, floating in mid-air with a brilliant gleam.
Lu Yun beckoned with his palm, and the ten dragon-eye-sized green pills flew into his hand.
“Haha, the Three-Striped Azure Spirit Pill has finally been successfully refined, with four of them reaching the premium grade.”
White flames flickered in Lu Yun’s eyes as he stared intently at the green pills in his hand.
For the first time in refining a fourth-grade pill, Lu Yun successfully produced a high-quality pill with pill patterns, and four of them at that, which can only be considered an exceptional performance.
Of course, this was mainly due to the White Lotus Flame.
The third-rank White Lotus Flame had nearly purified the medicinal solution to its limit, otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to produce a high-quality pill with his newly-acquired Level Four Pill Refining Technique.
“If my pill refining technique had reached Level Four Perfection, I wouldn’t have had such difficulty earlier.” Feeling the scorching temperature emitted from the Three-Striped Azure Spirit Pills, Lu Yun’s eyes shone brightly.
In the next instant, golden Pure Yang Origin covered the palm of his hand, enveloping ten azure pills.
After the Pure Yang aggressive aura was converted to Pure Yang Strong Origin, the refinement efficiency increased greatly, and it took less than ten minutes for the pills in his palm to be completely refined.
[ + 2150 Energy Value]
“Level up!”
With a thought, 2000 energy points were spent, and a wave of new memories surged into his mind.
After fully assimilating this memory, Lu Yun felt even sharper, and his understanding of the Dao of Pills became even clearer and more comprehensive.
His gaze fell on the transparent and illusory panel in front of him.
[Energy Value]:156 (Automatically increases by two per day)
[Pill Refining Technique]:Level Four (28%)
Lu Yun had fully recovered and returned to the peak state after levelling up his pill refining technique to Level Four and 28%.
His gaze fell on the second jade box, and with a slight lift of his palm, three spirit herbs were wrapped in a mysterious force and shot into the Alchemy Furnace.
Immediately after, his fingers tapped continuously, with three white flames enveloping the spirit herbs and starting to burn furiously.
With previous experience, Lu Yun’s control over the White Lotus Flame became more effortless.
Furthermore, by levelling his pill refining technique to 28% of Level Four, his skill had greatly increased.
Less than an hour later, the second batch of pills was successfully produced.
This time, there were five high-quality pills.
After refining them all, his energy value increased by 2200 points.
“Level up!”
Soon, the energy value on his panel plummeted.
[Consume 2300 energy points, Pill Refining Technique upgraded to Level Four,
51%]
Immediately after, a mass of complex memories flooded his mind.
Once merged, Lu Yun discovered his mind was even clearer, his senses were further heightened, the fragrance of pills in the room became heavier, and even the sound of the wind from outside the window became clearer.
“It seems that while the energy value improves my pill refining technique, it also enhances my spiritual power!”
Following this, Lu Yun began to refine the third batch of pills.
The next day, early morning.
As usual, after ending his cultivation, Lu Yun opened his panel to check his progress.
[Name]:Lu Yun
[Affiliation]:Flying Spirit Martial Academy
[Cultivation Technique]:Pure Yang Martial Arts Canon (Transforming Origin Chapter, Small Achievement 63%), Astonishing Wind Extreme Saber Manual (Fourth Layer: Breaking Extreme 100%), Life Destruction Saber Techniques (First Layer: One Strike End Sins 100%), Wind Thunder Manual (First Layer: Chasing Wind, Catching Lightning: 100%)
[Innate Talent]:Seven Stars
[Martial Arts]:Mid-stage Transforming Origin Realm
[Energy Value]: 88 (Automatically increases by two per day)
[Conception]: Slaughter Conception (First Rank 80%)
[Skill]:Pill Refining Technique (Level Four 75%)
[Talent]:White Lotus Flame (Third Rank 1%)
With the enhancement of the third-rank White Lotus Flame, combined with his current level of Alchemy, Lu Yun could easily achieve a 70% rate of high-quality pills in a single furnace, which was unbelievably formidable.
“As long as I can refine one more batch of fourth-grade pills and then convert them all into energy points, 1 can achieve Level Four Perfection for my Pill Refining Technique.”
“However, next, I must pass the Fourth-Grade Alchemist assessment.”
Once he passes the Fourth-Grade Alchemist assessment, Lu Yun would become an Honorary Executive of the Alchemist Alliance Headquarters, freeing himself from the shackles of monthly pill refining tasks..