Chapter 73 Chapter 73: The First Alchemy

In the narrow cave, the flames in the medicine cauldron were reflected on the mountain wall, constantly beating with teeth and claws. Xiao Yan focused his attention on the tumbling flames in the medicine cauldron, and his slightly pale face was covered with beads of sweat. Refining medicine for a long time is a job that consumes a lot of battle energy, and Xiao Yan's skills at this time, It's just that the lowest level of the yellow class is low, and it is difficult to have any advantage in terms of strength and durability. Therefore, it is not easy for him to keep refining medicine for nearly two hours in front of the medicine cauldron.

Squinting his eyes slightly, watching Xiao Yan succeed in refining the Blood Coagulation Grass into white powder again, Yao Lao, who knew that he had reached the limit, nodded slightly, and said softly: "Okay, let's rest for a while." Hearing this, Xiao Yan's shoulders that he was trying to maintain his balance suddenly stepped down, his body seemed to lose all strength, and he lay limply on the icy ground, panting heavily, his chest heaving continuously, his whole body was numb. He couldn't even move a finger now. "Practice at this time, the effect is the best."

Taking a glance at Xiao Yan who was lying on the ground like ooze, Yao Lao said indifferently. After laziness and diligence were at war between heaven and man in his heart for a while, Xiao Yan could only wailed and sat up reluctantly, made a practice handprint with trembling hands, and then slowly closed his eyes. Seeing Xiao Yan's appearance like this, Yao Lao smiled, and shifted his gaze to the dozen or so jade boxes placed in front of the medicine cauldron. The jade boxes were filled with pale white powder extracted from blood coagulation grass , These are the results of Xiao Yan's previous efforts.

Looking at the jade box from left to right, the pale white color became more and more intense. When the last jade box was obtained, the white powder in it almost reached the pure white texture. Looking at this extremely obvious progress, Yao Lao nodded in amazement, and once again praised Xiao Yan's excellent soul perception in his heart. Glancing at Xiao Yan who was recovering his fighting spirit, Yao Lao was leaning cross-legged against the stone wall, closing his eyes and resting his mind leisurely. Now Xiao Yan has only extracted the first material, and there are two more materials waiting for him to slowly work hard.

After closing his eyes and cultivating for nearly an hour, the cyclone in Xiao Yan's body, which had been dimmed due to the exhaustion of fighting energy, finally emitted a bright luster again, and this time the halo seemed to be even brighter than a few hours ago. Brightened up a little bit. Slowly opening his eyes, most of the tingling and powerless feeling all over his body dissipated. He twisted his neck, and the sound of bones colliding made Xiao Yan let out a comfortable breath. "Have you cultivated? Then let's continue." Yao Lao smiled as he opened his eyes, looking at Xiao Yan who had become lively again.

Shaking his head with a wry smile, Xiao Yan finally understood after the painful process of refining medicine that he was fooled by the old man. In the past, he just stretched out his palm to burn the medicine casually, which drove countless people crazy. The elixir is hot out of the oven, such a simple process also left Xiao Yan with the impression that refining the medicine is extremely easy, but now when he does it himself, he realizes that this thing is simply more expensive than hard labor moving ore. tired. Now that I understand, it seems a bit late, so Xiao Yan could only sigh depressedly, and sat in front of the medicine cauldron again, and began to refine the essence of the other two medicinal materials.

With the previous experience of refining blood coagulation grass, this time Xiao Yan was obviously much more relaxed. After burning eight vitality fruits and ten poppies, he finally succeeded in extracting the configuration from the two medicinal materials. The things needed for healing medicine. The thing extracted from the vitality fruit is a kind of slightly black fine particles. These fine particles have the effect of removing stasis and promoting blood circulation. In the wild, if some experienced injured mercenaries do not have enough healing medicine, they will often Twist the air fruit into minced meat to relieve injuries.

Extracted from poppies, it is a light red liquid. This liquid has the effect of paralyzing nerves and can be used for pain relief. Looking at the three medicines neatly placed in front of Xiao Yan, Yao Lao nodded slightly, and said softly: "The required materials have been extracted, now, let's fuse their medicinal powers together, this is refining The most important step in medicine." Taking a deep breath, Xiao Yan nodded solemnly, skillfully threw the pure white powder into the medicine cauldron, and then smoked it with warm fire for about ten minutes. After the pure white powder turned slightly red, Quickly pour the poppy liquid into it.

As soon as the liquid entered the medicine cauldron, it was wrapped in pure white powder, and after a little tumbling in the flames, the two gradually merged into a light red viscous liquid. The soul perception is working hard to control the temperature of the flame, slowly smoking the light red viscous liquid. Under the continuous smoking of the flame, the viscous liquid gradually turned into a dark red paste shape. Staring intently at the dark red paste in the medicine cauldron from the transparent mirror, Xiao Yan hesitated a little, and threw the small black particles of the vitality fruit into it.

The small black particles entered the medicine cauldron, but there was no change. The large groups of small particles bounced back and forth in the flames, but they refused to blend into the dark red paste as desired. "The resistance of various materials to temperature is different, so you must learn to control the flame temperature anywhere in the cauldron as you like. Where low temperature is required, you must suppress the flame, and where high temperature is required, you must Let go of the suppression and increase the flame temperature..." Looking at Xiao Yan who was sweating profusely, Yao Lao said calmly.

Licking his dry lips, Xiao Yan nodded, and quickly separated out a bunch of soul perception, trying hard to control the flame under the fine particles to slowly raise the temperature. "Boom..." As the soul's perception released its suppression on the temperature, a cluster of uncontrollable flames surged up, and within a short time, a small half of the black particles were burned into ashes. . On the one hand, the soul perception has to maintain the temperature of the flame on one side, and on the other hand, it has to increase the temperature of the flame on the other side. This dual-purpose requirement really gave Xiao Yan a headache. However, after going through several dangerous situations, Xiao Yan finally calmed down from the flurry of hands and feet, touched the cold sweat on his forehead, took a deep breath, and poured all the fighting energy left in his body into the fire. Inside the medicine cauldron, the tiny black particles finally exploded unbearably under the continuously increasing temperature, and pinches of jet-black powder slowly floated into the ball of light red paste, leaving behind The color of the person is dyed deeper... When the last pinch of black powder floated into the paste, Xiao Yan heaved a long sigh of relief, his palm slowly left the burner, and with the withdrawal of Xiao Yan's palm, the flame in the medicine cauldron was also gradually extinguished . Looking at Xiao Yan who was panting non-stop, Yao Lao smiled slightly, and with a wave of his palm, the lid of the medicine cauldron flew off, and with a move of his right hand, a large group of dark red paste in the cauldron leaped out of thin air, and finally suspended In the cave half empty. Glancing at the mass of dark red paste exuding a strong medicinal smell, Yao Lao cut off the palm out of thin air, and with the wave of his palm, the mass of dark red paste that was constantly flowing was also divided into at least hundreds of small pieces of paste liquid. Taking Najie from Xiao Yan's hand with one hand, Yao Lao flicked his finger, hundreds of small jade bottles filled the narrow cave immediately. After setting up the jade bottle, Yao Lao waved his hand casually, and the liquid paste in mid-air fell into the jade bottle accurately. Taking a jade bottle casually, Yao Lao smiled and handed it to Xiao Yan, jokingly said: "Congratulations, you have successfully refined medicine for the first time!" Can't wait to take the jade bottle, Xiao Yan looked at the not-so-pure crimson medicinal liquid inside, but couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement and pride in his heart. "Hey, from now on, I'm also a pharmacist!"