Nine Stars Killer Novel - Chapter 348

Chapter 348 Concoct Pills
After arriving at an alchemy room that had been prepared beforehand, Ye Feng placed the Wood King Cauldron in it and sat down cross-legged, familiarizing himself with the steps of alchemy.

Generally speaking, flames were enough to refine ordinary medicinal pills. In the Southern Divine Region, there was a wood called Charcoal Heart Wood. It had excellent burning power and was very flaming. It was suitable for refining ordinary medicinal pills.

He had already ordered someone to find Charcoal Heart Wood, and had already cut off one foot long and placed it in a corner of the room.

Ordinary Charcoal Heart Wood couldn’t be used to refine Xiantian-level pills. This was because Xiantian-level pills required extremely harsh flames. At the very least, they could be refined with Earth Fire. They even required Mystical Fire. The higher the level of pills, the more stringent the requirements for flames became.

Two hours later, Ye Feng opened his eyes and took out a lot of low-grade spirit medicines from his storage ring. The first step was to identify the spirit medicines.

Ye Feng’s knowledge of spirit medicines was not very profound. Ordinary spirit medicines could still be distinguished clearly. He planned to start with the Origin Consolidating Pill first.

Generally speaking, concocting Origin Strengthening Pills could be done with a dozen or so types of spirit medicines. It wasn’t very complicated, and it was basically a big deal. It wasn’t very difficult to concoct. Even a pill refiner with a slight aptitude could complete it. To put it bluntly, this was an apprentice-level pill.

After gathering all the ingredients for the Origin Strengthening Pill, Ye Feng took a deep breath and ignited the Charcoal Heart Wood. A strong flame appeared. The Wood King Cauldron was placed on the flame. When the flame burned the Wood King Cauldron, a faint fragrance appeared.

“This Wood King Cauldron is really a good thing. It can emit rosemary incense on its own to help the alchemist stay awake at all times!”

Ye Feng felt that his soul had been greatly benefited. This rosemary could help the development of his soul and keep people awake at all times.

The first spirit medicine was thrown into the Wood King Cauldron by Ye Feng. The water in the spirit medicine was quickly evaporated and turned into powder. Ye Feng followed the instructions in the golden book and began to form various hand seals to refine it.

The main purpose was to reject the impurities in the spirit medicine. Any spirit medicine had impurities in it. Only through methods could the impurities be removed, and the rest were essences.

Ye Feng’s technique was very strange. It was unique. If a true master alchemist saw it, he would definitely be shocked. Ye Feng was using the technique anyway. While refining spirit medicines, he formed various hand seals. There was even a trace of inscription soul technique mixed within it. Ye Feng used three different techniques.

Refining spirit medicines was to reject impurities and form hand seals to allow the medicinal properties of spirit medicines to be better displayed. As for inscription soul techniques, they were meant to enhance the quality of spirit medicines.

The first two were not difficult to understand. Normally, pill refiners could do it, but it was abnormal for a rookie pill refiner like Ye Feng to be distracted.

For ordinary apprentices, repelling impurities was already considered good. As for sealing to improve the quality of spirit medicines, they needed to at least reach the level of a Xiantian level alchemist.

The first spiritual herb was quickly broken down, and a crystal-like object appeared. It was the essence of the compressed spiritual herb.

Second, third, fourth …

Along with the successful extraction of the first spiritual herb essence, Ye Feng’s technique became more and more skilled. In the blink of an eye, more than ten spiritual herbs were extracted by Ye Feng, and the essence inside was peeled off.

The second step, Harmonious Pill!

According to the introduction in the golden book, Ye Feng began to enter the second procedure, fusing more than ten kinds of spirit herbs into pills. This required precise control, and it was not as simple as fusing them casually.

There was strict control over who was first and who was later. Moreover, time could not go wrong. Once something went wrong, the entire spirit medicine would be scrapped, and there was even the possibility that the furnace would explode.

The medicinal properties inside the spirit medicines were extremely terrifying. If a Houtian martial artist consumed top-grade spirit medicines, they could directly explode their bodies. The same was true for refining pills. The energy inside the spirit medicines was too terrifying. If they were careless, the spirit medicines would explode, directly causing the furnace to explode.

The two sparkling droplets of water began to fuse together, entering the Core Formation stage. Ye Feng was very careful. He even mobilized all his divine souls to watch every move in the Wood King Cauldron, not daring to relax at all.

Very smoothly. The two sparkling droplets of water successfully fused together, making a good start. The next two droplets were much smoother. The third and fourth droplets, Ye Feng strictly followed the procedures in the golden book, not daring to make a single mistake.

After an incense stick of time had passed, the ten drops of sparkling water successfully fused together and turned into a dark green oval shaped pill the size of a quail.

The last step was to grind and refine the oval-shaped dark green pill into a pill.

There were even more tricks. Ye Feng surrounded the Wood King Cauldron. Hundreds of hand seals entered the Wood King Cauldron. They were seeping into the pills that had already been formed. If the tricks were wrong, the pills would also be scrapped. It was possible that they would become useless pills.

This was because this was the first time Ye Feng could only refine one Origin Strengthening Pill. If he was proficient, he could refine five or six at a time. A true pill refiner could even refine dozens of Origin Strengthening Pills at a time.

He didn’t know that Ye Feng had already deviated from the path of pill refinement. Even according to the introduction in the golden book, he had deviated from the trajectory.

Ten spirit herbs could refine five Origin Strengthening Pills at the very least. Ten crystalline droplets of water could break down five parts, but Ye Feng fused them together and turned them into a pill. This was the strength of Dan Chen Zi, a great pill refining genius in the cultivation world.

Although the number of pills had decreased, the quality of the pills had increased fivefold, turning the original five pills into one pill.

Two hours passed and the medicinal pill gradually shrunk. A faint medicinal fragrance appeared. A medicinal pill the size of a longan rotated in the wooden king cauldron. The faint medicinal fragrance came from this place.

He was still one step away from becoming a pill.

The last step was relatively simple. The main thing was to control the stability of the pill and retract the fire in time. It seemed to be a complete pill. If one retracted the fire carelessly, the pill might break and the pill might lose its spirit.

“Collect!”

Ye Feng suddenly let out a low shout. The charcoal wood flames were all extinguished. The Wood King Cauldron let out a buzzing sound, and the formation inside started to stop operating.

After the Charcoal Heart Flame was extinguished, Ye Feng did not rush forward. He felt a burst of exhaustion. He did not expect that refining pills would consume so much soul power.

After a short period of recovery, Ye Feng walked in front of the Wood King Cauldron and saw a crystal clear medicinal pill appear, emitting a precious light.

“Top grade Origin Strengthening Pill!”

Ye Feng was shocked. Normally, the highest quality Origin Strengthening Pills were only high-grade. As for top-grade pills, it was impossible. Because of the restrictions of materials, being able to refine high-grade pills was considered the limit.

The medicinal pill in front of him was already infinitely close to the Xiantian level. The only thing that wasn’t up to the standard was that the grade of the medicinal pill wasn’t high enough. If a top-grade medicinal pill was added, it was entirely possible to upgrade the grade of the Origin Strengthening Pill to the Xiantian level.

“How is this possible? Could it be because of me joining the Inscription Soul Technique?”

Ye Feng was relieved to think that his Inscription Soul Technique could raise the level of medicinal pills.

“Let’s see how it works!”

He swallowed the Origin Strengthening Pill in one mouthful and transformed into a sweet liquid that entered Ye Feng’s body.

“Five times the energy of the Origin Strengthening Pill!”

Ye Feng was once again shocked. Not only was this Origin Strengthening Pill of high grade, it was even five times the energy. This was simply unimaginable.

“Looks like I really picked up a treasure. I didn’t expect Senior Dan Chen Zi’s pill refining technique to be so powerful!”

Ye Feng wasn’t so enthusiastic about alchemy just now. After the Origin Strengthening Pill appeared, Ye Feng had a great desire for alchemy. If he could concoct a large number of spirit pills, there was no need to worry about my strength not increasing.

An alchemist could create a sect, or even flourish for a thousand years. If he didn’t have outstanding abilities, he wouldn’t be able to gain a foothold. The Pill Lake Sect was famous for its alchemy techniques, and it was only then that genius disciples appeared. Zeng Feng was extremely powerful. If it wasn’t for the coveting of other sects, he wouldn’t have fallen into the fate of being annihilated.

Even the 10,000-year-old sect did not develop as quickly as the Pill Lake Sect. At that time, Dan Chen Zi was known as the Ancestor of Ghost Pills. His alchemy techniques followed a strange path, and the medicinal properties of each pill exceeded common sense.

In the next few days, Ye Feng did not give up. He continued to experiment and refine new pills.

“Yuan Increasing Pill, Yuan Strengthening Pill, Yuan Cultivating Pill, Marrow Cleansing Pill, Bone Strengthening Pill …”

Pills appeared one after another, each with five times the energy. Unfortunately, they were all Houtian pills.

After a day, Ye Feng finally felt a burst of exhaustion. Continuing to use the Inscription Soul Technique was a great test for Ye Feng’s soul power.

“Looks like I’m going to try Xiantian level pills. No matter how many ordinary Houtian pills I refine, it won’t be of any use to me!”

Ye Feng was skilled in the technique, so he intended to try Xiantian level pills.

He took out ten ordinary spirit medicines, one top-grade spirit medicine, and three auxiliary spirit medicines. These were the ingredients for refining the Xiantian Pill.

A Xiantian pill, if consumed at the ninth level of the Houtian realm, could increase the chances of a breakthrough by eighty percent. It could be considered the lowest grade Xiantian pill.

Taking a deep breath, refining Xiantian level pills was tens of times more difficult than refining ordinary pills. The level of spirit medicines was higher, and the medicinal properties were also stronger. Refining them was even more tedious.

After resting for a cup of tea, Ye Feng completely recovered his soul, ignited the charcoal wood, and prepared to refine it.

The initial stage was very smooth, and the purification of spiritual medicines was very good. Ye Feng was even secretly pleased with himself. In one day, apart from failing once, he had basically succeeded in refining all the spiritual medicines.

Very quickly, he entered the second step. The process of fusing the pills merged more than a dozen spiritual medicines together.

“Bang!”

When the two different spirit medicines merged together, a muffled thunderous sound came from the inside of the Wood King Cauldron, followed by a wave of green smoke.

“I failed!”

Ye Feng was a little puzzled. There were no mistakes in the refining process. Why did the phenomenon of exploding pills appear?

“I understand. The reason for the Charcoal Heart Flame is that its temperature cannot meet the requirements for refining Xiantian Pills!”

Ye Feng quickly found the reason. It came from the charcoal wood. Ordinary charcoal wood flame concentration could not meet the requirements of Xiantian pills, so the phenomenon of exploding pills appeared.

After understanding, Ye Feng gave up and continued to refine. If he wanted to refine a Xiantian level pill, there was only one way to find Earth Fire.

In Ye Feng’s impression, only the Heavenly Spiritual Academy’s pill temple possessed a place with Earth Fire.

A day later, a skinny old man entered the Daluo Academy. Soon, he flew into the main peak, passing through a layer of ripples and entering the main hall.

“Reporting to Hall Master, mission failed!”

The skinny old man had a dejected expression on his face as he looked at the Great Hall Master with a helpless expression on his face.