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Chapter 4: On the Feasibility of Thunder and Fire Alchemy

Ever since the idea of ​​using thunder instead of wood energy to refine the elixir came into Xiao Yu's mind, he couldn't stop. He even wrote the first paper in Doupo World specifically for this idea.

On the Feasibility of Refining Alchemy with Thunder and Fire

In order to perfect this idea, Xiao Yu began to experiment.

He has no money now, and his only savings are the five hundred gold coins he saved from the expenses Xiao Zhan sent him over the years.

Five hundred gold coins were already a lot. This amount of money could allow an ordinary family to live a happy life, but it was still too little to buy medicinal herbs and magic cores.

Low-grade medicinal materials with few years of age would cost at least a few dozen gold coins each, and a first-level magic core, not to mention, would cost four or five hundred...

The most important thing is the medicine cauldron. Each basic medicine cauldron costs thousands of gold coins. This is something Xiao Yu can't afford at all.

He didn't want the five hundred gold coins to go to waste, so the surrounding flowers, plants and trees were in trouble.

Since there are no medicinal herbs, then use flowers, plants and trees instead of herbs. Xiao Yu is not really going to make the elixir now, he just wants to verify the thunder and fire alchemy method. These herbs and trees are enough.

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Xiao Yu spent the whole morning collecting a large pile of flowers and plants, a few trees, and some fruits and vegetables.

As for the alchemy furnace, Xiao Yu planned to use an iron cooking pan instead.

Put two iron pots together, then weld them with fire-attributed fighting spirit, place three small iron pillars at the bottom for support, and then poke two round holes under the belly to serve as fire openings.

A simple (dilapidated) version of the two-mouthed tripod appeared in front of Xiao Yu.

"Whoo~"

Letting out a long sigh, Xiao Yu folded his hands and said, "Okay, everything is ready, let's start refining the elixir!"

Xiao Yu stretched out his left hand, and yellow flames gushed out. Generally, if you want to condense real fire with fighting spirit without the help of medicine cauldron, you need the strength of a fourth-grade alchemist, but because Xiao Yu has a special physique and two kinds of source fire that are only stronger than the strange fire, he is naturally not included in this list.

Carefully controlling the flame to enter the medicine cauldron, if he was not careful, the fire mouth would show signs of melting. Xiao Yu was so scared that he quickly controlled to reduce the flame temperature.

These are the only two frying pans he has. If he loses one, he will have to buy a new one.

After seeing the flame stabilized, Xiao Yu grabbed a wild grass with his right hand and threw it into the medicine cauldron.

The weeds withered and turned black the moment they came into contact with the flames. In just a few seconds, only a layer of ashes remained at the bottom of the cauldron.

Xiao Yu shook his head slightly: "I didn't expect that the first refining would fail. The flame temperature is still a bit high."

"That's right. After all, it's not a real medicinal herb, so it's normal that it has poor fire resistance."

"continue."

He didn't get discouraged. If it didn't work this time, he would try again.

that's it

Second time, failed
The third time, failed
The fourth time, failed
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Finally, on the ninth time, Xiao Yu successfully extracted a ball of pink essence from a flower.

Looking at the flower essence in the medicine cauldron, Xiao Yu smiled happily.

It took me nine times to extract the essence for the first time. It seems that my talent for alchemy is still a little lacking.

He thought so
However, all things are difficult at the beginning. Now that he has succeeded in the first step, the remaining extraction will be much simpler.

Following the previous steps, Xiao Yu began to refine one by one, a blade of grass, a piece of wood, a grape, a sweet potato. Anyway, he threw in whatever he had. With the experience of the previous refinement, this time it was much smoother.

After extracting the essence of many plants, Xiao Yu began the next step, tempering!

A bright flash of lightning appeared in his right hand, and violent energy surged and was firmly trapped in his palm. Xiao Yu carefully sent it into the medicine cauldron.

With the previous experience of controlling fire, Xiao Yu did not dare to be careless this time and controlled the intensity of the lightning to the minimum.

The extracted essence squeaked and emitted black smoke the moment it came into contact with lightning, but Xiao Yu didn't care because the black smoke was the impurities remaining in the essence.

After all the essences were refined, Xiao Yu found that compared to before, these essences were much clearer and their luster was brighter.

This step can be regarded as electrolytic purification, which is to remove impurities and retain the pure nature to achieve true perfection.

The last step, melting the pill, is the most difficult step. After all, the medicinal properties of medicinal materials are different. If the flame is not controlled well, the essence will turn to ashes in an instant, and the energy in the medicinal materials will also explode, causing the furnace to explode.

This is also why wood energy is used as a catalyst. Medicinal materials belong to the wood element, and wood energy can neutralize the medicinal properties and catalyze the fusion of the elixir.

Xiao Yu slowly brought the refined essence closer and looked at the situation inside the medicine cauldron with some nervousness.

When the essences touched each other, Xiao Yu's soul perception detected resistance, but the resistance was not great.

He understood instantly that these were not the essence of medicinal materials after all, and there was no conflicting medicinal properties. There was just a slight characteristic barrier.

If that was the case, Xiao Yu could directly force them together, but he didn't intend to do so.

After all, the focus of this experiment is whether thunder can replace wood energy and solve the problem of conflicting medicinal properties.

Xiao Yu put lightning into the cauldron again and started trying with the smallest power.

After testing a little bit at a time, the essence still showed no sign of blending together, and gradually, it was already evening.

Xiao Yu did not lose his patience and continued the boring fusion.

Finally, after increasing the intensity of the lightning to one tenth of the power he could release, the essence in the cauldron trembled and quickly merged together.

The lightning finally broke through the blocked parts of the flower and grass essences, allowing them to completely merge.

Just like the properties of matter are determined by molecules, and molecules are composed of atoms, to fuse two substances with different properties so that their properties combine with each other and produce better properties, we need to recombine the atoms of the two substances into new molecules to form new substances.

It is the same with alchemy, which is to reshape different medicinal materials at the molecular level, combining many medicinal material atoms together to form new molecules. The properties of matter are determined by molecules, so the new combination and arrangement of molecules becomes a new substance, which is the elixir.

Like water, water is composed of water molecules, and water molecules are composed of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.

The function of lightning is to disrupt the original molecular structure of the essence, reorganize them into a new stable molecule, and then the new molecules form substances. The substances are blended into a circle, which is a pill.

Xiao Yu has already completed the most difficult and most critical step of melting the pill, so the next step is to make the pill. This step is very simple, just wait for the fused essence to cool down stably and form a pill, then it can be taken out of the furnace.

This step did not take Xiao Yu much time.

But after a while, a freshly-made "pill" appeared in Xiao Yu's hands.

"Hahahaha... I did it, damn it, I did it!"

Looking at his masterpiece in his hand, Xiao Yu smiled happily. Even in the past twenty-three years on Earth, he had never studied or done anything so seriously.

But in the Doupo world, he broke the iron rule that alchemists in the Douqi Continent must have wood in the fire, and he felt a great sense of accomplishment.

If this world had a thesis system, then Xiao Yu would definitely win the Alchemist Lifetime Achievement Award with his "On the Feasibility of Thunder and Fire Alchemy"!
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(End of this chapter)