Fighting Break Sphere: My Days as a Tutor at Canaan College

Chapter 103 Fighting Qi Strength
It is common knowledge among alchemists that there are three most important conditions for refining pills.

That is: materials, fire, and soul perception.

Materials naturally refer to the ingredients used to make elixirs.

The fire refers to the flame needed for refining medicine. It is impossible to use ordinary firewood to refine pills. You must use the Dou Qi flame catalyzed by the fire-attributed Dou Qi, or the strange fire of heaven and earth that you have refined yourself. Only in this way can you control the flame as if it were your arm, and relatively easily refine some difficult-to-dissolve materials into the pill you need.

The last condition, soul perception, is used in refining pills to control the intensity of the fire. It requires complete control of every detail in the medicine cauldron and the progress of refining the pills.

Otherwise, if there is any deviation along the way, no matter how favorable your first two conditions are, it will be in vain.

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Liu Xi poured the fighting spirit flame into the medicine cauldron, but suddenly closed his eyes and calmed down.

He knew that the Dou Qi flame he condensed at this moment was not the fire for refining medicine, and it still lacked one element, which was a trace of wood-attributed Dou Qi in his body.

A moment later, when he transformed the thin trace of wood-attributed fighting spirit in his body into a green airflow and poured it into the medicine cauldron.

His soul perception sensed that the orange-gold flames that were running rampant in the medicine cauldron were neutralized and seemed to become much easier to control.

Moreover, according to the principle of mutual generation and mutual restraint among the Five Elements, wood generates fire. The fighting spirit flame in the medicine cauldron did not weaken in strength after becoming docile. On the contrary, its toughness and calcination durability increased a lot, and it was easier to control.

While maintaining the output of flames, Liu Xi recalled the ingredients of the medicinal materials needed for the "Blood Coagulation Powder" and the order in which they should be dissolved and extracted.

"A plant of blood-clotting grass..."

"One vitality fruit..."

"Poppy--hmm? What the hell is the name Poppy?"

"..."

Of course, complaints are complaints, and although Liu Xi doesn’t know why people in this world magically named this medicinal herb that is usually used for pain relief "poppy", since everyone calls it that, he naturally cannot be an outlier.

However, just as he finished complaining, a blood-clotting grass that had just been put into the medicine cauldron through the hole went wrong due to the burning flames in the cauldron!
In just a moment, in his perception, the blood coagulation grass turned into black ashes in an instant.

"Damn it! What's going on? The steps and techniques are obviously correct. Did I get distracted just now?"

Frowning slightly, and taking some time to adjust his mind, Liu Xi let out a light breath and started a new round of refining.

But things don't always go as planned.

When he threw in a new blood coagulation grass again, it turned into ashes in just a moment.

At this time, Liu Xi's brows were locked, and the fire and wood attribute fighting spirit that was input into the medicine cauldron was temporarily subsided and did not continue.

He sat cross-legged and stared at the medicinal herbs beside him, thinking carefully about what had just happened.

If the first time it was possible that he was distracted, then how could he make the same mistake the second time when he was paying so much attention?
Is he really that lame?

To know.

This is only the first step in refining medicine, dissolving the herbs and extracting the useful ingredients. This step tests the basic skills of a pharmacist. If even this step is poor and cannot be completed, not to mention the subsequent steps, it is impossible to refine a real pill.

But after thinking about it, Liu Xi realized that this was actually a situation that should not happen.

After all, no matter how mediocre his original alchemy skills were, he was still a genuine alchemist with a first-class alchemist badge certified by the Gama Empire Alchemist Guild. It was impossible for him to make mistakes in the basic skills of the first link.

"So, what's the problem?"

After racking his brains, he still couldn't figure out the root of the problem. Unable to bear it any longer, Liu Xi gritted his teeth and decided to try a few more times. He really didn't believe this!
The fighting spirit flame mixed with a slight amount of wood-attributed fighting spirit was poured into the medicine cauldron. Then, Liu Xi put the first medicinal ingredient needed to refine the "Blood Coagulation Powder", the blood coagulation grass, into the medicine cauldron through the hole.

This time, his soul consciousness was firmly aware of the whole process, with his full attention and consciousness more focused than ever before.

Rusty~
According to his perception, the blood coagulation grass turned into... ashes in just a breath of time after being put into the medicine cauldron.

numbness.

Three consecutive failures made Liu Xi really numb.

"Damn it... Luckily the Xiao family sent a lot more medicinal herbs, otherwise the blood-clotting grass would be almost gone after trying twice..."

Feeling depressed, Liu Xi tried to make fun of himself.

"No! I'll try a different herb this time. If I can't make the 'Blood Coagulation Powder', I'll try the 'Rejuvenation Pill'!"

Thinking of this, Liu Xi took action immediately.

However, when his soul perception discovered that the first medicinal ingredient "Spring Return Leaf" for refining the "Rejuvenation Pill" had the same "end" as the blood coagulation grass after being put into the medicine cauldron.

He felt like he was about to collapse...

Is he so bad and unlucky in the art of alchemy?
Even for that scumbag of my original self, this first step in refining medicine had always been smooth sailing.

Feeling frustrated and disheartened, he threw a herb into the medicine cauldron without following the order.

And as if nothing unexpected happened, this medicinal ingredient also could not last for more than a breath under the burning of the fighting spirit flame in the medicine cauldron. Before he could dissolve and extract useful ingredients from it, it turned directly into ashes.

"That's impossible. The temperature in the medicine cauldron is clearly in the appropriate range. How could this happen? And I have also maintained the Dou Qi that maintains the flame at an appropriate frequency... Hmm? Wait, Dou Qi... Dou Qi strength..."

A flash of light flashed across his mind, and he realized something. He stopped paying attention to the situation inside the medicine cauldron and instead controlled the frequency of the transmission of his fighting spirit, weakening it and reducing it by half.

Then, he casually threw some medicinal herbs into the medicine cauldron.

One breath...

Two breaths...

This time, the medicinal herbs lasted for three breaths under the burning flames before turning into ashes.

"Finally, I found the reason..."

Liu Xi withdrew his hands from the fire channel, his eyes bright.

The root of the problem has never been his medicine-making techniques, steps, or technical details, but rather him as a person.

Ever since he completed the transition and conversion of his martial arts in Qingshan Town and practiced the "Shenghuangyan Jue", the intensity, frequency, quality, toughness, and power of his fighting spirit have undergone earth-shaking changes.

The same strand of fighting spirit that was output was equivalent to several or even dozens of strands before.

The condensed fighting spirit flame may not seem to have changed much on the surface, but in fact it is completely different. The temperature and heat in the medicine cauldron are controlled by him to be exactly the same as when his original body was refining medicine before. This is true.

However, the flame itself transformed from Dou Qi, the difference in quality and strength of the restrained and powerful Dou Qi, will be truly reflected when the flame comes into contact with the medicinal materials and burns.

Rather than saying that the medicinal herbs were burned to ashes by the Dou Qi flame, it would be more accurate to say that they were crushed by the concentrated intensity of the Dou Qi flame.

The Dou Qi flame that was condensed from a wisp of Dou Qi in the past and the flame that is now condensed from an unknown number of wisp of Dou Qi have the same temperature and frequency on the surface, but can the intensity be the same?

The internal frequency of a burn is equivalent to several previous burns.

In fact, he had never thought in this direction, otherwise he would have discovered this when he failed in refining the medicine for the first time.

"It's time to change the frequency of the fighting spirit that condenses the flame. I can't use the original method anymore..." Liu Xi muttered, looking at his palm.

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(End of this chapter)