Star Farming, the eldest lady relies on alchemy to counterattack

Chapter 16 Alchemist

Chen Nan's face flushed, he lowered his head guiltily, and replied, "Yes!"

Chen Nan felt guilty, but also had some doubts. The quality and taste of food on D-class planets were indeed average, but hadn't the Contract Master lived here since childhood? Why did he dislike these common foods so much?
However, taking care of the master's food, clothing, housing and daily life is indeed the contractor's responsibility. Now that the master is not satisfied with what he has done, he can only find ways to improve it.

As for cooking courses, he has never taken any. In fact, the regulations of the contractors require every contractor to learn cooking in order to facilitate serving the contractor.

But he was born in the Chen family of Guangdu. The Chen family was quite powerful in the entire A110 star and could be ranked as a second-rate family. He had a group of slaves in his family since he was a child. Although he was just a son, his father was of high rank and the family had given him all the resources he should have. Even if he was matched with a contract master in the future, the contract master would probably be from a big family. Besides, he had seen a lot since he was a child how humble the contractor was in front of the contract master, so he was very resistant to matching with the contract master. Instinctively, he only wanted to improve his combat power and escape from the bondage.

Ning Xuan changed her major to medicine. Logically, she should have started studying in the first year of junior high school. However, when she looked at the first-year junior high school schedule, all of them were courses about learning about exotic plants. Although such courses were basic, for Ning Xuan, it would be a waste of time to take them as a separate course. She would rather take the learning materials back and study privately than attend classes with a group of half-grown children, which would definitely slow down her progress.

Ning Xuan chose the course on the processing and usage of common exotic plants for the third year students in the Alchemy Department.

Ning Xuan used to refine elixirs. The common processing methods for elixirs were nothing more than washing and drying them, screening out the different medicinal parts, and then processing them with fire, frying, steaming, stewing, roasting, making wine, refining, and extraction. Of course, some special medicinal materials may require more complicated preparation methods, which require a long period of accumulation and exploration.

Therefore, in Ning Xuan's view, the processing and use of medicinal materials are the foundation and core part of the entire medicine refining process, and are also the focus and difficulty of learning medicine refining. It is worth her putting more effort into this.

However, after Ning Xuan sat in the classroom of the Alchemy Department and listened to a class and flipped through the textbook, she couldn't help but feel disappointed. There was only one way to deal with exotic plants here, which was to wash them, crush them to extract the juice, and then mix them with different juices to make medicines of different names. It was really simple and crude.

For example, the commonly used healing medicines of various names are the juice of blue flame grass mixed with the juice of other exotic plants.

The dosage forms of the drugs are also very simple, all of them are bottled liquid medicines.

Ning Xuan remembered that most of the medicines she had refined before were pills and elixirs. Only when her skills were not good enough and she could not refine pills would she make other dosage forms, such as powders, ointments, aqueous solutions, etc. Of course, different dosage forms also have different scopes of application. For example, ointments are the most convenient for treating external injuries, and powdered powders are the fastest to show the effect of hemostatic drugs.

If the intermediate alchemy course was all this kind of class, then she felt it was completely unnecessary to study. She only needed to memorize the medicinal effects of various exotic plants and practice more. After class, Ning Xuan stopped the teacher who was about to leave, found a picture of an alchemy furnace on the Starnet, and asked about the precautions and instructions for using it. Unexpectedly, the teacher gave her a complicated look and said, "Student, before the Cataclysm, when plants hadn't mutated yet, most plants could be refined through methods like quenching and steaming. However, since plants mutated, placing exotic plants in the alchemy furnace requires the spirit controller to use their own spiritual power to channel the energy contained in the plants, otherwise the furnace will inevitably explode."

"To use the alchemy furnace, you must be at least a B-level spirit controller. The requirements can be lowered for female spirit controllers, but they must still be C-level spirit controllers with a spiritual power value of over 500. Ning Xuan, you don't meet the requirements yet!"

"If you really like it, you can complete all the courses for the intermediate alchemist and pass the final exam to enter the advanced alchemist class. The requirements there are not as strict as for the lower grades. Although you can't use the alchemy furnace, you can observe and learn!"

Seeing that Ning Xuan was willing to learn, the teacher patiently and carefully explained a lot to her.

Ning Xuan then began to look up the content of the final examination for the intermediate class of the Alchemy Department. She wanted to finish this final examination as soon as possible and then take a look at the learning content of the advanced class.

After Chen Nan finished teaching students in the fighting department, he came to the cooking class as requested by Ning Xuan. His appearance caused a great sensation. On a D-level star, a B-level mental power is already a powerful figure, but Chen Nan is S-level. At first, his classmates thought he was here to find Ning Xuan.

"Chen, Instructor Chen, Xuanxuan, Xuanxuan transferred to the Alchemy Department today to attend classes. If you want to find her, you have to go to the Alchemy Department!" He Mo came over with a red face and spoke. Although he said so, he was howling in his heart, asking him not to leave and to stay. Oh my God, when he got closer, Instructor Chen looked even more handsome, with skin as white as jade, a high nose bridge, charming eyes, and slender legs. Under this black shirt, he must have hard abdominal muscles. I really want to touch them!

The more He Mo thought about it, the redder her face became. Hu Tao couldn't help but nudge her with her elbow and whispered, "Control yourself, your saliva is flowing out!"

Chen Nan recognized that the two girls seemed to have a good relationship with Ning Xuan, so he bowed politely and said, "Thank you for letting me know. I'm here for class!" After that, he found a relatively empty corner and sat down.

Chen Nan's attitude in class was very serious, and he learned how to process ingredients very quickly. Under his influence, the classroom atmosphere was surprisingly good. At the end of the class, Teacher Qu looked at the processed ingredients collected, which was twice the amount than usual, and he was so happy that his mouth was grinning from ear to ear.

In the afternoon, the cooking class had a practical class. Each student had a pot and a pile of ingredients in front of them. Teacher Qu was immediately happy to see Chen Nan there. The ingredients she brought today were more advanced than usual. She hoped that the students could maintain the state they had in the morning and make delicious food!
Unexpectedly, before the class had even started for five minutes, the pot in Chen Nan's hands exploded, and the sticky meat residue was blown all over the floor. With the help of other students, it took more than ten minutes to clean up the scene. As a result, a few minutes later, Chen Nan's new pot exploded again. Looking at the embarrassed Chen Nan, Teacher Qu gently persuaded him, "Instructor Chen, perhaps you are not suitable for learning this. Why not look at other courses? Or you can consider only taking classes on food preparation!"

(End of this chapter)