Battle Through the Heavens: The Alchemist Starting from the Ye Family

Half a year has passed, and Ye Chen has clearly seen the changes in his ancestor. Although he has never said it, he knows very well that this old man probably doesn't have much time left.

"Ancestor, don't worry. Once I break through to the Dou Zhe level, I will definitely be able to successfully refine the first batch of pills. At that time, I will need your supervision." Ye Chen said with slightly red eyes.

"Alright, alright, then I'll be waiting, Ancestor..."

Ye Xun's aged face was filled with a gentle smile.

"This Qi Gathering Powder was personally refined by our ancestor, and I'm giving it to you now..."

Ye Chen nodded emphatically as he accepted the white jade medicine bottle from Ye Xun.

"I won't let you down!"

Returning to his courtyard, Ye Chen immediately locked himself in his room.

He needs to calm his emotions, adjust himself to his best state, and then condense his fighting spirit to break through to the next level!

With everything ready, Ye Chen slowly took a breath, then took out the jade bottle containing the Qi Gathering Powder from his storage ring. With the bottle slightly tilted, a pill with alternating blue and green colors rolled out.

Taking a sniff of the intoxicating fragrance, Ye Chen didn't hesitate for a moment and put it in his mouth...

As soon as the Qi Gathering Powder entered his mouth, a faint coolness spread through his mouth. A moment later, a surge of warm, pure energy rushed into his body, causing Ye Chen's body to tremble violently.

With a calm expression, Ye Chen ignored the turmoil within his body, formed a hand seal to absorb battle energy, and began rapidly converting the green medicinal power within his body into white battle energy.

Ye Chen's fighting spirit had already reached perfection. With this infusion, the fighting spirit in his dantian expanded instantly, constantly squeezing his meridians and causing a series of tearing pains.

Fortunately, Ye Chen's meridians had already been refined to the extreme, making them far more resilient than those of ordinary people, which allowed him to withstand such immense energy pressure...

"This is the time!"

With a low shout in his heart, Ye Chen's hand seals suddenly changed, transforming into a strange hand seal...

As the hand seals changed, the surging battle qi within Ye Chen's body seemed to be subjected to a fierce suction force, rapidly contracting towards his lower abdomen.

A powerful surge of soul force began to emerge from between Ye Chen's eyebrows, then penetrated deep into his dantian, where he began to control the rotation and compression of the fighting energy.

This is a crucial step in condensing the Dou Qi vortex. If it fails, the Dou Qi will drop to the eighth level, and it will take a year to recover the dantian...

When the fighting energy shrank to the size of a palm, it seemed to have reached its limit and could no longer continue.

Ye Chen frowned, but he had no intention of stopping there...

"Press it down again!"

He roared inwardly, and an even greater surge of soul power erupted from between his brows. He then manipulated the fighting spirit within his body, continuing to rotate and compress it.

Bang!

A muffled thud came from within his body, and then Ye Chen discovered that the original ball of Dou Qi in his dantian had disappeared. In its place was a single vortex of Dou Qi, slowly rotating on its own, looking like a star vortex...

Chapter Nine: The Formation of the Elixir and Passing Away (Part 1)

Once the Dou Qi Cyclone was formed, Ye Chen was already a Dou Zhe (Fighter).

The difference between a Fighter and the previous Nine-Stage Fighting Qi is fundamental. Before becoming a Fighter, the energy absorbed and transformed is called Fighting Qi, but only after becoming a Fighter can it truly be called Fighting Qi.

Of course, Ye Chen's current status as a fighter is not yet complete, because he has not yet cultivated any techniques, and the fighting spirit within his body has not yet been fully transformed into attributes.

The reason why most people cannot learn the essence of alchemy before becoming a Douzhe (a high-level martial artist) is because the Dou Qi (a type of martial arts energy) in the human body does not have attribute enhancement before becoming a Douzhe.

The fire-wood attribute battle qi required for alchemy is generated by using fire attribute battle qi to generate flames and using wood attribute to harmonize the violent factors within the flames, thereby achieving the goal of controlling the flames to refine medicinal materials.

But Ye Chen is different. He was born with starfire, so he doesn't need fire-attribute battle qi to condense flames...

The cultivation technique practiced by the Ye family is the Earth-rank, low-level fire-attribute technique, "Heavenly Yang Profound Fire Technique," which was passed down from the first generation ancestor of the Ye family. When combined with the Yang Fire generated by the Ye family's Yang Fire Ancient Altar, it can even produce effects comparable to high-level Earth-rank techniques.

It was precisely because of this cultivation technique and the existence of the Yang Fire Ancient Altar that the Ye family patriarch was able to break through to become an eighth-grade alchemist, thus securing the Ye family's position as an elder in the Pill Tower with its continuous lineage...

After stabilizing his fighting spirit vortex, Ye Chen took out a silver-white scroll from his storage ring.

This is the Heavenly Yang Profound Fire Technique passed down in the Ye family.

As soon as his palm touched the scroll, it transformed into a stream of information that flowed directly into Ye Chen's head.

After a long while, Ye Chen, who was sitting with his eyes closed, formed a strange hand seal, and then the milky white battle qi in his body instantly began to circulate according to the records of the cultivation technique...

Little by little, the originally milky white battle aura began to take on a silvery white hue, and warm flames emanated from it, making Ye Chen appear as if he were bathed in the warm winter sun.

The first transformation of battle qi does not take too long, so just two hours later, Ye Chen, who was sitting cross-legged, slowly opened his eyes.

"Although the Heavenly Yang Profound Fire Technique is of a high level, the battle qi it produces is gentle, and it is not very difficult for the cultivator..." Ye Chen thought to himself.

Of course, this does not mean that the Heavenly Yang Profound Fire Technique is weak.

The so-called Heavenly Yang Mystic Fire has two forms.

One type is like Ye Chen's cultivation, gentle and low-key in combat, like the warm sun in winter; while the other type is violent and domineering, like the scorching sun in summer.

The first form is used for cultivation and alchemy, and is easier to control; the second form is more used in conjunction with fire-attribute combat techniques for attack, and is more powerful.

After practicing the battle qi technique, Ye Chen seemed to be more energetic than before. His delicate and youthful face shone with a warm, jade-like luster, and he looked very spirited.

After successfully breaking through, Ye Chen immediately went to see Ancestor Ye Xun again, ready to begin his first real alchemy.

He knew very well that Ye Xun's life had truly come to an end...

This old man, who had dedicated his life to the Ye family, was like a candle flickering in the wind, which could be extinguished at any moment. Therefore, he wanted the old man to see the hope of the Ye family's rise in his final moments!

Before the crimson medicine cauldron, Ye Chen's small figure stood steadily. There were only two people beside him: Ye Xun, the patriarch of the Ye family, and Ye Zhong, the head of the Ye family.

Looking at the seven medicinal herbs and a first-order fire-attribute magic core that had been laid out in front of him, Ye Chen took a deep breath.

"This is Chen'er's first time refining medicine. Isn't it a bit too much to start by refining the Fire Essence Pill, the most difficult of the first-grade pills?"

Ye Zhong looked somewhat worried as he spoke.

"Hehe, don't worry. Since Chen'er dares to do this, he must be confident. Even if he fails once or twice, it doesn't matter." The old patriarch of the Ye family's voice, full of waning energy, came over.

Ye Zhong could only nod in response.

The Fire Essence Pill enhances the absorption speed of fire-attribute energy and is the lowest-grade auxiliary cultivation pill.

But precisely because it is the lowest grade, it is more difficult to refine.

Especially for many low-level alchemists, even a second-grade alchemist's success rate in refining this pill is no more than 70%!

Having practiced herbal extraction for half a year, these steps are now a piece of cake for Ye Chen.

He skillfully picked up a crimson flame grass and tossed it directly into the medicine inlet. The silver starlight in the cauldron instantly enveloped the herb and began to rapidly extract its medicinal power.

Ye Xun, watching this scene, nodded in satisfaction and smiled, "Chen'er's current technique and accuracy in refining medicinal herbs are comparable to those of ordinary second or third-grade alchemists!"

Ye Zhong, who was standing next to him, also nodded in agreement.

For someone like Ye Chen, who is highly talented and has great potential, the basic alchemist skills such as alchemy techniques, fire control, and soul power control are more important.

Once he has mastered these fundamentals, his alchemy skills will rise rapidly, and he will not encounter any bottlenecks before reaching the peak of his potential!

It took Ye Chen about three hours to extract all seven medicinal herbs.

However, this was extremely taxing on him, especially mentally, forcing him to stop...

"Hehe, Chen'er, take a rest. Alchemy is not something that can be accomplished overnight, so there's no need to rush." ​​Ye Xun's voice came at just the right time.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ye Zhong quickly walked to the medicine cauldron and looked at the seven jade boxes placed there, which contained the medicinal materials that Ye Chen had already refined.

Ye Zhong picked up the first one, looked at the bright red droplet inside, and saw flames flowing faintly within its translucency. He nodded in satisfaction.

"Not bad, very good!"

"The purity of the Flame Grass essence is almost perfect. It seems that your control over your soul power has also improved a lot, Chen'er!"

Upon hearing this, Ye Chen, who was sitting cross-legged to recover his fighting spirit, couldn't help but smile.

Another six months or so passed, and his Star Essence had long since reached one hundred points, illuminating his third Star Soul. And the ability he chose for this third Star Soul was naturally Soul Control…

Name: Ye Chen

Age: seven years old

Star Essence: 2

Star Soul: 3 points (Note: Special hidden Star Soul, primary Fire, secondary Wood.)

精：10；气：12；神：15；控火：2；控魂：2

Star Domain Skill: None

Star Orbit Technique: None

Connecting star trails of the same attribute will create star trail skills; maxing out the same star field will grant star field skills.

With this cheat code at his side, he will definitely enter the Pill Tower and become a core disciple within ten years!

Chapter Ten: Formation of the Elixir and Passing Away (Part Two)

After resting for about an hour, Ye Chen opened his eyes and came to the medicine cauldron again.

Next, all we need to do is melt that fire-attribute magic core, and then we can begin the pill-combining process...

The first part of this step was not difficult for Ye Chen, after all, his Starfire had grown a lot by now, and its temperature was no problem to fuse a first-order magic core.

As for alchemy...

The process of combining pills is the final and most crucial step in alchemy.

Different materials have different resistances to temperature. Therefore, alchemists must learn to control the temperature of the flame at any point within the cauldron at will...

Where low temperatures are required, the flame must be suppressed; where high temperatures are required, the suppression must be lifted to increase the flame temperature.

This process needs to be precise and fast; otherwise, even a second's delay could render the refined materials unusable.

This is also the ultimate test of an alchemist's control over flames and sensitivity to soul power.

Ye Chen took a deep breath, his expression grim as he looked at the demonic core that had melted into a clump of liquid in the medicine cauldron, and then at the medicinal herbs beside him.

The order in which the ingredients are added is recorded in the prescriptions; nowadays, you only need to strictly follow the instructions to add them in that order.

He picked up a box of black granular material and threw it directly into the medicine cauldron.

This is extracted from a medicinal herb called Orchid Heart Grass. Its purpose is to neutralize the berserk factors within the fire-attribute magic core, so as to prevent conflicts when it is fused with Flame Grass, which is also a fire-attribute medicinal herb.

Licking his dry lips, Ye Chen separated a wisp of his soul perception and painstakingly controlled the flames beneath the black particles, slowly raising their temperature...

This step wasn't just nerve-wracking for Ye Chen; even Ye Zhong, watching from the side, was on tenterhooks, as if he had returned to the time when his father taught him how to refine medicine for the first time when he was a teenager.

Inside the cauldron, tiny black particles, under the ever-increasing temperature, slowly drifted into the crimson liquid, deepening its color...

First step, success!

This is a very good start...

Next, Ye Chen carefully added the materials into the cauldron and then condensed and fused them at different temperatures. He actually managed to completely integrate all seven materials into the droplet in one go!

This scene brought a sigh of relief to all three people present...

Of course, Ye Chen wouldn't relax just because of this, since the alchemy wasn't truly finished yet.

After successfully combining the pills, Ye Chen still needs to slowly control the temperature of the flames to refine the droplets into solid pills. Only when the pills are truly formed will this pill-refining process be truly over.

A mountain nine ren high can be ruined by a single basket of earth.

Ye Chen didn't want this kind of thing to happen to him.

So after breathing a sigh of relief, he once again focused all his attention on controlling the flames inside the medicine cauldron.

Half an hour later, a fiery red pill of mixed elemental power finally appeared in Ye Chen's hand.

Fire Essence Pill, successfully refined!

Even with the composure of an adult, Ye Chen couldn't contain his excitement at this moment. He quickly walked up to Ancestor Ye Xun, held up the pill in his hand high, and said eagerly like a naughty child asking for a reward, "Ancestor, quickly take a look at the quality of the Fire Essence Pill I refined."

Even the same elixir can have subtle differences depending on who refines it.

Generally speaking, the more skilled an alchemist is, the higher the quality and the stronger the medicinal effect of the pills they can refine.

Holding this crimson pill that resembled a longan, Ye Xun immediately recognized it.

Although this Fire Essence Pill isn't quite top-grade, its quality is already high. Even seasoned alchemists who have been at the first-grade alchemy level for many years might not be able to refine it...

Looking at Ye Chen, who was standing in front of him with an anxious expression, Ye Xun's face was filled with hope and relief.

"Okay, okay, okay!"