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Chapter 153 Rapid Refining

"Really? You're not kidding us, are you?"

Frank's words immediately aroused suspicion among many branch presidents.

"If I had known you wouldn't believe me, I would have taken a picture of it long ago, so you can see for yourselves."

Frank took out a pure white jade bead, within which a blood-red flame was reflected, leaping within the unique array.

Although it lacks the power of the true Myriad Beast Spirit Fire, it is essentially identical in appearance.

In fact, because Frank had been feeding it magic cores from fire-attribute magical beasts for over a year, its color had become even more vibrant than when it was first acquired.

"Good heavens, it's actually real! My friend, where did you get this?"

Many branch presidents inquired and cast envious glances.

"Hehe, that young friend Xiao Yan registered as an alchemist in my Black Rock City. When I discovered that he possessed a strange fire, I decisively bought a wisp of the illusory fire with that old guy Otto, each of us taking a Purple Heart Breakthrough Pill, and enshrined it in the Alchemist Guild for observation."

For some people, spending a mere three or four million pills on a useless flame model would be a huge loss, but for these alchemists who have so much money they only have numbers to show for it, it's a sure-fire way to make a profit.

After all, every branch president of the Alchemist Guild can afford a few million, but not everyone can afford a strange fire.

"Two Purple Heart Breakthrough Pills? That's a good deal! I'll offer three, how about you sell them to me?"

"You step aside, old buddy, sell it to me, and I'll give you a brand new Grade 4 Soul Elixir recipe!"

"Frank, haven't you wanted my Grade Four Rainbow Fire Pill recipe for a long time? Give me this thing, and I'll give you one, how about that?"

Watching the branch leaders keep raising their offers, Frank said smugly, "Hehe, not for sale."

His appearance immediately drew disdain from the branch presidents present.

"Fine, if you won't sell, then let's go find Xiao Yan and see if we can get him to share a wisp of his illusory fire with us. We can't let that old guy Frank be so smug all by himself."

Unable to obtain the strange fire or the illusory fire from Frank, the branch leaders all turned their attention to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan's current strength is at the Dou Ling level, so pills that can enhance Dou Ling cultivation should interest him.

Or it could be a high-level Xuan-rank fire-based technique paired with combat skills.

These items would be worth five million gold coins anywhere, but none of the branch leaders felt this was a bad deal.

At their age, this money isn't for buying exotic fire or illusory fire, but for preserving the reputation of the Alchemist Guild.

While these branch leaders were talking, the competition below was also heating up.

Gradually, many alchemists, due to their impatience, failed twice in a row and were unfortunately eliminated from the competition.

Some alchemists, however, failed the first time and hesitated to start the second time, instead pondering the limited information in the prescription repeatedly.

As for Xiao Yan's side, there were a total of six medicinal herbs on the stage, and each one required about ten minutes to refine.

Just extracting all the medicinal herbs takes about an hour.

This was still too slow for Xiao Yan, so he simply threw all the medicinal herbs into the medicine cauldron.

This action stunned the alchemists in the VIP seats: "What is this kid doing? Even when cooking, you wouldn't just throw all the medicinal herbs in at once, would you? Doesn't he know that different medicinal herbs have different heat resistance?"

This method of alchemy was unheard of in the entire Jia Ma Empire, and Liu Ling, who took a quick look, also felt that Xiao Yan's alchemy was simply too bizarre.

"A country bumpkin is a country bumpkin. He makes medicine like he's cooking. He hasn't even extracted the heat-resistant herbs yet, and the heat-insensitive herbs have probably turned to ash."

Liu Ling secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that this guy had nothing remarkable about him except for his strange fire.

However, only President Fa Ma noticed the anomaly in Xiao Yan's medicine cauldron.

Even though all six medicinal herbs were thrown in, the temperature that each herb was exposed to was different.

"This—he can actually control six different types of fire within a single cauldron! What kind of soul power does that require?!"

What Xiao Yan is doing at this moment is equivalent to using his mind to do six things at once, which requires a huge amount of soul power to support it, otherwise one wrong step will lead to another.

Maintaining six different firepowers simultaneously requires an extremely large amount of battle qi, which is simply impossible for someone below the Dou Ling level.

It can be said that this refining method requires extremely strong soul power and battle qi, otherwise it will fail halfway through due to the depletion of battle qi.

However, he is now capable of doing this, but as the president of the Alchemists Guild, he has never thought of such a risky method.

"I don't really think it's worth taking such a risk just for the sake of speed, but this kid's level seems to have really far surpassed that of a third-grade student."

At this moment, Xiao Yan was completely focused on refining medicine. The six ingredients in the cauldron were refined by burning them at different temperatures to ensure that they all reached the same purity at the same time.

Those with low heat resistance were calcined over a low flame, while those with high heat resistance were smelted over a high flame. After twenty minutes, all the medicines simultaneously emitted the radiance of their essence, and their purity all reached over 95%!

With the completion of the first step, Xiao Yan began the second step, which was fusion.

The essence of all medicinal herbs is extracted and then combined and blended according to different proportions. The higher the grade of the elixir, the more different the combinations will have different effects.

This time, only a second-grade pill was being refined. Xiao Yan didn't need to speculate on other possible arrangements; simply treating it as a healing medicine was sufficient.

The second step of fusion also tests one's soul power, which is equivalent to breaking down these essences and piecing them together into a jigsaw puzzle.

Low-grade pills are fine, but for high-grade pills, the essence of the same herb may need to be broken down into several pieces and pieced together in different locations.

The combination of the six medicinal herbs didn't vary much, and Xiao Yan quickly integrated them together according to the healing pill combination he had deduced.

At this point, the essence here has formed a fist-sized liquid, and now the third step is to condense the core.

This step is rather simple and direct: use appropriate heat to continuously compress the essence until it is only the size of a pill.

The heat in this process cannot be too strong or too weak. Too strong a heat will cause the essence to be lost and evaporated, resulting in the pill burning or even the pill exploding. In severe cases, it can even directly explode the cauldron!

If it is too weak, the pill will not be fully compressed, resulting in not only loss of medicinal properties but also strange shapes.

This step wasn't a big problem for Xiao Yan either. Under the influence of the strange fire, the essence was compressed at an extremely fast speed, yet it was kept at the critical point of imminent evaporation, which was just right.

The three most important steps have been completed, and the elixir is now taking shape. Only the final step remains: to complete the elixir.

The process of forming a pill involves continuously kneading the pill with battle qi to make it more rounded, while simultaneously solidifying the surface to lock in its medicinal properties.

If you complete the first three steps, the resulting nascent pill will likely have about 50-60% of its medicinal properties if consumed directly. Only after completing the final step can the pill be considered complete, with its medicinal properties locked in, reaching 100% of its medicinal properties.

The final step tests not only soul power but also the amount of fighting spirit, in which Xiao Yan has a significant advantage.

Finally, when only a third of the hourglass had leaked out, Xiao Yan's pill was the first to be completed.

"Second-grade Bone-Regenerating Pill, complete!"

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