Douluo's Blue Silver Family

Chapter 40 Jinchuang Medicine

After the Dragon-Seeking Compass was completed, Yuan Changqing put it into his storage bracelet.

Move the parts of the alchemy furnace onto the worktable and begin assembling them in sequence.

When you finally see the finished product, a purple-blue stove comes into view. Its shape is nothing special, with three legs and two handles.

Beside the blacksmith's stove, Yuan Changqing placed the assembled furnace directly on it and began warming it up.

Then he began to test each function of the alchemy furnace. After all the tests were completed and no problems arose, Yuan Changqing was relieved.

The alchemy furnace was left to burn on the stove, and it was checked periodically. If there were no problems after these procedures, it was considered a success.

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With the alchemy furnace successfully forged, Yuan Changqing could proceed to the next step.

Upon arriving in Soto City, Yuan Changqing sent the two women to find his aunt at a shop in Soto City, and then went alone to a pharmacy in the city to buy medicinal herbs.

This time, I mainly want to buy some common herbs so that I can buy more without spending much money.

Those more precious medicinal herbs would be a waste of money if Yuan Changqing, who is still a novice in alchemy, used them as practice materials.

Yuan Changqing mainly bought some medicinal herbs for external injuries, as well as herbs that could neutralize weaker poisons.

Cheap is the standard for purchasing medicinal herbs this time, so that even if some herbs are wasted, it won't cost much.

Afterwards, Yuan Changqing bought the necessary medicinal herbs and went to find Catherine and the others.

When I arrived at my shop and saw that they were all there, I went over to them.

"Auntie, are you busy?"

When the aunt saw it was Yuan Changqing, she said, "What are you busy with? Just doing some accounting. And you? Have you finished buying your things?"

"Yes, I've already bought them. There weren't any particularly rare medicinal herbs to buy, so everything was relatively quick."

"Hmm, are you getting ready to go back? Why don't you stay in the city and accompany Yu Yan and Catherine to Soto City?"

"I won't go. I need to go back and try refining medicine in the alchemy furnace. You go with them later."

After Yuan Changqing finished speaking, he said to Catherine and Wang Yuyan, "Later you can go to the city with your aunt and see the sights. You can also stay at your aunt's place for a few days."

"OK."

"OK."

After the two women agreed, Yuan Changqing didn't intend to stay any longer, as he was still preoccupied with alchemy. He said goodbye to his aunt and left.

"Aunt, you're more familiar with the city, so please look after Catherine and Yuyan for a few days. They'll stay with you for a few days, and then I'll head back first."

The aunt replied, "Alright, go back. We are all Soul Masters, what are we afraid of? Don't worry."

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After returning to Lanyin Village and having lunch, Yuan Changqing went into the blacksmith shop again.

Because Yuan Changqing is not a fire-attribute soul master, alchemy is not very convenient for him, so he needs to use a stove to assist in alchemy.

However, since the martial soul is Blue Silver Grass, and its soul power leans towards vitality, it might not be without its benefits in alchemy. At least it would be beneficial to continue nurturing the pill after it is formed.

According to Yuan Changqing's analysis of the alchemy process, after the pill is formed, it may not be fully mature and needs to be nurtured for some time before it can exert its medicinal effects.

After preparing everything, Yuan Changqing silently recited the general outline of the "Eternal Spring Manual" to clear his mind of distractions and calm his emotions.

Arriving at the stove, they used the bellows to slowly increase the fire and heat the alchemy furnace.

Then, Yuan Changqing came to the alchemy furnace and began to control the fire core. Now the flame energy in the stove has entered the energy gathering core.

The fire control core, controlled by Yuan Changqing, began adding medicinal herbs into the alchemy furnace, refining them into a medicinal liquid.

Each medicinal herb requires constant experimentation. Only in this way can we determine the appropriate heat and time required to refine each herb into a medicinal liquid.

Yuan Changqing spent the entire afternoon without successfully testing any medicinal herbs, making it a waste of time.

Yuan Changqing could only slowly and repeatedly experiment and then record the results, which were invaluable alchemy experience.

Although the experiments are currently using common medicinal herbs, once we become more proficient and gain a better understanding of the properties of other medicinal herbs, we will reduce the number of failures.

Therefore, Yuan Changqing's daily work became verifying the refining process of medicinal materials.

A few days later, Yuan Changqing recorded the information on refining external injury powder and ordinary detoxification pills, his face full of a sense of accomplishment.

After the final refining process began, the medicinal herbs were placed into the alchemy furnace one by one in order to begin the refining process.

After these medicinal materials are refined, the remaining residue is discharged from the alchemy furnace through a pre-reserved channel, and what remains is the medicinal liquid.

Then, Yuan Changqing closed the furnace lid, using one hand to control the fire and continue refining the medicinal liquid, while placing the other hand on the Spirit Gathering Core hand seal on the furnace body to gather soul power.

Once you see through the observation window on the furnace lid that the liquid has completely coalesced into a single mass and color, shut off the fire control core and transfer your handprint to the solidification core.

By inputting soul power, the solidification of the medicinal liquid is accelerated. Since this is the refining of medicinal powder, it is directly solidified together, unlike alchemy which requires controlling the separation of medicinal liquid to solidify into a pill.

After the liquid solidified, the hand on the solidified core moved to the furnace lid, which also had a spirit-gathering core.

At this point, the solidified medicinal powder is nurtured by two spirit-gathering cores. The medicinal powder cannot yet be called a medicinal powder because it is still a solid mass.

Once refined, it can be taken out and directly ground into powder.

Once the medicinal powder has been warmed and become glossy, it can be taken out of the furnace.

Thus, this batch of medicinal powder is officially complete. As for its effects, they are still unclear. However, Soto City has a Soul Arena, so we can go there and test it on the injured to find out.

Then, Yuan Changqing continued to refine the remaining external injury powder. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect, and things went more and more smoothly afterward. He finished refining all the powder in almost a day.

Finally, Yuan Changqing gave the medicine powder a descriptive name – Golden Wound Medicine – perhaps as a way of remembering his past life.

The wound medicine was ready; all that remained was the antidote pill. However, time didn't allow it today, so Yuan Changqing called it a day and prepared to continue refining the antidote pill tomorrow.

At dinner time, since Catherine and Wang Yuyan were at their aunt's in Soto City, only their grandparents, parents, and younger siblings were at home; their younger siblings had all gone to their aunt's.

The siblings were 17 years old and couldn't stay at home, so they went to help out at a shop in Soto. It seems that young people, no matter what world they live in, all want to live in the city.

After all, the countryside isn't as crowded or lively as the city, and that's probably why!

During the meal, Yuan Changqing mentioned that he had successfully refined a medicinal powder called Jin Chuang Yao (Golden Wound Medicine).

Then, she took out a small jade bottle and showed it to her grandfather and the others.

Douluo Continent is, after all, a fantasy world, and there is a lot of jade in this world, especially ordinary jade.

Therefore, before preparing to refine pills, Yuan Changqing prepared many such small jade bottles, which would be useful for refining pills in the future.

Yuan Changqing also told his grandfather and the others that they didn't know how effective the wound medicine was yet, and after they checked it, they took it back.

(End of this chapter)