บท 124: Still Refining Traditional Pills Now
"Alchemy requires attention to the properties of medicinal materials."
"When different medicinal materials are combined together, there will be different effects. Countless attempts are needed to find the effective and correct combinations, and this is called a prescription."
"I won't say anything about you using this shovel to refine pills before, since you did succeed in refining them after all."
"But now that it's rusty, it will definitely affect the properties of the medicine. I can't tolerate your random and reckless behavior."
Zhang Daoming lectured with words, and there was criticism of Chen Xia in his speech.
This was also reasonable. After all, from ancient times to the present, there had never been a pharmacist who refined medicine by frying it.
Just how heaven-defying are you, Chen Xia, to be able to refine medicine, and even refine dao pills, with a rusty iron pot?!
Chen Xia lifted the iron pot, raised his eyebrows, and said with disdain.
"What era is it now? Still refining traditional pills?"
Zhang Daoming got anxious, "The medicinal materials this time are extremely precious. If they are ruined in the refining process, my life will be completely ruined!"
"It's okay." Chen Xia waved his hand generously, "If they are ruined, I'll compensate you."
"What will you use to compensate?!" Zhang Daoming pointed at Chen Xia's nose and shouted.
"If you hadn't borrowed ten thousand spirit stones from me and hadn't paid them back for five hundred years, how could I be as down and out as I am now?!"
"Even if that's the case, I won't say much about it. But now I'm just asking you to refine a pill, and you're so perfunctory. Do you wish I were dead?!"
Chen Xia frowned, touched his cheek, and felt a bit embarrassed. After all, he had owed the money for too long. He grinned and comforted him.
"Don't be impatient. When I make money in the future, I'll naturally pay you back double."
"I don't believe you." Zhang Daoming gritted his teeth, "If you don't refine pills properly for me today, I'll... I'll..."
He shouted twice but couldn't come up with anything.
Chen Xia opened his mouth, wanting to comfort him again.
"I'll jump into the sword sea from here!" Zhang Daoming pointed at the sword sea and shouted loudly.
Oh, that's okay then.
Chen Xia felt relieved because jumping into the sword sea wouldn't kill anyone.
The two argued for a while, and finally, Chen Xia agreed to use Zhang Daoming's alchemy furnace to refine the dao pill this time.
Zhang Daoming won against Chen Xia and had a flushed face, looking energetic.
Chen Xia followed behind him, always feeling that this old man was starting to act a bit abnormal mentally. Maybe he had been stimulated by something.
"Have you seen the big yellow dog?" Chen Xia asked curiously.
"I saw it once a few years ago." Zhang Daoming recalled and continued, "At that time, it was in the Sword Forest, spinning a broom on its head as if it was cultivating some kind of Counterattack Storm. I didn't quite understand it."
Chen Xia didn't understand it either, but as long as he knew that the big yellow dog was okay, that was fine.
Their steps were quick, and they didn't meet anyone else. In just a few dozen breaths, they arrived inside Zhang Daoming's cave.
"I've already prepared the medicinal materials. We can start refining directly." Zhang Daoming said, and at the same time, he looked at Chen Xia with a pleading expression.
"Success or failure depends on this time. I've bet my life on you. You must be serious!"
Chen Xia looked at Zhang Daoming and advised, "Although you don't have many years left to live, I still don't want you to bet your life like a gambler."
Zhang Daoming said sadly and angrily, "If it doesn't succeed this time, I'll only have a worthless life left. I've achieved neither high nor low in this life, and I don't even want to live anymore. Let it be if I die!"
"Hu." Chen Xia let out a breath. For the first time, he felt a bit of pressure regarding alchemy.
Fortunately, it was only a bit of pressure, so Chen Xia quickly let it go.
Life and death are predestined, and wealth and honor depend on heaven.
He was only responsible for refining. Whether Zhang Daoming could survive depended on fate.
Zhang Daoming's eyes were a bit red. He handed the prescription to Chen Xia and instructed at the same time.
"Since you've refined dao pills before, logically speaking, I shouldn't say much more..."
"Alright, then don't say it." Chen Xia interrupted directly and began to study the prescription in his hand.
The pill to be refined this time was a low-grade dao pill - the Great Mist Ice Pill.
Its effect was roughly to be able to condense great mist profound ice within the body. It was considered one of the top attributes among the water element and was the favorite of many water-element ethnic groups and water-element cultivators.
However, due to its rather large limitations, it was only a low-grade dao pill.
After Chen Xia read through the steps of refining the pill and thought there was nothing wrong, he said confidently.
"Open the furnace."
Zhang Daoming pulled the furnace open with force and lit the fire inside the alchemy furnace. The bright red flames reflected his aged face, making him look even older.
This was his last hope.
If it couldn't succeed, Zhang Daoming didn't want to live a debt-ridden life.
Not everyone could stand at the top like Chen Xia and look down on others.
The vast majority of people were the ones being looked down upon by Chen Xia.
Including Zhang Daoming.
The only mistake he had made in his life...
Was being mediocre.
The alchemy furnace had already started the refining process, and Zhang Daoming came to his senses and stood by nervously watching.
First, put in the medicinal materials, and then use slow refining techniques. These were all very common methods, although Chen Xia's techniques were not very standard.
However, the medicinal materials didn't seem to be wasted, so it should be okay.
While putting in the medicinal materials, Chen Xia added all the hundreds of points he had accumulated in the Heavenly Sword Sea to his fortune.
This was the alchemy of the new era!
Whether it succeeded or not depended entirely on luck. It was all about relying on heaven for food.
Chen Xia put all the medicinal materials in, and the next step was to close the alchemy furnace and control the flames and spiritual energy for slow refining.
This step was the most challenging in terms of technique and experience. Even the slightest mistake, such as a little leakage of spiritual energy, would ruin this dao pill.
Zhang Daoming clenched his fists tightly, extremely nervous. But thinking that Chen Xia had refined a dao pill once before, he felt that there should be no problem.
Chen Xia must know these alchemy techniques and experiences. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to refine the high-grade dao pill, the Observation Mystery Pill, last time.
Zhang Daoming let out a breath of stale air and was just about to persuade himself to relax.
Suddenly, Chen Xia took out the shovel from his arms.
Forget about closing the furnace. Stir-frying was his way of alchemy.
Couldn't a pill be formed without following the steps?
Was the path of alchemy such an inconvenient thing?!
The not-so-big shovel rudely stretched into the alchemy furnace, mixed with the medicinal materials, and started stir-frying.
Chen Xia held one corner of the alchemy furnace with one hand and even flipped it from time to time.
"He... He..." Zhang Daoming couldn't catch his breath and fainted directly, falling to the ground with a thud.
At the very moment when Zhang Daoming fainted.
Thunder roared in the sky.
Densely packed thunderclouds covered a kilometer-wide area of the Heavenly Sword Sea.
Many preparatory disciples looked in this direction, their expressions full of horror.
"It's Elder Zhang's cave. He's succeeded in refining the pill!"
"What kind of pill is it that can cause such a terrifying vision?!"
"Is Elder Zhang so powerful?"
"..."
There were continuous discussions.
The thunderclouds rumbled and fell, like angry roars.
It lasted for thirty breaths.
"Old Zhang, Old Zhang, wake up. You don't have to die." Chen Xia said with a smile.
Zhang Daoming woke up in a daze. Looking at the pill in Chen Xia's hand that was emitting terrifying cold air, he seemed to freeze for a moment, and then said in disbelief.
"It's done!"
He immediately shook his head again, his expression even more horrified, "No, it's not the Great Mist Ice Pill. It's the even higher-level Supreme Profound Ice Soul Pill!"
Zhang Daoming's pupils widened, looking at Chen Xia full of disbelief, and asked.
"Did you change the properties of the medicine?!"
This was equivalent to asking you to cook a dish of braised fish.
It was indeed braised, and the taste was even better.
But the problem was...
Is a crocodile also considered a fish?!
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