Legendary Clan Chief-Chapter 33 - 32 Hu Guyue’s Discovery_1

33: Chapter 32: Hu Guyue’s Discovery_1

33 -32: Hu Guyue’s Discovery_1

These piles of residual herbs from the alchemy process were indeed a result of his failure.

When Xiao Chen really started to work with the medicine materials, he realized how truly difficult it was to become a real alchemist.

Even with his exceptional talent and supreme alchemy inheritance, a career in alchemy wasn’t something anyone could handle lightly.

All alchemists were practitioners who have fed on countless spirit medicine, honing their skills through ten thousands of trials until they could manipulate herbs with skill and ease.

Underneath the alchemy furnace was top-class charcoal.

Xiao Chen carefully manipulated the charcoal, ensuring that the fiery blaze did not unintentionally reduce the herbs to ashes.

Despite numerous failures, Xiao Chen’s strong perception allowed him to feel the violent factors within the flame.

Whenever these violent factors gathered and were likely to erupt, like a shadow, his soul perception would disperse them, keeping the flame in a submissive state.

Once the first herb had been refined, Xiao Chen squinted his eyes slightly, going over the prescription in his memory once again.

“One Strengthening Bone Grass, one Vitality Fruit, two Blood Flowers, Heavenly Star Grass…”

At the moment, Xiao Chen was working on a prescription from the “Medicine Collection” for a Bone Strengthening Powder that practitioners in the Bone Tempering Realm could use.

It was a basic medication.

If Xiao Chen succeeded in brewing this, he would be steps away from becoming a junior alchemist.

After confirming the quantity of the medicinal materials from his memory, Xiao Chen looked at the dancing flames through the Pill Furnace.

His soul perception tightly suppressed the violent movements of the flame.

Placing the Vitality Fruit into the Pill Furnace, and with the experience from refining the Strengthening Bone Grass earlier, Xiao Chen didn’t feel as flustered as he initially did.

The vibrant fruit, despite its hard shell, couldn’t resist the intense heat for long before it gradually started to melt away, revealing a deep yellow flesh within.

In no time, Xiao Chen, a newbie in Alchemy, had refined the Vitality Fruit.

The essence of the Vitality Fruit turned into powder and was placed into a specially prepared wooden box.

In the dimly lit Stone House, the flaming furnace danced underneath, casting an odd glow on Xiao Chen’s face.

After sitting consecutively for around two hours in front of the furnace, where a large amount of Combat Qi was constantly transformed into emerald energy, Xiao Chen was physically exhausted.

Having managed to clean the Pill Furnace, he sat in a meditation position to fully recover the Combat Qi within his body.

After more than an hour of recovery, his dried meridians once again became luminous, and he found that the flow between the Combat Qi seemed smoother.

Stretching lazily to get rid of the fatigue in his body, his bones popped pleasantly.

Feeling refreshed, Xiao Chen swiftly straightened up and once again, returned to his task of refining medicine.

For the past few days, Xiao Chen had been fully immersed in the world of Alchemy.

The path, which drove countless people mad with obsession possessed an infinite charm, that made him vow not to rest until he succeeded.

Familiarity breeds assurance.

Two successful attempts gave Xiao Chen tremendous confidence, his control over the violent flame highly refined, becoming gentler and more obedient.

In the following process, several medicinal herbs were smoothly refined into essences, some became crystalline powder particles and were placed into the wooden box, while others were transformed into liquid and stored in porcelain bottles.

Gazing at the different herbal powders in front of him in the wooden box, Xiao Chen knew that the next step was crucial.

It involved the merging of different herbal essences, the miracle of turning the rotten into a marvel.

When it comes to accomplishing a great task, the final step is the hardest.

This last step was the stroke that would bring the dragon to life!

Heaving a deep sigh, Xiao Chen suppressed the excitement in his heart.

With practiced hands, he placed the pink fluid from the porcelain bottle back into the furnace and lowered the temperature of the charcoal fire, slowly heating it until it started to simmer.

His right hand quickly added the pale yellow Strengthening Bone Grass powder into the mixture.

As the pale yellow powder entered the furnace, it instantly dissolved into the pink liquid and disappeared.

He then introduced another type of medicinal powder into the furnace, and something unexpected happened.

The medicinal powder and the pink liquid repelled each other like two poles of a magnet, refusing to merge together.

Xiao Chen, watching the two medicinal materials intently, was sweating profusely, his efforts to no avail.

He racked his memory for the knowledge ingrained in him through the Alchemy Path inheritance, and before long, he understood the problem.

Just as every object has a melting point, each medicinal material has a unique fire resistance.

The two materials must reach their respective critical points before they can perfectly blend.

This is when the power of Soul Perception truly shines, and why alchemists are so rare.

With weak Soul Perception, one could not detect the optimal moment for the materials to merge.

Everything he had done up till now had been in vain, and he had wasted precious medicinal materials.

Once the problem was identified, the process became tediously simple: He needed to control the temperature of the flame to find the ideal point of fusion through trial and error.

As Xiao Chen was fretting, an old man and a young boy were frolicking amidst the bustling crowd.

Strangely, no matter how packed the crowd was, anyone who approached the pair would involuntarily change direction, veering off to one side.

The pair seemed to be enthralled by the surging crowd.

Their previous displeasure was cast aside.

Looking at the proud and confident Gu Yuan Tribespeople, the boy started to have second thoughts about his original perception of Xiao Chen.

Without realizing it, the pair arrived near Xiao Chen’s tribal chief residence.

At the entrance stood two stoic armed War Soldiers, silently watching passerby’s.

Suddenly, the elder stopped in his tracks and sniffed the air aggressively.

The boy looked at him, a little taken aback.

After a moment, the elder said, “Strengthening Bone Grass, Vitality Fruit, Blood Flower, and what seems to be Heavenly Star Grass.

Someone must be concocting the Bone Strengthening Powder, but the Heavenly Star Grass isn’t part of the original recipe.”

Being a Grand Alchemist, the elder was well-versed with the elixirs for Martial Art Repair.

He had learned and memorized recipes like Bone Strengthening Powder decades ago.

“Elder Hu, are you sure?

An alchemist residing in such a desolated place is rather astonishing.”

The boy’s initial reaction to the old man’s claim was disbelief.

Alchemists were not easy to come by, even more so in such a remote area.

In the stone house, Xiao Chen, after surviving several dangerous incidents, finally merged all the medicinal materials together.

Under high temperature, impurities were continuously burned away into smoke.

When no more impurities surfaced, the medicinal materials had been transformed into several soybean-sized granules.

However, these pills varied in size, shape was uneven, and had a dark hue.

At that moment, an anomaly occurred in the furnace – several elixir suddenly burst open and disappeared into thin air.

Looking at the remaining three, unevenly-shaped, pitch-black pills in the furnace, Xiao Chen nearly broke down in tears but took solace in the fact that at least there were three left.

Just when Xiao Chen was putting away the pills, a voice came from outside, “Chief Xiao, there are foreigners here to see you.”