C25 Contact with Alchemy

In the Wu Family Mansion, there were two most important places. One was the Martial Skill Pavilion, where the precious martial skills were collected, and the second was the Pill Room.

At this moment, Wu Hui appeared within the Pill Room, and in front of him stood a woman wearing a Blue Clothes. The woman was around 25 or 26 years old, had bright eyes, white teeth, and a noble and elegant demeanor. Her smile gave off a kind feeling, and she was Wu Family's Elder in charge of medicinal pills, Hai Qinglan.

Wu Hui did not know of Hai Qinglan's previous identity, and he only knew that Hai Qinglan had already been in Wu Family for five years. At that time, he would already be stuck in Nine-star of Yellow Grade for two years, and Hai Qinglan's arrival gave Wu Hui hope, but his problem could not be solved by pills. But a pill master would be respected where he went. Hai Qinglan was bestowed with great authority in the clan as a revered elder.

Hai Qinglan smiled and looked at Wu Hui, her gentle eyes revealing a look of satisfaction. Wu Hui, you are really fortunate to be able to activate the fire attribute. Wu Family truly does have your own Pill Master." Hai Qinglan said indifferently, with a gentle voice.

Wu Hui stood respectfully at the side, his eyes sweeping across the bottles of pills behind Hai Qinglan and his eyes blazing with fire.

"Please teach me how to refine pills, Elder Hai."

Noticing the urgency on Wu Hui's face, Hai Qinglan merely smiled lightly and said, "If you want to do something good, you must first take advantage of the weapon. In order to learn pill refining, one must first understand the general knowledge behind pill forging."

Wu Hui knew that his performance was a bit urgent, so he scratched her head in embarrassment.

Hai Qinglan smiled slightly and said, "Pill Masters are divided into nine ranks. For Pill Masters like us who are capable of stimulating the secondary fire attribute, the highest achievement is only third grade."

Hai Qinglan slowly explained as he listened attentively from the side.

"The highest limit can only reach third grade?" Wu Hui frowned as his goal was not just third grade Pill Master.

"The third grade Pills that can already be used on Innate Martial Cultivator's body were already extraordinary. There are four conditions to refine pills. One is a fire attribute physique, and only people with fire attribute physiques can stimulate the fire spirit, allowing them to be able to refine pills using fire. The second one is a pot for concocting pills, Pill Furnace. The third is a recipe, and the last is naturally the herbs required for refining pills."

"fire Spirit." This was the first time Wu Hui had heard of this thing, and he could not help but ask, "What is a fire spirit?"

"When stimulating the secondary fire attribute, the fire spirit will appear, and it will become the basic condition for refining pills. The strength of the fire spirit will directly affect the level of the pills, and it will also affect the quality of the pills, so the fire spirit will also be divided into nine levels, which will be corresponding to the ninth levels of Pill Master. For fire attribute Pill Master, the highest level of fire spirit can only be upgraded to the third level, so your accomplishments will be limited to third grade." Hai Qinglan patiently explained, not the slightest bit impatient.

"No wonder the secondary fire attribute Pill Masters are unable to reach third grade or higher. It turns out the secondary fire spirit is unable to break through to the third level." Wu Hui finally understood what Hai Qinglan meant when he said that a secondary fire attribute Pill Master had the highest success rate. Wu Hui secretly inspected his own body, hoping to find the existence of the fire spirit.

At the center of his dantian, the Five Elements Pearl had already changed. When Wu Hui made his breakthrough, the original green color had already been dyed red. And currently, the outermost edge of the Five Elements Pearl was the green colored Wood Martial Qi. Further inside, the red color had also formed into a smaller red bead. But Wu Hui did not feel any fire spirit.

"The fire spirit's activation requires some techniques. I'll teach you how to activate it now, and how to control it." Hai Qinglan waved her hand, and a thin scroll appeared in her palm.

When Wu Hui looked at the scroll that seemed to appear out of thin air, his eyes burned with passion.

It’s a Storage Ring. As the Guardian of the family, Hai Qinglan naturally had Storage Ring. Beside her, only the Innate expert Wu Qingfeng and Wu Haiya Chief of the Wu Family had Storage Ring. As for the others, including the second elders and third elders, they did not have it. So it could be seen how precious Storage Ring were. The lower-level Storage Rings were only one square meter large, and could only store some valuable things. The middle-level Storage Rings were about ten square meters large, while the higher-level ones were a hundred square meters large. However, in the entire Xin Si City, it was hard to find a middle-level Storage Ring. To be able to possess a low-level Storage Ring, one's identity would already be very high. Hai Qinglan's ring was naturally only a low-level Storage Ring.

Hai Qinglan handed the scroll over to Wu Hui and Wu Hui accepted the scroll. He placed his hand on it and after a while, he slowly extended his hand out. Fire full of spirit appeared at his palm.

The instant the flame appeared, Hai Qinglan's eyes revealed a trace of astonishment, and she thought to himself, "What a strong comprehension ability. Back then, I used an entire day to activate the fire spirit. Judging from its spiritual nature, it's much stronger than before."

"This is the fire spirit." Wu Hui was excitedly watching the fire at his palm. Just a moment ago, using the technique that Hai Qinglan had taught him, Wu Hui felt that the Fire Martial Qi inside the Five Elements Pearl was extremely active. The Fire Martial Qi in his body had gathered together and left the body through his own palm.

"That's right, this is a fire spirit. To be able to stimulate a fire spirit in less than a quarter of an hour, your talent in alchemy is much better than mine. What a pity…" Hai Qinglan revealed a look of pity.

Wu Hui naturally knew why it was a pity. Although his own fire attribute was secondary, because of the body of five elements, it had become different from the others. Wu Hui believed that he could definitely become a Pill Master with third grade above.

"Since you have already activated the fire spirit, I will begin to teach you how to refine pills. I will refine one first. Take a look. The first time is always the most important."

The Pill Room was divided into two parts; the front part was where pills and herbs were stored and the back part where the pills were being refined.

Wu Hui followed Hai Qinglan to the room at the back, where he saw a Pill Furnace about two feet tall, situated in the middle of the room. The Pill Furnace was dark colored with two handles at the top, and there were two air vents at the top of the handle. A praying mat was placed in front of the Pill Furnace.

Hai Qinglan was seated herself on the mat with legs crossed. With a wave of his hand, the Pill Furnace's roof fell to the side. Hai Qinglan placed her hands on the handle of the stovepipe, and two clumps of scarlet red flames passed through the air vents into the Pill Furnace.

After approximately a quarter of an hour, Hai Qinglan's hands finally left the Pill Furnace. What was astonishing was that although Hai Qinglan's hands had left the Pill Furnace, the blazing flame within the Pill Furnace still did not disappear. With a wave of his finger, several types of medicinal herbs were thrown into the Pill Furnace. After the Pill Furnace was closed, her hands once again attached themselves to the handle, concentrating on controlling the flame.

After close to an hour, Wu Hui suddenly smelt a medicinal fragrance, his mind went refreshed as he stared at the Pill Furnace.

"It's about to produce a pill." At this time, Hai Qinglan reminded Wu Hui with a smile.

The fragrance of the medicine became stronger and stronger, forming a wave of white medicinal qi above the Pill Furnace.

When Hai Qinglan saw the white medicinal qi, she was satisfied. With a wave of her hand, the furnace lid flew into the air.

"Withdraw!" Hai Qinglan placed her hand on the Pill Furnace. Following a low cry six white pills appeared on her palm.

"Healing pill of First Grade, not bad. There are six pills; five were middle, and one of them was a high quality pill."

Looking at the pills in Hai Qinglan's hand, Wu Hui felt great passion.

Hai Qinglan stood up, placed the pills into a white bottle, and kept it in the Storage Ring.

"What you just saw was the procedures of pill refining. The first step is to "ignite a fire" and infuse the fire spirit into the Pill Furnace, forming a pill fire. The second step is to use the Spiritual Sense to control the fire spirit, remove the impurities, and refine the herbal essence. The third step is to fuse the fire spirit into a pill. Each pill was divided into different grades, Low, Medium, High, and Supreme. We were able to produce six pills in total and high-level one so this time is already very lucky." Hai Qinglan's face was slightly pale, but he still maintained his smile as he made the introductions.

After completely looking through Hai Qinglan's refining process, Wu Hui gained a basic understanding of refining pills.

As the most important cultivation resource of the Martial Qi Continent, medicinal pills were undoubtedly the most sought after, especially those that help to break through bottlenecks or had other special effects, and they were favored by the Cultivator.

After completely displaying the process of refining the pellet in front of Wu Hui, Hai Qinglan brought Wu Hui to the room in front of them and took down a small booklet from the bookshelf. She passed it to Wu Hui and said, "This is the herbarium, and has recorded some commonly seen grade one to four medicinal herbs. If you want to refine pills, it would be best if you can remember all the medicinal herbs within the herbarium. At the very least you should remember the Grade One Herbs that are needed to refine a Grade One Pill."

"Thank you, Elder Hai." Wu Hui bowed respectfully. Carrying the herbarium in his arms, Wu Hui returned to his room. A night later, Wu Hui once again appeared in the Pill Room.

"How much can you remember from the herbarium?" Seeing Wu Hui coming forward once again, Hai Qinglan was slightly surprised. She had told Wu Hui to remember the effects and medicinal herbs from the herbarium. As far as she was concerned, it was impossible to remember in ten days or half a month. Even if it was only to remember the grade one medicinal herbs, it would still take at least six to seven days.

The herbarium was all-encompassing. It was distributed to the Pill Master by the Pill City when he received the Pill Master's certification. The Pill City was a colossus of the Tianfeng Empire, with an extraordinary status.

Every one of the Pill Masters had to go to the Pill City to be certified, and obtain the rank of Pill Master. And then, they would get a herbarium, in which many types of Grade Four Herb were documented.

Hearing Hai Qinglan's question, Wu Hui nodded and replied, "Elder Hai, I have remembered all the things on the herbarium." Wu Hui's face revealed a trace of passion. In one night's time, he had only skimmed through the herbarium. The effects of the medicinal herbs were imprinted in his mind. He had remembered all the contents in the book. Furthermore, Wu Hui discovered that there were some medicinal herbs connected to each other. If they were combined together, there would be an unimaginable change.