Capítulo 1847: Chapter 1836: Unattractive Appearance
“Then I will listen to my brother-in-law.”
After accepting the inheritance of the Clan Leader’s crown, Xu Xiaoqing’s physique had improved sowhat under the True Qi tempering.
Now entering the True Origin Realm, even if Ning Fan were willing to use Spiritual Power, it would be difficult for Xu Xiaoqing’s physique to undergo further refinent.
This is also the reason Ning Fan did not help her with Bone Marrow Cleansing.
In addition to notifying the branch office, Xu Ruolan also began procuring nourishing items from herbal markets across the country at Ning Fan’s request.
She even had Huo Qiuran purchase so illicit items like tiger bones from the black market.
Ning Fan was naturally preparing for alchemy with all this effort.
The first batch of herbs would take a few days to reach Zhonghai.
During this ti, Ning Fan wasn’t idle; he was fair to everyone.
Ning Fan specifically asked Lan Kexin to take a day off and helped her improve her physique.
Though this process consud a third of Ning Fan’s Spiritual Energy, he deed it worthwhile.
Originally intended to find Ouyang Feifei, but the first batch of herbs had already arrived.
“Forget it. Ouyang Feifei has a cultivation foundation. If the alchemy succeeds, I won’t need to do anything.”
Ning Fan put this matter aside for now, focusing his attention on the herbs in front of him.
Tiger bone, deer antler, lingzhi, ginseng… all are top-quality herbs.
Not to ntion their dicinal value, their market price alone exceeds fifty million.
Especially that three-hundred-year-old wild ginseng costing nearly thirty million.
Though expensive, they are worth the price.
The peculiar slls emanating from these herbs made Ning Fan’s Golden Core react, starting to absorb the Spiritual Energy scattered from the herbs.
“These are just ordinary herbs. If they were those legendary celestial treasures, wouldn’t that be…”
Rembering those mythological legends, Ning Fan’s eyes were filled with longing, “They absorb the essence of the sun and moon. Using them for alchemy might truly achieve dayti ascension.”
Ning Fan shook his head, returning to reality from dreams.
Forget about celestial treasures; even so wild herbs have beco rare now.
Since it was his first attempt at alchemy, Ning Fan didn’t know what to expect, so he specifically notified the sisters about the retreat.
The sisters were familiar with retreating, so they weren’t too worried.
But for safety’s sake, after Ning Fan entered the Quiet Room, Xu Xiaoqing took a long leave and waited outside.
“This silly girl!”
Feeling touched by all this, Ning Fan secretly motivated himself to refine the legendary Spirit Pill.
According to the Xuan Tian Sect’s alchemy technique, it’s about using Pill Fire to burn herbs, expelling impurities to extract their essence, and then condensing them into elixirs with Pill Qi.
It seems simple, like a regular extraction experint, but when Ning Fan tried, he realized the difficulties involved.
First, he must externalize the Golden Core with his mind.
The Golden Core is the fundantal of cultivation, the foundation of all cultivators.
Every cultivator instinctively protects the Golden Core.
Now, having to expose it outside the body, it is necessary to overco this subconscious behavior.
This step alone took Ning Fan most of the day to find a small trick.
Watching the Golden Core spinning continuously in mid-air, Ning Fan, with a thought, released a ghostly blue fla from it.
“Next is…”
Ning Fan looked at the pile of herbs on the ground with a headache.
The alchemy techniques obtained from the Xuan Tian Sect contained the thod for alchemy but lacked the formula.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have needed such a hodgepodge of herbs.
Without a formula, Ning Fan had no choice but to randomly mix them based on their dicinal properties.
“Anyway, they’re not poisonous. Just practice for now.”
Ning Fan didn’t choose those precious herbs since they were just for practice, starting with ordinary ones, so even failure wouldn’t be a pity.
With Ning Fan’s thought, ordinary ginseng, he shou wu, deer blood, etc., all flew into that ghostly blue fla.
Next, Ning Fan simply waited for the Pill Fire to refine the herbs into a dicinal liquid.
This is a long and ntally taxing process.
During this period, Ning Fan had to constantly control the Pill Fire to prevent its high temperature from burning the dicinal liquid completely.
Soon, Ning Fan felt a bit dizzy, knowing it was due to excessive ntal exertion.
“If only there were a Pill Furnace.”
With a good Pill Furnace as an aid, he wouldn’t need to strain himself controlling the Pill Fire.
Unfortunately, a furnace capable of resisting Pill Fire isn’t made from ordinary materials.
According to the Xuan Tian Sect’s records, Pill Furnace materials include Nine-Star Cold Iron, Fla Essence Gold, and other high-class items not ant for ordinary goods.
Only these materials could resist the high temperature of Pill Fire, preserving the dicinal properties.
The high-temperature characteristics of Pill Fire are also an attack thod of the Primordial Spirit Realm.
These are premature for Ning Fan, who has just embarked on the Path of Celestial.
With wisps of smoke drifting, the herbs began transforming into dicinal liquid; the floating smoke was the burning residue.
Until the smoke ceased, and the dicinal liquid turned golden yellow, Ning Fan started the next and most crucial step.
The success of the alchemy hinges on the refinent of Pill Qi.
Under the blue fla wrapping the Golden Core, a mysterious two-colored Pill Qi surfaced.
Guided by Ning Fan’s mind, the Pill Qi slowly approached the dicinal liquid, subsequently enveloping it into a spherical form.
At this point, the elixir was only preliminarily ford; the liquid inside hadn’t solidified yet and was still flowing slowly.
Next, Ning Fan needed to infuse Pill Qi into the dicinal liquid and then stimulate the Pill Fire to refine it into shape.
“This is it!”
As the Pill Qi entered the dicinal liquid, Ning Fan intensified the Pill Fire output.
The blue fla began transforming into cyan.
Right then, with a loud bang, when Ning Fan regained his senses, the Golden Core had returned inside his body.
“Where did it go?”
Ning Fan looked puzzled, noticing a black lump emitting smoke on the ground.
Looking at the charcoal-like lump, Ning Fan murmured, “This should be a failure, right?”
According to the Xuan Tian Sect’s alchemy techniques, when an elixir forms, it should be perfectly round, with a crystal-like jade appearance and an exotic fragrance.
So advanced pills even trigger celestial phenona, with heavenly lightning and fire ant to destroy such unnaturally divine pills and dicines.
Ning Fan’s casually refined experintal product naturally didn’t enjoy this treatnt.
“Can this be eaten? It looks like burnt soybeans.”
The pungent burnt sll made Ning Fan frown, though he sensed signs of Spiritual Energy flow inside,
yet its appearance greatly differed from the Xuan Tian Sect’s descriptions.
Thinking about it, Ning Fan decided to temporarily pause alchemy.
First to reflect on the failure and then to analyze the outco of his experint.
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