"Purple Leaf Orchid, three stalks; Washing Bone Flower, two plants; and one Tier 1 Wood-attribute Magic Core." Xiao Yan retrieved all the materials recorded on the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid recipe from his Storage Ring.
The Magic Core even had traces of blood on it, clearly taken from a Magical Beast not long ago, or more accurately, hunted by Xiao Yan himself this morning.
As an essential energy source for alchemy, all elixirs required Magic Cores, which came from Magical Beasts.
Every morning, besides supervising the Xiao Clan disciples' morning practice, Xiao Yan would patrol the marketplace he opened with Xun Er. After lunch, Xiao Yan would usually go to the forest to find herbs and hunt Magical Beasts, and in the evening, he would go to the back mountain to practice fighting skills and cultivate Dou Qi.
He had done this for ten years, day in and day out.
This was not only because Xiao Yan possessed the talent of an alchemist, but also because his Storage Ring contained a massive number of elixir recipes, from Tier 1 to Tier 8, providing him with all the necessary conditions for alchemy.
Elixir recipes, alchemy techniques, compendium of Materia Medica, alchemy insights – these things took up most of the Storage Ring, and it took Xiao Yan a full ten years to read them all.
However, reading them was one thing, understanding them was another.
In fact, when Xiao Yan picked up the elixir on the ground in the morning and smelled it, he knew it was Qi Gathering Powder, which proved that Xiao Yan actually possessed considerable knowledge of elixirs.
It was just that Xiao Yan's halo in the Xiao Clan was too strong, and even the Great Elder knew about Qi Gathering Powder, so no one suspected that a fourteen-year-old boy shouldn't know what Qi Gathering Powder was.
Even Xun Er and Xiao Zhan didn't think that way, they just thought that Xiao Yan might have learned about Qi Gathering Powder somewhere.
An hour later, with a bang, the energy of the Magic Core in the alchemy furnace suddenly surged, and the terrifying high temperature swept through the furnace, instantly burning all the herbs being purified into ashes.
The alchemy failed.
"Sigh, Tier 2 elixirs are too difficult." Xiao Yan wiped the ash off his face, looking helpless. Covered in dust, even Xiao Yan was just an alchemy novice without a teacher to guide him.
"It took me three years to master refining Tier 1 elixirs, I'm too slow."
If other alchemists heard this, they would probably strangle Xiao Yan. To become a Tier 1 alchemist in just three years without a teacher was a talent even greater than his cultivation talent.
Xiao Yan took out the second set of materials and continued refining. To put it bluntly, alchemy was like leveling up in a game, a process of constantly accumulating experience.
After Xiao Yan reached the Dou Zhe level, he would refine elixirs whenever he gathered enough herbs, whether he picked them in the wild or bought some cheap ones from the market.
In the end, Xiao Yan couldn't refine the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid even after exhausting his Dou Qi.
"My Dou Qi is still too weak, using Dou Qi to create flames for alchemy is too inefficient."
Just as Xiao Yan was about to put the alchemy furnace back into the Storage Ring and start cultivating Dou Qi, a powerful soul force suddenly descended, not only sealing the entire room, but also locking Xiao Yan's entire body in place.
"Jie jie, I heard that a genius young man named Xiao has appeared in this remote Gama Empire. I didn't expect it to be a big fish. The Xiao Clan's legacy is actually in this remote place."
A black-robed man, completely covered in black robes, appeared in front of Xiao Yan like a ghost. With a flick of his finger, the Storage Ring on Xiao Yan's hand flew to the black-robed man.
"Give... it... back!" Xiao Yan glared, trying to break free from the restraints with all his Dou Qi, but in front of the black-robed man, Xiao Yan's strength was like an ant trying to shake a tree.
The black-robed man ignored Xiao Yan's anger. If he wasn't worried about something, Xiao Yan would already be a corpse.
The black-robed man touched the Storage Ring lightly, and all the items inside poured out in an instant. The black-robed man's powerful soul force enveloped all the items, and among the countless cultivation methods, fighting skills, elixir recipes, and other inanimate objects, there was a 'living thing'.
A wisp of white flame exuding a cold aura.
The flame was sealed in the Storage Ring, and it was the thing Xiao Yan valued the most.
Bone Spirit Cold Flame, ranked eleventh on the Strange Flame list.
The mere description of the flame's terror in the books made Xiao Yan understand its preciousness and terror.
That was the goal of countless alchemists on the continent! Waves of Dou Qi and soul force desperately impacted the seal on Xiao Yan's body, even if blood overflowed from the corners of his mouth and his body was about to collapse, he didn't care.
"Hmm? This isn't the Xiao Clan's legacy?"
The black-robed man's soul force quickly searched all the items, especially some jade pendants, checking them again and again. But to his confusion, after some inspection, none of the things inside were from the Xiao Clan. The cultivation methods and fighting skills were not the ones he knew the Xiao Clan possessed.
He had heard from his subordinates that there was a Xiao Clan in this Wutan City, and a genius young man had appeared, whose reputation had even spread to the capital of the Gama Empire, so he came here specifically.
This was also due to Nalan Yanran's grandfather, Nalan Jie, who was very satisfied with Xiao Yan's cultivation talent and often boasted in the capital that he had a genius Xiao Clan grandson-in-law.
But he didn't expect that when the words Xiao and genius were combined, it would attract such a disaster.
The black-robed man frowned and looked at Xiao Yan, who was struggling desperately. Because of overdrawing his soul force, blood tears began to seep from the corners of Xiao Yan's eyes.
The black-robed man glanced imperceptibly at the room where Xun Er was, and his soul force subtly swept over everyone in the entire Xiao Clan territory except Xun Er, but he didn't find what he was looking for.
The black-robed man clicked his tongue, released the soul restraint, grabbed Xiao Yan's neck with one hand, and asked in a sinister voice, "Boy, tell me where the Ancient Jade is, or I'll destroy your entire Xiao Clan."
"I don't know what you're talking about, give me back the Bone Spirit Cold Flame!" Xiao Yan kept using Eight Extremities Collapse to attack, but the Eight Extremities Collapse that defeated Nalan Yanran couldn't even break the black-robed man's clothes.
This terrifying gap in strength made Xiao Yan understand that the black-robed man before him was likely stronger than a Dou Ling, perhaps even a Dou Wang or higher!
"Bone Spirit Cold Flame? This trash Strange Flame?" The black-robed man flicked his finger lightly, and the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, ranked eleventh on the Strange Flame list and coveted by countless alchemists, was toyed with in his palm like a child's toy.
The black-robed man smiled slightly, enticing him, "Boy, tell me where the ancient jade is, and I can teach you alchemy."
When Xiao Yan saw the Bone Spirit Cold Flame being played with in the black-robed man's palm, he had already given up struggling. Xiao Yan wasn't stupid; he understood that the black-robed man's strength had likely far exceeded his understanding. The reason he hadn't killed him must be due to some concerns.
Seeing that Xiao Yan was no longer struggling, the black-robed man released his hand. In truth, he was also afraid that Xiao Yan would die. If that person had really left some means on Xiao Yan, then he would also be in danger.
Xiao Yan also noticed this point. The black-robed man had been using soul power all along, not daring to use Dou Qi at all, as if he was afraid his Dou Qi would leak out.
Xiao Yan regained his usual composure and said in an icy tone, "You've seen what I possess. I don't know what ancient jade you're talking about. And you're not qualified to teach me alchemy."
The black-robed man seemed to have heard a great joke, "Jie jie! Not qualified? Not qualified! I, Hun Xuzi, am not qualified to teach people alchemy?!"
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