After preparing everything and carefully checking to ensure the materials were accurate, Xiao Yan didn't immediately start. Instead, he sat cross-legged, slowly adjusting his emotions and gradually circulating his Cultivation Method to soothe his Dou Qi.
Even with such a big ghost like Hun Xuzi watching from the side, Xiao Yan completely ignored him.
Once his Dou Qi, spirit, and physical strength were restored to their optimal state, Xiao Yan prepared to start refining the pill.
Seeing that Xiao Yan didn't become anxious upon hearing he could obtain a Strange Flame and could quickly calm down, even Hun Xuzi revealed a hint of intrigued expression on his face.
Xiao Yan glanced at Hun Xuzi, recalling the Third Grade Pill recipe in his Storage Ring: Dou Armor Pill.
As everyone knows, a Da Dou Shi (Great Battle Master) can use Dou Qi Transformation Armor, condensing Dou Qi on their body to form armor. The purpose of the Dou Armor Pill is to allow those below the Da Dou Shi level to condense Dou Qi armor for defense, making it a defensive type of pill.
However, Xiao Yan chose the Dou Armor Pill for another reason: its medicinal materials don't require extremely high temperatures to extract their essence. After all, Xiao Yan was only a Nine Star Dou Zhe, and even with the help of a bit of Bone Spirit Cold Flame, it would be difficult to incinerate high-level medicinal materials.
With his palm pressed against the Medicine Cauldron's fire opening, Xiao Yan's mind slowly sank into his body. Several wisps of Bone Spirit Cold Flame, wrapped in Dou Qi, rapidly passed through his meridians and then through his palm into the Pill Furnace.
With a soft *pop*, a deep yellow flame rose and burned within the Medicine Cauldron. If one didn't look closely, it would be difficult to notice the few strands of white fire wandering within the deep yellow Dou Qi flame.
Looking through the mirror on the surface of the Pill Furnace, Xiao Yan watched the chaotic flames inside. After waiting for a moment, the icy temperature of the Pill Furnace gradually rose.
In the next second, Xiao Yan's Soul perception burst forth, drilling into the Medicine Cauldron along his arm. Using his powerful Soul force, he smoothly controlled the unruly flames.
Xiao Yan had refined Third Grade Pills before, but he had never succeeded even once, not even by accident.
Moving very gently, he picked up a medicinal herb next to him. Sensing the temperature inside the Pill Furnace through his Soul force, with a *swoosh*, the instant the temperature reached the herb's refining temperature, Xiao Yan threw the herb into the Pill Furnace.
As the temperature continued to rise, different medicinal herbs were thrown into the Pill Furnace by Xiao Yan. Each herb had different medicinal properties and needed to be separated and have their essence extracted in different locations within the Pill Furnace.
As the surface of the herbs developed a charred outer shell and cracked, Xiao Yan manipulated a few wisps of Bone Spirit Cold Flame, like needles and thread, to pass through the broken shell, drill into the interior of the herb, and drain out droplets of green liquid.
As more and more liquid seeped out, the herb rapidly withered. After the last drop of green liquid was squeezed out, its main body turned into black ashes and sank to the bottom of the Pill Furnace.
After extracting all the medicinal materials, Xiao Yan breathed a sigh of relief. The first step was complete.
Xiao Yan picked up a Qi Recovery Pill and threw it into his mouth. His cultivation level was his biggest weakness in pill refining; he had too little Dou Qi.
With a *swoosh*, a red Second Order Magic Core entered the Pill Furnace. When the Magic Core was burned, a fierce beastly intent burst out from the Magic Core, wanting to destroy everything around it with a burst of resentment.
This was the Magical Beast's resentment at the moment of its death. These resentments would be preserved in the Magic Core. If an Alchemist couldn't purify this resentment, they could only cause the furnace to explode.
"Heh!" Xiao Yan's eyes narrowed. If it were before, he might have had some trouble, but now that Xiao Yan's Soul force had improved greatly, how could the pre-death resentment of a mere Second Order Magical Beast be a match for Xiao Yan?
His Soul force transformed into a pair of large hands, directly kneading the Magical Beast's resentment into a ball, which was then incinerated by the Dou Qi flame.
Purifying the Magical Beast's resentment was the most difficult step: fusing everything together with the Magic Core and finally forming the pill.
This was the most difficult because once a step went wrong, if some of the medicinal materials hadn't completely fused evenly, or if they were scorched for too long, causing impurities, the resulting chain reaction would cause all efforts to be wasted.
The medicinal effects of medicinal materials varied due to their age and growing environment. Only through precise Soul perception could one know when the medicinal properties had completely fused.
The quality of a pill depended on these details. The more perfectly the medicinal properties fused, the higher the quality of the pill.
He didn't know how long the fusion took, but finally, the flames slowly converged. All the furnace fire, along with all the medicinal liquid and the Magic Core's energy, all contracted into three pills only the size of longan fruits.
Puff puff puff! Xiao Yan manipulated his Soul to use telekinesis, putting the three Dou Armor Pills into a bottle for preservation.
"Three pills in one furnace." Xiao Yan looked at the three pills in the bottle, his face beaming with joy. He was clearly very satisfied with this result.
One pill refinement could produce more than one pill. How many pills could be produced depended on how precise the Alchemist's extraction of the medicinal materials was and whether there was any waste during the fusion.
Being able to refine Third Grade Pills was already Xiao Yan breaking his own record, and it was also the result of three pills in one furnace.
Hun Xuzi didn't say anything; his Soul light slowly disappeared.
Even Hun Xuzi had no words of criticism, which proved how successful Xiao Yan's pill refinement was this time.
If Hun Xuzi himself returned to the age of sixteen, he probably wouldn't be any better than Xiao Yan.
A Nine Star Dou Zhe refining Third Grade Pills was something Hun Xuzi himself couldn't do back then.
[The thing you want is in the Heaven Rank Treasure Hall. As for whether you can get it, it depends on your own fate.]
Hun Xuzi's Soul Voice came from all directions. In the next second, a passage like a black hole appeared. Without a doubt, Xiao Yan had passed Hun Xuzi's test!
His eyes narrowed slightly, Xiao Yan looked at the pitch-black passage. He had never forgotten what Hun Xuzi had said: the Void Swallowing Flame was in the Soul Clan.
Although Xiao Yan didn't know what a Sub-Flame was, if it could allow Xiao Yan to obtain the Void Swallowing Flame, ranked second on the Strange Flame Ranking List, even if it was just a little bit, he would definitely benefit greatly! "I have to go and see!"
Originally, Xiao Yan thought he was knowledgeable and wouldn't be surprised by anything anymore, but he realized he was still too young.
When he passed through the black hole and saw the scene before him, Xiao Yan couldn't help but be shocked.
A Dark Flame Planet, split in the middle, floated in the boundless void.
This planet wasn't very large, only a few kilometers in diameter, but when it floated in the endless void, it still made Xiao Yan's scalp tingle.
"Could this be the birthplace of the Void Swallowing Flame?!"
Seeing wisps of dark flames rising from the surface of the planet, Xiao Yan roughly understood what this place was.
The Strange Flame Ranking List introduced that the Void Swallowing Flame was born in the void, and only the Soul Realm, which also exists in the void, is qualified to find such a place! And indeed, as Xiao Yan guessed, the place where the Soul Clan first encountered the Void Swallowing Flame was here!
The Void Swallowing Flame was the Strange Flame born in this Dark Flame Planet in the void!
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