Chapter 21 (1/2)

Chapter 21

Chapter 21 a.s.sessment

Within a refining room were over a dozen alchemists sitting in a circle all staring at a youth .

These alchemists were no longer young . Most of them were already over forty years old and even the youngest was in his thirties .

For a fifteen-year-old youngster to now claim he wanted to refine pills, all of them were stunned and had trouble believing it . Some of them were even shaking their heads in ridicule inside .

But they were all smart people and had all long since heard that grandmaster Yun Qi had made exception and given a youth a Pill Apprentice tablet . Although they didn’t know if that rumor was true, none of them were foolish enough to display their contempt .

“Long Chen, although I am the head of the guild, even I cannot break the customs . If you want to get medicinal ingredients on credit, you have to refine a pill in front of all these alchemists . We will then use the refined pill’s quality to decide how much you can take on credit,” solemnly said grandmaster Yun Qi .

“This little one understands . ”

Long Chen understood that this was the alchemist guild and wasn’t owned by any one person; with grandmaster Yun Qi’s manner of doing things, there was no way he would give him preferential treatment that went against the rules .

“There are 187 types of first tier medicinal pill formulas here . You can randomly pick one . ” One of the alchemists brought over a paper . Within his eyes was some hidden antic.i.p.ation for Long Chen’s failure .

All the pill formulas on the page he had brought over were not just ordinary first tier pills . Their difficulty were all above average, and ordinary Pill Apprentices would not have a high success rate with them .

Moreover in a situation where all the alchemists were there watching you refine, in addition to grandmaster Yun Qi himself, it wouldn’t be strange for someone to become nervous . In such an atmosphere, trying to refine a successful medicinal pill was extremely difficult .

The person who handed Long Chen that page was also just a Pill Apprentice . He was already over forty years old now; back when he had been attempting to pa.s.s the alchemist test, he had failed seventeen times before pa.s.sing .

Everyone else present were all on the same level as him . All of them had used over ten attempts before pa.s.sing .

It could be seen that to be able to get medicinal ingredients in advance from the guild was not an easy thing . But if you succeeded, it would become much more convenient for you in the future .

Long Chen read through the entire page and pointed to the last pill formula . “That one . ”

“What? You’re sure?”

That person’s expression became a bit strange . That pill formula was for the Qi Eruption Pill . It was an exceptionally domineering pill formula .

For a short time it allowed someone to explode with almost three times the amount of battle power .

The Qi Eruption Pill was something adventurers were very fond of . Although using it would cause someone to enter a weak state after its effect wore of, it didn’t leave behind a permanent sequelae .

To people who spent all their days fighting Magical Beasts, the Qi Eruption Pill was a definite life-saving treasure .

But refining it was extremely difficult . There were several ingredients which possessed a tyrannical medicinal energy . Even amongst experienced Pill Apprentices, there were extremely few who would refine it .

After all, refining pills was not without risk . Although medicinal pills could be sold for high prices, their ingredients were not nothing . It required money .

The ingredients for the Qi Eruption Pill were extremely expensive . If you were unable to successfully refine it within three attempts, you would end up losing money .

Therefore there were few people who refined this pill . Too high of a price was also something adventurers were unable to afford . After all, if they had so much money, who would risk their life adventuring into dangerous places for profit?

“Yes, I pick that one,” calmly said Long Chen . He didn’t seem to bother at all with the antic.i.p.ation in that person’s eyes .

Grandmaster Yun Qi smiled slightly . He got a child messenger to go get three sets of medicinal ingredients . This was the rule; you would only have three portions and as long as you succeeded once it would be considered pa.s.sing .

Once all the ingredients were placed neatly in front of Long Chen, he didn’t have any hesitation . Taking out his pill furnace, a weak yellow flame arose from his hand .

In one breath’s time, Long Chen gently brought his Pill Flame’s energy over to the medicinal cauldron, slowly starting to heat it up . The next step was starting the cauldron; after heating it up, he had to use Spiritual Strength to urge the Pill Flame to enter into the cauldron .

The benefits from doing this were that it allowed for the entire cauldron to enter the correct state and reduced the chance of a cauldron explosion .

Long Chen actually had higher quality methods, but he had no choice but to use the alchemist guild’s most basic techniques .

He didn’t want himself to appear too shocking to others . That would not be of benefit to him in the future . If someone were to secretly turn against him, that person could cause a lot of trouble for him .

The people present originally considered Long Chen beneath them, but seeing his very practiced and skilled movements, the contempt on everyone’s faces faded by quite a bit .

Once all the preparations were complete, Long Chen didn’t hesitate before throwing in an Iron Thread Gra.s.s that was the first to be refined .

This action of his caused everyone who had just started to become interested in him to immediately think he was stupid .

The Iron Thread Gra.s.s required an extremely long time to refine . It was usually done in the later portion when the medicinal cauldron had completely heated up .

Only grandmaster Yun Qi’s eyes flashed with a strange light as he secretly nodded .

What astonished everyone was that as soon as the Iron Thread Gra.s.s entered the refinement, before it even turned to powder, it was ejected from Long Chen’s cauldron and placed to the side as he started refining a different medicinal ingredient .

Once he finished with the sixth ingredient, Long Chen once more started refining the Iron Thread Gra.s.s, but he didn’t complete its refinement again before starting to refine a different herb .

This action was something none of them understood, but seeing grandmaster Yun Qi’s eyes filled with admiration, they all couldn’t help being startled . Could this youth’s techniques really have some kind of secret behind them?

Long Chen refined the Iron Thread Gra.s.s a total of thirteen times before completely refining it . At this time, all the twenty-something medicinal ingredients had all been refined .