Chapter 12 - Chapter 12 Got Trapped? (2/2)

The little girl upon hearing this, quickly shrank her head back.

“Lin Daoyou, I will take my leave now,” she said.

Having said that, without waiting for Lin Jing to react, she took the little girl and returned to her own courtyard.

Then, with a loud “bang,” the courtyard door closed behind them, leaving only Lin Jing behind.

Lin Jing understood that, clearly, she still didn’t trust him and was wary of him, not wanting to get involved with him.

Afterward, he let it go, thinking how he wasn’t any different, as he also disliked trouble.

Having thought it through, he headed towards his own house.

Once back in his room, Lin Jing took out the Pill Furnace from his Storage Bag, ready to begin Alchemy.

First, he studied the pill recipe, familiarized himself with the production process, and then Lin Jing took out the materials.

“Let’s start with the simplest Fasting Pill.”

After processing the spirit materials needed for the Fasting Pill, he placed them into the furnace in order and began to light the fire.

The flames surged, and after a while, the Pill Furnace began to react.

“Controlling Fire Technique.”

Lin Jing carefully used the Controlling Fire Technique to manipulate the flames, regulating the temperature to ensure it wasn’t too fierce.

At the same time, he extended his Divine Sense into the furnace to monitor the condition of the Elixir Medicine inside.

However, with the strength of Lin Jing’s Divine Sense at the moment, it barely lasted for long, and soon Lin Jing couldn’t hold on and withdrew it.

After an incense stick’s time.

“Boom.”

A muffled sound came from within the Pill Furnace.

“Did it explode?”

Lin Jing frowned and went to check.

He lifted the lid of the furnace and looked inside to see black shards filling it—there was no sign of Elixir Medicine.

Then he checked the body of the furnace, which was undamaged.

“That’s good,” Lin Jing was relieved.

Lin Jing recalled the alchemy steps he had just performed and after pondering for a while, started preparing materials again to continue Alchemy.

He knew that Alchemy could not possibly go smoothly from the start; it was bound to fail a few times at the beginning, so Lin Jing was not discouraged at all.

During the second attempt at Alchemy, he took the lessons from the last time to heart, being even more careful with controlling the flame.

As expected, with another “boom,” the second batch of Elixir Medicine was declared a failure.

“Again.”

This time Lin Jing started without any pause.

“Boom.”

This time, the duration of the alchemy process was a bit longer than the previous two attempts.

Lin Jing had some insight, but felt as if he was always grasping at something just out of reach.

“Boom”

“Boom”

……

Lin Jing continued the Alchemy process, but the results were far from satisfactory, repeatedly ending in explosions.

However, Lin Jing did not give up but persisted in Alchemy.

Finally, on the eighth attempt, there was no “boom” sound.

“Did it succeed?”

Just as a smile began to form on Lin Jing’s face, a foul odor escaped from the furnace.

“This smell…”

His brow furrowed, he stepped forward and lifted the furnace lid, with the stench assaulting his nostrils.

“Ugh…”

The intense foul odor almost made him vomit last night’s dinner.

Afterward, Lin Jing ran out of the room, taking deep breaths of fresh air.

A long while passed before the smell in the room had mostly dissipated, and Lin Jing dared to go back inside.

Returning to the room, Lin Jing first cleared out the source of the foul smell in the Pill Furnace, a pool of viscous liquid, and then along with the previous alchemy failures, he cleaned out all the residue.

Only then did Lin Jing begin to reflect.

The Alchemy Technique he got from Manager Li obviously had problems.

It wasn’t until Lin Jing started to engage in Alchemy himself that he realized that the Alchemy Technique was full of errors and omissions, and even some parts were glossed over.

This led him to a continuous cycle of trial and error.

“It seems that Senior Han probably didn’t really understand either that this Alchemy Technique, starting from the First Rank Elixir Medicines, has a much higher failure rate than other alchemy techniques.”

“Could it be that Manager Li has tricked me?”