122 Refining Pills (1/2)

“Mengxiang, don’t be disrespectful! It’s your fault you failed!” Yun Yao said sternly.

As soon as the words left her mouth, Yun Mengxiang realised that her ‘princess’ problem appeared again. Her Princess identity wasn’t very effective in the Clan and her father and auntie had repeatedly warned her to not offend strong cultivators with her attitude.

Zhao Feng was a disciple that both old man Guan and old man Zhang were fighting for and it wasn’t a good idea to offend someone with such status and potential. But maybe because she had gotten familiar with Zhao Feng the past few days and the latter was calm, she forgot about this.

“It’s fine, this is the attitude.” Zhao Feng laughed and he didn’t put it to heart.

The main point here was pill refining. Ever since he had entered the Grass-Wood Division, Zhao Feng had started to find interest in pill making and this interest was founded by the lure of ‘Spiritual pills’.

Zhao Feng thought that if he became a pill master, he could refine all the pills he needed. This could support his cultivation and save money. Pill makers was a hot job in the Clan.

“Zhao Feng, did you see the mistake that Yun Mengxiang made before?” Yun Yao decided to test Zhao Feng.

Zhao Feng wasn’t scared of giving Yun Mengxiang too big of a blow: “Firstly, she was too cautious like a rat, so her flame was too small and the temperature not high enough. Secondly, there were a few mistakes she made when controlling the flame and because the fire was small, it instantly extinguished. Of course, those was the most obvious mistakes, I’m too lazy to say the other smaller mistakes.”

Hearing this, Yun Mengxiang was so angry that she was trembling, but she couldn’t explode. If it was a normal person, she would have already sent them flying with a kick. Being a princess, when did anyone say anything like this to her before?

“En, the key points were said.” Yun Yao said praisingly as she nodded her head.

Yun Mengxiang could only suppress her anger. A light flashed in her eyes as she smiled and said: “Mengxiang was too dumb handed, may Pill master Zhao teach me?”

“I’m not a pill master.”

Zhao Feng’s heart jumped, it was obvious that Yun Mengxiang praised him so that the fall would be greater.

Any pill learner was unlikely to succeed on their first try.

After Yun Mengxiang had failed, it was Zhao Feng’s turn. Inside his mind, the process of Yun Yao creating the blood pill appeared.

For the past few days, Zhao Feng had a few tries of opening the flame, controlling the flame and adding the materials, but it was all testing.

It was much harder to put all the steps together and complete it in one breath.

Controlling the flame was the most important and the slightest mistake could shake the outcome.

The first step, putting the materials in.

Zhao Feng’s left eye slowly opened and he took one portion of each material needed. Amongst the same materials, there were good and bad ones which could affect the humidity and other small things like that.

Zhao Feng chose the most suitable composition and Yun Yao, who had noticed these small acts, nodded her head in praise.

In just the first step of choosing their materials, Zhao Feng had beat Yun Mengxiang.

After the materials were chosen, Zhao Feng put them into the furnace in order and put them in specific places.

The heat of the furnace wasn’t even everywhere, there was places of high and low heat respectively.

The first step, ‘adding the materials’ was completed.

Zhao Feng didn’t miss out any steps and if his steps were clumsy or hesitant, the process of Yun Yao refining the pills would appear in his mind.

The second step, starting the flame.

Starting the flame seemed simple, but there was a process to it.

This size and temperature of the flame couldn’t have any mistake, but a low class pill such as the blood pill didn’t need an extremely specific flame.

Zhao Feng lit up a piece of coal and a small red flame appeared.

Next was the most important step - controlling the flame.

Zhao Feng concentrated, he opened his left eye and used his inner strength to directly affect the flame. One needed to reach the 7th rank of the Consolidated Realm to become a pill learner because only then was their inner strength able to leave their body and affect the flame. Even then, this was the worst way but if one hadn’t even reached the 7th rank, how were they supposed to do this?

Zhao Feng’s control of the flame was extremely strong and the small flame was spread out evenly on the furnace.

As time passed, a faint medicinal smell wafted from the furnace.

Zhao Feng would occasionally add a few more coals to maintain the flame and although he wasn’t familiar with controlling the flame, it was natural for him.

This was because his left eye was precise and he could control his inner strength well.

For a full 2 hours, Zhao Feng still casually controlled the flame. This made Yun Mengxiang’s expression change slightly, she hadn’t expected Zhao Feng’s inner strength to be so dense and thick.

If it was her, her inner strength would’ve been depleted.

“Using every bit of power to its precise use. He’s reached mastery at controlling the flame.”

Yao Yun sighed, his skill in controlling the flame could already be compared with some older pill masters.

At this time, Yun Yao couldn’t help but admire old man Guan’s eyes. Zhao Feng was indeed a prodigy in pill making.

Pill making asked for precision, especially in flame control.

Two hours later, Zhao Feng’s inner strength had slowly faded away and the flame extinguished.

The remaining heat from the furnace still made the furnace give off a medicinal smell.

Zhao Feng sniffed it and he found that it did indeed belong to the blood pill. Its smell right now was tens of times stronger than before since because it had just been made.

After waiting for a while, Zhao Feng tapped his finger in the air.