Chapter 77 The Fine Primary Elixir (1/2)

It was late at night, and there were no lights in Garden Street.

In the Sky Clinic, Ning Tao was doing something extremely important.

After returning from Qing Zhui's room to the Sky Clinic, he left everything that had happened recently behind and prepared to make Primary Elixirs. After all, his life was at stake. Having collected all the materials, he had no excuse for delay.

After taking out all the materials, he treated water and impurities with alchemy fire. This was the technique he learned from the chapter of elixirs in the nameless medical book. It was also the first step. The second step was to cut up all the materials, pound them into powder with stone mortar, and then concentrate the powder with alchemy fire and the delicate perfumed tripod.

After the above two steps, the original pile of materials were left with a small pile of crystal clear powder, which looked like the powder of crystals. After completing these two steps, the third step was to make elixir blank. Ning Tao cut his wrist and dripped his blood onto the powder. Then he divided the powder soaked with blood into 21 parts according to the weight of the Primary Elixir, and twisted each part into the shape of a pill. After this, there was only one final step–to refine the pills, which was the most important yet the most difficult step.

This was the ”four steps of alchemy” in the chapter of elixirs of the nameless medical book— removing impurities, grinding, concentrating, refining elixirs. This process might seem simple, but it was not. In this world, except Chen Pingdao, Ning Tao was the only one who could refine the special medicine of the Sky Clinic, because and refining the Primary Elixir required the blood of a natural go-between of good and evil and special spiritual power, which no one else could have.

Then 21 elixir blanks were put into the delicate perfumed tripod, as crystal clear as blood-red agates, sending out a mysterious fragrance.

Ning Tao sat cross-legged beside the delicate perfumed tripod, excited and worried. ”The Primary Elixirs Chen Pingdao left behind are bronze, but mine are red. When my elixirs are refined, will they be bronze? If I fail, or make a mistake, I'll be in big trouble...”

Calming the nervous mood for a moment, Ning Tao released the alchemy fire, put his palms on the delicate perfumed tripod and started his first alchemy.

Buzz...

The tripod made a buzzing noise, which sounded mysterious and sacred, as if it was an old language from another world.

Boom!

Black and white alchemy fire rose, and swallowed the 21 elixirs, making them invisible.

Subsequently, a strange drug fragrance spread out of the delicate perfumed tripod, smelling refreshing, and making the spirit stable.

About half an hour later, the delicate perfumed tripod gave a tremble and the alchemy fire went out.

The refining was over, and Ning Tao nervously cast his eyes to the tripod.

There were 21 pills lying quietly in the delicate perfumed tripod. Each of them was round as pearls and smooth as jade, glittering and translucent, just like the bead carved out of chalcedony, but its surface had blood streaks. They didn't look like pills at all, but looked like works of a master's art. In fact, if these 21 pills were strung together and worn around a woman's neck, people would surely think it was an expensive agate necklace.

Ning Tao was a little dumbfounded. The Primary Elixirs that Chen Pingdao left were bronzed and far less fragrant. But what he refined was like the bead of chalcedony with pungent exotic fragrance. Were these Primary Elixirs?

No one could tell Ning Tao the answer, but he had the way to get the answer.

Afterward, Ning Tao took out the ledger of bamboo slips, opened it, and put the 21 pills on the ledger.

This was elixir identification.

After the owner of the Sky Clinic made some elixirs, he had to use the ledger of bamboo slips to identify the elixirs, which was similar to the way a hospital pharmacy registered drugs, which ensured that doctors in the hospital could see what was unavailable and what was still available through the hospital's internal system, as well as making it easier for doctors to see patients, write prescriptions and dispense drugs in pharmacies. Similarly, the ledger of bamboo slips was, in a sense, actually the ”internal system” of the Sky Clinic, so, the elixir should be determined by it.

Through this function of ledger, Ning Tao could immediately know whether what he had refined was the Primary Elixir or not.

A few seconds later, several words appeared on the ledger— Fine Primary Elixir.

Ning Tao was stunned. The Primary Elixir he produced for the first time was given the title of ”fine” by the ledger, while the Primary Elixir produced by Chen Pingdao, a powerful practitioner, had no title at all. What was the matter?

At this point, there was a paragraph on the ledger— being able to make skin exfoliate and owning the function of curing severe burn and skin disease.

After reading this content, Ning Tao suddenly realized that it was not because he had a great talent for alchemy, but because the white snake slough he used was from a snake demon. Obviously, Chen Pingdao did not get this kind of precious medicine. In fact, even if Chen Pingdao could get the white snake slough of the snake demon, he probably wouldn't be interested in making Primary Elixirs with that, because it would be a nice addition to the healing machinery of the Sky Clinic, but not necessary. The Sky Clinic was not a burn hospital, and the Fine Primary Elixirs were of no practical use to it.