Chapter 24：The Alchemy Process (1/2)

He realized that the information on the talisman was already on his head and that he didn't require the talisman itself anymore. So he kept it back in the bag and looked at the other 12 ingredients.

Once he thought about the recipe, he somehow knew which ingredients he had to put in, at what time, at what temperature. The recipe had even mentioned how to move the ingredients inside the pot while performing alchemy.

”This is quite thorough,” he thought.

After a few minutes, the cauldron started to make sounds, signifying that it was ready for alchemy.

Kong Yuhan opened his eyes and took a deep breath.

”Are you ready junior brother, I will start asking for the ingredients one after another?” He said.

”Yes,” Alex replied with a single word.

”Very well then. Horn root grass.” He said.

Alex knew [Horn Root Grass] was the first ingredient and was ready for it. Without missing a beat, he took out the Horn Root Grass and handed it to Kong Yuhan.

Kong Yuhan took the ingredient and put it inside the cauldron. Alex wanted to see how he would now follow the recipe and move the ingredient all around the cauldron for 2 minutes.

Kong Yuhan simply moved his right hand in a circular motion without using anything to move the horn root grass.

'He is using his Qi to move the ingredient? That doesn't look like a technique. Does that mean one can normally use Qi to move stuff?' Alex needed to test this as soon as he could.

But now was not the time. After nearly 2 minutes had passed, Alex took out the next ingredient, ready to hand it to Kong Yuhan.

Kong Yuhan called out the name and took the ingredient. He then put the ingredient into the cauldron. This brought a reaction out of Alex.

'NO!!' he internally shouted. 'There were still 2 more seconds left before the 2 minutes were over. He put it in too early.' But he didn't voice his opinion out loud as that might disturb Kong Yuhan out of his concentration.

He then gave him the next ingredient, which looked like a wilted leaf. Kong Yuhan increased the temperature of the fire and put in the wilted leaf.

'The fire is 10 degrees lower than what it should be.' Alex once again found a flaw in Kong Yuhan's process.

Similar things kept on happening with Kong Yuhan's process. Either he put in the ingredients too early, or put them in too late. Sometimes the fire wasn't at the right temperature, other times it changed too slowly.

He took out the last remaining item from the bag, the dwarf berry. Kong Yuhan was full of sweat, still concentrating on the alchemy and ready to put in the final ingredient.

He held out his hand and asked for the berry. He waited for the right moment and put in the berry.

'He timed it quite right this time.' Alex thought. He then looked as Kong Yuhan finally mixed his last ingredients in the cauldron.

All the ingredients had already lost their forms and turned into a bunch of powder by now. The dwarf berry was no different either and soon turned into powder.