39 Chapter 39 – Pill Forming (1/2)
He slept until the next day after applying medicines for his injuries and taking pills.
He woke up and started practising both of his sword techniques with his left hand. If his aunt knew he was practising, she would definitely yell at him.
After practising for a while, he went into his courtyard and started separating the treasures inside the spatial ring. He took the treasures he didn't need and put it separately in few bags. He couldn't use the gold bars in the city for purchase which will cause suspicion, so he was planning to sell these treasures to Senior Wuji and get some gold coins. He realised it was almost a month since he met Bai Ling and Senior Wuji.
Six days went by and all his injuries were healed except for his right hand. The bones in his hands mended but his hands are still weak, he can't use his hands for practice or in battle. He left the clan and moved towards Bai clan after changing himself, with a horse which was carrying a big bag. He was almost seen by someone in the alleyway when he changed his body so he was thinking he should rent a small courtyard for when he needs to change his identity, and it may also serve him as a safe house for his other identity.
He met with Senior Wuji after entering Bai clan, and sold all his things for one fifty thousand gold coins. He was grinning from ear to ear when he got the gold coins from Senior Wuji. He didn't sell everything among the treasureshe didn't need, and only took around 30% for selling and kept the rest for later. He was happy about the fact that the price is good, and he has lots of stock left. If he ever get low on money, he can simply sell them.
He bid farewell to Senior Wuji once Bai Ling arrived. They went to the inner city and spent the day visiting various places such as treasures pavilion, famous restaurants, and finally spent time in a beautiful lake at sunset. After spending a great day with Bai Ling, he left the Bai clan and stayed in the outer city for the night in an inn.
The next morning he started searching for a place to rent. He finally found a small courtyard near the market area and rented it for three months with an amount of 30000 gold coins. He will be leaving for Lei Shu academy within two to three months after the selections, so he didn't need to rent it more than three months. After collecting the key from the buyer and checking out the courtyard, he returned to Zhu clan.
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Another ten days went by without any event.
He was already healed completely and started practising alchemy and other techniques properly again.
Zhu Xuan was in the hall of her Aunt's place in the Alchemy pavilion. He is sitting in front of a cauldron and using a fire from one of his hands to heat the cauldron and the other hand to throw the ingredients he had just purified for the pill at specific time into the cauldron.
Zhu Jia Li and Zhu Meiying was standing by the side and observing him.
He is currently concocting Qi Emergence pill. Qi Emergence pill would increase cultivator's speed of training twice in Body purification stage, by absorbing elemental Qi faster from heaven and earth.
An alchemist forming a pill has to fulfil three requirements. First and main requirement is the ability to control fire with accuracy.
Second requirement is the ability to multi task, an alchemist not only need to heat the cauldron and make the heat spread evenly with one hand, but also need to purify the ingredients with his other hand using fire at the same time. So you need different amounts of fire control in each of your hand based on the requirements of heat for both purifying the ingredient and the heat needed to be maintained in the cauldron.
Third requirement is understanding the nature of ingredients and the order of adding them need to form the pills.
For example, if you have a fire elemental ingredient in the cauldron, you can't add water or ice element ingredient next to the cauldron, which will result in the clash of their elements and blow the cauldron. You have to add an ingredient that will mend with the fire ingredient in the cauldron that will reduce its nature of fire slowly and then you need to add water or ice elemental ingredient to able to blend it with the rest of the ingredients to form the pill.