Chapter 208: Opening the Furnace to Refine Pills

However, Lin Feng's right hand shot out like lightning, covering her mouth and pushing her away.

Standing up, Lin Feng said coldly, "You want to latch onto me, don't you? Li Rong, I didn't expect you to be such a calculating woman, and ambitious too."

Lin Feng was no fool; Li Rong was acting so desperate, how could he not see what she was thinking?

Originally, Lin Feng had quite a good impression of Li Rong, but now, he felt somewhat disappointed in this woman.

"Mr. Lin, you've misunderstood me. That's not what I meant; I truly want to repay you," Li Rong said hurriedly.

"No need," Lin Feng said bluntly.

Li Rong bit her lip, her eyes reddening, tears nearly falling: "I am a widow, with no one to rely on. I truly wanted to find a capable man to help me... but I would never harbor delusional thoughts. I know I am not worthy of you..."

Lin Feng said calmly: "My sister told you all that I am already engaged and have a fiancée, so you should know that doing this now only makes things more difficult for me! If you really want to repay me and thank me, then you should keep your distance from me!"

"Mr. Lin..."

"Say no more. That is all. Goodbye!"

Lin Feng dropped these words, turned around, and left without looking back.

Watching Lin Feng's retreating back, Li Rong was incredibly disappointed and sighed incessantly.

When he returned to the Shuiyuntian Central Villa, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.

Lin Wei was in the living room on the first floor. Seeing Lin Feng return, she immediately hopped over and hugged him: "Brother, where did you go last night? Why are you only back now? Hey, you seem to have a scent of perfume on you. Could it be that you were out fooling around with some disreputable woman!"

Smelling the perfume on Lin Feng, Lin Wei was shocked and cast an incredulous look at him.

Lin Feng smiled bitterly and said: "I went out last night to carry out a mission, of course. As for what the mission was, don't ask; it's classified."

"As for the perfume on me... I just met Li Rong and had a meal at her place. She actually threw herself at me, wanting to offer herself, but I rejected her. The perfume on me is hers."

Hearing this, Lin Wei was instantly dumbfounded.

"Sister Rong actually..." Lin Wei didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Perhaps she really just wanted to repay me, or perhaps she thought I was a big shot and wanted to latch onto me. But the reason doesn't matter; in any case, I didn't let her have her way."

As Lin Feng spoke, he walked toward the stairs. Reaching the doorway, he added: "Xiao Wei, don't disturb me. I have very important things to do next."

"Got it, Brother," Lin Wei nodded repeatedly like a chick pecking at rice.

After entering the room, Lin Feng locked the door, then took out the medicinal herbs he had purchased today from his Storage Ring and processed them one by one.

Once he had finished processing all the herbs, he took out the Alchemy Furnace and placed it on the floor.

Lin Feng sat cross-legged, waving his hands repeatedly to cast strands of True Qi into the Alchemy Furnace.

The Nine-Aperture Star Furnace began to hum and tremble continuously, and the lid popped open with a bang.

Lin Feng waved his right hand, and the processed herbs floated into mid-air without wind, falling one by one into the Nine-Aperture Star Furnace.

Once the lid closed, a ball of True Qi flame ignited inside the Alchemy Furnace, burning fiercely.

The impurities within the herbs were turned directly into ash by the flames, while the essence of their medicinal properties was extracted in the form of liquid and further concentrated!

Next was the process of repeated purification, and the medicinal properties contained in the several herbs had to be fused together.

This was not easy, at least not for Lin Feng.

But Lin Feng was not impatient at all. He cast hand seals at a steady pace, precisely controlling the changes of the flames inside the Nine-Aperture Star Furnace.

At this very moment, the alchemy technique Lin Feng was using, called the True Fire Smelting Method, was exactly what his master's wife had taught him.

The True Fire Smelting Method was not the most top-tier alchemy technique, but it was the most universal and widely applicable one.

There are millions of Spirit Pills and Spirit Medicines in the world, yet over ninety percent of them can be refined using the True Fire Smelting Method!

Unknowingly, over an hour passed.

Under Lin Feng's control, the medicinal liquid inside the Nine-Aperture Star Furnace divided into five clusters and gradually condensed into spherical shapes.

Lin Feng suddenly opened his eyes, pointed at the furnace, and let out a sharp shout: "Condense!"

In that instant, the surrounding Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth roared in, pouring into the Alchemy Furnace in a vortex. The Alchemy Furnace trembled violently, and the lid made banging sounds, as if it could not contain so much Spiritual Qi and Lin Feng's Divine Dragon True Qi!

When the furnace finally calmed down, a smile appeared on Lin Feng's face.

"Open!"

Lin Feng gave a light shout and cast a strand of True Qi, and the lid opened accordingly.

Four round Spirit Pills spun and flew out of the Alchemy Furnace together, landing accurately in Lin Feng's hand.

Inside these Spirit Pills, there seemed to be clouds and mist undulating. They were pale yellow, and upon closer inspection, one could see a twisted pattern constantly rotating and drifting.

And this pattern was the Pill Pattern!

Pills are divided into grades; one Pill Pattern means a First Grade Spirit Pill, two means Second Grade, up to a maximum of ten Pill Patterns—which is the top-tier Tenth Grade Spirit Pill!

"Did one fail?"

Lin Feng checked the Alchemy Furnace and found a lot of ash residue at the bottom. That ash was the impurities from the herbs, and the residue was the trace left by the failure of one of the Spirit Pills.

Five Spirit Pills, one failure, four produced; the success rate was eighty percent.

Lin Feng was quite satisfied with this!

After all, alchemy is a matter of luck; even when refining the lowest grade of First Grade Spirit Pills, it is impossible to achieve one hundred percent success.

Being able to have an eighty percent success rate now was indeed quite good.

The four Spirit Pills Lin Feng had refined were all Qi Nourishing Pills, which can be consumed during battle to quickly recover True Qi!

Lin Feng was currently at the Martial Emperor realm; he needed to consume three First Grade Qi Nourishing Pills at once to fully recover his True Qi. If he wanted the Qi Nourishing Pills to be more effective, he would need to refine Second Grade or even Third Grade Qi Nourishing Pills.

But that would require more precious medicinal herbs, and those kinds of herbs could not be bought in ordinary large pharmacies.

"First grade is first grade; it will do for now," Lin Feng said with a smile, wrapping all four Qi Nourishing Pills in gold foil and putting them into his Storage Ring.

Gold can block the Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth; wrapping Spirit Pills in gold foil can significantly slow down the rate at which the Spiritual Qi contained within the pills dissipates, thereby allowing the successfully refined Spirit Pills to be preserved longer.

Jade also has the same effect, but using gold foil is much more cost-effective than jade.

In the next few hours, Lin Feng started several more furnaces, refining twelve First Grade Qi Nourishing Pills, three First Grade Toxin Avoiding Pills, and three First Grade Qi and Blood Pills.