Chapter 31

This time, Lin Feng is to refine a pill, a peak second-tier pill called the Qi-Replenishing Pill.

Among second-tier pills, its refinement difficulty is also extremely high.

After consumption, it allows one's battle qi to recover swiftly.

It works better for Fighters and Battle Masters, but for Grand Battle Masters the effect may be somewhat unsatisfactory.

At the same time, this prescription is also the highest-level prescription he obtained from Liu Xi...

After the icy medicinal cauldron's temperature gradually rises.

Lin Feng flicked his finger on the spatial ring, and a stalk of slightly pale-green herb appeared in his palm.

Afterwards, he threw it into the cauldron from the coiled snake head atop its lid.

As soon as the herb entered the cauldron, the crimson flames inside surged up, continuously roasting the herb.

With time passing, the pale-green leaves gradually turned scorched yellow, and a green liquid continuously flowed out from the leaves.

Finally, the herb's main body completely turned to black ash, leaving only a mass of green liquid constantly rolling inside the cauldron.

Seeing this, Lin Feng picked up a jade bottle, waved his palm, and the green liquid in the cauldron accurately fell into the jade bottle.

Afterwards, he casually picked up a Soul-Returning Scarlet Fruit from nearby and tossed it in.

After a moment, looking at the refined herb, Lin Feng felt a pang of regret and sucked in a cold breath.

He had collected twenty batches of ingredients for the Qi-Replenishing Pill, but after refinement he obtained only fifteen batches, the rest being ruined during refinement for various reasons.

You should know, the ingredients needed to refine the Qi-Replenishing Pill were obtained by him risking his life.

Especially to gather the main ingredient, the Soul-Returning Scarlet Fruit, he had once been chased for a long time by a second-tier Blizzard Magic Ape.

Although he later succeeded in killing it in retaliation, seeing these materials destroyed naturally hurts more than if they had been ruined after being snatched from others.

After feeling sorry for the herbs, he again placed his hand on the cauldron, infused battle qi to ignite fire, and sequentially added the refined extracts of four herbs such as Qi-Nourishing Grass.

As the fierce flames continuously roasted, the several differently colored herb essences began to gradually merge.

The liquid and powder merged with each other, then slowly rolled in the flames.

With the passage of time, the pill's prototype also gradually emerged faintly inside the cauldron.

At this moment, the pill's prototype was covered with pits and depressions on its surface, and its shape was completely irregular.

The surface luster was patchy green and purple, looking like a strange object covered in angular edges, entirely unlike the smooth, lustrous finished pills.

Looking at this ugly pill prototype, Lin Feng let out a sigh of relief.

Having reached this step, pill refinement was almost ninety percent successful; the rest would be much easier.

After a moment, Lin Feng seized the opportunity, quickly grabbed a handful of Soul-Returning Scarlet Fruit powder and threw it into the cauldron, while simultaneously reducing the fire.

After roasting for over ten minutes, the Soul-Returning Scarlet Fruit powder gradually merged into the pill, and at the same time the proto-pill began to become smooth and round.

When the pill had been nurtured in the cauldron to near completion, he gestured with his palm, and a pure-white pill shot out from the cauldron; Lin Feng then swiftly took a jade bottle from beside him and placed it inside...

Half a day later, seeing Lin Feng finish collecting the last pill, Xiao Yixian stepped forward and praised, "With your current alchemy skill, you'll surely become a Three-Star Alchemist before long."

Gazing at the eleven Qi-Replenishing Pills inside the jade bottle, Lin Feng slightly shook his head and replied, "How could it be that easy? I don't even have a single third-tier prescription yet."

After speaking, he looked at her standing aside, longing in her beautiful eyes, gently stroking the cauldron, and smiled, "Actually, you don't need to be so envious; if you can find a strange fire and control your physique, you too can refine some pills."

"Really, aren't alchemists supposed to have fire-wood attributes?" Hearing this, Xiao Yixian's eyes widened slightly, somewhat incredulous.

"Having suitable attributes merely makes entry easier and raises the ceiling; for you lot, at higher levels I can't guarantee, but if your strength increases and with the aid of a strange fire, refining low-tier pills is still no problem."

"Hehe, I don't ask for that much; as long as I can refine, I'm satisfied."

Hearing Lin Feng's affirmative reply, Xiao Yixian let out a cute laugh, and her yearning for a strange fire grew even stronger.

"Hehe, you're quite easily satisfied... huh?"

Before she finished speaking, Lin Feng's face suddenly changed; his body began to uncontrollably absorb battle qi on its own.

Soon he realized, and exclaimed in surprise, "Could it be that I'm about to break through to Battle Master?"

Xiao Yixian beside him also hastily retreated from the cave, lest she disturb his breakthrough.

Lin Feng himself had not expected that he would unexpectedly encounter an opportunity to break through to Battle Master.

Having no time to think further, he quickly stored the pills in his spatial ring, then hastily sat cross-legged and began to advance...

At this moment, under the rapid rotation of the battle-qi vortex, the battle qi inside the cave surged wildly into Lin Feng's body.

The chaotic battle qi, after passing through specific meridians of the cultivation method, turned into strands of pure battle qi, which were finally absorbed by the battle-qi vortex.

Meanwhile, the volume of the vortex is gradually shrinking.

Yet the battle qi contained within is becoming ever richer.

After absorbing for several hours in this manner, Lin Feng himself did not know how much battle qi he had taken in.

Meanwhile, inside the vortex, liquefaction has already begun to appear.

As the gaseous portion continually decreases, the liquefied battle qi also increases...

And after an unknown amount of time, when the last trace of gas had finished liquefying.

The liquid battle qi inside the vortex was violently flung by the vortex in all directions of his body.

These radiating droplets of liquid battle qi were flung to nearly every part of his body.

And whenever the liquid battle qi contacted the meridians, bones, and flesh, it gradually merged into them!

Lin Feng's heart instantly surged with waves of ecstasy; he could feel that as those liquid battle qi invaded.

Each of his bones and flesh seemed to undergo a metamorphosis, gradually filling with immense power.

This state persisted for over ten minutes before gradually subsiding.

As the vortex's rotation gradually ceased, Lin Feng's action of absorbing external battle qi also weakened until it disappeared.

At the instant the suction vanished, Lin Feng in the cave abruptly opened his eyes.

In an instant, the black hair behind him stirred without wind, and his clothes billowed without wind.

An aura several times more ferocious than his self a few hours ago erupted from within him like a waking beast!

On his body, the fluttering clothes, after persisting for a good while, finally slowly adhered to Lin Feng's skin.

He exhaled a mouthful of the turbid qi that had been expelled from his body, stood up, and the delight on his face could not be hidden.

Now he, finally, advanced from a Fighter to become a true Battle Master!