Chapter 21: Spirit Fire Formula Completed

The development of events completely exceeded Long Xuan's expectations. Originally, in his view, he, a novice, would have to endure a large number of failures before succeeding, and he had already prepared himself to be frustrated.

Who could have thought that alchemy was so simple for him, as simple as drinking water and eating, so simple that he couldn't come back to his senses, suspecting whether he was dreaming.

A full one hundred spirit herbs were actually refined by him very quickly. The refined spirit herb essence was put into one hundred medicine bottles by him and neatly placed on the table.

The success rate was terrifyingly high. Except for a few spirit herbs that were instantly burned to ashes because the heat was too fierce and he didn't have time to remedy it, the rest of the spirit herbs almost didn't have any mistakes.

With the help of this Golden Finger, he didn't dare to say that his alchemy success rate would be 100%, but the success rate would definitely be far higher than other alchemists, even Long Lao couldn't compare to him at all.

Long Xuan was very excited. This was simply an unexpected joy. In this way, he was really too suitable to be an alchemist, and an alchemist with monstrous aptitude. He was born to eat this bowl of rice.

Since the materials were refined, the next step was to put all the spirit herb essence into the alchemy furnace according to the ratio, make it fuse and solidify under high temperature, and condense it into pills under the power of the soul.

This step tested soul power extremely well. Once there was a mistake, all materials would be destroyed. The time wasted refining spirit herbs for half a day earlier would be in vain.

Once this step failed, it often made many people collapse, especially when spirit herbs were extremely expensive.

However, Long Xuan wasn't panicked at this time. He poured the essence of various spirit herbs into the pill furnace in order and proportion, then started the fire to heat up, carefully observing the situation inside the alchemy furnace with soul power, making all the medicinal liquids fully fuse.

As expected, not long after all the spirit herb essence was poured into the alchemy furnace, the alchemy progress appeared again. The moment the progress reached 100%, it would be the day the pill was formed.

This time, once the progress became unstable, it might not only be a problem of flame temperature, but also a problem of soul control, or a problem of operation technique. There were more problems to pay attention to, and Long Xuan was even more careful.

As time passed bit by bit, fine sweat gradually appeared on Long Xuan's forehead. His expression was tense to the extreme, his nerves taut, not daring to have a trace of slack.

Although he was an inexperienced novice and it was his first time refining pills, and he would make mistakes everywhere, with the progress cheat, he really completed it without any danger.

Until the progress on the alchemy furnace finally became 100%, Long Xuan was overjoyed and could no longer control himself, quickly walking over and opening the alchemy furnace.

In an instant, rich pill fragrance overflowed, wisps of white mist floated from the alchemy furnace, and the pleasant pill fragrance instantly permeated the whole room, making Long Xuan's spirit shake, unable to stop himself from taking a long breath with his nose.

Looking closely, the alchemy furnace was full of golden spirit pills, big and round. He didn't know if it was psychological, but they seemed to be shining, making Long Xuan fascinated.

Being able to refine like this on his first alchemy, he was already proud enough.

Because there were too many materials, the spirit pills in the alchemy furnace were naturally surprisingly many, actually reaching a full eighty-one.

This counted as a full pill count for the Hundred Flowers Pill, representing that the alchemy steps were very perfect, without a single waste pill.

A furnace of spirit pills without a single waste pill was something many alchemists found very difficult to do.

The only pity was that the fire was too ordinary, so the impurity removal effect wasn't very good, and the quality of the spirit pills wasn't very perfect, but Long Xuan was already satisfied.

According to this success rate and pill yield rate, he could luxuriously treat spirit pills as food every day, eating dozens of them every day. Wouldn't his cultivation soar like a rocket?

Long Xuan immediately grabbed a few Hundred Flowers Pills and threw them into his mouth, then put all the remaining Hundred Flowers Pills into pill bottles and kept them well.

Since he was so uniquely gifted in alchemy, he paid even more attention to the research on the Ice Cold Divine Flame. After putting away the alchemy furnace, he sat at the table and continued to liver the Ice Cold Divine Flame formula.

Tonight, his emotions were too excited, and he had no intention of sleeping at all. He prepared to explode his liver and stay up all night...

With the Hundred Flowers Pill, Long Xuan's cultivation, which almost didn't rise, finally had movement, rising fast every day.

Long Xuan's daily life was still two points and one line. Either he hid at home livering the spirit fire formula, and when hungry, he ate a few handfuls of Hundred Flowers Pills. To avoid malnutrition, he would also occasionally eat a few spirit chicken eggs to supplement nutrition.

Or he would go to the market to browse street stalls and pick up leaks, and occasionally he would be a stall owner himself, selling the useless things he picked up to exchange for spirit stones.

The spirit stones sold were used to exchange for materials already determined on the Ice Cold Divine Flame formula.

As time passed, his alchemy techniques became more and more skilled. The waste pills he bought were all cracked for pill formulas. Adding the partial pill formulas he occasionally peeked at from Long Lao, the number of pill formulas he mastered was not a small number.

Alchemist was a very money-sucking profession. After Long Xuan learned a few general pill formulas, he immediately changed his appearance and set up another stall in the market, specializing in selling spirit pills.

As expected, his stall was on fire. Every time he set up the stall, various spirit pills would be swept away quickly, and he didn't need to wait for a long time at all.

His alchemy success rate was almost 100%. Every time he refined pills, he rarely wasted materials, and it was often a full pill count, which meant that his alchemy profit was much higher than other alchemists.

Every time, he earned a full pot of gold, making him smile from ear to ear.

However, after doing it a few times, he decided never to do it again.

On one hand, alchemy was too time-consuming, delaying his large amount of time researching the spirit fire formula.

On the other hand, although spirit pills were high-end goods, they were ultimately not as valuable as Gu worms.

After all, spirit pills were one-time use, while Gu worms were permanent and could benefit one for life.

The pill formulas he mastered were all first-grade pill formulas of the lowest grade. Even refining three furnaces of healing pills was not as profitable as selling one Cockroach Gu.

Not to mention that alchemy required time, while refining Cockroach Gu didn't need to be guarded at all, and he could leave to do other things.

Comparing the two, it was counterproductive. So Long Xuan only refined the Hundred Flowers Pills he used himself and never refined pills for others again.

Just like this, Long Xuan refined Hundred Flowers Pills while researching the spirit fire formula. His progress was fast. Borrowing the power of the Hundred Flowers Pill, he finally successfully broke through to the mid-stage of Spirit Gathering after one year.

At the same time, after a year of day and night research, the Ice Cold Divine Flame formula was finally livered out by him.

The Ice Cold Divine Flame formula had a total of three hundred materials. It didn't seem like much, but the materials were one rarer and more precious than the other.

For the main material, Thousand-Year Ice Marrow, you should know how hard it was to collect just by hearing the name "thousand-year."

Many things you clearly couldn't buy with spirit stones; you could only obtain them by frequently participating in treasure exchange meetings through barter.

In this world without prices, because there was no reference standard for spirit stones, Long Xuan didn't know how expensive the cost of this Ice Cold Divine Flame formula was, and the concept was very vague.

But the cost was definitely far higher than the cost of refining the Heavenly Mechanism Eye.

This cost was already far higher than the cost of Long Lao refining the Purple Demon Flame, even more than ten times higher. It was simply outrageous.

With such a high cost, if the spirit fire he created wasn't as awesome as the Purple Demon Flame, he wouldn't believe it no matter what.

A hero could be stumped by a penny. Where was he going to get such huge resources? When would he collect them? Long Xuan was completely numb.

(End of chapter) Chapter 22