Chapter 409: Refining the Solar Potion

Inside Secret Room Number 11 of the Feathered Serpent Pavilion.

Locke and Alicia rented a secret room. This secret room was provided free of charge, but one could only prepare potions inside after purchasing materials from the Feathered Serpent Pavilion.

All the materials for the Solar Potion were purchased by Alicia. She bought three sets in total, costing a hundred thousand magic stones altogether.

At the same time, inside the secret room, Locke snapped his fingers, and immediately the crucible provided in the secret room began burning fiercely with the primordial fire below it.

Alicia looked at the primordial fire that Locke had imprinted with his soul brand. She could only see the primordial fire dancing continuously beneath the crucible. This king among flames flowed with primordial power, possessing an extremely high energy level.

Locke only needed to input different elemental forces into it, and this primordial fire could automatically switch freely among more than a dozen different attributes, even composite attributes, moving back and forth with complete ease. He didn't need to painstakingly switch between dozens of magical flames like ordinary potion masters did, all for the sake of precisely ensuring the heat control when refining potions.

Alicia sighed admiringly, "Truly worthy of being the treasure all potion masters desire. This kind of flame is really convenient. The two major difficulties in potion studies are formulas and heat control. This primordial fire directly solves the problem of heat control."

"It can even achieve a level of heat control precision that First Circle potion masters originally couldn't accomplish."

Locke first practiced with ordinary materials for an afternoon, then in the evening, following the Solar Potion formula, he officially began refining.

Six hours later, the first batch of potion, resembling flowing golden magma, was completed in the crucible. A magical energy storm surged up inside the crucible.

Once the magical energy storm subsided, Locke carefully poured the potion from the crucible into a potion bottle, then performed the final step, which was opening the secret room's skylight and using the concave-convex mirror, about the size of a crucible, that was equipped in this secret room. He positioned it at the skylight while activating a magic array to gather the evening sunlight and focus it into midday sunlight.

Immediately after, the potion inside the bottle released a fleeting golden magical radiance.

This indicated that the potion had captured the sun's brilliance, which meant this batch of potion was truly complete.

Next, Locke spent another day's time following the same method to prepare two more bottles of Solar Potion. Finally, while refining the third bottle of Solar Potion, Locke completely mastered the Solar Potion process.

Refining one bottle of Solar Potion now only required three hours.

The next day, in the afternoon, Alicia looked at the three bottles of Solar Potion on Locke's table, feeling somewhat astonished. "It's truly hard to believe. The primordial fire is indeed the treasure potion masters dream of. Using it to refine potions can actually make the most difficult part, heat control, become so simple."

"You actually only practiced for half a day before you could refine one of the most complex potions at the First Circle stage. Locke, you know, your original potion refining technique was far inferior to mine. Controlling heat is like controlling art."

Alicia found an appropriate metaphor. "Originally you were just scribbling randomly, but after using the primordial fire, your heat control at every moment of potion refining is like that of an art master."

"It's truly too wonderful."

Alicia said with some distress, "This makes even me want one."

Locke thought for a moment, then directly hooked his hand, and immediately the primordial fire moved in front of Alicia. "When I imprinted the primordial fire with my mental brand, I discovered that this flame is extremely powerful, possessing tremendous energy, so it cannot be completely controlled by just one First Circle liquefaction wizard's mental brand."

"You can also place your mental brand on it and use it. The two of us can share one primordial fire. I think it's completely sufficient."

Alicia wanted to refuse somewhat, since in her view, this belonged to Locke.

Locke then said, "You still need to take Mammon's Powder Potion every day. With this primordial fire, you can more easily prepare Mammon's Powder Potion daily."

"Moreover, Alicia, have you noticed? Potions refined with the primordial fire, the potion toxicity will decrease by one-third out of nowhere."

"Although I don't know why."

Alicia nodded, "That's indeed the case."

"It may be because the primordial fire contains primordial power internally. Primordial power possesses extremely strong purification abilities. But I think this still isn't the full capability of this primordial fire."

"This primordial fire is currently just a small flame. If the flame grows larger, perhaps its power will be greater and its functions more numerous. Moreover, our use of the primordial fire is still very crude."

Alicia said, "Perhaps, as we continue our research, we can find more applications for the primordial fire."

"Alright, both you and I are potion study geniuses. Having the two of us research this primordial fire together is just right."

Alicia imprinted a mental brand on it, which immediately triggered a backlash from the primordial fire. A wave of flame energy surged in all directions.

The stimulation was so strong that even the defensive magic array inside this secret room activated.

It forcibly stabilized the room.

Alicia gritted her teeth, chanted a spell, and activated the Scorpion Woman bloodline within her body, using the permanent defensive field Dragon Scorpion Carapace. Immediately, a dark purple carapace covered her upper body, and a dragon pattern appeared on the carapace, which enhanced her mental power. At the same time, Locke also waved his hand, injecting a magical radiance into it to help Alicia suppress the primordial fire's instinctive resistance.

Alicia struggled to imprint a mental brand into the inner core of this primordial fire.

"I didn't expect this tiny flame could contain such tremendous energy." Alicia exhaled a breath of turbid air, saying, "However, this way, I can also use the primordial fire now."

Locke said to Alicia, "Leave this flame with you for now. You use it first, and when I need to use it, I'll ask you for it."

Locke picked up the three bottles of Solar Potion on the table. The materials for these three bottles of potion were actually all paid for by Alicia, which meant he had essentially freeloaded a hundred thousand magic stones of her pocket money.

He planned to synthesize these three bottles of potion. Even without obtaining a special formula, he could enhance their efficacy and obtain an improved formula, then take them.

In any case, with the Synthesis Cube, as long as he had sufficient funds, he could utilize the Synthesis Cube's attribute characteristics to make rapid progress in the field of potion studies.

Moreover, since the Feathered Serpent Pavilion particularly valued creative improved potion formulas, he could even use these synthesized improved potion formulas to trade for new potion formulas at the Feathered Serpent Pavilion.

He could use the Feathered Serpent Pavilion to rapidly advance his potion studies, solving the biggest problem of scarce potion study materials and the low-level nature of potion study materials in the Land of Six Towers.

Locke asked Alicia, "By the way, Alicia, does being a D-rank member of the Feathered Serpent Pavilion have any specific meaning?"

Alicia shook her head. "This seems to be only the Feathered Serpent Pavilion's internal evaluation, so it doesn't have any specific meaning. There's neither purchase discount privileges nor sales premiums."

"The Feathered Serpent Pavilion is very mysterious. There's also one at Virdantia University, but because they only allow First Circle wizards and above to enter, relatively few people know about it."

Alicia said, "However, there are many mysterious things in the wizard world. We just need to know they're useful. Like the Jungle's Hand, only after I took over managing the Plutarch family did I realize just how serious the Jungle's Hand's infiltration of the Land of Six Towers really is."

"Although the ecology of the Land of Six Towers currently does indeed have problems, I don't know whether it's good or bad that the Jungle's Hand has pulled large numbers of family wizards to join them."