Time slowly passed. In the alchemy room, the alchemy furnace was being roasted by flames.
Chu Mu stood in front of the alchemy furnace. His hands moved like the rising sun, emitting strands of golden-red light. Gradually, the light grew stronger and stronger. The temperature in the alchemy furnace also grew higher and higher. It turned into a blazing sun, wantonly emitting scorching heat as if it wanted to melt everything.
Finally, Chu Mu's hands moved again and gradually sank. The light became more and more restrained, gradually turning dark red, like the setting sun.
After the Nine Changes of the Heavenly Sun was completed, the pills in the alchemy furnace were formed.
Chu Mu slapped the sides of the alchemy furnace and the lid flew up. Pills shot out from the furnace and were all caught by his Spiritual Sense.
The lid fell and the flames were extinguished at the same time. Chu Mu put the ten Vitality Pills into a jade bottle and walked to the alchemy room's door with the jade bottle.
After opening the alchemy room's door, the red-faced old man immediately turned around. His gaze fell on the jade bottle in Chu Mu's hand, "Finished refining?"
Chu Mu nodded and handed the jade bottle to the old man. The old man immediately opened the bottle and poured out three Life Force Pills. He took a look.
"There is still a fiery aura. These are indeed freshly refined pills." The old man nodded. With his alchemy skills as a great grandmaster, he could tell at a glance whether a pill was freshly refined or not. There was no way it could be faked.
The jade-green Vitality Pills were smooth and round, sparkling and translucent. There was no medicinal fragrance coming from them. The old man stared at them with wide eyes. Then, his eyes gradually narrowed until they were completely focused on one of the pills. He looked at it and sniffed it. After repeating this a few times, his expression became more and more surprised.
"The color is as smooth as a flawless gem, and the medicinal fragrance is restrained …" The red-faced old man nodded to himself. He muttered in surprise, "This is clearly a manifestation of quality that is infinitely close to perfection."
"You can actually refine perfect quality pills …" The red-faced old man was incomparably shocked. He sized up Chu Mu with an expression of disbelief.
After a while, the old man's expression returned to normal. However, he was still somewhat surprised.
"It seems that your alchemy skills are very high and your foundation is very solid. It can be seen that you have put in a lot of hard work." The red-faced old man said, "Just with this cauldron of Vitality Pills, you can pass the Alliance's alchemy grandmaster examination. Are you sure you want to take the alchemy grandmaster certification examination?"
Chu Mu nodded.
"Fine." The red faced old man paid much more attention to Chu Mu, "Although there is only one word difference between alchemy grandmaster and alchemy great grandmaster, the difference in alchemy is enormous. Some alchemists are unable to break through to great grandmaster in their entire lives."
As he spoke, the old man brought Chu Mu to the Alchemy Grandmaster examination area.
. the old man's's an old old man's's's old old old old..
"The test's content is to concoct an earth rank pill. As for what kind of earth rank pill you concoct, that will depend on your luck." The red faced old man said to Chu Mu because this time, Chu Mu had to pick a pill recipe himself.
.. There were ten pill recipes in total. He couldn't use his Divine Sense to explore them. They were chosen randomly.
Chu Mu didn't hesitate. He casually selected a pill recipe and glanced at it. He knew what pill he had to refine.
"Vitality Pill. This is an earth-level pill that recovers Divine Sense. Among the earth-level pills, it belongs to the lower level. A low-level alchemy grandmaster can refine it, but the success rate is not high." The three examiners glanced at the pill recipe and the red-faced old man said.
"The Vitality Pill can also restore Divine Sense for ordinary King Realm experts. Only those who have reached mid-level alchemy grandmaster can refine it freely. It is very difficult for ordinary low-level alchemy grandmasters to use it for the examination. How about this? You can draw again." One of the black-faced old men said to Chu Mu.
The black-faced old man loved talent because he also saw Chu Mu's Vitality Pill. After seeing Chu Mu himself, he felt that Chu Mu was an alchemy genius and worth cultivating. He didn't want him to suffer setbacks.
"Thank you, Elder, but since I have already chosen, I will refine the Vitality Pill." Chu Mu said. He didn't say anything big.
These three people were all alchemy grandmasters and elders of the Alchemist Alliance.
"Since that's the case, then you can start refining. We will watch here and give you an assessment." The third elder was a goateed old man.
Chu Mu nodded and chose the herbs first.
Refining the Vitality Pill was just a private assessment by the red-faced Elder Dai to determine whether Chu Mu was qualified to apply for the alchemy grandmaster assessment. Therefore, Chu Mu didn't need to choose the herbs himself.
Now the assessment was a formal assessment.
Choosing the herbs was also part of the assessment.
Because an excellent alchemist must personally prepare the herbs, the dosage of the herbs, the placement of the herbs, and so on. Everything must be handled personally to avoid unnecessary subtle mistakes that affect the alchemy.
There were many herbs here and they were distributed on the shelves on the walls around. Chu Mu began to choose.
With a sweep of his spiritual sense, among the many complex herbs, Chu Mu quickly picked out the various herbs needed to refine the Vitality Pill.
A total of twenty-three kinds were needed.
The three elders had been staring at Chu Mu's movements.
"Quick, no hesitation, experienced technique, and good knowledge of herbs." The black-faced Elder Li nodded and said in a voice that only the three of them could hear.
Chu Mu was not affected at all and took out one kind of herb after another.
Because he could only take the amount needed to refine a furnace of Vitality Pill, the amount of herbs taken must be accurate.
"Not bad, not bad, the amount of each herb is exactly the same. Even if this old man took it, it would only be so-so." The red-faced Elder Dai stroked his beard and smiled. Among the three elders, Elder Dai was the most accurate in taking out the herbs.
"In the process of taking out the herbs, Chu Mu has passed. Very excellent." The third goateed Elder Yang smiled.
"Let's see how he extracts the essence of the herbs."
The twenty-three kinds of pills were placed in order, and the temperature was controlled by the fire. After heating the furnace, the temperature was adjusted again, and then he began to extract the essence of the herbs.
No matter if it was starting a fire, heating the furnace, or adjusting the flame's size and temperature afterwards, Chu Mu did it very skillfully. There wasn't the slightest bit of unfamiliarity, causing the three elders to silently nod their heads. Just from this point alone, one could see that Chu Mu's fundamentals were very solid and stable, surpassing many alchemists.
The technique Chu Mu used was the Nine Heavenly Sun Transformation, a grandmaster-level technique. In the eyes of the three elders, they were only a little surprised, but thinking that Chu Mu had applied for the alchemy grandmaster assessment, it was not a big deal to know a grandmaster-level technique.
They could also tell that Chu Mu still hadn't completely grasped that technique.
After the essence of the twenty-three kinds of herbs was extracted, Chu Mu took a breath and began to refine the Spirit Enhancing Pill.
The temperature of the flame was adjusted to the highest, and at the moment when the temperature of the pill furnace reached the hottest, he put in the first kind of herb essence, and then began to control the size and temperature of the flame. After three breaths, he put in the second kind of herb essence.
The three elders all stared with wide eyes. They did not dare to use the power of their spiritual sense, for fear of affecting Chu Mu.
"Good, very good, the order of each kind of herb essence is correct, and the time interval of each kind of herb essence is consistent with the requirements of the pill recipe." Elder Yang's tone was a little excited.
Every pill recipe that had been handed down had been verified countless times. The amount of herbs and the order and interval of putting them in had all reached the most accurate level.
Even so, not every Alchemist could be as accurate as what was recorded in the pill recipe. Even if there were slight discrepancies, under normal circumstances, it would not lead to failure. At most, the quality of the pills would be affected when they were formed.
However, this was something that couldn't be helped. The majority of alchemists weren't able to grasp timing and time intervals to such a fine degree. Those who were able to do so were usually true geniuses. Clearly, Chu Mu was one of them.
After all the herb essences were put in and the lid was closed, Chu Mu began to use the Heavenly Sun's Nine Transformations to refine.
His aura was steady as his hands transformed into a rising sun. As it rose, the temperature gradually increased, and the flame under the pill furnace also changed.
With a change of technique, it became a scorching sun at noon. The temperature of the pill furnace was also raised to the highest. Chu Mu's spiritual sense also entered the pill furnace to assist in the fusion of the herb essences.
This process lasted for half an hour and consumed a lot of his Divine Thought Power.
Fortunately, Chu Mu's spiritual sense was very tyrannical. This kind of consumption did not affect his state.
After half an hour, his hands changed again and slowly sank to the side. This was the third transformation, the setting sun.
At this point, it meant that the refining of the Spirit Generating Pill had reached the final juncture.
The flame in the pill furnace changed again. The temperature gradually decreased, a little bit by a very uniform decrease. The herb essences in the pill furnace had also completely melted. With the help of Chu Mu's spiritual sense, they began to condense into pills.
After about a quarter of an hour, the herb essences in the pill furnace had fused and turned into pills, lying quietly at the bottom of the pill furnace.
This was not completely over. At this step, there was still the last step, which was to use the residual heat of the pill furnace to roast the newly formed pills, completely forming them and stabilizing them. During this process, the last step was to remove the remaining impurities on the surface.
Every step and every link in alchemy was very important. Chu Mu treated all of them with all his heart. He did not relax because of which step was relatively simple.
At the final moment of pill formation, Chu Mu still did not relax because he still had to collect the pills.
Collecting the pills was also a step in alchemy, and also the last step. If it was not done well, it was very likely that the pills would be damaged and all the previous efforts would be wasted. It would be too late to cry.
The three elders' eyes widened again …
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
