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What was Chu Chen's background? Her brother had always wanted her to marry him, but now it seemed that it wasn't so absurd. He could be considered worthy of her.
Tang Rou quickly stopped her chaotic thoughts and continued to watch Chu Chen refine the Digging Spring Pill.
The refining process of the Digging Spring Pill was extremely complicated. People who had never refined it before would never understand such a complicated process. There were a total of 31 medicinal herbs, and each medicinal herb had its own medicinal properties that countered the other medicinal herbs. Hence, the process of coordinating the medicinal properties was especially troublesome.
Other than the changes in the medicinal properties, the most difficult part of refining the Digging Spring Pill was the process of closing the furnace and opening the furnace.
The so-called closing of the furnace was the process of sending all the medicinal herbs into the furnace to be burned. The moment the furnace was closed, due to the influence of the air flow, there would be an uncontrollable effect on the medicinal fire in the furnace. This effect could cause a difference in the temperature of the entire medicinal fire if one wasn't careful.
This slight difference in temperature didn't affect the other medicinal herbs, but it had a huge impact on the most expensive Holy Spring Water.
The Holy Spring Water was essentially a type of spring water. As the saying went, water and fire were incompatible. Hence, when refining the Digging Spring Pill, the most difficult part was refining the Holy Spring Water.
As long as there was a slight mistake in any part of the process, there was a possibility that a drop of the Holy Spring Water would be completely incinerated. At this point, the furnace of pills could be considered to be wasted.
Hence, the closing of the furnace was the most important time to test the alchemist's control of the flames.
Other than closing the furnace, opening the furnace meant that all the medicinal properties of the medicinal herbs in the furnace were perfectly coordinated and integrated into one.
When the furnace was opened, the extremely high temperature of the air rushed out from the entrance of the furnace, causing a huge change in the medicinal properties of the entire furnace.
Before refining the Digging Spring Pill, Chu Chen was already very familiar with the conflicts between the medicinal properties of these medicinal herbs.
Furthermore, he had seen Mentor Big Beard's refining techniques multiple times, so he was somewhat confident.
However, when it came to the actual burning of the medicinal herbs, there was still a little trouble.
Chu Chen's Taiyi Purple Blood Furnace was refined from the fragments of Taishang Laojun's Eight Trigrams Furnace. Therefore, strictly speaking, the medicinal fire contained in it was not the fire of the mortal world. It had a unique heavenly spirituality.
The moment Chu Chen put all the medicinal herbs into the medicine furnace and closed the furnace to burn them, Chu Chen's eyes lit up. The flame in the medicine furnace seemed to have been affected by something. Suddenly, the flame rose sharply, and a dazzling purple light soared into the sky.
In an instant, all the medicinal herbs were burned to ashes!
In a ball of purple flames, all the medicinal ingredients were turned into ashes!
Shen Hou, Zhou Mei, and even Tang Rou sucked in a breath of cold air. In their opinion, Chu Chen had done a perfect job, but he still made a mistake.
Only Mentor Big Beard did not say anything. He had seen too many situations like this. He knew that it was best to let the disciple who was in the middle of concocting the potions themselves. It was not appropriate to rush to appease or give advice.
Hmm? What was going on? Did something go wrong?
Chu Chen frowned. He touched the Taiyi Purple Blood Furnace with both hands and carefully sensed it.
This medicine furnace had already become one with his mind and had reached the point where he could melt the furnace into his palm. Therefore, after a careful examination, he quickly found the reason.
The spiritual power contained in the innate purple flame inside the Taiyi Purple Blood Furnace conflicted with the spiritual power of the divine spring water.
When closing the furnace, he had to first use his spiritual power to suppress the purple flame.
Once the divine spring water had completely fused with the other medicinal herbs, there would be no problem igniting the purple flame.
"Don't be discouraged. You've already done very well. You have to know that many people can't even pass the stage of washing the herbs when refining the Digging Spring Pill for the first time. There are very few people who can persist until the process of closing the furnace."
Seeing Chu Chen touch the medicine furnace and ponder for a long time without saying anything, Mentor Big Beard thought that his disciple was extremely depressed because of the failure. Finally, he gently patted his shoulder and comforted him. "This time, there are many remarkable points in the process of refining the potions."
"Thank you, Mentor. I'll try again."
Chu Chen smiled and nodded. He took out the second set of ingredients for the Digging Spring Pill from his storage ring and began to refine it step by step from the beginning.
Tang Rou and the other two became nervous again. The three of them felt like they could hear each other's heartbeats.
However, Chu Chen, the person involved, was much calmer than them. With the experience of his previous failure, he was especially attentive when refining the potions this time.
When it was time to close the cauldron, he directly opened his spiritual sense and precisely controlled every wisp of flame in the cauldron. At the moment of closing the cauldron, he calmly used his spiritual power to suppress the temperature of the flame.
When his spiritual perception sensed that the drop of divine spring water was gradually absorbed by a ball of milky white medicinal liquid, he let out a long sigh of relief. The light purple flame immediately rose up fiercely.
Finally passing the difficult point of closing the furnace, Chu Chen's expression relaxed a little.
Seeing his expression, the three onlookers immediately relaxed.
Only Mentor Big Beard's expression gradually became serious. After all, there was still the last difficult point that had not been passed …
Just as Mentor Big Beard had been worried about, when Chu Chen waved his arm slightly and opened the purple furnace lid, a blazing purple light suddenly exploded. In the blink of an eye, the pill that had almost completely taken shape was burned clean.
"He failed again. The Digging Spring Pill is too strong. Even with Chu Chen's perfect control, it's still not enough."
"After all, we've been in the Medicine Palace for too short a time. The Digging Spring Pill is indeed not something we should touch at this stage."
In contrast to Zhou Mei and Shen Hou's sighs, Tang Rou still had some hope in her heart. She felt that Chu Chen could still create a miracle and successfully refine the Digging Spring Pill!
After Mentor Big Beard gave some pointers, Chu Chen began his third attempt. Shen Hou and Zhou Mei were no longer nervous because they did not dare to have any more hope.
In their eyes, Chu Chen's refining process was already as perfect as a textbook. The reason why he could not succeed was because he was still too young and the time had not come yet.
Mentor Big Beard's thoughts coincided with Shen Hou and the rest. However, Big Beard believed that the most fundamental reason for Chu Chen's failure was that his cultivation was too low.
He was only at the ninth level of the Spirit Water Realm. When he refined the first pill, he was already at the Spirit Spring stage. Chu Chen was too hasty. The failure of refining the Digging Spring Pill this time was not a bad thing for him.
No matter how talented a disciple was, it would not be a good thing if everything went smoothly. He could take advantage of this failure to refine the Digging Spring Pill to educate this treasured disciple. It would be of great help to his future.
"Ding!"
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