Some of these alchemists looked to be in their seventies or eighties while the younger ones were in their forties. Knowing that Lin Jin was a Rank 2 beast appraiser, they all went over to greet him.
When they heard that Lin Jin wanted to borrow the family's pelletization room, they were stunned.
"Appraiser Lin knows pelletization too?" one of them asked. This person was Shi Wenbing, Shi Wenjun's elder brother.
"I know a thing or two!" Lin Jin repeated.
Another old man saw the beast bone pellet furnace in Lin Jin's hand and exclaimed, "Isn't that the cursed furnace?"
Shi Wenjun explained the situation and the alchemists were clearly unconvinced.
They clearly thought that Shi Wenjun was fooling around and that Lin Jin was overestimating himself. Pelletization wasn't child's play and he was using a furnace that would never succeed. Wasn't this a waste of materials?
However, Lin Jin was a guest and Shi Wenjun had agreed to it. They were all very respectful of Shi Wenjun. After all, Shi Wenjun was the only one who could support the Shi family now. While they were good at alchemy, they knew they weren't cut out to be the family head. Hence, they supported and supported Shi Wenjun.
Hence, they didn't say anything.
However, their curiosity was piqued.
If it was anything else, they wouldn't be interested. But when it came to pelletization, they were intrigued.
"Can we observe Appraiser Lin's pelletization process?" Shi Wenbing asked. Obviously, the alchemist's permission was required to observe pelletization.
"Sure!" Lin Jin agreed readily.
He didn't think too much about it. Since they wanted to watch, he would let them.
Shi Wenjun's eyes lit up at this. She brought Lin Jin to the pelletization room but didn't leave. Instead, she sat down with the other Shi family alchemists to watch Lin Jin's pelletization.
Shi Wenjun was curious as well.
Because the pellet furnace Lin Jin had chosen was a 'cursed furnace' according to the Shi family's ancestor. It was impossible to produce pills using this furnace.
This had been proven more than once.
Yet, after informing Lin Jin, he still insisted on choosing this furnace. How could Shi Wenjun not be curious?
Hence, she gave Lin Jin the furnace fire amulet and provided him with a pellet refinement room. She wanted to see how Lin Jin did it with her own eyes.
Of course, subconsciously, she didn't think Lin Jin could succeed. She was extremely proud and confident of her ancestor's pelletization skills. Otherwise, the Shi family wouldn't have been able to prosper for so long. If her ancestor and her father couldn't use this pellet furnace, Lin Jin couldn't either.
Shi Wenjun felt that Lin Jin was just being stubborn and trying to save face. But he would definitely fail in the end. When that happened, she could let him choose a new pellet furnace and she would also provide him with the pelletization materials.
As the head of the family, Shi Wenjun had her ways.
In recent years, the Shi family had been on the decline. The Chen family had caught up to them in terms of business and had even surpassed them.
This was already a fact.
Although Shi Wenjun wasn't bad at alchemy, she was still a little lacking compared to her father. In the entire Shi family, she was considered one of the most talented. Most of the other direct descendants of the Shi family couldn't even compare to her.
It wasn't that the Shi family's pelletization skills were bad, it was their people.
In order to reach a certain realm in Alchemy, talent, perception, and hard work were both indispensable, and the former might be more important.
After all, the majority of alchemy required the accumulation of experience over a long period of time. Just like a doctor, only with a long period of time could one reach a certain level.
If the Shi family produced some outstanding talents, they would naturally lead the family to prosperity. However, everyone knew that out of ten sons, nine were mediocre. There weren't many descendants with high comprehension and talent. Even if they were talented, they could still suffer some mishaps along the way. Therefore, if there was a shortage of talent, this kind of family was bound to go downhill.
It was actually quite simple to solve this problem. They just had to abolish the group training. Not only for the family's descendants, but also to recruit talents and teach them the art of pelletization.
However, this was actually the most difficult part.
As a woman, even if Shi Wenjun felt that this ancestral teaching was affecting the family's development, she didn't dare to abolish it.
She could only hang on bitterly.
Fortunately, the Shi family's pelletization skills could still hold their own. This was something the Chen family couldn't compare to.
Shi Wenjun wanted to recover her lost territory and reclaim the herb market that the Chen family had nibbled away. How could she do that?
Open up a new source of income.
The Beast Appraisal Association had a huge demand for various medicinal ingredients. Back then, the Chen family managed to monopolize the association's supply of medicinal ingredients because they hooked up with the association's then-chief, Wang Ji. Although Wang Ji had stepped down from his position, this supply relationship hadn't been severed. Shi Wenjun befriended Lin Jin because she wanted to see if she could use his relationship to snatch this business back.
She heard that Lin Jin had a good relationship with the new chief of the Beast Appraisal Association.
Shi Wenjun was deep in thought. Suddenly, she looked up and inadvertently caught sight of Lin Jin. Stunned, the messy thoughts in her mind vanished in an instant.
Because when he saw Lin Jin activating the furnace talisman, he noticed that the mantra Lin Jin used was unusual.
There were many ways to activate the furnace fire amulet. Some were simple, while others were profound.
Shi Wenjun had been learning pelletization since she was six years old. She had memorized the various mantras and mantras by heart. But now, when she saw Lin Jin's mantra, she couldn't recognize it.
This immediately caught Shi Wenjun's attention.
She leaned forward to take a closer look.
Lin Jin activated the furnace fire amulet with a spell and tossed it into the furnace. Immediately, the flames burned fiercely and the furnace's temperature soared.
"Based on experience, he should heat up the furnace first before tossing in the ingredients … Wait a minute, where are the ingredients?" Shi Wenjun noticed a problem.
Beside her, Shi Wenbing snapped, "He put them in a long time ago."
Shi Wenjun was dumbfounded, confused.
"This Appraiser Lin has tossed all the ingredients into the furnace before activating the furnace fire amulet. This is ridiculous." One of the Shi family's elders shook his head at this.
This was against the rules of pelletization.
Shi Wenjun wanted to say something but stopped herself. How were they supposed to fuse the medicinal effects?
After all, some of the ingredients had low melting points so they would be melted into medicinal liquid. Some had high melting points so they would require a stronger fire. But if they were to be refined at the same time, the medicinal liquid would be destroyed or the medicinal effects would dissipate. Either way, it was impossible to form a pill.
Just then, Lin Jin's mantra changed.
In an instant, the flames in the furnace turned green.
"Crimson flame to melt the ingredients and green flame to condense the pill. Is Appraiser Lin trying to condense the pill now? That's too early! "One of the Shi family's elders was puzzled.
Forget him, no one here could understand how Lin Jin was performing pelletization.
They had spent their entire lives in the field of pelletization. Some of them had been doing pelletization for more than fifty years. Their experience and foresight were incomparable to the average person. But now, they were equally confused.
"What a waste of time and materials!" Unable to stand it anymore, one of them got up to leave.
"Wait!" an elder of the Shi family suddenly called out with a grim expression.
"Fourth Uncle?" The person who was about to leave was stunned. He looked at the elder who called out to him with a puzzled expression. This elder was currently the most senior member of the Shi family. Even Shi Wenjun's father had to address him as Fourth Uncle.
Fourth Uncle said, "The pelletization technique Appraiser Lin is using looks a little like our Shi family's Six Yang Pill Brushing Technique!"
His words stirred up a commotion.
When the others heard this, they were all stunned.
"Based on what Fourth Uncle said, it does look like it."
"But our Shi family's Six Yang Pill Brushing Technique is our family's secret technique. How did Appraiser Lin learn it?"
Everyone turned to look at Shi Wenjun.
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