NABC Chapter 50: The Fire Pill That Can Be Eaten and Fried, The Battle of the Douhuang?
Chapter 50: The Fire Pill That Can Be Eaten and Fried, The Battle of the Douhuang?
Monster Mountain Range, a cave.
"No, I'm completely drained. Let me catch my breath."
Yao Chen waved his hands repeatedly and decisively separated from Xiao Yan. The high-intensity pill refining for half a month had taken its toll on him.
"That's it?" Xiao Yan glanced at Yao Chen, who seemed somewhat dispirited, and said with a chuckle.
The technique of being possessed by a ghost is indeed unparalleled in alchemy instruction.
Xiao Yan couldn't help but sigh, Yao Chen truly lived up to his reputation as the unparalleled alchemist on the continent, supposedly the number one on the continent in name only.
He offered many constructive suggestions while researching the art of fire alchemy and the enchanting of elixirs, among other things unique to his alchemy practice.
With the experience of the old alchemist, the endless trial and error in the gray mist space, and Xiao Yan's own unparalleled comprehension, Xiao Yan reached the threshold of a fifth-grade alchemist in just half a month. With the [Divine Mechanism Hundred Refinements - Mending the Heavens], plus his own talent, there were no bottlenecks for him in the path of alchemy. He could feel real progress with each refining.
Of course, the fourth and fifth grade pills he refined were incomparable to those refined by other guys on the continent.
It's not that Xiao Yan is arrogant, but even if a seventh or eighth-grade alchemist were to refine fourth or fifth-grade pills alongside him using the same materials and formulas, they still couldn't compare to him.
He can enchant pills, elevate materials, and even fuse them with his own life fire; it would be difficult for anyone else to do even one of these things.
After all, heroes of the world are as numerous as carp crossing a river, but they are ultimately just creatures in the river, unlike dragons that enter the sea.
"Hmph, I'm not like you, an animal. I can convert physical strength, fighting spirit, and mental energy into one another. After spending half a month doing this intense research with you, I'm completely exhausted."
Yao Lao rolled his eyes in annoyance. He had said he would give Xiao Yan some hellish training, but in the end, he was the one who got military training. He had never been exploited like this when he was a student.
However, he showed no dissatisfaction whatsoever, gazing at a jade box beside Xiao Yan as if it were a priceless treasure.
Picking up a round, crimson pill resembling a lotus flower with folded petals and decorated with patterns of birds and beasts, Yao Chen's expression was exceptionally interesting.
"I'm not afraid you'll get arrogant, kid. Your talent is truly heaven-defying. In your words, it's pure cheating."
As Yao Chen carefully examined the exquisite structure within the elixir, his eyes were filled with admiration.
A true master always has the heart of a student. Every day he spent with Xiao Yan felt like he was opening a door to a new world. Knowledge he never thought he could use was mobilized and he benefited greatly.
Like the previous Bajiquan series, this is the Buddha's Wrath series, which Xiao Yan has newly developed.
Normal alchemy involves harmonizing the volatile medicinal power, dispersing the opposing forces, and carefully retaining only the complementary components.
However, if the violent medicinal power gets out of control, it can cause the furnace to explode at best, and at worst endanger the alchemist's safety.
The Xiao Yan series deliberately retains the violent aspect, without overly violent medicinal effects. How would you know if the raw materials of the pills you consume are very violent?
By controlling the violent medicinal power with a powerful soul force in a strange balance between movement and stillness, and by using the same internal logic that materializes flames, it solidifies it at the boundary between movement and stillness.
Under normal circumstances, it will not be affected in the slightest by any attack, whether it is chopped with a knife or axe, or bombarded by any fighting technique.
However, when it comes to use, whether taken internally or applied externally, it will suddenly break the balance between different medicinal powers, and can burst out with a geometrically multiplied effect in an instant. With the same materials, you may not be able to get as much power as this one pill even if you take several pills normally. The effect is not so much additive, but multiplicative.
However, generally speaking, a normal person wouldn't survive taking this kind of medicine. Xiao Yan's innate fire has a healing effect, so the requirements aren't high; he just needs to be able to withstand taking the miniature Buddha's Fury Lotus orally, and he can be saved by the medicine's effects afterward.
It can be said that apart from someone like Xiao Yan who is completely immune to injury, only those with a strong physique or powerful individuals can take this medicine.
This pill was not Xiao Yan's original creation, but rather a modified version of the sixth-grade Blood Coagulation Pill provided by Yao Chen, with the main ingredient being the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire.
This sixth-grade blood-coagulation pill is not a healing pill like blood-coagulation powder, but a pill for refining bloodlines, especially effective for magical beasts with diluted ancient bloodlines.
Back then, Yao Chen's customers included many powerful monsters. After all, he was the only eighth-tier peak alchemist in the world who accepted orders from all over the continent. He was revered as the number one alchemist on the continent, and he collected a vast amount of all kinds of strange and wonderful pill formulas.
The countless collections in his remaining storage rings are all sorts of strange trinkets he collected while he was still alive, along with various unofficial histories, anecdotes, and strange stories, piled up one after another.
Xiao Yan's pill had the effect of refining the bloodline of magical beasts with the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire and promoting sublimation and ancestral return to its original state to the extreme. Yao Chen even suspected that this thing would also have an effect on humans. If he had a physical body, he would want to try it and see if he could make his bloodline power move. Although there was a 98% chance that it wouldn't work, trying wouldn't hurt.
Although Xiao Yan's application of this pill is relatively limited, and after so much research, he has only developed one type of pill that is basically inedible, Yao Chen is not dissatisfied at all. He is just happy to add 1 to his collection and N to his knowledge.
As long as you don't give up, there's always a solution. So what if this elixir is too much for the average person? We can always research another one that increases fire resistance or strengthens internal defenses.
Even if Xiao Yan's Buddha's Fury Lotus is basically immune to defense, wouldn't it be great if the two of them researched something that could temporarily turn the body into flames?
Moreover, even if it doesn't work out, this kind of pill can be given to those powerful individuals and tough-skinned magical beasts.
"How's it going, teacher? What do you think of my [Buddha's Wrath] Myriad Beast Blood Coagulation Pill?" Xiao Yan smiled smugly.
Upon hearing this, the old apothecary was about to praise him, but then, as if remembering something, he twitched the corner of his mouth.
"There's nothing wrong with the pills; they're so sought after by sixth-tier or even higher magical beasts."
But to be honest, your talent for naming things is really terrible. Although it's understandable that it's a modified blood-coagulation pill from the Buddha's Wrath series, made with the spirit fire of ten thousand beasts as the main ingredient, the name is still a bit too abstract..."
Xiao Yan rolled his eyes. This is nothing.
In Konoha, he also has a junior named Minato Namikaze. It's already a miracle that he didn't call this pill the Buddha's Wrath Super Flash Primal Return Mega Pill.
After exchanging their insights on alchemy, Xiao Yan happily put away the Liuwei Dihuang Pills and Jinkui Buqi Pill formulas that Yao Chen had prepared for him.
The Myriad Beast Spirit Fire has the effect of stimulating the physical body, making the blood rush, greatly increasing yang energy, and awakening the body's primal instincts. It would be good to refine a Liuwei Dihuang Pill from the Buddha's Wrath series, which is not only highly nourishing but also a good thing for healing injuries.
If you're going to refine it, you have to refine it with great force. Although Yao Chen said that every alchemist has refined this kind of medicine, Xiao Yan still felt that it was better to refine this thing secretly in private.
Another half day passed, and Xiao Yan opened his mouth and swallowed the furnace formed by the flames in front of him.
The insights he gained from alchemy were truly profound. He spent half a day refining strange little gadgets before he could fully digest all the insights in his heart.
After gathering up all the things that had been carelessly placed on the ground, Xiao Yan stretched and loosened his muscles.
After being confined for half a month, it's time to get some exercise.
Just as he stepped out of the cave, Xiao Yan raised an eyebrow. In the distance, on the horizon, he sensed a purple flame suddenly rising.
It seems that a battle has broken out between Dou Huang-level powerhouses?