After I left the sect, the entire sect knelt down and begged for forgiveness.

Chapter 52 Furnace Explosion? Exceptional Talent!
Learning alchemy requires significant initial investment. Lin Yan took out the alchemy furnace and placed it on the furnace platform. This platform can be used to generate flames with spiritual energy for alchemists to use. Even alchemists without fire spiritual roots can generate flames in the alchemy room.

She placed the blood-clotting herb on the materials shelf and used her spiritual power to remove impurities from it. She had strong control over her spiritual power and could quickly remove impurities from the herb; with her skillful manipulation, all the impurities were eliminated.

Lin Yan moved her fingers, and spiritual energy overflowed, enveloping the Blood-Coagulating Grass before being tossed into the alchemy furnace. Fearing an explosion, she didn't dare put it all in at once, instead choosing a smaller, more delicate herb. With a flick of her sleeve, the furnace flames rose, and the internal temperature gradually increased.

As instructed in the manual, she focused intently on controlling the spiritual energy to separate the components of the blood-clotting herb, refining it with spiritual fire, daring not to slack off in the slightest.

At the same time, attention should be paid to temperature control; if the temperature is not right, it may lead to a decrease in the quality of the elixir.

Separation, tempering, fusion... She kept repeating this process with her spiritual power, while also paying attention to the fire temperature.

The fusion process is most likely to affect the fire temperature, so she dares not relax for a moment.

Time passed slowly, and a faint medicinal fragrance wafted from the alchemy furnace. The pill was beginning to condense; it was time to lower the temperature and reduce the spiritual fire. She reversed her hand seals to perform the final refining.

As the first batch of pills was completed, she felt a little excited. This was the first batch of pills she had ever refined, making it exceptionally meaningful.

What a surprise! The surprise is incredible!
That's right, her furnace exploded. It exploded during the final step of condensing the elixir!
There were no mistakes before, and the final condensation of the elixir was also fine, so why did it explode? She couldn't understand it...

Can't you even refine the simplest pills? Do you really have no talent for alchemy? A novice alchemist might fail to refine the simplest hemostatic pill, but it's extremely rare for the furnace to explode, right?
Lin Yan tried to recall what went wrong with her final steps and why the alchemy furnace exploded.
Comparing her entire competition with the alchemist in the book, she felt that her technique and steps were completely correct; the problem was with the alchemy furnace!

She took out her communication jade disc and sent a message to one of the alchemists.

An anonymous cultivator: Fellow Daoist, I have a question. I just tried alchemy, and my steps and techniques were all correct, so why did the furnace explode?
Not long after, the other party replied to the message.

Little Alchemist Mu Feng: Hmm? Fellow Daoist, do you wish to cultivate both sword and alchemy? I heard you won a contest against a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Congratulations!

An anonymous cultivator: You're too kind, fellow Daoist. Could you help me analyze what went wrong with my alchemy? I can assure you, my steps and techniques are completely correct.

Little Alchemist Mu Feng: I've analyzed a few possibilities for you. First, the alchemy furnace itself might have a problem, such as cracks. Second, the input spiritual energy might be unstable, causing the furnace to overload and explode. Third, you might have bought a substandard alchemy furnace.

Upon seeing the reply, Lin Yan took out the remaining alchemy furnaces from her storage bag and examined them carefully: there were no cracks or gaps.

She slammed one of the alchemy furnaces to the ground. It rolled once and then rolled back to her feet. When she picked it up, she found no cracks or damage.

The fact that the alchemy furnace didn't break proves its quality is decent. The shop owner said they are all newly made first-grade alchemy furnaces and should last for several years without any problems.

Lin Yan used the recording stone to record the alchemy furnace from all angles, and also recorded the furnace that had been blown to pieces from all angles. She then imported the recordings into the communication jade disc and sent them to the other party.

An anonymous cultivator: I've sent you both the full view of the alchemy furnace and the full view of the exploded furnace. I request your analysis, fellow Daoist. I will definitely offer you a reward once I leave the alchemy room.

She sent the message and waited a long time before receiving a reply.

Little Alchemist Mu Feng: Fellow Daoist, have you not yet opened the furnace?
Upon seeing the reply, she was completely bewildered. "Opening the furnace?" What was that? Even introductory books on alchemy didn't mention it… Despite having lived two lifetimes in this world, she was actually unfamiliar with many things.

In her previous life, she was a sword cultivator and had never been involved in alchemy.

Although there are introductory courses for disciples within six months of joining the sect, every time she went to class, she was either ordered around by her sect members to do other things, or she missed the class because other disciples deliberately came to ask her for advice or to spar with her. As a result, in the end, she only had a superficial understanding of alchemy.

She wasn't afraid of being embarrassed by asking basic questions, so she went straight to asking, "What is furnace opening?"

The other party didn't laugh at her for asking such a simple question, but sent her two long messages to explain.

Little Alchemist Mu Feng: "Opening the furnace" means preheating the furnace before refining pills. Newly purchased first-grade and second-grade alchemy furnaces both need to be opened. Use the furnace fire to reheat the furnace, but the fire should not be too strong.

Young Alchemist Mu Feng: Before each alchemy session, preheat the furnace. When the furnace emits even heat and the walls turn slightly red, it's ready. Practice with basic pills every day to preheat the furnace for six to eight consecutive days. After that, preheating is no longer necessary.

She understood after reading the message. After thanking the sender, she put away the communication jade disc and took out the new alchemy furnace to start it.

The fire burned inside the furnace, and the furnace began to heat up slowly. Lin Yan focused intently on sensing the changes inside the furnace. Before long, the furnace walls glowed faintly red, and she felt it was about time, so she stopped burning.

Following the same steps as before, she put the blood-clotting herb into the furnace, controlled the spiritual energy to adjust the heat, and maintained the temperature balance inside the furnace.

Her spiritual energy enveloped the Blood-Coagulating Grass, refining it within the alchemy furnace. Since her body naturally stored more spiritual energy than other cultivators, she didn't experience the same exhaustion of spiritual energy and fine beads of sweat on her forehead as other alchemists.

A faint medicinal fragrance wafted from the alchemy furnace, filling the air with a pleasant aroma, as the alchemy process entered its final stage of condensation. She controlled the input of spiritual energy, reducing the furnace fire and lowering the temperature inside, allowing the pill to form quickly.

Lin Yan withdrew her spiritual power and sat down to meditate, absorbing spiritual energy. Once her body was sufficiently replenished, she took out the box containing the pills and opened it.

The lid of the alchemy furnace slowly opened, and the pills flew out of the furnace and landed in the box.

One, two, three... a total of twenty pills were neatly arranged in the box.

Shocking! A mere, not particularly plump, blood-clotting herb had yielded twenty pills! The pills were small, each smooth and pearl-like; an untrained eye might mistake them for exotic pearls. This was different from the hemostatic pills she had ever seen, and she couldn't immediately assess their quality.

The medicinal fragrance remaining in the alchemy furnace was very faint; it could not be smelled unless one looked closely.

There are special magical artifacts in the alchemy room for testing the quality of low-grade pills. The pill she was refining was one of the basic pills, which belonged to the lowest grade among pills, so it was naturally suitable for testing.

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