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

Chapter 54 Alchemy? Exceptional Talent

She inquired about the auction date, only to find it was three days later, which immediately disheartened her.

The airship will only stop for a day at most, and she has to go to the far north, so it seems she won't be able to participate in this Sun City auction.

Mu Feng noticed her regret and said, "Sun City holds an auction every three months. Once you've finished your business, you can participate in the next auction. You can follow the Sun City Auction House's Jade Disc number; it will announce the auction items a month in advance."

Lin Yan nodded, indicating that she understood. She couldn't go to the auction right now, but she could come to Sun City to participate in the next auction after things in the far north were over. Seeing that the alchemist next to him was getting impatient, he didn't dare to delay the two of them and quickly left to make room for them.

After disembarking from the flying boat, she went to the merchant guild to sell the monster corpse and the top-grade hemostatic pills she had refined. Since the hemostatic pills were bought back by the merchant guild, not sold through them, the price was significantly reduced.

Fortunately, she no longer relies on selling pills to earn spirit stones, so she wasn't as bothered by being bargained down. With the spirit stones she received, she bought various talismans and hidden weapons, as well as hundreds of mystical herbs and some materials for refining basic pills. In an instant, more than half of the spirit stones she had just received were gone.

Fortunately, she inherited the "legacy," otherwise, given how she spends it, she wouldn't have any spirit stones left.

The chamber of commerce staff member in charge of receiving her noticed that she took out spirit stones directly from her storage bag when paying the bill, and that she bought so many things, so they assumed she was a big customer and offered: "Fairy, would you be interested in getting a spirit stone token? With this token, you can store your spirit stones, and transactions will be more convenient."

The spirit stone token is similar to a modern bank card, and it's certainly convenient to use, but she doesn't apply for one. The spirit stones are stored in the merchant guild; if she accidentally dies out there one day, the spirit stones will simply belong to the guild.

The spirit stones are different when they're on her person; if she can't take them with her when she's on the verge of death, she can destroy them all. The main point is that if she can't keep them, no one else can either.

Back on the flying boat, she first went to the private room to feed the Red Enchantress grass. Only after it had eaten its fill did she take it to the rented alchemy room.

After entering the alchemy room, Lin Yan laid out the materials for refining the healing pills.

Healing pills are the most difficult to refine among basic pills. She had just successfully refined a hemostatic pill yesterday, so refining a healing pill today seemed a bit too hasty. Lin Yan enjoys challenges and wants to try refining more complex pills.

Its ingredients include Blood Clotting Grass, hibiscus flower, one-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, Mushroom Regenerating Grass, and Tier 1 Beast Core.

The methods for refining elixirs are detailed in the introductory manuals. First, impurities must be removed from the materials. This is to prevent the formation of more impurities during the refining process, which would affect the quality of the elixirs.

After processing the materials, the demon core is put into the alchemy furnace to dissolve it. Then, the Ganoderma lucidum is added and broken down into powder, which is then mixed with the dissolved demon core. Next, the remaining materials are added and broken down, and then refined together with the mixture until the final pill is formed.

The manual provides detailed instructions for each step, and while it looks difficult, it is actually not simple at all.

After the alchemy furnace cools down, she needs to preheat it before using it again. Mu Feng said this process should continue for six to eight days to "cure" the furnace, after which preheating will no longer be necessary for alchemy.

With everything prepared, she placed the processed beast core into the alchemy furnace, using the furnace fire to burn and decompose it. The beast core contained the power of the demon beast, which was very unstable during decomposition. That power surged wildly, trying to break free from her spiritual energy encirclement. Lin Yan had to carefully increase her spiritual energy output, trying to suppress and dissipate that power.

During this process, her heart was in her throat. She was afraid that too much spiritual energy would cause the furnace to explode, and she was also afraid that the power of the beast core would collide with it and cause the furnace to shatter.

The claim that healing pills are the bane of novice alchemists is no exaggeration. Some inexperienced alchemists, or those lacking proper control over spiritual energy, cannot control the beast core, causing their alchemy process to fail at this crucial step.
Time passed slowly, and the power within the beast core gradually diminished, eliminating the most unstable factor within the alchemy furnace. With the beast core issue resolved, the properties of the other spiritual plants became much milder, allowing them to be easily decomposed and mixed with other materials for refining.

She continued the process of decomposition and tempering until a faint medicinal fragrance of healing pills wafted from the furnace, marking the final stage of pill condensation. Only then did her tense nerves begin to relax.

Once the elixir was condensed, she withdrew her spiritual power, and the furnace fire went out.

Here it comes! The tense moment has arrived! For alchemists, the most tense moment is not the alchemy process itself, but the moment they open the furnace.

She took out the box containing the pills, opened the lid of the alchemy furnace, and watched expectantly as the pills flew into the box. There were fifteen pills in total, each one uniform in color, round and smooth, emitting a faint, pure medicinal fragrance.

The pills had no cracks or pores on their surface; each one resembled a flawless, multicolored pearl. One could tell from the naked eye that the pills were of high quality.

The success rate wasn't 100%, but it was still quite high. She placed the pill into the magic instrument used to assess its quality; the pointer hovered near the Heavenly Grade, just like the previous hemostatic pill—a Heavenly Grade pill.

Healing pills are much more expensive and sell better than hemostatic pills! Healing pills are the most essential pills for cultivators during their training, and top-grade healing pills are especially popular among the scions of major sects and aristocratic families.

Since it was her first time refining healing pills, she lacked experience and it took a long time; half a day had passed from preparing the materials to now. Lin Yan didn't dare to delay and continued processing the materials.

This time, instead of processing all the materials at once like she did when making hemostatic pills, she processed them in batches.

After refining the second box of healing pills, she left the alchemy room and extended her rental for another four days. Fearing she wouldn't have enough materials, she went to the materials room and bought some more.

Alchemists are quite respected. After she bought the materials, the staff on the flying boat in charge of sales said, "Is the fairy making healing pills? The finished products can be sold in the merchant guild, and we only charge a 10% handling fee."

Seeing her interest, the man continued, "If you wish, Fairy, you can obtain a spirit stone token. Place the pills you wish to sell at the consignment office, and once the flying boat docks, a dedicated person will take the goods to the merchant guild for sale. The proceeds from the sale will be directly deposited into your account, Fairy, so you don't need to worry about the subsequent sales."

Upon hearing about the need to obtain a spirit stone token, she showed absolutely no interest. She'd rather set up a stall and sell her own. Top-grade healing pills sell very well; she could simply set up a stall in front of the dock and people would come to buy them.

Lin Yan returned to the alchemy room to refine healing pills. During the refining process, she discovered that her control over spiritual energy had become much more refined, and her mastery of it had also increased significantly.

After five days of tireless refining of pills, she was completely exhausted. Sensing a faint sign of a potential breakthrough, she quickly carried the rabbit back to her private room.

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