The Lord of the Laws of Heaven

Chapter 86 Test
Xiao Jun closed his eyes and began to quickly calculate the prescription in his mind and calculation matrix.

Of course, I also started multitasking when I had some free time, exploring some of the conditions inside my body.

"Otto... His soul power is very strong. It directly broke through my first layer of soul membrane."

"However, when the Invisible Demon hid its body, Otto didn't make a breakthrough. The Invisible Demon fooled him, but the Invisible Demon didn't get any touch with Otto's soul power."

When Otto approached Xiao Jun, he used his soul power to explore, but was stopped by the second layer of invisible demon protection. The invisible demon made Otto unable to see clearly, but it also could not be contaminated by Otto's soul power.

"A fourth-grade alchemist's soul has undergone another level of qualitative change! Otto didn't explore deeper this time because he didn't use his full strength. It seems that if the Invisible Sky Demon wants to parasitize a fourth-grade alchemist, he still needs to continue to improve his meditation level!"

Although it was Otto who used his soul to test himself this time, it was also Xiao Jun who tested Otto in return. For example, this time, Xiao Jun obtained some data about Otto's soul.

After some estimation, Xiao Jun's invisible demon can provide some protection, and that's enough.

He calmed down and devoted himself to analyzing the pill formula. During the analysis process, Xiao Jun's brain was constantly integrating the experience he had gained from various alchemists.

Some of them are first-grade, while others have the experience in the minds of second-grade alchemists.

After about an incense stick of time, Xiao Jun opened his eyes and the pill formula had been analyzed.

Xiao Jun turned to Otto and said, "Bring the herbs! This pill recipe is a little complicated to make, but it's only a first-grade pill after all, so you can give it a try."

"Um... do you want to go to the dedicated alchemy room?" Otto asked Xiao Jun, "Do you want me to provide you with a better medicine cauldron? I still have the cauldron I used when I was a third-grade alchemist in my youth. I can lend it to you."

"Just give me a quiet room. As for the alchemy cauldron, I'd better use my own... I'm used to it." Xiao Jun replied.

"Okay then... follow me."

After saying that, he beckoned Xiao Jun to follow him. Xiao Jun followed Otto through the back door and into a quiet room. After waiting for less than a minute, a man walked up to Otto, knelt on one knee, and respectfully handed him a ring.

Otto took the ring and threw it directly to Xiao Jun, then waved his hand to signal the person who delivered the ring to leave.

Soon, Xiao Jun and Otto were the only ones in the quiet room. Xiao Jun's divine sense probed the ring and found a pile of herbs and magic cores, all of which were used to refine the Power Condensation Pill. There were enough herbs and magic cores to refine ten batches.

"There are ten medicinal ingredients in total. I don't need you to refine ten pills. How about this! If you can refine three, you'll pass!" Otto said with a smile, "After all, the Condensation Pill is considered difficult among first-grade pills. This must be your first time to come into contact with and refine it!"

"Not bad..." Xiao Jun nodded and took out the jade-like Grass Green Cauldron from his ring. Otto looked at the Grass Green Cauldron, nodded, and used his soul power to explore it.

"What a wonderful alchemy furnace! Its texture is neither gold nor jade, but more like jade and wood. It also has a strong wood aroma, which can help stimulate the medicinal properties of the elixir and help a lot in refining the elixir." Otto wanted to take a look inside the herb alchemy furnace, but he could also sense a mist, which was even more amazing.

Xiao Jun lowered his eyes and poured a large amount of invisible demons into the interior of the herbal elixir cauldron to disrupt the soul's exploration. Xiao Jun breathed a sigh of relief, as it was indeed not broken.

The Grass and Wood Green Cauldron was placed on the stone platform, and Xiao Jun immediately summoned the Bloodthirsty Red Lotus Fire. The Bloodthirsty Red Lotus Fire was fused with countless vitality and emitted a certain high temperature.

When Otto saw the fire, he nodded secretly, and then saw Xiao Jun start to directly burn the grass and wood green cauldron, and the qi began to connect.

"This alchemy furnace is truly remarkable. It can connect to the owner's Qi, making it much easier to control the potency and temperature of the medicine when refining the elixir. Furthermore, this flame is indeed stronger than the flames condensed by cultivators, but it certainly doesn't reach the temperature of strange fire. It's likely the result of refining beast fire."

Otto was more interested in refining beast fire, but he was already a fourth-grade alchemist, capable of directly condensing real fire, and even more powerful than the red flames in Xiao Jun's hands. So, he didn't care. His interest was mostly because someone had solved a difficult problem and witnessed a marvelous battle, nothing more. He immediately began to release the first-level magic core. Enveloped by the bloodthirsty red lotus fire, the magic core slowly melted and disintegrated, gradually transforming into a violent energy of heaven and earth.

If it were an ordinary first-grade alchemist, it would be quite difficult to deal with the energy of heaven and earth in the magic core, but Xiao Jun himself had experimented with many magic cores, and these energies of heaven and earth were gradually tamed, from violent to docile.

Using the precise patterns inside the alchemy furnace to guide the flame, the energy of heaven and earth is slowly condensed and compressed, transforming it into a pool of pure spiritual liquid.

Although Otto could not directly see through the belly of the alchemy cauldron, he was able to glimpse some of the corners.

"Yes, being able to condense violent energy into pure spiritual fluid without a trace of impurities is truly commendable, but the subsequent refining of medicinal herbs is not easy either."

Take out the medicinal materials from the storage ring, and start adding the two main ingredients, red medicine fruit and ice lotus seeds, in order. The coagulation pill contains two medicines with opposite properties. The alchemist not only needs to resolve the conflict between the two opposite properties of the medicine, but also needs to perfectly reconcile the two properties.

He ran the "True Explanation of Medicinal Forms" in his mind, incorporating the medicinal properties of these medicines into the calculations. At the same time, a fragment of his soul escaped into the alchemy cauldron.

Within the alchemy cauldron, a frenzied surge of spiritual fluid swirled, a blazing blood-red flame blazing. The soul, trapped within the cauldron, seemed to be trapped in a sea of spiritual fluid and a vast sky of blood and fire.

The split soul is inside the alchemy furnace, observing the atmosphere inside the furnace from a first-person perspective.

Taoism has internal alchemy and external alchemy. Internal alchemy uses human beings as the alchemy furnace to evolve the weather of heaven and earth and carry the mysteries of the universe.

The essence of external alchemy is the same. It uses the various qi of medicinal materials to evolve the Taoist view of the universe of vital energy, and carries the immortal and indestructible great way, which is called the golden elixir.

Xiao Jun's alchemy skills naturally couldn't evolve into a cosmic view of vital energy and refine an immortal golden elixir. However, it wasn't difficult to treat the interior of the alchemy furnace as a small world.

Often, Xiao Jun's soul would escape into the alchemy cauldron to assist in alchemy. In fact, he was also using the small world inside the cauldron to comprehend the methods of Qigong practitioners.

More importantly, being able to experience firsthand the process of a pill transforming from medicinal materials, into streams of medicinal qi, and finally condensing into a pill, gives you a deeper understanding.

The techniques of countless alchemists in his mind began to merge into one, and he began to meticulously refine the medicinal properties of each portion.

The green energy of the plants in the air rapidly catalyzed the mixture, blending each of the herbs and guiding their condensation. This lasted for half an hour, allowing each medicinal power to be processed and perfected!
The spiritual liquid gradually became thicker, rolling in the cauldron, gradually condensing and fusing, and turning into a round pill.

The pill was ready, and Xiao Jun took out the round pill. The round pills were both red and blue, but the two colors were inseparable, blending perfectly together.

"It's done?" Otto's eyes widened. "And I've discovered that your alchemy furnace is quite special. It can actually absorb some of the essence while the alchemist is refining the medicine, accompanying the alchemist's growth! It's a great furnace!"

"The energy of this tripod has already merged with me and is only suitable for me." Xiao Jun said.

"Don't worry, I won't try to steal the alchemy furnace of a junior. Although this alchemy furnace is unique, it is not suitable for me. I don't have the energy to cultivate such a furnace."

Xiao Jun looked at the round pill in his hand and sighed inwardly. The color of the pill was not good enough, and even the pill pattern had not formed. This was because it was Xiao Jun's first time refining this pill, but it also made Xiao Jun realize his own shortcomings.

He did not rest and started to refine the second furnace directly. With the experience of the first time, he was much more skilled in refining the medicine. However, what surprised Otto was that Xiao Jun's technique seemed to be more precise and perfect than the first time!
This time it took another half an hour, and the pill was still successfully refined, and this time, pill patterns appeared directly.

Otto was obviously surprised! His alchemy skills improved so quickly?
It takes hundreds or even thousands of times for an alchemist's refining skills to improve significantly. Why did Xiao Jun improve his skills so quickly? But soon, Otto realized that he was too surprised. This was just where he was going!

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