Douluo: Lord of Arms

Chapter 143 Dan Cheng
Lin Xingyu carefully examined the alchemy furnace. The furnace was dark black from top to bottom, with three legs at the bottom, and the walls were covered with dense patterns.

The alchemy furnace was located in the very center of the house, and the entire room was filled with various soul-guiding arrays.

All kinds of tools are available.

Lin Xingyu stepped forward and poured his soul power into the alchemy furnace, familiarizing himself with the items while carefully recalling how to use the furnace.

"How is it? Is the stuff suitable?"

Makino asked with some curiosity.

He had naturally studied all the prescriptions Lin Xingyu gave him, and the basic Nine Dragons Great Pill was fine.

For more advanced elixirs, one must not only have a sufficient understanding of the properties of the ingredients, but also pay close attention to the changes in their properties during the refining process.

Furthermore, guiding the primordial energy of heaven and earth is a delicate task. Ever since he failed to refine one batch, he has gone straight to working with basic pills.

Brain: I know it!

Hand: You know nothing!

Making high-level pills really requires a bit of talent.

If you don't have enough talent, you'll need a lot of materials to accumulate, but the range of medicinal herbs required is vast.

Just like when Huo Yuhao was refining the Qiankun Creation Pill, he failed countless times before finally succeeding on the last attempt.

As for why Lin Xingyu was so confident that he could definitely master the skill, Mu Ye had no interest in asking.

I don't want to ask.

After all, everyone has their own secrets. As long as it's confirmed that he is your disciple and has no ill intentions towards the sect, that's fine.

If every matter is investigated thoroughly and the facts are uncovered, that sect will collapse in no time.

It's best to maintain some distance between people.

"No problem, the product is very good."

Lin Xingyu carefully adjusted the several soul tools placed here.

After the inspection, everything was found to be intact.

Lin Xingyu opened the storage soul tool that Zhenhua had given him and took out one box after another.

Most of the boxes were simply opened and placed in an easily accessible location nearby.

He carefully placed the last three boxes in front of him.

Blazing Sunwood, Moon Spirit Flower, Blood Orchid.

The blazing sunwood was about a foot in size, its surface flowing with patterns like molten gold, resembling solidified magma and radiating a fiery aura. Inlaid in its heartwood was translucent amber, within which a constantly pulsating crimson-gold light shone.

Moon Spirit Flowers typically grow on a blue stone in the center of a cold pool. Their nine petals have a glass-like texture, with a silvery-blue halo like moonlight flowing across their surface. The edges of the petals shimmer with a soft, pearly light, and a drop of dew that never falls floats atop the flower's stamen.

Even though it now resembles a medicinal herb, that single dewdrop magically floats above it.

The Blood Orchid is quite ordinary; it's just that its entire body is ruby-colored.

These three are all extremely precious ancient medicinal herbs, which are also the main ingredients for Lin Xingyu's alchemy this time.

No matter what kind of elixir you're making, there always needs to be a main ingredient.

That is, the "ruler" in the context of "ruler, minister, assistant, and envoy".

In this era where all kinds of medicinal herbs are now cultivated artificially, the number of medicinal herbs that have been around for hundreds or thousands of years has increased dramatically.

However, once the number reaches the tens of thousands of years, it begins to decline precipitously.

The three spiritual herbs are at least 20,000 years old, and the oldest, the Moon Spirit Flower, is close to 40,000 years old.

Such ancient spiritual objects are much more precious than soul-forged metals, since soul-forged metals can regenerate in a short time, but these ancient spiritual objects cannot.

Their growth cycle is exceptionally long.

"These things are quite precious, but if you're willing to wait, while it's impossible to get a 100,000-year-old spiritual herb, getting a 50,000-60,000-year-old one shouldn't be a problem."

Looking at the busy Lin Xingyu, Mu Ye suddenly spoke up.

Lin Xingyu paused slightly in his movements, then shook his head and said.

"No need. This 'Mysterious Crystal Jade Soul Pill' is only for enhancing one's essence, energy, and spirit, not for undergoing a complete transformation. There's no need for such a precious spiritual item. It would be a waste."

Hearing Lin Xingyu's explanation, Mu Ye stopped talking and just watched Lin Xingyu's operation while checking the surrounding equipment.

The main function of the "Mysterious Crystal Jade Soul Pill" is to purify the body and mind and enhance one's essence, energy, and spirit. In terms of its benefits to the human body, it can be said to be the strongest.

The reason Lin Xingyu chose this particular pill to refine was partly because he was somewhat dissatisfied with his current progress in blood transfusion. Taking the pill and not taking the pill resulted in completely different cultivation speeds.

Before he took drugs, he could have waited patiently, but since he experienced the speed after taking drugs, he couldn't stand the slow pace.

On the other hand, both Zhenhua's practice of the "Red Origin Returning to the Source Method" and Muye's transformation of his mecha require a great deal of energy and spirit.

The other two agreed to Lin Xingyu's suggestion without hesitation.

This time, we prepared a large quantity of medicinal herbs, nearly a thousand kinds in total.

After work began, Lin Xingyu immediately entered a state of "high-dimensional vision".

Select some herbs and place them directly into the medicine pool. Carefully activate the soul guidance array and decompose the herbs little by little according to the patterns you see.

Above, the primordial energy of heaven and earth continuously flows into the medicinal pool.

At this moment, Lin Xingyu was using the water refining method.

In Lin Xingyu's view.

The so-called alchemy is about fully utilizing the medicinal properties of the ingredients and causing various changes between them.

Separation, extraction, displacement, sublimation, crystallization...

The final medicinal properties are what I desire, and can be considered a new spiritual substance.

In this process, the medicinal properties in the raw materials that can be used are medicines, and the medicinal properties that cannot be used are poisons.

In Lin Xingyu's view, this is in itself a large-scale chemical process.

However, with the addition of various spiritual herbs and the addition of the primordial energy of heaven and earth, it appears to be full of mystery.

Ultimately, it's not as high-end as it seems.

In this refining process, whether it is fire refining or water refining, it is just about creating a suitable external environment that allows the medicinal properties to be most effective.

The added primordial energy of heaven and earth serves two purposes: to catalyze and to provide sufficient energy.

After all, medicinal properties alone are not enough; sufficient energy is also required.

In a finished elixir, the medicinal properties are the quality, which is the direction of the elixir's effect, while the vital energy is the quantity, which is the intensity of the elixir's effect.

As Lin Xingyu added hundreds of kinds of spiritual herbs to the medicinal pool, the color of the pool continued to change.

Not far away, Makino watched this scene without blinking. Although he still didn't quite understand it, he felt it was very impressive.

For the next week, Lin Xingyu basically stayed here.

Relying on his "high-dimensional vision," he could clearly see the extent of changes in the medicine in the pool below.

Each time, new spiritual items are added at the most opportune moment to maintain the changing medicinal properties within the medicinal pool.

At the same time, during this process, they repeatedly retrieved the dregs from the medicinal pool that had completely lost their medicinal properties and even had their internal energy drained.

It maintains the purity of the medicinal pool.

The soul-guiding array surrounding the house was also constantly drawing upon the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to maintain the intensity of the energy supply.

Fortunately, Zhenhua's house was surrounded by various soul-guiding arrays, and the concentration of heaven and earth energy around the house was far greater than in other areas.

This made Lin Xingyu's alchemy process go more smoothly.

Three days later, Lin Xingyu carefully threw the Moon Spirit Flower into the medicinal pool.

With a loud bang, the Moon Spirit Flower vanished instantly into the medicinal pool.

Lin Xingyu's spirits lifted, and he carefully guided the primordial energy of heaven and earth.

Half an hour later, as the medicinal pool turned from yellow to a deep green, Lin Xingyu couldn't help but let out a long breath.

The separation is complete.

Then, while continuing to draw upon the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, they carefully began to separate the useless medicinal liquid. As the useless medicinal liquid was continuously discharged, a cluster of emerald green crystals the size of a human head remained in the center of the medicinal pool.

At this point, Lin Xingyu had extracted half of the medicine.

Carefully store this emerald green crystal in a box.

Lin Xingyu then turned his gaze to the alchemy furnace.

The refining process continued, with the remaining medicines being added to the furnace one by one.

This time, it's the fire refining method.

The speed is significantly faster than the water-based training method.

He carefully controlled the temperature of the flames, refining each medicinal herb and extracting its essence.

The speed at this time is obviously faster than that of water refining, since water refining involves putting a large batch of spiritual herbs together.

If you make a mistake, you could destroy a lot of spiritual objects.

At this point, they are done one by one. If one is accidentally destroyed, it is only one medicinal herb that is destroyed, and there are always substitutes.

Lin Xingyu naturally felt more relaxed.

After spending another day or two extracting all the medicine, Lin Xingyu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

I couldn't help but take a day off.

A day later, he solemnly reopened the furnace.

This time, we're really going to start refining pills.

As the flames reignited, he methodically poured portions of spiritual liquid into the alchemy furnace.

Watching this scene from not far away, Mu Ye couldn't help but marvel.

He had never even heard of anyone who could perform such alchemy techniques, let alone seen them.

This time, he really opened his eyes.

However, this operation is too complicated. If all the standards are this high, I guess very few people will be able to learn it.

As time passed, Lin Xingyu finally poured all the medicine into the pot.

Seeing this, Mu Ye stepped forward and began to manipulate some of the surrounding soul tools, continuously absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy.

Then, following Lin Xingyu's orders, they continuously adjusted the power.

Lin Xingyu kept Mu Ye by his side primarily to serve as a tool.

After all, the power required for alchemy is constantly changing according to the properties of the medicine, and the power on the soul tool is ultimately an artificial idiot.

It would be far more effective to simply bring over a Title Douluo to assist.

Half an hour later, Makino's eyes lit up.

He had just smelled a faint fragrance emanating from the alchemy furnace in front of him.

Upon smelling the fragrance, he felt a distinct craving throughout his body.

Highly nourishing!

Absolutely a great tonic!
This feeling was even more profound than the allure of the red jade shrimp.

Makino swears, as a chef, that this stuff is absolutely fantastic.

As time went by, the fragrance emanating from the alchemy furnace became increasingly rich.

Makino's mood improved, as his little apprentice had actually succeeded on his first try.

At the same time, he couldn't help but feel ashamed; the difference between people is truly vast.

From Lin Xingyu's movements, he could tell that this was probably Lin Xingyu's first time refining this kind of pill, and many of his movements were unnecessary.

But he succeeded in the process without making any mistakes.

Makino couldn't help but doubt his life for a moment. Maybe I'm a fake genius?
Even though it looks so simple, I can't do alchemy well myself.

Seven hours later.

"Stop!"

As soon as Lin Xingyu's voice rang out, Mu Ye immediately stopped what he was doing.

Lin Xingyu instantly sealed the alchemy furnace.

Only then did he finally let out a long sigh of relief.

"Is everything ready?" Makino couldn't help but ask.

"Alright, let's go. Let's leave the stuff here to rest for a few days before we start the furnace."

After more than half a month of continuous work, Lin Xingyu was also somewhat exhausted.

"Go out and tidy up first. Zhenhua has been waiting for us for half a month. I'll go and tell him."

"it is good!"

As soon as Lin Xingyu finished washing up and stepped out of the room, he smelled the aroma of food wafting over.

As I stepped out of the room, I saw Makino already placing plates on the table.

"Eat first, you haven't had a proper meal in half a month."

Seeing Lin Xingyu walk out of Muye, he greeted him with a smile.

Considering that Lin Xingyu hadn't eaten properly for the past few days, Mu Ye prepared only precious ingredients that were nutritious and energy-rich.

After Muye prepared delicious food for several hours, Lin Xingyu finally felt nine-tenths full.

Seeing Lin Xingyu's actions, Zhenhua couldn't help but eat a few dishes as well.

three days later.

Lin Xingyu, Zhenhua, and Muye gathered around the alchemy furnace, staring at each other in disbelief.

"This is the elixir you refined."

Zhenhua said in a strange tone.

"Everyone has a first time, so you can't blame me if something goes wrong. Besides, isn't the effect perfect?"

Lin Xingyu's eyes darted around.

The quality of the pills was fine; it was just that the final product had a rather strange shape.

When he finally finalized the drug's shape, he was observing the objects below using a "high-dimensional perspective."

Therefore, he divided the pills directly according to the primordial energy of heaven and earth. As a result, while other people's pills were round, his pills became various irregular shapes.

Round, oval, triangular—all sorts of strange shapes have appeared.

"It's really good."

Mu Ye scraped some off the surface of the pill with his fingernail and tasted it. He immediately felt a cool sensation spread throughout his body and couldn't help but praise it.

He felt that his soul power, blood and energy, and spirit had all been enhanced, and the effect was quite remarkable.

Keep in mind that he was already a Title Douluo, yet even a tiny bit of powder had given him a boost.

"Put it away."

Lin Xingyu carefully placed the pills into three jade bottles.

He then handed two of the jade bottles to Mu Ye and Zhen Hua respectively.

"Please keep these two portions. These pills, combined with the 'Red Origin Returning to the Source Method,' should be able to quickly replenish the losses you've incurred over the years, Teacher. Also, Senior Brother Aruheng should need them sometime."

Lin Xingyu didn't give the two a reason to refuse and handed the items to them directly.

Makino opened his mouth, but the words of refusal stuck in his throat, and in the end he didn't say them. Aruheng really needed it.

Zhenhua's eyes lit up, and he accepted it without hesitation.

"Use yours first, I'll find someone to collect some more, and we'll refine more when we run out."

(End of this chapter)