Battle Through the Heavens: Starting from the Jia Ma Empire

Chapter 17 Alchemy

Green Mountain Town, Maple Leaf Building, Medicine Refining Department.

Originally a place for exchanging alchemy experiences, even though it only contained some low-grade potions, it was always bustling with noise.

However, the entire hall was so quiet that one could almost hear everyone breathing. This was because, in the center of the hall, a handsome young man dressed in white was skillfully refining a first-grade elixir—the Blood Coagulation Pill.

Blood Clotting Pill: Ranked as a first-grade pill, as its name suggests, it has the function of stopping bleeding and can quickly heal bleeding throughout the body except for major arteries. Therefore, the pill is very easy to refine and is quite commonly used, making it one of the essential choices for most novice alchemists.

In the center of the hall, Lin Feng was refining at an extremely slow pace, pausing from time to time to explain some common and difficult problems.

For him, who is about to break through to the fourth rank, refining first-rank pills is already a piece of cake.

As for why he was refining first-grade pills in the main hall, it was naturally to improve the level of the Maple Leaf Pavilion's alchemy department. He had already planned to leave Green Mountain Town and head to the capital of Gama to seek a higher level of alchemy expertise.

Before that, it's essential to leave a certain foundation for Maple Leaf Tower. Alchemy is just one aspect of this, and there's also the reason of leaving enough pills for the Exchange Tower.

As batches of pills were produced, Lin Feng selected several senior physicians who were among the top in their skill level and had them refine pills, pointing out their mistakes.

People failed from time to time, but fortunately, with Lin Feng's control, the cauldron did not explode.

You should know that Lin Feng personally funded the purchase of three medicine cauldrons to set up the alchemy department, spending a huge sum of money. He couldn't let these guys squander them.

As time went by, someone finally produced a qualified blood clotting pill.

Lin Feng waved his hand, signaling the several excited, white-haired doctors—no, first-grade alchemists—to go down and make adjustments.

Using the warmth of the medicine cauldron, Lin Feng took out several portions of medicinal materials from his storage ring to refine a second-grade pill—the Fighter Pill.

Since this wasn't for teaching purposes, Lin Feng didn't deliberately slow down.

"Boom..." A ball of flame rose from Lin Feng's palm and entered the medicine cauldron through its opening.

"Bang bang bang bang..." Four sounds of flames burning could be heard in the arena. A flame was burning fiercely in one of the three medicine cauldrons and Lin Feng's five medicine cauldrons.

"What... four cauldrons at once..." a middle-aged doctor exclaimed, his eyes fixed on the four medicine cauldrons in the room, incredulous.

An elderly doctor nearby quickly covered his mouth, but his shocked expression revealed his excitement.

For them, being able to refine a first-grade pill is already a tremendous achievement, let alone a second-grade pill.

If it weren't for Lin Feng's kindness, these doctors from Qingshan Town probably would never have become noble alchemists in their entire lives.

Therefore, they held Lin Feng in high esteem and regarded him as their lifelong faith.

However, seeing him refine second-grade pills, and even refine four cauldrons simultaneously, still left them in disbelief and dumbfounded, eventually turning into deep admiration.

Their eyes were fixed on Lin Feng's movements, and they dared not utter a word. They also hoped to learn even the slightest thing from Lin Feng's actions, something that would benefit them for life.

……

In the arena, Lin Feng was simultaneously refining four cauldrons of pills, yet he showed no signs of fatigue.

Clearly, he was already quite skilled at refining second-grade pills at this point, not to mention the Fighter Pills he had created.

As time went by, the medicinal liquid in the cauldron continuously condensed, reaching a certain point.

Lin Feng's hand seals suddenly changed, and a powerful soul force burst forth from his body, splitting into four streams that entered the four medicine cauldrons.

"At this very moment, condense!" Lin Feng suddenly opened his tightly closed eyes and shouted. (What alchemist keeps their eyes open while refining medicine? They must be a low-level alchemist, hehehe.)

"Thump thump thump thump..." Four consecutive sounds of energy colliding rang out.

"It's...it's done?" A doctor stared at the fluctuations in the room, looking dazed.

Lin Feng clapped his hands one by one, and each of the four medicine cauldrons spat out a pill covered with patterns.

Upon seeing this, the surrounding doctors were all speechless, gasping in shock, and exclaiming, "This is terrifying!"

After storing the four Fighter Pills in his storage ring, Lin Feng didn't stop. He continued to take out four more portions of medicinal herbs from his ring. Taking this opportunity, Lin Feng planned to refine all the medicinal herbs in Maple Leaf Pavilion into pills.

On one hand, Lin Feng is going to be gone for an unknown period of time, and he needs to leave enough pills for the exchange building to keep it running. On the other hand, Lin Feng is about to travel to the center of the Gama Empire—the Gama Imperial Capital. If he has enough pills to pave the way, it will be much easier.

"Knock knock knock..."

As time went by, the four medicine cauldrons continuously condensed pills. The onlookers gradually became numb, seemingly accustomed to the constant production of pills.

Everyone stared in disbelief as Lin Feng continued to refine pills. Normally, even the most powerful alchemist could not refine so many pills at once.

For alchemists, it's not just about having the corresponding level of battle qi. Alchemy also consumes a significant amount of soul energy.

Therefore, even if their fighting spirit remains strong, alchemists are often quite exhausted after completing the refining of pills.

Lin Feng had also wondered about this, until one time when he circulated his cultivation technique. As the technique circulated, the five elements of battle qi surged, causing a barely perceptible increase in Lin Feng's soul power.

After experiencing it several times, Lin Feng could no longer contain his joy and burst into laughter.

"Hahaha, I never expected that when the Five Elements Technique is activated, it will absorb spiritual energy from the unseen world. This greatly increases the spirituality of the soul and even promotes subtle growth within the soul."

No wonder Lin Feng was so excited; the Five Elements Technique was circulating to absorb spiritual energy. This meant that the threshold for his soul to reach the Spirit Realm no longer existed.

It is important to know that the realm of the soul is divided into four realms: Mortal, Spirit, Heaven, and Emperor.

Ordinary people's soul realm is at most the mortal realm, while for alchemists, the mortal realm is at most capable of refining seventh-grade pills.

For a genius like Lin Feng, the eighth or even ninth rank is their goal.

The Spirit Realm is a threshold between the seventh and eighth ranks. Without reaching the eighth rank, one cannot be considered a grandmaster in this world.

Now, the threshold to the Spirit Realm no longer exists, and the door to the Eighth Rank has been opened for Lin Feng. No wonder he is so overjoyed.

……

"Knock knock knock..."

Vibrating sounds echoed from within the cauldron as pills were continuously produced. At this point, Lin Feng had stopped practicing with multiple cauldrons simultaneously.

At this moment, Lin Feng's expression was solemn. The refining of a third-grade pill was not so simple, even for Lin Feng, and he dared not relax for a moment.

Suddenly, Lin Feng opened his tightly closed eyes, and a sharp light shot out from them.

"A top-grade third-rank pill—Great Dou Shi, give it to me... Condense."

(End of this chapter)