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With that clear female voice, the courtyard gate creaked open from the inside.

A woman came out.

She looked to be about thirty-five or thirty-six years old, wearing a well-tailored white gown, much like the kind worn by nurses in hospitals, but made of better material and without any markings.

Her long, jet-black hair was simply pinned up at the back of her head, revealing her smooth forehead and fair neck.

Her lips were thin, with a natural curve at the corners of her mouth. Her eyes were long and narrow, and when she looked at people, a hint of charm would inadvertently appear in the corners of her eyes.

This is a woman who is mature to the core.

When Wu Yong saw her, he bent down even lower, his voice tinged with nervousness:

"Master Xie Jingyi, this is Master Ye, Ye An. He... has come to carry on our water-based alchemy tradition."

Xie Jingyi's gaze swept over Ye An without lingering, but instead looked at Wu Yong, her brows furrowing slightly.

"That useless Yun Jingxing, he not only died himself, but he also had to drag the lineage of our Water Magic into it."

Her voice was calm, revealing no emotion.

"This...this..." Wu Yong's forehead was covered in sweat, and he didn't dare to say a word, his head hanging even lower.

The atmosphere at the entrance of the courtyard was somewhat tense.

After a few seconds, Xie Jingyi spoke again, this time addressing Ye An: "Master Ye? Is that so? Please come in with me."

Upon hearing this, Wu Yong felt as if he had been granted a pardon. He immediately straightened up, bowed to Ye An again, and hurriedly turned and left.

That silhouette even carried a hint of fleeing.

Ye An didn't say anything and followed behind Xie Jingyi.

The woman walked ahead, her pace slow, her waist and hips swaying gently with each step.

The white gown couldn't hide her voluptuous curves at all, especially her round and pert buttocks, which formed a breathtaking arc as she walked.

What a huge millstone!

Ye An's gaze fell on it quite calmly.

The two walked one after the other through the courtyard filled with various medicinal herbs and entered the building.

The scene inside the room startled Ye An.

There was neither the enormous alchemy furnace and cauldron he had imagined, nor the fiery pit burning with raging flames.

This place is more like a modern chemistry laboratory.

The shelves against the wall are filled with glassware of all sizes, including beakers, measuring cylinders, droppers, condensers, and more.

In the center of the room was a long row of stone platforms, on which were placed some heating tools that looked like alcohol lamps, and a bronze vessel that looked like a huge distillation apparatus.

The most eye-catching thing is the huge iron pot in the corner, which is almost half a person tall, with a built-up stove underneath.

Ye An looked at all this and felt a little uneasy.

Is this the water-based alchemy technique that Medicine King Valley has passed down for hundreds of years?

It looks a bit... rudimentary.

"Is this all you use for alchemy?" he finally asked.

Xie Jingyi was selecting medicinal herbs in front of a shelf. Upon hearing this, she didn't turn her head or stop what she was doing.

"What? You don't want to?" Her voice turned colder. "Then you can get out now."

Ye An touched his nose.

Fine.

People have to bow their heads under the roof.

He endured it in order to learn some skills.

However, this woman's temper was even more fiery than her figure.

As he thought this, his gaze involuntarily swept over her once more.

Well, consider it collecting some interest.

Xie Jingyi selected several medicinal herbs, placed them on the stone platform, and then pointed to a white coat and mask hanging next to them.

"Put them on."

Ye An did as instructed.

Xie Jingyi then began to explain: "Our water-based alchemy doesn't rely on intense heat, but rather on water immersion. The core is just two words: extraction. We extract the most essential medicinal liquid from the herbs little by little using different methods. Then, according to the formula, we blend them in proportion, and finally, we simmer them over a low flame to allow the medicinal properties to fully integrate."

She spoke very simply, glossing over many key points.

"Hmm... I've explained enough. Now you can give it a try."

Ye An was somewhat surprised: "I'll go straight for it?"

"Otherwise what?" Xie Jingyi crossed her arms and leaned against the stone platform next to her, looking like she was watching a good show. "Do you expect me to spend three or four years teaching you step by step? I don't have that kind of free time."

Ye An considered it for a moment.

This water-based alchemy method sounds somewhat similar to certain auxiliary alchemy techniques in the cultivation world, but there are also fundamental differences.

In cultivation and alchemy, divine sense and magical power are fundamental, while fire is merely a tool. This water technique, however, seems more like an analysis and recombination of medicinal power.

interesting.

He didn't ask any more questions. He took out a portion of the ingredients for the Nourishing Essence Pill from his jade pendant space and began processing it, just like Xie Jingyi had done earlier.

He first put a ginseng root into a stone mortar, preparing to crush it.

"Use a jade pestle, not a stone pestle! Otherwise, the medicinal properties will clash with the metallic energy in the stone, and half of the medicinal properties will be wasted before extraction even begins!" Xie Jingyi's voice suddenly rang out.

Ye An paused, then switched to a jade pestle.

Next, he prepared to pour the crushed medicine into a beaker and heat it.

"Heating it in a copper pot over water, the temperature must not exceed 60 degrees Celsius! Do you want to boil it directly?"

"You need to soak this in cold water for fifteen minutes first, to allow the medicinal properties to be released!"

"Wrong! Those two liquids can't be mixed directly, they'll explode!"

Xie Jingyi leaned against it, constantly issuing commands and reprimands.

Ye An was initially a bit flustered, after all, it was a completely new system.

Several times, when the two liquids were mixed, a violent reaction occurred, and they looked like they were about to explode.

However, his divine sense was powerful, and he could always detect those subtle changes in energy at the most critical moments.

Then, he would subconsciously adjust the pouring speed, or lightly tap the outer wall of the vessel with his finger to forcefully calm the rampaging energy with a slight vibration.

To outsiders, these actions seem like sheer luck, like a blind cat stumbling upon a dead mouse.

Xie Jingyi's brows furrowed more and more without her realizing it.

Once is luck, twice is coincidence.

Three times, four times... This kid's movements seemed clumsy, but his handling of each crisis was frighteningly precise.

It's like... it's as if you can predict the changes in the medicine in advance.

What the hell is going on??