Chapter 063

Chapter 63: Alchemy Sufferings

There are many Martial Art Sects and they diametrically oppose each other. All of them could not wait for someone to be a little bit in the wrong and grab their weakness. Chen Xiang was somewhat surprised by this. Like Zhang Long, this young 8th level of the Mortal Martial Realm Practitioner is still not of any importance. It is highly likely that there are many powerful martial artists inside those sects. Only Martial Artists with extraordinary potential and a very promising future could be considered to be of great importance.

After things calmed down, Chen Xiang started learning alchemy and growing spirit herbs. He didn’t use the [True Elemental Dan] because Su Meiyao and Bai Youyou advised him that it would be most effective to consume it when he encountered a bottleneck.

After the Chen Family took over the Yao Family’s pill businesses, their overall price dropped down. This made many martial practitioners extremely pleased as they eagerly supported the Chen Family. Due to this, the Chen Family is very popular among the masses and this would be great aid in their future development as a powerhouse.

In this world, the law of the jungle is rampant. In just one day, all of the wealth accumulated over eons by the Yao Family now belonged to the Chen Family! They had brought this upon themselves, if they had not opposed the Chen Family they would still be prospering.

After the annexation of the Yao Family, Chen Xiang simply did not have any shortage of spirit herbs for alchemy. He is currently picking some spirit herbs from the former Yao Family herbal garden, preparing to refine a Mortal Level High-Grade Pill. Not only did the difficulty in refining a Mortal Level High-Grade Pill increase several times over, it also required much more precious spirit herbs.

There are not many types of Mortal Level High-Grade Pills, and only a few types are widespread and frequently used. These are the most useful for martial practitioners but also seldom refined. These are the types of pills alchemists need to master, so obviously when Chen Xiang choose to learn how to refine high-grade pills he choose one of these.

“Mortal Level High-Grade Pill’s ranking on the tier of pills is somewhat awkward! How should I put this? Undoubtedly in the martial arts world, there are many martial practitioner above 10th level of the Mortal Martial Realm and they are all quite rich! These people have high requirements, so when they buy pills they would obviously not choose Mortal Level Pills but buy Spirit Level Low-Grade Pills instead. Moreover it would be bought in vast quantities and after they eat it, they see big results!” Said Su Meiyao.

Chen Xiang asked “So in other words, those in Martial Art Sects at the 8th and 9th level of the Mortal Martial Realm are relatively poor?”

Su Meiyao answered “Of course. So they can only buy mortal level pills with their wealth, but you have to know that the effects of Mortal Level High-Grade Pills on the 8th and 9th level Mortal Martial Realm Martial Practitioners do not have any obvious effects.

“So you need to master just the most expensive Mortal Level High-Grade Pills, which are [Cultivating Qi Dan], [Grand Elemental Dan] and [Transforming Essence Dan].” said Su Meiyao

Chen Xiang already knew some of these pills and they were indeed most expensive among Mortal Level High-Grade Pills. After taking them, their effects are also very evident and helpful. [Cultivating Qi Dan] mainly elevates someone’s True Qi quality so that martial practitioners can refine their True Qi into a  purer form.

[Grand Elemental Dan] is a power boosting pill. After consuming it, a large amount of spirit Qi is released which can be directly refined into a large amount of True Qi without taking into account thin spirit Qi or poor spiritual veins. Last is the  [Transforming Essence Dan], this pill directly transforms internal True Qi into spiritual power and is mainly used to enlarge the area of divine sense and practice it’s usage.

Chen Xiang has the [Flame Dragon’s Brilliant Furnace], with this sacred level draconic artifact, one could accelerate the time inside the alchemy furnace and thereby save a lot of time in the refining process of the high-grade pills.

It should be known that some pills take years or even decades for refinement. Chen Xiang with the help of the [Flame Dragon’s Brilliant Furnace] can drastically shorten the time required.

Chen Xiang is going to attempt to refine the [Grand Elemental Dan] first because he wants to take the pill himself and elevate his own power. Only after entering the 9th level of the Mortal Martial Realm would he enter one of the big sects.

There are three main materials required for refining the [Grand Elemental Dan]. Although not much, they are all required to be more than five hundred years old in addition to twenty auxiliary materials, the oldest of them being a hundred years old and the youngest being fifty or sixty years old. From this alone, the preciousness of a [Grand Elemental Dan] could be seen. If they failed to refine it, many alchemists would simply cry in despair.

“This stone like fruit is really tricky ah!” Chen Xiang had started refining. Originally, these herbs belonged to the Yao Family and he could only find four sets, each of them being worth more than one hundred thousand spirit coins.

Although the [Flame Dragon’s Brilliant Furnace] is more suitable for alchemy and the control of temperature is arbitrary, if one does not know about the degree of heating required by each herb, then even divine furnaces are useless.

At this time, Chen Xiang separated his divine sense into twenty or so separate parts and controlled the flame incinerating the twenty different spirit herbs. Moreover, these spirit herbs need to be transformed into herbal powder at the exact same time, so there should not be even the tiniest bit of difference between them. Meanwhile, Chen Xiang also needed to use all of his brain to refine the various spirit herbs into herbal spirit Qi. The consumption of divine sense would ordinarily have been too much, even for Chen Xiang. But the [Flame Dragon’s Brilliant Furnace] allowed him to decrease his consumption of divine sense and he did not need to resort to using pills in order to restore his divine sense.

Chen Xiang’s divine sense perceived a full day passing inside the alchemy furnace, but in actuality only a small moment had past! This is because the [Flame Dragon’s Brilliant Furnace] sped up the passage of time inside it, so there is a large time difference between the two.

“Fuc***g Shit! I’m finished!” Chen Xiang is sweating profusely as he watched a clump of colorful mist rising from the [Flame Dragon’s Brilliant Furnace] and could not help but curse.

This is already more than one hundred thousand spirit coins which had just suddenly transformed into a puff of colorful smoke. The fact that Chen Xiang didn’t cry is already considered resolute.

“Worthy of the title [Flame Dragon’s Brilliant Furnace] to not even explode after that!” Su Meiyao giggled and smiled tenderly.

“Sister Meiyao do not irritate me!” Chen Xiang muttered.

Just a moment ago, he had incinerated the spirit herb called “Iron Element Fruit” and failed. This was because not only was that “Iron Element Fruit” not so tough as he had imagined, when he had been baking it nothing was happening so he suddenly increased the  flames. Who could have thought that the “Iron Element Fruit” would explode in the blink of an eye as the escaping spirit Qi from the explosion caused all of the other herbal powders and herbal spirit Qi to bled into one group. This resulted in a variety of reaction with the end result of an explosion, all of which surged out from the [Flame Dragon’s Brilliant Furnace]’smouth.

“I told you that this fruit is very hard to refine! Even I failed a good number of times when I used this grey fruit! Now when I see someone failing in front of me like I once did, of course I’m going to be delighted” Su Meiyao stuck out her rosy fragrant tongue and continued to laugh.

Every time Chen Xiang refines pills, Su Meiyao would come out. Sometimes she would wipe Chen Xiang’s sweat, or perhaps gloat, and other times she would encourage. Occasionally she would also take liberties or tempt Chen Xiang this innocent teenager.

[TLN: What innocent teenager? He going for a fuc**** harem. :D]

Chen Xiang curls his lips and said “You can afford the failures but there is no way for me. There are only three sets of ingredients left!” He exclaimed after learning that when Su Meiyao was trying to master alchemy, even with her extensive resources, had actually failed several times.

“Good brother, you shouldn’t be so discouraged. I just remembered the past and miss it very much.” Su Meiyao took out a silky handkerchief and sweetly smiled. She then walked towards him and wiped off the sweat from Chen Xiang’s face.

Chen Xiang inhaled that refreshing body fragrance emitting from Su Meiyao. Feeling her tender beautiful hands occasionally stroking his cheeks made him feel an inexpressible sensation.

After a quick break, Chen Xiang continued to refine….

The second time he had failed again, at the exact same stage when he was dealing with the “Iron Element Fruit.”

The third time he managed to successfully resolve the issue with the “Iron Element Fruit” but at the last stage of congealing the pill, he could not control the fusion of the various herbal powders and herbal spirit Qis, resulting in another small explosion inside the [Flame Dragon’s Brilliant Furnace]!

“Father is really prodigal ah… Just in a two hour period I’ve evaporated more than four hundred thousand spirit coins.” Chen Xiang laid down on the ground feeling extreme heartache as he watched the scattered mist in the private room.