EAST DRAGON

Chapter #10. Become an Alchemist

Chapter #10. Become an Alchemist

"Do you know what it means to be a true alchemist?" Baiyin asked Zhao Yun who was preparing to try to start making pills.

"I know ancestors!" Zhao Yun answered confidently.

"Everything is in this junior's memory from what the master gave and the master left behind!" He said again.

"The memories in your mind are not just for you to remember, but must be synchronized with your abilities. It's useless if you only remember but don't practice and apply it, but it's even more useless if it's not useful for many people."

"Be smart in sorting and choosing," Baiyin said at length.

"Yes ancestor!"

"You already have a good basis for medicine. Alchemy is a development of the medical science that you previously applied. Now apply it to your beast patients."

“Master has given me a message that you should learn to combine the alchemist dao with the array dao. That will help you to progress even further!”

"Combine? How does the ancestor do it?" Zhao Yun asked curiously.

"I don't know! I'm just conveying a message from Master Tian Fan," Baiyin answered briefly.

Zhao Yun was silent for a moment, he closed his eyes and tried to look for the combination of alchemy with formations, no matter how hard he searched, he couldn't find the combination.

"I'm sorry ancestor, but there is no such thing in the memories left by master Tian Fan?"

"Not that there isn't, but there isn't yet!"

"You don't need to bother looking for it, because Master didn't give it to you on purpose. Don't ever say it doesn't exist, because Master Tian Fan can do it too!"

"Learning is not just about learning what already exists, but how you can develop the lessons and knowledge given to you."

"Master's hope is that you can develop further and exceed it, not be the same as him! That's why master message that to me," explained Baiyin.

"I've said what I have to say, the rest is up to you! Remember, master wouldn't have given you this message if he didn't believe in your abilities. It's precisely because he believes in you that he gave you this lesson! Something that is developed and discovered by yourself will have far-reaching results better and "stick" to you," Baiyin said sarcastically.

Baiyin walked away from the room and left Zhao Yun alone in the room. Just in front of the door, Baiyin spoke again without looking at Zhao Yun.

"No need to think hard, do it step by step. You will find the way and answer to your teacher's assignment," Baiyin said calmly but really touched Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun nodded, Baiyin's words really enlightened him.

"Yes, what the ancestor said is true. I can definitely do it! I can do it because I'm used to it. I'll definitely find the answer when I master pill refining and array creation. Because that's where the answer is."

Zhao Yun then sat down and assumed the lotus stance. The first thing he did was learn to change qi into the fire element. The most important requirement for someone to become an alchemist is to have the fire element.

Because fire is the main thing and is needed in refining pills. Fire here is used to heat the furnace, where the furnace is made of special iron which can withstand high temperatures and can hold the plant essence produced from heated herbal plants.

In one day, Zhao Yun managed to transform his qi into fire for the first time. It can be said that his transformation of qi into the element of fire was truly fast compared to other alchemists. This was due to the changes in his body and also because of his three dantians formed from Baiyin's black dragon qi. The fire produced by Tian Fan was also pitch black, exactly like Baiyin's, and the heat generated was five times stronger than that of ordinary fire.

After successfully completing the first stage, he began to try the second stage, which is to cultivate the spiritual power, also known as spiritual sense. The spiritual power in a cultivator actually begins to develop once a cultivator starts to acquire a realm. However, generally, the spiritual power starts to grow once a cultivator advances to the Earth King realm, so most alchemists begin their first dao when they step into that Earth King realm.

Zhao Yun, who was still in the late stage of the earth realm, did not have much difficulty in developing his soul power, because he had three dantians. His upper dantian had automatically opened and developed his soul power ten times higher than the soul power of an early stage earth king realm cultivator. Zhao Yun trained his soul power by trying to move the water in a cup, slowly but surely he covered the water in the cup with his soul power. Zhao Yun began to form spheres in the water in front of him. Apart from that, he also began to divide and multiply the spheres of water and control them as he pleased.

"Good, it worked! "He said happily.

With a soul power that was ten times higher than anyone else's, in just two sticks of incense, Zhao Yun had become accustomed to controlling his soul power.

Now after resting for a while, Zhao Yun began to sit in front of a black stove. After getting used to using and being able to control qi to enlarge and reduce the fire, now he began to practice the purification knowledge he had received from the teacher. He returned to meditating in his subconscious mind. , he began to practice level one pill refining, after some time digesting and making several experiments, he began to carry out his first refining.

And so Zhao Yun started refining his first pill, the first pill he made was a healing pill and a dantian filling pill. The most basic pill that a grade one alchemist would make. Zhao Yun started to heat the furnace, after reaching the optimal temperature he began to put in the four herbs used to make dantian filling pills. After the herbs burned completely and the “essence” of the plant had been produced, his soul power began to control each essence produced and united the four essences of the herbs and formed them into a large grain.

Zhao Yun, with both hands, began to regulate the temperature of the furnace so that it remained stable, while his soul power began to clean every remaining dirt particle from the essence grains. Feeling that he had enough, Zhao Yun began to condense the pill.

The condensation of the pill here is by channeling the alchemist's qi into the furnace, the qi that is channeled then completely envelops the essence of the plant, and with this process coupled with heating the furnace to the optimal temperature, the essence enveloped in the qi begins to thicken and after a while it turns into crystals. When the pill has completely crystallized, that is a sign that the pill has been successfully made.

"Ting ting ting ting" The sound of the pill falling to the bottom of the furnace indicates the completion of the pill making.

Zhao Yun got up from his seat and quickly opened the lid of the furnace, he began to take the pills he had made from the furnace. His eyes lit up when he saw that eight pills had been successfully made, and the pills were all heaven grade pills with an effectiveness of 93 percent.

Without hesitation, Zhao Yun began to try the pill he made himself, his eyes widened because he felt the efficacy of the pill to fill his dantian was truly effective. One pill of his in just five breaths had succeeded in replenishing his dantian which was reduced due to the alchemical process he carried out.

While resting, Zhao Yun began to think about how to make the pill he made perfect, he began to dig back into the memories that Tian Fan gave him and learn how to refine the pill to the perfect stage. And so began Zhao Yun's long journey to become an alchemist to the next stage.

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Do readers know?

Essence has a core meaning, the main thing , in Chinese novels, essence here means "life blood" or is called the essence

Alchemists are people who study alchemy. What is alchemy? Alchemy is the science of chemistry which is based on spiritual understanding so that it aims to create objects or materials that do not make sense, and aims to go against the laws of nature.

In terms of data, alchemists themselves are a higher level than the level of ancient healers who developed the manufacture of medicine using special tools which made it easier to make pills at that time.

Hopefully it's useful. happy reading….