Sister, I don't want to be a furnace anymore. I'm about to become an immortal.

Chapter 81: Refining Pills

On top of the green hills, there is green shade everywhere, towering trees are overhead, and small animals are playing and fighting around, creating a harmonious and peaceful scene.

Xiao Yichen carried Liu Qingqing to the highest peak, where he found the last herb Liu Qingqing needed to repair her dantian.

When everything was ready, Liu Qingqing took out the alchemy furnace from her space ring and guided Xiao Yichen to try again and again. After all, she was no longer in a good condition to refine the medicine alone. Fortunately, Xiao Yichen didn't need to do anything. The preparation of the medicine was done by Liu Qingqing. Xiao Yichen only had to fuse these herbs into the medicine.

But things didn't go as smoothly as expected.

"Brother, lower the fire a bit, it's about to burn... Put out the fire, quickly... Okay, no need, it's already burnt... If it burns a few more times, we'll have to go collect herbs again?"

Liu Qingqing held her forehead and looked helplessly at the embarrassed Xiao Yichen. She slowly walked to his side and taught him like a teacher.

"When smelting herbs, the temperature can't be too high in the early stages, otherwise they'll be ruined if you're not careful. After the medicinal properties are extracted, it's time to purify them. Don't rush this step; take your time. Once the purest medicinal properties are extracted, it's time to fuse them. This is the most important part of alchemy. Follow the ratio I told you before, guide the spiritual energy and harmonize them, so that they can finally fuse and form the elixir. Alchemy is actually that simple, but why did you mess up at the first step, brother?"

Xiao Yichen smiled apologetically and cleaned up the residue in the furnace. He listened carefully to the key points Liu Qingqing said while reviewing his previous operations.

In fact, he himself found out the problem, which was that he couldn't control the fire element well. After all, in normal combat, they used all their strength, and great strength made miracles happen. Everything was mainly done to stun the opponent to death. However, alchemy required precise control. If they were not careful, all the herbs would be ruined.

"Don't worry, Qingqing. Just try ten more times at most and I'll definitely learn it."

Liu Qingqing covered her face with her hands, looking as if she had lost all hope in life.

"Ten times? Then go find the herbs by yourself later. I'm too lazy to accompany you. I want to play with Xiao Zi."

At this time, Xiao Zi swam out from Liu Qingqing's waist and rubbed her forehead gently. Liu Qingqing liked it very much. Since the two of them recognized each other, Xiao Zi was caught by Liu Qingqing. At first, Xiao Zi was not happy and kept crawling on Xiao Yichen, but after getting familiar with him, Xiao Zi rebelled. After all, Xiao Yichen didn't usually play with it, and Liu Qingqing would tease it from time to time.

Looking at the two people and the beast drawing Gobang on the ground, Xiao Yichen smiled slightly. This Gobang was naturally taught by him to give the two little ones something to do, otherwise her ears would get calluses.

He let out a long sigh, took out another herb from the space ring and threw it into the alchemy furnace.

"Go on. Nothing is difficult in this world as long as you have enough money. Luckily these herbs are not too rare, otherwise it would be very troublesome."

Half an hour later, when the herbs were almost gone, things finally took a turn for the better.

At this moment, Xiao Yichen's mind and eyes were fixed on the last herb in his hand without blinking. He gritted his teeth and threw it into the furnace. He slowly controlled the nearby fire elements to gather together. A small flame immediately popped out from under the furnace. Under his control, the flame slowly expanded outward, and the temperature in the furnace slowly increased.

Watching the herbs in the furnace, they slowly became withered and shriveled from their original fullness, with traces of green juice sliding down along the herbs. Finally, when the last drop flowed down, the herbs were completely shriveled. Then, the temperature in the furnace was controlled, and the impurities in the liquid medicine were slowly removed until the volume of the liquid medicine was reduced several times and the color became clear from the original turbidity. Finally, all the medicinal properties of the first herb were extracted.

"Phew...I'm such a genius."

Xiao Yichen wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and the corners of his mouth rose unconsciously. Before he could get up, a small hand holding a medicine bottle was stretched out in front of him.

"Well... not bad, you have talent, just a little bit less than me. I hope you can catch up with the remaining 99 points as soon as possible. Hurry up and collect the liquid medicine." Liu Qingqing joked with a smile, and then took out a bunch of herbs from the space ring.

"I still need seven medicinal herbs. Come on, brother. My recovery depends entirely on you. I'm going to bed. Bye." After saying that, Liu Qingqing walked up to him and gave him a big hug. Then she turned around and carried Xiao Zi towards the nearby cave.

Xiao Yichen coughed helplessly and looked at the medicinal herbs all over the ground. For the first time, he realized that refining medicine was really torturous.

"Ah... I have to bear the consequences of my own sins." After a wry smile, he picked up another herb and threw it into the furnace. The whole day and night were spent in continuous failure. When Liu Qingqing rubbed her eyes and walked out of the cave, she sat down beside him and yawned in the early morning of the next day, Xiao Yichen was already refining the last herb.

Watching the green liquid in front of him becoming increasingly clear, Xiao Yichen's eyes became more and more excited. Finally, when the drop of liquid became extremely transparent, the medicinal properties of all the herbs were extracted.

Liu Qingqing put her hands around his neck from behind, resting her forehead on the back of his head, and kept mumbling, "Hungry...hungry...so hungry..."

Looking at the little face covered with mud, he rubbed her head helplessly. He even suspected that Liu Qingqing had slept on the grass last night.

He took out a small medicine bottle from the space ring and collected the freshly extracted medicine into it. Then he stood up and took Liu Qingqing to wash up.

He came to a nearby stream, took out a towel, dipped it in water, and wiped the mud off Liu Qingqing's face despite her extremely reluctant struggle. By the way, Xiao Zi's whole body was also wiped off.

After having a simple meal, Xiao Yichen looked at the eight medicine bottles on the ground, preparing to proceed to the final step of melting the pills.

Liu Qingqing lay on the ground, pulled a piece of grass and rubbed it against Xiao Zi's nostrils, teasing it while saying to Xiao Yichen, "Brother, just follow the ratio I told you before and slowly boil them. Now that you know the ratio of the pills, melting the pills is arguably the easiest step. Don't frown and put so much pressure on yourself. At worst, you can just try again."

Hearing this, Xiao Yichen smiled and said nothing. It would be best if he could succeed in one go, otherwise it would waste time.

He took a deep breath, opened all eight medicine bottles in front of him, and took out the medicine liquid in proportion. Then, under his control, eight drops of medicine liquid of different sizes floated in the air and slowly merged into a coin-sized water ball. According to the method taught by Liu Qingqing, he continuously poured wood-attributed spiritual energy into it, and then slowly raised the temperature, waiting for the pill to take shape.

Time passed quickly like a stream, and in the blink of an eye, the sun rose above her head. Liu Qingqing lay under the tree, quietly feeling the sunlight casting through the leaves, with a smile on her lips and an expression of great enjoyment.

Until Liu Qingqing felt a darkness in front of her eyes and the sunlight suddenly disappeared. She opened her eyes and saw Xiao Yichen shaking a pill at her.

After taking the pill, Liu Qingqing's expression was obviously a little strange. Looking at the pill in her hand, which was twice as big as Xiao Zi's head, she fell into deep thought.

"Brother, is this a pill or a rice ball?"

"Don't worry about the details. A large amount works. Eat it quickly. It won't taste good if it gets cold."

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