Chapter 19: Washing Marrow Dan
Yao Tianhua's pale and handsome face looked ugly to the extreme, the muscles on his face twitching slightly. He was also shocked by Shen Xiang's alchemy skills, he didn't think that under the heavens there would be another young alchemist who could rival him!
Shen Xiang placed the five grains of Tempering Body Dan in his palm, and popped them into his mouth one by one like eating sugar beans. As he ate, he smiled at Yao Tianhua and said, "Now can you give me the materials for the Washing Marrow Dan?"
Seeing Shen Xiang casually eating the Tempering Body Pill he had just refined, everyone's mouth corners twitched, secretly scolding Shen Xiang for being wasteful. They couldn't help but want to kick him hard, actually treating the pill as a snack. This was really too much of a blow, were alchemists usually like this, treating pills as sugar beans?
Ling Dan Ge's master handed over the three packages of materials to Shen Xiang with trembling hands, his face filled with surprise as he asked: "You wouldn't be trying to refine the Washing Marrow Pill, would you?"
Shen Xiang scratched his head and smiled: "It's not a bad thing to try first, your Lingdan Pavilion is now selling elixirs so expensive, can only be refined by yourself."
Shen Xiang put away the medicinal herbs and turned around to walk away. As he reached the gate, he turned his head back to face Yao Tianhua and said: "Medicine Young Master, in a few more days it will be time for our duel. I hope you can bring something that will satisfy me as stakes when we gamble. Since it's a competition, let's make it exciting! At that time, I'll add even higher stakes. If you're not up for it, then don't come to compete with me."
Shen Xiang's sudden departure, and the Lingdan Pavilion was suddenly abuzz with discussion. A thousand-year-old Blood Spirit Mushroom as a bet had already shocked everyone, and yet they still wanted to add more!
Yao Tianhua angrily snorted and went upstairs.
In the Spirit Dan Pavilion, the pavilion master muttered to himself: "Impossible, he's only sixteen years old, impossible for him to refine the Marrow Cleansing Dan... absolutely impossible..."
Shen Xiang's mood was extremely pleasant, as he could get three mature Washing Marrow Dan materials for nothing. He would soon be able to start trying to refine the Washing Marrow Dan.
"Hey, don't capsize in the ditch, be careful!" Su Meiyao reminded him.
"Compared to what, refining elixirs is really unimpressive! I should just go up and chop him into minced meat." The cold and gloomy voice of Bai Youyou sent a chill down Shen Xiang's spine. He knew that Bai Youyou was an extraordinary female devil who cultivated demonic powers, and now he suddenly didn't feel like cultivating those demonic powers anymore.
Shen Xiang returned to the Shen family mansion and inquired with Shen Tianhu, learning that Xue Xianxian and her father were guests at the city lord's residence and would also be visiting some of the families within Wotou City, as Xue Xianxian's father was a man with extensive connections.
Shen Xiang arrived at a very secret underground stone chamber. He tried to concentrate his mind for the first time to refine the marrow-washing pill and could not be disturbed by anyone.
Su Meiying opened the paper package containing the medicinal materials and used her slender fingers to sort through them, saying with satisfaction: "Fifty-year-old Blood Ginseng, fifty-year-old Lingzhi, Xuanyuan Fruit, and Huoyang Flower - the quality of these four main medicinal materials is not bad. The other ingredients are just average, but they won't affect the refining of the Washing Marrow Pill."
Shen Xiang picked up a white fruit the size of a walnut and also picked up a small flower that looked like a miniature sunflower. These were the Xuan Yuan Fruit and the Huo Yang Flower, both extremely expensive because they took several decades to mature.
Su Mei Yao and Bai Youyou didn't want to stay in the ring all day either, so whenever they had the chance, they would come out for some fresh air and chat with Shen Xiang. This made them feel less bored.
Shen Xiang really enjoyed the occasional appearance of these two stunning beauties, after all they were both very beautiful, looking at them could make one feel delighted and pleased, having two beauties by his side was truly a wonderful thing.
"Mei Yao sister, if I use Longyan Gong to accelerate the process, how long will it take for me to obtain the materials needed for a Xiwu Dan?" Shen Xiang asked, he also knew that the materials required for Xiwu Dan were all over several decades old.
Su Mei's beautiful eyes moved as she said, "It'll probably take about ten days! You're currently at the sixth level of Mortal Martial Realm, and using Dragon's Saliva Technique will also increase your strength."
In just ten days, it could induce several decades' worth of spiritual medicine, which left Shen Xiang overjoyed.
Su Mei Yao said: "Start refining, there are two key points to refine the washing marrow pill! First, because the medicinal materials are more than you have refined before, and each material has a different tolerance for flames, so you must control the fire well, don't burn some of the auxiliary materials! The second point is when condensing the pill, you will understand it yourself at that time."
Shen Xiang remembered these words, then turned to the cold beauty not far away and said: "Youyou sister, can you go back to the ring first? The chill emanating from your body will affect my control over the flames..."
Bai Youyou's face turned pale, and Shen Xiang hastily said: "Youyou sister... you're really beautiful. If it wasn't absolutely necessary, I wouldn't want to let a beauty like you enter the ring either."
Su Mei Yao heard this and couldn't help but laugh: "Beautiful Shifu, don't scare the little guy, let him focus on refining his dan."
She let out a faint hum and then returned to the ring.
Shen Xiang began to refine the Washing Marrow Pill, a mortal-grade middle-tier pill that could sell for 5,000 grand spirit coins per grain. Now, with the price increase of the Spirit Dan Pavilion's pills, one grain would cost tens of thousands of grand spirit coins, equivalent to millions of small spirit coins.
After all the medicinal materials were put into the crucible, Shen Xiang released a flame and controlled the temperature of the flame inside the crucible. The temperature in each area was different, which was used to burn those medicinal materials, allowing the medicinal materials to fully evaporate their characteristic spiritual energy.
The medicinal materials of the washing marrow pill were not ordinary, Shen Xiang used more than an hour to start grasping the characteristics of these medicinal materials, knowing their fire resistance, at this time, the alchemy furnace was filled with colorful spiritual energy, all of which were the spiritual medicines being roasted and evaporated by the true fire, this was also the main part of the spiritual pill.
The medicine slowly turned into powder, and Shen Xiang also needed to use his divine sense to wrap the powder at this time. As long as these powders and those evaporated "medicinal qi" were merged, and finally condensed into a pill, it would be considered successful.
Everything went smoothly at first, but in the end Shen Xiang was drenched in sweat because those "medicinal auras" were extremely violent and difficult to merge.
"No wonder the Divine Realm is needed to refine the Washing Marrow Pill, these spiritual medicines' medicinal auras are really hard to control!" Shen Xiang silently thought to himself, then concentrated his mind and released an even stronger divine sense, letting those colorful medicinal auras merge together, finally turning them into black spiritual energy, which then merged with the gray medicinal powder.
"It's going to work! Hold on!" Shen Xiang muttered to himself, the medicinal powder and gas slowly merged, but he felt that his spiritual consciousness was not strong enough, no matter what he did, he couldn't condense it into a pill.
