Chapter Thirty: Merging and Forming the Elixir

  In the dark of night, a faint yellow flame illuminated a resolute small face. With each swing of his hands, bursts of war air shot out and continuously transformed into cinnabar fire, swirling within the black tripod.

  On both sides of Jiang Hao's body, there were piles of medicine bottles. The fragrance emitted from them revealed that the pile on the left side had a much thicker fragrance, which was exactly what Jiang Hao obtained from his second condensation.

  After nearly a month of hard practice, Jiang Hao's movements have become smooth and flowing like clouds and water, and the previous stiffness can no longer be seen.

  Every time he finished a batch, Jiang Heng would stop to recover his fighting spirit, and then continue to condense, without any pause. As the medicine bottles on the right side decreased and those on the left side increased, Jiang Heng's condensation speed accelerated even more. The most peculiar thing was that when he condensed the last batch, Jiang Heng's recovery of his fighting spirit reached its peak at a speed that was actually twice as fast as before, which even surprised himself.

  When the last batch of medicinal powder was finally condensed, Jiang Heng let out a long sigh, and after such a long time of condensing medicinal powder, although he felt extremely tired, his heart was still abnormally excited, because his soul power seemed to have increased again.

  "Take a break and recover first, condensation is a compulsory course for an alchemist, you can now be considered a beginner. The fusion below is not that simple, remember the key is to control the flame."

  Jiang Hao felt himself come to a stop, and the sound of Yi Tian's voice floated gently into his ears.

  Jiang Hao opened his eyes, and in front of him, a beautiful figure quietly appeared. A gentle smile and a turn of her head made Jiang Hao's heart skip a beat, wondering how Xiao Yu was doing now.

  "Hmph, someone with Uncle Zifeng's abilities must be from a major power. I've been thinking about this for too long, what's wrong with me?" Jiang Huan self-mockingly smiled and looked at his palm, slowly clenching it, "One day, I'll become a ruler."

  Shaking his head, Jiang Huan dispelled some of the illusions and formed a mysterious hand seal with both hands, greedily absorbing the war aura into his dantian.

  In just two hours of recovery, Jiang Heng's dantian was already filled with battle energy, and his previous fatigue had been swept away. Taking a deep breath, Jiang Heng waved his hands, bringing the medicine cauldron in front of him, his palms lightly touching it. With a gentle "hmm", two strands of pale yellow flames slowly flew into the cauldron.

  Watching the flames swirling in the cauldron, Jiang Huan swept his sleeve, and the medicinal powder in the jade bottle poured down. The light gold and red powders were separately drawn into two clusters of flames, quietly suspended inside the cauldron.

  Two medicinal powders need to be smelted at different temperatures in order to merge, the medicinal powder continuously condenses in the flame and is dispersed again and again. After half an hour, it finally meets the requirements for merging. Jiang Huan's brow emits a surge of invisible spiritual power, tightly wrapping the two clusters of medicinal powder together, slowly pressing them towards the center.

  Two flames touched silently, the different temperatures bringing a ripple that made Jiang Hao's heart jump to his throat. Fortunately, the spiritual power between the flames played an absolute buffer role, and the two medicinal powders mixed quietly together, forming a semi-golden and semi-red elliptical sphere, slowly rotating in the flames.

  Another half-hour passed, and Jiang Heng was still calmly inputting the war air flames. The medicinal powder had shrunk a lot, and the golden and red colors on its surface had begun to mix together, with a faint reddish-gold color appearing quietly. Jiang Heng also saw that reddish-gold color and his heart couldn't help but leap with joy. Just at this moment, the flame temperature rose slightly higher, and the medicinal powder suddenly exploded with a loud bang, violently impacting the black cauldron. A moment later, it turned into a cloud of black ash, spewing out from the bottom of the cauldron.

  Jiang Hao's face was unsightly at this time, staring blankly at the black ash, feeling suffocated to death, and that one thread of being slightly higher actually led to failure.

  He moistened his dry lips due to tension, Jiang Heng took a deep breath, slowly closed his eyes, and clasped his hands together in front of his chest. The sound of his breathing was clearly audible, and at this moment, the chirping of insects seemed to have suddenly disappeared!

  "Huh?" The sudden silence, Tian opened his eyes in surprise and looked at Jiang Huan, "Good kid, this is the external release of soul power, heh heh, it seems that old man's vision is still so good after all.

  "Hahaha!" Tian Ling stroked his non-existent mustache and laughed to himself!

  At this moment, Jiang Hao felt that everything around him was so clear, even the sound of insects breathing and dew sliding over leaves, which were etched into his mind with precision, and that feeling was so wonderful.

  He lightly exhaled a mouthful of turbid air, and Jiang Huan still had his eyes tightly closed, but his hands moved suddenly. The black cauldron shook, and the remaining residue inside was swept away by Jiang Huan's sleeve. Two faint yellow flames burst out, and in an instant, they entered the black cauldron. Almost simultaneously, Jiang Huan turned over and grabbed a medicine bottle, calmly pouring the medicinal powder into the black cauldron. From start to finish, Jiang Huan's eyes never opened, completely relying on his soul's perception to refine the medicine!

  Seeing Jiang Hao's movements between the flowing clouds and water, Tianyi nodded unconsciously, "This kid really has a few points of my shadow from back then!"

  The night passed quickly, just like the blink of an eye. The red sun had slowly risen in the east, and at the moment when a purple hue appeared in the sky, Jiang Hao's tightly closed eyes also slowly opened!

  In front of the black tripod, a pale golden irregular sphere was constantly rolling and jumping, while the light yellow flame tightly surrounded it, continuously warming and smelting.

  The most important step finally succeeded under the relentless efforts, and Jiang Hao's heart finally rose with joy!

  "Hold on to your spirit, condense your dan!" Just then, a soft shout entered Jiang Hao's ears.

  Jiang Hao's hands were tightly attached to the black cauldron, and the flames inside the cauldron had already been controlled by Jiang Hao to continuously decrease in temperature. At this moment, the originally irregular dan medicine was slowly becoming round and smooth, and it seemed that it would soon be successfully refined.

  After another half-hour of refining, the first elixir that Jiang Huan personally refined was finally quietly lying in the jade bottle. Looking at the light golden and slightly transparent elixir, smelling the fragrance that refreshed his heart, Jiang Huan felt excited from the bottom of his heart, after all, this was his first time refining an elixir!

  Holding the jade bottle tightly, Jiang Hao stared blankly with a silly grin on his face.

  "Haha, you little stinker, you've only just refined a single low-grade Fantan pill and you're already drooling!" Zi Tian knocked Jiang Huan on the head, pulling him out of his daydream.

  "Ah, which son of a bitch knocked me awake? It hurts to death!" Jiang Huan was knocked awake and jumped up, scolding loudly.

  "Who did you say is an idiot, huh?" A faint voice came from behind Jiang Hao, scaring him into a swift retreat up the tree. Only when he turned back did he see Yi Tian's expression, which seemed to be saying "I'm going to kill you!"

  "Hey, master, stop hitting my head, or you'll knock out this clever disciple and then who will you cry to?" Jiang Huan scratched his head and smiled awkwardly.

  "You little rascal, get down here quickly! Do 500 squat jumps in place, no slacking off, hurry!" Arcane smiled slyly, his malicious expression causing Jiang Huan to shiver involuntarily.

  With a reluctant roar, Jiang Huan began the task entrusted by his master: 500 deep squats.

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