Leaving the council chamber, Xiao Yan returned to his own room and prepared some things needed for refining medicine after healing. He then quietly snuck up to the back mountain and entered the secluded cave where he had previously practiced.

  Medicine Old once said that when refining medicine, beware of being disturbed. With many people in the family and busy hands, if someone like Xiao Yu bursts in again, Shao Yan may not be able to bear the consequences.

  Sneaking into the cave, Xiao Yan couldn't wait to take out the storage ring from his bosom and input a stream of Dou Qi into it. The light on the pale red ring flickered slightly before a crimson cauldron about half a meter tall appeared in the cave.

  The medicine cauldron is dark red in color, with a few subtle glows on its surface. At the bottom of the cauldron, two ferocious snake heads are carved, with wide open mouths forming two interconnected fire holes. The holes curve and wind, getting smaller in diameter as they go deeper inside, seeming to hide secrets within.

  The top of the medicine tripod has a giant snake coiled into a dark red cauldron lid, and there is a special hole in one place on the cauldron lid, which is specially used for putting in medicinal materials.

  On the lid of the crucible, there are some fine holes made of ice silver, which have the effect of heat dissipation to prevent explosion due to high temperature. In the middle part of the medicine crucible, a transparent mirror surface made of cold ice essence is installed, from here, everything inside can be clearly seen during alchemy.

  The surface of the medicine cauldron is painted with beautiful and delicate magical beast carvings, vivid and lifelike, as if they were living creatures.

  Looking at this majestic-looking medicine cauldron, Xiao Yan nodded in satisfaction, rubbing the ancient black ring on his finger. The Medicine Old transformed into a flash of light and appeared.

  "Hmm, a double-headed cauldron, that's not bad for a newcomer like you." The medicine elder said indifferently, glancing at the three snake-shaped mouths on top of the dark red medicine cauldron.

  "What's 'Two Mouths' Tripod'?" Hearing this unfamiliar term, Xiao Yan blinked in confusion.

  "The level of the medicine cauldron also has its own hierarchy, the more common fire mouths on the cauldron, the higher the level and the rarer it is. Don't think that these fire mouths are just casually drilled a few holes to become one, the subtlety inside is difficult for outsiders to notice, and the fire mouth is the essence of the medicine cauldron, requiring high-precision grinding and forging. During the forging process, even if there is only a slight mistake, the entire medicine cauldron will be ruined. Therefore, the more fire mouths on the medicine cauldron, the stronger its auxiliary effect on alchemy. Of course, to control multiple fire mouths, one needs strong spiritual perception, like you now, being able to control two fire mouths is already at the limit." Medicine Old smiled and explained.

  "A good cauldron is as important to an alchemist as a precious sword is to a warrior."

  He nodded slightly dazedly and looked at the big guy in front of him, asking blankly: "What's next?"

  "You should first get familiar with the medicine cauldron, put one of your hands on the mouth of the fire and then transfer the internal Qi into it." Yao Lao instructed while sitting in the mountain cave.

  He nodded, Xiao Yan touched the fire mouth, his eyes slightly closed, and the light yellow air swirl in his body slightly fluctuated. A burst of light yellow Dou Qi sprayed out, finally making his palm slightly yellowish.

  The light yellow energy of the Dou, after reaching the palm of the hand, subsided slightly, and then, as if drawn by a fierce suction force, suddenly burst out from the palm, passing through the fire mouth, and drilling into the medicine cauldron.

  "Hmm..."

  A dull thud, the light yellow airflow was suddenly transformed into a light yellow solid flame after passing through the fire mouth, and it continued to churn and burn inside the crucible.

  His palm suddenly spewed fire, causing Xiao Yan's heart to jump in shock, almost subconsciously withdrawing his hand, but fortunately, after sensing the chill in his palm, he suppressed the panic.

  "Hmm, not bad, able to transform into flames on the first try."

  Looking at the flames surging inside the medicine cauldron, Medicine Old nodded and said in a low voice: "The flame you summoned now is not the fire for refining medicine. Now focus your mind to control that thread of wood attribute within your body, then pour it into the medicine cauldron!"

  Xiao Yan closed his eyes as he had said, his mind slowly calming down and focusing. His excellent spiritual perception continuously scanned the faint wood energy within his body back and forth.

  It took him over ten minutes to find the Wood Spirit's power within his body, and only then did Xiao Yan let out a sigh of relief as he opened his eyes.

  "Found it?" Seeing Xiao Yan open his eyes, Yao Lao was somewhat surprised and said. After seeing the former nodding, he couldn't help but praise in his heart. When he first searched for the wood power in his body, it took almost half an hour. This shows how strong Xiao Yan's soul perception is.

  Xiao Yan stretched out a finger and lightly tapped on the other flame's mouth, a very thin green airflow was slowly infused into it.

  The green airflow had just entered the medicine cauldron, and the light yellow flame inside suddenly became quiet, as if a chemical reaction had occurred. At this time, even if Xiao Yan hadn't controlled the flame yet, he could sense that the violent factor in the flame had been neutralized by the power of wood, and due to the principle of wood generating fire, the flame at this time was more durable and controllable than before.

  "Good..." With a satisfied nod, Yao Lao stretched out his finger and touched Xiao Yan's forehead, and a stream of information flowed into the latter's mind.

  "This is a prescription for self-healing medicine, you try to refine it, I will remind you at any time to control the temperature of the flame and the composition of the medicinal materials."

  Squinting his eyes to sense the information in his mind, Xiao Yan nodded slightly.

  "Coagulant powder, one coagulant grass, one live air fruit, two lotus flowers..."

  After remembering the amount of medicinal herbs in his mind, Xiao Yan's spiritual perception gradually invaded into the medicine cauldron, making an effort to control that relatively gentle flame.

  His fingers flicked on the ring, and a slightly dark red Congealing Blood Grass appeared in his palm. After a slight hesitation, Xiao Yan tossed it into the coiled snake head on top of the medicine cauldron.

  As soon as the coagulant grass entered the medicine cauldron, Xiao Yan was unable to control it, and the flames burst upwards. In an instant, a clump of coagulant grass had turned into black ash, which was finally expelled from the cauldron by its special mechanism.

  Looking at his first mistake, Xiao Yan smiled awkwardly.

  "Continue." The old pharmacist said calmly.

  He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and Xiao Yan threw another Congealing Blood Grass. This time, the Congealing Blood Grass lasted a bit longer in the flames before it too turned into dark grey ash.

  "It's gotten hotter."

  Wiping away a cold sweat, it was his turn to personally take action in refining the elixir. Xiao Yan finally knew that this task wasn't something anyone could easily handle.

  After persistently burning more than twenty stalks of coagulating grass, Xiao Yan finally managed to barely touch the temperature adaptation point of the coagulating grass.

  He threw in another Blood Congealing Grass, Xiao Yan's face was solemn, his spiritual perception tightly compressing the flame's temperature, his eyes staring unblinkingly at the Blood Congealing Grass suspended above the flames through the icy mirror surface.

  After tumbling in the flames for a short while, the Congxuecao finally began to gradually shed its grass skin. The juice contained in the leaves was also smoked into a faint white powder. The essence of the medicinal properties within the Congxuecao was finally successfully extracted by Xiao Yan, this rookie.