Green Mountain Town, Maple Leaf Pavilion, Alchemy Department.
Originally a place for exchanging alchemy experience, even though it only dealt with some low-grade potions, it was usually bustling with noise.
However, at this moment, the entire hall was so quiet that one could almost hear everyone breathing. This was because, in the center of the hall, a handsome young man dressed in white was skillfully refining a first-grade pill—the Blood Coagulation Pill.
The Blood Coagulation Pill: ranked first grade, as its name suggests, it has the effect of stopping bleeding and can quickly heal bleeding throughout the body except for major arteries. Therefore, the pill is very easy to refine and quite commonly used, making it one of the essential choices for most novice alchemists.
In the center of the hall, Lin Feng was refining at a very slow pace, occasionally pausing to explain some common and difficult problems.
For him, who was about to break through to the fourth grade, refining a first-grade pill was already a piece of cake.
As for why he was refining a first-grade pill in the main hall, it was, of course, to improve the level of the Maple Leaf Pavilion's alchemy department. Because he had already planned to leave Qingshan Town for the capital of Jiama to seek a higher level of alchemy inheritance.
Before that, he naturally needed to leave a certain foundation for Maple Leaf Tower, and alchemy was only one aspect of that; another reason was to leave enough pills for the exchange tower.
As batches of pills were produced, Lin Feng also selected several senior physicians who were among the top in their progress to refine pills, pointing out their mistakes.
Occasionally, someone would fail, but fortunately, with Lin Feng's control, no cauldrons exploded.
You should know that in order to establish the alchemy department, Lin Feng had personally spent a huge sum of money to buy three three-cauldron alchemy vessels, and he couldn't let these guys squander them.
As time went by, someone finally refined a qualified Blood Coagulation Pill.
Lin Feng waved his hand, letting several excited, white-haired doctors—no, first-grade alchemists—go down to make adjustments.
Using the warmth of the cauldron, Lin Feng took out several portions of medicinal materials from his storage ring to refine a second-grade pill—the Fighter Pill.
Since this was not for teaching purposes, Lin Feng did not deliberately slow down.
"Bang..." A ball of flame rose from Lin Feng's palm and entered the medicine cauldron through its opening.
"Bang bang bang bang..." Four sounds of flames burning echoed in the arena, and a flame blazed fiercely within each of the three medicine cauldrons and Lin Feng's five cauldrons.
"What... four cauldrons at once..." A middle-aged doctor exclaimed, his eyes fixed on the four medicine cauldrons in disbelief.
An older doctor beside him quickly covered his mouth, but his shocked expression revealed his astonishment.
For them, being able to refine a first-grade pill was already a tremendous achievement, let alone a second-grade pill.
If it weren't for Lin Feng's blessing, these doctors from Qingshan Town would probably never have become noble alchemists in their entire lives.
Therefore, they held Lin Feng in high esteem, regarding him as their lifelong faith.
However, seeing him refine second-grade pills, and in fact, four cauldrons at the same time... Still incredulous and dumbfounded, their gazes finally turned to deep admiration.
Their eyes were fixed on Lin Feng's movements, not daring to utter a word. They also hoped to learn even the slightest thing from Lin Feng's actions, something that would benefit them for life.
...
In the arena, Lin Feng was simultaneously refining four cauldrons of pills, yet showed no signs of fatigue.
Clearly, for him at this point, refining second-grade pills was already quite proficient, let alone the Fighter Pill he had created.
As time passed, the medicinal liquid in the cauldrons continuously condensed, reaching a certain point.
Lin Feng's hand seals suddenly changed, and a powerful surge of soul force burst forth from his body, splitting into four streams that entered the four cauldrons.
"At this moment, condense!" Lin Feng's tightly closed eyes suddenly opened, and he shouted. (What alchemist refines pills with their eyes open? Definitely a low-level alchemist, hehehehe)
"Thump thump thump thump..." Four consecutive sounds of energy colliding rang out.
"It's...it's done?" A physician stared in disbelief at the fluctuations in the arena.
Lin Feng clapped his hands one by one, and all four medicine cauldrons spat out a pill covered in intricate patterns.
Upon seeing this, the surrounding physicians gasped, exclaiming, "Terrifying!"
After storing the four Fighter Pills in his storage ring, Lin Feng didn't stop. He continued to take out four more portions of medicinal herbs from his storage ring. Taking this opportunity, Lin Feng planned to refine all the medicinal herbs in Maple Leaf Pavilion into pills.
On one hand, Lin Feng was going to be away for an unknown period of time, and he needed to leave enough pills for the Exchange Pavilion to maintain its operation. On the other hand, Lin Feng was about to head to the center of the Gama Empire—the Gama Imperial Capital. If he had enough pills to pave the way, it might be much easier.
"Thump thump thump..."
As time passed, the four medicine cauldrons continued to condense pills. The onlookers gradually became numb, seemingly used to the continuous production of pills.
Everyone stared in disbelief as Lin Feng continuously refined pills. Normally, even the most powerful alchemist wouldn't refine so many pills at once.
This is because alchemists need more than just the corresponding level of battle qi; refining pills consumes a significant amount of soul energy.
Therefore, even with abundant battle qi, an alchemist is often quite exhausted after completing the pill refining process.
Lin Feng had also wondered about this until one time when he circulated his cultivation technique. As the technique circulated, the five elements of battle qi surged, causing a barely perceptible increase in Lin Feng's soul power.
After sensing this several times, Lin Feng could no longer contain his elation and burst into laughter.
"Hahahaha, I never expected that the Five Elements Technique would absorb spiritual energy from the unseen realm, greatly increasing the spirituality of my soul and even causing subtle growth!"
No wonder Lin Feng was so excited; the Five Elements Technique absorbing spiritual energy meant that the threshold for his soul to reach the Spirit Realm had been removed.
It's important to know that the soul realm is divided into four levels: Mortal, Spirit, Heaven, and Emperor.
Most people's soul realm is at most the Mortal level, and for alchemists, the Mortal level only allows them to refine seventh-grade pills.
For a genius like Lin Feng, eighth-grade, or even ninth-grade, is their goal.
The Spirit realm is the threshold between seventh and eighth grade. Without reaching the eighth grade, one cannot be considered a grandmaster in this world.
Now, the threshold of the Spirit realm no longer exists, and the door to the eighth grade has opened for Lin Feng; no wonder he is so overjoyed.
...
"Thump thump thump..."
A series of vibrations echoed from the cauldron as pills were continuously produced. At this moment, Lin Feng no longer used multiple cauldrons simultaneously.
His expression was solemn as he focused on refining third-grade pills. Even for Lin Feng, this was not easy, and he dared not relax for a moment.
Suddenly, Lin Feng opened his tightly closed eyes, and a beam of light shot out from them.
"Third-grade peak pill—Great Dou Master, give it to me... Condense."
(End of Chapter)