Chapter 124: A Night of Retreat

"These herbs are all classified, right?" After arranging the room, Qin Chen returned to the courtyard of the house, looking at the neatly arranged herbs, he couldn't help but be a little satisfied, so he asked casually.

"Yes Engong, the seventeen kinds of medicinal herbs here have been divided according to their respective categories, I wonder if Engong needs to move into the room?" Seeing Qin Chen walking out, the housekeeper immediately put down his rice bowl, bowed his waist respectfully, and replied to Qin Chen's words. "The amount of this herb is a bit large, why don't you find a few young men to ...... for you?"

"No, no, no, if that's more troublesome. Butler, you just do your own thing, and you don't need to bother anyone else with this little thing, oh, by the way, dinner doesn't count as mine, and besides, my room is not to be disturbed until noon tomorrow. After that, Qin Chen surrounded the pile of herbs, looked at it carefully, and spit out a sentence inexplicably, "Is it about the size of five squares?" As soon as the words fell, a ghostly light flashed, and I saw that the piles of herbs neatly placed in the courtyard disappeared in an instant, as if they had never existed. "Then it's time to trouble the housekeeper, Chen'er will do her own thing first. ”

"The old slave will let Engong have a quiet enough environment. The housekeeper bowed slightly, and watched Qin Chen return to the room. It didn't take long for the aura of the rich fire-based natural force to hit the face, which was simply terrifying.

After returning to the room, Qin Chen hurriedly sat down next to the alchemy furnace, only to feel a burst of scorching heat suddenly come out, and the still bright room was instantly filled with firelight. The shape of the alchemy furnace is no different from the ordinary incense burner used for sacrifice, both are four-legged tripod furnaces. But the reason why the alchemy furnace is an alchemy furnace is because the inner wall of the alchemy furnace is ignited. The same temperature and flame are maintained everywhere. And the source of fuel. It is a free natural force, which is continuously absorbed under the action of the material of the Ding furnace.

However, this does not mean that the pill pharmacist can do it once and for all, on the contrary, in addition to controlling the ignition of the alchemy furnace and controlling the fire and extinguishing the flame, in the entire process of alchemy, what the pill pharmacist has to do also includes the refining of medicinal materials, the fusion of medicinal materials, and the distribution of elixirs or the formation of elixirs. It looks like a breeze. But in reality, if one of the links goes wrong, all the preparation is in vain. Therefore, the eyes should not blink and keep an eye on the situation in the furnace, but this is something that will be done helplessly, in order to ensure the success rate, it is generally necessary to replace the eyes with the power of the soul to complete a process.

If it were normal, Qin Chen would definitely not hesitate to squander his soul power to refine the elixir day and night, but now, he could only stare at the changes in the furnace with wide eyes and meticulously. The freshly lit flame ignited the inner wall in an instant. With a blue flame that unleashes an uninhibited temperature. With the experience inherited, Qin Chen first took out a few inconsequential leaves and put them into the furnace. I saw that the flames on the inner wall were like tender little hands, tightly wrapping these leaves. In the next second, I only heard a "poof", and then, the leaf wrapped in the flame turned into a puff of dust, and fell into the furnace as the flame dispersed.

"Is the fire too fierce?" Reluctantly cleaned up the ash in the furnace, re-ignited the alchemy furnace, only to see a faint flame spread rapidly from the heart of the furnace, just in an instant, the inner wall of the Ding furnace has been ignited by this faint flame, unlike the last time, this time the flame is very weak, as if there is a shortage of fuel. Qin Chen took out a medicinal herb, gently lifted it to the top of the alchemy furnace, let go, and fell. As soon as it fell to the center of the furnace, a faint flame stretched out its tongue of fire to wrap the herb, perhaps because the temperature was not high, even after a short period of time, the herb still did not have a trace of being refined.

Seeing this, Qin Chen slowed down the speed of absorbing natural forces from the alchemy furnace, only to see that the flames in the furnace gradually grew stronger at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the rising temperature roasted the herbs to a loud sound, and the dripping liquid like grease also seeped out, gathering together under the wrapping of the flames, like a few drops of dew gathered together. The temperature of the flame is stable and unchanged, and the temperature and fire power have been maintained since the time when the herbs begin to react, so as not to let the fire power become too strong and burn the herbs. After a long time, the flame in the furnace faded again, and under the faint light of the fire, the herbs in the furnace had already been refined into a small drop of water, suspended on the side and waiting to be processed.

Immediately afterwards, another herb fell into the furnace, with the first experience, this time the time was a little shorter than the previous one, and in a short time, the whole herb was refined into a drop of liquid medicine under the fire, and the previous drop of liquid suspended in the furnace fused into one, the stronger the medicinal fragrance, the stronger the medicinal power. This was repeated, when the eighth medicinal herb was completely refined into a medicinal liquid, Qin Chen also stopped continuing to put medicinal herbs into the alchemy furnace, silently maintaining the flame and temperature in the alchemy furnace, and now only a small drop was left in the furnace wrapped in a faint flame, and it was on the verge of boiling under the burning of the flame.

But it's only on the verge of boiling. The eight drops of the refined liquid were constantly running into each other under the simmering roasting. This process is more laborious and time-consuming than refining medicinal herbs, after all, various drugs have different medicinal properties, and if they are forcibly fused, they will damage the original efficacy, and even worse, there is a difference in the sky.

When Qin Chen extinguished the fire, the sky was already a little dark, and the room without the fire was even darker, but there was a glimmer of crystalline, faint, but not negligible light in this dark environment. This glimmer of light came from inside the furnace, and in the alchemy furnace that had been extinguished, a pill was lying quietly in it, waiting to be picked up and preserved. Even if the liquid liquid is magical, it is impossible to become a pill out of thin air, at most it is a pool of elixir with extraordinary effects, and the shelf life of the elixir is longer than that of the elixir, after all, it is to fix the medicinal power into a pill, which is better than the elixir that is just a liquid to keep a little longer. Unless it is made temporarily and used in a short period of time, or the effect of Cheng Dan is much worse than that of liquid, most Dan pharmacists will habitually refine the medicinal materials into Dan and put them in a porcelain bottle for sealed preservation.

"One beast power amplification pill, done. After Qin Chen put the pill in the furnace into the porcelain bottle, he immediately engraved the effect and use of the pill into the five-star alchemy array under the porcelain bottle in the form of a soul image, so that the user could clearly use it.

Animal power amplification pills, Ding stage pills, increase the basic activity of human muscles by one-tenth in a short period of time, and there are no side effects. "Most of the pills on the market are pills for treating injuries or replenishing natural forces, but those that play an auxiliary role are very rare, probably because the formula is rare or the family keeps it private. Qin Chen thought like this, but the kung fu in his hand did not linger at all, and soon, the fire regenerated, and the dim room became bright again.

This night was spent like this, and before I had time to see the rush of this time, it was already the time of the third pole of the sun.

"I regret that I asked for so many medicinal herbs, and I couldn't completely dispose of them all in one night, alas, let's go on...... Hey, what about the herbs?" Just as Qin Chen probed his soul power into the spirit chain and was about to take out the remaining herbs, he found that there were no herbs in his spirit chain for a long time, only a small pile of alchemy materials left by the ghost craftsman, hand-copied notes, and scrolls given by the ghost doctor. "Am I done?" Qin Chen looked at the ground, only to see piles of porcelain bottles and piles of jade bottles, almost covering the entire room. "Ah, it's really done, how many are here, one, two, three, four......"

"Giggle~"

"Miss Chen'er, lunch is ready, will you eat in the room or in the dining room?" Just when Qin Chen was still counting the bottles and cans placed on the ground, the housekeeper suddenly knocked on Qin Chen's door, interrupting Qin Chen's train of thought, helpless, Qin Chen had no choice but to put all the porcelain bottles and jade bottles on the ground into the storage ring, just retracted his consciousness, a number appeared in the sea of knowledge, seeing this, Qin Chen gently hooked a chuckle, and after taking the alchemy furnace back to the storage ring, he opened the door and walked out.

"Let's go eat. (To be continued......)

PS: Updating the new volume starts tomorrow