Chapter 21: First Step, Refine the Elixir!

  Longxing City

  Weiyuan Wangfu

  In a storage room around the side house of Lingyueyuan, wafted the fragrance of various incense.

  It's just after dawn, the dew and fragrance of flowers mixed with this medicinal scent, floating in the air, and even more so, seeping into my heart.

  "Chen Honghong, I've been practicing all night, does what you said really work?!"

  Chu Hao's voice echoed in the storage room, his tone filled with dissatisfaction. In front of him was an ancient tripod cauldron, uniquely shaped and covered in incomprehensible symbols. On either side of the cauldron were two flying eaves that formed a concave shape. At this moment, beneath the cauldron, a faint purple flame was rising, making the entire room extremely hot.

  "What's the hurry? You're refining your dan for the first time, you think it's that easy?"

  In Chu Hao's mind, a voice echoed with a hint of admiration, "However, you little brat really have some skills, with this Purple Dragon Fire, refining equipment and elixirs will be like adding wings to a tiger, achieving twice the result with half the effort. If you can also utilize that Fiery Phoenix Fire, it would be even more incredible."

  "Don't talk nonsense." At this moment, the wound on Chu Hao's face had healed seven or eight tenths, but his eyes were still fixed and his breath was slightly cold, obviously he hadn't gotten over the incident two days ago.

  Yes, it has been two days since the humiliating incident.

  In these two days, Chu Hao had compromised with Chen Honghong and agreed to help him find the materials to repair the Hunyuan Cauldron. In return, Chen Honghong taught Chu Hao how to use the Hunyuan Cauldron.

  And the ancient cauldron in front of him was the Hunyuan Cauldron that all alchemists and artifact refiners went crazy for.

  That night, Chu Hao was injured. However, when the woman in white and Xiao Bai walked away, they left behind a bottle of "Qing Ji Fang" cream that could temporarily remove surface scars. At the time, Chu Hao didn't even glance at it, and after standing up, he threw it away directly.

  He would not stoop to such petty gains.

  That's a great shame and humiliation, it's the greatest shame of his life, he must make those two pay the price!

  He returned to the Wang Fu, Chu Hao couldn't let the guards discover that he was injured, so he just had Xiao Si find some wound medicine and applied it. After all, those two men were heavy-handed but didn't have the intention of killing him. With Chu Hao's cultivation at the second layer of Bone Forging, as long as he rested for a few days, nothing would happen. Chu Hao also warned Xiao Si not to tell anyone about his injury.

  In these two days, he had already formed an intuitive understanding of that event in his heart.

  The white-clad woman and Xiao Bai's mouth revealed several important messages, more or less.

  They come from a mysterious sect and are just disciples with more powerful forces behind them.

  Secondly, his current life's mother and elder brother seemed to have died at the hands of your mysterious sect. And this point, from the white-robed woman's words that were one level higher than his own, his father King Chu Yunfei seemed to know as well, but for some reason did not take action;

  Thirdly, the white day and self-cultivating mantis shrimp, that deeply hidden, nine-layered bone-refining young prince, is also a person from that mysterious sect, and is the junior brother of those two people. From this, it can be seen that the sect should have an inseparable relationship with the royal family!

  Fourthly, they themselves had orchestrated the assassination attempt on that day, with the aim of warning their own king.

  Fifth, this is Chu Hao's guess, that the prohibition in this body, even if it wasn't them who did it, is still related to them!

  The above messages made Chu Hao feel suffocated and unbearable, because with his strength, he couldn't even stir up a ripple in the vast waves of this world!

  The timing and aura of the woman's appearance were also quite good. If it was still the original young master, under such an overbearing and high-pressure situation, his already fragile heart would probably become even more vulnerable.

  I'm afraid this life's cultivation is hopeless!

  How ruthless and poisonous can one be!

  But he wasn't the former crown prince, so he didn't resign himself to that fate, and thus broke the maiden's moral integrity, bringing about the arrival of the young white face. It was also because of this that he reaped the above information, obtaining a shocking answer.

  Time is even more precious now!

  So she rested for a night and the next day Chen Honghong taught her how to use the Hunyuan Ding and some recipes and techniques for refining elixirs.

  At the Lantern Festival a month later, even if I couldn't immediately slap those two in the face, I had to let them know that I wasn't someone who could be bullied!

  But relying on him alone is not enough. However, he has the greatest reliance, which is Qī Líng Chén Hóng Hóng and Hún Yuán Dǐng, as well as his own third and second ranked artifact fire!

  This world, in Chen Honghong's words, is a relatively backward Second Heaven World among the nine-layered worlds. In this world, the Golden Elixir first level is indeed the highest rank, and the spiritual energy here cannot compare to that of the higher Nine Heavens World. Therefore, generally speaking, cultivators who have reached the Golden Elixir first level rarely stay in this world and instead choose to enter the Third Heaven "From Heaven" world.

  So in this world, Chu Hao has an obvious advantage!

  Due to the backwardness of this world, equipment refiners and pill refiners are extremely rare, and a complete system has yet to be formed. This has resulted in both precious equipment and medicinal pills being extremely scarce and valuable in this world.

  So Chu Hao's task is to create a precious artifact or elixir that can secure his life and reputation in the shortest time possible, and seek help from powerful individuals or forces!

  This is also a dangerous thing, because Chu Hao's strength is too weak. If there are masters who see wealth and have intentions, their own lives may not be preserved. Therefore, to become a strong networker, one must also improve their own cultivation, and then rely on their own wisdom!

  Chu Hao already had a preliminary plan.

  In the miscellaneous room. Chu Hao's heart was as steady as a rock, controlling the purple dragon fire. Sweat covered his forehead, and he didn't blink once, controlling the rising purple flames that churned under the furnace. As the fragrance of medicine wafted out, a sharp light flashed in Chu Hao's eyes: "Chen Honghong, is it almost done?"

  In the path of cultivation, apart from refining equipment, the profession of alchemy is also extremely popular.

  Alchemy is typically divided into two types, one is internal alchemy and the other is external alchemy. Without exception, all Taoist practitioners cultivate internal alchemy, which means using the body as a crucible to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to give birth to the golden elixir. The crucible or elixir is just a metaphor for them.

  Outer Dan, on the other hand, refers to the usual sense of elixir. Elixir is called elixir because it has medicinal properties that are different from Golden Elixir. Any top-grade elixir is a coveted goal for cultivators in the cultivation world.

  In his past life as a master of the Refining Vessel Gate, Chu Hao had never come into contact with the art of refining elixirs. However, because he grasped the essence of fire, both in refining vessels and refining elixirs, there were similarities and differences, and they shared a common goal despite taking different paths.

  It is rare for people to cultivate both alchemy and artifact refinement because both practices consume a great deal of one's energy. Generally speaking, the time invested in refining artifacts, the control of fire required, and the effects produced are all different from those of alchemy, even if the same type of flame is used.

  Ke Chu Hao was different, he was already a great master of alchemy in his past life. His familiarity with the Purple Dragon Fire had reached a certain level, and it could be said that he had been tempered thousands of times. So, when he devoted himself to alchemy, it wasn't impossible, and it wouldn't affect his future alchemy practice.

  So, after Chen Honghongs gave Chu Hao a formula for a Dan medicine yesterday, he had Xiao Si find the materials. Those materials weren't rare either, and the Wang Fu also had them, so at night, Chu Hao collected quite a few and ran to the miscellaneous goods room to refine the Dan.

  But after refining for a whole night, it still didn't come out of the furnace. Even with the subsequent flames produced by the extremely fast Purple Dragon Fire, Chu Hao was about to faint from exhaustion due to his first time using this body to control it.

  "Don't be impatient, this is your first time grasping the fire of the instrument, your first time using the Hunyuan cauldron, and your first time refining elixirs. So many firsts, do you think you can rush through it? Do you think you're the reincarnation of Che Xuanhe that old rascal?! Chen Honghong said to Chu Hao: "You start from the basics now, if you can succeed in one night, that's already quite good!"

  After a pause, Chen Honghong murmured: "The aroma has already come out, control the fire well, gradually extinguish some of the ignition fire, don't need to be too fierce, keep it not hot or dry, about one minute will be fine!"

  Chu Hao's whole body shook, this was his first time refining a dan medicine. Although he didn't know what formula Chen Honghong had given him, and how much success it would bring, he still felt some excitement in his heart.

  At least be able to refine good elixirs and also increase some capital for yourself to fight against that mysterious force!

  Before long, the Hunyuan Ding began to tremble, and the talismanic patterns on its body seemed to come alive, emitting a soft hum. The Hunyuan Ding also slightly lifted off the ground. Chu Hao opened his eyes, sweating profusely as he controlled the flames, cursing, "Chen Honghong, can't you stop it from moving again?!"

  "It's not moving, it's your heart that's moving!" Chen Honghong said in a low voice: "Control the fire well! It's almost done!"

  "Nonsense! If my heart doesn't move, I'd rather be dead!"

  Chu Hao muttered a sentence, and the trembling of the Hunyuan Ding's body gradually stopped. Suddenly, the lid on top opened, and a wave of medicinal fragrance spread throughout the entire storage room!

  Chu Hao's face lit up with joy, and he hastily muttered the incantation in his heart, carefully placing the Hunyuan cauldron on the ground, extinguishing the equipment fire, and uncertainly said: "Chen Honghong, is it done?!"