As soon as he entered Master Dan's small courtyard, Ye Tianfan hastily went to the bedroom and sat cross-legged in meditation. He felt that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth here was too dense, and earlier he had already reached the verge of a breakthrough. Now, under this dense spiritual energy, he quickly broke through.
Ye Tianfan thought that the golden elixir about to be formed would make his cultivation reach the Unity Realm, and he couldn't help but feel expectant. Slowly, in Ye Tianfan's dantian, all of it transformed into liquid droplets, condensing together and becoming more rounded as they decreased in size.
With the experience of successfully forming the Golden Elixir twice before, this time it was unexpectedly smooth, and Ye Tianfan condensed it in just one night. He only needed to spend a few more days consolidating it, and he would become a true and genuine Nascent Soul cultivator.
The next morning, Ye Tianfan was summoned to the alchemy room by Dan Lao's alchemy apprentice, and his own master sister Xie Qianqiu also came, apparently Dan Lao had called both of them.
Arriving at Dan Fang, Dan Lao pretended to be angry and said to Xie Qianqiu: "Qianqiu, you should learn from your junior brother. Your junior brother can already refine top-grade elixirs, but you're still far behind. If it weren't for the fact that you've already established who's the senior sister and who's the junior brother, I would have forced you to acknowledge yourself as the junior sister and Ye Tianfan as the senior brother. However, from now on, if your progress is too slow, you'll have to publicly acknowledge Tianfan as your senior brother in front of everyone. At that time, let's see where you, this older sister, will put her face when calling her younger brother 'senior brother'."
When Ye Tianfan heard the master's words, he couldn't help but think of his senior sister calling him "Shixiong" and burst out laughing. He immediately caught Xie Qianqiu's attention, who turned around to look at Ye Tianfan. Ye Tianfan quickly suppressed the laughter in his heart.
Qianqiu sneered and looked at Yefan with a superior attitude, saying: "Junior brother, do you have this idea too? Are you also thinking of calling me 'senior brother' to try it out?"
When he saw Xie Qianqiu, it was as if a small universe was about to explode. Ye Tianfan hastily said: "Master sister, how dare I think you'd call me Master brother?!"
"Oh, so you mean you don't dare to think about it, rather than not thinking about it. Then you must be very eager for me to call you Shixiong (older brother). Alright, just a few days ago you were calling me Shijie (older sister) and now you want to be my Shixiong?" Xie Qianqiu said angrily.
Ye Tianfan knew that he was pretending to be angry, so he quickly said some nice words to make his senior sister happy, and even used all the tricks to make a woman happy. As a result, it really didn't disappoint, and Xie Qianqiu smiled again.
Dan Lao, seeing himself sandwiched between the two of them, deliberately coughed and said: "Alright, enough about feelings. I've called you both here for a reason, something that Ye Tianfan needs to do."
Upon hearing Dan Lao's words, Ye Tianfan curiously asked: "Master, I don't know what you want us to do, and why did you call me?"
Dan Lao said with a smile: "I heard that you want to refine the top-grade elixir, I'm very happy, so I prepared a kind of top-grade elixir that is relatively simple for you overnight, let's see if you can really refine the top-grade elixir."
"Master, I...I... thank you, Master. You're too good to me." Ye Tianfan said from the bottom of his heart. Although he had only just started learning from this master and didn't have much sense of belonging, now Ye Tianfan was treating his master as his closest kin. It's worth noting that high-quality elixir formulas were very precious, but Dan Lao not only wanted to give it to him, but also prepared the medicinal materials.
Dan Lao smiled and said, "What's there to be grateful for? I just wanted to know if you can really refine top-grade elixirs. If you really succeed, it will bring glory to my face too. Moreover, the number of alchemy masters in our sect is not small compared to other sects, but for our Wood Spirit Sect, which takes alchemy as its foundation, it's still too few."
"No matter what, I still want to thank you, Master. If I had to find it myself, I don't know how long it would take."
After listening to Ye Tianfan's words, Dan Lao nodded in satisfaction and said: "Well, it's rare that you have this heart, but let's get started quickly. This is the Dan Fang, take a look first, and when you feel confident, try refining it once." As he spoke, Dan Lao had already taken out a jade slip and handed it to Ye Tianfan.
Ye Tianfan caught it and then sank his consciousness into it to take a look. Ye Tianfan found that the top-grade elixir was much more difficult to refine than the middle-grade elixir, no wonder there were many middle-grade alchemists in the sect, but the great alchemists who could refine top-grade elixirs were very rare.
It turns out that refining high-grade elixirs not only increases the amount of medicinal materials, but also requires much stricter control over aspects such as fire and timing. Not only does each step have strict requirements, but even a small mistake can lead to failure in refining the elixir.
Ye Tianfan calmed down and thought carefully about the details, making sure everything was correct before saying firmly: "Master, I'm ready. We can start refining the elixir now."
Dan Lao nodded and said, "Then let's begin. I'll be here to supervise you, and your senior sister is right here to observe and learn from it."
Ye Tianfan nodded and took out his own alchemy furnace to start preheating it. Soon, after reaching the requirements on the Jade Slate, Ye Tianfan added the medicinal materials in the order specified by the pill formula, slowly refining them into a pill liquid.
Dan Lao nodded his head in satisfaction as he watched Ye Tianfan's skilled movements, clearly pleased with Ye Tianfan's alchemy skills. Meanwhile, Ye Tianfan's senior sister Xie Qianqiu was staring at Ye Tianfan's fluid and natural alchemy process with a look of infatuation on her face, completely entranced.
Three time divisions later, the various medicinal materials finally finished refining. Ye Tianfan carefully controlled the fusion of the elixir liquid with his spiritual sense. However, this step that was difficult for others to accomplish wasn't too hard for Ye Tianfan because he could observe the balance of the five elements' properties.
The fusion of the elixir has reached its final step, and it will soon be completed. Ye Tianfan knew he would definitely succeed, but Dan Lao and Xie Qianqiu were worried that a small mistake by Ye Tianfan would lead to the failure of the alchemy.
Fortunately, Ye Tianfan seemed to have not let the two down, as he successfully merged the Dan liquid with ease, and the two people's hearts were also put at ease a lot, after all, the next steps were not so difficult, although there was still a possibility of failure, but it was relatively low.
Ye Tianfan's speed in refining the elixir was much slower than before, taking more than three hours to complete. After all, the fire he emitted only had the power of a Golden Elixir stage dan fire, so it was somewhat weaker. The difficulty of refining the medicine was also higher, and due to the fire timing, the purity of the elixir Ye Tianfan refined himself would be much lower. However, this was exactly what Ye Tianfan hoped for.
The final step, the moment of elixir's birth was approaching, and both Dan Lao and the other person were staring intently at the alchemy furnace, clearly both were filled with anticipation. Ye Tianfan controlled the medicine, slowly dividing the ball of elixir liquid into ten portions using his divine sense, and then slowly rounded them up using his divine sense.
Finally, Ye Tianfan shook the dan furnace and threw the dan medicine into the air. He quickly took out nine dan bottles and stored the dan medicine in them to preserve its spiritual energy.
