Chapter 24: The Master's Uncle Takes Action

  Next, Lin Feng did not refine the medicine again, but instead cleaned up the medicine room and began to cultivate. It was not that he didn't want to refine a few more furnaces, but it was because refining medicine was extremely taxing on his spiritual awareness. With Lin Feng's spiritual awareness, he could at most refine five furnaces before needing to rest; otherwise, he would severely injure his spiritual awareness, which would be detrimental to his cultivation.

  However, in the following days, Lin Feng did not slack off in his alchemy practice. He was almost always refining pills, with five furnaces in both the morning and afternoon, and in between, he would meditate to recover his spiritual energy. Through this non-stop pill refinement, not only did he obtain a large quantity of spiritual pills, but his spiritual energy also received great exercise. Now, Lin Feng's control over the spiritual energy to manipulate the medicinal liquid had become increasingly better. Although he still couldn't compress the medicinal liquid into an ideal state, from the fact that almost every furnace would produce middle-grade pills, it was clear that he was becoming more and more skilled.

  A few days later, when Yang Ze returned to Dan Hall and found that almost all the materials for refining Tiqi Dan had disappeared, he thought he had been robbed.

  "Lin Feng! Lin Feng! Get out here!" Yang Ze had never been so tense and furious. So many medicinal materials, at the very least worth over a thousand Spirit Stones, this was no small sum.

  "Master Uncle, what's the matter?" Lin Feng hurriedly ran out while practicing and recovering his spiritual consciousness. These past few days, he had been taking middle-grade Qi-replenishing pills every day to practice, feeling quite refreshed! He hadn't expected that using so many materials would require him to give an explanation to Master Uncle.

  "Where's the medicine?!" Yang Ze saw Lin Feng staring blankly with his bright big eyes, and he was so angry that he couldn't speak, pointing at Lin Feng and then at the surrounding medicinal materials, before finally spitting out two words.

  "Ah!" Lin Feng suddenly realized that the surrounding spiritual medicine had indeed decreased significantly, and only then did he remember that he had been refining pills for several days and had used up a lot of materials. Seeing his master's uncle almost faint with anger, Lin Feng quickly took out bottle after bottle of Qi-restoring pills from his storage bag and placed them on the drying rack, pointing to them and saying: "This disciple has made some breakthroughs in pill-refining these past few days, so...so I refined a few more furnaces!" Lin Feng had an innocent look on his face.

  "After refining a few more furnaces, didn't I tell you to think while refining? With your current level of refining elixirs, which furnace is not a loss? The more you refine, the more you lose..."

  Yang Ze's voice stopped abruptly, because just as he was scolding, he saw Lin Feng taking out bottle after bottle of medicine from the storage bag, and had already placed over a dozen bottles without stopping. As a result, Yang Ze's face changed color like a chameleon, from anger to surprise to astonishment, and finally became petrified, standing there speechless.

  Because at this time, Lin Feng had already taken out a full twenty bottles of Qi Dan, but was still taking them out. With Lin Feng's cultivation level, so many pills, five days' time would not be enough to refine them, unless his true dan rate had greatly increased.

  Just as Yang Ze regained his composure and smiled, preparing to ask Lin Feng if he had broken through the True Dan rate of 40%, Lin Feng's next bottle of medicine completely petrified him again. Because what came out next was a middle-grade Qi-tonifying pill, three bottles in a row, leaving Yang Ze speechless.

  "Master Yang, this is the elixir I've been refining over the past few days. I've already taken a few of them myself, but these elixirs should be worth more than the medicinal materials used to make them." Lin Feng said with a bitter face, but the sly smile in his eyes couldn't be hidden. This kid was also quite cunning, as he had been refining nearly ten furnaces of elixirs every day, and almost every furnace produced mid-grade Qi-replenishing Elixirs, whose value far exceeded that of the medicinal materials used. He dared to use such precious elixirs because of this. At this moment, he was simply joking with Master Yang.

  Yang Ze was completely shocked by Lin Feng, the low-grade Spirit Gathering Pill meant nothing to him, at most it just proved that Lin Feng's pill refining skills had made a huge breakthrough, and at best it was something worth celebrating. But so many mid-grade pills were entirely different, you have to know that even for him, wanting to refine mid-grade pills required being extremely careful and relying on luck to get one or two pills from every two or three furnaces.

  But Lin Feng taking out so many at once means what? It means he can guarantee almost every pellet is of medium quality, this isn't a technical issue anymore. With his years of experience in alchemy, he can be certain that Lin Feng must have come up with a new method of refining.

  "You... how did you cultivate to this point?" Yang Ze felt his throat was a bit dry, and after asking, he added: "Of course, if you don't want to say it's fine, Master Uncle just... just..."

  Lin Feng saw that his Master Uncle had not noticed his joke at all, and knew that the impact he had given him was too great. The effect of joking was greatly discounted, so he could only calmly explain the reasons and methods for modifying the alchemy over the past few days.

  Yang Ze saw Lin Feng willing to speak, overjoyed and asked again: "Can you refine a furnace now and let Shifu see?"

  "Of course, but the disciple's divine consciousness has not recovered yet, and I'm afraid the effect won't be that good. If it's refined in vain, these medicinal materials..." Lin Feng said hesitantly.

  "Little rabbit, I'm just trying to get rid of you... Fine, the medicine is yours, and after it's refined, it'll all be yours anyway!" Yang Ze saw that he couldn't intimidate Lin Feng, so he said some harsh words before quickly changing his tone to show weakness.

  Lin Feng was overjoyed and picked up a few materials, heading towards the Dan room. With his current alchemy skills, he didn't lack this first-grade medicinal material at all. His earlier words were also just a joke due to his great mood. Yang Ze also knew that Lin Feng had been under a lot of pressure in his heart over the past few years because of his slow cultivation progress, but now that he had made progress, he was much more cheerful. So, he didn't mind at all and even shared his joy. Moreover, this new alchemy method was extremely important to him and the entire Yang family, so he didn't have the heart to think about other things. Seeing Lin Feng head towards the Dan room, he quickly followed suit.

  The furnace, simmering, fetal dan, dan collection, are just minor modifications to the original alchemy technique. Although the guiding ideology has undergone a fundamental change, under Lin Feng's explanation, Yang Ze quickly understood it. The principle is simple and easy to understand, and for Yang Ze, there were no obstacles, he quickly grasped the underlying principles. Of course, in order to keep Bao Yu's secret, Lin Feng did not dare to use his divine consciousness to control the dan liquid, but instead used the shaking of the dan furnace to toss up the dan liquid, barely achieving the goal of controlling the dan liquid.

  Actually, from the very beginning, Lin Feng's Five Elements Micro Law is the fundamental principle of all alchemy. All elixir formulas were originally researched with the purpose of preserving medicinal properties and spiritual energy. However, as time passed, many people only knew the process but forgot why they should follow this process to refine the elixir, which is knowing the method but not understanding its underlying reason. Another reason is that most alchemists do not possess Lin Feng's Five Elements Spiritual Root, nor can they improve the elixir formula from this fundamental aspect. This has led to everyone using this method for so many years. Although the methods used by Lin Feng now are basically the same as before, with only slight differences in subtle details, the results differ greatly. As the saying goes, "a difference of a single hair can lead to a mistake of a thousand miles."

  From this point on, Lin Feng is actually the best alchemist due to his possession of the Five Elements Spirit Roots. He can control the refining process of the elixir from the very beginning, which is much more meticulous than ordinary alchemists who rely solely on procedures to control the outcome.

  As a first-class Dan, the refining process is indeed very simple. Although Yang Ze can't feel the changes of the five elements' spiritual energy like Lin Feng and control the refining process with it, after understanding the principle, he can still follow the same pattern. Increasing the firepower by three points during the decoction, and letting the dan liquid fully merge with the wind yang fruit when adding it is still easy to do. So Yang Ze decided to personally refine a furnace.

  Yang Ze took action, his technique was extremely skilled and not comparable to Lin Feng's current level. With Lin Feng on the side sensing and explaining the changes in spiritual energy, increasing the three-part earth fire refining was no problem at all, and soon entered the stage of infusing the Wind Yang Fruit.

  Lin Feng watched carefully from the side, and saw that the moment the dan furnace opened, the dan liquid had already been compressed into a thin slice. As Yang Ze threw the wind yang fruit into the dan furnace, he saw that the steam rich in water spirit energy was tightly bound under the thin slice, its size identical to the dan liquid's thin slice, like a column of steam rushing towards the dan liquid. Just as they came into contact, the dan liquid's thin slice suddenly split into countless tiny holes, and the wind yang fruit's steam was absorbed like a sponge, passing through in an instant, with only a tiny amount evaporating away.

  Lin Feng also understood the reason why Yang Ze did this, in this way, the steam of Fengyang fruit would be in contact with Dan liquid to the maximum extent and be absorbed. It seems that Yang Ze has completely understood the principle of Lin Feng's new method, although he didn't do it according to Lin Feng's method, but the effect is much better than Lin Feng's method, at least the absorption of Fengyang fruit reached eight layers.

  It's just that Yang Ze, as a second-layer cultivator of the foundation period, has an ability to control dan liquid that is obviously much stronger than Lin Feng's ability after his divine sense was enhanced by the treasure jade, so he can do it so meticulously, and the effect of absorbing the wind yang fruit is so good. This is something that Lin Feng cannot compare with, so even if he understands it, he has no way to replicate it.

  It was soon done, and when they took out the elixirs to take a look, it turned out that there was only one waste pill, four low-grade pills, and three medium-grade pills left. The extremely high elixir production rate had almost reached its limit, and the appearance of three medium-grade pills in one furnace was too shocking, even in Yang Ze's alchemy records, it had never happened before. Both Yang Ze and Lin Feng were overjoyed, laughing so hard that their mouths couldn't close.

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