Chapter 4.3 : Trouble Comes Knocking
"Ganoderma, Poria, Coral Grass….. Every kind of the herbs must be ten years old at least." Yun Qing Yan muttered to himself softly, as he systematically placed the herbs into the elixir cauldron in an unhurried manner.
"I wonder what the people in the Immortal Realm will think if they knew that I am cultivating Spirit Gathering Elixirs here….." Yun Qing Yan said to himself, his face looking highly amused. Spirit Gathering Elixir, was the lowest of the low leveled elixirs there were, and in the Immortal Realm, no living being even at the lowest ranks will eat a Spirit Gathering Elixir.
But from what he could see, Yun Qing Yan's current level of cultivation was only capable of cultivating such a level of elixir.
Fortunately, here on the Heavenly Star Continent, the Spirit Gathering Elixir was already a graded elixir. Although it was only a mortal level low grade elixir, but at least it had a grade.
Out in the market, a pill was worth at least two thousand silvers, rather priceless and in high demand.
Yun Qing Yan placed his hands on the underside of the elixir cauldron and called forth his Flame Mastery Arts, where two balls of pale white flames then rose from his palms.
'Roar…..'
Several minutes later, the flames had already heated up the cauldron, and after half an hour, wispy smoke began to rise up above it.
Yun Qing Yan had been using his consciousness to observe interior of the elixir cauldron.
Three hours later, the flames over his palms then began to turn stronger and weaker intermittently. That was just him adjusting the strength of the flame as was required.
While the elixirs were forming up, the control over the fire was extremely important. When it called for high heat, a strong flame was needed, and when it needed a gentle heat, only a small flame was required.
Throughout that process, the slightest misstep would cause the quality of the elixir to lower, to the extent that they might even be destroyed.
Although Yun Qin Yan's consciousness was not even one out of ten thousand when compared to when he was at his peak power, but that did not mean that his consciousness was now considered to be weak. At least when compared to the majority of the Heavenly Star Continent's elixir cultivators, he was still stronger by countless times.
Based just on his consciousness alone, Yun Qing Yan carried out the steps required for the elixir cultivation with such precise control that it did not deviate by the slightest at all.
After a day and night had passed, there were already thirty pills of Spirit Gathering Elixirs taking initial shape and form inside the elixir cauldron. Not only the distance between every single elixir was the same, but every single pill had been heated up extremely evenly.
Barring any unexpected accidents, the elixir formation rate for this cauldron of Spirit Gathering Elixir would reach a hundred percent.
If news of this was to get out, it would definitely frighten people to death. It must be known, in the elixir cultivation world, people who achieve an elixir formation rate above thirty percent would already be considered to be at a Grandmaster level, and achieving elixir formation rates beyond fifty percent would be as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.
As for a hundred percent elixir formation rate, that was just pure fantasy…..
In a blink, another night passed.
In the elixir cauldron, thirty over elixirs, all completely formed up, and only about three more minutes of final containment was needed under the elixir fire before they would be ready to be taken out from the cauldron.
But it was in those very last few minutes that Yun Qing Yan's face suddenly turned dark.
"Hey, is this Yun Yuan Lin here? What? Yun Qing Yan has just returned and an old fella like you already cannot wait to come be his obedient dog?" In the yard outside the room, an eccentric sounding voice of a youth sounded.
"Old man! Go get Yun Qing Yan to come out this instant! Tell him that I, Yun Yue, has come to look for him!"
"Old man, what are you doing still standing there in a daze? Are you itching to be punished? Don't think just because you are the steward and this Young Master will not dare to hit you!"
"Seems like you are really itching for a beating!"
As that voice fell, a loud 'bam' was heard, and then a wailing voice was sent flying away.
"If I remember correctly, this should be Yun Qing Yan's room!" Not even a few moments has passed when the owner of that voice already reached before the door of Yun Qing Yan's room.
'Boom!'
With a hard kick, the sandalwood door broke into splinters.
It fell to the floor with a 'thunk', and a splinter shot out, striking the elixir stove. Yun Qing Yan who was engaged in mustering the elixir fire was not able to stop it in time at all, as he saw before his eyes the elixir cauldron fall towards the ground.
"Hahaha, Yun Qing Yan! I heard that after you ran away from the bandits' den, your cultivation level has dropped down to the Star level's third stage! What? Are you thinking since there is no more hope in the martial arts route, you have changed direction and want to go the elixir cultivation route?"
The intruder came in and saw the toppled elixir cauldron with the foggy smoke permeating the entire room, immediately guessing that Yun Qing Yan was cultivating elixirs. "Heh heh, if that is really the case, then I think you are about to fall even harder! The trials and difficulties on the path to elixir cultivation is several times harder than that of martial arts!"
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