The First Alchemy Trial

  After a dim interior, there is occasionally a bright light.

  Xiao Ai stood in the room, looking at the medicine scattered all over the floor with a worried face, her complexion was strange to the extreme.

  She looked up and took a glance at Du Fei, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed with slow and steady breathing. For a moment, she didn't know what to feel in her heart.

  This young master of our own family seems to have become someone I no longer recognize, and in less than half a year's time, what he can do and what he understands seem to be completely beyond my comprehension.

  But like this, can I still stay by his side?

  Xiao Ai was stunned for a moment before quickly shaking off the idea. This kind of thinking was absolutely unacceptable.

  "What's wrong?"

  On the bed, Du Fei slowly opened his eyes and gazed at Xiao Ai for a moment before speaking with a hint of a smile.

  "No, I just think that Master is much more formidable than before." Little Ai stuck out her tongue and said adorably.

  "Is that so? I didn't have that feeling myself?" Du Fei laughed and then patted his hand, saying in a low voice, "Alright, next you must help me well. This is my first time formally refining dan, it's rare to find a hard worker like you, I won't let you off easily!"

  As he spoke, Du Fei narrowed his eyes for a moment, and after recalling the prescription for refining the Washing Marrow Pill in his mind for another moment, he lightly clapped his hands, and instantly a stream of true energy burst out from between them, falling onto the medicine cauldron in the center of the house.

  "Hmm——"

  Although it was the same medicine tripod, but completely different from before, with the infusion of Du Fei's true energy, this medicine tripod actually slowly floated up. And on the originally ancient and simple body of the tripod, there were also a few hints of blue light flashing by, forming a mysterious picture.

  Looking at this scene for a moment, Du Fei couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Indeed, after having true energy and refining the elixir, it was completely different from that previous kind of clumsy refining!

  With his eyes narrowed, staring at the medicine cauldron in front of him for a moment, Du Fei made a hand gesture to signal Xiao Ai to retreat, and then stretched out his right hand, lightly touching the center of his eyebrows.

  As Du Fei made this move, a mysterious spiritual force instantly burst out from his brow, enveloping the medicine cauldron within.

  After a moment of careful observation, Du Fei was slightly shocked to discover that although the surface of this medicine cauldron looked ordinary, it actually had its own space inside. Between the top and bottom sides, there existed strange hollows connecting them together, but these hollows seemed invisible to the naked eye.

  After a slight pause, Du Fei finally stirred up his true energy, and the dense true energy slowly flowed into the bottom of the medicine cauldron.

  "Hmm..."

  As Du Fei moved, flames suddenly burst out from the bottom of the medicine cauldron, and these flames were blue, giving off a slightly icy aura. Du Fei was clear that this was due to his own true energy transforming.

  One side of the small Ai saw this scene, also slightly tongue-tied for a moment. Although he also knew that the alchemy technique was mysterious and unparalleled, he did not expect that his own young master would use it to achieve such a profound effect.

  Without noticing Xiao Ai's expression, Du Fei concentrated and sensed for a moment before saying in a low voice: "Xiao Bai, if I use the medicinal power of the Concentrated Spirit Pill to refine the pill now, will the success rate increase?"

  "Beep - question accepted, system searching, loading data..."

  "According to the current situation of the residents, if the method of using Dan Lian Dan is used to refine the elixir, the success rate will decrease by 20%!"

  "You actually know about refining dan... No!?" Du Fei cursed halfway, suddenly unable to bear it and muttered in his heart.

  "Yes! Master's current strength, if used with Dan refining Dan Fa Men, will only reduce the efficiency of Dan refining, so Xiaobai does not recommend it!"

  "Ah..."

  After a moment of silence, Du Fei slowly shook his head and then slightly opened his eyes.

  Since we can't use the method of refining Dan with cinnabar at this moment, let's use the method of refining Dan with Qi instead.

  After all, what needs to be refined at this moment is only a 9th-grade elixir, and it should be possible to refine the elixir with Qi.

  With a slight movement of his mind, Du Fei once again urged the true energy in his body to pour into the medicine cauldron in front of him, and his spiritual power also slowly urged on, starting to finely control the fire in the medicine cauldron.

  After a moment, Du Fei felt the temperature of the medicine cauldron had stabilized. He took a slight breath and said in a low voice: "One Stone Heart Marrow."

  Upon hearing this, Xiao Ai quickly searched through the numerous medicinal herbs on the ground and retrieved a portion of them, handing it over to Du Fei.

  Du Fei casually took it over, hesitated for a moment, and had already thrown the Shi Xin Suo into the upper part of the medicine cauldron.

  As soon as the Stone Heart entered the medicine cauldron, Du Fei didn't even have time to react before hearing a "sizzling" sound. The entire Stone Heart had already turned into a charred black color.

  "Is it too hot?"

  Facing his own failure this time, Du Fei didn't have any particular feeling. After all, he was also clear that the current alchemy and the previous method of cultivating were completely different, and past experiences couldn't be applied at all. At this moment, he was just like a newcomer.

  "Come again!"

  Xiao Ai on one side heard this and looked at Du Fei with a hint of worry, then handed over another piece of Shi Xin Suo.

  But this time, Du Fei didn't reach out to catch it. Instead, with a swift movement of his mind, he quickly wrapped around the past and threw the Shi Xing Suo into the cauldron.

  Du Fei's mental strength is not strong at this moment, but he can still make such a move.

  This time, with the wrapping of spiritual power, Shi Xingmu did not instantly turn into flying ash.

  Du Fei also quickly withdrew some of his true energy, and slowly pulled back the spiritual power wrapped around Shi Xin's heart, watching as it fell into the medicine cauldron.

  "Hmph!"

  Perhaps it was Du Fei's good luck that this time, the Shi Xing Mu did not turn into flying ash, but instead rolled around in the medicine cauldron for a moment before forming a thick, milky white substance.

  "Not bad!" Qiu Qiu smiled and made a casual gesture with his hand.

  Xiao Ai quickly fetched a jade stone box and placed it on the ground.

  The true energy in his hand dissipated slightly, and Du Fei's right hand made a slight gesture in mid-air. Then, he saw those thick ** slowly flying out of the medicine cauldron, and fell into the jade stone box.

  Suddenly, Du Fei's mind moved again, and another piece of Shixin Marrow fell into the cauldron...

  Time passed minute by minute and second by second. During this time, Du Fei stopped to rest many times because of his depleted true energy.

  However, the hard work of the two was not in vain. Under their painstaking refining, those medicinal materials had basically all turned into liquid medicine.

  Du Fei's face became increasingly serious as he glanced at the four refined potions in front of him.

  All of this was just a warm-up, the most important part is the Condensing Dan, which is when one's true skills are put to the test.

  Although Shuang Dan Fang's manual describes the hand techniques of Cong Dan in great detail, I'm still a novice with zero experience after all!

  He hesitated for a moment, but this time Du Fei didn't dare to use his spiritual power recklessly. Instead, he carefully took out the required medicine from the jade box and poured it into the medicine cauldron, then slowly injected his true energy.

  "Hmm..."

  As the true energy poured in, suddenly there were scorching flames bursting out from the upper part of the medicine cauldron, instantly wrapping the medicinal liquid within.

  This change almost made Du Fei withdraw his true energy.

  Fortunately, after waiting for a few minutes, the flames above slowly disappeared, and the four liquids also slightly entwined together, constantly mixing under the burning of the flames.

  Sensing this change, Du Fei let out a slight sigh and immediately urged his true energy again. At the same time, his spiritual power also spread out instantly.

  "Hmph—"

  As Du Fei moved, the mixed liquid rolled up quickly this time, and some impurities in it seemed to turn into white smoke and disappear into the air as they rolled.

  And the liquid medicine also quickly gathered together, vaguely forming a dan pill shape.

  "Is it done?"

  Du Fei took a deep breath, and his true energy accelerated even faster. The flames below suddenly surged up, and in almost the blink of an eye, all the water content in the elixir had been blown away. Under the convergence of spiritual power, the elixir rolled continuously like a mud pellet.

  "Condensed"

  He let out a low shout, and Du Fei's hands changed again. Suddenly, a strong spiritual force spread out, forcibly compressing the dan medicine into a thumb-sized ball. Immediately afterwards, the true energy flames fiercely swept across it, and the dan medicine took shape.

  "Hum——"

  A faint vibration sound, a fragrance of medicine wafted out, instantly filling the room with fragrance.

  "This is indeed a Dan medicine, and no longer that semi-finished waste!" Du Fei's face lit up with joy as he gazed at the Dan medicine in front of him.

  Although this is just a low-grade elixir, it's still his first time successfully refining an elixir on his own.

  Although he found a bottle and stuffed the dan medicine into it, Du Fei only smiled and then threw the bottle to Xiao Ai.

  Slightly flustered, she put down the bottle and Xiao Ai glanced at Du Fei, saying: "Young Master..."

  "This Washing Marrow Pill should be able to help you break through to the 9th rank of Martial Artist, little girl, don't look down on it!" Du Fei said with a smile, glancing at Xiao Ai.

  "Alright...since young master says so, I'll accept it as a reward." A hint of smile flashed in her eyes, and then Xiaoyi said in a low voice.

  "You're so clever!" Du Fei laughed and then his smile faded, "But what's coming next won't be so easy... Come on, let me continue refining the pill!"

  "Still want it!" Xiaoi whispered, but didn't refuse and quickly sent over the things Du Fei needed.

  With the experience of the first time, Du Fei also let go this time. After slightly recovering his true energy, the spiritual power in his brow continued to surge.

  And with the surge of spiritual energy, alchemy has once again begun...

  Unbeknownst to me, time slowly slipped away. As time passed, occasionally loud noises came from within the room, but for most of the time, a fragrance wafted out, making my heart feel carefree and joyful...