After traveling through time, I stole all over the three realms

After returning, Shen Mian spent another two days processing medicinal herbs, but still failed to make a single pill.

"Don't I have the talent for alchemy?" Shen Mian looked at the ashes on the ground in frustration.

Mu Yan flicked his finger and threw out a little flame, instantly burning the medicine residue to ashes. "What, are you giving up?"

"Give up?" Shen Mian shrugged, "These two words never appear in my dictionary."

"However, I have to go out and see Uncle Chen first. According to the time, he should be back today."

Chen Xing sometimes has to go out to look for medicinal herbs and prescriptions. Ever since Shen Mian was able to practice, he feels more at ease knowing that Shen Mian can take care of himself, and he goes out more frequently than before.

Chen Xing really came, and brought a lot of cakes and pastries: "I bought them from outside, eat them while they're hot."

"Uncle Chen, how long did it take you to refine your first batch of pills?"

"The first batch..." Chen Xing thought for a long time, "I remember that I had a teacher to guide me at that time, but it still took me... half a month, and I don't know how many batches of pills I wasted."

"It seems that refining the elixir is indeed not easy." Shen Mian held up his chin.

"It's very difficult to make the pills yourself without the guidance of an alchemist. No matter how detailed the book is, it will always be different from the actual operation." Chen Xing smiled, "Yaoyao, you want to learn how to make pills? I can teach you."

Shen Mian hesitated and said, "Uncle Chen has to be in the Shen family's alchemy room during the day and rest at night. How can he have time to teach me?"

"I'm not that old yet, so I still have time to teach you for two hours. How about it? Do you want me to teach you?"

"Although your Uncle Chen's alchemy skills are not very high, it is no problem for him to teach you to make a low-level pill. When you go to the academy in the future, I will let the alchemy master teach you."

Shen Mian laughed heartily: "Then I won't be polite to Uncle Chen!"

Shen Mian raised her hand and waved, and a half-person-high alchemy furnace and a pile of medicinal materials appeared in front of the two. She looked up at Chen Xing, waiting for him to ask her where these things came from.

But Chen Xing remained calm and just smiled and said, "It seems that Yaoyao is more powerful than Uncle Chen imagined."

"Uncle Chen, aren't you curious?"

Chen Xing touched Shen Mian's head and said, "It's normal for young people to have some little secrets. When Yaoyao wants to tell Uncle Qu, she can tell Uncle Chen."

Shen Mian looked at the man with slightly gray hair in front of her, and a strange feeling surged in her heart. How long had it been since she encountered such pure goodness?

"Okay, okay, you practice it for Uncle Chen first."

Shen Mian then began to process the medicinal materials. After so many days of practice, her alchemy skills had not improved at all, but her speed in processing the medicinal materials had greatly increased.

The medicinal herbs were quickly separated and disassembled in her nimble hands. Her movements were so skillful as if she had practiced them thousands of times. Shen Mian's eyes were focused, her expression was serious, her hands moved swiftly, and the process of handling the herbs was like a gorgeous performance.

She then began to refine the elixir in the same order as before, with flames rising in her hands. She controlled the force to burn, condense, and extract, but still failed in the end.

Chen Xing's eyes showed great surprise since the appearance of the Burning Flame. Strange Fire?

The strange fire that countless alchemists seek, Yaoyao actually has it?

"Uncle Qu, that's it."

Qu Xingbai stepped forward to inspect the pile of medicinal residues, picked up some with his hands and put it to his nose to smell it: "The fire was too high, the time was wrong, and the herbs were not processed pure enough. Although the order of putting them in was correct, there was also a certain amount of time between each portion of herbs. The processing of the shamu root had two more leaves. And, there was a fatal mistake."

He looked at Shen Mian and said, "Although retracting the fire is the last step, it is also the best time to preserve the medicinal properties and prevent the medicinal power from dissipating. You must be more focused and control the intensity of the fire to change little by little. Only by preserving the medicinal properties to the greatest extent can the quality of the elixir be purer. The flame should not be retracted all at once, but gradually shrunk to only cover the elixir in the cauldron, and then slowly retracted."

As he said that, he demonstrated it to Shen Mian. Shen Mian watched Chen Xing making the elixir intently. Although she had processed the medicinal materials for Hui Yuan Dan countless times, her speed was still too slow compared to Chen Xing. Seeing the medicinal materials flowing through Chen Xing's hands like magic, she realized the difference between herself and a real alchemist.

Closing the furnace, heating, refining, gathering the pill, protecting... Every step was taken carefully and meticulously, without any error. Shen Mian held her breath unconsciously. After just observing the alchemy process of Hui Yuan Dan, she felt that she had a vague epiphany.

When the brilliant flames were put away, the fragrance of elixir and white mist gradually floated from the cauldron, and the pill was ready as the smoke shone through the air!

Shen Mian couldn't wait to open the alchemy furnace, inside which were twenty round, white jade-like pills neatly arranged.

so much!

Chen Xing took out a medicine bottle filled with pills and handed it to Shen Mian: "I don't need the Yuandan this time, Yaoyao, keep it."

Shen Mian readily took it away.

Trying once again, she concentrated her mind, fully mobilized her mental strength, and immersed herself in refining the elixir. This time, she felt as if she had merged with the elixir, her mind and body were one, and she could no longer feel the noise of the outside world, as if the whole world was left with only the elixir and the alchemy furnace in front of her.

She closed her eyes and recalled the process of Chen Xing refining the elixir for a long time, and finally moved!

Select materials, put them into the furnace, refine them, add materials, refine them again, fuse them, quench them, and condense the pill...

Step by step, it was like light and shadow emerging in her mind. The movements of her hands gradually merged with the movements in her memory. The flow of time seemed to stop, and she was the only one in the world whose movements were as fast as an afterimage.

The moment the fire was extinguished, it seemed as if one could hear faint Buddhist chants, and a faint elixir fragrance spread... the elixir was ready!

Shen Mian came out of that state and immediately met Chen Xing's complicated eyes. She blinked slowly: "Uncle Chen? What's wrong?"

Chen Xing shook his head: "Yaoyao's talent is even higher than I thought. Yaoyao's achievements in the future will definitely be beyond my imagination."

Shen Mian touched his head embarrassedly.

"Hurry and take a look at your first batch of pills."

Shen Mian opened the alchemy furnace, inside which lay ten lustrous pills. Although the number was not large, she was very satisfied. After trying for so long, she finally succeeded!

"It is indeed top-grade." Chen Xing said, "The grades of elixirs are divided into low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade, and top-grade. Yaoyao's elixirs are all top-grade. I wonder how many people will be envious of him."

Shen Mian disagreed. She didn't think her pill was that good. Besides, no matter how good it was, it was just a first-grade yellow pill.

"That's all for today," Chen Xing stood up. "Now that you've crossed the threshold of entry, I believe Yaoyao will do very well in the future. I'll take time to come and see you. Yaoyao, keep working hard."

He paused and warned, "But remember, you must never think of relying solely on pills to advance. Pills can only play a supporting role in the process of cultivation. The cultivation level built up by pills is like a paper tiger that will break with a single poke."

"Uncle Chen, I understand!" Shen Mian responded.