Dual Cultivation: A Carefree Journey Through Another World, the Empress Falls into My Hands

Chapter 126 Alchemy Prodigy

Chu Yunfan asked this question for two reasons, firstly because Master Volcano had just said the word "normal".

Secondly, Chu Yunfan discovered that Master Volcano himself was only at the peak of the Martial Venerable Realm, but his alchemical fire was cyan, reaching the fifth grade of alchemical fire, corresponding to the Martial King Realm.

When Master Volcano heard Chu Yunfan's question, he did not answer him directly. Instead, he stretched out his palm for Chu Yunfan to examine closely.

"Take a close look. Apart from its color being different from yours, what else is special about my alchemical fire?"

Upon hearing this, Chu Yunfan immediately widened his eyes and observed the pill fire in Master Volcano's palm.

With his keen eye, he immediately noticed something unusual.

Inside the volcano master Dan Huo, he actually saw a green snake swimming around.

Immediately, Chu Yunfan's face showed utter surprise, and he couldn't help but ask:

"Master, how come there's a green snake in your alchemical fire?"

Upon hearing Chu Yunfan's question, Master Volcano stroked his beard and smiled, saying:

"Because my inner fire contains a kind of beast fire."

This beastly fire originated from a Azure-Phoenix Python at the Demon King realm.

Upon hearing this answer, Chu Yunfan pressed further:

"Master, aren't there only three types of flames: human fire, earth fire, and heaven fire? Where did this beast fire come from?"

Upon hearing this, Master Volcano shook his head and explained:

"Human fire, earth fire, heaven fire."

Those are the three types of flames known to ordinary people.

In fact, there is a fourth type of fire, namely beast fire.

The so-called beast fire is a powerful flame born from the bodies of certain demonic beasts.

Incorporating this powerful flame into an alchemist's alchemical fire can greatly enhance its power.

However, demonic beasts possessing powerful flames are, after all, few and far between.

Moreover, integrating beast fire into alchemical fire carries immense risk; one wrong move and you could be burned to ashes by the beast fire.

Therefore, most people are unaware of the existence of beast fire!

After listening to Master Volcano's explanation, Chu Yunfan slowly nodded.

Just then, Chu Yunfan heard Master Volcano speak again:

"However, although fusing with beast fire is dangerous."

But the greater the risk, the higher the reward.

After fusing with beast fire, the power of the alchemy fire will be greatly enhanced, and it may even directly improve the grade of the alchemy fire, like I did.

As the alchemical fire becomes stronger, alchemy becomes easier, not only increasing the success rate of pill formation but also improving the quality of the pills.

Besides being used for alchemy, alchemical fire can also be used in combat.

Take my inner fire, for example. Even a Martial King would be badly injured if they got involved with it!

Master Volcano's words stirred Chu Yunfan's heart, making him eager to immediately go and find the Beast Fire.

However, he also knew that beast fire was hard to find.

After all, he had wandered around the Azure Demon Mountain Range for so long and had never seen or even heard of any kind of demon beast with powerful flames.

At this moment, Master Volcano also spoke up:

“Yunfan, you’re still young. These things are too far removed from your life. You should start by learning how to refine pills from me.”

Upon hearing this, Chu Yunfan immediately snapped out of his daze and followed Master Huoshan into the alchemy room.

Upon entering the alchemy room, Master Huoshan did not immediately teach Chu Yunfan how to refine pills, but instead waved his hand dismissively.

Instantly, a pile of first-tier spiritual herbs appeared on the floor of the alchemy room.

Then, Master Volcano handed Chu Yunfan a pill formula and said:

"According to the requirements of the pill formula, find several spiritual herbs from this pile of herbs that are suitable for refining the Body Tempering Pill!"

Upon hearing this, Chu Yunfan immediately took the pill formula and began selecting medicinal herbs.

In no time, Chu Yunfan had selected the medicinal herbs and placed them on the stone table to the side.

Master Volcano looked at the spiritual herbs that Chu Yunfan had selected, and the surprise and admiration in his eyes were obvious at a glance.

Because the spiritual herbs that Chu Yunfan selected perfectly met the requirements for refining the Body Tempering Pill, both in terms of their type and age.

You should know that, in order to increase the difficulty, Master Volcano deliberately mixed several kinds of spiritual herbs into the spiritual herbs on the ground just now.

These medicinal herbs are extremely similar to those needed to refine the Body Tempering Pill, both in appearance and smell, making it easy for people to make a mistake.

However, Chu Yunfan was not disturbed at all and directly selected the correct spiritual herbs, and the ones he selected were the ones with the most suitable age.

This skill in selecting medicinal herbs even surpasses that of many old-school alchemists who have been practicing alchemy for decades.

Master Volcano naturally didn't know that Chu Yunfan had never been involved in alchemy before.

But back on Earth, Chu Yunfan dealt with all sorts of Chinese medicines every day, and had long since developed a powerful ability to distinguish between them.

As for elixirs, they are simply medicines that contain power many times stronger than traditional Chinese medicines. In terms of appearance and smell, there is actually not much difference.

Chu Yunfan was naturally very perceptive and liked to apply what he learned to other situations. He quickly mastered the methods of identifying many spiritual herbs on the Qingyun Continent.

After selecting the medicinal herbs, the next step is to learn how to extract their medicinal power, which involves the ability to control flames.

Extracting medicinal properties is an extremely difficult task.

Because it is necessary to constantly monitor the size and temperature of the flame, and also to control the time required to extract the medicinal properties.

If the flames get too big and the temperature too high, the medicinal herbs will simply burn to ashes.

If the flame is too small and the temperature is insufficient, the medicinal properties cannot be extracted, and over time, the elixir will be ruined.

However, Master Volcano did not expect that Chu Yunfan, whose acupuncture skills were superb, could insert silver needles into every tiny pore of the human body, and his control over them was naturally extremely terrifying.

Therefore, on his first attempt, Chu Yunfan successfully extracted all the medicinal power.

Chu Yunfan's move completely outshone Master Volcano, leaving Master Volcano stunned in place.

Seeing this, Chu Yunfan waved his hand in front of Master Volcano and asked:

"Master Volcano, what's next?"

Upon hearing Chu Yunfan's voice, Master Volcano finally snapped out of his daze. He first gave Chu Yunfan a deep look before speaking:

"Put the medicinal liquid into separate jade bottles. Next, I will teach you the incantation and hand gestures to condense the medicinal power into a pill!"

Upon hearing this, Chu Yunfan immediately packed away the eyesight he had just refined and listened attentively to Master Volcano's teachings.

……

Half an hour later, Master Volcano looked at the three mid-grade Body Tempering Pills that Chu Yunfan had just successfully refined and fell into a deep abyss of self-doubt.

"Didn't my master praise my talent for alchemy back then?"

Why do I feel like a piece of trash right now?

Seeing Master Volcano's vacant and lifeless appearance, Chu Yunfan assumed something was wrong with him and shook him, asking:

"Master Volcano, what's wrong?"