The world that tao rules.., p.20
The World that Tao Rules, Volume 4, page 20
Therefore, pills specially designed to treat Blessed Lands and blessed realms are always in high demand and their prices are exorbitant.
Elder Han was able to make this kind of medicine recipe, showing how amazing he is at making medicine.
Even though the recipe was very detailed, after reading it, all ten people fell into deep thought and no one immediately started making the medicine.
This shows that the ten people who made it to the final round were truly talented.
No matter how detailed the recipe is, it's just words on paper.
Turning words on paper into reality involves many obstacles and requires careful thinking and understanding of each step.
Jiang Yun was carefully imagining the entire process of making the medicine in his mind.
The Grand Medicine Sect fell silent again at this moment.
Even though everyone knew the Land of Inheritance was in another space, no one dared to speak up for fear of disturbing them.
After fifteen minutes, a talented pharmacist waved his hand and a black tripod appeared in front of him, starting to make the Replenishing Heaven medicine.
After him, then comes Guan Yiming.
In short, after half an hour had passed, except for Jiang Yun, the other nine people had already started the first refinement.
In the past, if onlookers had seen this situation, they would definitely have mocked Jiang Yun again.
But now, they no longer looked down on Jiang Yun, instead considering him cautious, maybe even expecting some amazing performance.
However, in reality, Jiang Yun was feeling truly uncertain at this moment!
He had indeed refined the Reaching-Sky Pill before, so he could barely be considered a third-grade pharmacist.
However, he had only refined this one kind of third-grade pill.
After becoming a third-grade pharmacist in the Grand Medicine Sect, they might not have to refine every day, but they should refine a third-grade pill once a month at least.
Over time, their experience in refining third-grade pills naturally far surpassed Jiang Yun.
Making medicine takes practice.
If Jiang Yun hasn't made medicine for a long time, he always starts by making some pills that he is good at before starting to make new ones.
Besides, this Replenishing Heaven pill is a brand new type of pill.
When Jiang Yun first learned how to make the Reaching-Sky Pill, with Brother Hei giving him unlimited herbs, it took him almost a month to finally succeed.
But now, he only has two chances!
And he can't afford to fail, so he needs to prepare carefully, simplifying the process in his mind and analyzing each step.
After an hour, others, especially Guan Yiming, have already put most of their herbs into the alchemical furnace.
However, Jiang Yun still hasn't started making the pill!
At this point, onlookers couldn't help but whisper to each other again.
Even Elder Han's eyebrows furrowed slightly, wondering why Jiang Yun hadn't started refining yet.
Three hours is neither long nor short.
Having personally refined the Replenishing Heaven pill before, he knew that even with everything going smoothly, a successful attempt would take at least an hour.
Although Elder Han held Jiang Yun in high regard, as an eighth-grade pharmacist, he couldn't confidently say that Jiang Yun would succeed on his first try with a new pill formula.
He also doubted that Jiang Yun could shorten the refining time.
So, if Jiang Yun didn't start soon, there was a great chance he could be eliminated in this round of competition.
Luckily, Jiang Yun finally began.
With a wave of his hand, a Sanhua Cauldron appeared in front of Jiang Yun, followed by a sufficient amount of herbs flying out from the ring.
Taking a deep breath, Jiang Yun closed his eyes slowly and when he opened them again, they were calm and serene. He raised his wrist and a ball of spiritual fire appeared under the Sanhua Cauldron.
Jiang Yun started his first attempt at making a Replenishing Heaven pill!
Chapter 279: Ten People, Nine Explosions
Although everyone has different understandings of medicine, the steps for making medicine are generally the same, divided into three main steps.
The first step is burning.
Different ingredients are burned at high temperatures in a specific order to remove impurities and keep only the necessary medicinal properties.
The second step is mixing.
All the liquid medicines are mixed together.
The third step is forming pills.
The flame's temperature is gradually lowered to shape the mixed liquid into pills, powders, ointments, or solutions.
The whole process may sound simple when talked about, but it's actually very complicated when you do it.
For example, in the first step, melting herbs with high temperature seems like something everyone can do, but different herbs have different melting points.
Some herbs can melt at low temperatures, while others may require extremely high temperatures.
This requires precise control over the flame's temperature.
If the temperature is too high, the herbs will turn into gas directly, and if it's too low, the herbs won't fully burn into liquid medicine.
Moreover, during the burning process, you need to try your best to bring out the medicinal properties of the herbs.
A small error can lead to a big mistake!
Even if it's just a single type of herb, the effectiveness of the medicine can be affected if its properties are not fully brought out or if they are brought out too much.
There is a high possibility that a life-saving medicine could turn into a deadly poison.
Not to mention mixing various medicinal herbs together, the distribution of medicinal properties is also very particular.
Altogether, these complicated steps combined together lead to a great difficulty in successfully refining elixirs.
Guan Yiming and others who started working more than half an hour before Jiang Yun, when Jiang Yun began refining, the fastest among them had already completed the burning step.
Just after Jiang Yun threw the first medicinal herb into the Sanhua Cauldron, not long after, there was a sudden deafening noise not far from him.
Suddenly, an alchemical furnace of a third-grade pharmacist exploded!
The pharmacist's face immediately turned extremely pale, because it meant that everything he had done for more than an hour before was all in vain, and he needed to start over from scratch.
Although there was a certain distance between the ten people in the fifth round of the competition, there was no isolation formation around each person.
Therefore, all the other nine people could clearly hear such an explosion.
This was, of course, intentional.
As a pharmacist, usually making medicine in a special room, rarely affected by outside forces.
However, a true pharmacist must have strong mental strength to remain calm even in the face of danger.
Nine people heard the sound of the furnace explosion, but seven of them did not react.
However, immediately after, there were two loud bangs, and two third-ranked pharmacists' alchemical furnaces exploded.
Obviously affected by the sound, they made mistakes due to mental shock.
Although the two pharmacists whose furnaces exploded later were furious at the first pharmacist, they didn't have time for that.
They quickly took out another cauldron and started refining again.
Furnace explosions are a common situation for pharmacists.
If a pharmacist has never had a furnace explosion, they would be embarrassed to call themselves a pharmacist.
Therefore, in big sects like the Grand Medicine Sect, the pharmacists usually have several alchemical furnaces ready in case they are needed.
Jiang Yun paid no attention to his surroundings, his mind completely focused on the herbs in front of him.
The Replenishing Heaven pill requires a total of twenty-one different herbs, which is not a lot but definitely not a few either.
Luckily, Jiang Yun was familiar with all twenty-one herbs, so he quickly selected a few with similar melting points and began burning them with flames.
Even though Jiang Yun was the last one to start, he took the longest time to prepare, but his foundation was the most solid.
His strong divine sense and control over spirit energy allowed him to complete the first step faster than the others.
After half an hour, Jiang Yun carefully burnt all the herbs into liquid medicine, each one releasing its unique properties.
Next, it's time for fusion!
This is the step where explosions are most likely to happen!
Just like how Jiang Yun was able to figure out the conclusion with the help of his medicine analysis in the previous third round.
Different types of herbs have properties that can either enhance each other or clash with each other. If the clash is stronger than the enhancement when they are mixed together, it can explode. So, there needs to be a proper order and balance when mixing them.
As Jiang Yun was blending the medicine liquid, dull sounds, similar to firecrackers, kept ringing in his ears.
Apart from the three people who had exploded earlier, the other six, including Guan Yiming and Xiao Zheng, also ended up exploding!
Out of the ten people, nine exploded!
This astonished the onlookers, but it raised a suspicion in Jiang Yun's mind.
Even though explosions were common, all nine people, who were experienced in refining third-grade pills, should not have all exploded except for himself.
"Could there be something strange happening during the blending process?"
This thought made Jiang Yun curious to see the expression on Elder Han's face now. If someone else had given him this pill formula, he might not have had this thought.
But Elder Han may have different thoughts!
From the other side using the alchemical furnace as a type of herb to judge the medicine's temperature, it's clear that the other person is quite casual in character.
Anyway, with the nine pharmacists before him using the blast furnace, Jiang Yun became more cautious and focused, merging the medicine slowly.
Although this approach lowered the possibility of success with the blast furnace for Jiang Yun, it naturally extended the time spent.
While the other nine had completed the burning step of the second refining, Jiang Yun had not finished merging the herbs.
However, the testing time was nearly two hours.
Even Elder Han was worried for Jiang Yun in secret, because if Jiang Yun didn't succeed on the first try, there wouldn't be enough time left for a second refinement.
But Jiang Yun, at this moment, seemed pleased instead of anxious.
"I understand now, it's this mysterious Beast Core!"
"There are male and female distinctions in the vast beasts, but the Beast Cores of the two are exactly opposite in attributes."
"However, female Beast Cores are too rare, so in the pharmacist's common knowledge, whenever they see a vast Beast Core, they will mistakenly think it is a male one, leading to explosions during fusion."
Realizing this, Jiang Yun quickly changed the fusion process of this vast Beast Core, and indeed, there was no explosion.
Before he could relax, the Sanhua Cauldron suddenly shook violently.
Jiang Yun's expression instantly turned cold, the flames controlled by spirit qi instantly turned into snowflakes, freezing the entire Sanhua Cauldron, avoiding a disastrous explosion.
However, the medicinal liquid inside the cauldron was completely wasted.
The first attempt failed!
Ten people, on their first alchemy attempt, all failed!
"While I did realize that the vast Beast Core is female, I didn't expect that the medicinal properties of the female vast Beast Core are one-tenth less potent than the male ones!"
"Again!"
Jiang Yun turned the snowflakes into flames again and started the second round of refining.
But at this moment, the time left for him was less than an hour!
Chapter 280: Second Blast Furnace
Watching Jiang Yun, who also failed, Elder Han sighed and said, "Learning from others' failures, he found the first trap, but ignored the second one!"
"Even though you have now discovered everything, you don't have enough time left!"
As an eighth-ranked pharmacist, Elder Han needed an hour to refine the Replenishing Heaven Pill, and it was nearly impossible for Jiang Yun to successfully complete it in less than an hour.
Although Elder Han still held a glimmer of hope for Jiang Yun.
He hoped that maybe, at the last moment, this little guy could bring him a surprising joy, but he also knew that his hope might just be a wishful thinking.
However, when Jiang Yun just started his second round of refining, Elder Han's eyes suddenly widened.
In his eyes, which were originally filled with disappointment, a glimmer of hope reappeared.
Because Jiang Yun really brought him an unexpected surprise.
Jiang Yun waved his wrist and threw all twenty-one kinds of herbs into the Sanhua Cauldron.
The first step of burning and melting is extremely cautious for any pharmacist.
If there is enough time, each herb is burned one by one.
If time is running out, at most three to five herbs are burned simultaneously.
No one has ever dared to burn all herbs at the same time.
Twenty-one kinds of herbs mean twenty-one different melting points, which means there should be twenty-one different flame temperatures to burn them.
In this situation, the chances of failure in burning were just too high.
But Jiang Yun still decided to do it!
Because he knew very well that he was running out of time.
If he kept burning each herb one by one, there was no way he could finish the refining within the set time. So, he had to take some risks.
Burning twenty-one herbs simultaneously meant that he had to divide his divine sense, spirit qi, and even his thoughts into twenty-one parts!
He had to consider the different melting points of each herb to ensure they were all burned into liquid at the same time!
This was truly a challenging test of a pharmacist's skills!
However, it was also a unique test of his foundation in the way of medicine.
And this happened to be Jiang Yun's strong suit.
This scene made all the onlookers stare in amazement.
What they now admired was not Jiang Yun's skill in making medicines, but Jiang Yun's bravery!
Any other pharmacist would never dare to do the same.
Because it was like asking for failure, like giving up hope of success willingly.
Jiang Yun at this moment seemed to have turned into a flame, into an alchemical furnace, into medicinal herbs, completely oblivious to failure, focusing all his energy on burning these herbs.
So much so that the continuous sound of four explosions from outside went unnoticed by him.
Naturally, the four loud bangs represented four furnaces exploding.
The four pharmacists at the Blessed Land level experienced a second furnace explosion, losing their chance to continue to the final trial, looking dejected as they were escorted out of the Land of Inheritance.
Currently, six people including Jiang Yun are still diligently refining medicinal pills.
Guan Yiming, who was admired by everyone, always kept the lead and seemed to have successfully completed the fusion, beginning the final step of refining.
Following closely behind was Xiao Zheng.
Although Li Changlin had not been eliminated yet, his face was already covered in sweat.
Even his hands were trembling slightly.
Obviously, as time was running out, his composure was starting to slip.
Most people could imagine that Li Changlin's journey in the competition was coming to an end.
