Chapter 116: Mastery

In the afternoon, on the North Street where the Medicine King Hall is located, there are shops and residents on this street. Basically, the residents behind the shops are all in the backyards of the shops.

It is lunch time now, and smoke rises from the backyard kitchens of each shop.

In this cold winter, the smell of food and the smell of human life can always dispel a lot of severe cold.

The apprentices of the Medicine King Hall, who have been busy all day, are also waiting for a bowl of hot stewed vegetable and meat soup to replenish the energy and calories consumed by the body.

Bang Bang Bang~~

Outside the alchemy room where Chen Ku and Shang Yunfang are, guards brought two food boxes.

Shang Yunfang did not disturb Chen Ku from refining the elixir.

He came outside the door, took in two food boxes, and gave them to Chen Ku, saying: "Eat something while the fire is low. It takes at least one night to make a furnace of elixir."

Chen Ku hummed and fanned himself.

At this time, in this alchemy room, even if someone looked carefully, they could not see how much change Chen Ku's fanning could bring to the fire under the alchemy furnace.

But only Chen Ku himself knew.

When the flame under the alchemy furnace rose, he, who had put on the "fire mouth pot", had already felt the mysterious connection between him and the burning flame under the alchemy furnace in front of him.

This feeling cannot be described in detail.

It's like...

There is an invisible thread between the flame in front of him and him, which can be controlled by his mind to increase the temperature. He even felt... that as long as he opened his mouth, he could suck the flame at the bottom of the furnace into his stomach.

This is the ability of the fire mouth pot.

Although it is only a first-level "magic weapon" transformed by the first-level evil spirit, it can also make his body become a "fire pot". Even if he swallows the flame into his stomach, his stomach will not be damaged, because the stomach has long been transformed by the fire mouth pot into a "pot belly" that can melt the flame.

Therefore,

the action of fanning the fire is just a disguised appearance.

Chen Ku sat cross-legged here, using the fire-mouthed kettle's special ability to control fire, which was the true essence of his alchemy this time.

"Alchemy in an alchemy furnace, to be honest, is a process of refining impurities and extracting the essence of medicinal materials. It cannot be burned with an open flame, but can only be refined in an alchemy furnace... But my fire-mouthed kettle is actually a 'magic weapon' that can control temperature better than an alchemy furnace. I will test it here today. If it can be confirmed that the additional fire-control ability can greatly increase my success rate, then I can directly use the 'fire-mouthed kettle' to cook for myself and refine private alchemy in the future."

The premise is that I can get enough alchemy recipes.

"It's time to simmer, come and eat." Shang Yunfang had finished her meal and said, "Master, let me watch for you for a while."

Chen Ku hummed. He had tried the fire-control ability of his fire-mouthed kettle before. He could control the flame up to three meters away. Even if he left the alchemy furnace, it would not affect his continued fire control.

Walked aside and opened the food box.

It's winter now, but there are still fresh vegetables in the meals of Yaowang Hall. His disciples' meals are of the same level as the meals of the master chef. Today's meals are a bowl of mushroom and mutton soup, a dish of stir-fried winter bamboo shoots... a total of six dishes and one soup, and a top-quality tangerine.

Just when Chen Ku was eating.

In the alchemy room next to him, Huo Xiaoxia's furnace of pills had already been produced.

"Not bad, four top-quality tranquilizing pills, two medium-quality pills, and four low-quality pills. The 40% rate of top-quality pills. Among all the disciples in your group, except for Kou Ming, the disciple of the chief shopkeeper, your talent for alchemy is the best." Master Nong Baosen of Baicaoyuan stood up and praised his apprentice generously.

A 40% success rate of pills is already an excellent level. You should know that even if he can be called a top-level alchemist in the hall now, when he refined this first-grade "tranquilizing pill" of internal energy, he only produced seven top-quality pills.

Kou Ming's talent is better than his disciple Huo Xiaoxia's. His best record is six top-grade pills. It is almost certain that the person who will be in charge of the alchemy room of Yaowang Hall in the future is Kou Ming.

"The talent of the elder brother in alchemy is really enviable." Huo Xiaoxia sighed.

Only after entering this industry did I know that the difficulty of increasing the success rate of an extra top-grade pill is almost the same as the bottleneck of the inner energy breaking through the mysterious gate.

"Okay, our alchemy practice is over today. I'll go and see the kid next door making pills."

Huo Xiaoxia raised her eyebrows slightly: "Master, don't you think that Junior Brother Chen can..."

"After all, Elder Shang has also made a request."

Nong Baosen stroked his beard and said:

"You have to give some face. I'll just pick some faults. When Elder Shang asks about it later, there is also a way to let him teach the disciples."

"Then, can I go and see it too?" Huo Xiaoxia asked curiously.

She is a girl and doesn't often show up in the hall. She is well protected. Until today, she has not seen what Junior Brother Chen Ku looks like?

"It's okay. It's a good opportunity to see the mistakes made by Chen Ku in refining the elixir, so that you can learn from them."

After Nong Baosen finished speaking, he took the female disciple out of the alchemy room, came to the outside of Chen Ku's alchemy room, and looked in from the window.

It happened to see Chen Ku eating and Shang Yunfang fanning the fire for him.

Nong Baosen's eyes showed a trace of displeasure.

It's not that he thinks it's against the will of heaven for the disciple to eat while the master is burning the fire, but he can see at a glance that the flame in front of Shang Yunfang's furnace is very stable at this time...

This is Shang Yunfang refining the elixir.

Not Chen Ku.

After Chen Ku took over, he might not be able to maintain such stable firepower.

Change people back and forth.

Firepower fluctuates.

It is very likely that this furnace pill will be useless.

"After all, Mr. Shang is not someone who has been immersed in alchemy. He wants to train disciples, so he can understand. However, a loving mother often fails, and it is destined to be impossible to teach an alchemist by burning the fire for his disciples."

Nong Baosen shook his head.

He decided that after it was over, he would also give Shang Yunfang some advice. How could he spoil his disciple like this?

Huo Xiaoxia also felt a little incredible.

But the two of them didn't know that Shang Yunfang, who was in front of the stove at this time, was actually very surprised.

Looking at the steady fire coming from under his fan.

It’s also incredible:

"Are my hands and fire so stable? When did you break through?"

Generally speaking, for apprentices in the training realm, the wind produced by a fan is already better than most blowers. The more advanced one is in cultivation, the greater the power of fanning fire, and the more difficult it is to control the temperature of the flame.

Even when Shang Yunfang was refining elixirs before, it was often difficult to control the heat.

What's more, he still has old injuries that haven't healed yet.

"Could it be that after I was injured, I got through some obstacles, allowing me to make invisible progress in this process of 'alchemy heat'?"

Shang Yunfang was suspicious.

He was speculating in his mind, and couldn't help but feel happy and excited.

If this is really the case,

This means that he can teach his disciples more things.

"Master, the disciple has finished eating. Let's change the disciple."

Chen Ku's voice sounded from behind, and the lunch box was already packed.

Shang Yunfang turned around and looked at the extremely stable flame in the stove. She couldn't help but worry that Chen Ku would take action and destroy the fire, and said: "You first..."

I originally wanted Chen Ku to wait, but then I thought it was best to let Chen Ku feel it.

Then he handed the fan over and said:

"Now the heat in the stove is very stable, just in line with the standard of simmering, no more, no less. When you fan, feel the temperature and make sure it is neither too high nor too low."

The firepower under the stove was controlled by Chen Ku invisibly, how could he not know it.

But there was an obedient smile on his face and he said, "Yes."

He took the fan, took the master's place, and slowly started fanning the stove.

When Chen Ku and Shang Yunfang changed places.

"Just watch, with this substitution, the atmosphere will change immediately."

Nong Baosen said to his disciple Huo Xiaoxia outside the window of the alchemy room. At the same time, he saw Chen Kun taking over the fan slowly and sneered:

"Slapping fire like this is frivolous. Sure enough, this kid doesn't take alchemy seriously at all."

In his mind, he could already analyze Chen Ku's character.

Probably because he felt that he was extremely talented in martial arts and was the best among the disciples of Yaowangtang's generation, so he didn't want to be distracted from doing other things.

It is estimated that Shang Yunfang and Shang Laoqiang asked him to do the alchemy, and he came here only as a last resort to deal with errands.

However,

Just when he was about to look away with an expressionless face.

Huo Xiaoxia exclaimed slightly: "Master, the firepower in the stove doesn't fluctuate? Keep it up!"

This exclamation sounded slightly louder.

Chen Ku was in the alchemy room, his ears moved slightly, and with his excellent hearing due to various changes, he could hear sounds even in the alchemy room with excellent sound insulation.

"Huh? There's someone outside."

The mind turns slightly:

"It should be the master who told me to come and watch my alchemist make alchemy."

But when his mind turned to these contents.

Shang Yunfang stood beside him, already extremely excited. She saw that when the fan in Chen Ku's hand was fanning, the heat did not fluctuate.

outside the window,

Nong Baosen looked in again, with a different look in his eyes.

coincide?

but,

Next, as time passes little by little.

But he saw that the fire in front of Chen Ku had been burning for half an hour at a simmer. The fire was as calm as a pool of lake water, with no fluctuation at all.

Nong Baosen gradually widened his eyes.

He got it.

"This...it turns out..."

His heart was racing and he realized he had made a big mistake.

When he came over just now and saw the two people changing seats for the first time, he subconsciously thought that the extremely stable firepower in the stove was controlled by Shang Yunfang...

But now that Chen Ku has taken over for half an hour, there are no problems.

He had a good understanding of Shang Yunfang's alchemy skills, but Shang Yunfang's grasp of the heat was definitely not that good.

The heat remained motionless for half an hour.

It is already comparable to his fire control when refining Seven Blood Pills.

So, the truth is...

He thought it was Shang Yunfang who had grasped the heat. In fact, it was Chen Ku's foundation from the beginning, and Shang Yunfang just temporarily took over the tea time.

indoor.

Shang Yunfang also gradually came back to his senses.

His eyes looked at Chen Ku with excitement and ecstasy.

It was actually Chen Ku's contribution.

Not only did he not feel depressed because it was not his own breakthrough in alchemy skills, but he was even more delighted.

And faintly discovered a terrible point in Chen Ku.

"So, the first time this kid was just a newcomer, he was completely confused about alchemy, so he suffered a big loss in the fire, but he only suffered a loss once, and he was able to completely correct it the second time. This talent of making up for mistakes and correcting them quickly... a genius, a real genius!"

Shang Yunfang understood, and then thought of Chen Ku's bloodline talent that could not fear fire two days ago:

"I understand, I understand everything. This child was born with a predestined relationship with fire. He just didn't realize it the first time, so he made a mistake, but as long as he realizes it, with his "fire veins", it will be a piece of cake to control the fire."

Shang Yunfang can't say that he guessed it wrong.

He was 70% to 80% right.

At least in terms of "controlling fire", his imagination was not wrong at all.

So,

When it comes to switching from "gentle fire" to "strong fire", it's really time for Chen Ku to perform.

I saw that,

Accompanied by Chen Ku's fire mouth pot ability, under the cover of the fanning action, the fire spirit in the furnace suddenly looked like a completely red sun, releasing powerful firepower!

The martial fire was rolling!

The whole alchemy room was like a red abyss!

Outdoors,

Nong Baosen and Huo Xiaoxia saw that the flame in the furnace gradually turned green.

And,

it continued to the state of blue flame.

"Furnace fire is pure blue!"

Huo Xiaoxia exclaimed.

Furnace fire is the highest level of martial fire. She can also fan it out with her strength, but she can never control it in this wonderful fire.

But,

Chen Ku at this time can actually control the furnace fire in the state of 'martial fire' and maintain the 'pure blue flame'.

Huo Xiaoxia secretly looked at the master at this time.

She subconsciously wanted to see what the master who looked down on others before would react after seeing this furnace fire.

She saw it.

Nong Baosen's eyes lit up completely.

The pure green flame in the window was reflected.

His eyes revealed his excitement about something in the room.

Huo Xiaoxia knew.

The master was definitely not excited because he saw the furnace, and it was even more impossible that he was excited because of Mr. Shang. Why was he excited...

The back of the young man in front of the furnace was reflected in her eyes.

The answer was very clear.

A person who was misjudged by his master, but was actually a natural alchemy saint.

"Brother Chen Ku... With this ability to control the temperature, I wonder how many pills he can make?"

Huo Xiaoxia secretly guessed in her heart:

"With this kind of temperature control, as long as the next skill is the same, there is no problem in making ten pills, but I don't know what the success rate of high-quality pills is? It's impossible that he can surpass me in the first time he refines pills? Is it a high-quality rate of more than five pills?"

Shang Yunfang was also looking forward to the results of Chen Ku's second alchemy.

At night, the cold wind was howling outside, and the room was as warm as the sun.

Outside the window, a group of masters and apprentices have not moved since they stood still.

Watching Chen Ku use the slow fire seven times and the high fire seven times, he was completely at ease and switched with ease, firmly controlling the temperature within the standard answer on the pill formula.

Another night passed like this.

It's time to open the furnace.

Ding!

When Chen Ku stepped forward to open the furnace cover, Shang Yunfang leaned down to take a look.

Shang Yunfang's surprise appeared on her face.

At this time.

Nong Baosen, who had been waiting outside the window for a night, couldn't help but push open the door and asked anxiously:

"What is the success rate of the pill? How many top-grade pills?"

Shang Yunfang had known that Nong Baosen was waiting outside. This was the person he had greeted in advance, but he didn't expect that this old friend would be so reckless...

I think it's probably because he was outside last night and saw everything about his good apprentice. He had been blown by the cold wind all night and was anxiously waiting for a result.

Shang Yunfang first glanced at the pills on the plate and tried to suppress her emotions. Even so, she still couldn't suppress her extremely proud emotions. She held the plate and handed it to Nong Baosen.

"Brother Nong, take a look yourself."