Chapter 0163: Mission Accomplished
Seeing the old man was anxious, Qin Chu nodded to Qianxun and followed the old man forward.
The old man took Qin Chu into an alchemy room, where there were seven alchemy furnaces, which were arranged in a row. At this time, two people were cleaning the alchemy furnaces. They were two medicine boys aged 13 or 14.
"I will refine the Qiqiao Linglong Pill next. After the furnace is opened, you can help me stabilize the alchemy fire of a furnace." The old man looked at Qin Chu and said.
Qin Chu nodded. He had learned about the Qiqiao Linglong Pill in the alchemy book. It was a sixth-level king-level pill. The refining process was very complicated. The effect was to open the meridians and strengthen the bones and muscles. The materials required were also very complicated. The general pills were one main ingredient and several auxiliary ingredients, while the Qiqiao Linglong Pill was seven main ingredients and several auxiliary ingredients, and they had to be refined separately. After the seven refined materials were combined together, they solidified into pills.
Qin Chu was a little puzzled. Why did this old man come to him for such an important matter? If he couldn't do it, he would be cheating others.
While sorting out the materials, the old man looked at Qin Chu, "You refine a furnace of elixirs first, let me see."
When Qin Chu was thinking, the old man was a little worried because Qin Chu was too young.
There were materials in the alchemy room. Qin Chu found a set of materials for the Bigu Pill and casually refined a furnace of Bigu Pill.
"The basic skills are okay. You should be careful later and help me take care of a pill furnace. If you succeed, I will reward you handsomely." The old man said to Qin Chu.
After the old man prepared the materials, he started to refine the pill. Seven pill furnaces started to fire at the same time, and then the materials were put into the pill furnace.
Qin Chu took over a pill furnace and maintained the pill fire under the pill furnace to the same level as the other six pill furnaces.
"Senior, there are many alchemists in the Alchemist Guild. Why don't you ask others for help?" Qin Chu asked about the puzzlement.
"My disciple went out for something temporarily. Every alchemist in the Alchemist Guild has his own things to do." The old man told Qin Chu the reason.
While Qin Chu maintained the flame, he watched the old man's alchemy technique. The old man who dared to refine the sixth-level king-level Qiqiao Linglong Dan must be an alchemist of the sixth-level king realm. Every alchemy technique and experience of a high-level alchemist is what other alchemists need to learn from and comprehend.
The old man threw the materials into the alchemy furnace one by one, and the materials turned into liquid medicine, which kept churning and condensing.
Two hours passed in a blink of an eye, and beads of sweat appeared on the old man's forehead. He was indeed a little tired to control six alchemy furnaces and consider the temperature of the liquid medicine.
After thinking for a while, Qin Chu waved his arm and took over another alchemy furnace. There was a flame from the Suzaku Holy Land in his dantian, which made him have a strong control over the flame. The consumption generated in these two hours was nothing to him, and he could still bear it.
The old man looked at Qin Chu in surprise, and then continued to refine the pill.
Qin Chu had no problem controlling and maintaining the flames of the two alchemy furnaces, and he still had the energy to observe the old man refining the pill.
Suddenly, the old man's face changed, "Is this going to fail again?"
"Senior, what's wrong with that furnace of medicine?" Qin Chu saw that the color of the medicine in the furnace on the far right was wrong.
"There's a problem with one of the auxiliary ingredients. The blue beard grass and the blue spirit grass were mixed up. They look exactly the same and smell exactly the same. You can't tell the difference unless you refine the medicine. I don't know who managed the materials and didn't sort them well. Damn it!" The old man cursed.
"Then senior, please add another furnace quickly." Qin Chu said.
"No, I don't have that much energy!" The old man sighed.
"Junior will help you guard another furnace." Qin Chu's vitality surged, and he took over another furnace.
After the old man looked at Qin Chu in surprise, he waved his robe sleeves and swept the furnace that had changed to the side. Then he took out a furnace from the storage ring, while maintaining the state of the three furnaces, he reopened the seventh furnace.
While speeding up the refining of the liquid medicine in the seventh furnace, the old man also reminded Qin Chu to keep the three furnaces he controlled in line with the rhythm of the three furnaces he controlled.
Qin Chu nodded. He could only do his best now. He could do whatever he could. Even if this furnace of elixir failed, the responsibility was not on him.
The old man accelerated the refining of the liquid medicine in the seventh furnace, constantly catching up with the gap with the other six furnaces.
Two hours later, the liquid medicine in the seven furnaces became the same rhythm.
"Young man, are you okay? You just need to watch the two furnaces." The old man looked at Qin Chu and said.
Looking at the sweat on the old man's forehead, Qin Chu shook his head, "Junior is okay!"
The liquid medicine nourished for half an hour, and the old man took over the seven furnaces. He combined the seven main ingredients that had been condensed to the limit in the seven furnaces and began the final stage of refining the elixir.
Qin Chu's task was completed. He had been maintaining the flames of the three alchemy furnaces, and the consumption was beyond his tolerance, which made him a little tired. So as soon as the task was completed, he sat aside, resting while watching the old man's final refining.
The final pill was not difficult for the old man. After a while, a pill full of halo came out of the furnace. The old man put it into the pill bottle and sat next to Qin Chu.
"Young man, what's your name?" The old man looked at Qin Chu and asked.
"My name is Qin Chu." Qin Chu said.
"You are not a third-level alchemist, right?" The old man asked.
"I am a fourth-level alchemist." Qin Chu did not hide it, because controlling the fire of three alchemy furnaces is not the ability of a third-level alchemist.
"I am Chu Shan, one of the elders of the Alchemist Guild. This time, I was entrusted to refine a Seven-Treasure Linglong Pill. Fortunately, I did not fail. Let's go, I will take you there. You have made an indispensable contribution to the refinement of this Seven-Treasure Linglong Pill!" Chu Shan said to Qin Chu.
"I will wash my face first." Qin Chu said with a smile. He had been in front of the alchemy furnace for most of the day, and there was a lot of sweat on his face.
After washing his face, Qin Chu followed Chu Shan out of the Alchemist Guild.
At the door of the Alchemist Guild, Qin Chu saw Qianxun.
Qianxun did not see Qin Chu come out, so she kept waiting.
"I will go out with the senior and return to the inn later. You don't have to wait for me." Qin Chu said to Qianxun. At this time, he had a deeper understanding of Qianxun.
Chu Shan led Qin Chu forward. When they arrived, Qin Chu was stunned for a moment, because it was an extremely luxurious mansion.
"This is the mansion of the city lord." Chu Shan said and led Qin Chu in. No one stopped him.
"Elder Chu is here." A middle-aged man in brocade robe appeared.
Chu Shan nodded to the man in brocade robe, and then handed the pill bottle to the man in brocade robe, "Fortunately, I have fulfilled my mission.".
"Come and serve the wine." The man in brocade robe shouted to the servants, and then welcomed Chu Shan into the lobby of the mansion.
Qin Chu knew that if nothing unexpected happened, this man in brocade robe was the city lord of Tianjian City.
After entering the lobby, the man in brocade robe looked at Qin Chu.