Chapter 7 failed...

  "Is this the powder you just refined?"

  "Old Fu."

  Ling Xiao looked up to see the newcomer, and was shocked to find that it was actually Fuling Elder. He quickly got up, first respectfully greeting him, then carefully said: "Yes, yes, it's a disciple who has just refined it."

  But then Fuling Elder stretched out his hand and pinched a small amount of the refined Peiyuan grass powder he had just extracted, concentrating carefully to examine it.

  Xiao Cong stood respectfully to the side, perhaps due to the higher temperature in the room, he stood in front of Fu Ling's body, and between his breaths, he faintly smelled a light, delicate fragrance, and couldn't help but feel his heart beat slightly faster.

  She raised her eyes and stole a glance at Fuling's face, which was as white as jade and flawless, and suddenly felt an inexplicable palpitation in her heart.

  Feng Ling is just like the proud daughter of heaven, and in the Qi Yun Sect, there are not a few people who admire her. However, Feng Ling has always been determined to live forever, and she doesn't put on a false face for anyone, let alone others...

  "Purity is still okay, but the success rate is too low!"

  Ling Xiao was in a state of distraction, when he suddenly heard Fu Ling's rebuke. He hastily collected his thoughts and carefully replied: "Disciple... disciple is still somewhat inexperienced, so it's easy to fail..."

  Feng Ling nodded and didn't blame him too much, saying: "You try refining the pill, let me see how it goes!"

  Ling Xiao hastily responded, sat down cross-legged, and activated the terrestrial fire in the array on the ground. The flames blazed and spouted on all four sides of the furnace. A series of incantations shot out from his hands. Suddenly, various hand seals floated in mid-air, connected together to form a long river-like scarlet stream that rolled out with a loud whoosh and plunged straight into the furnace.

  This mantra is called the Huo Yun Mantra, which is the basic alchemy mantra passed down within the Qi Yun Sect. If not for this mantra to protect and hold the materials in place, I'm afraid that at the moment of entering the furnace, they would be directly incinerated by the scorching high temperatures inside!

  When the fire in the furnace is slightly sufficient, take over the materials that have just been purified, pinch the method, and want to send them into the furnace.

  But at this moment, he suddenly felt that the strange flame that had been quietly staying in his dantian suddenly jumped up inexplicably and surged into the meridians, as if it wanted to rush out!

  This is right under the eyes of the public and in broad daylight!

  Ling Xiao was greatly startled at the time, and hastily diverted more than half of his true energy to block the meridians, carefully forcing the flames back into his dantian. Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough, and the accident only occurred within his dantian, so outsiders couldn't see any flaws.

  But he wasn't very familiar with the alchemy techniques to begin with, and now that his attention was divided, the hand seals he was making became disordered. The purified powders were also hastily thrown into the furnace by him...

  Fuling, who was watching from the side, couldn't help but frown slightly. Ling Xiao's movements were not wrong, but they were too rough!

  The formula is stiff and awkward, several times almost made a mistake, and so on. Like this, putting all the materials in at once without adjusting the fire first, it's easy for him to fail in alchemy as a beginner!

  I didn't expect him to be so irritable.

  Refining the elixir requires patience and gentle heat adjustment. Otherwise, how can the success rate possibly increase? This outer sect disciple's temperament is too restless and unstable! It seems that refining pure materials was just a temporary stroke of luck.

  Her impression of Ling Xiao was not very good.

  But as for Ling Xiao, it wasn't until all the materials had been added to the furnace and the strange flame in his dantian had calmed down that he let out a breath. However, his heart was still unable to calm down, and he couldn't help but secretly speculate about what had just happened.

  I have a hunch that it's related to those materials and the strange flame's ability to purify materials!

  Earlier, he deliberately took out some materials that had been refined using conventional methods to cover up. The purity of these materials is much lower than those obtained by flame refining! Probably only around 54% or 55%, with many impurities that were not purified inside!

  Normally, holding it in hand wouldn't cause anything to happen. But just now I was preparing to refine the elixir, with my hands grasping the incantation, and true energy infusing... It seems that's why the true energy served as a bridge between these materials and that strange flame, instantly making the flame come alive...

  Even with this understanding, there are still many doubts in my heart.

  What is this flame? Why does it "like" to purify spiritual medicine that isn't pure enough?

  With a mind full of doubts and suspicions, yet not daring to reveal even the slightest crack on the surface. His hands continuously changed finger seals, conjuring up rivers of crimson true yuan in the void, rushing and flowing into the furnace, subtly manipulating the flames.

  Huoyun Jue, although it is only a kind of introductory alchemy method, also has more than ten basic fire control methods and thirty basic dan control methods. And the combination and variation of these methods can produce countless changes!

  This is also one of the most difficult places in alchemy.

  The incantation was complex and had many variations to begin with, and Ling Xiao wasn't very familiar with it either. With a guilty conscience, he made mistake after mistake.

  Wang Fu Ling shook his head directly at Ling Xiao, already very disappointed. How could he possibly refine the elixir like this?

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, after just over a dozen breaths, Ling Xiao's pace slowed down slightly, and the earth fire that burst out of the formation suddenly surged up high, with fierce flames almost pouring into the furnace mouth!

  Boom!

  A dull noise came, and the furnace suddenly shook violently. Both of them were clear that Ling Xiao's elixir refinement had failed.

  Ling Xiao slowly raised his head to look at Fu Ling, but saw that the latter's face was expressionless, and only faintly said: "Alchemist, you must calm down, you're too impatient."

  "Yes." Ling Xiao hastily stood up and responded respectfully. Fu Ling had already turned around and was walking in another direction.

  Ling Xiao waited until she was far away before wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, secretly worried that this time, Fuling Elder's impression of him would likely worsen significantly.

  But this is also an unavoidable thing.

  Collect your thoughts and sit back down. Bring over the failed elixir, I originally wanted to throw it away, but my heart couldn't help but stir for a moment. Generally speaking, when an elixir's concoction fails, its medicinal properties become disordered, rendering it completely useless. Consuming a failed elixir not only has no benefits, but also carries the possibility of lethal toxicity!

  That is to say, Fei Dan was abandoned as well.

  If it were in the past, Ling Xiao would have only dealt with it like this. But because of the unexpected change just now, he had a different idea! The strange flame in his body could re-refine materials that weren't pure enough, so what about the failed elixirs?

  The elixir of refining waste, with its complex spiritual medicine materials, isn't it equivalent to many "impurities" mixed together?

  The more Ling Xiao thought about it, the more he felt it was right.

  When no one noticed, he carefully placed his hand on the furnace, and the true energy rotated. A warm feeling suddenly emerged from the dantian, along the meridians in the body, and sprayed outwards. From the left palm, it drilled into the furnace.

  "Hiss!"

  A pale blue flame transformed into a small bird-like cyan flame, with flames swirling around its body, flapping its wings and seemingly joyfully rushing towards the discarded elixir.

  With a sharp tongue, the entire pellet of waste dan was rolled into his mouth. He raised his head and swallowed it down to his abdomen, where countless flames burst forth and surrounded it. The pellet of waste dan was instantly engulfed in raging flames, slowly dissolving and fading away...

  Before long, the lump of waste elixir split into over a dozen clumps of powder, which were successively expelled from the tail of the Azure Flame Sparrow and enveloped by pale blue flames, floating in mid-air within the furnace.

  Yuanyuan Jade Stone, Tongling Branch, Peiyuan Grass...

  All the main and auxiliary medicines of Peiyuan Dan were burned down without any difference, and they all turned into pure powder! The pure powder can naturally continue to refine the elixir.

  Although she had a vague premonition before, Ling Xiao still felt that her throat was a bit dry.

  Doesn't this mean that even if one's innate talent for alchemy is poor, and they fail many times, as long as they have a set of materials, they can constantly smelt and refine, repeatedly practicing alchemy... until success! Others who want to successfully create a single elixir pill need at least five sets, six sets, or even ten sets, dozens of sets of materials!

  But for myself, just one pair is enough!

  Even if he was mature and stable, at this moment, he couldn't help but have his hands slightly trembling. The originally dim path of cultivating immortality seemed to suddenly gain a bright and direct road leading straight to the True Immortal Realm!

  It took four or five years of hard work to reach the perfect state of Qi cultivation, but from now on, I won't be so slow! With this strange flame by my side, it means that I can get a huge return with a very small price.

  He quickly forced himself to calm down. Ling Xiao carefully thought that the strange flame was essentially pure and reduced.

  It can't create something out of nothing and produce elixirs out of thin air.

  The elixir of waste, where all the materials are not reduced by a single thread. This strange flame is to take these waste materials and refine them one by one, restore them, and re-burn them back into pure raw materials.

  But this is already an extremely heaven-defying divine technique!

  Ling Xiao let out a long sigh, his heart still turbulent and unable to calm down. He was originally just an ordinary outer disciple of the Qi Yun Sect! If not for the unexpected turn of events, he would probably have spent his days repeating the same routine year after year, gathering herbs, accumulating contribution points for the sect, struggling and cultivating.

  If nothing unexpected happens, the achievements of this life will probably end up as a Qi Refining stage disciple. If it's better, maybe I can enter the sixth layer of Qi Refining and get the qualification to enter the inner door. And if it's worse? Maybe for a lifetime, I'll just be an outer door disciple.

  Sometimes he is also confused, why did he enter the immortal sect?

  Seeking eternal life?

  But how could an outer sect disciple like him possibly have a chance at longevity? Every day, every month, every year, risking his life to venture into the deep valleys to pick spiritual herbs, just to obtain that pitiful amount of cultivation resources?

  What's the use of this? What hope is there?

  So, witnessing Pang Shan's actions, he couldn't help but sigh. After all, for outer sect disciples like them, the path to immortality was just too difficult.

  Fortunately, now, the road he wants to walk, his situation, will undergo a complete change. He intuitively felt that he would rely on this strange flame to embark on a completely different path of cultivation!

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