Translator: Silavin
[Oh, they are trying to make Compound Pills?] Qin Yichen’s eyebrow lifted, immediately intrigued, and he walked towards Ning Li and the others.
Fusing different medicinal properties into one. Alchemist everywhere were attempting this. The Sacred Lands were naturally no exception.
Qin Yichen vaguely recalled that back then, he had gained recognition within the Roaring Heaven Sacred Land precisely because of his Compound Pills.
Otherwise, with his qualifications, even if he had by fortune entered the Sacred Land, he would at most have been relegated to menial work.
His luck had indeed been excellent.
Because the Heavenly Unicorn Dynasty happened to produce Withered Frost Grass in abundance.
His conditions could be described as uniquely advantageous, which was why he had successfully developed the Compound Pills.
However, in his previous life, because he hadn’t understood the concept of concealing ones’ fortune, he had exposed the Heavenly Unicorn Dynasty, causing it to become a contested territory amongst various Forces. The Withered Frost Grass, due to scarcity, had also risen dramatically in value, reaching shocking prices.
In this life, he naturally wouldn’t commit such an elementary mistake.
Firstly, no one knew of the information that the Heavenly Unicorn Dynasty abundantly produced Withered Frost Grass. Moreover, Qin Yichen had already instructed Lu Heze to close off and blockade the territories producing Withered Frost Grass.
Withered Frost Grass actually existed throughout the continent in various places, but only in extremely small quantities.
Occasionally, it would grow in medicinal fields, only to be removed as a weed.
This was the current state of Withered Frost Grass.
“Why does this madman Ning Li believe that thing could fuse different medicinal properties together?”
“Pure fantasy, truly pure fantasy…”
“Having exploded his Pill Furnaces so many times, does Ning Li still refuse to give up?”
All around, there were sighs and mockery.
Ning Li was amongst the most gifted Outer Disciple Alchemists.
At this moment, those several Alchemists researching new medicine with him had originally been persuaded by Ning Li’s arguments, which was why they accompanied him in this research.
However, repeated failures had already caused them to lose confidence.
“Senior Brother Ning, forget it…”
One Alchemist who had a rather good relationship with Ning Li offered consolation.
Ning Li possessed excellent talent, but if he invested his time and energy into such matters, he might very well spend his entire life accomplishing nothing.
Within the Sacred Land, such examples were not lacking.
“Exactly which stage went wrong? Clearly the two types of medicinal properties had already begun fusing…”
Yet Ning Li turned a deaf ear to those words. His gaze remained fixed upon the residue within that shattered Pill Furnace, examining it meticulously. He picked up some charred medicinal dregs, lightly sniffing and carefully inhaling their scent.
“Hmm?” Qin Yichen walked over. Glancing at the materials arranged to one side, he discovered with surprise that amongst those spirit medicines, there were actually several stalks of Withered Frost Grass.
It turned out that while refining medicine, Ning Li had accidentally spilled some medicinal liquid. As a result, because upon the ground there happened to be a stalk of Withered Frost Grass, two medicinal liquids of different properties had unexpectedly fused together.
This was also why these several Alchemists would accompany Ning Li in researching new medicine.
However, they had attempted countless times yet could not replicate that miracle born from that accident.
With just a single glance, Qin Yichen understood clearly why they kept failing.
The reason still lay in the usage of Withered Frost Grass.
Firstly, there was too little Withered Frost Grass. This would cause the medicinal liquids that had already begun fusing to suddenly lose control, thereby triggering the furnace to explode.
This could not be blamed on Ning Li either.
Most likely, he had already collected all the Withered Frost Grass throughout the Sacred Land’s medicinal fields yet unfortunately obtained only several dozen stalks. Therefore, each time he refined medicine, he only used small amounts of Withered Frost Grass.
Furthermore, the timing of Withered Frost Grass usage was incorrect. Otherwise, even if the two medicinal properties could not fuse together, they should not have caused the Pill Furnace to explode.
There were many other details involved.
Watching Ning Li’s several companions who had somewhat lost confidence, Qin Yichen could not help feeling moved in his heart.
Actually, incidents of medicinal properties accidentally fusing together had certainly occurred more than once, but due to conditional limitations, ultimately they would all peter out.
Withered Frost Grass was the most important factor amongst them.
If at this moment someone provided Ning Li with unlimited Withered Frost Grass, someday he might succeed.
“Let’s try one more time, the last time. If it doesn’t work…” Ning Li stood up, addressing those several companions.
Those several people could not dissuade him and could only follow his wishes.
After all, they had already expended tremendous energy on this. Trying once more would at least fill the regret in their hearts.
Because Ning Li had already proven to them that different medicinal properties could fuse, the continuous failures were due to their own reasons.
Next, they once again located a new Pill Furnace. After some discussion, the several people began attempting once more.
Their expressions were all very solemn. Each time they added a type of spirit medicine, they refined it to the ultimate limit. Judging by those medicinal liquids’ purity, they were at minimum Level Seven, with some even reaching Level Eight.
From these medicinal liquids’ purity, one could observe how strong their talents were, how high their attainments.
Amongst them, Ning Li’s Spiritual Energy attainment had actually already stepped into the Understanding Realm. The others all had one foot in the Understanding Realm as well.
Yet their ages were still only in their twenties and thirties.
After approximately half an hour, they had refined all the prepared spirit medicines into medicinal liquid, with each person controlling several types to ensure absolute certainty.
“Hah…”
Next, Ning Li released a long breath, then picked up a stalk of Withered Frost Grass…
Then he seemed to hesitate momentarily. Looking at the three stalks of Withered Frost Grass remaining on the medicine rack, he gritted his teeth and took them all up.
In any case, this was already the final attempt. Saving them held no meaning whatsoever.
[He does have some spirit.] The corner of Qin Yichen’s mouth lifted in an arc as he stood to one side, continuing to observe.
Upon Ning Li and the others, he seemed to see the shadow of his former self.
When he had researched Compound Pills, hadn’t he also continually faced mockery and ridicule?!
Therefore, Qin Yichen wanted to help them.
The four stalks of Withered Frost Grass were cast into the Pill Furnace, beginning to slowly refine…
*Haa…* Seeing this scene, Qin Yichen couldn’t help sighing. Then he moved, walking towards Ning Li and the others. As he passed beside them, he feigned unsteadiness in his footing, staggering and colliding with one person, causing that person to stumble.
“No good!”
That person’s palm left the Pill Furnace. His expression immediately changed drastically.
Qin Yichen seized this opportunity to slap a palm upon the Pill Furnace. Taking advantage of their momentary distraction, he caused those several masses of medicinal liquid to collide together with the Withered Frost Grass liquid.
“How can you be so reckless…”
Just as the several of them were about to rebuke Qin Yichen, he pointed at the Pill Furnace, reminding them, “Senior Brothers, don’t lose focus. Be careful of a furnace explosion!”
Only then did they recall the actual matter at hand.
When they looked again towards the interior of the Pill Furnace, they discovered all the medicinal liquids had already mixed together…
“No good, it’s going to explode!” One person’s expression changed as he prepared to retreat.
Ning Li was also about to be pulled away. However, just as he was turning, he stopped.
Because although those medicinal liquids had mixed together without any pattern, no violent fluctuations were emanating from it.