Chapter 138: Five Elements Spirit Stone Alchemy Method

This was Xiao Fan's first time practicing Alchemy…

For him, from the moment he first read the ancient texts until now, barely a few months had passed.

Most importantly, Xiao Fan had never seen anyone else practice Alchemy.

Yet, he was attempting Alchemy for the very first time…

Usually, for an Alchemy apprentice, it would take at least several years before they could reach the point of practicing Alchemy with their own hands.

From the initial process of identifying Spiritual Plants and Spirit Medicine…

To later becoming familiar with fire control, understanding the temperature levels within the Pill Furnace, and finally observing a Senior practice Alchemy…

This was a complex and tedious series of knowledge, and one would typically not attempt to refine a First-Grade Medicinal Pill during their first Alchemy session.

Instead, they would refine the most ordinary, grade-less Medicinal Pills.

To become an Alchemist, talent was only one aspect; more importantly, it required resources…

Only by continuously consuming resources could a qualified Alchemist be cultivated!

Therefore, the saying that Alchemists are piled up with Spirit Stones is not an exaggeration at all.

At this moment… Xiao Fan was sweating profusely as he stared at the bronze alchemy furnace, which was smoking from the intense spirit fire, busily placing various Spiritual Plants and Spirit Medicine inside…

"I'm exhausted… Why is there still so much smoke?" Xiao Fan muttered to himself…

An hour had already passed, and this was the third batch of Medicinal Pill he was refining.

As for the previous two batches… The first batch was ruined directly because the timing for adding the medicinal ingredients was wrong…

The second batch was reduced to ash because the fire kept growing larger and larger, burning the ingredients inside…

"This won't do… Just using fire-attribute Top-Grade Spirit Stones makes the flames impossible to control…" Xiao Fan muttered, his face somewhat blackened from the smoke.

Simply using fire-attribute Spirit Stones could ignite the fire, and the flame temperature was perfectly sufficient.

However, he simply couldn't control the intensity of the fire… The flames kept growing, the temperature kept rising, and he had no way to master it…

"I've got it…" Suddenly, Xiao Fan's eyes lit up. He strode away and returned to the mountain-like pile of Top-Grade Spirit Stones.

He found quite a few blue and cyan Top-Grade Spirit Stones from within. The blue ones were water-attribute Top-Grade Spirit Stones. The cyan ones were wood-attribute Top-Grade Spirit Stones.

Xiao Fan brought both types of Spirit Stones to the side of the bronze alchemy furnace. At this moment, the flames were raging, and the temperature was constantly rising as the Spirit Stones inside emitted heat, causing the surrounding temperature to soar.

Xiao Fan took out a blue water-attribute Top-Grade Spirit Stone in his hand and began to inject spiritual energy into it…

Instantly, he felt a cool sensation in his palm… It was very clear and gentle. His palms, which had been painful from the burns, felt much better.

Feeling that enough spiritual energy had been injected, Xiao Fan's eyes brightened, and he tossed the blue water-attribute Spirit Stone into the raging flames.

"Sss-la!" With a loud sound, a massive plume of steam rose from the flames, and Xiao Fan abruptly took a few steps back.

At this moment, the flames burning below had indeed diminished significantly. Xiao Fan's face lit up with great joy.

"Hahaha… It really works. Water overcomes fire; I can just use the water element within to extinguish the flames…"

Xiao Fan looked excited; this meant he had mastered a way to control the fire…

"Water overcomes fire… I had ignited about five fire Spirit Stones earlier, and that one water Spirit Stone I just added extinguished about the equivalent of two fire Spirit Stones…"

Xiao Fan observed carefully. Everyone knows that the Five Elements counteract each other… However, the exact degree of this counteraction was a difficult balance to master.

For instance, right now, one water Spirit Stone could extinguish two fire Spirit Stones, but it couldn't extinguish any more than that…

Seeing that the flames had shrunk and the black smoke rising from the Pill Furnace had faded, Xiao Fan felt much better… This proved that he could continue with the Alchemy.

"Let's try adding some wood-attribute Spirit Stones to see what happens." Anyway, he had plenty of Spirit Stones, so even if he wasted them like this, Xiao Fan didn't feel any heartache.

Wood generates fire… Xiao Fan placed the cyan wood-attribute Spirit Stone in his palm and injected spiritual energy…

A rich and vigorous vitality surged from his hand. This feeling was very strange and indescribable; he simply felt his body becoming lighter, as if he were becoming younger.

At the same time, the Enlightenment Seed within him, perhaps because of the cyan wood-attribute Spirit Stone, trembled slightly inside Xiao Fan…

"Hmm?" Xiao Fan was stunned, because he felt that the Enlightenment Seed inside him seemed to really like the wood-attribute Spirit Stone, so he injected spiritual energy into the Spirit Stone from his palm…

Meanwhile, his own Dantian began to actively absorb the wood element from the Spirit Stone in his hand… The wood element, like cyan light, flowed endlessly into Xiao Fan's body.

These wood elements absorbed into his body went directly into Xiao Fan's Dantian, turning into specks of cyan light that floated above the Enlightenment Seed seedling. Bit by bit, they dissipated and were absorbed.

This seedling seemed very happy… Xiao Fan sensed a trace of its emotion and looked inward at his Dantian. He discovered that the few green leaves on the seedling seemed even greener…

Xiao Fan was not stingy; anyway, he had plenty of Top-Grade Spirit Stones, and even if they were absorbed extremely quickly, he didn't care.

This time, Xiao Fan was not in a hurry to practice Alchemy; in comparison, he was more curious about what this Enlightenment Seed would become.

Time passed minute by minute… Half a quarter of an hour later, the cyan Top-Grade Spirit Stone in Xiao Fan's hand gradually lost its luster, and the wood element within was completely exhausted.

Just at this moment, the Enlightenment Seed within him gradually stopped absorbing… It trembled gently inside his Dantian… It seemed like it had burped from being full.

The Enlightenment Seed stopped absorbing, and the wood element no longer flowed into Xiao Fan's body.

Xiao Fan was suspicious and picked up another wood-attribute Spirit Stone, but this time, the Enlightenment Seed inside him showed no reaction.

"I suppose it's full…" Xiao Fan muttered, finding this little fellow inside him quite interesting.