Unrivaled Medicine God c1-1444
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“I asked you to be my assistant, not be a lord. What are you sitting there for? Hurry up and come prepare the herbs,” Feng Ruoqing said coldly.
“O-oh. Coming, coming.”
Ye Yuan staggered up to the operating stage. There were all sorts of medicinal herbs placed on it. He took a look at the herbs and asked curiously, “Aren’t you going to refine a Tier 2 Qi Returning Pill? Why all the ingredients you prepared are Tier 1?”
Feng Ruoqing flushed slightly and immediately replied angrily, “I asked you to prepare the medicines, so just do it. Why are you asking so many questions?!”
Looking at the situation, Ye Yuan instantly understood that this woman had yet to master the Yin-Yang Separation Flow Technique. She was using these Tier 1 medicines to practice.
However, this Yin-Yang Separation Flow Technique was not something that could be mastered in one or two days. How long would he have to accompany her to train with these Tier 1 medicines for practice?
His time was highly precious, and he did not have the time to accompany this woman to refine pills!
Ye Yuan sighed and just turned around to prepare the medicines.
Feng Ruoqing turned around and entered the quiet chamber to meditate and trying to adjust her mental state.
Pill refinement was a highly complicated form of knowledge. One must not be distracted even in the slightest when refining pills. It must be finished in one go.
Even the smallest disturbance could affect the quality of the medicinal pill, possibly even resulting in a useless pill.
Hence, the majority of alchemists would choose to meditate before refining pills. They would only start refining after they adjusted their mental state to be unperturbed by anything.
But Feng Ruoqing had just adjusted herself and was yet to fully enter a meditative state when there was a knocking on the quiet chamber’s door.
This time, Feng Ruoqing really got angry. Dropping the fact that Ye Yuan repeatedly hid from her despite that being her assistant was a wonderful task that every man in the academy would fight to do, now that he was helping out as her assistant, he was causing trouble instead of properly performing his tasks!
If there was no justified reason, she would definitely beat him up brutally, and then hang him for three days to warn the public.
The door creaked open, revealing the raging Feng Ruoqing.
“Haha. I didn’t expect Teacher Feng to open the door so hastily. It made me jump.” Ye Yuan gave a startled expression.
Ignoring Ye Yuan, Feng Ruoqing raised her right palm. Traces of essence energy flowed along the palm as if it would strike any moment.
“I asked you to prepare the herbs! What are you doing?! Don’t you know that I’m meditating?! If your reason isn’t justified, be ready to receive this palm!” Feng Ruoqing snarled.
“Don’t! Teacher Feng, if you said you had violent tendencies, then I wouldn’t have become your assistant even if I had to copy the ‘Herbal Compendium’ a hundred times back then! The herbs are all prepared already. I even finished refining two sets of medicinal essences before coming over to call you. I didn’t think that you would take so long to meditate!” Ye Yuan jumped far away with a shout.
“What? The medicinal essences are all refined?”
Feng Ruoqing could not immediately process his words. It had only been about 15 minutes since she entered the quiet chamber. Not only did Ye Yuan finish preparing so many herbs, but he also managed to refine the medicinal essence?
How was that possible?
“That’s right. This reason is passable, right? I don’t want to be smacked to death,” Ye Yuan said gloomily.
Putting down her hand, Feng Ruoqing gave a cold humph and said, “If I find out that you are talking nonsense, then it wouldn’t be as simple as a single palm.”
After saying this, Feng Ruoqing walked over to the operating stage and was immediately stunned.
Two sets of medicinal essences quietly sat in their jade containers. The color was extremely pure. It was clear that they were excellently refined with all the useless medicinal dregs purged away.
Feng Ruoqing looked at Ye Yuan and opened her mouth, but no words came out of it.
“Teacher Feng, do you want to say something? Aren’t you going to smack me to death? At most, I will call you later next time. How long do you normally take to meditate?” Ye Yuan asked innocently.
“. . . . . .”
Feng Ruoqing was speechless.
After a while, Feng Ruoqing finally sucked in a deep breath and asked Ye Yuan, “This is the medicinal essence you refined?”
Ye Yuan looked around and asked curiously, “Are there other people in here?”
“B-but how did you do it so quickly?”
An ordinary Alchemy Apprentice would spend an hour just to prepare the herbs. In addition to refining the medicine essence, it would take at least two hours!
Preparing the herbs was not merely just pairing it together. One needed to accurately weigh out the quantity. Even the tiniest bit of error would not be tolerated.
Hence, an alchemist’s assistant would always be very cautious when preparing the herbs. As a result, a lot of time was spent on it.
Even Feng Ruoqing herself needed over an hour to refine a Tier 1 pill’s medicinal essence.
But Ye Yuan only used 15 minutes. This was just unheard of!
“Isn’t it just refining a Tier 1 pill’s medicinal essence? Why do you need to spend so long on such a simple task?” Ye Yuan nonchalantly questioned her.
Chapter 50
Translator: celefoata_ Editor: RegiusProfessor
If it was about martial arts, Ye Yuan might be more humble. But as for alchemy, Ye Yuan really did not know how to be modest.
It could be said that Ye Yuan spent his entire past life busying with alchemy. He was simply too familiar with medicinal herbs and pills.
This sort of familiarity was engraved into the soul. Even if he changed his body, that sort of familiar feeling which came from the soul would automatically make the body carry out the most appropriate actions.
Originally, Ye Yuan wanted to be low-key. But once he touched those medicinal herbs, he could not help but to complete the preparation of herbs and refine the medicinal essence.
Others might be filled with trepidation towards measuring the quantity of the medicinal herbs and did not dare to carelessly leave out anything. But Ye Yuan just had to casually grab them with his hands, and the quantity of the herbs would definitely be accurate.
This was the ability developed through million and million times of practice. Nobody could imitate that.
Feng Ruoqing stared blankly at Ye Yuan and did not know what to say.
Refining a Tier 1 medicinal pill was . . . simple?
“D-do as you like. I-I’m going to the quiet chamber to meditate!”
After saying that, Feng Ruoqing turned around, and entered the quiet chamber once more.
This round of meditation was four hours; it was much longer than initially planned.
Feng Ruoqing’s mental state was a mess and was not able to enter a meditative state for a long time. She only managed to purge her distracting thoughts after two hours, and then she entered the empty state.
After exiting the quiet chamber, Feng Ruoqing recovered her haughty and cold attitude once again. Walking in front of the Red Lotus Cauldron, she instructed emotionlessly, “Bring the medicinal essence over. Fire up the cauldron. Refine!”
Ye Yuan did not waste these four hours either. He was training while meditating the whole time.
In comparison with his past life, the current Ye Yuan was much more diligent.
The Ye Yuan who managed to become an Alchemy Emperor before understood that there were no shortcuts to cultivation. No matter how talented one was, there was only hard work and more hard work.
Hearing Feng Ruoqing’s instructions, Ye Yuan passed the two jade containers with the medicinal essences in them over to her and prepared to fire up the cauldron.
Feng Ruoqing looked over at Ye Yuan in surprise. Initially, she was prepared to open her mouth to instruct Ye Yuan on what to do. But who would have thought that Ye Yuan would perform what an assistant should do with such familiarity.
The Dan Wu Academy’s pill refinement chambers were established on top of an Earth Vein. Earth fire was guided over to refine pills.
This sort of pill refinement style was only suitable for low tiers. High tier pills must use heaven and earth flame sources. But Ye Yuan was not a stranger to this style of refinement.
Opening the fire valve, the scorching earth fire burst out from the ground, instantly raising the temperature in the pill refinement chamber.
Although earth fire could not be compared to heaven and earth flame sources, it was extraordinary among the mortal fires. It was more than sufficient to refine a Tier 1 medicinal pill.
Ye Yuan rapidly formed seals with both hands and slowly moved towards the fire. The fire immediately became like an obedient baby while still being incomparably docile. 1
Following which, Ye Yuan spread his hands apart and cried out, “Stabilize!”
The earth fire automatically separated into two and scorched the two sides of the Red Lotus Cauldron uniformly.
Looking at this scene, a trace of surprise flashed across Feng Ruoqing’s eyes once again.
She had never heard of this kind of fire controlling skill!
Earth fire was abnormally wild. It could only be used after layers upon layers of array formations were placed on top of the academy.
Even so, this fire was not something that an average Fourth Level Essence Qi Realm could easily control.
But this fire was just like a house pet in front of Ye Yuan. If he asked it to lay down, it would not dare to stand.
However, the refinement procedure had already begun. Feng Ruoqing could not afford to be surprised and hastily recollected herself.
Feng Ruoqing formed hand seals with one hand and pointed a finger towards the Red Lotus Cauldron. The cauldron lid flew up by itself.
Following that, she gestured with her other hand, and the two medicinal essences flew through the air into the pill furnace.
“Yin-Yang Separation Flow Technique! Activate!”
With a low cry, Feng Ruoqing’s two jade-like hands moved like phantom images.
Right now, it was no longer Ye Yuan’s business. He took it easy as he watched Feng Ruoqing repeatedly change seals continuously to temper the medicinal essence. Watching this, he could not refrain from nodding his head.
This woman more or less had some standards. It looked like she spent no little effort on the Yin-Yang Separation Flow Technique.
But she had yet to fully master the Yin-Yang Separation Flow Technique, so it appears executing it was a little forced. It seems like this furnace of medicinal pills was going to be wasted.
The Yin-Yang Separation Flow Technique was not so easy to master. During the refining process, the alchemist had to do two things at once. One hand had to perform Yang-attribute seals, while the other hand had to execute Yin-attribute seals. Furthermore, it had to be carried out simultaneously with no room for any error.
Any mistake during the process would result in the furnace of medicinal pills to be wasted.
This was an extremely challenging test towards the alchemist’s mental strength, soul strength, and familiarity with the seals.
In the beginning, Feng Ruoqing did quite well. But around the mid-stage of the refinement, it was clear that her strength was failing. Small beads of sweat started appearing on her forehead, and she looked like straining herself.
Puff!
A black cloud appeared.
The pills were ruined . . .
Feng Ruoqing stomped her feet angrily and shouted at Ye Yuan, “Again!”
Ye Yuan looked at Feng Ruoqing but did not say anything and immediately went to prepare the herbs.
This time around, Feng Ruoqing finally saw how Ye Yuan prepared the herbs, and she was left utterly speechless.
Ye Yuan grabbed at this herb and grabbed again at another herb. After that, he threw them into a jade container and started mashing them; appearing highly irresponsible.
However, Feng Ruoqing was unable to open her mouth to scold him. That was because she knew that the medicine essence Ye Yuan refined, regardless of quality or precision, was much better than her doing it.
Just how in the world did this guy do it? Could it be that his hands were measurement tools? How did he know exactly how much was required?
The way Ye Yuan prepared the herbs was really too casual . . .
Seeing Feng Ruoqing’s expression, Ye Yuan gave a dry cough and laughed awkwardly. “This . . . came from family teachings. You are also aware that my father is an Alchemy Grandmaster. I was forced since young. Haha . . . Haha.”
Feng Ruoqing glared fiercely at Ye Yuan. Believe my foot!
But she also knew that Ye Yuan would not tell her the truth, so it was pointless to ask.
After 15 minutes, Ye Yuan finished refining the medicinal essence once more.
Feng Ruoqing swallowed a Tier 2 Qi Returning Pill. After meditating for a while, her essence energy had more or less recovered.
Looking at this, Ye Yuan was secretly dumbstruck. Just what was this Feng Ruoqing’s background?
A Tier 2 Qi Returning Pill naturally was not much in Ye Yuan’s eyes. But it was not something common in the State of Qin. The price was very high.
Feng Ruoqing casually took one out to eat and did not even blinked.
Also, that Red Lotus Cauldron, it was absolutely a high-grade medicine cauldron in the State of Qin. Ordinary people simply could not get a hold of it.
It seemed like this Teacher Feng had a very powerful backing!
The result of the second try of the Yin-Yang Separation Flow Technique was inevitably another failure.
Following this, the third time, and then the fourth time. Not even once did it succeed.
The medicinal essence would basically turn into a black cloud of smoke when refining at the latter stages, becoming ruined.
Feng Ruoqing became increasingly depressed, and she actually knew that the reason why she could last only up to the latter stages was due to the medicinal essence Ye Yuan refined, as well as his control over the fire. Otherwise, she might not even have lasted to the late stages!
Just how in the world do I master this damn Yin-Yang Separation Flow Technique?!
“Again!” Even though there were Tier 2 Qi Returning Pills to recover essence energy, in reality, Feng Ruoqing already could not hold on much longer from such an intense day of refining.
Ye Yuan looked at Feng Ruoqing again and felt a little conflicted in his heart.
“What are you looking at?! Go prepare the herbs!” Feng Ruoqing barked irately.
Ye Yuan did not go to prepare the herbs but sighed instead. He walked to the table and grabbed a piece of paper and two brushes.
Feng Ruoqing was curious about what Ye Yuan took the brush and paper for, so she went toward him.
It was only to see Ye Yuan holding one brush each with his left and right hand, then he simultaneously drew two shapes on the paper. His left hand drew a circle, while his right hand drew a square.
“Don’t train anymore. This way of training won’t work. We will see again after you master this.”
After he finished, Ye Yuan passed the two brushes over to Feng Ruoqing.
Chapter 51
Translator: celefoata_ Editor: RegiusProfessor
“Train? What’s the point of this training?” Feng Ruoqing asked blankly.
Ye Yuan shrugged his shoulders and said, “Up to you whether you want to train or not. If you keep on training the Yin-Yang Separation Flow Technique like you did just now, then you might as well find a way to directly increase your soul strength. It isn’t so easy to jump ranks to battle.”
“Tch. What’s so hard about this? I will draw right now for you to see!” Feng Ruoqing refused to concede.
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Saying that she pushed Ye Yuan aside and also drew on the paper.
But as she drew, the right hand became a circle. Furthermore, an uneven circle.
“I don’t believe this!”
Feng Ruoqing drew again. She concentrated on making her right hand’s drawing into a square. The result was that the right hand drew a square, and the left hand also drew a square!
After a few more times, Feng Ruoqing was thoroughly defeated.
“Why is this so hard?! Not drawing anymore!”
Feng Ruoqing threw the brush aside in a fit like a little girl throwing a tantrum. Where was the proud and cold female teacher?
“It’s because it is difficult; that’s why I asked you to draw it. Train well. After you master this, you shouldn’t be far from crossing the entry threshold of the Yin-Yang Separation Flow Technique. Alright. I’ve already taught you the secret. I don’t need to be your assistant for the next few days anymore, right? I’m leaving.”
“Halt! Do you think that you can hoodwink me by coming up with this crap? If you dare to walk out today, I will make the dean expel you! If you don’t believe me, just try!” Feng Ruoqing was livid.
Ye Yuan came up with some dubious thing and said that it would help in mastering the Yin-Yang Separation Flow Technique. Was it not insulting her intelligence?
“Aunt, who are you arguing with?” At this moment, a girl dressed in white martial outfit pushed the door open and entered.
This person was similarly a stunning beauty, with watery almond-shaped eyes like a crescent moon, and a slender waist that looked like it had no bones. Silky hair flowed down her shoulders; she wore white colored martial clothing while carrying a sword, giving off a heroic spirit.
Looking closely, this girl and Feng Ruoqing’s eyebrows had some similarity. No wonder she called out ‘Aunt.’
It was just that the age difference between this aunt and niece pair was too small. They looked just like sisters instead.
Ye Yuan had never seen this girl before, but he quickly figured out who this white-clothed girl was.