He looked at the Space Ring given by Lorenz. It had a twenty cubic meter space for storage. Austin
thought of giving this to either Evan or Herbert.
After he organized the Space Ring, Austin took a book out of the drawer. It was the book of Elixir
Foundation.
This was the book that Mindy gave him at the Valley Town. It was a copy of the ancient book about
alchemy given by the head of the Zhang clan. He repaid this book for all the help that Austin gave
them. If without Austin, they might not survive what they have been through.
Austin heard of the mysterious power of alchemy. When he got the book, he thought that he would
study it after the competition he was in. Since the Top Ten Outer Disciples Ranking Challenge was
over, he was now ready to begin reading the book.
As of now, he had to stay in the Peace Town for days. He kept on waiting for the shopkeeper to prepare
the elixirs he would use for cultivating Overlord Body-refining Formula.
Thus, Austin intended to use his spare time to study the alchemy and saw if he had the potential in this
area.
Pill refiner was an honorable and respectable profession. If he would be like one in the future, he would
be able to use the elixirs he refined for his own cultivation.
So he opened the book and started reading it.
Austin was surprised when he read the table of contents. He found out that the original book was
written by an ancient pill refiner more than a thousand years ago. By a lucky coincidence, this ancient
book was discovered by the Zhang Clan of the Valley Town.
The Elixir Foundation stated that there were several cultivation phases in mastering alchemy.
First of all, learn to recognize the nature and taste of medicinal materials. There were thousands of
medicinal materials in the world that could be refined into elixirs. So Austin needed to study each one
of them.
According to their attributes, all the medicinal materials could be divided into four properties and five
flavors. The four properties included cold, hot, warm and cool.
The five flavors were pungent, sweet, sour, bitter and salty. But there were actually more than five kinds
of flavors such as mild or astringent. However, these five flavors were the basic ones and the most
common among them.
The essential skill of alchemy was to identify each medicinal material by its name, property, and flavor.
If one could not tell the difference, refinement of elixir would not be possible.
On the second phase, one could make fire for refining elixirs. But instead of using common combustion
materials, a pill refiner should turn his own vital energy into a fire through a special skill. Therefore, it
was called the fire of vital energy.
The strength of the transformed fire depended on the level of the pill refiner's vital energy. Plus, the
refining would be more efficient as well.
The first two steps were the foundation of alchemy. The pill refining process proceeded on the basis.
In the refining process, a pill refiner should pay attention to the arrangement of the medicinal and
quality matching of materials. One should also be mindful of the control of refining temperature and
time.
After Austin took a rough look at the introduction in the book, he learned that alchemy was a very
difficult subject. It seemed that if he wanted to pursue studying this, he must put hard work and a lot of
time. . . .
But Austin was not the type of man who gave up so easy. He was raised not to be a quitter. He wouldn't
stop learning alchemy just because it was difficult.
Few days had passed, Austin kept on studying the book of Elixir Foundation and the Golden Sun
Scripture. He tried to keep all kinds of medicinal materials in mind. Then he found a skill called Kindling
Formula which turns one's vital energy into fire.
Since the Elixir Foundation was only an introductory book of alchemy, the species of herbs and other
materials recorded were incomplete. There were only about five hundred kinds of medicinal materials
commonly used in alchemy were recorded.
But Austin still took four whole days to memorize all the medicinal materials, including their names,
properties and flavors. He found that his memory became better because of his spiritual sense. It
helped him to remember things faster and advanced.
After he conducted a lot of trials, Austin finally got the idea of the Kindling Formula. He rejoiced as he
thought of being successful.
He sat with his legs crossed, his right hand was outstretched with his palm flatly opened. Then Austin
transmitted his light golden vital energy into his palm, controlled it using his mind and gradually formed
it into a ball.
Austin sensed the air around his palm was gradually increasing its temperature.
What he learned from failures was the key to success was always good concentration. If you want to
succeed, you should do your work without any distraction.
The massive vital energy gathered on his palm was getting contracted but dense. Austin softly
screamed as he exerted all his strength to draw out the vital energy from his elixir field. He quickly
channeled it to his palm, and gave it a strong pressure.
The ball made of vital energy suddenly bounced out. It was very strong and looked powerful.
Austin's hands trembled as they got heavy. But he bit his lip and persisted. The light golden ball in his
elixir field emitted its strongest force and kept on pressing toward the vital energy ball.
After a while, a low crackling sound was heard when the vital energy ball shrank into a size of a rice
grain.
Then a golden flame was formed in his palm. The fire was blazing hot, dancing on his hand.
With its high temperature, the room suddenly turned hot.
The whole area was getting hotter as the flame continued to fire up.
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