Eternal Life Starts from Tai Chi

Chapter 403: Chapter 403: Refining the 5-Revolution Nourishing Organ Pill, Chemical Reaction

Earth Fire Institute.

"The refining process for the Five Revolutions Nourishing Organ Pill is more complex. The main ingredients are all Superior Spirit Medicines, and it even includes a Top Level Spirit Medicine like the Cyan Glass Hundred Spirits Grass. Since the required alchemy materials are much harder to find, we don’t refine it in large batches."

"When you’re first learning, you should start by refining just enough for a single elixir. The pill formula also clearly states the required proportions of the alchemy materials."

"The proportions for various batches are all recorded. Once you become proficient, you can increase the amount."

Princess Lan Yue selected the necessary ingredients from the alchemy materials Yang Chan had prepared.

"My own pill formation success rate isn’t very high right now, so I usually refine one portion at a time to slowly master the entire process."

"If you can successfully refine large batches with a pill formation success rate of around eighty percent, it means you have the potential to become an Advanced Pharmacist."

"Then, after successfully refining a Seven Revolutions Nourishing Organ Pill, you will be promoted to an Advanced Pharmacist."

"This is how most examinations for Advanced Pharmacists are conducted."

Princess Lan Yue went on to explain other relevant details about refining, including some related knowledge.

"Look at the portions of medicinal herbs I’ve prepared. This is the amount for a single elixir. The combination of their medicinal properties is roughly like this. You’ll understand why when you watch my refining process in a moment."

Princess Lan Yue placed the measured herbs in front of Yang Chan. These were the required proportions for refining. They weren’t set in stone but provided a general guideline. The final combination still depended on blending the medicinal properties, which involved a great deal more knowledge.

"The medicinal properties of the Cyan Glass Hundred Spirits Grass are extremely potent, so I’ve only taken a small portion of it. It needs to be added in the middle of the refining process; otherwise, the potency of the main ingredients will be lost."

"Furthermore, it must be coordinated with..."

Princess Lan Yue explained as she began refining the Five Revolutions Nourishing Organ Pill.

However, the process wasn’t as smooth as before. It was clear that refining the Five Revolutions Nourishing Organ Pill was quite difficult even for her. It required immense concentration, or she would easily fail.

Thus, Yang Chan noticed that Princess Lan Yue would sometimes stop mid-sentence to gaze at the alchemy furnace with complete focus. Her expression was grave as she observed the refining process and the fusion of the ingredients’ medicinal properties.

Yang Chan was very familiar with this state. He was the same way when he refined elixirs, especially at the beginning of a process, where he would concentrate fully to prevent any mistakes.

The refining process for the Five Internal Organs Nourishing Pill was much more difficult than that of the Three Revolutions Nourishing Viscera Pill. It also took more time, as the entire procedure was considerably more complex.

Most of the time, she had to stare intently, paying close attention to the changes inside the alchemy furnace.

"Phew!"

"It’s finally a success. You saw the whole refining process—it’s extremely difficult."

"Of course, this is also because I haven’t refined it many times and my mastery isn’t high enough. I’m also a little out of practice, which is why I failed the first two times and only succeeded on the third attempt."

"I already told you about the two failed attempts just now. The first time, the medicinal properties fused too early, causing them to change after merging, which led to failure. The second time..."

Princess Lan Yue let out a long breath only after successfully refining the Five Revolutions Nourishing Organ Pill. The entire process had been very demanding on her, requiring her spirit to be highly focused.

Even so, she had still failed twice before succeeding on the third try. And this was with the Earth Fire remaining stable and no other accidents occurring.

If the Earth Fire had fluctuated, the probability of failure would have been even higher, which just showed how difficult the entire refining process was.

At the same time, she explained the reasons for her recent failures to Yang Chan, analyzing the causes in meticulous detail.

In fact, this was something she had partly learned from Yang Chan—the method of summarizing and analyzing the cause of every failure, reflecting on it, and then avoiding the same mistakes in the next attempt.

This approach to refining was much better than simply trying again immediately after a failure. Moreover, as she explained the failed attempts and the successful experience to Yang Chan, she felt she was gaining even more insight.

She was even beginning to understand the reasons behind certain details she had previously overlooked during alchemy.

Of course, some of these insights came from questions Yang Chan asked, which they then discussed together to figure out the underlying principles.

This process gave Princess Lan Yue a new sense of accomplishment. Previously, when she refined elixirs, she would only receive guidance from her master, Xu Chuan, the Vice Alliance Leader of the Pharmacist Alliance. But he would only point out where she went wrong and never delve into the related connections.

After she succeeded once, he would just let her refine on her own.

There was nothing wrong with this method, as a Pharmacist’s alchemy relied more on personal comprehension and that "Pill Sense"—things that were hard to put into words and had to be grasped intuitively.

Many Pharmacist lineages had been passed down this way; it was an established model.

But Princess Lan Yue had learned a new method from Yang Chan—a small trick, to be precise. It involved first understanding the principles behind things, especially the combination of various medicinal properties, or what Yang Chan called "chemical reactions."

After grasping these "chemical reactions," she could base her refining on these changes. She might fail many times along the way, but she could learn quickly, figure out the most logical way to perform each step, and reduce unnecessary steps in the alchemy process.

Refining in this manner, Princess Lan Yue clearly felt that the difficulty of refining the Five Revolutions Nourishing Organ Pill had decreased significantly.

She hadn’t completely mastered it yet, but as time went on and she refined the Five Revolutions Nourishing Organ Pill more times, she was sure she would quickly get the hang of it.

And this meant she very likely had a chance of becoming an Advanced Pharmacist, which was naturally excellent news for her.

’The more useful I am, the less likely Yang Chan will be to abandon me. Then I’ll be able to follow him to the Merak Sacred Land.’

’When my cultivation is high enough, I can seek revenge on Yang Yu of the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty, or even take his place and become the Empress of the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty.’

This was the goal she had always strived for, the direction that propelled her forward.

"So, during the process of refining the Five Revolutions Nourishing Organ Pill, when you’re congealing the medicinal liquid, how do you prevent the medicinal properties from dissipating during the high-temperature transformation?"

After watching and listening to Princess Lan Yue’s entire refining process, Yang Chan didn’t rush to try refining the Five Revolutions Nourishing Organ Pill himself. Instead, he continued asking questions about the parts of the process he didn’t understand.

Sometimes, questions about the refining process didn’t just arise from failures, but also from successes. After all, a successful attempt was also part of the process—and a very important part at that.

After Yang Chan asked his question, Princess Lan Yue didn’t answer immediately. She, too, was thinking about how to explain it.

The question had touched upon one of her blind spots. However, after hearing it, she was delighted. It gave her another point to research.