Wu Shattered Star River

Returning to Sky Azure City, Jiang Han entered his room, activated the divine array, and then took out the two booklets to read.

The first book was an introductory guide to alchemy, detailing the various steps involved.

Alchemy, in essence, can be both simple and complex.

The principle of alchemy is to extract the essence from various immortal herbs, allowing their medicinal properties to fuse together, transforming them into a new type of medicine, and condensing it into a pill.

The fusion of essences from various immortal herbs creates a completely new medicine with various unique effects.

It's complex because the essences of various immortal herbs cannot simply be fused by boiling them together.

Drug dosages, heat control, steps, and so on, must be precise; even a slight error can lead to vastly different final products.

This is why the success rate of alchemy is not high; even grandmasters of alchemy only have a success rate of seventy to eighty percent, while ordinary alchemists barely achieve fifty percent.

Alchemy requires skill, mastery of heat control, and experience.

Without the guidance of a renowned teacher, many subtle techniques cannot be learned, and even if they can be discovered, it requires years of accumulation.

That would consume countless raw materials and waste countless immortal stones. How could ordinary immortals have so much time and immortal stones to waste?

After reading the two booklets several times, Jiang Han frowned deeply.

When he told Shopkeeper Diao that he was a grandmaster of alchemy in the lower realm and had great talent for alchemy, he was just boasting; he had never actually practiced alchemy…

Alchemy is very complex, requiring precise amounts of various immortal herbs. If he followed the instructions in this introductory alchemy book, he feared it would take him a year or two just to get started.

He took out the alchemic cauldron, a black cauldron, and then took out many materials, subsequently entering the secret chamber labeled 'Cauldron'.

He looked at the small Heavenly Beast Cauldron inside the 'Cauldron' chamber, pondered for a while, and decided to first use the ordinary black cauldron to practice and master the techniques before using the Heavenly Beast Cauldron.

He took out a fiery red crystal, a stone that could be ignited to release flames.

After igniting the crystal, he began to pour in immortal liquid, and then added immortal herb materials step by step according to the pill formula.

"Uh, what kind of thing am I refining?"

Half an hour later, Jiang Han was dumbfounded. He opened the cauldron lid, and a black, gooey liquid appeared inside the black cauldron.

Moreover, there was a burnt smell. This was not an immortal pill at all; it was poison…

Jiang Han was somewhat dejected. He took out the booklet again and started reading it. Half an hour later, he began refining the second immortal pill.

After busying himself for a while, tossing and turning, Jiang Han was so tired that sweat streamed down his face.

Half an hour later, when he opened the cauldron lid, it was still a black, gooey mess inside, this time with a foul odor.

"How the hell do you do this?"

Jiang Han sat down on the ground with a thud. Alchemy was too difficult, wasn't it? He wasn't even talking about refining an immortal pill; the pill hadn't even taken shape.

He strictly followed the steps in the pill formula, one step at a time. He felt that there were no problems, so why did it turn out like this?

"Continue!"

He gritted his teeth and began the third attempt at alchemy. Half an hour later, he obtained another lump of black paste…

Fourth time, fifth time… thirtieth time!

After messing around for more than two days, Jiang Han gave up.

He wasted so many materials that not only did he not refine a single immortal spiritual pill, but he didn't even see the shape of a pill; it was all lumps of black paste.

Exhausted, he simply fell asleep.

When he woke up, he turned his gaze to the small Heavenly Beast Cauldron, deciding to try it out.

He took out the fiery red crystal and placed it on the Heavenly Beast Cauldron. As he ignited the fire crystal, an old voice sounded: "What are you doing? This cauldron is a treasure; does alchemy still need fire crystals?"

"Ah?"

Jiang Han was somewhat stunned and asked, "How do you refine pills without fire crystals?"

The artifact spirit transmitted its voice, saying: "Fool, can this cauldron be the same as ordinary alchemy cauldrons? Just throw all the materials directly into it according to the pill formula, and the cauldron will automatically form the pill, with a 100% success rate!"

"Really?"

Jiang Han's eyes widened suddenly. Was this cauldron so powerful?

He quickly took out a portion of immortal materials and poured them all into the small Heavenly Beast Cauldron. The cauldron didn't even have a lid, so Jiang Han stared wide-eyed into the cauldron, waiting.

"Buzz ~"

The small Heavenly Beast Cauldron lit up, the runes on it shining. Purple mist filled the cauldron, and soon nothing could be seen inside. Moreover, Jiang Han sensed that he was also isolated by the mist.

The runes on the cauldron flickered. After only a stick of incense's worth of time, the cauldron suddenly trembled slightly, then emitted a faint golden light. The runes gradually disappeared, and the purple mist inside the cauldron slowly dissipated.

"Hmm…"

When the mist dissipated, Jiang Han found a snow-white pill inside.

The pill exuded a faint fragrance. Just smelling it made him feel comfortable all over, indicating amazing medicinal properties.

"So simple?"

Jiang Han blinked. Was this cauldron too perverted?

Not only did it not need fire crystal heating, but it didn't even need to follow the steps in the pill formula, gradually adding immortal herbs and materials. Just throw them in, and the pill would form automatically after a stick of incense's worth of time?

Then there was no need for alchemists; anyone could use this cauldron to refine pills, right?

Jiang Han poured out the pill, observed it for a moment, and didn't know its grade. He didn't care, took out a jade box, and stored the pill to prevent the medicinal properties from dissipating.

His face was filled with excitement. He quickly took out materials and poured them in. The Heavenly Beast Cauldron lit up again, the runes shining, purple mist rising. After a stick of incense's worth of time, another immortal pill appeared.

"Awesome!"

Jiang Han was overjoyed and continued to pour in immortal materials. After waiting for a stick of incense's worth of time, another immortal pill appeared. The success rate really reached 100%.

Four pills, five pills, ten pills… seventy pills!

After busying himself for a day, Jiang Han used up all the remaining immortal materials and obtained seventy pills.

Moreover, these seventy pills were exactly the same. Not a single one failed to refine. Each time, the pill formed automatically after a stick of incense's worth of time.

"Let's go!"

Jiang Han left the 'Cauldron' secret chamber, put away the Heavenly Beast Cauldron, opened the divine array, and walked out of the room.

He couldn't wait to appraise the pills to see what they were like. If they were really immortal pills with strong medicinal properties, then he would really be rich.

The hall outside was empty. Everyone had been given a lot of immortal stones, so they were probably buying a lot of resources to improve their combat power.

Jiang Han ignored them, left the city, used Free Travel, and appeared on the small mountain where Heavenly Secrets Pavilion was located. He entered Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.

"Eh?"

Just as he entered and walked to the shop selling immortal pills, Jiang Han discovered a familiar figure inside: it was actually Yin Ruoxi.

"Big Brother Jiang!"

Yin Ruoxi was very happy to see Jiang Han and greeted him happily: "Did you also come to buy pills?"

Yin Ruoxi must have come to buy immortal pills. Jiang Han smiled and responded. Shopkeeper Diao inside smiled and said, "Honored guest, how is your pill refining going? Have you refined a single successful pill yet?"

Seeing that there were other customers in the shop, Jiang Han said, "Shopkeeper Diao, may we speak in the inner hall?"

Shopkeeper Diao nodded slightly and led Jiang Han inside.

Hearing that Jiang Han was refining pills, Yin Ruoxi curiously wanted to follow him in to take a look.

Jiang Han thought for a moment and didn't refuse. He couldn't hide the fact that he was refining pills sooner or later.

Yin Ruoxi seemed to have a good character, so it didn't matter if she knew. Moreover, he didn't know how effective his pills were; perhaps they were just ordinary pills?