Free Web NovelChapter 1352: Chapter 507: Fire Listening 2
Alchemist Bai Lu pondered the question thoroughly, then he asked Zhou Xuan, "So, Mr., since all the elixirs have a count, how dare you promise a kickback to the Eternal Life Sect Leader?"
Zhou Xuan poked Alchemist Bai Lu on the forehead and said, "That’s why I say, you’re so rigid... The Heavenly Dome is overseeing the elixirs, but is the Eternal Life Sect Leader part of the Heavenly Dome?
If he receives kickbacks privately, as long as it’s not too much, doesn’t the Heavenly Dome just turn a blind eye?
If the Heavenly Dome wants God-level beings to handle things, and the God-level beings can’t get any benefits, how can they willingly work?"
"So..." Alchemist Bai Lu realized Zhou Xuan was a bit frightening, how could someone so young have such profound human understanding?
Zhou Xuan said, "So, as long as those elixirs don’t enter the human world, the Heavenly Dome won’t bother too much, but we can’t sneak any; as for the matter of us stealthily taking some elixirs? That’ll have to wait until we build an unsupervised Pill Furnace and Fire Tower."
It’s not that he didn’t want to "line his own pockets," but the timing wasn’t right, forcibly "stealing elixirs" would only make enemies for no reason.
"Understood, understood, Mr. is far-sighted, when can I be like you..."
"Stop thinking about those things and focus on refining the elixirs for me."
Zhou Xuan said with a smile.
"Okay." Alchemist Bai Lu responded cheerfully. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓
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Manager Liu and his five brothers, all skilled slicers, went through their process smoothly, and that wedding doll was already chopped into eight pieces.
Then, Manager Liu dragged the cart, transporting the wedding doll to the side of the Fire Tower.
Alchemist Bai Lu caressed the Fire Tower, and a sense of tragic grandeur welled up within him.
He murmured, "Old buddy, finally seeing you again, that long-missed feeling has returned."
Zhou Xuan, standing nearby, got goosebumps from the sentimentality and remarked,
"That’s enough, who is your old buddy? You’re a Qi Refining Pill guy, this is a Human Pill Furnace, you two were like parallel lines before, never intersecting, you know?"
"Sense of ceremony, sense of ceremony."
Alchemist Bai Lu chuckled twice awkwardly, then opened the furnace, and a roaring flame burst right out of the stove door.
"Mr., I’ve understood refining the Joyful Longevity Pill, it’s mainly about fire control."
"I’ll refine first, you watch, learn well, and try to learn thoroughly."
Alchemist Bai Lu assumed the posture of a master to Zhou Xuan.
Zhou Xuan, like a diligent student, stood by watching carefully.
Alchemist Bai Lu picked up a piece of wedding doll meat and tossed it into the furnace.
Instantly, the fire in the furnace flared up wildly.
Alchemist Bai Lu said, "Look, this is called igniting the furnace, the first few times you throw alchemy materials in, it’s not for refining elixirs, it’s to make the fire intense,
The more intense the fire, the crazier it gets, the purer the firepower, it’s all knowledge, you gotta remember it."
"How many materials do you need to throw in to make the fire reach purity?"
"About fifteen times," Alchemist Bai Lu said.
Zhou Xuan looked down at the wedding doll’s fragments—fifteen times, that’s fifteen pieces of "fragments" from the wedding doll,
But the scattered pieces on the cart added up to just over sixty or seventy pieces.
Meaning just for "igniting fire," nearly a quarter of the materials are used up?
"This igniting fire is too extravagant."
"Can’t help it, alchemy is just like this, you must cut ends."
Alchemist Bai Lu said, "Now the opening furnace fire is the start; at the final moment, there’s still closing furnace fire,
When the alchemy nears the end, the furnace fire won’t be so fierce, that’s when you need to throw in another quarter of the materials at once to push the fire back up, only when it’s pushed up can you call it flames of pure gold, if it doesn’t reach that point, the quality of the whole batch of elixirs will go down."
"Adding the start and end together, that’s half the materials, this half is all used to feed the fire?"
Zhou Xuan felt even more pained.
"There’s giving to have gain, without that raging furnace fire, not a single good elixir can be refined, the fire is our alchemist’s true friend."
While Bai Lu was comforting on the side, suddenly there was a restless tremor inside Zhou Xuan’s body.
In the Ancient Hall, Zhou Xuan couldn’t connect with his Secret Realm.
However, not being able to connect doesn’t mean the Secret Realm doesn’t exist.
"Are those two big fish trying to leave my Secret Realm?"
Zhou Xuan didn’t even have to guess to know it was the two big fish, blue and red, quivering, eager to jump into a Pill Furnace whenever they saw one seemed like going home.
He immediately reached to his chest, feeling the tremor, simultaneously drawing the two big fish out of his body.
The blue and red big fish swam out of Zhou Xuan’s body and into the Fire Tower immediately.
Instantly, the flame in the furnace kindled a dazzling white light, and for a moment, Alchemist Bai Lu felt like he was staring at the sun.
He even sensed the Fire Tower seemed to be barely holding up against the furnace’s immense thermal energy, the outer walls showing signs of melting.
"Hiss..." Alchemist Bai Lu suddenly felt maybe there was no need to ignite the fire now.
"How’s this fire?" Zhou Xuan asked.
"This... I’ve never seen such exuberant furnace fire," Alchemist Bai Lu said.
"So do we still need to cut ends?" Zhou Xuan asked again.
"No need, with such flourishing furnace fire, all materials can become elixirs."
Alchemist Bai Lu felt his prior experience was unnecessary. freēwēbηovel.c૦m
With the blue and red big fish, this alchemy didn’t require "igniting fire," "closing furnace fire," throwing in materials would yield as many elixirs as possible, minimizing material loss.
"Then you keep refining, I’ll go rest, call me when you’re done."
