Free Web NovelChapter 1354: Chapter 508: Xianhuo Copper Plate
The Alchemist Bai Lu thought Zhou Xuan was struggling with "Fire Listening" and was getting frustrated, starting to messily perform alchemy.
Zhou Xuan gave Lao Bai Lu a stern look and said, "I’m warning you, don’t mess around, or I’ll deal with you."
"..." The Alchemist Bai Lu.
The Alchemist Bai Lu mumbled to himself - Mr., the way you’re randomly throwing in materials, that’s what messing around is.
Zhou Xuan remained unbothered, casually tossing in fragments of wedding dolls, making Lao Bai Lu anxious, but he was too insignificant to dare say anything.
Seeing Lao Bai’s troubled face, Zhou Xuan softened his tone and said, "Lao Bai, you think I’m just tossing randomly? I’m not. If you don’t believe me, lean in and listen carefully in front of the Pill Furnace."
"This..."
"I’m telling you to listen to the fire, just do it! Listen to how my materials are being refined."
Zhou Xuan said.
"Then I’ll listen."
The Alchemist Bai Lu sighed reluctantly and went to "Fire Listening."
To say he was always a frugal alchemist, never willing to waste even the tiniest thumb-sized material when making elixirs.
He utterly loathed wasteful use of materials, fearing that if he listened to the fire, hearing all those materials wasted by Zhou Xuan, his heart would ache terribly.
"Listen, listen, it all sounds like wastefulness."
The Alchemist Bai Lu shook his head, leaned into the Pill Furnace, and after only a few moments, his expression darkened.
"Hiss—how can it be such a sound?"
"What? Is the sound not right?" Zhou Xuan tossed in another seven or eight pieces of "fragments" into the Pill Furnace.
"It’s not that it’s not right, it’s too right."
The Alchemist Bai Lu started describing the sound inside the furnace.
"Mr., do you know what those materials sound like?"
"What do they sound like?"
"Like a perfectly round iron bead rolling on an extremely smooth silk, the sound is gentle and delicate. I’ve never heard such a beautiful sound when making elixirs."
The Alchemist Bai Lu said with a face full of enchantment, as if the sound of melting materials was a symphony of celestial music, making him feel at ease and comfortable.
"Is it really so beautiful?" Zhou Xuan said with a smile.
"Even better than I described."
The Alchemist Bai Lu’s aged, wrinkled face glowed with excitement, he said,
"Mr., the appearance of these sounds indicates that this batch of elixirs is refined to perfection,
Every piece of material was placed in the most intense fire position, which we alchemists call ’Fire Eye’.
Once materials enter the Fire Eye, they instantly melt, and all the essence is extracted in the fiercest fire of the human world." free𝑤ebnovel.com
As he explained, he was also curious, asking Zhou Xuan: "However, Mr., with all due respect, I, Alchemist Bai Lu, am quite adept in ’Fire Listening,’ and few predecessors surpass me in this skill."
"Even with my level of ’Fire Listening’ skills and experience, I can only manage to refine one-third of the materials into the Fire Eye in one batch, and you... I couldn’t hear a trace of noise, meaning—"
The Alchemist Bai Lu paused slightly, then stated firmly: "It means every piece of material you threw precisely hit the Fire Eye, which is rather unusual. How do you listen to the fire?"
"Fire Listening? I don’t listen." Zhou Xuan replied.
"..." The Alchemist Bai Lu asked: "If you don’t listen, how do you find the location of the Fire Eye?"
"Oh, I use my eyes." Zhou Xuan said, throwing materials and observing the sea of fire within the furnace, "You see, now the fiercest spot in the fire sea is the ’Li Position’ in the Pill Furnace."
"I see? How do I see?" The Alchemist Bai Lu incredulously believed Zhou Xuan, seeing nothing but the dark Fire Tower and glints of firelight spilling from the furnace seams.
Moreover, he shouldn’t be able to see,
Exactly because the alchemy technique is done in an "invisible" black-box environment, it requires the experience of years of an old master,
If one could clearly see inside the furnace, what use would experience have?
"Oh, just now, the White Cicada in my Secret Realm moved, drew in incense, and entered my body, allowing me to utilize perception." Zhou Xuan said frankly.
"And then?"
"Then my perception can penetrate the inside of the Pill Furnace and connect with the two large azure and red fish tails."
Zhou Xuan now empty-handed, patted his hands to shake off the wedding doll residue between his palms and finger gap. He pointed at his eyes with his middle and index fingers and added: "The eyes of those two large fish became my eyes, what they see in the Pill Furnace, becomes what I can see."
"..." The Alchemist Bai Lu instantly felt a dizziness, as if the ’tower of experience’ he built over a millennium collapsed in an instant.
Such an extraordinary occurrence exists under the heavens!
Someone’s perception can actually roam within the blazing fire of a Pill Furnace?
Knowing that perception, though intangible, is extremely susceptible to interference—just the fiery blaze, its scorching flames baking, would obliterate any perception no matter how strong.
"Mr., are you still human?"
"Watch your words, don’t cuss." Zhou Xuan teased with a laugh, before reopening the furnace and tossing over ten pieces of shredded meat into the "Kan Position."
The "Fire Eye" position within the sea of fire changed again, turning into the Kan Position.
