Chapter 778: Alchemy Secret Technique, Earth Nether River

「Early morning.」

「The Alchemy Room.」

Yang Chan performed a special Alchemy Secret Technique. Though his movements were still a bit unpracticed, he managed to execute it successfully.

Before using it for actual Alchemy, Yang Chan had practiced the technique many times. And this was only the simplest of the Alchemy Secret Techniques.

“The pill is complete!”

Yang Chan gazed at the Alchemy Furnace. This time, he was attempting to refine the Nourishing Vein and Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill, a Bone Marrow Cleansing Elixir with which he was highly proficient.

He had spent a considerable amount of time on the Nourishing Vein and Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill, so his proficiency with it was higher than with the Second Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill—in fact, it was maxed out.

After the intense heat from the Alchemy Furnace subsided, Yang Chan retrieved the Elixir from within.

“The Elixir’s quality is 97, one point higher than my previous 96!”

Previously, the highest quality Yang Chan could achieve when refining the Nourishing Vein and Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill was 96. It was incredibly difficult to improve beyond that. Any further progress would have required an immense amount of time, with only a small chance of success.

He was, of course, unwilling to spend that much time on the Nourishing Vein and Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill.

Once an Elixir’s quality surpassed 90 and reached the Perfect Level, the amount of Potential Points it could provide Yang Chan barely changed. This was because any further increase in quality was simply about reducing its impurities.

In other words, if an Elixir reached a quality of 100, it would be essentially free of impurities, Elixir Poison, and the like, allowing for consecutive consumption.

But for Yang Chan, this was completely useless.

Any of the Elixir’s impurities, Elixir Poison, and so on would all vanish after midnight anyway.

The only reason he refined high-quality Elixirs was to trade for more Spirit Medicines, particularly the rarer and more precious ones.

Other people, however, loved this kind of high-quality Elixir. It could be taken with shorter intervals between doses, and they didn’t have to worry about a massive accumulation of Elixir Poison. Naturally, the benefits were numerous.

“Pharmacist Yang, I’ve never seen this special Alchemy Secret Technique of yours before!”

“I’ve heard my master mention such things before, but I’ve never witnessed one. He once told me that if I could advance to the rank of Advanced Pharmacist, he would teach me a special Alchemy Secret Technique to improve the quality of the finished pills. I didn’t think much of it at the time!”

“Looking at it now, I was so shortsighted!”

Princess Lan Yue watched Yang Chan perform Alchemy. She was, of course, very familiar with his process.

After he used a special Alchemy Secret Technique he was still unpracticed in, the quality of Yang Chan’s finished pills achieved a breakthrough. This made her very curious.

“This particular Alchemy Secret Technique is also related to Spiritual Power. When you use it in coordination with that set of special hand movements, it’s essentially like clearing impurities from the Elixir inside the Alchemy Furnace, which in turn improves the quality of the final pill!”

Yang Chan explained the principle behind the special technique.

It might look like it’s just a set of movements, but it’s actually a way of applying Spiritual Power. By coordinating it with the Alchemy process, it influences the quality of the finished pill.

The people who created such methods were truly remarkable.

Yang Chan thought of his Soul Body. ‘I wonder if I could further enhance my Alchemy Ability by borrowing my Soul Body’s power.’

However, Yang Chan didn’t dare to try it rashly. The Soul Body’s power was greater, but if the Soul Body were to be injured, he himself would also be affected.

In contrast, using Spiritual Power this way was merely an expenditure, like letting a small amount of it dissipate. There was a fundamental difference between the two approaches.

Earth Fire was extremely violent by nature and very dangerous. Even though the Merak Sacred Land used special methods to make it appear less savage, its fundamental properties would never change.

And for Yang Chan, his Soul Body wasn’t just an aggregation of Spiritual Power; it also contained his extremely mysterious Soul. He knew this because when his Soul Body underwent Soul Emergence, it could perceive his physical body.

Ordinary people couldn’t see it, but that didn’t mean the Soul Body was invincible. For example, the violent power within the Earth Fire could potentially harm it.

This was why Yang Chan hadn’t attempted it lightly.

Besides, the idea of coordinating his Soul Body with his Alchemy Methods was just a theory of his. He had no concrete way to prove it, so naturally, he was in no hurry.

“So it involves Spiritual Power… No wonder my master told me not to neglect my Martial Arts Cultivation and to practice the Martial Seal Visualization Image more often. It was all for this!”

Hearing this, Princess Lan Yue nodded in sudden understanding.

She had, of course, asked about it before, wanting to test if a special Alchemy Secret Technique truly had such an effect, but her master had said the time wasn’t right.

‘It seems now he only said that because my Spiritual Power was insufficient,’ she thought.

“When your Spiritual Power is strong enough, I can teach you this special Alchemy Secret Technique. By then, your alchemy skills will also improve greatly!”

Yang Chan naturally didn’t mind teaching these special Alchemy Secret Techniques to Princess Lan Yue.

After all, the better the Elixirs she could refine, the more Cultivation Resources he would obtain.

‘A good tool is one that can grow. Only by growing can she keep up with my pace. Otherwise, she’ll be left in the dust,’ he thought.

“Thank you, Pharmacist Yang! I will continue to improve my Alchemy Ability, and I won’t let my Martial Arts Cultivation or Martial Seal Cultivation fall behind!”

Princess Lan Yue’s Martial Arts Cultivation had already reached the Inner Refining Level, thanks in part to Yang Chan’s help.

Their nightly Cultivation of the Yuanzhen Mutual Sensing Technique had helped Princess Lan Yue immensely, and it was the reason her Martial Arts Cultivation had improved so quickly. Her Martial Seal Cultivation, however, was something she still had to work on by herself.

Having just seen the effects of Yang Chan’s special technique, she naturally wanted to master it as well to improve her own Alchemy Ability. If she did, she would have access to even more Cultivation Resources.

Even though she now belonged to Yang Chan, she still relied on herself. She knew that only by continuously proving her own value could she remain by his side and, in turn, grow stronger even faster.