Chapter 8: Refining Medicine and First Encounter

Walking out of the tower gate, the warm sunlight poured down, making Lin Yuan, who had stayed in the tower for half a month, relax a little. He looked up at the blue sky and took a deep breath of fresh air. Practicing in the Tianfen Refining Qi Tower was indeed more efficient than practicing outside, but it was a bit depressing after a long time.

As Lin Yuan's thoughts wandered, he couldn't help but think of the group of weirdos in the Soul Palace. They were surrounded by a dark environment and weird laughter all day long. Are they really mentally okay after all this time?

Lin Yuan shook his head, threw away the messy thoughts in his mind, and retracted his scattered thoughts. After thinking for a moment, Lin Yuan walked towards the medicine storehouse.

"My fighting spirit has been honed. In the process of tempering my fighting spirit, I have also become proficient in the use of my soul power. It is time to complete the alchemy task assigned by the Fire Master to hone my alchemy skills. If I am lucky, I may meet Zi Yan in the herbal medicine room."

Lin Yuan had previously confirmed through the strength list that Zi Yan had been brought back by the Great Elder Su Qian two years ago. Zi Yan was one of his most important goals in coming to the inner courtyard.

After a while, Lin Yuan arrived at the herb warehouse. Elder Hao, who was in charge of the herb warehouse, had obviously been informed by the chief elder. But even so, he couldn't help but marvel at Lin Yuan's young face, and his attitude became more enthusiastic. He readily handed over a large amount of herbs and magic cores on the list of herbs given by Lin Yuan to Lin Yuan.

After Lin Yuan got the medicinal herbs, although he felt a little regretful that he didn't "accidentally meet" Zi Yan this time, he still said goodbye to Elder Hao with a smile.

"It seems that fate is still unreliable for me. I'd better use some tricks. I just happened to get a good bait when I was fishing last time!"

Lin Yuan made up his mind and came to a secluded mountain. The mountain was located near the only way from the back mountain range to the inner courtyard student area. Then Lin Yuan took out all the herbs from the medicine warehouse from the storage ring. They were all herbs for refining fourth-grade and lower elixirs. Then he took out the spirit berry, one of the main ingredients of the Dou Ling Dan that he harvested when fishing in the Black Horn Region after breaking through to the Dou King level, and placed it outside.

"Taixu Ancient Dragon has a talent for treasure hunting, and Zi Yan often goes to the mountains to hunt for treasure. As long as she goes back and forth between the mountains and the academy, it is impossible for her to fail to sense so many medicinal herbs and pills here. All we have to do now is wait patiently!" Lin Yuan thought to himself.

Afterwards, Lin Yuan took out the medicine cauldron and prepared to start refining some fourth-grade elixirs to be handed over to the academy, such as Qi Gathering Powder, Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill, Spirit Gathering Pill, and Clear Veins Pill.

"Let's warm up our hands with the Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill first!"

For Lin Yuan now, refining a fourth-grade elixir with only a dozen kinds of medicinal materials is already easy. With a thought, he transformed a ball of green spiritual flame into the medicine cauldron, then lightly waved his sleeves and accurately rolled a dozen medicinal materials for refining the Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill in front of him. He extracted them one by one according to the standard steps, completing the refining step.

Afterwards, Lin Yuan put the extracted essence into the medicine cauldron and began the process of melting the pill. Powerful soul power surged out from his brows, accurately controlling the temperature of the flame and the fusion of the medicine. After a while, as the pill was about to be completed, a scent of pill filled the air.

"It's done!"

Lin Yuan waved his hand lightly, and a longan-sized, plump, purple pill with pill mist flew into Lin Yuan's hand. Lin Yuan looked at it and nodded with satisfaction, "Not bad, a top-grade Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill."

After putting the pill away, Lin Yuan began to refine the Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill again, but this time he did not use the same method as last time. Instead, he began to experiment with a method he had conceived of. In the extraction step, he simply gave up using the medicine cauldron, and directly used his extraordinary soul power to finely control the temperature of the Green Spirit Flame to wrap the medicinal materials and extract the essence. It was a little awkward at the beginning, but it became smoother and smoother, and he could extract multiple medicinal materials at the same time like flowing water.

After the extraction of the medicinal materials was completed, Lin Yuan completed the melting of the pill through the pill furnace and obtained a top-grade purple heart barrier-breaking pill. After seeing it, Lin Yuan frowned slightly, "There is nothing wrong with this idea, but it takes practice to directly extract the essence with flames. Let's practice it well in this mission!"

After thinking about the details of the last alchemy process, Lin Yuan began to continue refining the pills, gradually correcting and perfecting the various details in his alchemy process.

More than ten days later, after refining a round of pills, Lin Yuan, who was closing his eyes and regulating his breathing as if he was asleep, suddenly smiled, "Finally he took the bait! It's worth my waiting for so long."

Behind him, a sneaky little figure was approaching, and the little hand was also reaching for the spiritual berry. When it was about to touch it, a lazy and playful voice came into her ears: "Little sister, what are you doing?" At the same time, the spiritual berry flew away as if it had consciousness. In the little girl's line of sight, the spiritual berry fell on a slender hand, and the owner of the hand - the boy who was obviously asleep had turned around and looked at her with a slight smile.

Lin Yuan looked at the little girl in front of him, who seemed to be no more than eleven or twelve years old, with long lavender hair reaching down to her waist. Her cheeks were extremely white and tender, and she looked extremely cute, like a delicate jade sculpture. She exuded the aura of a Dou Wang, and was indeed Zi Yan.

"Give me back my spiritual fruit, or I'll eat you." Seeing her target fall into the hands of others, Zi Yan shouted angrily.

"No, it's my spiritual fruit." Zi Yan responded with a slight smile.

Hearing Lin Yuan's words, Zi Yan's eyes revealed a dangerous look. Without saying much, she stomped her foot hard on the ground. The powerful physical strength created a small hole in the ground, and she rushed towards Lin Yuan at a high speed, aiming at the spiritual fruit in Lin Yuan's hand.

He curled his lips, which had already been covered by his soul perception, and used his body skills as usual, and dodged Zi Yan in a flash.

Seeing that her attack missed, Zi Yan stopped her body with her feet, quickly turned around and pounced towards Lin Yuan again, but unfortunately she still missed. She repeated this several times but didn't even touch the corner of Lin Yuan's clothes.

Zi Yan angrily shouted at Lin Yuan, "I'm so mad at you. If you have the guts, don't run away. Fight me head-on and I'll eat you up."

Hearing this, Lin Yuan tossed the spiritual berries in his left hand, stretched out his right hand and hooked his finger at Zi Yan, and said with a smile: "Then I'll listen to you. Come on, little girl."

Upon hearing this, Zi Yan rushed towards Lin Yuan again. This time, Lin Yuan did not dodge directly, but instead used his fighting spirit to fight with Zi Yan, while evaluating Zi Yan's fighting ability.

"His physique and fighting spirit are both very good, about the level of a 2-3 star Dou Wang. His fighting style is very open and aggressive, his attack intentions are too direct, and his attack methods are too simple. Compared to the fighting style of humans, it is closer to the fighting style of Warcraft. Overall, he has more strength than skills."

After finding out Zi Yan's level, Lin Yuan decided to finish it. He used his overwhelming soul power to disrupt Zi Yan's perception, and then made a few fake moves while using the Dragon Step and the Instant Step to create an afterimage.

A little excited, Zi Yan punched through the afterimage of "Lin Yuan". At the moment when the afterimage disappeared, a hand with sword fingers appeared in front of her with a puzzled look in her eyes. It was too late to dodge. "Oh no!"

However, unexpectedly, the hand in front of her smoothly changed from a sword finger to a finger snap, which gently flicked on Zi Yan's delicate forehead, and then a light laugh fell into Zi Yan's ears.

"It's not a good habit to be distracted before the battle is over, little girl!"

Lin Yuan flashed and stood two meters in front of Zi Yan, looking at her with a smile.

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