Chapter 2053 — Too Simple!
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Han Jingyi was already an expert at the peak of the late Mystic rank, yet she still could not sustain a Yellow-rank second-grade alchemical flame for long. With her current stamina, she could at most sustain the refining of a single furnace of Yellow-rank second-grade pills. Half an hour was not short, but it was certainly not long either!
Of course, refining Yellow-rank first-grade pills should pose no great problem now. With Han Jingyi's current strength, she ought to be able to refine several furnaces.
"Phew... Wei Zhao-gege, Jingjing's really useless. I'm already an expert at the peak of the late Mystic rank, and I could only last half an hour with a Yellow-rank second-grade alchemical flame..." Han Jingyi looked at Wei Zhao, her face full of shame.
"That's already remarkable. Your very first time condensing a Yellow-rank second-grade flame, you succeeded, and you could even control it at will—that already puts you far, far above most people!" Wei Zhao gave a wry smile and said with some shame, "It even puts you above me!"
"How could Jingjing compare to Wei Zhao-gege? Don't say that, Wei Zhao-gege—Jingjing will get conceited!" Han Jingyi rubbed her hands, a little embarrassed, her eyes crinkling with delight, two little dimples on her pretty face, like a happy little kitten.
"I've heard that to refine second-grade pills, an alchemist must be at least Earth rank, and to refine third-grade pills, one must be a Heaven-rank expert to sustain it. So for you to control a second-grade flame at will for a full half hour, at the peak of the late Mystic rank!" Wei Zhao said. "That's already a remarkable achievement—that time is enough to refine a furnace of pills!"
"Really? Then it looks like Jingjing isn't so dumb after all..." Han Jingyi said. "But Wei Zhao-gege, the way Jingjing sees it, only lasting half an hour this time has to do with the condensing formula. That formula is simply too complicated—it sends true qi through several acupoints and meridians in the body, and that surely wastes a lot of time and energy. If the condensing formula could be simplified, I'm afraid it could be stretched out by another ten minutes or so..."
"Jingjing, don't practice with that cultivation method I gave you before. Take a look at this one!" Wei Zhao said, and brought out Zhang Lifeng's notebook of an alchemist's reflections, flipping to the page with the cultivation method formula. "Copy down these formulas, and the condensing methods for the other elemental flames as well. Take them home and study them—this one is much simpler than the formula you have!"
"Ah! This... this is so simple!" Han Jingyi stared in astonishment at the fire-element first-grade alchemical flame condensation method written in the alchemist's notebook Wei Zhao had given her, and exclaimed, "Did Wei Zhao-gege work this out and improve it himself? It's simpler than Jingjing's. Wei Zhao-gege really is more formidable than Jingjing!"
"Uh... I didn't work this out. Someone else did." Wei Zhao had no wish to deceive Han Jingyi. Though he felt a little embarrassed, he also disliked bragging to his friends.
"Then for something this formidable to end up in Wei Zhao-gege's hands, that's proof enough of Wei Zhao-gege's extraordinary-ness!" Han Jingyi said, still full of admiration.
"..." Wei Zhao said nothing, but inwardly he thought: is this little genius girl truly naive or just pretending? Every word out of her mouth somehow managed to satisfy his pride...