Chapter 3649 — Seeing Things and Thinking of the Person
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Then the cauldron began to warm slowly. After preheating for roughly the time it takes to burn a stick of incense, it finally entered the pill refinement state.
Thanks to Han Jingyi's brilliant modifications, so long as the inflowing true qi did not stop, the internal program of the automated Divine Farmer Cauldron could adjust the fire and temperature automatically, and excess true qi would be stored in the energy stones beneath the cauldron. If, near the end when the refinement was almost successful, the true qi ran dry, then upon detecting the shortage, the cauldron would automatically draw on the reserve true qi stored in the energy stones to make up the difference!
For third-grade pills, however, the energy stones were more than sufficient. A single large energy stone could refine one third-grade pill; even for someone like Wei Zhao who refined several pills in one batch, one energy stone plus a little of his own true qi was enough to get the job done!
But fourth-grade pills were another matter. Refining even one required an enormous amount of energy and true qi—never mind one energy stone, it would be good if ten or twenty energy stones could suffice!
So Wei Zhao intended to do some research and see whether he could replace the cauldron's energy stones with spirit jade. That way he could supply more true qi and avoid failed refinements.
But Wei Zhao did not dare tinker recklessly. He did not understand this sort of thing, and if he ruined the modifications, that would be a real mess. So for now he would just have to put himself through some hard work; if he ran into Han Jingyi in the future, he would have her help modify it then.
Under the urging and control of the pill fire generated by the true qi, the ingredients inside the cauldron began to change bit by bit. This process was slow and gentle; an ordinary person would not perceive it at all, yet it was precisely this process that pill refiners enjoyed most.
Only, Wei Zhao could not enjoy it. He had no idea at all what was going on inside the cauldron—all he watched was the tablet computer beside him.
Time slipped away drop by drop. In the blink of an eye, two hours had passed, and within the automated Divine Farmer Cauldron, the medicinal properties and spiritual qi of all the ingredients had been fully released under the urging and control of the pill fire.
Their fullness was hard to believe. If the medicinal properties and spiritual qi contained in each individual herb were one, then at this moment the thirty herbs mingled together inside the cauldron, after the complex catalysis of the pill fire and the various auxiliary materials, had produced a result that was not a simple one-plus-one making thirty—it far exceeded even three hundred. It was three thousand, even thirty thousand!
Such immense medicinal properties and spiritual qi were more than even the Divine Farmer Cauldron could bear, and it began to buzz continuously. Within the jade pendant space, one could even catch the faintest traces of medicinal fragrance leaking out.
Damn! Wei Zhao's expression, usually so calm and unchanging, shifted at once. Though he had unparalleled confidence in this automated Divine Farmer Cauldron, this behavior was truly abnormal. After all, it was still far from the time for the pills to emerge. If the cauldron was acting so violently, could something have gone wrong inside?
Wei Zhao was uneasy at heart, but matters had come to this—he could hardly give up halfway. He could only grit his teeth and press on.
He glanced at the tablet computer beside him, but there was no prompt. Wei Zhao thought to himself: he had never refined a fourth-grade pill before, and Han Jingyi had only made theoretical modifications back then, never having refined one either. Could it be that putting in three portions of ingredients at once had exceeded the upper limit this automated Divine Farmer Cauldron could bear? RP