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Chapter 30 Alchemy
A month passed in the blink of an eye.
Li Fulan spent every day in Yuan Lao's laboratory, starting with learning the most basic identification of medicinal herbs and gradually working through those obscure and difficult alchemical theories.
As for Notting College...
According to information he obtained through his intelligence network, although Yu Xiaogang's shot was not directly fatal, the internal injuries caused by the armor-piercing bullet were very serious.
That theoretical master is still lying in a deep coma, his fate unknown.
Tang San and Xiao Wu took turns staying by the sickbed, and the academy also invited several high-level healing-type soul masters, but none of them could help.
Tang Hao disappeared after that day, and no one knows where he went.
But everyone knew that Haotian Douluo was secretly investigating the murderer.
The entire city of Nottingham was shrouded in a gloomy atmosphere.
Li Fulan simply observed these things with indifference.
What does Yu Xiaogang's life or death have to do with him?
His most important task now is to understand alchemy.
The seventh base, research center, alchemy laboratory.
This is a special room that Yuan Longping specially renovated for Li Fulan.
The walls were covered with temperature sensors and pressure regulators. In the center stood a modern reaction vessel modeled after the alchemy furnace from Douluo Continent. Next to it, dozens of processed medicinal samples were neatly arranged on a shelf.
At this moment, Li Fulan was standing in front of the alchemy furnace, her face covered in soot and her hair sticking up in all directions, looking like a frightened hedgehog.
Several obvious charred marks remained on the wall behind him.
That was the "glorious mark" left by the previous explosion in the oven.
"Another fucking failure..."
Looking at the sticky, pungent-smelling black residue in front of him, Li Fulan couldn't help but swear.
"How many batches is this now?"
"The thirty-seventh batch."
Lin An's calm voice came from the side.
The head of the intelligence analysis team was sitting at a worktable in the corner, holding a tablet computer with densely packed data from each experiment.
"Among them, improper temperature control caused 12 instances of furnace explosions, incorrect order of medicinal herb addition led to 9 instances of uncontrolled reactions, and unstable energy output of the catalyst caused 16 instances of structural collapse."
He pushed up his glasses, his tone tinged with helplessness.
"Brother Li, why don't you take a break? You've been working non-stop for eighteen hours straight."
"Never stop!"
Li Fulan grabbed a towel from the side and rubbed it haphazardly on her face.
"I refuse to believe it! How difficult could this lousy pill be to refine!"
He turned and walked to the herb shelf, starting to select materials again.
This time, he chose one of the most basic pills in Douluo Continent—the Spirit Gathering Pill.
This stuff has a simple formula and its effects are so-so; it can only slightly increase the user's soul power cultivation speed.
But it was precisely because of its simplicity that Yuan Longping chose it as Li Fulan's "introductory assignment".
However, Li Fulan has already fried thirty-seven batches of this "entry-level" thing.
He knew exactly where the problem lay.
It is the control of the martial spirit.
As the core "medicinal guide" in alchemy, his mushroom martial spirit must continuously release a special energy fluctuation during the refining process to catalyze and fuse the medicinal properties of various herbs.
This process requires an alarmingly high level of stability in energy output.
Excessive output leads to uncontrolled reaction and an explosion.
If the output is too low, the medicinal materials will not be fully integrated, and the finished product will be unusable.
But his broken mushroom, like a spoiled brat, had its energy output fluctuating wildly and wouldn't listen to commands at all.
"Take a deep breath...concentrate..."
Li Fulan closed her eyes and began to adjust her state.
He went through everything he had learned in the past month in his mind.
Herb ratio, heat control, timing of addition, energy frequency...
He knew every step of the process by heart.
What's lacking now is practical experience.
He opened his eyes, his gaze becoming focused and resolute.
The first step is the pretreatment of the medicinal materials.
Li Fulan took three "Lingzhi Grass" from the shelf. These are improved varieties of Lingzhi on Earth, and their medicinal properties are 85% similar to the medicinal material of the same name in Douluo Continent.
He used a specially made silver knife to slice the Ganoderma lucidum into even, thin slices.
The knife work is very steady, and the thickness of each piece is controlled to be about 0.3 millimeters.
This was the only part of the process that went smoothly for him over the past month.
Next up is the "Nine-Jointed Orchid".
This medicinal herb needs to be soaked in warm water for thirty minutes, and then ground into powder.
Li Fulan poured the prepared Nine-Joint Orchid powder into a jade mortar and pestle, and gently ground it to ensure that the powder was fine enough.
Next are slices of "Bio-blood Ginseng".
Next is the extract of "dragon's beard grass".
There are seven kinds of medicinal materials in total, and each of them has specific processing methods and requirements.
It took Li Fulan two whole hours to prepare all the medicinal materials.
"Open the furnace."
He pressed a button on the side of the alchemy furnace.
hum-
A deep rumble resounded.
The interior of the alchemy furnace began to heat up, and orange-red light shone through the furnace opening.
Although this furnace has an antique appearance, it integrates the most advanced temperature control system of the Seventh Base, which can control the temperature error within 0.1 degrees Celsius.
"Phase one, preheating. Temperature 320 degrees Celsius, for five minutes."
Li Fulan stared at the temperature display screen at the furnace opening, silently calculating the time.
Five minutes later.
"The temperature is stable; begin adding the first batch of medicinal herbs."
He picked up the tray containing the slices of Ganoderma lucidum and carefully poured them into the stove.
Nourishes—
A slight burning sound came from inside.
The Ganoderma lucidum slices softened rapidly under high temperature, releasing a faint herbal fragrance.
"In the second stage, the temperature is raised to 450 degrees Celsius, and nine-jointed orchid powder is added."
Li Fulan's movements were fluid and graceful, and she followed the recipe strictly at every step.
After the powder of the nine-jointed orchid was put into the furnace, the color inside the furnace changed from orange-red to light green.
"In the third stage, the temperature is lowered to 380 degrees Celsius, and sliced ginseng and extract of dragon's beard grass are added."
The two medicinal herbs were added in that order.
The inside of the furnace began to churn violently.
This is a normal phenomenon where chemical reactions occur between medicinal materials.
"Stay calm...stay calm..."
Li Fulan stared intently at the changes inside the furnace, fine beads of sweat forming on his forehead.
Next comes the most crucial step.
The application of the medicinal guide.
He took a deep breath and slowly summoned his martial spirit.
A strangely shaped mushroom phantom appeared behind him.
The mushroom emitted a ghostly green glow, and its cap was covered with dense spots, making it look like some kind of deadly poisonous fungus.
"concentrated……"
Li Fulan closed her eyes and focused all her energy on her martial spirit.
He could sense that the mushroom was releasing a special energy fluctuation.
These fluctuations are invisible to the naked eye, but can be detected by instruments.
Its frequency, amplitude, and phase must be controlled within an extremely precise range in order to resonate with the medicinal materials in the furnace.
"Frequency 12.3 Hz...Amplitude 0.07 microjoules...Phase sine wave..."
He silently recited the parameters in his mind, trying his best to regulate the energy output of his martial spirit.
This is what he has practiced the most this month.
This is also the stage where we stumble the most.
But today, perhaps the experience of thirty-seven failures finally paid off, he felt that his control over his martial spirit was smoother than ever before.
The energy fluctuation was like a tamed little snake, obediently flowing out according to his will.
"cast!"
Li Fulan suddenly opened her eyes.
A beam of eerie green light shot out from the mushroom-shaped martial spirit's canopy and landed precisely at the opening of the alchemy furnace.
In an instant.
The churning in the furnace stopped.
All the medicinal herbs seemed to be drawn by some unseen force, and began to rotate, merge, and condense in an orderly manner.
Orange-red, pale green, blood red, golden yellow...
Various colors intertwined and finally merged into a warm, milky white light.