Nine Yang Alchemy Emperor
Chapter 214: Ten Thousand Fires Worship

Chapter 214: Chapter 214: Ten Thousand Fires Worship

After multiple rounds of purification, the Earth fire becomes quite stable. It can even be comparable to Charcoal Fire.

Speaking of Charcoal Fire, it is necessary to introduce it.

Charcoal Fire comes in various types; the worst is Charcoal because the temperature is limited, reaching at most about 700 degrees Celsius. Moreover, it burns out quickly. New charcoal needs to be continually added to the furnace.

Adding new charcoal will inevitably lead to unstable fire temperatures.

The people of this world are very clever; after many generations of effort, they have invented a bellows. By blowing air, it makes the charcoal burn more quickly and solves the problem of unstable temperatures.

The majority of penniless Pill Masters or half-baked Alchemy Apprentices build bellows in their own homes and set up a furnace for Alchemy.

This is also the cheapest way to perform Alchemy.

The downside is that the fire temperature is too low, and it only burns to the bottom of the Pill Furnace. It easily leads to uneven heating, greatly reducing the success rate of Alchemy.

Because it is cheap, many people still use it.

A better type of Charcoal Fire is Stone Charcoal, also known as Graphite.

Its temperature can reach over 1000 degrees Celsius and can be comparable to Earth fire.

Unfortunately, Graphite is difficult to mine. Usually, once a Graphite mine is discovered, the local dominant forces will immediately take control of it.

This also causes the price of Graphite to always remain high.

It is much more practical than Charcoal, not only lasting longer but also reaching very high temperatures.

Although its stability is a bit worse, it is still acceptable.

Apart from Charcoal and Stone Charcoal, there is an even higher-grade called Beast Charcoal. It is said that only from certain special birds and beasts can one obtain their inner core or Beast Bone to make Beast Charcoal.

When it burns, it releases blue flames, with a frighteningly high temperature.

Moreover, it can burn around the furnace wall like ordinary flames, evenly covering most of the Pill Furnace. Both its stability and endurance are excellent.

It’s just a pity that the price of Beast Charcoal is outrageously high and extremely rare.

Even Chu Feng, the Eternal Life Pill Master from his previous life at his most glorious times, couldn’t use Beast Charcoal recklessly.

Many Advanced Level Alchemists like to spend a lot of money to acquire a piece or two of Beast Charcoal for their collection. They only use it when refining particularly precious Medicinal Herbs or making particularly important Elixirs.

Just like many Sword Cultivators who spend a fortune on Elixirs and only use them when facing bottlenecks or challenging levels.

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An advanced Alchemy room costs one hundred silver taels a day. Chu Feng directly paid one thousand silver taels. Any excess will be refunded, and any shortage will be supplemented.

In the admiring gazes of the gatekeeping senior brother and He Ruoshui, among others, Chu Feng strode into the Alchemy Field. Unlike the living quarters, advanced Alchemy Rooms are built at the bottom of the valley, because the lower the terrain, the purer the Abnormal Fire drawn out and the higher the temperature.

Chu Feng did not immediately enter the Alchemy Room, instead heading to the trading area within the Alchemy Field.

Here, there are medicinal material stores set up by the Sect. As long as one has money, nearly any Medicinal Herb can be bought. If not, they can also be exchanged for Merit Points.

Besides, one can also sell the refined Elixirs back to the Sect.

However, the price is somewhat lower than the market price. Therefore, after refining the Elixirs, many choose to sell to other disciples of the Sect. In this way, they can earn a bit more.

Even though it’s morning, there are quite a few people setting up stalls to sell their own refined Elixirs.

Chu Feng only glanced briefly before entering the Sect’s Pharmacy.

Unlike the Profit-oriented pharmacies outside, the attendants here are all Sect disciples or people like Stewards. Each one is cold, not particularly enthusiastic.

Even as Chu Feng, this customer, stepped in, nobody greeted him.

Chu Feng approached the counter and closely examined the Medicinal Herbs displayed inside. Good heavens, he got quite the shock when he looked – much more than he expected.

The rare Medicinal Herbs within the counter were so numerous that they left Chu Feng’s head spinning.

Thousand-year-old medicinal herbs are ubiquitous. Those of ten thousand years are also plentiful.

As expected of the dominant Sect in the Northern Territory, with countless experts under its wing, the variety of resources obtained is quite substantial.

"Ten-thousand-year-old Crimson Yang Grass, selling for thirty thousand silver taels!"

"Ten-thousand-year-old Daluo Sword Grass, selling for fifty thousand silver taels!"

...

Chu Feng’s eyes couldn’t help but brighten as he fixed his gaze on the four stalks of ten-thousand-year-old Daluo Sword Grass inside the display cabinet.

Just taking out one of them would cause a sensation outside. Yet here, there were several.

The asking price was a bit higher than outside, which was understandable.

After all, the Sect was not foolish; to ensure that each herb was truly used on its Sect disciples. It was natural to prevent some from deliberately purchasing herbs at a low price from the Sect and then selling them to outsiders.

To profit from the price difference.

Last time at the auction, Chu Feng obtained a stalk of ten-thousand-year-old Daluo Sword Grass at the price of forty-five thousand silver taels.

The Sect’s selling price being five thousand taels more expensive was still acceptable.

If he wasn’t using silver to buy, he could also exchange for it using Merit Points. The listed Merit Points were five thousand points.

It seems one Merit Point is equivalent to ten silver taels.

"I only have just over thirty thousand silver taels on me, which is not enough to afford it. I can only think of ways to earn Merit Points to exchange. I wonder how many Merit Points I will be rewarded for saving Brother Pu Fazheng last time?"

Chu Feng made a round inside the Pharmacy, bought some auxiliary medicines for making the Heavenly Reversal Vein Elixir, and spent four thousand five hundred silver taels to purchase two stalks of over thousand-year-old Fish Liver Grass.

This was a medicinal herb with a strange shape that looked like the liver of a fish.

Long and slender, dark red. The root even had some scales.

Although the Pharmacy labeled it as thousand-year-old, it was actually much older. Ordinary Pharmacists would find it difficult to determine its exact age. Chu Feng picked out two stalks from a batch of Fish Liver Grass.

Both were more than three thousand years old.

It was quite a steal because he had the eye for it.

The Fish Liver Grass was not bought for his own use, but to refine a healing elixir for Han Xiaoying.

She was Chu Feng’s fiancée, deeply devoted to him, so Chu Feng naturally took good care of her.

Once prepared, Chu Feng entered an empty Advanced Alchemy Room.

The Alchemy Room was very clean, and it had various auxiliary medicines. Additionally, there was a soft bed for sleeping. The Pill Furnace was also made from Nine Fire Red Copper. As for the fire, there was no need to say, it was much purer than ordinary Earth fire, at least ten times so.

The flames were stable, the color very pure, it was quite a comfort to look at.

That soft bed was basically just for show; it was unlikely anyone would spend one hundred silver taels a day to sleep here. Unless they really had too much silver to spend, then perhaps.

...

Time flew by in the blink of an eye, and for the initial stages of alchemy, Chu Feng did not use his own Abnormal Fire.

Because the Earth fire inside the Alchemy Room was already fulfilling his Alchemy needs.

When refining the Heavenly Reversal Vein Elixir, due to the extreme preciousness of the Taiyin Golden Lotus, no mistakes could be allowed. Therefore, Chu Feng brought forth his Nine Yang Strange Fire for Alchemy.

Just as he called forth his Nine Yang Strange Fire, all the nearby Alchemy Rooms were affected.

All the flames in other Alchemy Rooms ’worshipped’ towards where Chu Feng was.

By chance, two Elders of the Sect who were also refining elixirs in this area. One was Han Xiaoying’s master, Elder Zhuang, and the other was Elder Shoumei.

Upon noticing the anomaly in their furnace fires, they were greatly startled.