Martial Master

Joining all the materials at once?

Xiao Ya's mouth twitched, nearly spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Does Qin Chen even know how to refine medicine? Any pill requires the herbs to be added one by one to ensure the purity of the extraction and the order of their integration.

But now, Qin Chen actually asked her to put all the herbs into the cauldron together.

With so many herbs reacting simultaneously in the cauldron, the end result would inevitably be one: all the herbs would be destroyed, with no other possibility.

Thinking of the previous promise, Xiao Ya, despite her disbelief, followed Qin Chen's instructions and placed all the herbs into the cauldron.

At this moment, Qin Chen suddenly moved beside her.

Whoosh!

He swiftly circled around the array, forming seals with his hands and striking the array. Suddenly, the patterns on the fire gathering array lit up with varying degrees of brightness.

In an instant, the array-controlled flames permeating the three cauldrons started to change drastically in warmth.

Three flames of completely different temperatures were burning in the three different cauldrons.

Not only was the temperature of the flames beneath the three cauldrons different, but even within a single flame, there were significant temperature variations in different parts.

What is going on?

Xiao Ya, who was operating according to Qin Chen's commands, momentarily froze, staring in shock at the scene. Her cherry lips parted as she murmured: with the same array, how can three completely different flames be produced? Shouldn't the array be unified? Even if the released flames have some differences, how could there be such a large gap? How is this possible?

Not only were the three cauldrons' flames different, but the flames beneath each cauldron were constantly changing. Am I seeing things?

Liu Guang was even more shocked, his eyes bulging out of their sockets.

You must know, the first step in refining any pill is to purify the herbs, which means extracting the medicinal properties from the herbs using fire.

And since each type of herb has different properties, the temperatures required for purification and smelting also vary.

What the alchemist needs to do is control the temperature of the flames using their mental strength, ensuring the cauldron reaches the desired temperature.

However, any refining array is supposed to be unified.

Although stimulating the array makes it easier for the alchemist to control the refining temperature,

the array also has a significant feature: it follows a fixed pattern, making it hard to separate different temperatures. Thus, it often tests the alchemist's fire control ability.

This was also why Xiao Ya and Liu Guang were so shocked at Qin Chen refining three types of pills simultaneously at first.

Because to melt these three types of pills, the required flames are different, yet the same fire gathering array cannot display so many types of flames at once.

But what Qin Chen is showing now completely overturns Xiao Ya's and their understanding.

In an instant, both of them were dazed, their movements paused.

Xiao Ya, the Pavilion Master, what are you doing? Hurry up and control the array!

With a moment's distraction, the fire gathering array immediately fluctuated, and the three flames under the cauldrons also surged violently.

Hearing Qin Chen's furious shout, Xiao Ya snapped back to reality from her shock.

However, due to her mistake,

the herbs thrown into the cauldron suddenly became unstable, rich medicinal energy crashing within the cauldron, turning violent. The entire cauldron trembled, as if it were about to explode at any moment.

Not good!

Xiao Ya was taken aback.

This time, the refining is a failure.

Her heart sank, and a look of self-reproach appeared in her eyes.

Once the medicinal properties become violent, the entire refining process is basically considered a failure, and it's nearly impossible to turn it back around.

After all, each cauldron contains at least a dozen types of herbs and at most several dozen.

If they were added one by one, it would be manageable, but she had added all the herbs at once earlier. Once the medicinal effects lose balance, with so many herbs reacting to one another, trying to restore it would be nearly an impossible task.