After leaving Lǐ Mansion, Lǐ Yán immediately headed to the Alchemy Pavilion without stopping.
The receptionist wore a light blue qipao, her smile was friendly, and her eyes were intelligent and enthusiastic.
She had fair skin, delicate features, and carried herself with elegance and confidence, suggesting the Alchemy Pavilion had high standards.
This receptionist recognized Lǐ Yán at once. In Beast Rock City, almost everyone knew the Second Young Master of the Li family.
After all, someone both wealthy and with only one arm was a unique existence in this city.
Lǐ Yán took out a pen and paper and quickly wrote: "I need an alchemy room, for one month's rent. Please prepare one hundred portions of the above materials for me, and provide a Yellow Tier quality pill cauldron."
He listed a long string of materials, which left the receptionist dumbfounded.
She had never seen anyone require such a large quantity of materials for alchemy. What did this Second Young Master Li intend to do.
These materials combined were worth over three thousand low-grade spirit stones, undoubtedly bringing considerable revenue to the Alchemy Pavilion.
The receptionist then smiled and led him to an alchemy room, quickly preparing the required materials and cauldron.
In this beast taming world, alchemists were few and far between.
The reason was that alchemy was both expensive and not always successful.
In this world, the inheritance of elixirs was extremely scarce, leading to severe polarization.
Some people couldn't refine elixirs due to lack of resources, while others benefited greatly from an abundance of resources.
Although the Alchemy Pavilion offered some books as reference, which contained some basic alchemy insights.
Unfortunately, there were no ready-made Pill Recipes here.
What was worse, the accuracy of these insights was hard to guarantee, and finding or creating Pill Recipes relied on personal exploration and experimentation.
Suddenly, he realized he had overlooked something: the White Rank Talent Awakening Pill he had obtained earlier had not been used yet.
So he summoned Shíliú. By now, Shíliú had grown a mouth, and it gazed longingly at the White Rank Talent Awakening Pill before it.
Shíliú had been stuck at the third layer for a long time. If it could break through to the fifth layer.
It would receive a Talent Ball as a reward, and he hoped for an excellent talent.
After Shíliú took the Awakening Pill, it curled into a ball.
Seeing this, Lǐ Yán took out twenty low-grade rock crystals and placed them around it. Now, they could only wait for Shíliú to absorb and digest these resources.
Afterward, he went to the pill cauldron. The alchemical fire here was provided by the Alchemy Pavilion, originating from a special fire stone that could spontaneously release heat.
Through the control of Mental Power, this fire stone's combustion was similar to a gas stove.
He could only imitate the alchemy process he had seen the Flame Emperor perform, first refining each material, and then merging them.
According to this method, it should theoretically be possible to refine elixirs.
In the following days, he continuously practiced refining medicinal materials, a process that was extremely monotonous and tedious.
It required extremely precise temperature control and gradual refinement.
The first medicinal material he attempted to refine was the Golden Silk Vine, which was two meters long.
He refined ten portions in a row before finally succeeding in melting down one portion of pure medicinal material.
However, the impurities were still numerous, and the entire process consumed a full ten days.
Using Mental Power to control the alchemical fire for refinement placed an immense strain on his Mental Power.
So, he began to try the other four medicinal materials, only to discover that the one he had initially chosen was the most difficult.
He had initially thought that low-grade rock crystal would be the most difficult, but it turned out that using a large fire for refinement was actually faster.
Now, the main challenge he faced was controlling the heat; he had to shorten the refinement time, otherwise his Mental Power would be exhausted during the fusion of medicinal materials.
After a month of diligent effort, Lǐ Yán could refine the five medicinal materials within an hour.
Looking at the liquid forms of these materials, he couldn't help but exclaim: "Refining elixirs is no less difficult than Artifact Refining. Fortunately, my Mental Power was also trained during Artifact Refining, otherwise it might have taken me half a year to reach my current level. However, the subsequent fusion stage will be a problem."
Just half a month ago, Lǐ Yán had attempted fusion for the first time, and the cauldron exploded in less than a minute.
This was his second attempt at fusion. Over the next half month, he continuously studied the properties of each medicinal material and listed three possible methods.
These five medicinal materials corresponded to the Five Elements. The first method was to use the principle of mutual generation and restraint to fuse them, merging all five medicinal materials together simultaneously. This required extremely high control of Mental Power and delicate manipulation of the alchemical fire. In fact, he had already tried this method half a month ago.
The second method was to gradually fuse each medicinal material according to its mutual generation and restraint properties. This method demanded high endurance of Mental Power but reduced the difficulty of controlling the alchemical fire. Currently, his Mental Power could only sustain him for one hour of refining.
The third method was to use one medicinal material as the main component and gradually add the refined liquids of the other two medicinal materials in batches to fuse them, thereby counteracting their mutual impact. This method sped up the refining process and could be considered a combination of the first two methods.
He decided to try the second alchemy method first.
Soon, he successfully converted the Golden Silk Vine into liquid form, considering it the core component of the elixir.
Following that, he began to refine the low-grade darkwood and gradually fused it with the Golden Silk Vine.
Despite the counteracting issues, with patient handling, the fusion process did not encounter significant difficulties, only consuming more time.
After a quarter of an hour, the two materials were finally integrated.
Following this, he continued to refine the Water Reed Grass, discovering that refining one material individually took five minutes, while the fusion process required fifteen minutes.
For each medicinal material, the entire process from refining to fusion took approximately twenty minutes.
With Lǐ Yán's current Mental Power, he could only sustain the alchemy process for one hour.
When he reached the refinement of Flame Grass, his Mental Power was almost depleted, and as expected, the cauldron exploded again.
After careful consideration, Lǐ Yán decided to adopt the third method, hoping to successfully fuse the elixir this time.
In terms of time, the third method was indeed more economical, but it required extremely high control of Mental Power, allowing for no mistakes.
Simultaneously refining two medicinal materials took about seven minutes. If this time could be shortened to five minutes, the possibility of successful refinement would greatly increase.
Therefore, Lǐ Yán began practicing refining two medicinal materials simultaneously.
After two weeks of arduous practice, he finally managed to shorten the time to within five minutes.
He had not yet attempted to fuse two medicinal materials simultaneously into a main medicinal ingredient.
Since he only had the Pill Recipe in hand, he had to constantly experiment to successfully refine this elixir.
So, he began his third proposed method.
Ten minutes later, all three medicinal materials were successfully liquefied, with Golden Silk Vine as the main ingredient, and the other two being low-grade darkwood and low-grade rock crystal.
Next, he began his first fusion attempt.
As the three medicinal energies converged, Lǐ Yán felt a chaotic aura.
The three medicinal materials were struggling to fuse, and he now had to temporarily stabilize these three liquid medicinal materials, ensuring they wouldn't collapse.