Back at the villa, neither Yan Ling nor Luo Jingxuan had returned, so Ye Luo went straight to his room to begin his alchemy plan.

Sitting on the bed, Ye Luo first absorbed the Spiritual Energy from the Emperor Green Jade to rapidly restore his own True Qi.

After about ten minutes, Ye Luo’s strength had fully recovered. With a wave of his hand, the Sanqing Pill Furnace appeared in front of him and quickly enlarged.

Ye Luo then took out all the medicinal ingredients and began to classify them, including the Blood Lingzhi.

Ye Luo planned to refine four types of elixirs, which included the Tianyang Pill to enhance his own strength and the Blood Coagulation Pill to treat Liu Xiner’s cerebral freeze.

The remaining ones were the Revitalizing Pill and another kind of elixir intended to help Hu Zi’s father recover from liver cancer; As for the Revitalizing Pill, Ye Luo intended to exchange it with Situ Luoyun for that jade Guanyin statue.

The Revitalizing Pill was an elixir that could improve human life functions, simply put, it could rejuvenate and was particularly effective for the elderly.

Ye Luo believed that Situ Luoyun would definitely agree to exchange the jade sculpture with him, knowing the value of this pill. Although the Revitalizing Pill was very valuable, it was of little use to Ye Luo; on the other hand, the jade Guanyin, which contained a large amount of Spiritual Energy, was far more tempting to him.

Although this was not Ye Luo’s first time practicing alchemy, it was his first time doing it alone, and his mood was naturally somewhat heavy.

There are three major steps to elixir refinement: the first step is to extract the essence of the ingredients, the second step is to fuse the essences together, and the third step is to condense them into a pill.

An error cannot occur in any of these steps, otherwise this alchemy attempt would fail, and for Ye Luo, failure was not an option, as it would be an embarrassment.

If his master, the old man, found out, he would probably berate Ye Luo for losing face, then give him a thrashing. Just the thought of that scene made Ye Luo shudder.

After preparing everything thoroughly, Ye Luo officially began refining the elixirs, starting with the Revitalizing Pill, which was the simplest of the three varieties he intended to create.

The necessary ingredients for the Revitalizing Pill were only three: Tianchun Branch, Hundred Grasses Dry, and Clover. The value of these three ingredients was not very high.

However, probably only Ye Luo and his master could refine these ingredients into a Revitalizing Pill because the formula for these elixirs was created exclusively by his master and passed down to only him.

Concentrate Nine Yang True Qi, condense the fire of Nine Yang!

Ye Luo shouted softly as he quickly waved his hands. The Nine Yang True Qi surged out of his body and rapidly condensed into the Fire of Nine Yang.

With a whoosh, a ball of bright yellow flame appeared in Ye Luo’s right hand. Then with a flick of his wrist, the ball of Nine Yang Fire entered the Fenglong Mouth of the Sanqing Pill Furnace, immediately causing the temperature of the entire Pill Furnace to rapidly rise.

The major difference between this Spiritual Artifact-grade Pill Furnace and ordinary furnaces was that the latter required the owner to constantly supply fire to keep it burning, whereas this Spiritual Artifact Pill Furnace only needed an infusion of a ball of flame to maintain combustion autonomously without extinguishing, saving much of the alchemist’s energy and True Qi.

The very next second, with a wave of his hand, Ye Luo placed the Tianchun Branch into the Pill Furnace first. Under his mental control, the lid was placed on top of the Furnace, and the Fire of Nine Yang began to burn, extracting the essence from the ingredients.

Ye Luo’s Clairvoyant Eye was activated, closely monitoring the situation inside the Pill Furnace to prevent the possibility that prolonged firing might completely burn away the essence of the ingredients, which could cause trouble.

Fortunately, Ye Luo possessed the Clairvoyant Eye, which helped him avoid a considerable trouble. For those who practice alchemy must always pay attention to the condition of the Pill Furnace, thus requiring great Soul Power to monitor it.

But Ye Luo did not need this; his Clairvoyant Eye allowed him to see directly into the Pill Furnace.

After a moment, under the observation of Ye Luo’s Clairvoyant Eye, the sprig of Tianchun within the Pill Furnace had transformed into a pool of medicinal juice,—the essence of the herb.

With a thought, Ye Luo opened the lid of the furnace, and controlled the medicinal juice within to pour it into a small bottle, then continued with refining the remaining two types of medicinal ingredients.

This first step was fairly simple for Ye Luo. With the Clairvoyant Eye always watching, as soon as the flames became too intense, he could instantly adjust them, thus ensuring the ingredients were not ruined.

However, if other alchemists saw this, they would certainly be astonished since even this first step would be difficult to achieve without any errors for those who had studied alchemy for decades.

After refining all three ingredients into essence juices, Ye Luo began the second step of merging them together. This step was prone to mistakes as well; should the control falter, there was a risk of the furnace exploding, destroying all the ingredients.

But the ingredients for the Revitalizing Pill were relatively simple, and Ye Luo smoothly completed this step, fully fusing the three ingredients. Then, he employed the Alchemy Technique passed down by his master and condensed the ingredients within the Sanqing Pill Furnace into pills.

This process consumed a great deal of mental focus, and Ye Luo also needed to control the Nine Yang Fire, managing the temperature to prevent damaging the medicinal efficacy of the Elixirs.

The process lasted a full half an hour. After spending a third of the True Qi within his Dantian, Ye Luo shouted forcefully and struck a hand seal.

All laws of heaven and earth, the fusion of Yin and Yang, the technique of Qian and Kun, coalesce into a pill!

Boom!

A profound hand seal struck upon the Sanqing Pill Furnace, immediately causing a thunderous roar from within, and the furnace shook violently.

A thick fragrance of medicinal herbs wafted from the air vent of the furnace. With a glance from his Clairvoyant Eye, Ye Luo could see a green pill the size of a thumb had already formed within the furnace.

"It’s formed into a pill!"

A smile graced Ye Luo’s face as he acted upon his will, causing the furnace lid to fly open and the Revitalizing Pill to shoot out. With a wave of his hand, he caught the pill, and a rich, refreshing scent enveloped him, giving a liveliness that rejuvenated his somewhat weary mind and made him feel clear and refreshed.

"Not bad, the quality is quite good."

Ye Luo nodded in satisfaction with his own independently refined first pill and took out a specially made porcelain bottle to store the Revitalizing Pill.

Next was the refinement of the Blood Coagulation Pill, which demanded a higher level of precision and complexity compared to the Revitalizing Pill, with more intricate requirements for refining the ingredients.

This resulted in an explosion during the second step of ingredient fusion, as with a bang, the materials directly caused the furnace to explode, destroying all the ingredients.

Luckily, Ye Luo had obtained a rather large Lingzhi mushroom and had not put it all into the furnace; otherwise, if it were all destroyed, the Blood Coagulation Pill would have been impossible to make.