Research-Style Cultivation, Starting by Refusing to Be a Furnace – Chapter 24

Ch 24: Pill Fire

Half a month later, inside the cave abode.

After recovering, Wei Xing’s shrunken Qi cyclone returned to the size of a candlelight.

“Now that I have entered the Dao Breath and have some Spiritual Power, it’s time to try refining pills,” Wei Xing stared at the Pill Dao Annotations given by Dan Qi, eager to give it a try.

The Pill Dao Annotations have detailed explanations, the first of which is about the classification of Pill Fire. The so-called Pill Fire is the classification of flames needed for refining pills after entering the Dao Breath and converting one’s Spiritual Power into flames: “Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth,” corresponding to five colors, “【”, “『”, “✿”, “”, “<". People with various attribute Pill Fires will be more compatible with the corresponding attribute pills during pill refining, greatly increasing the probability of pill formation.

“I wonder what attribute my Pill Fire is?” Wei Xing looked at the pill furnace in front of him, eager to verify his Pill Fire attribute.

“According to what the Pill Dao Annotations say, let’s give it a try.”

The Pill Dao Annotations said that Spiritual Power can be converted into Pill Fire and released, but Wei Xing tried and failed.

“Could it be that my Spiritual Power is weak and the output is not enough?” According to his own idea, Wei Xing gathered most of the Spiritual Power in his body, and then converted Pill Fire according to what the Pill Dao Annotations said. This time it worked!

It’s just that the price of success was a bit high, and the power of the Pill Fire condensed from the Spiritual Power of the whole body was a bit too much.

“Boom!” The Pill Fire surged up all at once, and the cyan flame expanded instantly. Then the Spiritual Power in the body was originally converted into Pill Fire, but now it became the fuel to supply the Pill Fire, making the fire even greater.

Wei Xing hurriedly interrupted, but it was still a step too late. He was covered by the Pill Fire he had created. This Pill Fire could not be extinguished, but slowly extinguished as Wei Xing’s Spiritual Power was interrupted.

When Wei Xing walked out of the pill refining room, one of his eyebrows was burned off, a small half of his hair was burnt, the clothes on his body were basically burned with large holes, revealing some red skin, and half of his shoes were also burned off.

“I’m too unlucky!” Wei Xing limped out, looking at the sky with grievance and shouting.

Wei Xing tried many times. Too little Spiritual Power wouldn’t work, and too much Spiritual Power wouldn’t work. It was necessary to control a reasonable degree. For someone who had never been exposed to Pill Fire, how could it be so easy?

When he was able to slightly stabilize the Pill Fire in his hand, Wei Xing nodded in satisfaction as he looked at the constantly jumping cyan flame.

This time, Wei Xing thought that condensing Pill Fire was very ‘failed’, but if the outside world knew that he had condensed Pill Fire in just one day, it would probably cause a huge uproar.

The cyan flame, like an elf, jumped in Wei Xing’s hand, cheerful and lively. Wei Xing recorded the current Spiritual Power output, and only one-third of the Spiritual Power of the whole body could condense Pill Fire.

“What about the remaining proportions? What will it be like? Why not give it a try?”.

Thinking of this, Wei Xing stopped the Cultivation Method, and then re-operated the Spiritual Power in the Qi cyclone, and began to control the proportion and constantly experiment, from Spiritual Energy accounting for one-fifth, one-quarter, one-third, and one-half.

It’s just that the other proportions were not successful. Instead, when Wei Xing controlled half of the Spiritual Power of his whole body to condense Pill Fire, the Pill Fire suddenly became very strong.

It was a bit difficult for Wei Xing to form Pill Fire by mobilizing half of his Spiritual Power, and constantly maintain Pill Fire with half of his Spiritual Power. Looking at the vigorous Pill Fire in his hand that was shaking and about to collapse, he seemed to hear the sound of his heart beating wildly.

“No, it can’t collapse. I still have to stabilize it first. Otherwise, if I get burned by Pill Fire once, and then again, I will be disabled even if I don’t die!” Wei Xing looked at the unstable Pill Fire above his hand, and was very nervous.

On the one hand, he kept increasing the Spiritual Power output in his hand, and on the other hand, he slowly terminated the Qi cyclone’s absorption of Spiritual Energy, trying to slowly terminate this Pill Fire experiment. In just one breath, bean-sized beads of sweat appeared on Wei Xing’s forehead. “Pa Da, Pa Da” As the beads of sweat fell on the ground, Wei Xing did not dare to relax at all. Finally, the Pill Fire that seemed to be collapsing slowly stabilized its shape, forming a ball of flame swaying above Wei Xing’s hand, and the brightness was constantly dimming.

“Woohoo,” Wei Xing let out a long sigh of relief, and wiped his forehead with the other hand and said, “Fortunately, fortunately, it’s finally coming to an end.”

At this moment, an accident happened. The Pill Fire, which seemed to be gradually dimming, suddenly brightened, and the remaining Spiritual Power in Wei Xing’s body surged towards the Pill Fire uncontrollably, right under Wei Xing’s gaze.

“Boom!” The Pill Fire turned golden, the flame was dazzling and had a sharpness, as if it was unstoppable!

Looking at the golden flame constantly flickering at his fingertips, Wei Xing was speechless for a while. The Pill Fire, which almost killed him, had changed color again.

Wei Xing didn’t know how to explain it. The Pill Dao Annotations stated that the Pill Fire of Pill Refiner Cultivators is innate. When they enter the Dao Breath and condense the Qi cyclone, they can form Pill Fire. Each Pill Refiner corresponds to one of the five attribute Pill Fires.

“How did I form a golden Pill Fire again! Didn’t you say that you can only correspond to one of the five types? What’s going on?” Wei Xing was a little confused.

When Wei Xing mobilized one-third of the Spiritual Power of his whole body to condense Pill Fire, the Pill Fire was cyan, but when Wei Xing mobilized half of the Spiritual Power of his whole body to condense Pill Fire, it turned golden again.

Wei Xing thought for a long time but couldn’t explain it, so he simply didn’t think about it: “Never mind, now that the Pill Fire has been formed, I think I can try refining some basic pills.”

“Last time I asked Seventh Senior Brother, and the Senior Brother gave me this Pill Dao Annotations, which only has Qi Blood Pill, Spirit Gathering Pill and other fundamental pill recipes. These pills are basically for replenishing Qi and Blood and replenishing Essence, but there are no pills for breaking through the realm and healing injuries,” Wei Xing stared at the Pill Dao Annotations in front of him again and again, feeling very strange.

“Since the opening chapter divides Pill Fire into five categories, then the corresponding pill attributes should at least have five different directional systems. Why are there only a few articles in the temple? Is it missing or deliberately hidden?”

The more Wei Xing thought about it, the more wrong he felt, and he began to sort out these clues in an orderly manner.

Looking at the cyan flame in his hand, Wei Xing felt that this Pill Dao Annotations should be missing a lot of things, or it was not comprehensive.

“According to the introduction in the Pill Dao Annotations, this cyan flame should correspond to the Wood attribute, but what kind of pills does the Wood attribute mainly correspond to? Which attribute does the golden flame correspond to?” Wei Xing didn’t know these things.

“It seems that I still need to ask. I asked Seventh Senior Brother last time, but he couldn’t answer it. It seems that Fifth Senior Brother is the one who knows the most among the brothers,” Wei Xing looked at his current appearance and said helplessly: “It’s just that this image still needs to be changed. I can’t meet people without an eyebrow, right?”

The next day, early morning.

“Fifth Senior Brother, are you there?” Wei Xing shouted outside Dan Wu’s cave abode.

Dan Wu opened the courtyard gate and saw a person wearing a bamboo hat, a cyan gauze on his face, and wrapped tightly, frowning and said, “Who are you?”.

“Fifth Senior Brother, it’s me, I’m Xiao Jiu.”

“So it’s Ninth Junior Brother, why are you wrapped so tightly? Senior Brother can’t recognize you,” Dan Wu said with a smile.

“Senior Brother, I have some questions, I want to ask Senior Brother,” Wei Xing continued.

“Come in.”

Dan Wu led Wei Xing into the cave abode, and the two sat face to face.

“Fifth Senior Brother, I have some doubts when I read the Pill Dao Annotations, I want to ask,” Wei Xing said.

“Oh! Our smart Ninth Junior Brother rarely has times when he doesn’t know, tell me, I, as a Senior Brother, will listen,” Dan Wu said teasingly after hearing this.

“It is said in the Pill Dao Annotations that Pill Fire is divided into five categories, corresponding to different colors, which can increase the success rate of pills with corresponding attributes, but it does not say what types of pills these five types of Pill Fire correspond to. I wonder if Senior Brother knows anything about it, and please help Junior Brother solve the confusion,” Wei Xing said his doubts.

Dan Wu nodded while listening, and after Wei Xing said his doubts, he said with an embarrassed expression: “This Senior Brother doesn’t know either. I only know that there are so many contents in the Pill Dao Annotations on Dan Peak, but I don’t know the specific reason.”

Dan Wu looked at Wei Xing asking about Pill Fire, and said excitedly: “Ninth Junior Brother, have you condensed Pill Fire? What is the attribute? Tell Senior Brother quickly, what is the attribute?”

“Ouch, Senior Brother, you pinched me,” Dan Wu was seen shaking Wei Xing’s arm back and forth with both hands. Wei Xing shouted before he let go, and then said: “Fifth Senior Brother, I have not condensed Pill Fire, and I have not even entered the Dao Breath. How can I have Pill Fire? I’m just curious about the Pill Dao Annotations and came to ask you.”

“Since Senior Brother doesn’t know either, Xiao Jiu will take his leave.” After Wei Xing finished speaking, his face was full of disappointment, and he didn’t stay any longer, and left.

Dan Wu silently looked at Wei Xing’s departing figure, and remained silent for a long time.