Among all the heavens, I, Xiao Yan, did not use any cheat codes.

Chapter 9: Adding an entry to the term "elixir"

In the world of Under One Person, Xiao Yan learned more than just the Divine Strategist Hundred Refinements from Ma Xianhong.

I also learned some strange things.

Take, for example, the logic behind that self-cultivation furnace.

It can simulate the circulation of Qi within a superhuman's body, treating those who enter the furnace like magical artifacts, imprinting that special circulation within their bodies, allowing them to transcend the mundane and become superhumans.

In Xiao Yan's view, this is actually just using the techniques of weapon forging on people instead of weapons.

The supernatural powers of magical artifacts, in a certain sense, are similar to the energy flow in the human body, or in essence, they are not that different.

Based on this theory, Xiao Yan and Ma Xianhong studied it for a period of time and successfully developed the Divine Machine Hundred Refinements in depth.

This includes, but is not limited to, treating a ritual implement as a person for practice, and treating a person as a ritual implement for practice.

Ma Xianhong once wanted to create a magical artifact that could grow autonomously like a human, or even to refine a human into something like a magical artifact.

Xiao Yan didn't know how effective it would be, but he felt that he had found a different path.

"The first thing is to incorporate some of the techniques I have mastered into the pills to create special pills."

Inside the cave, half a month passed in the blink of an eye. Xiao Yan pointed to the pill with eight cloud patterns in front of him and raised an eyebrow at Yao Chen.

"The Eight Extremes Pill borrows some of the logic from the Eight Extremes Collapse." Under Yao Chen's somewhat bewildered gaze, Xiao Yan took out two Eight Extremes Pills, swallowed one directly, and fully demonstrated the circulation of his Dou Qi.

"After refining, the medicinal power of this pill is not released all at once, but rather it is layered together and flows slowly until it encounters a constraint. Multiple layers are superimposed and then erupt at once. If this pattern is applied to healing pills such as the Rejuvenation Pill, it will heal hidden injuries, while Qi-Returning Powder will repair blockages in the meridians."

However, pills that increase cultivation level can have the effect of breaking through realms.

Looking at the dumbfounded Yao Chen, Xiao Yan was beaming with delight.

"I just went to rest for half a month, and you actually came up with something so incredible?" Yao Chen's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

Half a month ago, after Xiao Yan used his extraordinary wisdom to create explosives, he felt a headache coming on. After teaching everything he needed to, he decided to take a nap to recover.

How come Xiao Yan managed to create something like this in just half a month?

Is this reasonable?

Is he cheating?!

Seeing that the other party was becoming increasingly incredulous, Xiao Yan immediately coughed.

It was just a matter of using simulations to test things out multiple times in the gray fog space at night... cough cough, nothing to mention.

It's a pity that his battle qi is not yet strong enough to take shape, and he can't use energy to refine pills like in the novels he read in his previous life. Perhaps this is something he can study later.

"Of course, I'm only talking about the ideal effect. It's still in its early stages. It's just like giving the pill a buff."

Generally speaking, it can be divided into internal alchemy and external alchemy. Internal alchemy is what we had before, while external alchemy…”

As he spoke, Xiao Yan flicked another pill with his finger.

At this moment, there is an additional target specially crafted by Xiao Yan in the cave, compared to half a month ago.

With a thought, the pill was instantly detonated, its energy condensed abnormally, and five explosions rang out simultaneously, blasting the target into dust.

It's still explosives...

"Fifteen days, at most, you've only practiced Eight Extremes Collapse for less than a month, and you're already close to mastering it?"

This can actually be put into pills?

"You're still not satisfied? What else do you want?"

Although this thing is currently insignificant and far inferior to the wonders of high-grade pills, and even based on his experience as a top-tier eighth-grade alchemist, this technique might not be very useful after the fifth or sixth grade, Xiao Yan is only 15 years old! He has just come into contact with alchemy and can already create such an imaginative work!

"Teacher, I have two ideas about this." After showing Yao Lao the results of his work over the past period, Xiao Yan rubbed his chin.

"The most important thing in alchemy is to fully bring out the essence of the medicinal materials themselves, and then supplement them with various rare and exotic herbs to enhance them and achieve a 1+1>2 effect."

Being able to do this already makes one a good alchemist. The best alchemists can make the same materials produce twice the effect.

It's also recorded in the pharmacopoeia you gave me that some special alchemical cauldrons seem to be able to impart special effects to elixirs.

Some alchemists, due to their unique battle qi, can imbue their pills with special effects.

The more Xiao Yan spoke, the more his thoughts became.

"So I currently have two ideas. First, I want to broaden my enchanting methods and add more special attributes for both internal and external use."

Another is to search for energy or materials with special properties.

"Teacher, can we also refine elixirs using pure elemental energy of heaven and earth?"

Upon hearing this, the old apothecary paused for a moment, pondered for a while, and then nodded.

While it's true that you can use the primordial energy of heaven and earth to refine medicine, it's practically useless.

Those kinds of pills, once refined, have no effect on those who can take them, and those who can take them cannot take them.

When he met Xiao Yan's gaze, he understood what the other wanted to say.

"A special flame? Do you intend to refine a special flame into a pill?"

Upon hearing this, the old apothecary felt it was a wild and imaginative idea, but upon closer examination, it seemed not entirely impossible.

After all, Xiao Yan is skilled in sealing and weapon crafting, so it's not unreasonable to consider this as a future experiment, since flames themselves are a form of violent energy.

Some medicinal herbs may not be much inferior to the effects of strange fire.

Even for high-level herbs, ordinary strange fire is nothing compared to what you find on the roadside; it can't compare in terms of either energy or effect.

"I've been thinking about this too, teacher. Do you think it's feasible?"

Xiao Yan nodded. If he had enough life force, he would have wanted to use it to refine pills.

He even considered trying to separate his spiritual energy or battle qi to refine pills.

Unfortunately, I can't tell them apart.

Moreover, this idea wasn't something Xiao Yan just came up with randomly; it was based on something.

It doesn't make sense that the magic cores of magical beasts, the spiritual liquids and jade marrow nourished by heaven and earth can be used for alchemy, but strange fires and the like can't.

"Then obtaining the Strange Flame can be put on the agenda... Right now, the low-level Yellow Rank Burning Technique is still slowing down your cultivation speed too much... um."

After glancing at Xiao Yan's strength, which was nearly that of a two-star Dou Zhe, Yao Chen's lips twitched involuntarily halfway through his sentence.

Is it possible to increase one star in strength within half a month simply by refining pills daily?

That's really weird.

Yao Chen just wanted to say that although he was a genius, Xiao Yan was an even greater genius in his eyes.

It's as if there are no bottlenecks in cultivation; as long as there's enough energy, one's cultivation level can soar like a rocket.

"So, teacher, what are your plans?" With a sigh, I realized that as people get older, they tend to reminisce about the past.

Xiao Yan did not interrupt, but waited until Yao Lao finished thinking before speaking silently.

As an alchemist and a semi-artificial weapon refiner, Xiao Yan felt that he really needed to create a special flame that could solve many problems on his path.

Huh? With the Burning Technique, he seems to be able to obtain special flames from other worlds, and unsurprisingly, he seems to have become the nemesis of flames?

I wonder if there's any world where someone can transform into flames, or something immune to fire...