Chapter 437 Success

"What is that new disciple doing?" one of the people in the room asked. They were occupied with their own alchemy but seeing the strangeness of Shen Bao's actions they were all wondering what this new guy was doing.

Instead of cleaning the old cracked and clearly dilapidated furnace, he was actually smacking it. Which could probably cause it to fracture even further.

Yet after a while, all the gunk inside the furnace seemed to be ejected due to the force of the slaps it took.

What a pitiful furnace they thought.

Then, without further ado, instead of refining the ingredients, the new disciple started by heating the furnace. Not using the Heartfire that was supplied by the sect under each alchemy position. But using his own internal Qi.

It wasn't that strange, since many cultivators opt to use their own Qi to heat up furnaces, but that isn't easy. It requires incredible focus to keep the Qi flowing constantly not to perturb the temperatures. And also requires great Qi reserves. Only Soul Transformation alchemists dare to try something like that, and even with their vast Qi reserves, it barely makes the cut to refine a pill using their internal Qi.

As for someone who is just at the Soul Formation, attempting such a technique is bound to fully exhaust his reserves before the pot could even heat up properly.

Yet, unlike what most of the observants thought, the pot seemed to slowly heat up and gain a redder sheen. Which was even more absurd. Since that pot was made from Cold Steel, it should reject Heat to a great degree. It's not a pot that is used to make Yang Based Pills. And even if someone were to try and use it to refine Yin-based Qi, unless they have the Cold Qi properties of Yin, they'll never be able to use it.

That cauldron is only used to make cold pills and only uses coldness as a way to make pills. While this new kid is using heat instead.

Failure wasn't even a possibility, it was a fact if he were to continue doing this.

Yet, he still continued heating up the cauldron.

After a while, the cauldron looked smoking hot, but it didn't have anything inside it.

Now, this was an amateurish mistake. The moment the new disciple tries and put one of the herbs inside the cauldron, the herb would burn and turn to ash. Alchemy isn't something to be trifled with and this lad is just randomly doing things now.

But against what many expected Shen Bao to do. He didn't throw any herb inside the cauldron. But took one of the herbs and crushed it using the strength of his palms. Extracting liquid essence with sheer pressure.

He used his own Qi to hold the liquid essence of the herbs held in stasis above the smoldering cauldron. And then crushed the second herb and third.

Several globules of liquid hovered above the cauldron as if they were floating. And then, Shen Bao pushed the essences into each other, mixing them above the cauldron. Not only that, he even pulled a herb that was not a part of the recipe.

It was a Thousand-Faced Ice Flower. An extremely cold-based herb that would freeze a person's arm if touched directly.

What Shen Bao did was crush it again, using his own unprotected palms to extract the cold essence from it. He then used the cold essence to coat the former mix of essences creating a cold barrier.

Once the orb of essence was finished, he slowly pushed it down into the smoldering cauldron.

And not only did he push it down, but he also increased the heat in the cauldron to incredible degrees.

Green flames stronger than the flames of hell itself surged from the insides of the cauldron.

"Cover that damn thing!" shouted the elder.

But Shen Bao only looked at the elder and smiled. He didn't even cover the cauldron.

With Qi so strong, and a fire so abundant and powerful, it was nothing but a question of when will the cauldron break. And cause an explosion.

And visibly so, from the cracks that began appearing around the cauldron, the cauldron would blow in no time.

Many disciples began removing themselves from Shen Bao, preparing for the inevitable explosion. But nothing seemed to happen even when Shen Bao further increased the heat. In fact, it seemed that the more heat he poured, the colder the temperature gets.

The confusion began to surface and appear on the face of everyone present.

What sort of alchemy is this?!

***

'Okay, this should do it, now with the Essence of the Thousand Face Ice Flower fully depleted, the internal essence to make the Soul Wrenching Pill should start fusing together. The heat is strong enough to start the process, and now all I need to do is cut the flow of the Heart Flame.'

With the cauldron having reached maximum heat, now the Cold Steel part should start working.

I removed my hands to cut off the flow of Qi, and the Cauldron began to rapidly cool. Which was imperative in forming this type of pill.

Soul Pills are hard to make because they need to be heated to a specific degree and immediately removed from the cauldron to cool down. Sadly heat is always preserved inside the pill which results in lowering the quality of Soul Pills. It's almost impossible to make perfect Soul Pills due to this issue. But the poison god had already figured out a way to solve this. It was by simply overheating the pill and then rapidly cooling it down. The temperature change will be the needed Quench for the pill to form and fuse before it starts losing its quality due to the excessive heat that usually remains inside it after pill making.

Having the Cold Steel cauldron helped me greatly here since I don't need to personally cool down the pills as I used to do. But the cauldron itself will be the one to do this.

When I was using my original body, I had to bypass this process by making cooling inscriptions inside the furnace. But using Shen Mo's body, I could only use this furnace to bypass this issue. Which seemed to be working perfectly.

It didn't take long before the cauldron had fully cooled down, and once that was done, I pulled six pills from inside the cauldron.

I smiled as I gazed at the pills.

Because the moment the pills in my hand were presented to the world, the heavens high above rumbled.

"Nice, another Cloud Patterned Pill," I said.

"What?!" the elder shouted as he rushed towards me, "Let me see!" he said.

I disliked his forceful attitude.

"You don't need to see, can't you hear it? the heavens are my witnesses for this," I said as I pointed up.

He only needed to spread his Divine Sense a bit to realize that it was actually a Pill Tribulation.

"What in the world?!"

I placed the Cloud Patterned Pill in my holding back and this caused the Tribulation to calm down. And then handed over one of the other pills which actually had Pill Veins.

"What are you doing? Hand over the Cloud Patterned pill to the sect, I'll give you your points," he said.

"Why should I? the request was clearly to make a pill, not a Cloud Patterned pill, and I have already given you what is required from me," I said.

"Are you trying to steal from the sect?!" the elder said.

"There is no need to start throwing accusations, if you wish, we can ask the Disciplinary Hall to give judgment over this matter," I said shrugging.

"Do you think that the disciplinary hall will side with you?" the elder said smirking.

"Well, I already proven you wrong once, who says I can't do it again?" I smiled back at him.