Hearing his plain tone even Elysia's lips twitched but after she thought about it calmly she understood the point of his frustration.
He used both his good control over flames along with perfect timing and yet he still could only manage to form pills around 60% of purity.
While the additional purity was only possible because of the help he got from the cauldron.
This made him realize how bitter the cultivation journey was. If you don't have talent for something you might just spend all of your lifespan trying to forge your path without even accomplishing anything in return.
'I will make a perfect quality pill by the end of the day.'
Noah thought with determination and a long lost flare inside his eyes. It has been a long time Since Noah found something challenging to do.
As if thinking of something, Noah brought the pill bottle he bought from the alchemist hall of the Eternal Jade guild and popped it open.
He placed the pill on his hand and looked at it with curiosity.
The reason why he bought this pill was to analyze it and compare with the ones he was going to create but now that he was able to create the pills better than them and without any assistance, he discarded the thought of using them.
But now he thought that even if they were lower quality pills than his own there should be something he should be able to learn from them.
Placing the pale looking pill on his hands Noah noticed although their colors were almost similar the spots in this pill were greater and this was only because of impurities.
He tried burning impurities during the extraction process but they were very tenacious. He did not know how the furnace was able to pull them out quite easily.
'If I cannot use the direct method of burning the impurities, why don't I pull them out as well.'
When this thought suddenly flashed through Noah's mind he suddenly sat down and started heating up the furnace again.
Elysia did not interrupt his thought process and watched his serious face with a dazed expression on her face.
She didn't know he would look this handsome while he was serious.
'It was a good decision to follow him here secretly.'
She praised herself for the wise decision she took while acting like a stalker.
Noah's hands moved at a very fast speed, unlike before he was more familiar with the process this time and did not make any unnecessary moves.
He followed the same procedure until he extracted the essence out of those materials.
Not only did he not immediately combine them he also stopped the furnace from interrupting this time.
The furnace seemed a little deflated that the help it was providing was called interruption by his master.
Noah wanted to understand his own level of skills and so he thought of his involvement as more of an interruption than a help.
Noah did not have the time to console the feelings of the furnace as he used his soul sense to deploy a seal in the furnace.
This seal was like the impurity extraction seal he used on himself. The only function this seal had was to remove impurity inside the essence he accumulated.
As the seal glowed all of the impurities were attracted and only a pure liquid was left behind.
Noah infused his own qi used to form the pills once again. After a couple of breaths worth of time later, a strong medicinal scent came from the furnace.
Seeing the sign that the pill was complete Noah ended the procedure and saw five milky pills with a slight blue texture floating in the air.
"98% Purity…"
Noah muttered looking at the pill in his hands. They were all at the same level as if he was missing the same thing to achieve the last step.
Noah could have used the records collected by Elysia for him. It was just that his fighting spirit was ignited after such a long time that he could not help but fire up.
This desire to complete this process by himself was further fueled by his own talent in alchemy. If he had taken a long time to form his first pill, he might have not decided to do it by himself.
Noah clenched the pill in his hands and turned towards the pills from the guild to see if there was something he could learn from it.
He started by picking up the pill using his qi to inspect if he had been overlooking something inside of it.
'If I am not seeing something on the surface, what about on the molecular level?'
Noah's mind ran at fast speed as he thought of various things he could be missing and when he thought about the procedure the alchemist from the guild used.
He could not see that but what he could see is their final product. So he thought of comparing his own pill with the pill from the guild down to the very last detail.
Even though the pills he made and the one from guild were very different because of the use of different materials, the techniques of the alchemist always remain the basic.
Noah placed two pills that he wanted to compare on a plate and used his soul sense.
One of the most basic uses of the soul sense was that it could show the microscope details in his range.
No matter how minute the detail it is, it would not escape his senses.
*Woosh*
Under his soul sense the mysteries of both the pills were revealed in front of him.
He saw the grains that had been crystallized from essence liquids of the materials and further expanded his senses into it.
This process may have looked easy but Noah had to check the link and connection to verify what were the details he was missing.
Unknown to him a long time has passed since he started researching both the pills.
When he saw the molecular formula of the pills, he noticed!!
He finally knew what he was missing!!