161: Chapter 122 Array Plate_2 161: Chapter 122 Array Plate_2 “Is the fragrance of the medicine a sign that the efficacy is seeping out?” Yi Sheng heard this explanation for the first time, her eyebrows furrowed tightly.
After a long while, she nodded slightly in agreement, “Disciple has pondered for a while, and Master’s words make sense.
However, haven’t others realized this issue?”
“Of course they have realized it too, but suppressing the fragrance from being emitted is not that simple.
Just as you said, when fire burns, naturally the fragrance will disperse.
Just because you can’t smell the fragrance doesn’t mean the efficacy isn’t dispersing; it just means that your teacher has suppressed the fragrance …”
While speaking, Cao Zhen suddenly employed an alchemy technique.
Suddenly, a rich fragrance burst forth from the pill furnace.
Although the scent was concentrated, it wasn’t pungent; within the subtle fragrance, there seemed to be brimming with vitality.
That is the fragrance of this pill’s efficacy.” After Cao Zhen released a portion of the fragrance, he immediately performed another alchemy technique to seal the fragrance and continued to explain, “I merely suppressed the fragrance within the pill furnace.
In doing so, the efficacy wasn’t lost into the air; it remained in the pill furnace, and eventually, it will enter into the pills.
Actually, many people can do this, but they don’t because of the second point, which is the difficulty, namely, how to infuse the fragrance into the pills.
It involves gathering the fragrances of countless medicinal ingredients, each with different properties.
Not to mention when so many ingredients come together to form a fragrance, forcefully infusing these fragrances into the pills could potentially ruin a batch that could have been successfully made, or even explode the pill furnace.
Therefore, the more ingredients and the stronger the properties of the medicine, the harder it is to suppress the fragrance.
Master cannot guarantee that all pills made will have suppressed fragrances.”
Yi Sheng nodded continuously in understanding.
So that was it; her teacher truly was also skilled in alchemy, extremely skilled at that, with such an effortless control over the fragrance, something she had never heard of before.
She even doubted her teacher just now.
“Master, Disciple was wrong.
Just now, Disciple even doubted whether Master really knew alchemy!”
As Yi Sheng stepped back, her hands were about to go down when her body barely bent forward—a bit when her teacher stopped her.
“Why learn something that doesn’t suit you?
You learned this move from your martial sister, but with your long legs, this move doesn’t fit you,” Cao Zhen truly was speechless.
These disciples, why do they not learn what is good and insist on learning all sorts of nonsense?
Yi Sheng, being stopped by her teacher, helplessly straightened up.
But the next moment, she was suddenly startled, “Master, you left the furnace, what about the pill…”
Master could leave this furnace of pills for a while, and even if I closed my eyes, I could still produce several best quality pills,” Cao Zhen said casually while making an alchemy technique gesture towards the pill furnace.
“This…” Yi Sheng realized that watching her teacher perform alchemy today had completely overturned her understanding of alchemy.
Wasn’t it said that alchemists, when making pills once, experienced exhaustion like cultivators battling a powerful opponent equal to their own strength?
How could Master be so at ease?
To what extent had her Master’s alchemy skills advanced?
Yi Sheng didn’t dare to directly ask her Master if he was an Alchemy Grandmaster.
She looked at the flame burning beneath the pill furnace, fell silent for a while, and then asked curiously, “Master, what pill are you making?”
“Small Nirvana Pill.”
Yi Sheng immediately furrowed her brows and fell into recollection.
After a long moment, she shook her head, “Disciple’s knowledge is limited; I have never heard of such a pill.”
“It’s normal that you don’t know.
Although the medicinal ingredients needed to make this pill are not particularly precious and twenty thousand Spirit Stones could buy them all, it is extremely rare and not easy to make.
I fear in the entire Hundred Peaks Sect, you are the second person who knows of this pill,” Cao Zhen explained.
“Small Nirvana Pill is useless for ordinary people; it is specifically for cultivators with Immortal Bodies like the Vermilion Bird, Azure Pheasant, Bi Fang, and the like.
When they are defeated and gravely injured, teetering on the brink of death, as long as they have not truly perished, just by taking one Small Nirvana Pill, they can achieve Nirvana Rebirth once.
Moreover, after Nirvana, their combat power will at least reach their former peak.
As for whether they can comprehend something in that near-death state, it all depends on fate.”
Yi Sheng opened her mouth in amazement and said, “So, as long as they are not dead, they can recover?
Doesn’t that mean one could continually seek that state?
After all, in near-death, people tend to unleash astonishing potential.”
“You are thinking too much.
The Small Nirvana Pill can only be taken once.
Those who have taken it once, no matter how injured they are afterwards, even a hundred Small Nirvana Pills would be useless.
However, what Master told you is about the ordinary Small Nirvana Pills.
The Nirvana Pills that Master makes are unique in that people who have taken them can use them once more.”
Cao Zhen said, looking at his disciple, and asked, “I feel that you’ve been particularly talkative today.
You seem very interested in alchemy.”
“As Master said, Disciple’s greatest interests are doing business and alchemy,” Yi Sheng said with a sigh, “It’s just that the barriers to enter alchemy are so high.
Disciple has also tried to collect many alchemy books but found that they only introduce some basic knowledge and really don’t teach people how to perform alchemy.”
Cao Zhen said with disdain, “Those books, the authors probably don’t understand alchemy very well.
Besides, with me here, why bother with the content in those books?
If you wanted to learn alchemy, why didn’t you say so earlier?”