COMING OF THE MARTIAL GOD - Season 3 Episode 75

Five Wolf Generals of the Blood Wolf Team were exclusively sent out to kill Austin.

The five Wolf Generals meant to corner and kill Austin near the Sun Mountain. However, after some investigation, it was clear that Austin was not in the Sun Sect, but in Peace Town.

They immediately left for Peace Town.

Blood Wolf Team’s spies were almost everywhere, spread out over the Violet Orchid Empire. On their arrival in Peace Town, they sent their men to search every inch and seek out Austin.

Peace Town was a town, going by its name, but its numerous population and vast territory impressed one as a small city.

It was definitely not easy to seek out a person in such a place. . . .

Austin sat in a room belonging to a tavern in Peace Town.

A purple-brown herbal pot accompanied with ten doses of medical materials sat in front of him.

This time, Austin still planned to refine the muscle-generating powder, which was actually an elixir and not a powder as against its name.

Austin was doing this to learn the process of extracting the essence of the herbs.

He had almost mastered the extracting steps and all he had to do was to practice more in order to speed up the process.

Only after you got rid of the impurities could you get the essence of the herbs. And only after that could you blend them into one elixir.

And because of this, the refining process was the most basic yet most important step of them all.

Every pill refiner, including the high-ranked ones, would practice this basic step as often as they could to get the ideal speed and purity.

The more attention paid to the refining process, the purer was the herb essence. And purer essence meant a more qualified elixir.

Clearly, Austin had a great understanding of the importance of this basic step.

Five of the ten doses of medical materials at hand were used to practice extracting the herb’s essences, and the other five to practice blending the essences.

Austin released a breath he had been holding. He then put his hands on the underside of the herbal pot. A stream of golden fire, driven by the vital energy, started transferring through to the hand.
And then, without warning, the fire simmering in his hand, rushed into the herbal pot.

Egged on by the herbal pot, the fire multiplied in intensity in a matter of seconds.

Austin tossed another muscle-gathering herb into the pot from above.

Austin’s spiritual sense entered the herbal pot. He was able to grasp the herb’s location and temperature. Human eyes could not possibly get a better view than that.

The flicker of the fire would affect eyesight, but not the spiritual sense in the slightest.

After learning the exact location and the temperature, Austin realized that he ought to lower the flame, or there was a danger of the muscle-generating herb burning to ashes.

So he used his mind to change the direction and power of the fire, thus lowering the temperature a little.

Moments after reaching the perfect temperature that the muscle-generating herb needed, it started to shed its bark. The herbal juice roasted to a point where all was left of it was some kind of white powder.

Austin sighed. He recalled that six or seven doses of medical materials had been wasted when he had first tried to refine elixirs. After that, he had found success in getting some essences of the medical materials.

But it seemed to go very well this time and he had succeeded without any waste.

His heart leapt with joy.

His hand moved slightly as he tossed one vigor-generating fruit into the herbal pot. With the help of his spiritual sense, he changed the direction and power of his vital energy to get the perfect flame with which to roast the vigor-generating fruit. Moments later, a handful of blackish pellets emerged in the herbal pot, floating beside the newly refined white muscle-generating power.

There was a specific space for medical essences that had already been refined.
There was no fire or place for it in this space.

The essences of the blood-nourishing herb and the five-tail herb were achieved one by one along with the others, lining themselves up in the specific space.

It was high time to blend the different kinds of essences together.

All of the essences had to be blended together in just the right proportions, or it would badly impair the quality and the power of the final elixir.

Blending different kinds of herbal essences was yet another important basic skill.

It was not any less important than the process of extracting the essences.

So, Austin put his whole heart into it. His spiritual sense told him that the golden flame had wrapped around all the essences and brought them together. And then, he switched the fire to the strongest mode.

This required a vitally hot flame. And that meant it needed a large amount of vital energy to sustain the high temperature. Controlled by his mind, the vital energy inside his body began flowing into the herbal pot.

Fueled by the vital energy, the temperature of the flame went higher and higher and looked to be unstoppable. The golden flame licked at the herbal pot with an energy that felt like devils were dancing within it.

As the golden fire burned non-stop, the essences of different colors began to blend together gradually.

After the herbal juice had blended with the powder and as time went by, the mixture turned into what was beginning to look like a pill.

One could barely call it a pill because it was far from round and was quite rough. The color was not equally blended either, a little green here and a little red there. It was a strange object full of edges.

Austin felt great pressure descend upon him as he looked at the ‘elixir’. ‘It is almost done. Just one step left. It’s the last but I can’t afford to be careless.’

Extracting, blending, solidifying, and withdrawing were the four steps to refining an elixir. One step meant one ability.

Austin’s spiritual sense could feel the exact location of the incomplete elixir and the temperature around it.

Vital energy was still flowing into the pot in order to fuel the golden flame.

The unfinished elixir began to rotate slowly under the flame.

Controlled by his spiritual sense, the golden fire had become moderate enough to roast the elixir.

It took half an hour more to finally solidify it.

The most important moment was finally close by. It was coming.

The elixir was roasting by the moderate fire, when suddenly, Austin changed his vital energy’s direction and power. The flame immediately morphed into a dangerous, terrible one, wrapping the elixir within itself.

Moments later, Austin changed the intensity of the fire again. He turned it into the smallest fire and as it died down, a jade-like elixir revealed itself within the herbal pot.

As he looked at the round, jade-like elixir, Austin couldn’t stop smiling. He stretched his hand, and the elixir flew out and came to a rest above his hand.

With the hand taken away from it, the golden fire inside the herbal pot went out immediately and began to cool down.

Staring at the elixir, Austin sniffed it. A medical aroma accosted his nostrils, one that almost made him drunk. He had never thought it possible, but his grin widened, and he knew he hadn’t smiled bigger. Ever.

“I succeeded in refining an elixir! For the very first time!”

Even though this particular elixir was lowest ranked in order of quality.”

“I have succeeded in refining an elixir for the second time now. Does this mean that I can claim to be a pill refiner?” he wondered aloud.

He was surprised that he was able to refine the muscle-generating powder so quickly and smoothly.

After the entire process, Austin found that he was all wet. He had been working on for about an hour, and every muscle inside him was sore and aching. As the vital energy had been continuously pumped into the herbal pot for a long time, his reserves were now down to forty percent, with sixty percent having gone into the pot.

“Judging from this, I am not so great at the basic process. Refining just one elixir has worn me out so much!”

Austin fetched an alabaster flask and put the elixir into it.

Though he had succeeded in refining a muscle-generating powder, he was still uneasy. Maybe because he was not so sure about its quality and power, he kept asking himself, ‘Has it met the same standards as those elixirs in the elixir shop?’

Austin decided to show his elixirs to a few elixir shops, which were always collecting and selling elixirs for a living. He wanted their masters to judge it.

After a good rest, Austin started to refine another muscle-generating powder.

In the end, little mistakes meant that four of ten doses of the medical materials went to waste.

But six of them, Austin successfully turned into muscle-generating powders.
Concluding that his yield rate was about sixty percent, Austin wondered to himself, “How is my yield rate? Is it high or not? Is it good enough?”

Austin was brand new to this field and had learned everything by reading books, all by himself. This meant that there were many questions that he had that were still unanswered.

It took him a whole day and night to finish refining ten doses of medical materials.

Austin was exhausted at the end of it.

The moment he lay down, he fell into a deep sleep that spanned a whole day and night.

When he finally woke up, he took his newly refined elixirs and made his way to a street full of elixir shops.