149: Grades of elixirs

"Big Brother Chen, you said it!"

Bai Jun directly hugged Chen Heng's leg and wouldn't let go.

"A gentleman's word is his bond, you absolutely cannot go back on it!"

"?" Chen Heng glanced at the spirit gathering furnace, then at Bai Jun, who was hugging his leg. His CPU was a bit overloaded.

Did he just say twenty years?

That's right, it should be twenty years, not two years.

Why is this kid suddenly so excited?

Could it be that this Pill Furnace is really a good thing?

But that's not right either; it's just the product of a single Optimization of an ordinary bronze Pill Furnace.

"Of course, I never go back on my word."

Chen Heng pulled Bai Jun, who was hugging his leg, up and placed him to the side.

"How is it? Are you satisfied with this Pill Furnace?"

This was a classic case of asking the obvious; he couldn't directly ask Bai Jun what the spirit gathering furnace was like, so letting him say it himself was the most suitable approach.

"Satisfied! I'm absolutely satisfied!" Bai Jun nodded repeatedly, almost creating afterimages.

"This Pill Furnace, just by being here, is constantly absorbing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi."

"I can't even imagine what it'll be like once it's lit!"

Bai Jun pressed his face against the Pill Furnace again, stroking the spirit gathering furnace in a very lewd manner.

"Want to try it?" Chen Heng raised an eyebrow; he was also starting to anticipate the effect of this spirit gathering furnace.

"Try it!" Bai Jun pulled out a large bag of Medicinal Materials from his satchel.

"Big Brother Chen, these are the Materials for blood and qi replenishing pills, the most commonly consumed Medicinal Pill by everyone in the True Immortal Sect."

"But even for the most common one, the success rate for forming pills doesn't exceed sixty percent."

"Moreover, the Spiritual Qi loss is very severe; it must be consumed immediately after being taken out of the furnace, otherwise the effect will get worse over time."

Bai Jun, with a face full of anticipation, lifted the furnace lid and lit the furnace chamber.

With a whoosh, the originally small flame suddenly ignited violently, startling Bai Jun so much that he almost fell head over heels.

"You scared me..." Bai Jun wiped a bead of cold sweat from his forehead and continued to operate the spirit gathering furnace.

Chen Heng, sitting to the side, suddenly noticed that while flames churned within the spirit gathering furnace, the room's temperature remained unchanged.

"Hehe, Big Brother Chen, you noticed it too, didn't you?" Bai Jun smugly tilted his chin at Chen Heng.

"This is the difference between an ordinary Pill Furnace and such a top-tier Pill Furnace."

"Ordinary Pill Furnaces will lose energy due to Material issues, but this kind of top-tier Pill Furnace will not at all."

"This spirit gathering furnace tightly binds all the energy within the furnace, and even continuously absorbs Spiritual Qi from the outside world."

Bai Jun spoke as he placed the Medicinal Materials into the Pill Furnace.

Under the catalysis of the furnace fire, the originally dry Medicinal Materials strangely transformed into a viscous medicinal liquid.

"It really is Alchemy..." Chen Heng rubbed his chin.

He had originally thought that this so-called Alchemy was just rolling medicinal mud into round balls, after all, the large Medicinal Pills of his previous life were made that way.

"Watch closely, Big Brother Chen, a normal Pill Furnace will not automatically turn Medicinal Materials into medicinal liquid."

Bai Jun clapped one hand on the spirit gathering furnace, and pure Spiritual Qi continuously poured into it.

"Most Pill Furnaces require us to slowly melt the Medicinal Materials ourselves with Spiritual Qi, and this step is the most, most dangerous."

"Once this step is omitted, then Alchemy becomes a very simple matter."

"It can be said that anyone with hands and Spiritual Qi can do it!"

"Pill formed!"

Bai Jun suddenly slapped the Pill Furnace, and the strange patterns on the Pill Furnace actually began to glow!

The next moment, Chen Heng felt the surrounding air flowing towards the Pill Furnace, and Bai Jun's expression grew increasingly serious.

"It really can absorb..."

Soon, the surrounding airflow slowly calmed down, and Bai Jun's complexion also improved considerably.

"It's done."

Bai Jun let out a long breath, looking quite exhausted.

Chen Heng got up and walked towards the spirit gathering furnace, pushing Bai Jun, who was resting, to the side.

He lifted the furnace lid, and an unusual fragrance wafted out.

"Hmm!" Bai Jun, who had just been exhausted, immediately stood up, practically throwing himself onto the spirit gathering furnace, almost stuffing his head inside.

"This, this, this..."

Bai Jun's hands trembled as he held the blood and qi replenishing pills from the Pill Furnace as if cradling some treasure.

"These are Heaven-Grade blood and qi replenishing pills!"

"Huh?" Chen Heng leaned over to look at the blood and qi replenishing pills in Bai Jun's hand, not feeling like they were particularly good.

"I can actually refine Heaven-Grade Medicinal Pills, hahahaha!"

Bai Jun burst into laughter, like a patient in a mental hospital who hadn't taken his medicine.

"Don't laugh yet, what's Heaven-Grade?"

Chen Heng grabbed the frantic Bai Jun and forcibly pressed him into a chair.

"The Rank of Medicinal Pills is divided into three Ranks: Heaven, Earth, and Human."

Under the suppression of Chen Heng's iron fist, Bai Jun regained his sanity and began to explain the differences between Medicinal Pills to Chen Heng.

"Simply put, the medicinal properties of one Earth-Grade Medicinal Pill are equivalent to three Human-Grade Medicinal Pills, and one Heaven-Grade Medicinal Pill is equivalent to two Earth-Grade Medicinal Pills."

"Do you understand when I put it that way?"

Bai Jun placed the Heaven-Grade blood and qi replenishing pills on the table, looking at them with a benevolent expression.

"Ah." Chen Heng nodded, roughly understanding the differences in these Medicinal Pills.

"How about we try them?" Chen Heng sniffed the peculiar fragrance of the blood and qi replenishing pills and actually felt a bit tempted.

"Good, let's try!" Bai Jun himself actually wanted to try them, but since no one had spoken, he didn't want to eat alone.

Putting the Medicinal Pill into his mouth, Chen Heng chewed carefully.

Hmm, how to describe it?

The texture was a bit like QQ candy, but the taste was an indescribable, peculiar fragrance.

As the Medicinal Pill went down, Chen Heng felt a warm current flowing through his Meridians, but it quickly disappeared.

"It tastes good, but it's not potent enough."

Smacking his lips, Chen Heng realized that he seemed to be no longer suited for these mild-natured Medicinal Pills.

But Bai Jun next to him was completely different; his old face was flushed, veins bulging on his forehead, as if he was enduring something.

Soon, two streams of nosebleed flowed from Bai Jun's nose, and his sclera was full of red bloodshot eyes.

"That exaggerated?" Chen Heng poked Bai Jun and found his body to be incredibly hot.

An entire stick of incense's time passed before Bai Jun finally returned to normal.

"No, this medicinal power is too fierce; I can't digest it for a while."

Letting out a long breath, the sweating Bai Jun lay down on the bed.

"Very... fierce?" Chen Heng's expression was a bit strange; why didn't he feel anything?

"It's normal that Big Brother Chen doesn't feel anything." Bai Jun was not surprised by Chen Heng's reaction.

That terrifying physical strength, even something a hundred times more potent than Heaven-Grade blood and qi replenishing pills, was nothing to Chen Heng.

"Alright, you rest first. Tomorrow, come with me to the Hundred Objects Tower."

Chen Heng didn't say much else. After leaving the spirit gathering furnace in Bai Jun's room, he left.

As for Old Liu's request, it was nothing to Chen Heng, and he didn't need much preparation.

It would be enough for him, Bai Jun, and Qi Longhu to go there.

Chen Heng refused to believe that there was a local tyrant in Qiyang City more formidable than him.