The Supreme God of Martial Arts novel Chapter 228

He looked at the Space Ring given by Lorenz. It had a twenty cubic meter space for storage. Austin thought of giving this to either Evan or Herbert.

After he organized the Space Ring, Austin took a book out of the drawer. It was the book of Elixir Foundation.

This was the book that Mindy gave him at the Valley Town. It was a copy of the ancient book about alchemy given by the head of the Zhang clan. He repaid this book for all the help that Austin gave them. If without Austin, they might not survive what they have been through.

Austin heard of the mysterious power of alchemy. When he got the book, he thought that he would study it after the competition he was in. Since the Top Ten Outer Disciples Ranking Challenge was over, he was now ready to begin reading the book.

As of now, he had to stay in the Peace Town for days. He kept on waiting for the shopkeeper to prepare the elixirs he would use for cultivating Overlord Body-refining Formula.

Thus, Austin intended to use his spare time to study the alchemy and saw if he had the potential in this area.

Pill refiner was an honorable and respectable profession. If he would be like one in the future, he would be able to use the elixirs he refined for his own cultivation.

So he opened the book and started reading it.

Austin was surprised when he read the table of contents. He found out that the original book was written by an ancient pill refiner more than a thousand years ago. By a lucky coincidence, this ancient book was discovered by the Zhang Clan of the Valley Town.

The Elixir Foundation stated that there were several cultivation phases in mastering alchemy.

First of all, learn to recognize the nature and taste of medicinal materials. There were thousands of medicinal materials in the world that could be refined into elixirs. So Austin needed to study each one of them.

According to their attributes, all the medicinal materials could be divided into four properties and five flavors. The four properties included cold, hot, warm and cool.

The five flavors were pungent, sweet, sour, bitter and salty. But there were actually more than five kinds of flavors such as mild or astringent. However, these five flavors were the basic ones and the most common among them.

The essential skill of alchemy was to identify each medicinal material by its name, property, and flavor. If one could not tell the difference, refinement of elixir would not be possible.

On the second phase, one could make fire for refining elixirs. But instead of using common combustion materials, a pill refiner should turn his own vital energy into a fire through a special skill. Therefore, it was called the fire of vital energy.

The strength of the transformed fire depended on the level of the pill refiner's vital energy. Plus, the refining would be more efficient as well.

The first two steps were the foundation of alchemy. The pill refining process proceeded on the basis.