After Drew was gone, the first thing Austin did was to try and break through the barrier to finally be a level five pill refiner.
During the past couple of days, Austin spent his time watching and assisting Drew as he refined pills. Because of this, his understanding about medicine refinement had greatly increased and he felt more confident to do it on his own.
Drew's unique means and unmatched skills that were in display as he refined medicine had deeply enlightened him and his techniques.
As soon as Austin made sure that Drew was gone, he started to practice pill refinement himself.
All giddy and excited, he looked through the herbs stored in the cave, carefully picking everything that he needed.
When he got enough ingredients to refine five Earth Scorching Elixirs, he started to prepare them one by one.
Then, he took out his puce herbal pot and started the process of refinement.
Despite failing at refining an Earth Scorching Elixir a dozen times prior, he was very positive that he would be able to do it this time around.
'Well, I've already gained a lot of experience since then!' he thought, as he readied himself.
First, he put the herbs into the herbal pot, heating it and extracting its liquid. Then, he repeated the process to all the herbs he collected. After that, he combined the extracts of the different herbs so that the elixir would finally come into being. Each step was done carefully, so that he would finally get a successful refined elixir.
While everything went generally well, his refining speed was a little bit slow.
After about an hour, he put his hand on the herbal pot.
Taking a deep breath, he turned his palm up, and suddenly, an Earth Scorching Elixir leapt out of the herbal pot and fell into his waiting hand.
It was a beautifully refined Earth Scorching Elixir.
Upon seeing this, Austin was overjoyed. He exhaled a sigh of relief and satisfaction was evident on his face.
Finally, he was able to refine an Earth Scorching Elixir successfully, which meant that he had reached the fifth level of medicine refinement!. .
After celebrating his success for a while, Austin continued on refining the herb portions that were left.
In the end, he was able to refine three Earth Scorching Elixirs from five portions of ingredients, making his yield rate sixty percent.
He knew that this yield rate was amazingly high, considering that he had just entered the fifth level of pill refinement.
Happy with the success he found for the day, Austin held the three Earth Scorching Elixirs, appreciating their beauty for a while.
Among the three, two were of normal quality, while one was of fine quality.
Now, Austin had acquired an intimate and more comprehensive knowledge of the elixir's qualities.
Generally speaking, no matter which grade the elixir belonged to, its quality would be judged in four levels: poor, normal, fine, and super fine.
It was said that the elixir whose quality was higher than the super fine level would generate a pattern of lines on its surface. In addition to that, it would come out of the herbal pot attracting dark clouds and uproarious thunder. Also, since it would be too powerful to exist in this world, it would have to suffer from the trial of nature.
But then, such uncanny scene probably only existed in legends.
A pill refiner who could refine elixirs at a fine level was already considered an extraordinary one.
Now, if a pill refiner could refine elixirs at the super fine level, he would not only be respected as a master, but would also be treated as legendary.
For example, the Primordial Spirit Elixir that Drew recently refined for Winnie, the Holy Daughter of the New Moon Sect, was of super fine quality. . .
Austin put away the herbal pot after he finished refining.
Then, he left Drew's cave to gather information on the Magic Hand Lake.
As it should be for any noble sect, the place where the former Elder of the Magic Hand Sect secluded herself, the Magic Hand Lake must be really hard to find and it must was heavily defended.
Therefore, Austin decided to get as much information on it before he undertook any kind of action.
He didn't dare ask Drew because he worried that if he asked too many questions about it, Drew might start being suspicious of him.
Hence, he resolved to get information from ordinary disciples.
Austin headed to the living area of the inner disciples after he departed from Drew's cave.
This living area covered a vast land, including hundreds of picturesque peaks that formed a graceful curve in the distance.
Each inner disciple could own a house on the peak, so there were numerous dwellings set up in the area.
Austin wandered around for a while, looking for people to quiz about his subject.
After a few minutes, he encountered three inner disciples chatting at the foot of one peak.
After he approached them, he showed them his identity along with the token that Drew gave him.
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