The Supreme God of Martial Arts

Austin was too exhausted that he just sank onto the ground after extracting the essence from the muscle-generating herbs. He was doing his first trial at refining a pill and he never expected it to be this consuming. Thus, he went for a short break.

He felt that he had consumed nearly one-third of his vital energy. Thus, he got on his feet and sighed, "Who could have thought that pill-refining is such an energy-consuming work?" Austin sat down with his legs crossed. He tried to regain his focus and get rid of all distracting thoughts. His eyes were fixed on his nose, his nose connecting to his heart. Then with full concentration, he started the Golden Sun Scripture formula.

He dictated the vital energy within his body to flow in the way he wanted. Surprisingly, he noticed something odd happening.

Although the pill-refining process consumed much of his energy earlier, while he was cultivating it now, the speed of how his body absorbed the vital energy around him had becunusually faster. Moreover, he could feel how easier it was for him to control the vital energy running in his body. It seemed that all his problems with cultivating his energy had disappeared.

That was when it dawned to him. Refining a pill required him to constantly transport his vital energy into the herbal pot to sustain the flames within it. Thus, it beca good practice for him to improve his ability in controlling the flow of his vital energy.

After an hour of cultivation in meditation, Austin finally recovered his vital energy which had been consumed in the process of refining the muscle-generating herbs.

Furthermore, he could also feel how stronger his vital energy had become. It was needless to say that pill-refining was indeed a conductive process to vital energy cultivation.

If so, then he would like to refine more pills in his free time. It would be a nice way to improve his vital energy cultivation. It would enable him to achieve two things at one stroke.

Austin opened his eyes as soon as he was fully regained. He couldn't feel the numbness and limpness of his muscles anymore.

He moved his neck and it created a cracking sound. That made him sigh with relief.

"Fine then. I'll continue refining the pill and won't give up halfway in the process. | must finish it and successfully make the muscle-generating powder," muttered Austin.

He wasn't the type of man who left his work undone. He would do everything without letting go and stick to it until the end.

Thus, he cto the herbal pot again and continued refining the other herbs in the formula.

He managed to do the next processes with ease since he had already learned the lessons from his last try of doing this. After burning eight vigor-generating fruits, ten blood-nourishing flowers, and five five-tail herbs,. . .

Austin finally got the substance that had the healing effects from the materials.

What he extracted from the vigor-generating fruits was made up of small black particles. This substance could remove stasis in the bloodstream and invigorate the blood circulation. Oftentimes, experienced warriors pulverized the vigor-generating fruits and used them to relieve their pains from injuries. It had been a necessity, especially in cases when there was no pill available.

The substance from the blood-nourishing flowers was light red. It was in liquid form. It could paralyze the nerves and relieve someone from tremendous pain.

On the other hand, the substance he got from the five-tail herbs was a light blue powder. It could supply the necessary nutrients for the growth of blood cells and flesh. In general, warriors who had injured their skin and flesh usually took pills with five-tail herbs to provide energy for their muscle regeneration.

Austin exhaled slowly while looking at the various bottles of liquid and powders he made. It was such a relief to have primarily grasped the method of extracting essences from herbs.

Despite the fact that he still had a lot to improve with his speed and accuracy, just the thought that he was able to extract all the medicinal materials for the muscle-generating powder made him very satisfied. There would still be a lot of practices to do and improvements to make.

He was very pleased that his first experiment on pill refining went on well. The next thing for him to do now was to see whether he could successfully make a complete pill.

"All the ingredients are ready. Tto mix them and see how it works," he said while gazing at the various herbal essences before him.

He took a deep breath and nodded in great determination. He threw the muscle-generating herb essence and the white powder in the herbal pot. He then heated them with mild temperature. Ten minutes after, just when the white powder turned slightly red, he immediately poured the liquid extracted from the blood-nourishing flowers into the pot.

Flames instantly covered the white powder as soon as the liquid touched it. The two substances gradually mixed into a light red viscous liquid.

Austin tried his best to control the temperature of the flames through his intuition. The flames mildly heated the lumps that were formed and melted it evenly in the suspension.

With the constant heat being administered, the thick paste turned into a dark red paste.

Austin observed the dark red paste in the herbal pot through that transparent crystal. With a little hesitation, he threw the essence of vigor-generating fruits into the mixture.

The black particles fell into the pot but nothing changed. The particles just danced in the flames without any sign of melting into the dark red paste.

"Different materials have different tolerance to the temperature. The refiner must learn to control the temperature of the flames at different spots in the herbal pot. The refiner must suppress the flames in the areas where the pot needs low temperature. Swith the areas that need a higher temperature, the refiner needs to ease the control with the flames and make the area warmer." Sweat began forming on Austin's forehead as he grew anxious about what was going on. The black particles of the vigor- generating fruits hadn't blended into the red paste yet. He repeated reading the part of Elixir Foundation where the method of blending different essences was introduced.