The Supreme God of Martial Arts

This time, Austin intended to refine the Spirit-nourishing Elixir of the fourth grade, a kind of elixir specially made for improving the spiritual sense of cultivators.

Its main function was to nourish and strengthen the spiritual souls and spiritual senses of the cultivators that were going to take it.

In alchemy circles, there was a consensus that all spiritual elixirs were relatively difficult to be refined.

However, this Spirit-nourishing Elixir was a kind of elixir that was relatively more difficult to be refined among the fourth grade elixirs.

Austin found all the herbs needed to make a Spirit-nourishing Elixir in the cave of the Elder Drew. He piled them all up neatly beside him and sat down in a lotus position.

In his mind, he went over the refining methods for the Spirit-nourishing Elixir and the matters that needed attention.

Then, he began to refine the elixir.

First of all, he should burn the herbs, remove the dross and retain their essence.

Austin put his hand on the flentrance of the herbal pot and sent in a golden flame.

Suddenly, the herbal pot was set ablaze with powerful fire.

With a simple move of Austin's hand, the first herb was thrown in from the herb entrance above the pot.

He then controlled the degree of the fire to the appropriate level, and burned the herb.

Soon after, a light green liquid was successfully extracted from the herb, which then floated into the chamber of the pot.

Austin then began to burn the second herb.

Austin beccompletely immersed in the refinement of the Spirit-nourishing Elixir that he was able to do it all day.

During the day, Austin was able to make a total of ten batches of the Spirit-nourishing Elixirs.

Seven were successfully produced, while three failed because of inaccurate timing or undesirable fire conditions.

Putting this into numbers, Austin's production rate for the Spirit-nourishing Elixir was 70%.

Since Spirit-nourishing Elixir was an elixir that was more difficult to be refined as compared to other fourth grade elixirs, Austin's rate of success was actually very impressive.

In order to see how well he was able to refine the Spirit-nourishing Elixir, Austin tasted one of the good one. As soon as it entered into his digestive system, a warm stream of heat rushed to his Soul Sea, and his whole Soul Sea becvery calm. He felt very comfortable.

With that, it seemed that the quality of the elixir was top-notch.

Seeing the success of his refinement despite him current level of alchemy skill, he thought to challenge himself to be a fifth grade pill refiner.

Back in the Mysterious Nether World, Angus had given him numerous elixir formulas.

He went through that again and was able to find a relatively easy-to-refine fifth-grade elixir formula—the Earth Scorching Elixir.

The main function of the Earth Scorching Elixir was to quickly replenish the vital energy of a cultivator.

Such an elixir would be useful during a fight when a cultivator had unexpectedly lost too much vital energy. Using this elixir would grant him or her a chance to survive through the battle.

Without wasting any time, Austin looked at the elixirs in Drew's cave dwelling. Carefully picking through stuff, he was able to get enough herbs that would produce more than a dozen batches of the Earth Scorching Elixirs. . . . .

Right after getting all he needed, Austin went back to his place and once again arranged his stuff neatly beside him. He had just sat down in a lotus position when suddenly a voice cin from outside the cave.

"Elder Drew, I'm Foster. The Elder Council wantsto send you a message!" Since no one was answering, Foster called out several more times outside the cave.

After contemplating whether to go out or not, Austin decided to face Foster.

His voice didn't have any sign that would lead Austin to believe that he was here with bad news.

He had said before that he would ask the elders of their sect to recruit him as an official alchemy disciple of the Magic Hand Sect.

Perhaps he chere because they had already agreed upon a decision about that matter, so he was actually here to pick up Austin from Drew's place? Austin went out of the cave and found that it was indeed Foster.

Upon seeing Austin, Foster becvery surprised and immediately asked, "Marsh, are you all right?" Austin was a little touched by this gesture from Foster. To him, it was a testament to Foster's sincerity and how he truly cared about him.

"Steward Foster, thank you for your concern.

I'm all right," he answered, a wide smile on his lips.

"Ha-ha, you really surprised me!" Foster said, as he started to cackle. After pulling himself together, he took a deep breath and locked his gaze on Austin.

"Marsh, lettell you sgood news.

| have reported your amazing run at the assessment to several elders in our Elder Council and..." Foster paused as if to create an environment of anticipation.

"The Elder Council has approved your admission as an alchemy disciple in our Magic Hand Sect!" Foster exclaimed with a huge smile.

Austin pretended to be ecstatic immediately.

"Thank you, thank you for your recommendation, Steward Foster! | will never forget your great kindness!" Austin said, excitement oozing in his voice.

"Ha-ha, don't mention it. As a steward in charge of recruiting disciples of our sect, my duty is to discover and recruit excellent talents to join our Magic Hand Sect." Austin nodded in understanding as Foster spoke.

Maybe the Magic Hand Sect had a special organization, which was responsible for finding outstanding talents outside the sect and recruiting them.

"Marsh, since we're already here, | would explain to you the differences among the various kinds of disciples in the Magic Hand Sect." He then went on about the topic in detail and in length.

After Foster's explanation, Austin understood that that there were two kinds of disciples in the Magic Hand Sect.

One were the martial disciples. They were the ones who specialized in cultivating martial arts and who would developed themselves with martial arts in mind.

The other one were the alchemy disciples. For them, the most important thing to learn was alchemy, and the main direction of their development was to becpill refiners.

Generally speaking, finding talents to enlist as an alchemy disciple was much harder than finding those who would cultivate in the martial arts.

Because of that, after discovering Austin's insane potential in alchemy, Foster immediately sought to get Austin as one of their alchemy disciples.

So basically, if Austin were to go to the Magic Hand Sect, he would specialize in alchemy and would eventually beca pill refiner.

"Austin, the Elder Council has decided to ask Elder Drew to re-recruit an assistant. You can now cwithand enroll at the Alchemy Hall. After you get your ID badge, they will arrange another accommodation for you," Foster said.

Austin was stunned.

Leaving Drew's cave and officially living as an alchemy disciple at the Magic Hand Sect? There were a whole cave of herbs that he could use if he stayed here.

Moreover, Austin really wanted to see how Drew would refine his elixirs. After all, that was what he chere for.

Slowly, Austin was coming into a decision that he would not want to leave Drew's cave.

"Steward Foster, | intend to stay with Elder Drew and continue to work for him as a refinery assistant for a period of time," Austin said apologetically. He even lowered his head so that he got the full effect.

"After that, | will go to the Alchemy Hall to make an enrollment. | think | still have a lot to learn from Elder Drew.

Steward Foster, as much as | am determined to develop into a pill refiner in the Magic Hand Sect, | really do not want to miss the opportunity to learn from a great master as Elder Drew." Foster looked visibly stunned by the reply he got from Austin.

"Really? You want to stay here?" he said, his eyes wide and his tone bewildered.

"Marsh, maybe you're new here and you don't know the truth yet.

It's a dangerous thing to be Elder Drew's refinery assistant," he continued, his eyes mellowing.

"I'll explain it to you: Over the years, Elder Drew had recruited many refinery assistants.

However, none of them had cto a good end.

Someone was killed by an explosion.

Another one was poisoned.

Okay, Elder Drew's alchemy skill is indeed very outstanding. He is at least a ninth grade pill refiner.

But he always insists on making innovations in alchemy that are just very extrand absurd to say the least! It made his pill refining process very dangerous.

In short, Marsh, you'd be better off if you're not here. Listen to me." At that point, he took Austin's shoulders.

"It's very dangerous to be Elder Drew's refinery assistant." The sincerity and earnestness in his voice was palpable.

'Well, that's the way it is." Austin finally understood what was going on.

No wonder Foster tried his best to prevent him from becoming Elder Drew's refinery assistant.

After being silent for a few moments, Austin finally said something. "Steward Foster, don't worry. | will be careful.

Although it's dangerous to be Elder Drew's refinery assistant, | still prefer to stay here.

As soon as | chere today, | knew that Elder Drew will teacha lot about alchemy.

| want to stay here for a while. If there is indeed a great danger here, | will leave as soon as possible," he said, full of emotions.

"Since the Elder Council has made their decision, I'm sure that Elder Drew will letwhen | decide to leave then."