Chapter 731 - 571 Fire Manipulation + - 572 Two Phases of the Wind and Sky_3
"Good, good, stop now, change it to dark red flames."
Elder Qing suddenly snapped back to his senses and hurriedly gave new instructions, silently adding medicinal materials, watching the melted medicine liquid condense into a color that sparkled with golden light, feeling utterly bewildered.
’If I could control the fire like this, would I still worry about the success rate of forming pills? Not to mention these mortally refined elixirs, even the True Martial level elixirs, I could refine whatever grade I wished...’
The importance of fire control in alchemy is even greater than the proportioning of the medicinal ingredients.
Each medicinal material, what techniques to use, to what extent it should be refined, these things can all be slowly experimented with.
But if the fire control is not up to par, one might either burn it or cause uneven distribution of medicinal power.
Seventeen or eighteen kinds of medicine with cooling properties blended together, any slight deviation in medicinal properties could result in producing not a precious medicine but a poison pill.
The true meaning herein lies heavily on experience, and even more on talent, especially the intuitive sense of the medicinal properties, which can only be understood and cannot be conveyed.
Just like a chef cooking.
The same proportions, the same ingredients, what two people cook can taste worlds apart.
Some people can make dishes so delicious that one would wish they could swallow their own tongue.