The Supreme God of Martial Arts
Chapter 228 Kindling The Fire Of Vital Energy (Part Two)

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

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

This was the book that Mindy gave him at the Valley Town. It was acopy of the ancient book about alchemy given by the head of theZhang 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 thebook, he thought that he would study it after the competition he wasin. Since the Top Ten Outer Disciples Ranking Challenge was over, hewas now ready to begin reading the book.

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

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

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

So he opened the book and started reading it.

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

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

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

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

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

The essential skill of alchemy was to identify each medicinal material byits 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. Butinstead of using common combustion materials, a pill refiner shouldturn his own vital energy into a fire through a special skill. Therefore, itwas called the fire of vital energy.

The strength of the transformed fire depended on the level of the pillrefiner's vital energy. Plus, the refining would be more efficient as well.The first two steps were the foundation of alchemy. The pill refiningprocess proceeded on the basis.

In the refining process, a pill refiner should pay attention to thearrangement of the medicinal and quality matching of materials. Oneshould also be mindful of the control of refining temperature and timeAfter Austin took a rough look at the introduction in the book, helearned that alchemy was a very difficult subject. It seemed that if hewanted to pursue studying this, he must put hard work and a lot oftime. ...

But Austin was not the type of man who gave up so easy. He was raisednot to be a quitter. He wouldn't stop learning alchemy just because itwas difficult.

Few days had passed, Austin kept on studying the book of ElixirFoundation and the Golden Sun Scripture. He tried to keep all kinds ofmedicinal materials in mind. Then he found a skill called KindlingFormula which turns one’s vital energy into fire.

Since the Elixir Foundation was only an introductory book of alchemy,the species of herbs and other materials recorded were incomplete.There were only about five hundred kinds of medicinal materialscommonly used in alchemy were recorded.

But Austin still took four whole days to memorize all the medicinalmaterials, including their names, properties and flavors. He found thathis memory became better because of his spiritual sense. It helped himto remember things faster and advanced.

After he conducted a lot of trials, Austin finally got the idea of theKindling Formula. He rejoiced as he thought of being successful.

He sat with his legs crossed, his right hand was outstretched with hispalm flatly opened. Then Austin transmitted his light golden vitalenergy into his palm, controlled it using his mind and gradually formeditinto a ball.

Austin sensed the air around his palm was gradually increasing itstemperature.

What he learned from failures was the key to success was always goodconcentration. If you want to succeed, you should do your work withoutany distraction.

The massive vital energy gathered on his palm was getting contractedbut dense. Austin softly screamed as he exerted all his strength to drawout the vital energy from his elixir field. He quickly channeled it to hispalm, and gave it a strong pressure.

The ball made of vital energy suddenly bounced out. It was very strongand looked powerful.

Austin's hands trembled as they got heavy. But he bit his lip andpersisted. The light golden ball in his elixir field emitted its strongestforce and kept on pressing toward the vital energy ball.

After a while, a low crackling sound was heard when the vital energyball shrank into a size of a rice grain.

Then a golden flame was formed in his palm. The fire was blazing hot,dancing on his hand.

With its high temperature, the room suddenly turned hot.

The whole area was getting hotter as the flame continued to fire up.