The Supreme God of Martial Arts
Chapter 260 Austin As A Pill Refiner (Part Two)

The herbal pot of a pill refiner was as important as a sword to a warrior.Its quality would greatly affect the success of the refining process.Austin checked if there was any problem with the entrance for fire.

He put his right hand to the entrance and delicately touched it. Then heclosed his eyes and summoned the golden fire he had. A snap washeard then the fire suddenly appeared on his hand.

Austin controlled the fire and it quickly burst into the herbal pot. Itentered the beast mouth as if it was absorbed by the pot.

Austin was surprised when he saw the raging blaze that reached theinside of the herbal pot.

"Wow! I have never seen anything like this before. The fire I havecondensed with my vital energy is very weak regardless the long time Inurtured it. But it quickly strengthens after it goes into the herbal pot.A-ha! It seems that the herbal pot can help fuel the fire."

Austin realized that those small-sized arrays and runes inside the potcould nurture the fire. He thought that the maker of the herbal potmust have put a lot of these which contributed to the success of pillrefining process

Austin looked through the mirror and watched the fire burning for awhile.

"I must watch closely to the whole process. But it seems like nothing iswrong about this herbal pot.” Austin let out a sigh of relief. He alreadyfinished the first step which was to examine the tool for the process.Then he kept the next step on his mind. It was to extract liquid essencefrom the medicinal herbs.

Austin chose the simplest formula in the Elixir Foundation as hispracticing subject. It had the knowledge of basic methods of firecontrol and the process of extracting different elements from herbs.According to the book, the muscle-generating powder needed onemuscle-generating herb, one vigor-generating fruit, two blood-nourishing flowers, and one five-tail herb.

Austin already prepared all those herbs even before he began theprocess. Since it was a practice, he prepared several dozen sets ofingredients for trials.

While he was checking the ingredients, Austin continued to control hisvital energy and kept the fire burning.

With the ingredients all ready, Austin picked up one muscle-generatingherb from the floor and inserted it inside the herbal pot through thehole in its lid.

This was Austin’s first trial and he still wondered at the process. He kepton being careful and observant as he did not want to miss any smalldetail.

His first trial was a failure. He was so nervous that he was not able towear his best abilities.

Even before he realized it completely, the burning fire alreadyswallowed the muscle-generating herb. It quickly turned into blackashes and was ejected from the herbal pot.

Then a scorching smell came out of the herbal pot. It was a light one atfirst, but gradually dominated the whole room with its burning odor.Austin bitterly smiled at his first attempt. It was a failure but then heknew that he could make a success out of his patience.

"Okay, I will try once more." Austin said to himself. He did not wasteany time and began another trial.

He crossed his fingers as he dropped another muscle-generating herbinto the pot. Even though how much he tried to control the intensity ofthe fire, it still turned into ashes.

"It was surely because of the high temperature. I had a hard timecontrolling it."

He murmured as he wiped his sweat. Austin realized that pill refiningwas not an easy task. It was a great profession since anyone could notbe capable of producing great results.

He thought that it was not easy to become a pill refiner, but Austincontinued his trials.

Hours had passed, and it took him to burn over twenty muscle-generating herbs before he found out the approximate temperature forrefining it.

Austin dropped another muscle-generating herb into the pot. Heconcentrated in controlling the temperature of the fire as he watchedclosely to what was happening inside the pot. His eyes were fixed onthe herb burning on the fire.

After being heated seconds, the herb gradually turned dry, and theliquid essence in it was condensed into a lump of white powder. Thismeant that Austin had finally extracted the essence from this herbsuccessfully!

He smiled proudly, but he knew he should not relax yet. He continuedto observe every small change he could see.

He closely watched the blazing flame through the ice-essence mirror.He could feel his sweat running down his pale face. His legs wereslightly numb and his back were intensely aching. Austin allotted thewhole day for this process alone. It had consumed him a lot of vitalenergy and vigor to keep refining pills for such a long time.

Austin stayed in front of the herbal pot for several hours. Aside fromthe vital energy that he used for the process, it also drained his physicaland mental energy.

However, he still managed to take the white powder from the muscle-generating herb. Austin's eyes sparkled as he watched the fruit of hislabors. He was so satisfied with the result! He was so exhausted yetpleased with his success. He muttered in a weak voice, "Okay, I need totake a break now. I can't stand it any longer!"

Right after he finished his words, suddenly his shoulders dropped andhis body collapsed right on to the floor. He quickly gasped for air as hischest heavily breathed.

Austin cursed in his mind. He did not expect that pill refining wouldcost his body to surrender. Controlling the right temperature of fire wasone of the hardest parts of the process.

Before, he was complaining that pill refiners sold their pills atridiculously high prices. But after he tried doing it by himself, heunderstood the perspective of pill refiners and felt that their prices werereasonable enough!