The Supreme God of Martial Arts
Chapter 289 Refining Of Energy-promoting Elixirs

After killing five Wolf Generals of the Blood Wolf Team, Austin wentback to the hotel.

He took out the rag he had bought with over a million vital energycrystals at the auction and began to examine it carefully.

There seemed to be a map on the rag. Although some of the details onthe map had started to fade, they were still distinguishable.

On the map, Austin saw rolling mountains with a river on each side. Thehighest mountain peak was marked with a circle.

“Does this circle indicate the location of the Dark Bone Gloomy Fire?But there are dozens of these mountains there, so trying to replace theDark Bone Gloomy Fire by just using this map will be like trying to replacea needle in a haystack!" Austin thought in frustration.

He continued to stare at the map for a while before putting it away.“The only way I can replace the Dark Bone Gloomy Fire is if I happen uponit by chance. There's a very slim possibility of me replaceing it with thismap.

It seems that I spent over a million vital energy crystals on it fornothing.’ He was very disappointed.

There were about ten days left for Austin to retrieve the medicinalmaterials for cultivating stage three of the Overlord Body-refiningFormula from the elixir shop.

During this period, Austin planned to spend most of his time on elixirrefining.

Although he had just begun to study this skill, he was alreadyfascinated by it.

Next, Austin spent about six hours on practicing the Golden SunScripture formula.

Vital energy cultivation was the foundation for a cultivator, so Austintook some time to cultivate Golden Sun Scripture every day.

However, ever since he had made a breakthrough by reaching thepremium stage of Earth Realm, he felt like he had hit a plateau in vitalenergy cultivation base.

There was no sign of another breakthrough for him.

Austin knew that his progress in vital energy cultivation had been veryfast. It had taken him less than a year to advance from grade two ofEnergy Gathering Realm to the premium stage of Earth Realm.

No one would believe that he had progressed at such a high speed.Normally, it would take an ordinary cultivator's whole life to make abreakthrough to the premium stage of Earth Realm. In the Sun Sect,many stewards and cultivators at the premium stage of Earth Realmwere already forty or fifty years old, and some of them were even aboutsixty years old.

Austin knew that a cultivator shouldn't only focus on the speed of hisprogress, but on the stability of the realm and quality of the vitalenergy as well

If he pursued the speed of progress alone and neglected thestrengthening of the realm he had reached, his cultivation base wouldbe affected.

His capacity and skill wouldn't be on par with the cultivators who hadconsolidated the cultivation realms they had made a breakthrough to.So, Austin wasn't eager to just make a breakthrough. He wanted tokeep strengthening his vital energy foundation every day.

After practicing the Golden Sun Scripture for several Circulations ofVital Energy, Austin took out the herbal pot and the medicinal materialshe had bought for Energy-promoting Elixir refining. With the quantityof materials he had, he'd be able to make ten Energy-promoting Elixirs.For cultivators who were under level five of Energy Gathering Realm,Energy-promoting Elixirs could be very useful for their vital energycultivation

Moreover, for cultivators at levels one and two of Energy GatheringRealm, taking Energy-promoting Elixirs would help them increase thespeed and amount of vital energy absorbed by the meridians in theirbodies.

For Energy Gathering Realm cultivators, the most useful elixirs wereEnergy-promoting Elixirs and Energy-boosting Elixirs.

The former was a little inferior to the latter in medicinal effect.

For cultivators who had the same cultivation base as Austin, elixirs likethe Energy-promoting Elixirs weren't that important, but for those whohadn't reached level five of Energy Gathering Realm, Energy-promotingElixirs were precious.

For outer disciples in the Sun Sect, only those who had highercultivation base would have the opportunity to get Energy-promotingElixirs from the sect.

Before being attacked three years ago, Austin had been given suchEnergy-promoting Elixirs from time to time due to his excellentperformance.

Those elixirs had been very helpful for him in cultivation, especiallywhen he hadn't reached level five of Energy Gathering Realm yet.

On the other hand, for grunt disciples, Energy-promoting Elixirs wereextremely precious but they never had the opportunity to see them, letalone use them.

Normally, an Energy-boosting Elixir cost five to six hundred vital energycrystals while an Energy-promoting Elixir cost three to four hundredvital energy crystals.

This time, Austin decided to refine Energy-promoting Elixirs.

As Energy-promoting Elixirs were common and popular, the formula tomake them could be found in Elixir Foundation.

After setting the herbal pot down, Austin laid down the medicinalmaterials for refining ten Energy-promoting Elixirs next to the pot.

He sat in front of them with his legs crossed and then extended hispalm. Soon, the golden flame in his belly traveled along his arm to hispalm.

With a crack, it appeared in his palm. As it swayed, it gave off extremelyhigh heat, causing the temperature in the room to immediately increaseby several degrees.

The tiny flame contained a raw and menacing vital energy force thatmade it seem like it was a small wild beast that was going to fight toothand nail.

Austin put his hand under the fire intake port and summoned his vitalenergy force. Golden flames immediately rose and transformed intodifferent shapes.

Watching the flame clusters, Austin smiled with satisfaction. Afterpracticing for a while, he had a lot more control over the fire. He didn'tknow how he had managed to master the skill so easily. Maybe he wastalented in controlling the fire in the herbal pot.

Austin guessed that his powerful spiritual sense had helped him a lot.Above the herbal pot, there was an ice mirror. The rising flames blockedhis vision and there were some places he couldn't see in the herbal pot.But it wasn't a big deal for him as he was able to sense every inch of theherbal pot by using his spiritual sense power.

When the flames in the herbal pot became stable, Austin picked up acyan leaf lotus and glanced at it briefly before throwing it into the fire.The moment the lotus entered the herbal pot, it was surrounded bygolden flames. After a short while, it turned into a black mass of liquidwhich rolled slowly in the golden flames with a faint sheen.

Now that the flames were burning even hotter, Austin began to focushis spiritual sense power on the changes in the herbal pot. He kept theflame temperature to the optimum by adjusting his vital energy input. Ifthe temperature was too high, the black liquid would turn into steamand disappear into the air, but if the temperature was too low, itcouldn't be refined further.

After maintaining the flame temperature within a certain range, Austinsaw a few yellow impurities appear in that mass of black liquid.

He knew that he had to remove the impurities from the cyan leaf lotusliquid. Otherwise, the refined elixir wouldn't be pure enough.

Under the control of his spiritual sense power, the flame temperaturewas maintained within the suitable range, so the yellow impuritiesfinally evaporated.

Once these yellow impurities were removed, another batch of smallyellowish impurities appeared.

Austin removed all of them in the same manner.

After constantly being heated by the golden flames, the mass of blackliquid had shrunk from the size of a fist to the size of a thumb.

It rolled in the golden flames slowly like a mysterious black pearl.

After the cyan leaf lotus had shrunk to the size of a thumb, Austinstopped heating it. He then put another four cyan leaf lotuses into thefire and refined them into the same pure black liquid

After being heated in the golden flames for quite a while, the five liquidmasses began to merge and increase in size. But this didn't last long.After a short moment, they shrank to their former size.

The black liquid masses had been refined in the fire for such a longtime that even they appeared to contain a flicker of flame.

Knowing that the essence of the cyan leaf lotuses had been successfullyextracted, Austin heaved a sigh of relief.

Then, he picked up the snake-shaped fruits beside the herbal pot andquickly put them into the pot.

The moment the snake-shaped fruits hit the flames, they turned into amass of green liquid with a trace of chill. Austin eliminated theimpurities in this liquid and finished extracting the essence of thesecond medicinal material.

Now, it was time to extract the essence of the third medicinal material,bodhi flower.

Austin threw three bodhi flowers into the herbal pot. After a shortwhile, they were transformed into a drop of light violet liquid.

Now, the essence of all the three medicinal materials for Energy-promoting Elixir cultivation had been extracted successfully.

For the second step of elixir cultivation, Austin needed to mix theessences of the different medicinal materials.

Under his control, the liquid masses in the pot began to blend with oneanother, creating a series of sizzling sounds.

An hour later, the prototype of an elixir with a rough surface formed inthe flames.

“Wow! It's so easy!" Austin thought to himself.

This was the first time Austin was trying to refine Energy-promotingElixir. He was a little surprised that the first two steps had gone so wellThe third step was to solidify the elixir.

It was a critical step and would need a lot more vital energy than whatAustin had used in the first two steps.

He took a deep breath. After several hours of refining, he hadconsumed about fifty percent of his vital energy to maintain thetemperature of the flames in the herbal pot.

He summoned the vital energy stone that was in his belly and a largeamount of vital energy gushed from it.

Soon, Austin felt the vital energy in his energy meridians reach its peakagain.

He realized that the vital energy stored in the vital energy stone wasn'tsufficient for his current vital energy cultivation base.

It seems I should replenish the vital energy in the vital energy stone, *he thought.

He transferred a stream of vital energy into the herbal pot and theflame inside it immediately intensified.

Under the control of his spiritual sense power, a cluster of boilingflames quickly covered the Energy-promoting Elixir prototype.

Under the pressure of the flames, the elixir began to solidify.

However, after a few seconds, Austin heard a fizzing sound comingfrom the herbal pot. A cloud of heavy smoke rose from the Energy-promoting Elixir prototype.

“Damn it! The flame is too strong!"

Austin was disappointed by the result.

He had spent so many hours on elixir refining only for it to fail in theend.

Elixir refining was such a tedious job! It seemed that it wouldn't be easyto stick to it if he didn't have enough patience and stress tolerance.