“It takes so long even if I let you dispense a medicine, how the hell do you do your job?” As soon as Mo Wuji returned to the 19th Dan Room, he was once again scolded.
Mo Wuji was also helpless and could still only pinch his nose and say, “The first time I dispensed the herbs wasn’t very fresh, I was afraid that it would have an effect, then I purposely went back to replace it with fresher herbs over. Isn’t there a saying, sharpening the sword is not a good idea. Even though I’m an odd-job disciple, I have to do my best to do my job to the best of my ability.”
This Shi Dan Master grabbed the herbs that Mo Wuji brought to him and didn’t even bother to check what herbs were fresh or not, but casually said, “Not bad, a little bit of heart. But if I fail in my alchemy, you’ll have to get lost just the same.”
This son of a b*tch, really likes to push the responsibility onto others. Pushing the responsibility to an errand-running medicine dispensing handyman disciple for failing to refine pills, this was also considered a strange one.
“Master Shi, can I watch from the side when you are refining pills?” Knowing that he was powerless to resist, Mo Suo didn’t care about this Master Shi Dan’s words, since he was going to get lost if he failed, he might as well be a bit thicker-skinned and mention his request to watch. Even if it doesn’t work out, it doesn’t matter.
This was purely because Mo Wuji didn’t understand the rules of the alchemy world, it was a big no-no to take the initiative to ask to watch a dan master refining dan if the dan master didn’t make the invitation.
Shi Dan Master, who was originally in a hurry to go in and refine pills, suddenly stopped and looked Mo Wuji up and down for a while before he asked, not very sure, “You, a miscellaneous disciple, offered to watch me refine pills?”
He himself was all so scruffy, and he was only a 2nd Grade Human Dan Master, and he still dared to say that he was an odd-job disciple, Mo Wuji was very upset in his heart. He was equally unaware of how noble the status of a second grade Human Dan Master was in the sect.
Mo Wuji let out a heckle in his heart and said with his mouth, “Master Shi Dan, I have a nickname in my hometown, which is Lucky Star. Usually when someone else does something and I watch from the side, the success rate will more than double. It’s the alchemist next door to my hometown who refines pills and calls me over every time as well, and as a result, he has a greater success rate than others every time he refines pills.”
Shi Dan Shi hemmed and hawed, and suddenly said, “I’ve never seen an odd-job disciple with guts as fat as yours, well, I’ll let you come in and take a look today. In case I can’t succeed, you can jump off the Hanging Sword Cliff yourself.”
Mo Wuji winced, he knew about the Hanging Sword Cliff. The first cliff of the Traceless Sword Sect, a broken sword was suspended from the edge of this cliff, and it was heard that disciples who committed great crimes within the sect would be thrown off the Hanging Sword Cliff.
“That, I’d better not go in.” Even though he used the Water Velvet Vine, who knew if this Second Grade Human Pill Master would be able to concoct the Condensation Locus Pill? This Shi Dan Master knew at a glance that he was a guy whose skills were not working.
Shi Dan Master didn’t even wait for Mo Wuji to speak again, his hand was on Mo Wuji’s shoulder. A powerful force swept over, as if it was a suction cup to suck Mo Wuji over.
Mo Wuji was at least a Pulse Expansion Second Layer cultivator, at the same time Shi Dan Shi made his move, between the rotation of Yuan Qi around his body, he directly broke free from Shi Dan Shi’s suction-cup like force. Then, between the flashes of his body, he had landed a few feet away from Shi Dan Shi.
“Hehe, you’re actually at the third layer of Pulse Expansion …… No, it’s the second layer of Pulse Expansion strength now?” Shi Dan Shi looked at this Mo Wuji in shock.
It wasn’t that there were no Pulse Expansion Second Layer amongst the miscellaneous disciples, even the Pulse Expansion Fourth Layer was there. However, it wasn’t rare to see a young Pulse Expansion Second Layer like Mo Wuji, and that wasn’t the most important thing, the most important thing was that the reaction speed and strength that Mo Wuji’s Pulse Expansion Second Layer displayed was completely comparable to the Pulse Expansion Third Layer.
He was a Second Grade Human Pill Master, as well as a Spirit Building Second Layer cultivator. Even though he casually grabbed just now without even exerting a tenth of his strength, Mo Wuji was still able to dodge it in his haste, which was not simple.
Mo Wuji pretended to smile awkwardly, “My spirit root qualification is too poor, I’ve been cultivating for four to five years this has only reached the second level of Pulse Expansion.”
Hearing that Mo Wuji had cultivated for four to five years before he reached the second level of Pulse Expansion, Shi Dan Shi was finally able to accept it.
He nodded, “That’s not bad, since you were able to dodge my casual belt just now, then you will be spared from jumping off the Hanging Sword Cliff, come in.”
After saying that, Shi Dan Shi entered the alchemy room first.
Seeing that the other party no longer said that failing in alchemy would make him jump off the cliff, Mo Wuji was finally relieved, while following this Shi Dan Master into the alchemy room.
It was Mo Wuji’s first time coming to the alchemy room, and the first thing he saw when he entered the alchemy room was a dan furnace. The Dan Furnace was more than a metre tall with a diameter of about two feet.
Beside the furnace, there was a shelf, and Mo Wuji watched as Shi Dan Shi placed those medicinal herbs on top of the shelf.
Other than these, there was only one stone pier in this alchemy room. At the top of the Dan Furnace, there was a skylight.
After Shi Dan Shi entered the alchemy room, he did not say another word, instead, he inserted the jade token in his hand into a groove next to the Dan furnace, and then gave a strong wrench to a handle next to the furnace.
Mo Wuji heard a “bang” sound, and a blue-tinged flame emerged from the ground.
Mo Wuji was not ignorant of the alchemy fire, the alchemy fire used by the alchemist was various and diverse, and the earth fire was one of them.
Obviously, the one that Dan Master Shi used was the earth fire.
Mo Wuji didn’t ask more questions, and he also knew that he wasn’t qualified to ask anything. It was already considered heavenly luck that Shi Dan Master could let him stand here.
After allowing the flames to scorch the bottom of the furnace for a few minutes, Shi Dan Master suddenly slapped his hands continuously on the edge of the furnace. The lid of the furnace flew up, and then the dirt and dust in the furnace flew right out under these slaps and landed outside the Dan furnace.
Shi Dan Master took out a gourd from his arms, turned the mouth of the gourd downwards, and poured some liquid into it without knowing what it was.
Mo Wuji was tempted to ask what the hell this liquid was, because the Dan books he had read described it, but he had never seen that there was a need to pour in liquid into the Dan furnace before refining the Dan. However, he still held back from asking, he was worried that as soon as he opened his mouth, Dan Master Shi would immediately let him out.
After the liquid was poured into the Dan Furnace, Master Shi Dan allowed this Dan Furnace to burn for a few more minutes before feeding the medicinal herbs that Mo Wuji had led over into the Dan Furnace one by one.
Mo Wuji stood on the side and couldn’t see the situation inside the Dan Furnace at all. He only knew that Shi Dan Master kept adjusting the size of the flame and then kept using a shovel to turn over the spirit herbs in the furnace.
There was nothing pleasing to Mo Wuji’s eyes when he watched Shi Dan Shi refine the dan, he only felt like he was seeing a guy stir frying vegetables.
As Shi Dan Master continued to flip, Mo Wuji began to smell the overflowing spirit herb odour. Mo Wuji had studied plants for many years, and as soon as this odour came out, he could smell the Water Velvet Vine. The smell of the Water Velvet Vine and the smell of the Green Inferno Fruit fused together and were clearly working.
Shi Dan Shi stared intently into the middle of the Dan furnace, flipping the spirit herbs in the furnace while controlling the strength of this flame. Just by looking at the way he was paying attention, Mo Wuji knew that he didn’t smell the Water Velvet Vine’s odour.
Time passed little by little, and Mo Wuji watched as sweat flowed down from Shi Dan Shi’s forehead before dripping onto the ground. However, it was as if Shi Dan Master was unaware of it, still staring intently at the medicinal herbs in the dan furnace.
Mo Wuji also sighed a little, Shi Dan Shi’s ability to become a Second Grade Human Dan Master shouldn’t be based on his intelligence, nor was he born to be alchemy material. Rather, it was because of this concentration and his mindlessness when refining pills.
Although Mo Wuji had never seen another Dan Master refine pills, he still could not compliment Shi Dan Master’s movements and gestures in refining pills. This kind of alchemy posture was really bad. It was like swimming in general, all sorts of fancy swimming he wouldn’t be able to do, what he would be able to do was dog crawling.
After more than an hour had passed, Shi Dan Master suddenly slapped his hands hard on the edge of the Dan furnace, and a piece of black stuff flew out from the furnace.
This should be counted as dan dregs, Mo Wuji didn’t even need to check it, he knew that these dan dregs contained many spirit medicine ingredients just by sniffing with his nose. In other words, the dan dregs tapped out by this Shi Dan Master were far from being purified.
