My Master Knows It All

510: 183_1 510: 183_1 In the realm of immortal cultivation, alchemy is one of the six arts and is of great importance; many spent their entire lives studying the art of alchemy.

As such, the methods and schools of thought in alchemy are incredibly diverse.

However, Yi Sheng had never heard of an alchemy technique that required a person to jump into it.

If it had been anyone else asking her to do so, she would have never leaped, but the person making the request was her master.

Without any hesitation, she jumped directly into the pill furnace.

As soon as she landed inside the pill furnace, her master’s voice came again, “Listen to me, I will soon place the herbal ingredients into the pill furnace, and you need to coordinate with me to cast the alchemy techniques inside.”

“I cast the alchemy techniques?” Yi Sheng was stunned for a moment.

“That’s right, both you and I will cast the alchemy techniques,” as Cao Zhen tossed handfuls of herbs into the pill furnace, he asked, “Do you know what a human pill is?”

“Disciple has heard of it.

It is a wicked alchemy method that transforms a person into a pill through special techniques.” Ever since Yi Sheng began practicing alchemy, even though her master was absent, she had read a lot about alchemy, including about human pills.

Now, sitting inside the pill furnace and hearing the words ‘human pill,’ there wasn’t a trace of fear or dread in her heart.

She believed her master would not refine her into a human pill.

“The ‘human pill’ you speak of simply involves transforming a person into pill form and then consuming it.

In fact, there is a special kind of human pill in this world,” Cao Zhen replied.

“People usually make human pills outside of a pill furnace.

Have you ever thought about what it would be like for a person to transform themselves into a human pill inside the pill furnace?”

“Transforming oneself into a human pill?” Yi Sheng was utterly confounded.

She had never considered this before, but as she pondered, she guessed, “Master, your disciple suspects that the ordinary human pill involves refining someone into a pill for others to consume.

In truth, a human pill is still a pill, aside from being made from a person.

It can be seen as a normal pill and all pills have their medicinal properties.

However, if one refines oneself into a human pill, naturally one wouldn’t let someone else consume it.

So does that mean the medicinal properties would remain inside oneself?

Master, are you trying to enhance my cultivation base?”

“Your analysis is not incorrect, but the conditions are not yet sufficient.”

Cao Zhen felt his young disciple was truly bright, having simply deduced what would be gained from self-refining into a human pill.

Unfortunately, she was mistaken about refining herself into a human pill to enhance her cultivation base; he truly couldn’t do that.

His alchemy skills were not yet up to the mark!

For now, he could only do one other thing for Yi Sheng.

“Although I temporarily can’t enhance your cultivation base by refining you into a human pill, I can help you cultivate a divine skill.

Now, you need to cooperate with me to refine yourself into a human pill.”

Cao Zhen began to state the names and methods of various alchemy techniques while also controlling the flames from outside the pill furnace.

Within the pill furnace, the herbs melted under the heat of the flames; due to the lid of the pill furnace, they could not escape, creating currents of air that spun endlessly around Yi Sheng.

Gradually, Yi Sheng realized that the herbs inside the pill furnace had fully melted into medicinal gas, which even began to solidify, entwining around her like silken threads.

Cao Zhen’s voice reached her again.

“The next divine skill I’m going to impart to you is named the Scarlet Flame Heavenly Phoenix, Zi Chentian, Danxia Hechong…”

A string of incantations followed, and Yi Sheng hurriedly focused her mind to practice the techniques.

Cao Zhen cast a series of alchemy and flame techniques, controlling the flames within the pill furnace and ensuring that the medicinal properties inside did not fully solidify into form.

Because once the pill was about to solidify, he intended to break it apart.

If he didn’t break the pill, then his disciple would truly become a human pill.

However, he couldn’t simply rupture the pill; he had to do it after Yi Sheng had cultivated the divine skill, or else all would be in vain.

Therefore, he needed to control the process so that the pill in the furnace would take as long as possible to form.

In truth, the Fire of Departure is the very essence of the true Fire of Departure.

He intended to use this opportunity to enable Yi Sheng to cultivate the Fire of Departure.

Though the Fire of Departure is not as powerful as the Samadhi True Fire and is not as ancient, it encompasses all flames.

In fact, some believe the Fire of Departure is one of the most primordial flames, the foundation of all divine fires.

The Phoenix is the Phoenix Sacred Beast.

The Scarlet Flame Heavenly Phoenix uses the power of the Fire of Departure to unleash the majesty of the sacred beast Phoenix.

In Zhang Daoling’s records of immortal cultivation, the Scarlet Flame Heavenly Phoenix was not a divine skill of Dragon and Tiger Mountain, yet it was specifically highlighted by him, which speaks volumes about the power of this divine skill.

Within the pill furnace, waves of scorching heat kept assaulting Yi Sheng’s body.

Her own body was of the True Yang Immortal kind, and she cultivated fire system techniques and divine skills, but even as she sat cross-legged in the pill furnace, it felt as though she sat within a volcano, the scorching air seemingly melting her skin, muscles, and bones.

As she continued to practice her cultivation techniques, gradually all the energy within her converged at the center of her forehead, forming a flame as fine as a strand of hair.