Volume 2: The Demonic World Chapter 241: Flame Swallowing Technique
After reaching mastery of "The Art of Starting Fire", a vast amount of usage information emerged in Lin Qianxing's mind, and his body also underwent corresponding changes.
It seems like he really practiced this bit by bit.
Lin Qianxing seemed to have realized something. Perhaps his initial behavior of directly adding points to improve attributes was not a high efficiency in utilizing attribute points.
Perhaps he could choose a martial art that improves his physique or his spirit, and by directly adding points to improve the corresponding method, his attributes should also improve accordingly.
But that's not entirely true. Low-level martial arts and techniques may not bring much improvement, and the improvement efficiency may not be as fast as adding some attributes.
While thinking, Lin Qianxing stretched out his hand, and as his mind changed, the ground fire under the furnace naturally entered the furnace under Lin Qianxing's control and quickly heated up the furnace.
Immediately, he began to add materials for refining the Bigu Pill.
Previously, when he was refining the fasting pill in the mortal world, he used grains, meat and fruits.
But the materials of the Bigu Pills here are different.
It mainly consists of some common spiritual herbs, spiritual beast meat and some miscellaneous minerals.
The spiritual beast meat and spiritual herbs provide the necessary energy and nutrition, while the minerals are used to supplement the trace elements needed by the body.
Although the materials are different, the principles are still similar.
Under the burning of the earth fire, in less than ten breaths, these materials were processed and turned into elixir.
Immediately, Lin Qianxing's mind moved, and the elixir liquid gathered and turned into a pill. The earth fire licked it, evaporating most of the water in it, and the pill was ready.
Lin Qianxing waved his hand, and more than a dozen pills lined up and flew into his hands.
He took a look and saw the quality of these pills.
[Bigu Pill [Ordinary (Excellent)]: A well-made Bigu Pill.]
The replacement of materials, coupled with better conditions for refining pills, has resulted in the pills producing this time reaching excellent quality.
Lin Qianxing swallowed one pill and felt the effect.
Then he made a judgment.
After taking a pill like this, an ordinary person can go without food for at least a month.
And for him, it is almost two free attribute points.
After putting the refined pills into the pill bottle, Lin Qianxing started to refine new fasting pills.
There were eight sets of materials in total, and Lin Qianxing didn't fail any of them. All of them were excellent-grade pills.
When he was refining the fifth batch of materials, his spiritual power was exhausted and he recovered a little.
This delayed him for a long time.
He was only trying to ignite the fire, and he wasn't using his spiritual power to generate the flame directly. Otherwise, he would have used up all his spiritual power in a dozen breaths.
This made Lin Qianxing feel that perhaps he should spend some time on cultivation.
Let’s get back to the topic.
With eight sets of materials, Lin Qianxing refined a total of 128 fasting pills. Even after he ate one pill, there were still 127 left.
Lin Qianxing put away twenty-seven of the pills, took the hundred pills and left the alchemy room and came to the Contribution Hall.
"Senior brother, do you want some fasting pills?" Lin Qianxing asked.
Upon hearing this, the disciple on duty wanted to reply, "Nonsense."
But after he glanced at Lin Qianxing and noticed the Dan Palace mark on his clothes, he still said politely, "Yeah."
"Brother, do you think these are ok? I just made them." Lin Qianxing handed over a pill bottle and said.
The disciple on duty took the pill bottle and felt that the weight was a bit strange. After opening it and taking a look, he said with a somewhat subtle expression, "Junior brother, don't you know that a pill bottle can only hold ten pills at most?"
Lin Qianxing pretended to be a little shy and scratched his head and said, "I'm new here, so I don't know much about this yet."
What is he not clear about?
The main reason is that the elixir bottle also requires one contribution point in the Alchemy Palace, and Lin Qianxing only has so much starting capital now, and doesn't want to waste that money.
Even this pill bottle was taken away when I was helping Li Yunxi deal with the pill residue.
The disciple on duty used his spiritual sense to scan the pills in the pill bottle, roughly estimated the number and weight, then took out a small wooden stick, scraped some pill crumbs from one of the pills and put it into his mouth.
"Well, it seems that I was right. Junior brother, these are excellent fasting pills. One pill is worth two ordinary pills." The disciple on duty said, "An ordinary fasting pill is worth one contribution point. Junior brother, your pills are excellent. I can buy them for two contribution points each. Is that okay?"
"Okay." Lin Qianxing nodded.
"Then Junior Brother, please bring your badge over here." said the disciple on duty.
Lin Qianxing handed over his badge, and the other party scanned Lin Qianxing's badge with his own badge and directly transferred two hundred contribution points to Lin Qianxing.
When the contribution points arrived, Lin Qianxing immediately exchanged 100 of them for 10 low-level spirit stones.
A low-level spirit stone is exactly ten contribution points.
Lin Qianxing still has 100 contribution points left, so he can continue to buy materials and refine pills.
This is the advantage of technical jobs.
Of course, if you don’t have the skills, it’s unlikely to make money this way.
Just think about how Li Yunxi had to refine four furnaces of pills to make one, and you will know how difficult it is.
Lin Qianxing took the spirit stone back to his residence and started practicing again.
After the ten spirit stones were used up, Lin Qianxing went to make pills again and sold them to the Contribution Hall in exchange for spirit stones.
Because he comes so often, the disciples in the Contribution Hall are now familiar with him.
Lin Qianxing also learned that his name was Du Ju, and he was one of the inner disciples on duty in the Contribution Hall this month.
Working in the Contribution Hall is also a lucrative job.
When purchasing elixirs, materials, and issuing tasks, they can get a commission from it. The better the business, the more contribution points they get.
So he still likes clients like Lin Qianxing.
Five days passed quickly and Lin Qianxing successfully broke through to the middle stage of the Naqi Realm.
It became easier to refine the fasting pills, and he also increased his proficiency in the "Fire Inducing Art" to the [Perfect] level.
With the perfect level of "Fire-Inducing Art", controlling the earth fire is as easy as using one's own arms.
What surprised Lin Qianxing was that "The Art of Starting Fire" could actually be further improved.
Driven by curiosity, Lin Qianxing couldn't help himself and invested all the attribute points gained from practicing and absorbing spirit stones in "The Art of Inducing Fire" for the next ten days.
In the process of continuously investing attribute points, the grade of "The Art of Inducing Fire" began to change constantly, from [Mundane (Ordinary)], all the way up to [Mundane (Top Grade)].
Lin Qianxing's ability to control fire is also constantly improving.
Finally, after investing nearly two thousand to three thousand attribute points, "The Art of Starting Fire" suddenly underwent a transformation.
[Hint: After continuous use and accumulating experience, you have gained new insights into the "Fire Inducing Technique" and are now able to deduce it into a soul-enriching spell. Please select the direction of deduction...]
[Earth Fire Guidance Technique [Spirit Containment (Poor Quality)]: Can more easily guide the earth fire and manipulate its temperature, which can greatly save one's own spiritual power.]
[Fire Control Technique [Spiritual Containment (Poor Quality)]: A spell to manipulate fire.]
[Swallowing Flame Skill [Spirit Containment (Poor Quality)]: Swallow the flame into the body and store it, turning it into a fire, and then release it when needed.]
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Three deduction directions.
One is specialization.
One is expansion.
The last one takes a different approach, having the effects of both attacking and storing fire.
Lin Qianxing doesn't think highly of specialization, and he doesn't really need expansion either.
[Flame Swallowing Technique] He was very curious.
I really want to know how this thing achieves its effect?
How much flame can be stored in the end?
How powerful is it?
Thinking of this, Lin Qianxing directly chose [Flame Swallowing Technique].
At the same time, a memory flooded into Lin Qianxing's mind.
That was after he had refined the elixir thousands of times. One time, he accidentally drove the earth fire to burn his body. In a hurry, he breathed in a wisp of the earth fire into his lungs, which burned his own lungs and seriously injured them.
After his injuries healed, he was surprised to find that his lungs had the ability to withstand high temperatures and store flames.
So he swallowed the earth fire into his lungs, compressed it into a spark using the "Fire Attraction Art", and stored it in his lungs. Even if there was no earth fire when refining the elixir, he could still use the spark in his lungs to refine the elixir.
The memory faded, and the [Fire-Starting Technique: Perfection] on Lin Qianxing's original panel had disappeared.
What replaced it was [Swallowing Flame Technique: Introduction].
Lin Qianxing made a hand gesture, sparks flickered at his fingertips, and a flame rose up.
This shows that the original "Art of Inducing Fire" is still there, and "Art of Swallowing Flame" is backward compatible.
As soon as he opened his mouth, Lin Qianxing swallowed all the fire in his hand into his lungs.
Then it was compressed into a fire the size of a grain of rice.
Lin Qianxing's mind moved, and the fire was manipulated by Lin Qianxing to turn into a stream of heat energy, which went directly to the palm of his palm and was released from his pores.
Boom~!
A wave of flames was released, and due to its fast speed, it even produced an explosion sound and exerted a reaction force on Lin Qianxing's body.
This reminded Lin Qianxing of the feeling of using true energy to fly after reaching the Condensation Pill stage.
As long as he could condense enough of this fire, he should be able to fly with the help of the fire.
The only problem is that this thing requires a certain level of physical strength.
Now Lin Qianxing already felt a burning pain in his arm.
The quality of the Flame Swallowing Technique was not high to begin with. In addition, Lin Qianxing's proficiency was too low and his physique was not particularly strong, so it was normal to have such a result.
However, he can continue to improve, so it shouldn't take too long before he can master the means of flying again.
Time passed and soon the first day of the new year arrived.
Lin Qianxing saw outside the Dan Palace the time for Lu Daocheng's classes this month, which was from Chen to You on the second day of the lunar month.
So the next day he arrived at the Alchemy Hall an hour earlier and waited, and cleaned Li Yunxi's alchemy furnace and the place where he stored the alchemy materials.
God rewards hard work. Lin Qianxing has also been an apprentice.
If you want to learn something, you have to pay something.
So he didn't feel wronged.
And this place is still relatively good. In his memory, Dan Tong from Zixia Mountain was really treated as a servant.
There will be no dignity at all.
In fact, Dantong like Lin Qianxing was not an exception. The other Dantong also arrived about half an hour earlier and began to help the core disciples prepare logistics work.
Soon, Lu Daocheng, Li Yunxi and other core disciples arrived.
When Li Yunxi saw the clean alchemy furnace and the alchemy material rack, he remained expressionless, but secretly approved of Lin Qianxing's actions in his heart.
Afterwards, Lu Daocheng began to lecture. He said, "Today I will teach you how to refine the Veins Condensing Pill. It can help disciples in the Naqi Realm break through to the Veins Condensing Realm. Although it is still an ordinary pill, it is no easier to refine than some soul-enriching pills. The ingredients needed to refine the Veins Condensing Pill include Feixue Grass, Qiuye Grass, and Centennial Ganoderma Lucidum..."
As he spoke, Lu Daocheng took out these herbs and showed them to the disciples present, and also informed them of their general pharmacological effects.
Then he refined a batch of pills on the spot and explained while he was refining.
After the refining was completed, he waved his hand and placed a large pile of pill ingredients on the ground, and said, "I have placed the pill ingredients here. Each of you go and take ten portions of the ingredients and start refining."
Li Yunxi said to Lin Qianxing: "Junior Brother Lin."
"Yeah." Lin Qianxing nodded.
Then he quickly stepped forward and helped Li Yunxi pick up the ingredients for the pill.
The other alchemy boys also came up to select the ingredients for the alchemy almost immediately.
Lin Qianxing had a good eye and quick hands. In a short time, he had selected ten relatively good pill ingredients and placed them neatly on the pill ingredient rack.
Seeing this, Li Yunxi nodded with satisfaction, and then began to ask Lin Qianxing to help him process the ingredients for the pills and assist him in refining the pills.
