The medicine man, who thought he was really there to help, quickly stepped forward.

"Master! I'm also willing to enter the alchemy room!"

Upon seeing this, Yao Yuan raised an eyebrow.

"What's your name? Are you sure?"

The man nodded quickly.

"My name is Xiao Er, confirmed. It is my honor to work in the alchemy room!"

Yao Yuan burst into laughter.

"Fine! I like a sensible medicine practitioner like you! Since you insist, then you may go to the alchemy room as well!"

The man immediately beamed with joy, completely unaware that his death was imminent.

Yao Yuan sent the other person to the spirit medicine room to prepare the medicinal materials needed for alchemy, and then led Chen Tianwen and the other person into the alchemy room.

Upon entering the alchemy room, a wave of heat hit you, along with an incredibly strong aroma of medicinal herbs. However, this aroma was not pleasant; instead, it made you want to vomit, as it had a burnt smell.

Yao Yuan's expression changed.

"Oh no! We failed again!"

Yao Yuan ran to the bronze alchemy furnace, which was half a person's height, and slapped the lid off with one palm.

Instantly, an even stronger smell of burning filled the air. Yao Yuan jumped back a step, glaring at the burnt brown bottom of the furnace and cursing through gritted teeth.

"What should I do! What should I do! Master told me that I must refine this Spirit Gathering Pill within eighty-one days. Master will come to check tomorrow, and I still have no clue!"

"This Spirit Gathering Pill is a second-tier pill! The formula alone is over a thousand pages long! There are tens of thousands of steps involved! Eighty days have passed! And I've only just managed to make it without making a mistake! How could I possibly have succeeded in making it!"

"If I can't refine it, my master will make me watch over the cauldron for him! He's only refining third and fourth-grade pills. If I, a Golden Core cultivator, inhale that kind of pill poison, I won't live more than a year!"

As he spoke, he grabbed his head with both hands and started scratching it vigorously!

He was breathing heavily through his nose, and his face was turning increasingly red.

After scratching his head a couple of times, he suddenly looked up and shouted outside.

"Pharmacy dispenser! Pharmacy dispenser!"

Two people dressed in white shirts came running over, stumbling and crawling, and knelt on the ground, trembling.

"Master, we are here."

"Quickly! Before dark, prepare two more sets of the medicinal herbs needed for the Spirit Gathering Pill. One set is needed now, and the other is for backup! Hurry!"

"Yes, Master, yes!"

Yao Yuan roared, and the two medicine men scrambled down in a panic.

"With these two alchemists, we should be able to produce two more batches of pills before Master arrives. As long as we can refine one Spirit Gathering Pill, Master will have no reason to make me his alchemist!"

Yao Yuan muttered to himself.

Xiao Er was puzzled, and a vague sense of foreboding crept into his heart.

"Isn't it good to be a medicine person?"

Yao Yuan slapped him across the face.

"Hurry up and start the fire to refine the pills!"

"idiot."

Chen Tianwen shook his head secretly and wisely joined in lighting the fire.

Xiao Er was so engrossed in his anticipation that he didn't hear what Yao Yuan was saying, but Chen Tianwen, who had been observing the situation, quickly formed a general judgment after hearing what Yao Yuan said.

If Yao Yuan still can't refine the Spirit Gathering Pill by tomorrow, he'll become his master's medicine man!

"You look at the top half! He looks at the bottom half!"

Yao Yuan tossed a stack of pill formulas to each of the two men.

Chen Tianwen took it and looked at it; it showed him the steps for processing the medicinal herbs in the upper part of his section.

The first page is filled with densely packed names of medicinal herbs; the main ingredients and auxiliary ingredients combined number over a thousand.

Purple heart orchid, cassia seed, lotus root...

Some want the flowers, some want the leaves, and some only want the soil attached to the roots.

Each type of medicinal herb also has different processing methods.

Sun-dry, grind, distill, extract...

The various methods were giving Chen Tianwen a headache.

Xiao Er, on the other side, wasn't much better off.

He was just an ordinary slave; he could manage to sweep the yard.

Asking him to write the prescription would really be too much for him.

"What the heck? What is all this writing?"

"What does 'simmering fire on the side stove' mean?"

"And this 'Bright Flame Water Quenching'—how can water be quenched from fire?"

Xiao Er held the latter half of the pill formula, asking questions every now and then.

Enraged, Yao Yuan snatched the pill formula away!

"You idiot, you idiot who should be fed to the dogs!"

"I'll be in charge from now on. Just do whatever I say!"

"If anything goes wrong!"

A fierce glint flashed in Yao Yuan's eyes. With a flick of his hand, a burst of spiritual energy shot out, and the stone lion head at the entrance of the alchemy room exploded with a bang.

This is what happens!

Xiao Er, kneeling on the ground, was startled, and the expectant look on his face completely disappeared.

"We will be careful, we will be careful!"

Chen Tianwen quickly lowered his head, indicating that he dared not disobey.

At this moment, two white-robed medicine preparers brought in the medicinal materials needed to refine the Spirit Gathering Pill.

Yao Yuan's expression immediately turned serious.

He pointed at Xiao Er and said, "Go get the Heavenly Heart Wood to start a fire."

Xiao Er hurriedly ran towards the woodshed not far away, where there were dozens of types of wood!

"Fool, this is golden sandalwood, the silver one is heavenly heart wood, no no no, it's red, it's red!"

Yao Yuan cursed angrily, wishing he could tear Xiao Er to pieces on the spot.

At the same time, he kept moving his hands, carefully cleaning the alchemy furnace with spiritual energy.

"Light the fire!"

At Yao Yuan's command, the small house began to fill with blue smoke again.

...

It was late at night.

Alchemy room.

Yao Yuan, clutching a wine gourd tightly, pushed open the door with a bang. Chen Tianwen and Xiao Er stood on either side of the alchemy furnace.

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