Chapter 16 Alchemist
Chen Nan blushed, lowered his head guiltily, and replied, "Yes!"
Chen Nan felt guilty, but also had some doubts. The quality and taste of food on D-class planets were indeed average, but didn't the Master of Contract live here since he was a child? Why did he dislike these common foods so much?
However, taking care of the master's food, clothing, and daily life is indeed the contractor's responsibility. Now that the master is not satisfied with what he has done, he can only find ways to improve it.
As for cooking courses, he has never taken any. In fact, the Contract Regulations require every contractor to learn cooking in order to serve the contractor more conveniently.
But he was born in the Chen family of Guangdu. The Chen family is quite powerful in the entire A110 star and can be ranked as a second-rate family. He has had many slaves in his family since he was a child. Although he is only a son, his father is of high rank and the family has given him all the resources he should have. Even if he is matched with a contract master in the future, the contract master will probably be from a big family. Besides, he has seen a lot since he was a child how humble the contractor is in front of the contract master, so he is very resistant to matching with the contract master. Instinctively, he only wants to improve his combat power and escape from the bondage.
Ning Xuan changed her major to medicine, and according to the rules, she should have started learning in the first year of junior high school. However, when she looked at the first year course schedule, all the courses were about understanding alien plants. Although this kind of course was basic, for Ning Xuan, it would be a waste of time to take it alone. She would rather take the learning materials back and study privately, and did not want to take classes with a group of half-grown children, which would definitely slow down her progress.
Ning Xuan chose the course on processing methods and usage of common exotic plants for third-year students in the Alchemy Department.
When Ning Xuan was refining elixirs in the past, the usual methods for processing elixirs were nothing more than washing and drying them, selecting the different medicinal parts, and then processing them with fire, frying, steaming, stewing, roasting, making wine, refining, and extraction. Of course, some special medicinal materials may require more complicated preparation methods, which require a long period of accumulation and exploration.
Therefore, in Ning Xuan's opinion, the processing and use of medicinal materials are the foundation and core part of the entire medicine refining process. It is also the focus and difficulty of learning medicine refining. It is worth her putting more effort in this regard.
However, after Ning Xuan sat in the classroom of the Alchemy Department and listened to a class and flipped through the textbook, she couldn't help but feel disappointed. There was only one way to deal with exotic plants here, which was to wash them, crush them to extract the juice, and then mix them with different juices to make medicines of different names. It was really simple and crude.
For example, commonly used healing medicines of various names are made of blue flame grass juice mixed with juices from other exotic plants.
The dosage forms of drugs are also very simple, all of which are liquid medicines in bottles.
Ning Xuan recalled that most of the medicines she had made before were pills and elixirs. Only when her skills were not good enough and she could not make elixirs would she make other dosage forms, such as powders, ointments, aqueous solutions, etc. Of course, different dosage forms also have different scopes of application. For example, ointments are the most convenient for treating external injuries, and powdered powders are the fastest to take effect for hemostatic drugs.
If all intermediate courses in alchemy were of this kind, then she felt that there was no need to study at all. She only needed to remember the medicinal effects of various exotic plants and practice more.
After class, Ning Xuan stopped the teacher who wanted to leave, found a picture of the alchemy furnace on the Star Internet, and asked about the precautions and methods of use of the alchemy furnace. Unexpectedly, the teacher looked at her with complicated eyes and said, "Student, before the catastrophe, when plants had not yet mutated, most plants could be refined by quenching, steaming, etc. However, later, plants mutated, and when alien plants were put into the alchemy furnace, the spirit controller needed to use his own spiritual power to channel the energy contained in the alien plants, otherwise the furnace would inevitably explode."
"To be able to use the alchemy furnace, you must at least be a B-level spirit controller. For female spirit controllers, the requirements can be lowered. You must be a C-level spirit controller with a spiritual power value of more than 500. Ning Xuan, you don't meet the requirements yet!"
"If you really like it, you can enter the advanced alchemist class after completing all the courses for the intermediate alchemist and passing the final exam. The requirements for the lower grades there are not that strict. Although you can't use the alchemy furnace, you can watch and learn!"
Seeing that Ning Xuan was willing to learn, the teacher patiently and carefully explained a lot to her.
Ning Xuan then began to look up the assessment content of the intermediate class's graduation examination in the Alchemy Department. She wanted to finish this graduation examination as soon as possible and take a look at the learning content of the advanced class.
After Chen Nan finished teaching students in the fighting department, he came to the culinary class as requested by Ning Xuan. His appearance caused quite a stir. On a D-class star, a B-class mental power is already considered a powerful figure, but Chen Nan is S-class. At first, his classmates thought he was here to find Ning Xuan.
"Chen, Instructor Chen, Xuanxuan, Xuanxuan transferred to the Alchemy Department today to attend classes. If you want to find her, you have to go to the Alchemy Department!" He Mo came over with a red face and spoke. He said this, but in his heart he was howling at her not to leave and to stay. Oh my God, looking closer, Instructor Chen looked even more handsome, with white jade skin, a high nose bridge, charming eyes, and long legs. Under this black shirt, he must have hard abdominal muscles. I really want to touch them!
The more He Mo thought about it, the redder her face became. Hu Tao couldn't help but nudge her with her elbow and whispered, "Control yourself, your saliva is flowing out!"
Chen Nan recognized that the two girls seemed to have a good relationship with Ning Xuan, so he bowed politely and said, "Thank you for letting me know. I'm here for class!" After that, he found a relatively empty corner and sat down.
Chen Nan's attitude in class was very serious, and he learned how to process ingredients very quickly. Under his influence, the classroom atmosphere was surprisingly good. At the end of the class, Teacher Qu looked at the processed ingredients that had been collected, which was twice the amount than usual, and he was so happy that his mouth was grinning from ear to ear.
In the afternoon, the cooking class had a practical class. Each student had a pot and a pile of ingredients in front of them. Teacher Qu was immediately happy to see Chen Nan was there too. The ingredients she brought today were more advanced than usual. She hoped that the students could maintain the same state as in the morning and make delicious food!
Unexpectedly, less than five minutes into the class, the pot in Chen Nan's hand exploded, and the sticky meat residue was blown all over the floor. With the help of other students, it took more than ten minutes to clean up the scene. As a result, a few minutes later, Chen Nan's new pot exploded again. Teacher Qu looked at Chen Nan, who looked embarrassed, and tactfully persuaded him, "Instructor Chen, maybe you are not suitable for learning this. Why don't you take a look at other courses? Or you can consider taking only classes on food processing!"
(End of this chapter)
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