Beauty and the Bodyguard

Chapter 1459 - Personal Refiner's Notes

And so, all the medicines and elixirs above Mystic level one was known as Superior medicine--in the sense that it was superior to normal elixirs.

Of course, there were a couple of recipes for elixirs beyond Mystic level one, but from Zhang Liju's perspective, these were either bull or simply very hard to reach!

They were ingredients that were impossible to put together- even if they didn't destroy the refining furnace wouldn't happen in the first place. Liju himself had tried multiple times, having no other choice than to give up after explosion after explosion.

A practitioner trains either his qi or his physical body- they were, in essence, leveling those things up. The refiner, however, practiced the refinement fire. What they trained themselves to do was to gain more control and power over the fire- the refinement fire was also classified into five basic types. Metal, wood, earth, water, and fire. Fire was the basic of basics, and usually, all refiners would choose the fire element, as that was the one capable of creating the most elixirs. Only some special elixirs would require the use of other refinement fires.

Of course, one could choose to focus on two elements, though every person had limited focus and energy. Refinement fires were different, unlike how a practitioner could become a spiritual-physical practitioner. That was when each side supported the other, but with refinement fires, you had to start from scratch!

Even if one had trained the fire element of the refinement fire to Golden class level, doing it again for the water element would require you to start from nothing. As a result, other than those big shot refinement masters, one usually wouldn't go for a double element. It would just cause pain and suffering for no good reason.

Strengthening refinement fire was training targeted towards the degree of the fire, the size of it, and the purity of it. It was a completely different path from the physical-spiritual practitioner's!

In order to become a refiner, one had to fulfill the requirement of first being a practitioner- and a spiritual one, too. In other words, one had to be at least Golden class if one wanted to become a Golden class refiner, and anyone who wanted to become a Mystic refiner would have to be a Mystic practitioner, someone with a spiritual Mystic class practitioner's strength! However,r that was only in theory- as could be seen from Liju's descriptions. Even a Sky class practitioner may not be able to become a Mystic first level refiner. In order to train the refinement fire, a colossal amount of qi was required for support.

Lin Yi didn't expect a refiner to be so complicated- no wonder just a Golden class third level qi gathering pill was able to rouse up such attention, let alone higher-tiered elixirs!

Still, Lin Yi didn't have much to do now anyway- the outside was pure white, and Lin Yi might as well stay in the inn to train his refinement skills.

In the notes, Liju recorded detailed refiner's chanting arts of all five elements of metal, wood, earth, water, and fire. All of them were similar, and the refiner's arts was quite simple as well, not as complicated as one might imagine. It was just using the practitioner's qi for conversion into the refinement fire's process, and it explained why Golden class practitioners were limited to becoming only Golden class refiners.

In truth, however, Golden class practitioners had limited qi to offer, and the practitioner's arts they learned wasn't completely compatible with the refiner's chant. This resulted in some misjudgments and complications, and it meant that a Golden class practitioner was unable to become a Golden class level, seven refiner. Even the third level was a challenge- they usually aimed for the first or second level.

Lin Yi was now a Mystic, and that was a much more preferable beginner's step. After all, he also had much, much stronger medical knowledge compared to others!

Refinement recipes were important to the refiner, but a refiner who only followed the recipes wouldn't have much success even if they were Mystic first level- this was because they didn't understand the properties of the medicine they were working with, and with the lack of one ingredient, they wouldn't be able to just recreate or adjust the recipe. Naturally, this put them at a severe disadvantage compared to the refiners who knew their stuff!

Liju, evidently, was one of the refiners who could change the recipes as he pleased!

According to the notes, Liju said that the qi gathering pill used to be a Superior elixir, but due to his adjustments and changes it became a third level elixir. It wasn't as powerful as before, with every person being able to consume one at most, with no effect afterward... But the costs of making it dropped tremendously, even if already-made Sky class masters wouldn't be able to use it!

The real ingredients that the original qi gathering pill required could only be described as shocking. Lin Yi went over the recipe, and realized that it went beyond that- it was simply dumb. Many of the ridiculous treasures that were mentioned in here were things Lin Yi never even heard of!

When he saw that, Lin Yi felt discouraged all of a sudden- he had a good understanding of many medicinal properties, but faced with this many items and ingredients he hadn't even heard before, there was no way he could make any changes of his own even if he wanted to!

It was simply because he didn't even know what these items were for, or what their properties were when it came to refining. Of course, he wouldn't be able to procure any replacements.

But no matter what, Liju's recipes would help Lin Yi out well enough for a while. After the changes Liju had made, most of the ingredients were common ones that could be bought at the markets, and even some of the rarest ones could be found in the medicine garden Old Lin had.

But the ingredients listed in the high-level elixir recipe was stuff like the Fire Spirit's Fruit- items Lin Yi hadn't even heard of before!

Before practitioning, Lin Yi stuck to his habit of calling Old Lin for his opinions- it was like when he just started practitioning the Art of Dragon Mastery.

Using the satellite phone, he waited a while before OLd Lin's lazy voice sounded through. "Yi? What I was taking a nap. You found the fruit?"

Lin Yi was a bit speechless- this guy did care about Lin Yi more than anyone, but then this was also the guy who never tried to contact him whatsoever after he disappeared for so many days. Was he confident in him or something, or was he just lazy?

"Not yet, but I just got to a place near the North, a town called Frostsnow Town. According to the coordinates, the Northern land is just up from the town, but I couldn't find any path after going through all of the routes. I was about to start again when the snows came in, and the visibility's horrible- so I'll be staying in an inn until it passes." Lin Yi explained everything in one go.

"Frostsnow... Frostsnow Town..." Old LIn was repeating the name, not paying much heed to whatever Lin Yi was saying.