Becoming the Villainess: I Dominate the Cultivation Realm with My Wok!-Chapter 429
Chen Muxue didn’t make it difficult for him. Seeing a few cracks appear on the usually well-maintained expression, she shrugged and offered an out: "Alright, I’m not particularly skilled at this, so I need your help. Our famous Immortal Sect disciple surely knows how to make Elixirs, right?"
"Impossible!" Cen Lizhui immediately rolled up his sleeves, but realizing his reaction was too much, he cleared his throat and resumed his clear voice: "Our Immortal Sect is always about well-rounded development; simple alchemy is naturally no challenge for me."
Listening to him, Chen Muxue found it odd. Does the Immortal Sect really emphasize well-rounded development? Maybe she was just overthinking it.
So the two of them went to the kitchen. Yes, there was no exaggerated Pill Furnace. Chen Muxue took down an iron pot from her back, placed it on an ordinary stove, looking like she was about to cook, but she intended to practice alchemy.
The iron pot seemed to know its current mission. It shook a few times, transforming into the "oven" Chen Muxue used for baking. It actually looked more like a large iron lunchbox. However, under the fire control from all directions by Little Tiger, it was even more convenient than an oven. The only question was whether it would suffice for making Elixirs.
"Are you going to do it this way?" Cen Lizhui asked, as he watched Chen Muxue take out a pile of materials and a separate bag of what looked like broken dry grass.
Cen Lizhui recognized it and couldn’t help but examine it closely before clicking his tongue: "Vein Powder materials, and a pile of Curse-breaking Grass almost devoid of effectiveness. You want to combine these two things? How can that work? Vein Powder clears heat, detoxifies, dissolves stasis, and soothes channels. How do you see that pairing with Curse-breaking Grass?"
"That’s where you’re lacking knowledge," Chen Muxue said confidently.
"Even if you can combine the two, this Curse-breaking Grass isn’t easy to obtain. The ones you have are the lowest of the low quality. These broken dry grasses have almost lost their effects. To maintain a balance between the two medicines, how big a clump of Elixir would you make?" Cen Lizhui, seemingly subtly influenced by Chen Muxue, even started using ’clump’ in his speech despite being a dignified Immortal Sect disciple.
"That’s why distillation and purification are needed."
Glaze, or glass, isn’t considered extremely rare in this world anymore. What’s truly precious are the various ornaments or tools directly made from Spirit Stones.
Tools made from Spirit Stones are very popular among the fabulously wealthy in the mortal world. It seems using things made of Spirit Stones grants one a touch of immortality.
Under such circumstances, glaze, which is made of very cheap materials in itself, has become even more inexpensive. To open the market, it’s only with various colors and shapes that they attract attention, which allowed Chen Muxue to easily find the shape of glaze product she needed.
Although it’s still rare to produce transparent glass—since the chemistry behind it is weak and needs exploration—color doesn’t really matter.
The substitute for rubber tubes was even simpler. Chen Muxue simply found a sheep intestine and used it as a conduit. If it wasn’t sufficient, she had Cen Lizhui, the tool man, add a thin layer of Spiritual Energy inside the wall of the intestine so it wouldn’t leak and would expedite the transportation of liquid. Perfect.
Seeing Chen Muxue transform a large pile of broken Curse-breaking Grass into slurry and then use a quirky method to extract the essence, Cen Lizhui was once again stunned.
