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However, for the Ye family, one of the five major families in the Dan Domain, these people may be the cornerstone of the family, but they cannot be the pillars that the Ye family needs most!
Taking a deep breath, Ye Zhong's gaze fell on the last small figure.
To be honest, Ye Chen was not old enough to be tested on his soul value, since he was only five years old, while the others were at least twelve years old.
However, Ye Zhong was really eager to know if his grandson, whom everyone called the "Kirin Child," could truly shoulder the responsibility of revitalizing the family!
"The last one, Ye Chen..."
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone's eyes immediately fell on the little guy in the middle.
This scene startled Ye Chen, who was originally bored. He suddenly felt like he had become a giant panda in a zoo, and he felt extremely uncomfortable...
With his short legs, Ye Chen rushed onto the testing platform at top speed, and then fawned over his grandfather.
Seeing this, Ye Chong couldn't help but pat his mischievous grandson on the head and whispered, "Chen'er, put your hand on this crystal and try to feel the crystal..."
For ordinary people, even a third-grade alchemist would find it difficult to accurately and actively mobilize their soul power.
The soul value testing stone tablet also uses the round crystal on it to actively absorb the soul power of the tester to display the value.
Following his grandfather's instructions, Ye Chen stretched out his chubby, white hand and, standing on tiptoe, placed it directly on the crystal.
In an instant, Ye Chen felt a sudden dizziness in his head, which then quickly returned to normal.
at the same time……
"Drip drip."
As Ye Chen's soul power was absorbed into the crystal, a dripping sound suddenly emanated from the smooth jade belt at the center of the stone tablet...
Then the blood-red number suddenly soared, and after about ten seconds, it finally stopped at 150 under the watchful eyes of many.
The moment this number appeared, the room fell into a deathly silence. All eyes were fixed on that number, as if they had been petrified, unable to look away.
"His soul value has reached 150? That means he's already reached the threshold of a third-grade alchemist! He's even stronger than me! How am I supposed to face anyone now...?"
A member of the Ye family who looked to be in his twenties couldn't help but mutter to himself.
This abrupt sentence shattered the already frozen atmosphere in the alchemy room. Many eyes, filled with undisguised shock, stared at the figure in front of the stone tablet, which was not even as tall as the test stone tablet.
"The Ye family is saved..."
Ye Zhong's hands trembled with excitement. All the worries he had had during this period finally vanished at this moment...
Chapter Five: First Attempt at Alchemy
Ye Zhong believed that with the terrifying soul power displayed by his precious grandson, coupled with the Ye family's nurturing, becoming a seventh-grade alchemist before the age of thirty was absolutely a certainty.
Then the Ye family will no longer have to worry about losing their title as one of the five great families because they fail the Pill Tower's assessment!
Suppressing his excitement, Ye Zhong announced the end of the test.
Then, looking down at her precious child, she tried her best to speak gently, "Alright, Chen'er, you should go find your mother too."
"Yes, Grandpa."
Ye Chen gave a perfunctory bow, then turned to look in the direction of his parents.
then……
Then he saw his mother's proud expression as she accepted everyone's congratulations.
Ye Chen's lips twitched. He wasn't surprised at all by his mother's behavior, who knew absolutely nothing about being low-key.
Having been mother and son for so many years, Ye Chen now knows his mother's personality very well.
Since the soul value test, Ye Chen's reputation as a prodigy of the Ye family has spread like wildfire once again.
This time it was even more terrifying than before. Even his own father, who usually seemed like a steady man, was now telling everyone he met how great his son was...
He looked like he was about to lift himself up to the top of Ye City and announce to everyone that the Ye family genius was his son!
Although the Ye family and the entire Ye City are currently in turmoil, Ye Chen is much more at peace than before.
He has now been personally taken to the courtyard of the Ye family's patriarch, who is said to be his great-great-grandfather, and is to be personally instructed by him. No one is allowed to disturb him...
This resulted in Song Chun'er, the mother who used to come over every day to do some parent-child exercise with her son, not seeing her son for one or two months at a time.
Now, Ye Chen needs to memorize the medicine classics and familiarize himself with the properties of medicinal herbs under the supervision of the Ye family patriarch every day, and then observe the patriarch's methods of processing medicinal materials...
In the evening, one must cultivate one's battle qi for two hours in a medicinal bath personally prepared by the Ye family patriarch to aid cultivation, before one can go to sleep.
Although this kind of life was a bit boring and dull, it made Ye Chen feel very fulfilled.
After all, his soul wasn't really that of a child. For Ye Chen, who was used to working 996 in his previous life, this was just normal.
Moreover, there is a large supply of tonics and a variety of delicious foods every day. For Ye Chen, whose homebody tendencies have reached the maximum level, this is now considered his ideal life.
And so, more than a year passed, and Ye Chen's strength finally broke through to the ninth level of Dou Qi...
At seven years old, his ninth-level Dou Qi was, well, still an astonishingly fast cultivation speed.
After checking Ye Chen's cultivation level, Ye Xun, the patriarch of the Ye family, couldn't help but smile.
Even his previously lifeless eyes now shone with a glimmer of light, showing just how excited he was.
"Good child, although you have already reached the ninth level of Dou Qi, don't rush to condense Dou Qi vortex. Be patient and hone your Dou Qi; this will benefit you!"
Touching Ye Chen's head, Ye Xun said in a solemn tone.
Ye Chen nodded in agreement.
With the Ye family's strength, they certainly wouldn't lack pills like the Qi Gathering Pill, which helps condense battle qi vortexes. However, breakthroughs achieved using pills are different from those achieved through...
Breaking through with one's own willpower yields completely different results.
For Ye Chen now, foundation and roots are what he needs to care about most; compared to these, cultivation level is secondary.
However, since there was no need to rush to break through, Ye Chen shifted his cultivation focus to star essence...
Over the past year, he has collected a total of 32.5 Star Essence, two more than before. This shows that the collection speed of Star Essence is not fixed, which is good news.
With these 32.5 points of Star Essence, Ye Chen now possesses 82 points of Star Essence, which is not far from the 100 points needed to light up the third Star Soul.
Moreover, Ye Chen also wanted to take advantage of this time to try refining medicinal herbs and accumulate some experience for himself.
Ye Xun's first reaction to his request was that the kid was being delusional.
After all, he's not even a fighter yet, he doesn't have any cultivation techniques, and he can't even control flames, so what's the point of talking about refining medicine?
Faced with the Ye family patriarch's firm refusal, Ye Chen had no choice but to reveal some of his trump cards ahead of time...
"Ancestor, look..."
A silvery-white flame suddenly rose from Ye Chen's tender palm, flickering uncertainly.
The moment the flames appeared, the surrounding space did not experience the scorching heat of the flames, but instead felt a slight chill...
"Huh? This is..." Ye Xun's eyes showed surprise.
Although the temperature of this silvery-white flame is not very high, only slightly stronger than that of ordinary battle qi flames, its presence in the hands of a child with only the ninth level of battle qi makes it all the more significant!
"This is Starfire, you could say it's my natal flame..."
Ye Chen pondered for a moment and then explained it this way.
"A natal flame?" Ye Xun looked at the little thing in front of him speechlessly.
Do you think you're a monster? Born with a natal flame?
Ye Chen chuckled, scratched his head, and said, "Well... I don't know the specifics, but this thing has been inside me since I had my memories, and it can absorb starlight every day to slowly improve..."
When I first discovered it, it was barely the size of a bean, and the temperature was extremely low. It's only because I've absorbed starlight every night for so many years that it has grown to its current size.
Hearing these words, Ye Xun murmured, "The Starfire? Could it be the reason for the strange phenomenon when Chen'er was born?"
It's not impossible either.
In terms of classification, Starfire should belong to cold fire, which is exactly the same as the Yang fire condensed in the Ye family's Yang fire ancient altar, one being Yin and the other Yang, mutually generating and restraining each other.
Although Ye Chen's "natal flame" explanation is a bit too far-fetched, considering the various unusual phenomena his little devil has exhibited over the years, this explanation doesn't seem unacceptable.
Even so, Ye Xun remained very cautious about Ye Chen's request to practice refining medicinal herbs.
"Alright then... I can agree to let you refine some simple medicinal herbs, but it must be done in front of me. That way, if you make any mistakes, I can point them out to you in time."
Ye Chen readily agreed to this.
Seeing his ancestor take out a crimson beast-patterned medicine cauldron that was more than a meter tall from his storage ring, he couldn't help but feel a little excited.
After reading medical texts for so many years, it's finally time to put them into practice!
Chapter Six: The Difficulty of Alchemy
Inside the crimson cauldron, silvery-white flames reflected on the surrounding walls, their menacing shapes resembling those of ghosts.
Ye Chen's expression was serious, and he felt a little nervous inside...
There was no way around it; after all, it was his first time trying it out himself. Even though he had mastered everything and had the ancestor by his side to remind him at any time, he would still get nervous when he needed to.
"Don't rush, take your time, familiarize yourself with this medicine cauldron first..." The ancestor's gentle voice rang in his ears, easing Ye Chen's tension considerably.
Under Ye Chen's control, the flames circled inside the cauldron, evenly raising the temperature, before hovering in the center, waiting for medicinal herbs to be added.
For Ye Chen, who possesses the Starfire, this first step in alchemy gives him a significant advantage.
It's important to understand that even at the Dou Shi level, many people cannot conjure solid fire out of thin air; they need to rely on the special structure of the medicine cauldron to generate flames using their own Dou Qi...
Putting aside the temperature, the sheer amount of battle qi required to generate such a flame means it's destined to be incredibly energy-intensive.
Seeing how easily Ye Chen completed the preparations, the Ye family patriarch nodded in satisfaction, unable to hide the smile in his eyes.
"Control the flames to prevent drastic temperature fluctuations, and gradually increase the temperature inside the cauldron..."
Upon hearing the reminder, Ye Chen simply nodded slightly and controlled the flames to remain constant.
This highlights the crucial importance of the two additional fire control features he added...
It's important to know that for a novice alchemist, the first of the two major hurdles they need to overcome is being able to stably control their flames.
After all, the temperature of the flames inside the medicine cauldron is extremely high, and many medicinal materials have very strict requirements for temperature. Even a slight difference can damage the medicinal materials, and the medicine refining will naturally fail.
Besides that, the second remaining challenge is naturally the control of soul power...
Seeing that Ye Chen's preparations were going very smoothly, the smile on the face of the Ye family patriarch deepened...
He took out a gray scroll and said softly, "This is a prescription for a first-grade healing medicine. It contains the names of the required herbs, the extraction temperature, and the ingredients to be extracted. Try it first."
Ye Chen took the scroll and began to examine it carefully...
It's just a first-grade healing medicine, one of the simplest types, so it doesn't require many ingredients, only three.
"To make the Blood Clotting Powder, you need one Blood Clotting Grass, two Muscle-Growing Grasses, and one Moon Lotus Flower."
"Coagulation Powder" is a very common general term for a type of healing medicine, named after its main ingredient, Coagulation Herb.
However, because each family's prescriptions are different, the auxiliary medicines required are also different, which results in different qualities of the blood-clotting powder produced by different alchemists.
The Ye family's Blood Clotting Powder is among the top-tier products, given that the Regenerating Grass and Moon Lotus are both valuable and highly effective.
Similarly, this also increases the difficulty of refining medicinal materials.
Generally speaking, only those who have reached the peak of a first-grade alchemist or a second-grade alchemist can guarantee a success rate of over 70% in pill formation.
Of course, Ye Chen only needs to successfully extract the medicinal materials now; he doesn't need to consider the subsequent process of combining and configuring the medicinal effects.
After carefully memorizing the requirements and key points of the prescription, Ye Chen took a deep breath and began his first herbal extraction.
Pick up a dark red blood clot that had already been placed beside me.
Without hesitation, he threw it directly into the mouth of the ferocious beast atop the medicine cauldron...
As soon as the Blood-Coagulating Grass entered the medicine cauldron, before Ye Chen could react, the silver star flames began to flutter and try to rush towards it.
This startled Ye Chen, and in his panic, he tried his best to calm his flames.
Seeing the sparks had calmed down, Ye Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief...
I thought this first time would end in just a few seconds.
The Ye family patriarch beside him nodded in satisfaction, "Not bad, quick reaction, and decent control over the flames."
This situation was exactly what he had expected.