Double Cultivation
Jade Flame
While Senior Zeng and Luo Yixiao continued to do the exercises, Su Yang said to Cai Yan, "Since you have never made a pill before, I will teach you step by step."
"How many techniques did you learn?" He then asked her.
"i understand most of it, Master."
"good. It will make things easier" he said.
"What should I do, Master?" Wang Shuren suddenly asked him, feeling a little left out now that there were other disciples besides him.
"Hm? You can do whatever you want until it's your turn." Said Su Yang.
"i understand." Wang Shuren sighed inwardly before concocting some pills.
"Now, let's start your college." Su Yang said as soon as Cai Yan sat in front of the cauldron.
"And before we can start concocting pills, we need to see what kind of Alchemy fire you have from birth" Su Yang said and Continued,
"Not everyone is born with alchemy fire, but I can sense it in your spiritual energy, so you must have it."
Cai Yan nodded and closed his eyes to focus on the technique he had been practicing for the past month.
A few minutes later, a small ball of pale green flames appeared before him.
"Huh? your achemic flame turns Jade Flame. That's a really nice surprise." Said Su Yang.
Just like Zhu Mengyi in the Sacred Middle Continent who was born with a unique Azure Fire (blue), Cai Yan was endowed with his own unique alchemy flame known as the Jade Flame, a powerful yet hard-to-control type of alchemy flame.
"What's? Unique Alchemy Flame?" Wang Shuren stopped concocting pills to turn around and looked at the green flames that floated above Cai Yan's palm. Although he had heard the rumors before, this was actually the first time he had seen someone with a unique alchemy flame.
"How lucky! Had I been born with a unique alchemy flame, my life as an alchemist would have been much easier." Wang Shuren sighed loudly.
Hearing his sigh, Su Yang looked at him and said, "Blessed with a unique alchemy flame does not necessarily mean having an easy life as an alchemist."
"Whatchu mean? Unique alchemy flames were basically a superior version of ordinary alchemy flames, right?" ask Wang Shuren.
However, Su Yang shook his head and said, "Despite having a unique alchemy flame might indeed be advantageous in many situations, but due to its own uniqueness, they are also much harder to control and master."
"It's like being born with a Heavenly Constitution but not knowing how to properly train that body, which might cause more harm than benefit to your cultivation."
"And if a novice like Cai Yan with his Jade Flame was taught by someone incompetent, his life as an Alchemist would only be miserable, perhaps even ending in a tragedy."
"By the way, if you also want to have a unique alchemy flame, that's not impossible." Su Yang suddenly said to Wang Shuren, which caused his eyes to widen in shock.
"You mean I can also have a unique alchemy flame ?! I thought you could only be born with that!" Wang Shuren exclaimed in a confused voice.
"No, you can also have a unique alchemy flame if you absorb it. However, I doubt you will be able to find an alchemy flame in this world, since that fire took hundreds of thousands of years to grow."
"You can absorb a unique alchemy flame ?! This is the first time I've heard this! And what do you mean grow up? How to grow an alchemy flame ?!" Wang Shuren quickly asked him.
"Alchemy Fire is no different from Spiritual Treasure in the sense that both can be made naturally, but Alchemy Fire usually takes longer to appear due to its unique nature.
"…"
Wang Shuren was speechless. However, his heart was pounding with excitement knowing that he might be able to use a unique alchemy flame in the future.
"By the way, if you want to know more about the alchemy flame, I'll tell you everything later." Su Yang said before returning to Cai Yan.
"Now that we know you have the Jade Flame, I must change your training method."
Cai Yan nodded with a calm face.
"It takes me some time to write the technique, so I will let you familiarize yourself with that Jade Flame for now" Su Yang said.
"Just the basics, right? Leave it to me." Wang Shuren nodded with a confident expression on his face.
After Su Yang went to write a new technique for Cai Yan, Wang Shuren said to him, "The easiest way to familiarize yourself with your alchemy flame is just by using it. Here, try lighting a fire under the cauldron by controlling the spiritual energy and the creation of the fire that appears under the cauldron." Wang Shuren pointed towards the cauldron.
Cai Yan nodded and took a deep breath before creating a small flame under the cauldron.
"good. Now keep it that way as long as possible."
However, the Fire Jade disappeared just a few seconds later, and Cai Yan began to pant, like he had run out of energy.
"Eh? What the hell's going on? It hasn't even been ten seconds!" Wang Shuren asked him with a dumbfounded face.
"I. I don't know," said Cai Yan in a weary voice. "i tried to keep the alchemy flame active, but my spiritual energy was depleted before I even realized it."
"Did a unique alchemy flame really exhaust that much spiritual energy? Even novice Alchemists in the Basic Spirit Realm could maintain their alchemy fire for about 10 ten minutes before they ran out of spiritual energy, but you can't even do it for an entire minute while in the fourth level True Spirit Realm! This is too weird!" wang Shuren.
"Maybe this is what Master meant when he said that having a unique alchemy flame does not automatically have an easy life as an alchemist." Wang Shuren finally understood Su Yang's words.
"What should I do now, Senior Brother?" Cai Yan asked with a sad look. How could he concoct pills if he could not even sustain the alchemy flame long enough to heat the cauldron, let alone concoct pills?
"you can only increase your spiritual energy at this moment, right? But how much spiritual energy do you need to sustain such an alchemical flame consuming energy?" Wang Shuren shook his head a moment later and sighed, "I think I am the incompetent teacher that Master mentioned in this situation."
"Well, there's not much we can do right now other than wait until Master finishes whatever he does." Said Wang Shuren.
However, Cai Yan was unwilling to give up so easily and continued trying to defend his Jade Flame.
A few moments later.
"Haaah haaah This is impossible.." Cai Yan finally gave up after failing a dozen times. "Maintaining the Jade Flame is impossible if it quickly depletes all of my spiritual energy and I have no control over it."
"Why don't we ask Senior Zeng? Although he might not be at the level of a Master, he was still a very reputable Alchemist with decades of experience. Maybe he knows a thing or two about your Jade Flame. I'll wake him." Wang Shuren said before pushing Senior Zeng up from his sleep.
"Huh? Did I fall unconscious again from exhaustion?" Senior Zeng sat down with a tired expression.
"Yes, it is, but that's not why I woke you up." Wang Shuren said, and he continued, "Do you know anything about the unique alchemy flame?"
"A Unique Alchemy Fire? Well, that's a term you don't hear every day." Senior Zeng nodded.
"Although I know a thing or two about unique alchemy flames, I can't say that I know much about them because they are so rare. Why are you asking?"
Hearing his question, Wang Shuren turned to look at Cai Yan and said to him, "Show him."
A moment later, Cai Yan summoned Fire Jade for a moment.
However, that brief moment was more than enough to shock the awake Senior Zeng.
"A Unique Alchemy Fire ?! You really have a unique alchemy flame ?! Heaven! This is the second time I have seen someone with such a blessing!" He exclaimed with spirit.
"Oh? So you know someone else who has a unique alchemy flame?" Wang Shuren's eyes flickered with interest.
However, Senior Zeng's expression darkened after hearing his question, and he spoke in a serious voice a moment later, "Yes, I know someone who used to have purple-colored alchemy flames. However, that fellow died in an accident as he got lost controlling his alchemy flame, and burned himself until only his ashes were left."
"…" Wang Shuren and Cai Yan looked at him with horrified expressions on their faces.
"O-This fellow burned himself to death using his own alchemy flame?" Cai Yan asked for confirmation.
Senior Zeng nodded and sighed, "He is a talented young man who is also my first disciple. However, since I knew nothing about his purple flames back then, I could not guide him well, which ended in that terrible accident."
"…" Wang Shuren was speechless, as he did not think that Senior Zeng would have such a tragic history!