Mortal To Immortal (Book 1)
MTI 028 - Repeated Experiments

Feng Xian added Meirong was forbidden from helping Yao Han to achieve success in making a pill of perfect quality.

The beautiful woman could only look at and accompany Yao Han as a form of support. Meirong did not attempt to argue any further since Feng Xian had already come to terms with his decision.

Feng Xian then disappeared from his third sight, he did not even give Yao Han a chance to refuse the task he was willing to give.

The atmosphere was silent for a moment before Yutian threw a question at Yao Han, "So, do you have any plans, Han'er?"

"I can only make good quality pills. For a while I just wanted to get used to making pills first. Maybe I'll find a way out."

Meirong gave a different response, "Oh, we should be celebrating Han'er's first success making pills, why did it become like this?" his weakness.

Yao Han had just established himself as a Bronze Alchemist for successfully making one type of first-rate and good-quality pill. Making a perfect quality pill within a month? Feels impossible.

However, regardless of how unreasonable the task was from Feng Xian, Meirong wished Yao Han was able to complete it. Of course he would give his student his full spirit and support.

***

Over the next few days, Yao Han enjoyed the time of pill-making. The number and quality of pills he produced were consistent, namely six good quality pills.

Meirong did not know whether she should cry or be happy about Yao Han's achievement in making pills.

Other alchemists would also fail in one experiment and sometimes only produce one or two normal quality pills. Also almost no Alchemist produced pills in consistent quantity and quality after successfully trying several times. While Yao Han seemed to have no trouble with what he was doing.

After making a pill numbering in the hundreds of grains, Yao Han paused for a moment to observe the pill he had made. For the first time he wanted to try the taste and efficacy of the pill.

To his knowledge, the Qi Gatherer Pill was useful for Basic Realm cultivators. This pill can help the practice rise up to level seven of the Basic Realm.

According to Meirong, pills made by Yao Han that were of good quality or contained three times more Qi than normal quality, could help it to break through to the eighth level of the Basic Realm.

While the super and perfect quality could help ascend all the way to the Basic Realm level nine or ten. However, this achievement also depended on the cultivator's talent, at least having a spirit root containing the three elements and using a good practice manual.

After swallowing the pills, Yao Han began to feel the Qi start to spin within his body and was absorbed by his five spirit roots. In fact, this pill was useless to Yao Han who had already reached the ninth level Basic Realm for the five spirit roots he had.

"Hm..." Yao Han stroked his chin, starting to understand how important pill resources were to cultivators as told by Meirong and Yutian.

The next two days, he did not make pills but rather meditated for a long time to gain enlightenment. After which he resumed pill making and three days later, Yao Han gave a surprise.

"Eight pills!" meirong. He did not believe what he saw. This was the first time he had known of any Alchemist who had managed to make eight grains of Qi Gathering Pills using a set of ingredients.

Feng Xian who was inside the house and observing used his Heavenly Sense to his feet and glared in shock, "How could he produce eight pills?!"

"After hundreds of years, I can produce that pill within ten minutes. While Xiao Han only took less than five minutes.." murmured Feng Xian who was confused himself.

He lost his interest in painting and observing Yao Han. Again Feng Xian thought Yao Han's achievement was a coincidence.

Inside the warehouse, Yao Han was not quick to complacent but rather repeated over and over again. He again managed to produce eight pills of perfect quality until Feng Xian from a distance who was watching him no matter the count he succeeded.

Yao Han who was still late in his experiment, was unaware of making Feng Xian depressed. Meirong there though was not much different from Feng Xian.

'Do I deserve to be called a type of alchemy after seeing this?'

***

Two weeks had passed since Yao Han got the assignment from Feng Xian. Still haven't managed to make a perfect quality pill. Let alone that, he has not gotten a way to improve the quality from good to super.

Had it not been for Meirong and Yutian to be with him, Yao Han was already crying and immersed in great frustration. On the other hand, Meirong wanted to help, but was aware that his actions would provoke the anger of Feng Xian and could suppress Yao Han's potential, so he could only continue to give vigor.

Yao Han did not always remain silent inside the warehouse, occasionally he went out to seek fresh air and gained enlightenment. Then at one of his breaks, Yao Han thought of one pretty crazy idea.

He immediately went to the warehouse and tried. Yao Han had thought of an ingredient that had become a liquid containing an important part of making pills. So he concluded that the more fluid that formed, the more likely it could improve the quality of the pill.

Yao Han attempted to increase the amount of liquid to double. Based on the rough calculations and experience he had accumulated the past few times, if successful then he would obtain three or four pills.

However, Yao Han had to swallow disappointed that in his hands appeared four black-colored pills. It means he failed. One thing he was grateful for was that his failure was not followed by an explosion.

Meirong realized Yao Han's actions. Not an easy thing because it requires two things, namely very strong fire control and precise calculations. Yao Han might meet the first thing, but for the second thing he couldn't directly succeed just like that.

Yao Han pondered for quite a while and found his way out. The key is in the calculation, precisely the amount of liquid from each material before being put together.

A hope began to be seen during the ninth experiment. The four pills produced were gray, showing Yao Han half a step towards success.

Then at the seventeenth trial, Yao Han finally obtained four pills that had dotted glowing lines, indicating the pills were of super quality.

Meirong approached Yao Han enthusiastically, "Han'er, you did it! That's incredible!" he shouted while clapping his hands. While Yutian smiled widely while shaking his head.

Meirong was still observing Yao Han's four super quality pills enthusiastically as the disciple did not stop trying to concoct pills. In total he conducted ten experiments and produced forty super quality pills.