Alchemies

Chapter 60: The Unstable Potion

Kong Yuhan held the pill inside the pill testing tool. The fog slowly rose from the bottom of the glass and began to rise upwards.

Everyone in the room watched the fog reach the number 16. They watched with bated breath as the fog slowly rose to number 17.

"Fine. Up," they shouted slowly for the pill fog to continue rising.

18.

"Just 2 more. Come onl. Come on." Kong Yuhan was sweating while watching it.

19.

“One more time,” cried Kong Yuahn with his hopeful voice. Unfortunately, the fog did not appear.

"No!!! I'm so close." Kong Yuhan became sad. This was his third trial of pill making. The second pill ended up being an 18% harmony pill, so he wanted to make this pill have 20% harmony%. But his wish remains just that, a hope.

“Alright, I will definitely make the next one.” He went back to making pills once again without anyone's encouragement.

Kong Yuhan had never been so focused in his life as he did on the 4th pill. He focused from start to finish, was careful at every turn, and made as few mistakes as possible.

'This turn has some faults. Maybe he'll make it now.' Alex constantly checked the inside with his spiritual feelings. As long as he did not attempt to overload his senses, his spiritual senses would persist for a while.

After Kong Yuhan finished making the pills and took them out to put in the pill testing tool.

Again the audience watched the fog begin to rise. The fog quickly rose to 16% before slowing down.

17%. 18%. 19%.

The pill examiner began to tremble slightly as Kong Yuhan's tools started to tremble in nervousness.

20%.

"YES!" Kong Yuhan shouted.

“Congratulations, Brother Kong. You are now entitled to become a Core.” student Everyone started congratulating him one after another.

"Hehe," Kong Yuhan was a little embarrassed at the bombardment of the congratulations. His large physical form with a shy face is something you don't see every day.

“How long has it been since we came here?” Kong Yuhan asked the group.

“I think it's been about an hour and a half. Definitely more than an hour.” Wei Xun spoke from behind. Everyone nodded.

"Oh. That means the room has already taken my contribution points. Better finish the last pill." Kong Yuhan began to prepare the next ingredients.

The others were also waiting for him to make the final pill. Kong Yuhan wiped his sweat and started once more. He had already ascended so he was not worried about this.

He ended up making more mistakes than usual. Alex caught all the blame.

“He didn't get the right time. He constantly drops his ingredients rather late, so his energy is not well aligned.’

If only the ingredients were burnt and charred instead of turning into powder, the energy could have come out of the cauldron. But, because everything is in powder form, unstable energy is absorbed by the powder, making the powder itself very unstable.

"Oh no," Kong Yuhan lost control of the situation.

'It's going to explode!' Alex immediately darted forward and used Qi manipulation to throw the entire cauldron into a corner of the room.

EXPLOSIONS

A huge explosion sounded from the corner, throwing a lot of energy towards them. Almost instinctively, Alex reached out his hand and used Elemental Guidance to avoid the explosive energy as much as possible.

Everyone in the room put on a disheveled expression as the ringing of explosions still rang out in their ears.

"What the hell are you doing?" Jia Fen immediately shouted.

Alex turns to see Jia Fen attacking him with the intention to hurt. Alex did not understand why he did that but immediately used Qi manipulation to stop him.

Due to the huge gap in their cultivation, he was only able to stop it for a few seconds before Jia Fen broke free from his grip and came to him once more.

Wait, brother Jia, it's my fault. Kong Yuhan regained his senses and stopped the fight.

"What?" It was not only Jia Fen who was confused by that statement. Wei Xun also went forward looking for answers.

“I was too relaxed and ended up making the ingredients unstable. If brother Yu did not dispose of it in time, I would be seriously injured now.”

“So, he didn't do it on purpose?” Jia Fen was still doubtful about it.

"No. In fact, I've lost control of the ingredients. It was brother Yu's quick thinking that saved us." Kong Yuhan looked towards the wall. The walls themselves were no problem, but the quality was now destroyed.

“Aww... I have to pay some points for this.” Kong Yuhan turned to look at the other 4 people, focusing mainly on Zhou Mi, and said, "Thank God, none of you are injured."

"I'm sorry for assuming you did it on purpose, Big Brother Yu." Jia Fen apologized when he got the chance.

"It's okay." Alex understood why he was angry. He would probably be angry himself if he saw what had just happened.

They all left the Alchemy hall and said goodbye. Kong Yuhan continued to thank him for saving her. Alex separated from the group and returned to his residence.

He looked at the time and saw 5pm. 'I should be able to squeeze out 4 or 5 pills before dinner time.'