BTTH: Thunder Emperor

**Chapter 6: First Taste of Alchemy**

"The host only needs to swallow the fire, guide it to travel through the body, and finally introduce it into the dantian."

"Eat it directly??? It won't burn me to death like Xiao Yan, right? I don't have Xiao Yan's absorption preparations. Do you want me to be burned to death and change the host?" Xiao Tian asked fearfully.

"Don't worry, host, this is a reward from the system; it won't harm the host."

After hearing what the system said, Xiao Tian felt relieved, stretched out his hand, and slowly approached the flame in the air. When his fingers touched the flame, he didn't feel the burning sensation he had imagined, but rather warmth. Xiao Tian also felt a sense of joy emanating from the flame. Feeling reassured, he reached his whole hand in to grab a trace of fire inside. He pulled his hand out, looked at the fire in his hand, gritted his teeth, and swallowed it.

After the fire entered his body, it traveled through the meridians. During this time, the fire made his body feel comfortable, like taking a hot spring bath in the cold of winter; he felt entirely refreshed. Once the fire traveled through his entire body, it went directly to the cyclone and kept rotating around it.

He stretched out his hand, and with a thought, the Kirin Burning Sky Flame appeared in his palm. He threw it at the large rock in front of him. The flame passed through instantly, creating a big black hole in the stone.

After constantly controlling the flames and becoming proficient with them, Xiao Tian took out the source of thunder. Looking at the ball of purple, liquid-like thunder in his hand, he immediately absorbed and refined it.

"Tian'er, go in. Enter the appropriate passage according to your attributes and choose the technique that suits you."

"Yes, Father." Xiao Tian responded and walked into the Douqi Pavilion. As soon as he entered, his eyes swept through some dark corners around the attic. His keen soul perception sensed that many guards were hiding in the dark corners of the Douqi Pavilion, watching his every move.

Seeing Xun'er blush like blood, he stopped teasing her. A trace of Dou Qi appeared in his hand as he stretched it in front of Xun'er and said, "I have already transformed my skills. You can feel it."

After feeling the strength of Dou Qi in Xiao Tian's hand, Xiao Xun Er said with a red face, "It seems that Brother Xiao Tian is also very mysterious. He practices a low-level earth-level skill. No wonder he looks down on Xun'er's skills."

After chatting with Xun Er for a while, he said goodbye and left. He went to the stone forest on the back mountain and stood on a stone. After recalling the practice of Five Elements Heavenly Thunder Art he acquired some time ago, he began to practice Dou Qi. The thunder-attribute Dou Qi and spiritual thunder in his meridians were constantly mobilized and condensed in his hands. In less than half a minute, it formed a silver-green Heavenly Thunder Halberd about two meters long. Lightning flashed continuously around the halberd, making it look like a god descending from heaven.

He practiced back and forth between continuous condensation and dissipation, gradually becoming proficient, until he could condense a halberd in less than a second with just a thought.

After practicing other Xuan-level Dou skills, Xiao Tian found a hidden cave in the back mountain. After entering, he blocked the door with stones, took out medicinal materials, and began his journey of refining medicine.

Xiao Tian sat quietly on the ground, recalling how Xiao Yan used strange fire to condense a medicine cauldron in the original novel. With a wave of his hand, the Kirin Burning Sky Flame appeared in front of him and gradually formed a medicine cauldron. Just when Xiao Tian was feeling happy, the medicine cauldron suddenly dissipated.

"It's so hard to maintain," Xiao Tian sighed.

After a short day of practice, the medicine cauldron in front of Xiao Tian could gradually last longer. When it was sufficient for refining medicine, he began to refine the herbs and threw a blood coagulation grass into the medicine cauldron. The moment the blood coagulation grass went in, Xiao Tian slowly controlled the temperature of the strange fire. The blood coagulation grass gradually turned into a fine white powder under the flame's heat. He then took the powder out of the medicine cauldron and placed it into the prepared box.

"Hahaha, I really have talent. I succeeded in refining it in one go." Xiao Tian grinned as he looked at the white powder in the box.

After resting for a while, he continued to extract the remaining blood coagulation grass, white orchid fruit, and blood ginseng.

Time flew by. One month later, Xiao Tian looked at the bottles of Healing Blood Pills and the pile of ashes on the ground in front of him with a sense of weariness. These remnants were the residues of medicinal powder that had burned due to improper control of the flame's temperature during the pill-making process.

"Being an alchemist is indeed very expensive. If it weren't for the money rewarded by the system, it would be difficult to support myself. But fortunately, the first-grade elixir has been refined to perfection. Now, I can refine the second-grade elixir next," Xiao Tian said as he looked at the blood-healing pill with elixir patterns on it in his hand.

After taking a short rest to recover his Dou Qi, Xiao Tian continued to refine the second-grade Bone Cleansing Pill and the Beauty Pill. Bone Cleansing Pill: Bone-Forging Grass, Blood Essence Grass, and Marrow Cultivation Root. Beauty Pill: Rainbow Grass, Jade Muscle Flower, Body Cleansing Grass….

(End of this chapter)