C145

The moment the flame entered his body, Shi Ling felt an unprecedented scorching heat, as if his body was on fire. Shi Ling Qiang endured the burning sensation in his body as he continuously chanted the chants of the Crimson Flame Heaven Burning Technique.

In next to no time, the burning sensation subsided.

Bai Xiaosheng looked at the Cloud Grass. As the flames on it were devoured by Shi Ling, the Cloud Grass's size also became smaller at a speed visible to the naked eye. When Bai Xiaosheng saw this, he frowned and looked a little nervous.

At this moment, Shi Ling also had a serious expression. He couldn't help but clench his hands tightly. His fingernails dug into his flesh as large drops of sweat rolled down his forehead.

To make Shi Ling, who had such great endurance, suffer so much, one could imagine how painful the process of engulfing the flames was.

However, the pain Shi Ling had to offer in return, after the Cloud Grass's size continued to shrink, it finally turned into a thumb sized light source and flowed into Shi Ling's mouth along the flames. After Shi Ling had swallowed the light source, it meant that this time, the Cloud Grass's devouring process was considered as an initial success.

However, the pain on Shi Ling's face did not diminish because of this. The flames were still raging in Shi Ling's body.

When Bai Xiaosheng saw this, a vortex appeared in his eyes. Very soon, Bai Xiaosheng saw that the ball of fire in Shi Ling's body was gradually tamed by Shi Ling under the support of his mana.

Time passed by slowly. After four hours had passed, Shi Ling's face became more and more unsightly. At the same time, his skin had become very red. It was as if Shi Ling's entire body was on fire.

After Shi Ling let out a loud roar towards the sky, a red light appeared on his chest. At the same time, a strong momentum was like a strong wind, blowing away all the furniture along with Bai Xiaosheng.

However, at this time, Bai Xiaosheng's face revealed a look of ecstasy. He saw Shi Ling close his eyes and directly fell down, so he flew over.

After roughly observing Shi Ling's physical condition, and confirming that Shi Ling only expended too much Fa Li and there weren't any major problems, he couldn't help but slightly heave a sigh of relief. After that, he looked towards Shi Ling's chest.

Through Shi Ling's clothes, Bai Xiaosheng saw a pattern shaped like a flame appear on Shi Ling's chest. However, it disappeared soon after. It seemed to have entered Shi Ling's skin.

When Bai Xiaosheng saw this, he was ecstatic. He couldn't help but to whisper, "Luckily, the first fire cave has been cleared. The next thing is to teach him when he wakes up."

Bai Xiaosheng thought like this, so he went to collect all the herbs that were blown away.

About six hours later, when Shi Ling woke up, he found himself lying inside the Spirit Gathering Basin. There were a lot of herbs inside the Spirit Gathering Basin, which seemed to be used to heal him.

Shi Ling immediately crawled up from the Spirit Gathering Basin and casually took out a bunch of dry towels to wipe his body. Seeing that Shi Ling had woken up, Bai Xiaosheng flew over and said: "Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere now?"

Shi Ling wiped his body clean as he said, "There's nothing to feel bad about. It's just the same as usual."

As he said that, Shi Ling looked down at his chest. Bai Xiaosheng smiled and said, "There's nothing wrong with your feeling, which means you've recovered pretty well."

Shi Ling didn't say anything about this. He immediately took out a clean set of clothes from the Heart Ring and changed. He said: "When can you teach me alchemy?"

Bai Xiaosheng couldn't help but laugh, "You sure are impatient."

After Shi Ling was dressed, he pulled on his collar and said, "A skill that can earn money, who doesn't want to learn it?"

Bai Xiaosheng flew to the side and said, "Alchemy isn't just for earning money."

Saying this, Bai Xiaosheng took out five Black Stone Rock and threw them to Shi Ling. He said: "Come, let me see how high your fire control skill has reached."

Shi Ling immediately received the five Black Stone Rock and smiled confidently. Then, a ball of flame jumped on Shi Ling's finger and was controlled by him as if he was using his arm.

Shi Ling immediately injected the flame into the Black Stone Rock, and not long after, the impurities were all cleaned up by Shi Ling. But the difference from before was, this time, Shi Ling would not be tired to the point of gasping for breath, on the contrary, he looked very relaxed. Then, he picked up the second Black Stone Rock and started to remove the impurities inside it.

At this time, Bai Xiaosheng flew over and said, "Isn't it strange? "Gongsun Xiaoxuan could have refined a higher grade crystal than you, but her energy consumption and mana consumption was lower than yours?"

Shi Ling nodded and said, "It's related to fire control, right?"

"En," Bai Xiaosheng replied. "It's like you and Gongsun Xiaoxuan picking up a big rock at the same time, both of you have a stick in your hands, but your stick is much shorter, and Gongsun Xiaoxuan's stick is very long, so when you're using your short stick to pry at a big rock, even though you're very strong, it's still very strenuous. As for Gongsun Xiaoxuan, her stick is very long, so even if her strength isn't as great as yours, she can easily pry the rock off without exhausting most of her strength.

"Fire Controlling Technique is like a stick. The pills you refine are like rocks. The better your fire controlling technique is, the longer the stick will be, and the rocks you can pry up will also be bigger."

Shi Ling frowned and asked, "So, the increase in an alchemist's rank, to a large extent, depends on the improvement of their fire control, right?"

Bai Xiaosheng shook his head and said, "You can understand it that way, but you can't completely say it like that. It can only be said that a big part of the reason is because of the Fire Controlling Technique."

Shi Ling lightly nodded to this, indicating that he understood. The next moment, he saw Shi Ling finish refining the five Black Stone Rock in his hand and all of them became blue Shi Yan. Shi Ling, on the other hand, didn't even take a deep breath; he was only sweating a little.

At this time, Bai Xiaosheng said, "After that, you will use these herbs to make 1000 kinds of pills that are not of high quality. Every kind of pill needs to be at least 500 finished pills, and the success rate must be above 70%!"

Then, Bai Xiaosheng pouted at the herbs that were piled up beside him. When Shi Ling heard Bai Xiaosheng's request, his jaw dropped and he let out a long "Ah", "No way."

Bai Xiaosheng snorted and said, "Do you still want to learn the best pill refining skills?"

Shi Ling could only nod honestly and didn't dare to say anything else.