Iron Thread Grass

== Description ==
Iron Thread Grass required an extremely long time to refine. It was usually done later when the medicinal cauldron had completely heated up.
What astonished everyone was that as soon as the Iron Thread Grass entered the refinement, before it even turned to powder, it was ejected from Long Chen's cauldron and placed to the side as he started refining a different medicinal ingredient.
Once he finished with the sixth ingredient, Long Chen started refining the Iron Thread Grass once more, but he didn't complete its refinement before starting to refine a different herb.
This action was something none of them understood, but seeing grandmaster Yun Qi's eyes filled with admiration, they all couldn't help being startled. Could this youth's techniques really have some kind of secret behind them?
Long Chen refined the Iron Thread Grass a total of thirteen times before completely refining it. At this stage, all of the twenty-some medicinal ingredients had been refined.
Under normal circumstances, a Pill Apprentice would normally take this chance to take a breath and calm their nerves.
The Iron Thread Grass was extremely fierce in nature and required multiple refinements to curb that violent nature. Doing so would allow the pill's energy to increase and at the same time, increase the chance of a successful refinement.
Such a refining method was something no one within the alchemist guild knew about. But within the guild was a secret warehouse of rare tomes. A couple seniors had made recordings there.
The writings were unfortunately very vague, but they did have this theory: by refining the Iron Thread Grass multiple times, it should be possible to reduce its violent nature.
But those recordings only mentioned extremely ordinary techniques or incomplete ideas. When it came to alchemists, who would be so kind as to just give away their blood, sweat, and tears?
Let alone the others, even grandmaster Yun Qi, who knew about this recording, had never mentioned this method of refining the Iron Thread Grass. 
One reason was that he had no obligation to go and teach others, and the other was that alchemists who weren't capable of innovation would not have any great achievements anyways.
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