Alchemist

This Article is based on the Official Translations of the Light Novel series! The information and terminology in the article will be based on the source material rather than the Donghua (Anime) or Manhua.

A profession that is towers over a Practitioner, they can fabricate different Medical Pills and elixirs which is different in use and strength. They are rare among all Practitioners and are considered special because of their abilities to refine pills and for their ability to easily gather helpers (strong Practitioners). You need to achieve abnormal criteria to become one. It is said that there needs to be a teacher through every step, but this is not always true (Xiao Yan is able to go from a Tier 5 Alchemist to Tier 8 Alchemist even though Yao Chen was imprisoned by the Hall of Souls and was unable to teach him during this time). There are 9 Tiers when Ranking Alchemists that correlate to the tier level of the highest tier pill one can refine. The Alchemist's qualification examination happens once every 2 years. It is said that only 1 passes the 2nd Tier's qualification exam every 5 years. Note that this period is in the Jia Ma Empire only, whether this is true or not for other places, it is not mentioned in both the Light Novel or the Manhua. You can take the qualification exam at any branch of the Alchemist Guild.

The ranks of most Alchemists can be distinguished from the depth of color of the Alchemists' Flame. Ordinary Alchemists use flames that are made from Dou Qi. For First Tier Alchemists, these flames are faint yellow in color. As their Tier increases, the color turns darker and the strength of the flame grows stronger. Before a Alchemist reaches the level of a Da Dou Shi, they can only use their flames within a Medical Cauldron. Only after reaching the level of Da Dou Shi, can one summon a flame outside of their body without using a Medical Cauldron. This is called the materialization of Dou Qi and the flames summoned in this way can be used in physical fights.

Alchemists can also use the Flames of Magical Beasts and the Heavenly Flames. These special types of flames that does not require you to be a Da Dou Shi to materialize and use in fights. However, the strength of these flames are related to the user's Cultivation Level and their Level of Dou Qi Control. The strength of a Beast Flame is determined by the Cultivation Level and the power of the Bloodline of the individual Magical Beast which the flame was obtained from. The ultimate level of a Heavenly Flame's strength is heavily dependent on the Ranking of the Heavenly Flame.

For a person to be considered a First Tier Alchemist, they must be able to refine a pellet type pill.

All alchemists were divided from tier 1 to tier 9. Tier 1 was the lowest level while tier 9 was the highest. Those tier 9 alchemist gurus were further divided into three levels, the Treasure Pill Guru, Mysterious Pill Guru, and Golden Pill Guru!

The current Xiao Yan had already reached the Treasure Pill Guru level after having refined a tier 9 Treasure Pill back then. Of course, this had not been verified by any organizations. At this level, a faction could no longer help him verify his tier because those of his tier were already at the peak of the alchemist world.

A Mysterious Pill Guru was considered the peak of the alchemist world on this continent. There was hardly any of them. It had been nearly a thousand years since someone had become a Golden Pill Guru, so no one was able to refine a tier 9 Golden Pill.

Above the Golden Pill Guru was the legendary Di class. Di was the ultimate and no one could surpass it.

## Ranking

They are basically alchemist and can mix various ingredients ranging from common to godly items, to create pills and potions. There are very few Alchemist in the world, thus having one in your household is considered a blessing from the heavens. Alchemists are ranked from 1st Stage (Grade) to 9th Stage (Grade) and each Stage (Grade) is divided into three Tier: Low-Mid-High . After the 9th Stage there is a stage which has not been achieved for thousands of years, similarly to the Dou Di. This stage is known as the Di Stage (10th Stage) .

* 1st Tier Alchemist: On the badge was a simple medicinal cauldron. On the surface of the medicinal cauldron was a silver ripple that reflected a peculiar radiance upon receiving the rays of the sun. The basic requirement for a tier one alchemist was that the person must be able to successfully refine a medicinal pill that had been shaped. The type of medicinal pill was something that was randomly decided by the Alchemist Association.
* 2nd Tier Alchemist: If you want to pass the test for a tier two alchemist, you must not only refine a tier two medicinal pill, but your strength must also reach the Dou Shi level.
* 4th Tier Alchemist: On the ancient looking medicinal cauldron were four meticulously drawn silver colored waves! Real Agglomerated Fire was something that required being a tier four alchemist to create.
* An ancient medicinal cauldron badge on chest. On it, there were six strange golden flickering slight ripples that pierced people’s eyes until they felt pain. Six golden lines. It was something that only a tier 6 alchemist had the qualification to wear in the alchemist world.

## Requirments to be a Alchemist

1. Requirements to be a Alchemist First is that they must be of the fire attribute. And then, within the fire attribute, one must have a tiny sliver of the wood attribute to act as a catalysis in pill-refining.
2. In the Mainland, a person’s attribute is determined by their soul. Most soul since birth will only have a single attribute. A many few have two attributes, either they are born with two attributes or can gain a second attribute through various occurrences. In order for one to become an Alchemist, they must have both Fire and wood affinity.
3. The Materials they use have to be natural treasures because even the best Alchemists can’t create a god-tier pill from trash materials.
4. The Alchemists must have an incredible Strength; without a strong , even if one meets or even exceeds the other requirements, it would be pointless to try to refine pills.

## List of Alchemists

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 4th
 6th
 7th (Mortal State)
 10th (Di Soul State)

## Medicinal Pills

Medicinal Pills or Elixers are auxiliary items for either cultivation purpose or healing purpose.

It isn’t something made by nature, rather it was made by someone: **Alchemist**! Like the name suggests, alchemists are able to create special pills that raise one’s strengths. In Dou Qi Mainland, the sole profession that’s more desirable than a Practitioner are Alchemists.

## Medicinal Formula

Medicinal Formula is the alchemy related medicinal ingredient's processing method which shows the essential refining data for a certain medicinal ingredients.

When using the medicinal formula, the alchemist needed to use his Spiritual Strength and intrude into the medicinal formula in order to obtain the essential refining data hidden within the medicinal formula. For example, the quantity of the medicinal ingredients needed, the flame temperature, etc.

## Medicinal Cauldrons

Purpose of Medicinal Cauldrons is only to increase the chances of refining a pill.

## Trivia

* Tiers 8 pills and above can be imbued or naturally develop a spirit. Along with this, the stronger the spirit, the higher the intelligence of the pill will be. The higher the level of the Tier (low level Tier 8, single colored Pill Lightning, versus High level Tier 8, 9 colored pill lightning, for example) the stronger the soul in the pill. 7 colored Pill Lightning pills can become pill beasts and have pill beast blood. Some of them can even fight against the creator. Rarely, Higher level tier 7 pills can contain trace amount of a spirit within them. Extremely rarely a tier 6 pill will have even a trace amount of a spirit in them.
* They are called Alchemist by the translators in the light novel. In fact, considering the original letters, the term can be define as a master of pills and herbs refining.
* Yao Lao claims that most male alchemists mix aphrodisiacs as their first independent project.
* It is known that every Alchemist needed to research and create his own recipes; an Alchemist without his own personal recipes would only find it awkward when he or she came into contact with other peers. Thus every Alchemist would use all of his heart to produce personal recipes from countless medicinal ingredients. Of course, it was better for the recipe to be of high-grade.
* Alchemists under rank four were normally required to use the cauldron’s strange changes to bring out the fire natured Dou Qi inside their bodies and transform it into actual flames. Upon reaching rank four and above, the alchemists were then able to save the step of using the cauldron and immediately summon out real flames. And many alchemists that reached this stage, when battling with another person, would basically summon out real fire to attack. Also, due to alchemist’s elemental nature, they were born to have fire with wood nature and due to that wood nature, flames which alchemists summoned were way above what similar tiered Practitioners could do, much hotter and stronger. So, being able to summon real fire with or without aid from an external object was one of the key points in differentiating whether the person entered rank four of alchemy or not. Of course, there are no absolutes. The information mentioned above was all built under the assumption of being a normal alchemist. If someone were able to luckily acquire a Heavenly Flame, then even without achieving rank four alchemy, one would still be able to summon out real fire. In addition, the fire that was summoned out, would be way superior to normal flames summoned by normal alchemists. After all, what they controlled, was the most destructive strength under the heavens, a Heavenly Flame! And so, Heavenly Flames would eternally be every alchemist’s sacred divine object without a replacement. Of course, the destructive strength of Heavenly Flames has caused countless gifted alchemists, like moths to a flame, to perish.
* Pill-Lines would usually only appear on the refined medicinal pill that had peak color and luster.
* In the alchemist world, damaging the root and stems when obtaining a spiritual objects or ingredients is something that would infuriate others the most. After all, the requirement for a spiritual object to form were far too demanding.
* The making of a medicinal formula scroll required at least a tier four alchemist’s strength. Moreover, the chances of failure were extremely high. Therefore medicinal formulas for medicinal pills were not simply randomly recorded by just holding a paper and pen as one would imagine. Some of the things that related to the flame temperature, the richness that the ingredients must be refined to, the response from the mixing of different ingredients etc were extremely complicated like chemistry formula. If they were to be written on a paper, it would cause anyone to have blurry sight and a giddy head. Therefore, these medicinal formulas all used Spiritual Strength to be composed. As long as someone obtained the medicinal formula, one would only need to use his Spiritual Strength to scan over it in order to deeply imprint all the necessary things from this medicinal formula into his mind, just like a brand.
* When a tier four medicinal pill is taking shape, it will emit its own unique pill fragrance. The more concentrated the pill fragrance is, the higher the grade of the medicinal pill being refined. When a tier five medicinal pill is about to be formed, a substantive energy ripple will appear out of nowhere due to the large energy that is being contained within the pill.
* It was common knowledge that the Spiritual Strength of an alchemist could not be actively trained with a purpose. It can only slowly become more powerful over time. Of course, there is nothing absolute in this world and there are always exception for everything. In this large Dou Qi continent, there are those lucky people who were able to enter various strange conditions due to their luck. Under these kinds of extremely mysterious conditions, those lucky people obtain the reward of having their Spiritual Strength increase greatly.
* Jade was the best container to store pills.
* If a tier 5 alchemist and an elite Dou Wang were to be placed in the same place to get people to invite them, the person who was issuing the invitation would definitely choose a tier 5 alchemist without any hesitation as long as he was not a fool. Although the latter was strong in combat, this little strength was not even worth mentioning under the value that an alchemist could create!
* A medicinal pill of tier 6 does indeed possess some intelligence. A tier 7 medicinal pill does indeed have greater intelligence. Some of the medicinal pills might even automatically fly away after coming out of the cauldron if one is not careful, causing an alchemist exhausted from refining it to be stunned. A tier 8 medicinal pill can even fight with a human. It is rumored that there are some tier nine medicinal pills can even take a human form. Jiu jiu (Nine nine) is the most honored. Above it is not called tier 10. Instead, it is the completely unique ‘God Tier’. A medicinal pill of this tier has never appeared ever since the ancient times. I have once read some ancient books. The meaning of the vague description on it seems to imply that this ‘God Tier’ medicinal pill faintly had some relationship with the rank of Dou Di, the level that merely exists in legend.
* An ordinary alchemist can at most have one kind of flame.
* The raising of an alchemist’s tier was unusually difficult. This was because the most important thing for such an increase in tier was that one’s Spiritual Strength must become even stronger. However, increasing Spiritual Strength was extremely tough. Normally speaking, it would only become stronger when someone increased their Dou Qi class.
* The most important part of refining a medicinal pill was to perfectly merge the various medicinal strengths within the many medicinal ingredients. This merger process needed to be maintained with precise control. That’s why Spiritual Strength was the most important thing in determining the achievement of an alchemist.
* The gap between each tier among alchemists was just like that between medicinal pills. They were heaven and earth apart. Unless it was because of some special reason like the ‘Heavenly Flame’ or some extremely outstanding Spiritual Strength, it was extremely difficult for one to leap across a tier and successfully refine a medicinal pill. The reason Xiao Yan was able to do this was entirely because he had fulfilled both criterias.
* The status of an alchemist was even more prominent in the Central Plains compared to any other region! This was because the number of experts in this place was greater than other places. Hence, it required an even greater amount of medicinal pills than other places!
* Medicinal Pills were even rarer from a Magical Beasts perspective because only humans had alchemists. Although some Magical Beast were able to refine medicinal pills by relying on their talent, they were too few in number.
* Spiritual Strength was a fundamental ability that all alchemists relied on to survive because only by possessing powerful Spiritual Strength would an alchemist be able to control a flame and successfully refine a medicinal pill. Hence, the might of Spiritual Strength was directly linked to an alchemist’s skill level. Many people in the Central Plains identified the gap between two alchemists through this Spiritual Strength.
* A tier 7 alchemist might be able to do extremely well in the Central Plains. However, if one wanted to reach the point where even an elite Dou Zun would willingly come to be your fighter, one would, at the very least, need to reach the eighth tier.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 76
2. ↑ Chapter 1566
3. ↑ Chapter 84
4. ↑ Chapter 165
5. ↑ Chapter 167
6. ↑ Chapter 163
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 540
8. ↑ Chapter 6
9. ↑ Chapter 238
10. ↑ Chapter 130
11. ↑ Chapter 151
12. ↑ Chapter 166
13. ↑ Chapter 201
14. ↑ Chapter 286
15. ↑ Chapter 318
16. ↑ Chapter 320
17. ↑ Chapter 516
18. ↑ Chapter 541
19. ↑ Chapter 735
20. ↑ Chapter 933
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Chapter 958
22. ↑ Chapter 1000
23. ↑ Chapter 1044
24. ↑ Chapter 1125