"Alchemy?"
The two people and one ghost beside Xiao Xue were all stunned.
A Dou Practitioner with a Water Attribute, saying she wants to practice Alchemy?
On the Fighting Qi Continent, there is a profession that stands above Dou Practitioners, which people call — Alchemist.
Any Alchemist will be desperately courted by various factions at any cost, and their status and position are extremely illustrious.
The fact that an Alchemist can enjoy such treatment is naturally related to their scarcity and utility, and the conditions to become an Alchemist are also exceptionally harsh.
First, one must possess a fire attribute, and second, within the fire body, there must be a trace of wood Qi to serve as a catalyst for Alchemy.
You must know that the attributes of the human body on the Fighting Qi Continent depend on their Soul, and a Soul forever possesses only one attribute; it is impossible for other attributes to be mixed in.
Therefore, it is basically impossible for one body to possess two different attributes of varying strength.
Of course, nothing is absolute; among billions of people, there will always be some mutated Souls, and those who possess these mutated Souls have the potential to become an Alchemist.
Xiao Xue's Soul Power is quite outstanding, and Materials for refining low-Rank Medicinal Pill are relatively easy to solve, but the fact that her Fighting Qi attribute is Water cannot be changed.
Refining Medicinal Pill cannot be done with ordinary flames; instead, it must use Fighting Qi flames catalyzed by fire attribute Fighting Qi.
It is not that there are no people with other attributes who become Alchemists, but the process is incomparably difficult.
Moreover, they are all purely wood attribute or fire attribute.
Dou Practitioners possessing wood attribute or fire attribute, after refining flames such as Peach Blossom Fire which possess both fire and wood attributes, might barely be able to become an Alchemist.
However, if your Fighting Qi is Water Attribute, wanting to become an Alchemist is somewhat like a pipe dream.
Water and fire are inherently incompatible; if someone's Fighting Qi is Water Attribute, encountering ordinary flames naturally makes it difficult to refine them.
However, flames like Sea Heart Flame or Fire Cloud Water Flame do possess a Water Attribute, and theoretically, they can indeed be refined by someone whose Fighting Qi attribute is Water.
However, even if they refine a flame with both water and fire attributes, without that trace of wood Qi, they still cannot become an Alchemist.
Unless a Cultivator with a Water Attribute, or other attributes, can simultaneously add both fire and wood attributes to their own Fighting Qi.
However, this probability is so small it can practically be ignored.
Therefore, if a Cultivator whose attribute is not fire or wood wants to become an Alchemist, no matter how much effort they exert, they are bound to return empty-handed in the end.
Therefore, in the tens of thousands of years of the continent's development, there has never been a precedent for a Water Attribute Alchemist.
Even the knowledgeable Yao Lao has never seen a Water Attribute Alchemist.
And Xiao Xue's Fighting Qi is not both water and wood attribute, but purely Water Attribute.
However, watching Xiao Xue's confident appearance, Yao Lao also developed some curiosity and expectation.
Can this little girl really create a miracle?
After all, this girl can Breakthrough just by breathing!
Did you not see how this girl easily went from a Five-Star Dou Practitioner to the Peak of Dou Practitioner?
Perhaps today... he really could witness a miracle!
Xiao Xue ignored the mental storm Xiao Yan and the others were experiencing and directly took the two people and one ghost to an herbal medicine shop.
To put it plainly, with the existence of the System, all Xiao Xue needed was the title of "Alchemist".
As for why she wanted the identity of an "Alchemist", she had her own plans.
First, it is to achieve freedom of Medicinal Pill.
Water Attribute Fighting Qi indeed cannot become an Alchemist.
If she really wanted to become an Alchemist, she would probably have to go all over the continent, crazily searching for Heavenly Flames and dumping experience points.
To become an Alchemist, apart from refining Sea Heart Flame and Living Spirit Flame with the help of the System to add fire and wood attributes to her Fighting Qi, she currently has no other way.
Although her Rank increase does not require relying on Medicinal Pill to Breakthrough, her experience points did not just blow in from the wind.
Therefore, Xiao Xue naturally would not be foolish enough to waste experience points on this.
Just properly slacking off... Cultivating water, isn't that nice?
Perhaps there is a technique for water-based Alchemy, but Xiao Xue, who only has the cultivation of a Dou Practitioner, clearly does not possess such ability.
However, one day in the future, there might perhaps be a genuine Water Attribute Alchemist.
After all, this so-called axiom that "Water Attribute cannot become an Alchemist" only exists within the current Alchemist System.
What is the fire attribute for again? Refining medicinal liquid, right?
Since that is the case, why can't water extract it?
Dissolving the corresponding components in the medicinal Materials and then extracting them should not be a problem, right?
Xiao Xue remembers that in her past life, there seemed to be a theory of water-based Alchemy; if there is a chance, she would not mind researching it herself.
There is another point, which is the issue of experience points consumption.
Although she does not need to use Medicinal Pill to increase her Rank, the System's Upgrade is naturally not free.
Upgrading for no reason to restore health and mana, she cannot afford that.
And exchanging for Medicinal Pill with the System is completely not worth it.
A single Qi Gathering Powder requires thousands of experience points, not to mention other Advanced Medicinal Pill.
Therefore, keeping some Medicinal Pill for recovering Fighting Qi and healing injuries for emergencies is very important.
Where do these Medicinal Pill come from? There is nothing more convenient than her being an "Alchemist" herself.
Moreover, even if she cannot refine Medicinal Pill, selling the raw Materials to the System allows her to exchange them for lower experience points.
For example, an Eighth Grade Pill is 10 million experience points, so if she collects various Materials for refining an Eighth Grade Pill and "sells" them to the System, she only needs to pay a "processing fee".
Under this situation, she can achieve freedom of Medicinal Pill by consuming lower experience points.
However, Alchemy has a "success rate", and the black-hearted System naturally inherited this point.
For example, if the success rate of refining a certain Medicinal Pill is 20%, then Xiao Xue needs to give the System five portions of medicinal Materials, plus the "processing fee" for Alchemy, to exchange for one Medicinal Pill.
How to put it, this design is a bit like the "pity" mechanism of a certain gacha game.
And if these five portions of medicinal Materials were in Yao Lao's hands, it is possible he might produce four or five Medicinal Pill.
Therefore, for low-Rank Medicinal Pill where medicinal Materials are cheap and the success rate is high, she can trade with the System, but doing this for high-Rank Medicinal Pill is somewhat not cost-effective.
If Xiao Xue could really practice Alchemy, whether she would want to trade with this black-hearted System is another matter.
In that case, she might as well do it herself, or directly exchange for the finished product with the System, which would be less trouble.
After all, the medicinal Materials for refining Advanced Medicinal Pill are all precious items that are hard to find for a thousand gold; how could there be so many portions for her to let the System squander.
However, refining Advanced Medicinal Pill is still very far away for Xiao Xue, so there is no need to rush to talk about these things now.
Secondly, it is for experience points.
There are two ways for the System to obtain experience points: one is the main quest "Revitalize the Xiao Clan", and the second is her own "prestige value".
For the main quest "Revitalize the Xiao Clan", with her Cheap older brother, even if she lies flat, she can get experience points for free; she could very well be a hands-off manager.
However, Xiao Xue feels that this efficiency is really too low.
The true rise of the Xiao Family is actually after Xiao Yan becomes an Emperor, but now, the strongest person in the Xiao Family is actually just a Great Dou Master.
— This is too trashy.
After she becomes an Alchemist, everyone in the Xiao Family will have a Medicinal Pill; let's first raise Xiao Zhan and those three Elders to Dou Ling first.
And on the Fighting Qi Continent, if you want to increase your personal "prestige value", there is nothing simpler than being an Alchemist.
Alchemist Convention, Pill Gathering, and such, these grand events for Alchemists are all good places for her to earn experience points.
Not to mention the Pill Gathering of the Pill Tower, even winning the championship at the Alchemist Convention in the Jia Ma Empire would allow her to directly pocket the prestige value of the entire Jia Ma Empire.
Therefore, even if she has to wear a mask, she must arrange an identity as an Alchemist for herself.
After purchasing the required raw Materials, the three of them returned directly to the Xiao Family.
After wasting more than ten portions of Materials, Xiao Xue successfully "refined" a most basic healing Medicinal Pill.
In fact, this simple medicine cannot be considered in the category of Medicinal Pill at all; Xiao Xue completely used her control over moisture to extract the essence from it.
However, this point is enough to make everyone feel shocked.
After all, there has never been a precedent for a Water Attribute being able to practice Alchemy.
In fact, the reason is very simple, because the Water Attribute is inherently not valued, and on the continent, people with Water Attribute Fighting Qi are also relatively rare.
Xiao Xue remembers that in the original work, from beginning to end, only one instructor from Jia Nan Academy, Ruo Lin, appeared with a Water Attribute, and that instructor was only a Great Dou Master.
Someone like Xiao Xue who can control water and even achieve precise control over moisture is probably even rarer.
Moreover, Xiao Xue did not randomly take out the juice from the medicinal Materials, but used the formula given by the System to extract it.
The indigenous people on the Fighting Qi Continent naturally do not understand these things.
Xiao Xue looked at the healing medicine in her hand and revealed a satisfied smile.
It seems this water-based Alchemy has potential!