Zhu Xuan while heating the furnace started separating the ingredients with incredible speed.

Once the heat reached the optimum condition he started throwing the ingredients and specific time and purified them.

He thought to himself "After hearing Senior Long's explanation, I started wondering about the other techniques I learned and when it comes to pill concocting, I think two factors are very important and works together. One is controlling your fire Qi and the other is the ingredients itself.

When I purify the ingredients, I need to be very precise over the control of fire for each ingredient. If I used more than necessary, the along with purities the essence of ingredients will also be lost and if I used less fire than necessary impurities will be accumulated and the purity of pill will be reduced. I need to find the precise amount of Qi required to get the most essence out of the ingredients with less impurity.

He started working on it; he added ingredients and controlled his fire in various degrees for each ingredients.

Soon one hour passed and Zhu Xuan was still concocting his first pill. He was slower than usual but he was not worried about it and trying to find the rhythm of control of fire for exact precision.

While he was immersed in it, the other two already finished their first pill. The third person failed and started concocting his second set of pills whereas Wu Qing formed a transcendent grade pill of 95% purity along with other peak grade pills in her first try and passed the test.

She went to the side of the platform and started observing the other two, especially Zhu Xuan. She looked at how serious his face is and with complete concentration on pill concocting and a smile blossomed on her face.

Finally after ten more minutes, Zhu Xuan finished his concoction and five pills flew out of the furnace. He observed it and there are all peak grades pills but the highest pill is at 93% purity.

Zhu Xuan was elated that purity increased by two percent. He looked up and saw that only one was concocting pill and Wu Qing was sitting on the side observing them.

Zhu Xuan was shocked and thought "She really is an alchemy genius to create a transcendent pill in her first try."

It was not wrong of Zhu Xuan to consider her as an alchemy genius because usually transcendent pills are made by higher grade alchemists. For example, a beginner level master alchemist can create a transcendent pill of grade one to three because of his accumulated experience and more control over his fire because of high cultivation level, but it was not easy for them to create a transcendent pill of fourth grade pill.

So one can see that she is a genius for creating a transcendent pill in her own grade of alchemist level and that too in her first try, which means her success rate of creating transcendent pill is also high.

Zhu Xuan smiled at her and nodded and she nodded back with a smile.

He didn't immediately continue concocting the second pill but closed his eyes and started using his fire technique and controlled it at different level at various intervals. Wu Qing was confused at first but soon realized what he was doing and she was amazed.

Zhu Xuan is recalling his memory of the concoction and optimizing the fire control further. He spent ten minutes on it and started concocting his second batch and his actions was faster than the last time.

After fifteen minutes past two hours, he finally finished his second batch and the highest grade he obtained this time was a pill of 94% purity and he is just a percent away from achieving transcendent grade pill.

He immediately closed his eyes and started optimizing his fire control further and he spent five minutes on it this time before starting to concoct his third and final batch.

This time his speed of concoction is even faster than the last time and he finally finished the pill concoction few minutes before three hours time period.

Five pills flew out of the furnace and there was one pill which was bright like light coming out of it. When he collected it in pills in the bottle, the bright light faded and a pill mark appeared on the pill signifying that it is a transcendent grade pill of 95% purity.

Zhu Xuan was ecstatic on his success in forming a transcendent grade pill and had a wide grin on his face. Wu Qing also approached him with a smile and said "Congratulations on successfully concocting transcendent grade pill Brother Shen."

Zhu Xuan smiled happily and said "Thanks Wu Qing, but I'm nothing compared to a genius like you who created a transcendent pill in your first try."

Wu Qing smiled sweetly hearing Zhu Xuan's praise, which girl wouldn't want to be praised by others. Moreover she is also very proud of herself when it comes to her alchemy talent.

So she didn't deny it and smiled happily replying "so are you Brother Shen to concoct a transcendent grade pill when you are a primary grade apprentice."

They didn't speak any further and just smiled at each other.

Zhu Xuan turned around and saw only the two of them are in the platform and realized the third person had failed in this test.

They walked through the barrier and reached the third hall. There was already two lotus in the platform made of fire elemental Qi and they realized this test must be related to those lotus.

When they got close, they saw a small door with a blue barrier behind the platform and realized the legacy should behind that barrier.

They got on the platform and heard the Soul spirit's voice once again "This a Nine petal Fire lotus formed of purified fire Qi. Your final test is to absorb the fire lotus and the person who completely absorbs the fire lotus first will obtain the legacy of Jinghua grandmaster."

Soul Spirit paused and continued "You don't need to be worried because of your difference in your cultivation because the lotus is formed based on your cultivation level and the difficulty is same for both of you."

They acknowledged the Soul spirit's statement and approached their respective fire lotus.

Wu Qing sat on the fire lotus and started absorbing; looking at her he also sat down in a meditative position and started absorbing the purified fire Qi.

Zhu Xuan was shocked when he suddenly heard the voice of Senior Long from the Dragon pendant. He was shocked because Senior Long would not usually contact him unless it is very important.

He heard Senior Long's message "Kid, you need to pass the test and obtain the legacy, if I'm not wrong you have an incredible luck and will attain an amazing thing."

Zhu Xuan asked back in curiosity "What is it Senior Long?"

Senior Long's message came back "The nine petal fire lotus you are sitting is not formed by purified fire Qi, but by a fire essence and it is a rare fire essence called Bodhi essence fire. If you obtain it, it not only will help you in your alchemy but also it will tremendously help you in your cultivation."

Zhu Xuan's mouth was wide open in shock, thankfully Wu Qing was concentrating on absorbing the lotus or else she would have wondered what made Zhu Xuan shocked so much.

Before Zhu Xuan even calmed down, Senior Long's impatient voice came again from the dragon pendant "Kid, I can't do this for long and will explain the details later. For now follow what I say and you will definitely pass the test before that girl. Use your wood elemental Qi along with fire elemental Qi to absorb the fire lotus. Bodhi essence fire has affinity towards life elements and your wood element Qi has that property and help you absorb the essence fire faster."

After that, there was no more response and he realized he won't hear anymore from senior Long until the next mission.

He calmed down and released his Wood elemental Qi along with fire Qi and started absorbing the fire lotus with more speed.