Becoming an Alchemist(Part 3)

I stepped on to one of the furnaces. This was the first time that I was going to be performing alchemy on a furnace that wasn't my own, so I was not sure what I could expect.

"Enable Skill Assist, Alchemy." I said softly. 

Ping!

[Enabling skill assist.] the system confirmed. 

I could see exactly what I was supposed to do now. I shot Qi into the furnace and a fire started immediately. It was low, and I made sure to keep it that way. 

One by one, herbs entered the furnace and were tempered by the heat. Their essence was extracted slowly, and separated from each other by my Qi, that was barely holding them together.

This was easy to think about, but it took a whole thity minutes to go through the entire process. 

Usually, my Qi would have been half depleted by now. But with the breakthrough, I was not even remotely exhausted. I took out the final ingredient, which was also the most expensive one of the bunch.