Chapter 753 - 403: The Amateur Alchemist of the Ancient Immortal Dynasty

Chapter 753: Chapter 403: The Amateur Alchemist of the Ancient Immortal Dynasty

Whew...

Outside the workshop walls, the wind howled furiously.

Inside the workshop, the light was dim.

The huge metal trough was filled with murky liquid.

In the liquid, streaks of pill fire darted around like fish.

There were also slices of orange floating around, occasionally getting singed by the pill fire.

"Do you see these filthy, cotton-like substances inside?

"Be careful, use a bamboo pole to fish them out. While they’re still wet, quickly burn them with this green pill fire!"

Bai Mo squatted beside the trough, holding a bamboo pole in one hand and a torch in the other, demonstrating a brand new method for making membrane materials to the apprentices.

"See, it’s twisting in the flame, turning into a roll, turning into a curled-up membrane!

"Alright, this is the golden threaded orange film!"

Nearby, the fox apprentices Da Chuixue and Little Black Mountain stared with wide eyes, intensely focused.

"Ying ying ying!"

"Oww oww oww!"

They beamed with joy, feeling that it wasn’t that difficult, and they had learned it!

Bai Mo let them try it out, confirming they did it correctly, then smiled as he got up and left the workshop, heading to the warehouse.

On the way, he noticed there were already eight pill industry workshops.

The variety of products being produced had also increased to over a dozen types.

"Actually, this pill industry has been going quite smoothly.

"Its scale is constantly expanding, and the variety of products is increasing.

"Perhaps the pill industry of the Ancient Immortal Dynasty was also like this, slowly developing, stumbling at the start?

"But our Fox Mountain doesn’t want to wait that long!"

He walked into the warehouse, passing through rows and rows of shelves, greeting the busy Bai Liandan’Er, Butterfly Knot, and Small and Big Eyes with a smile, before heading to his own table, sitting down and picking up the copper plate documents prepared by his apprentices.

After glancing at a couple of lines, he showed a sudden realization.

"I’ve hit the jackpot!"

This piece of literature explained what exactly a pill is!

[... Primordial Immortal Qi might be stored in Super Immortal Grass or in a knowledge container. If transferred elsewhere, it will be rapidly consumed and dissipated into the world...]

[... The so-called pill is the third option for preserving Primordial Immortal Qi. When this qi is infused into a pill, there will be some loss. But a true pill can absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi in an instant, making up for the loss of Primordial Immortal Qi, balancing absorption and loss, thus ensuring the pill’s eternity...]

"So, a pill is like a business?

"Primordial Immortal Qi is like capital; when injected into it, it gets consumed but can also earn back more capital."

[... If the Primordial Immortal Qi is continuously lost, but the absorption rate is too slow to fully offset the deficit, it cannot be called a pill, only a regular medicinal pill...]

"A money-losing business isn’t called a business?"

[... A pill consuming Primordial Immortal Qi can manifest all sorts of extraordinary abilities. The strongest pill wields power not inferior to a Great Immortal Technique, comparable to a Great Immortal Technique that requires no expenditure of Primordial Immortal Qi or an Immortal’s manipulation, thus being free and infinitely usable...]

"Hmm?"

Bai Mo held the copper plate, furrowing his brows.

"This... it does sound rather enticing."

Taking a sip from the teacup on the table, his mouth was filled with the warm fragrance of tea.

He continued to peruse the copper plate, and after reading a few more lines, he furrowed his eyebrows.

"So alchemy also has unorthodox amateur methods?"

[... Alchemy is a challenging skill that requires hundreds of years of continuous learning, combined with immense talent and profound insight, to barely enter the threshold of understanding the pill door.]

[Over the ages, alchemy skills have become very mature, with well-structured knowledge and systems, like a tall building.]

[But there are always some desperate fools attempting to cut corners, using nonsensical simple theories, hoping to make real pills.]

Nonsense?

How ludicrous can it get?

[For instance, someone once proposed a method for preparing Dragon Grass.]

[He used a knife to kill tens of thousands of snakes, thereby obtaining a snake-killing knife.]

[Then he used the snake-killing knife to cut Dragon Snake Grass, thereby chopping off the "Snake" in "Dragon""Snake""Grass", obtaining the legendary "Dragon""Grass".]

Bai Mo felt dizzy for a moment, looking at the copper plate, confirming he hadn’t misunderstood.

Suddenly, he recalled that in the contemporary world, there’s a theory of using metallic barium and sodium to produce bananas.

Ba+2Na=Banana

This bore a striking resemblance to the method of preparing Dragon Grass with a snake-killing knife.

Bai Mo grinned.

It seemed that those who are difficult to discern between being truly foolish or just acting foolish weren’t exclusive to modern times; they existed even in the Ancient Immortal Dynasty.

He guffawed and continued poring over the literature, trying to piece together a coherent method for refining pills from these scattered, fragmented, and blurry copper and stone slabs.

"These... and this one, do they form a set?"

Bai Mo held two copper plates, pondered for a long while, then shook his head.

"No, there’s no connection."

Soon after, he picked up a stone slab.

"This slab’s discussion on Danpi seems somewhat related to that copper plate from a few days ago?"

The information in each Pill Formula was indeed too vast, often requiring thousands of copper plates to record completely.

This resulted in these materials being hard to preserve millions of years later.

...

A day quickly passed.

Bai Mo organized some fragmented documents, learned a bit of fragmented knowledge, and experienced the bitter sweetness of cultivating in the ruins, before arriving at the dormitory hall. In the company of his apprentices Boba Tea and Taro Tea, he continued to read copper plates, consulting literature.

"Well, it’s all normal.

"After all, it’s a Pill Formula, such a complex thing, it’s hard to pass down because of its sheer volume."

He patted his two fox apprentices’ clueless fat heads, took a glance at the circles of fox apprentices far away, then picked up a new copper plate, feeling its surface as he began to read.

[... I admit, the knowledge of Alchemy Dao is indeed very difficult. But is it possible that our pill industry and pill knowledge system of millions of years are actually on the wrong path? The true pill might be with a simple and direct way, not that complex? Just like the Snow Warm Pill I developed...]

From this tone, is it another amateur Alchemist?

Bai Mo chuckled bitterly.

He ran his fingers over the copper plate, finding that it was quite well preserved, and the characters were rather complete, so he continued to read further.

[After my wife died, I was disheartened with everything, secluding myself in Cold Mountain Valley.]

[Cold Mountain Valley had no wind, no rain, no snow, only eternal cold and silence.]

[Thankfully, Heaven did not abandon me. In this Cold Mountain Valley, I comprehended a new Alchemy Dao and discovered the Snow Warm Pill.]

[This principle is far simpler than the traditional Alchemy Dao; it doesn’t require learning the structure of Danpi, the composition of Pill Flesh, or making Pill Devices... let’s start from warming the Cold Mountain Valley.]

[If a pond is dug in the valley, allowing the water to naturally vaporize into the sky, condensing into clouds, it could snow.]

[Then, by setting up a windmill, which can be pushed by the accumulating snow, rotation is generated.]

[Finally, using this rotational force, transfer it to two pieces of iron, which through friction will generate heat.]

[Wouldn’t that provide warmth?]

Hmm?

The amateur feel was indeed quite strong!

Bai Mo felt a bit dizzy.

"What series does this Immortal belong to?

"Such a bizarre imagination, should he really not be cultivating as a Grass Pill Master?"

[... As a Grass Pill Master, though I’ve yet to actually refine any pill, at least I’ve saved a bit.]

Bai Mo was left speechless.

He saw on the copper plate annotations carved into it, the handwriting elegant yet forceful, much like the style of Marquis Qing Yue.

The annotations were also very insightful... [Truly, fools know no series.]

Bai Mo grinned and continued to read.

[I first went to the Artifact Kingdom to commission a large windmill that can be pushed by snow, and an iron plate that can generate friction heat.]

[Then went to the Array Kingdom, spent a fortune to hire a Feng Shui Master, to ask him what kind of shape, depth, and location of a pit should be dug.]

Huh?

He actually did it?