Chapter 754 - 404: Expert Bai Mo, the Hope and Banner of Citizen Scientists

Chapter 754: Chapter 404: Expert Bai Mo, the Hope and Banner of Citizen Scientists

In the grand warehouse hall.

Bai Mo picked up the hot tea that his disciple Small and Big Eyes had just brought him, took a sip, and continued examining the copper plate.

[When I went to the Artifact Kingdom to order a windmill, the Immortal Artifact Craftsman admired me greatly upon hearing that I was studying the Alchemy Dao and even offered to give me a fifty percent discount on my order]

[I felt quite gratified in my heart; indeed, the pursuit of the Dao is a universal desire!]

[Later, he asked me about the disintegration of Immortal Grass]

[I said, I don’t know how to do that]

Bai Mo almost choked on his tea.

"Cough, cough..."

He put down the copper plate and wiped the tea that splashed on the corners of his mouth.

Isn’t the disintegration of Immortal Grass the most basic step in alchemy?

This Green Rice Immortal doesn’t know how to do it?

Bai Mo continued to look at the copper plate.

[I explained to the Immortal Artifact Craftsman]

[The disintegration of Immortal Grass is something for those Classical School alchemists; they’re on a long and stinky path]

[Their techniques, their theories, their formulas, their laws... I’m not interested in learning them]

[What I want is to pioneer my very own, new Alchemy Dao!]

[And the first pill of my new Alchemy Dao is this Snow Warm Pill to bring warmth to Cold Mountain Valley!]

[The Immortal Artifact Craftsman thought I was crazy and kicked me out]

Bai Mo smacked his lips, unsure how to comment.

[I searched for a long time in the Immortal Artifact Kingdom and was turned away several times before finally finding a workshop willing to help me process it]

[I was still grateful to them]

[Even though they charged me double the price]

[Of course, it would have been better if they hadn’t said strange things like "a fool’s money is still money, better earn it than not"]

Bai Mo regarded it as reading a funny story, rubbing the copper plate as he continued to read.

[The production of devices and the surveying of feng shui nearly exhausted all my savings, but I didn’t care; I am a great person forging a new path in Alchemy Dao, money is just a worldly possession]

[Thus, Cold Mountain Valley had a water pit, filled with water, and awaited the snowfall to activate the windmill]

[I waited for two months and finally the weather turned cold]

[But Cold Mountain Valley did not snow, and the pool of water could not evaporate upwards because... the water surface was frozen and sealed by ice]

[This matter spread quickly, and everyone in the Pill Palace knew about it]

[But those short-sighted people didn’t come to help me research; instead, they mocked me]

[Hmph, people should not underestimate a small brow, as the unity of the trio shines bright in the sky!]

Bai Mo grinned, finding this Green Rice Immortal both mad and amusing.

[I summarized the reasons for my failure and wanted to continue my research, but I ran out of money]

[So I went to Nanyu Holy Land and served as a close personal servant to their Little Saint Child for forty years, earning some money]

[Those days were quite comfortable, but I had no time to research the Alchemy Dao, which often made me itch all over unpleasantly]

[After earning money, I immediately went to the Immortal Beast Kingdom and ordered from White Saliva Holy Land a special Immortal Beast Saliva that doesn’t freeze, can evaporate, and condense into snowflakes in high altitudes]

[They were pleased, still saying strange things like "a fool’s money better earn it than not", taking away all my life’s wage of forty years, and giving me a pool of saliva]

[Oh, how satisfying!]

[My Snow Warm Pill is about to succeed!]

Reading this, the smile on Bai Mo’s face vanished, feeling the situation was more absurd than funny, not as amusing.

[Another cold winter came, and indeed the Immortal Beast Saliva in the pool of Cold Mountain Valley did not freeze or get sealed by ice, but instead evaporated upwards, hahaha, I was so happy]

[But after waiting seven days, it didn’t snow; instead, the Cold Moon Pill Sect, neighboring Cold Mountain Valley, came over to beat me up]

[They said a foul-smelling snow was blown to their mountain gate, making their entire sect stink, and that I must compensate them, or they’d beat me to death]

[As for compensation, it was quite reasonable; I had no money, so I went to their mountain gate and helped them cultivate Immortal Grass for ten years]

[During those ten years, everyone in their Pill Sect treated me like a fool, laughed at me, gossiped about me, and defamed me, but I was still quite happy]

[Because I could cultivate Immortal Grass during the day and continued thinking, researching, and reviewing my plans at night to figure out what went wrong]

[After helping them cultivate Immortal Grass for ten years, I offered to help them for another thirty years and received a reward]

[With this reward, I changed to a brand-new experimental site, no longer at Cold Mountain Valley, I found a place where the snow clouds in the sky wouldn’t be blown away by the wind, Hufeng Valley, hahaha]

Bai Mo rubbed the characters "hahaha" on the copper plate, sighing inwardly.

This Green Rice Immortal, after toiling for so many years and accomplishing nothing, was ridiculed by everyone as a fool, yet he could still laugh at himself?

The key is, that his research really seems pointless!

[In a flash, fifty years passed and I ran out of money again]

[In these fifty years, I improved the formula of the Immortal Beast Saliva in Hufeng Valley, modified the structure and deployment of the windmills, and observed Hufeng Valley every day, sometimes observing the celestial phenomena]

[The experiments were not particularly successful, but striving for my dreams made me very happy]

[I remember one day, an Immortal came to Hufeng Valley, asking me about my Alchemy Dao and the construction of these pools and windmills; I was genuinely delighted, hahaha, someone was interested in my Alchemy Dao, perhaps I could find a fellow pursuer]

[But at the end of the conversation, he suddenly pointed at my nose and burst into laughter, saying I was just a delusional monkey]

[I didn’t retort, nor did I hit or scold him, but let him leave freely]