Free Web NovelChapter 27: Alchemy Part 2
This comparison was so damn confusing at first.
After all, alchemy was mostly about medicines and pills, while nuclear fusion was about energy.
But when he looked at it from another angle, he realized alchemy was also about energy.
Whenever the energy from different herbs was combined, the total amount of energy would never be similar.
Alchemy didn’t work on the equation of the Einstein Theory of Relativity. It had a different mechanism.
But the result was strangely the same.
Whenever the medicinal properties of different herbs were combined, the amount of energy produced during the process would be ten to twenty times higher.
In fact, the energy value of those herbs was also transformed.
The sheer amount of energy contained within a pill made it impossible to come just from the combination of the raw materials.
Of course, the properties did come from them, and those properties were important, but even so, the energy contained in just one pill was very high.
For example: Qi Recovery Pill.
This pill was created by infusing three different herbs: Spirit Grass, White Lily, and a year-old Ginseng.
These three items were very common. Just the spirit grass could be found everywhere.
Every grass could be considered spirit grass. They just need a lot of cleaning before they can be used.
White Lily was also a common flower. Although one-year-old Ginseng was expensive, only a small portion of it was required for one alchemy process.
The property of storing spirit energy comes from spirit grass, the property of rapid transformation comes from the white lily, and the property of medicinal effects comes from ginseng.
When all three were combined, they would immediately transform into Qi. freewebnøvel.coɱ
But few pieces of grass, a white lily flower, and a small piece of ginseng couldn’t possibly contain enough energy to fill up half of the Dantian. freēwebnovel.com
While reading those books, Marx was quite confused. But as he read more, he came to a conclusion.
The impact of fire and control was similar to the heat and pressure used in Nuclear Fusion.
In the sun, the conditions of Nuclear fusion were easy to meet.
On Earth, scientists needed to raise the heat to one hundred million degrees because they couldn’t produce the pressure generated by the gravity of a star.
During alchemy, the fire had a similar property, but the pressure was replaced by control.
This allowed the alchemist to constantly merge the atoms of different herbs through absolute control and immense heat.
During the merging process, a large amount of energy would be produced.
The rank of the alchemist would be based on three conditions.
The ability to produce a large amount of energy, the ability to control that energy, and the ability to keep that energy inside the pill.
When all three conditions were met, the alchemist could reach the peak of a certain realm.
If all three conditions were unfulfilled, the alchemist could only become a Beginner.
This control wasn’t just about controlling the flow of atoms and energy inside the furnace.
No, it was also about controlling the heat.
If too much heat were used, the alchemist would be able to produce a large amount of energy, but wouldn’t be able to keep it inside.
If too little heat were used, the alchemist wouldn’t be able to produce a large amount of energy.
A Beginner Alchemist would make mistakes with every step, but at least they would be able to produce one or two fine pills in every batch.
Not only could they only do this with the most basic pill, like the Qi Enhancing Pill, but they would also spend a lot of time doing this.
An Intermediate Alchemist wouldn’t make any mistakes, but his control over heat would be horrendous, making it impossible to produce a lot of fine pills.
The golden core cultivator was also at this rank because he couldn’t produce his own flames, which meant he could only rely on the control granted by his Divine Sense.
That’s why this cultivator, despite being an Intermediate Alchemist, attempted to make Rank Two Pills.
Of course, he failed miserably, but some of those pills were present in his ring, which were also recycled by the system.
Marx didn’t want to repeat these problems. So, he had one easy goal.
Find an enemy with Fire Spiritual Root and absorb it.
Of course, that was still too far away. But he had another option.
Burn wood!
Wood Spiritual Root allowed the alchemist to use Beast Flame to ignite their own Qi and control it perfectly.
It was the same as using the Fireball Spell without Fire Spiritual Root, but the weakened power could be reinforced by the natural ability of the Beast Flame.
Considering that a single Beast Flame could cost anywhere from a Golden Gacha Ticket to a Divine Gacha Ticket, he refrained from buying it.
Instead, he planned to find them after leaving this place.
He didn’t need to buy a powerful flame. He inherited the Wood Spiritual Root from the previous person he killed.
If it were a week ago, he wouldn’t have known this was possible.
’Knowledge is great! The more I learn, the more I feel the vastness of the cultivation world.’
’It’s truly amazing.’
Marx sighed and released his Spiritual Sense.
[Art of Telekinesis]
He raised two fingers of his right hand and covered them with his left hand, as he used his spiritual sense to control those herbs.
After the heat of the furnace reached a certain temperature, he immediately threw it into the furnace and released his Qi.
By controlling his Qi, he managed to keep them from burning instantly, but his spiritual sense faltered while he was simultaneously releasing his Qi.
In an instant, the herbs fell to the bottom of the furnace and turned into ash.
He sighed.
The first time was bound to be a mistake.
He didn’t lose hope, though. He controlled more herbs with his spiritual sense and pulled them inside the furnace.
This time, his spiritual sense didn’t disappear, but the heat from the furnace began to affect those herbs.
At first, he thought the process was going to start smoothly, but as time passed, he realized more and more of the herb was falling to the bottom.
He quickly cut off the heat and began to control his spiritual sense to squeeze them as hard as possible.
This created immense pressure on them. Because of the intense heat inside the furnace, the atoms of those herbs began merging together.
This process was nothing short of a miracle.
But as these atoms merged, they produced an incredible amount of energy, but Marx made one mistake.
Condensation!
This was an extremely important step in alchemy, where the Qi was used to cool down the energy into a liquid state so it could be combined into a pill.
But because he was too focused on putting pressure to produce energy, all of that energy began to go up and out of the furnace.
Of course, he could immediately put the lead on, but he didn’t have the immense control over his Qi and Spiritual Sense.
Even though most of the energy was lost, he still managed to create two pills, except both weren’t even a fine-grade pill.
Pills were also divided by grades: Bad, Fine, Good, Great, and Perfect.
Bad-Grade Pills were pretty much useless. Most of the pills created by the Beginner Alchemist would be Bad-Grade Pills.
Fine-Grade Pills were mostly made by an Intermediate Alchemist, but even they would need to train in alchemy for months to master constantly producing many Fine-Grade Pills in a single batch.
Good-Grade Pills were only made by the Advanced Alchemist. But even if they could only produce very few Good-Grade Pills, most of them would just be fine-grade.
Great-Grade Pills were only made by Peak Alchemist. And just like an Advanced Alchemist, they could only create a few Great-Grade Pills in one batch.
As for Perfect-Grade Pills, they weren’t usually found.
In simple terms, a Rank Fourth Alchemist could make a Perfect-Grade Rank First Pill, but would he waste his time doing this?
Absolutely not!
A Rank Fourth Alchemist could basically be a god in the Mortal Realm. So, why would they waste their time on this?
A Rank One Alchemist was called a Pill Apprentice. A Rank Two Alchemist was called a True Alchemist or Pill Maker.
A Rank Three Alchemist was called an Alchemy Master or Pill Master. A Rank Four Alchemist was called Pill Grandmaster.
This was basically the ranking for the Mortal Realm, but since Max came from the Immortal Realm, Marx had more information about these rankings.
A Rank Fifth Alchemist was called Pill King. A Rank Sixth Alchemist was called the Pill Emperor. A Rank Seventh Alchemist was called Pill Saint.
An Eighth Rank Alchemist was called Pill Immortal, and A Ninth Rank Alchemist was called Pill God.
Even in the Immortal Realm, there had been fewer than five Pill Gods, according to Max’s memories.
So, the identity and prestige of an alchemist were very high.
’No wonder his parents were so strict towards him about alchemy!’
