Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 753 Analysis Formula
It was naturally not difficult for Perfect to reproduce the recipe of a mere warming potion.

After all, if someone like Don Quixote, who had no knowledge of alchemy at all, could do it, there was no reason why the empire's first genius alchemist could not do it.

In fact, this is true. The ancient alchemical formula that Don Quixote discovered was very simple, so simple that it did not require alchemy at all.

Just boil a pot of water according to the recipe, then put the ingredients in order, boil it over high heat, stir it in the order written in the recipe, and finally add a few drops of nettle oil, and the mixture is ready.

When Don Quixote made it himself, due to the simple conditions, many things were makeshift or compromised, and the final mixture was not very effective, but it still worked.

This seemed incredible to Perfect.

Alchemy itself is a sophisticated discipline. Although its predecessor was a very crude mystical empiricism, after many years of development, alchemy itself is only one step away from the discipline of chemistry in the original world.

It’s just that the underlying rules of this world are somewhat different, and alchemy really does work.

But science has never been about only acknowledging some things and denying others.

As long as it can be reproduced and falsified, then the existence of this thing is scientific.

Therefore, science has never been a certain type of subject, but a method of doing research. Even if it is magic or gods, as long as it really exists, it is scientific.

It is for this reason that Perfecto always treats alchemy with rigor and seriousness, believing it to be a precise subject.

After all, she had tried it herself. Many alchemical formulas had almost abnormally strict requirements on temperature, dosage, and even stirring posture and angle. Any mistake would cause the final experimental results to be far from the truth.

The more effective the alchemical formula, the higher the precision required!
This is why alchemists developed the method of performing refined operations through alchemy.

Aside from the fact that the alchemist's own mental power is not enough for large-scale scenes and he can only pursue a small-scale practice, there is also the reason that refinement can better control variables.

But that was not the case with ancient alchemy.

People at that time had a very superficial understanding of alchemy. They only knew what effect would be achieved by adding certain things. As for why they should do so, no one studied it or thought about it.

In fact, let alone those ancient alchemists, even the god of wisdom who had been sacrificed by Perfectoct was just a fool in this regard who only talked about the formula but didn't understand the principle.

As a god, He does possess some very powerful alchemical techniques and formulas, but He only knows how to do it to achieve a certain effect.

As for why he had to do this, why doing so would produce such an effect, and what to do when other effects were needed, He could not answer any of them.

Therefore, when Perfectok almost drained away the technology he mastered, he became useless to Perfectok. This is why this God of Wisdom, who was originally valuable to Perfectok, was eventually sacrificed as alchemical material.

After all, apart from explaining some ancient alchemical techniques that were not of much value to Perfectoct, the greatest role of this god of wisdom was to act as the spirit of the Eye of All-Seeing and to complain.

But does Perfect need such a role? Apparently she doesn't.

Just like the warm mixture formula in front of her, does Perfect need this formula? Yes, but what she needs is to analyze and understand the principle, to crack the core key of the whole mixture formula, not just to know that this formula can make warm mixture.

From this point of view, the recipe of this warming potion is useless, or at least not very useful.

After all, if it is impossible to study and analyze the principles of ancient alchemy, then there is no need for Perfecto to do this personally. He only needs to find an apprentice with basic skills to do it.

Anyway, it's just a matter of analyzing the formula and improving it with modern traditional alchemy and fantasy alchemy. Although not everyone can do this job, at least for the current North, it's not difficult to find someone to do it in Chernobog.

But since Perfecto has come to deal with the matter personally, he naturally demands a result.

She did have ancient alchemical formulas in her hands, but most of them also required precise control of variables. However, the formula for this warming potion seemed to be extremely redundant. Even if Perfectoct deliberately used a very rough method to mix it, as long as the general steps and ingredients were correct, he would be able to mix the warming potion. The only difference was the efficacy.

At first glance, this doesn't seem to be anything special, and even the recipe seems very ordinary. After all, it's something that anyone can make as long as they follow the recipe. So what's there to worry about?
But on the contrary, it is precisely because both humans and dogs can make it that the specialness of this recipe is revealed.

If Perfect herself were asked to design a formula with a similar effect to the Warm Potion, she could easily write out a dozen or so. But if she wanted to make it so that anyone could make it like this formula, Perfect felt that she would have to spend several months analyzing and researching it, and then she would have to use the Emerald Jade Record to complete such a formula.

Moreover, Perfect cannot guarantee that as long as the recipe is roughly followed, the finished product will be of similar quality.

The recipes she wrote may not have a high threshold for production, but there are still strict requirements and variable control for materials and steps.

It's not that Perfecto lacks the ability, but that her knowledge structure does not allow her to conceive a formula framework with extremely high variable redundancy.

Because the foundation of modern alchemy is equivalent exchange, the fantasy alchemy created by Perfectocte also bypasses this limitation with the help of the Philosopher's Stone as the core, rather than completely subverting this law.

Moreover, Perfect can break the principle of equivalent exchange with fantasy alchemy and the philosopher's stone, but how can ordinary people use fantasy alchemy?
Perfect couldn't possibly write the steps of Fantasy Alchemy into the recipe, right? That would only make the entire recipe more complicated, and it would be far from being as simple and easy to understand as the Warming Potion.

Therefore, Perfect wanted to analyze the core idea of ​​this formula and figure out how it was done.

If we can analyze the core construction idea of ​​this formula and apply the formula framework to other potions, or even modern alchemy as a whole, it will be of great benefit to the promotion and development of alchemy.

(End of this chapter)