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Chapter 103 Alchemy

Back home, Lu Chen checked on his younger siblings' cultivation progress.

Lu Ming had already reached the Iron Bone Realm, and he was now cultivating with great effort.

The younger sister also kept up with Lu Ming's pace and did not hold him back.

The two practiced martial arts during the day and breathing techniques, visualization, and meditation at night.

With the soul-nourishing wooden tablets made for them by Lu Chen, their progress in this area was incredibly fast. Being young has its advantages; they tend to have a lot of random thoughts, but once they get into the zone, they can more easily enter a deep state of meditation.

"I should really step up my game!"

Lu Chen picked up his new pot and began refining pills.

Qi and Blood Pill, fourteenth batch.

Strengthening Pill, eighth batch.

By dinner time that evening, he had successfully refined the fifteenth batch of Body Strengthening Pills.

"Phew, so far, I've refined 30 batches of pills, which should amount to over a thousand pills, right?"

Before Lu Chen could take a closer look, he heard a voice in his mind.

His eyes lit up.

coming!

[The host has been detected to have repeatedly refined medicinal herbs, demonstrating skill and achieving remarkable results. A new entry has been generated.]

Alchemy (Beginner)

No sooner had the words been spoken than another notification sound came.

[The host has been detected to have refined pills multiple times, demonstrating mastery of the secrets of energy and heat control. A new entry has been generated.]

[Alchemy (Introduction)]

Lu Chen was stunned for a moment.

Not alchemy?

Before he could even process his question, another notification sounded.

[A potential fusion of alchemy, pill-making, and medical pharmacology has been detected. Should we proceed with the fusion?]

Lu Chen suddenly realized.

That's more like it!

"Merge, merge!"

Alchemy + Pill Making + Medicine → Alchemy (Introduction 1%)

The value of the operation is -100.

He was overjoyed when he saw the words "alchemy".

It worked!

It finally appeared; all those clay pots and iron pots he'd ruined these past few days weren't in vain.

There was also that big rooster and the breeding pig.

Then, Lu Chen began to add points without hesitation.

Alchemy (Minor Success 1%)

Life value - 10000.

In an instant, Lu Chen felt his mind go blank as a surging wave of knowledge flooded into his brain.

He quickly absorbed and understood countless knowledge about alchemy, medicinal materials, pharmacology, the interaction of the five elements, yin and yang, and the timing of the fire.

His eyes were momentarily confused and lost, but then they regained their brilliance, becoming even more gentle and radiant.

"So this is how you can refine pills! My understanding of energy is still too rudimentary. I could use energy to enhance the entire process from the very beginning of refining pills, which would greatly stimulate and increase the medicinal potency of the herbs!"

He looked at the Qi and Blood Pill and the Body Strengthening Pill that he was quite satisfied with, and immediately shook his head.

It's rough, so rough!

With his current knowledge, he could immediately see the flaws and hidden dangers of these two kinds of pills.

The Qi and Blood Pill was the first pill he created. Although it could enhance qi and blood, it contained a lot of toxicity and impurities, so its medicinal effect was not maximized. Some of the ingredients were also flawed. Taking one or two pills would be fine and would not cause too much harm to the body, but if more than five pills were taken, the residual toxicity would easily affect subsequent breakthroughs and stifle potential.

It's a losing proposition.

The body-strengthening pills helped a little bit, but really only a little bit, and still had all sorts of problems.

"Thank goodness I didn't give it directly to my younger siblings, or I would have regretted it terribly!"

Lu Chen let out a long breath, his hands itching to work. He quickly grabbed a piece of paper and started scribbling on it. Combining the data he had obtained from testing drugs on death row inmates over the past few days, he finally improved the formula for the Qi and Blood Pill to be more perfect.

"Following this prescription will increase the efficacy by 50% and reduce erysipelas to almost nothing. As long as you don't eat it like candy, there shouldn't be any major problems!"

Lu Chen immediately gathered various medicinal herbs and restarted the fire to refine pills.

More than an hour later, a faint fragrance filled his shed, much milder than the previous pills.

Moreover, he no longer needs to manually knead the pills; through subtle manipulation of energy, they can be condensed directly into round pills in the pot!

"A subtle medicinal fragrance, a pure and uniform color—top-grade!"

Lu Chen took out the still-hot pill and placed it in a porcelain plate.

The pill struck the porcelain plate with a crisp sound, and the heavy pill seemed to be made of metal.

He picked one up and popped it into his mouth.

"Still melts in your mouth!"

With eyes closed, he carefully felt the pill enter his stomach. The cool liquid slowly turned hot, gradually and steadily releasing its lingering medicinal power, seeping into his muscles, bone marrow, and internal organs, gradually strengthening his body.

"This effect is much stronger than before! It's gentler, and the effects last longer!"

Lu Chen was very satisfied with this.

"Each batch yields 25 pills, fewer than before, but the amount of medicinal materials used is also less, yet the efficacy is 50% stronger!"

Having finished with the Qi and Blood Pill, he calmed down again and began to optimize the Body Strengthening Pill.

This time it took a little longer.

Because there is less time to find death row inmates for drug trials, there is less material and less data feedback, so the process naturally takes longer.

After the prescription was finalized, they continued refining the elixir.

It was still more than an hour.

This time, 26 pills were produced, which means the technique has improved and the number of pills produced is even greater.

After tasting the elixir, Lu Chen smiled.

"Hahaha! Hahahaha! I'm a proper Qi cultivator now, living on the clouds and drinking the dew, riding the wind and absorbing Qi, refining elixirs for longevity! When will I ever get the chance to fly on a sword and take down enemies from a thousand miles away? In this martial arts world, I'll just crush everything!"

He stood with his hands on his hips, grinning silently and laughing unrestrainedly.

After consuming another strengthening pill, he took the pill, went into the room, and found four porcelain bottles.

"Two bottles per person, twelve pills per bottle, just right!"

Seeing Lu Ming and Lu Tang engrossed in meditation, he didn't disturb them. He placed the medicine bottle on the table in their room, then left to reflect on the events of the day.

"Xiangfei is here. I wonder if the Black Killing Pavilion will send more people. Never mind, let's level up first."

Lu Chen looked at his control panel.

[Minor Mastery of Qi Refining] — [Major Mastery of Qi Refining 1%]

Life value - 20000.

Lu Chen felt the gold and silver yin-yang energies in his body double in an instant, and his stomach swelled up a little, but it quickly returned to normal.

"Two thousand strands of energy, one thousand gold, one thousand silver!"

Not only did his energy double, but Lu Chen also felt that his body had undergone a slight change.

It seemed that some unknown force had transformed and strengthened his body. Countless energies continuously nourished every inch of his muscles and bones, and his blood became more viscous, like mercury. Every drop of blood contained terrifying power.

His long, jet-black hair moved without wind, and his body slowly floated up. Golden solar power and silver lunar power emerged from his body, radiating a soft light, transforming into chains of light that enveloped Lu Chen completely, like a silkworm cocoon.

Gradually, the chains of light became denser and denser, binding him completely inside. Then they suddenly tightened and slowly expanded.

Tiny wisps of golden and silver energy mist emanated from the "cocoon".

In the distant sky, a full moon seemed to twinkle, and then, faint golden dew began to condense from the vast expanse of the moon, falling like raindrops. But after a short while, it was affected by some strange force and suddenly turned into countless tiny specks of light, scattering across the land and the ocean.

Lu Chen felt warm all over, as if he had just had a deep massage, so comfortable that he wanted to groan.

The chains of light around his body slowly disappeared into his body, turning into countless golden and silver mists that seeped into his body.

Limbs, torso, head —

They were all enveloped by the thick fog, and then gradually disappeared.

A tiny fraction dissipated with his breathing.

In Lu Ming and Lu Tang's room, the two seemed to sense something, and faint smiles appeared on their small faces as they entered a deeper state of meditation.