Chapter 370 - 231: Dividing the Pill_2 - Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 370: Chapter 231: Dividing the Pill_2

Having ensured the successful rate of pill refining, he attempted to refine ten batches of ‘Shushan Yellow Spirit Pills’ at once.

The reason he dared to do so was because of the support from the IBM z15. Within the range of his Divine Thought, not only could he monitor the refining process in ten pill furnaces, but IBM z15 was also monitoring and issuing reminders continuously.

Even if he occasionally overlooked something, the reminders from IBM z15 allowed him to spot his mistakes immediately.

Ten jade bottles were filled with a hundred high-quality ‘Shushan Yellow Spirit Pills,’ and he was quite satisfied that there had been no mishaps.

The subsequent refining of ‘Shushan Yellow Spirit Pills’ was all conducted in the server room space, with ten Spiritual Artifact Furnaces lined up inside. He could even collect ‘Medicine Essence’ while refining top-tier ‘Shushan Yellow Spirit Pills.’

He knew that once he advanced to the Mid-stage Foundation Establishment, he would need to consume top-tier ‘Shushan Yellow Spirit Pills,’ so he began preparing them in advance.

By the time half of the hundred batches of ‘Shushan Yellow Spirit Pills’ had been refined, he had no more problems with refining Mid-stage Foundation Establishment elixirs, just as easily as refining ‘Shushan Hunyuan Pills.’

Moreover, because he was refining ten batches at a time, his Alchemy speed was incomparable to before.

Thus, by the second day, he had nearly refined fifty batches of ‘Shushan Yellow Spirit Pills’ and produced four top-tier ‘Shushan Yellow Spirit Pills.’

Li Shiming was not content with these results; he was well aware that with the IBM z15 and the server room space, where he could control things down to the micrometer level, these achievements really weren’t all that impressive.

He set his sights on the ‘Hundred One-point Pill Technique’ and used it in every refining session.

Refining in the server room space, he never worried that using the ‘Hundred One-point Pill Technique’ would cause energy chaos in the pill furnaces. Any sign of chaos in its early stages would be detected and eliminated by him.

This is the advantage of micrometer-level control. When his perception reached the micrometer level, the IBM z15 could do the same. With dual monitoring, especially when IBM z15 never makes mistakes, any troubles would be discovered and resolved immediately.

His luck was still good; the ‘Hundred One-point Pill Technique’ succeeded once on the second day. As usual, after he performed the ‘Hundred One-point Pill Technique,’ he focused on controlling the situation inside the pill furnace.

Inside the pill furnace affected by the ‘Hundred One-point Pill Technique,’ what should have been a forming Spirit Pill, now had a phantom pill shadow next to it, crazily absorbing the spiritual energy from the furnace.

This phenomenon, which was nearly beyond both his understanding and the capacity of IBM z15, almost causing it to crash, would have been thought to be a trick of the eye if it hadn’t been recorded in the server room space by his Divine Thought and the IBM z15.

He previously thought the ‘Hundred One-point Pill Technique’ was about gathering the excess medicinal liquid in the pill furnace to congeal an extra pill.

But he had never imagined it would create something out of nothing, forming a real Spirit Pill just by absorbing spiritual energy.

After this batch of Spirit Pills was finished, he took aside this particular batch for close examination.

Twenty pills came out of this batch, all of high quality—which was expected unless he fell asleep during Alchemy, never producing low-quality Spirit Pills.

He took one of the ten high-quality ‘Shushan Yellow Spirit Pills’ that had formed out of nothing and examined it with his Divine Thought, eyes, and even tasted it to test its medicinal strength. No matter the method of examination, it was indeed a real high-quality ‘Shushan Yellow Spirit Pill.’

This was another phenomenon he could not comprehend. The ‘Hundred One-point Pill Technique,’ an apparently unreliable method, wouldn’t have been included in the ‘Shushan Pill Scripture’ if it didn’t have its own uniqueness.

Li Shiming began to look through the Alchemy data recorded by the IBM z15, which was vast and included microscopic changes in micrometer-level particles inside the pill furnace.

He also found the data from a previous time when he executed the ‘Hundred One-point Pill Technique’ without success and wanted to see what the difference was.

After some time analyzing with the IBM z15, he found an anomaly in the extensive data.

The ‘Hundred One-point Pill Technique’ was performed just before the pills were formed, and during that time, a peculiar pattern appeared in the pill furnace when successfully executing the ‘Hundred One-point Pill Technique.’

If it weren’t for his research into the secret of the ‘Hundred One-point Pill Technique’, it would have been impossible to discover this exotic pattern within particles on the micrometer scale.

This exotic pattern appeared for approximately one hundredth of a second, and he cast the ‘Hundred One-point Pill Technique’ just as the pattern manifested for that one hundredth of a second, triggering the technique’s activation.

He did not know what the exotic pattern that appeared in the Pill Furnace was, but he was certain it was related to the success of the ‘Hundred One-point Pill Technique’.

In the next alchemy session, he replicated the success of the ‘Hundred One-point Pill Technique’, confirming his conjecture.

No wonder the success rate of executing the ‘Hundred One-point Pill Technique’ was extremely low; there was a window of about three seconds before the elixirs emerged, and only by seizing that fleeting one hundredth of a second could the ‘Hundred One-point Pill Technique’ succeed.

The problem was that even with the use of Divine Thought, it was impossible to detect the emergence of the exotic pattern. Constructed of micrometer-scale particles, it was not only difficult to detect with Divine Thought, but even if detected, one wouldn’t necessarily connect it to this specific technique.

Without the post-event data analysis capabilities of an IBMz15, that one hundredth of a second would pass before consciousness could even shift, and the exotic pattern would have already disappeared.

With this important discovery, Li Shiming began attempting to refine double the amount of Elixir Pills using the ‘Hundred One-point Pill Technique’, applying it to every batch of pills he crafted.

That is to say, from a single portion of ingredients, he could produce twenty Elixir Pills, which allowed him to accumulate a substantial amount of materials and elixirs.

Moreover, the production of top-tier Elixir Pills also doubled.

While Li Shiming was achieving results in his alchemy research, Li Yuanba was also busy within the Senluo Sect.

Upon returning to Ten Thousand Sword Peak, Elder Jian met him.

“Yuan Ba, it seems you didn’t encounter any danger this time?” Elder Jian asked with concern.

After learning of Elder Lv’s fall in battle, Elder Jian somewhat regretted having allowed Li Yuanba to take part in the great war.

Truth be told, Foundation Establishment Cultivators are practically cannon fodder in such grand battles, with a large number of them perishing each time.

Of course, many Foundation Establishment Cultivators also manage to stand out in these grand battles by acquiring resources.

But the fall of Elder Lv, who was at the Golden Core Middle Stage, was unexpected by Elder Jian.

“Master, I didn’t even need to use the Buddha Beads you gave me!” Li Yuanba replied with a laugh.

He wasn’t lying to his master, Elder Jian, but Elder Jian wouldn’t assume that his meaning wasn’t that he faced no danger but rather that he didn’t need to use the Sword Intent Buddha Beads when facing danger.

If Elder Lv had attacked him with his Golden Core strength at that time, Li Yuanba would have drawn the Sword Intent Buddha Beads immediately.

Poor Elder Lv, a Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivator, was killed by a Top-grade Magic Device Electromagnetic Gun because, greedy for the Spirit, he had absorbed the Jade Foot Relics and his battle consciousness, restricted by Li Yuanba’s command, could not exert even one percent of its strength.

Elder Lv probably could be ranked first among the most frustrated to die in the Cultivation World as a Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivator.

“Well, that’s good. Seeing your Sword Intent has solidified, you must have gained quite a bit this time?” Elder Jian remarked, sensing Li Yuanba’s Sword Intent and nodding in agreement.

“Master, I encountered a Buddha who stepped on white lotuses, moving almost as if flashing between them. What kind of Cultivation Technique might that be?” As soon as Elder Jian asked, Li Yuanba immediately voiced his question.

He had killed Jue Yuan Buddha, which was recorded in the record of military exploits, so there was no need to conceal it.

“That’s the ‘Step by Step Lotus’ from Qianye Temple, the beginner’s technique for the Divine Foot Skill!” Elder Jian became interested, and after answering, he went on to explain, “The Divine Foot Skill is a type of Divine Skill. It’s actually a Rule of Heaven and Earth Technique that Nascent Soul Ancestors ought to realize. Although ‘Step by Step Lotus’ is just a foundation-laying beginner’s technique, it has already touched upon the periphery of the Rules of Heaven and Earth!”