11 Flames of origin (1/2)

If he wanted to walk far on the body cultivation path, a huge amount of resources were necessary. And the most important important of these resources were pills.

And especially in the dao star realm. Almost all of the dao stars required a specific pill to resonate with them. Without that pill, finding the star you wanted in the ever changing sea of stars was impossible. Bai Yun knew which stars he should condense in order to maximize his gains. He was simply going to condense the stars that he did in his previous life, except this time he wasn't going to try and condense the Nameless star. He knew a few other options for his final star that he should condense.

And finding the stars he required without the corresponding pills was stupid. In that case he would have to waste years looking for them. Of course he could also try to condense stars that were nearby him, but that would reduce his strength, and Bai Yun was even less willing to do so.

Since Bai Yun had condensed them all before he knew the formulas for the pills. Bai Yun could give the formulas to other alchemists and ask them to make them for him, but unfortunately all the stars he wanted to condense were the strongest of their type and thus only a god could help refine those pills.

The pills themselves were not that difficult to refine, with only two being of the immortal class and others at the dao class, but the need for resonance with such a high grade dao star meant that only a god could do so.

But Bai Yun could also do this. The resonance was created by adding the auras of these stars to the pills and then ingesting the pill. But Bai Yun had already condensed theses stars once before, and thus knew their auras, and could simply recreate them and add them to the pill, to cause a false resonance.

But creating pills was difficult. Thankfully he had access to the dao repository. In Bai Yun's plan he would try to get the God ofAlchemy's legacy during his fourth visit. That would allow him to reach an acceptable level of alchemy before attempting the trials he would have set. Of course there was no way he could pass those. Bai Yun's only hope was that the God of Alchemy had left a true soul incarnation, which had his memories and would remember Bai Yun and the favor he owned to Bai Yun's mother. If so he could somehow find a way to get a part of legacy related to the dao star pills and it would help him greatly.

And the alchemy path was extremely important to him. And other than medicinal formulas and medicinal ingredients, there were two other items that were important in the alchemy path.

They were alchemy cauldrons and transcendent flames.

Alchemy cauldrons were createdby weaponsmiths. It helps to keep the medicinal power from dispersing. It was not a necessary ingredient to creating pills, but the lack of one will make it much harder to create one. Higher graded cauldrons could even help in increasing the circles of a medicinal pill.

As for transcendent flames, they were a special kind of flames, that were found in nature. There were different kinds of transcendent elements. There were transcendent flames, lightning, wind, water, and earth, and even strange things like transcendent wood, light and shadows and many more.

The transcendent elements were formed either in nature or artificially. Depending on their formation and the ingredients involved they could all the of different types and natures.

The first kind were the beast elements. When some beasts with strange or extraordinary bloodlines or some rare lifeforms were killed, it was possible to extract some transcendent element from them. For example it was possible to extractthe formless shadows from the nether race, unmelting ice from an ice dragon, and the extreme storm wind from the sand bird.

The second kind were the earthly elements. These were generally formed by the agglomeration of a large amounts of a particular element. These could be formed in nature, or could even be artificially created. The molten flame, was created from large lave pools, and the demon gods blood was created artificially by killing millions of people and merging their blood.

The third kind were heavenly elements. These were extremely rare, and often born out of chance events. For example there was the star streaking flame, formed when two meteors collide, and the undying lighting, formed when seven or more lighting bolts collide in midair.

The transcendent elements could be strengthened after they were born. All elements had a natural limit to which they could grow, which was depended only on the transcendent element itself and not by how it was born. A star streaking flame that was born of the collision of two meteors would be much much weaker than one born of collision of two stars. But the limit of the two was the same. In fact a star streaking flame flame born of the collision of to meteors would even be weaker than a molten flame, but was considered much more valuable due to its growth potential.

And the difference between the three kinds of elements was due to the difference in the way the were grown. Heavenly elements would grow alongside a person as he increased in cultivation. There was no need to specially grow them. But since they grew alongside a person, it also meant that if a god got their hands on a high potential element, but it was extremely weak, then he would never use it as it simply wouldn't strengthen itself.