Chapter 241: Completing the Pill Formula! (2/2)
Ye Yuan sensed Wang Jie's gaze and flashed a smile at him. Wang Jie also flashed one back.
”Ye Yuan, what did the 'but' you said earlier mean? Could it be that using the Extreme Light Profound Gold Fruit to complete the pill formula doesn't work either?” Skymaple asked again.
He was very confident in the Extreme Light Profound Gold Fruit. It should be said that this was the closest to success he had come to in these over dozen years. But Ye Yuan's words unwittingly make his heart palpitate.
Ye Yuan said, ”Although the Extreme Light Profound Gold Fruit has the effects of nourishing the divine soul, it's unsuitable to be mixed together and refined with the Nine-leaf Heavenly Fragrance Grass. The Extreme Light Profound Gold Fruit's attribute is metal, while the Nine-leaf Heavenly Fragrance Grass's attribute is wood. Metal and wood inhibit each other. Not only would the effects of the ingredients themselves fail to be unleashed, but it would also weaken instead. Furthermore, it will be tremendously difficult to control the stability of the three kinds of core materials during the refining process. If my estimations are right, Grand Elder has probably blown up cauldrons quite a number of times already, right?”
Skymaple's old face turned red. Ye Yuan really guessed it correctly.
However, he still asked in surprise, ”Isn't the Extreme Light Profound Gold Fruit's attribute is wood? Why is it metal?”
The attributes of all things in the world were incomparably complex and were not written on the surface. Unless one were extremely proficient towards medical knowledge, one would tend to find it hard to determine a certain medicinal material's attribute.
The higher level the medicinal material, the harder it was to determine the attribute. Because the process of their derivation was extremely complicated.
Tier 4 materials were not high nor low level. But to the Tranquil Cloud Sect's alchemists, it was absolutely high level medicinal materials. With their level of understanding, it was very tough to determine Tier 4 materials' attribute.
Hence, when Skymaple was choosing materials, he basically could not take into consideration the materials' attributes. He only relied on his instincts to decide. Hence, the error rate was naturally very high.
Ye Yuan smiled and said, ”Not all the things that grow on trees belong to the wood attribute. The reason why the Extreme Light Profound Gold Fruit is of the metal attribute is that it generally grows on top of ore veins, drawing the metal spiritual qi within to form the fruit. Even though the Extreme Light Profound Gold Fruit also has some wood attribute characteristics, its primary attribute is metal.”
Hearing Ye Yuan's analysis, Skymaple actually had a feeling like he was enlightened all at once! His gaze when looking at Ye Yuan again was drastically different from before.
Skymaple was naturally well aware of the Extreme Light Profound Gold Fruit's origin. It was precisely obtained by sect disciples from an ore vein, not the slightest bit off from Ye Yuan's analysis!
Such knowledge, even he, a grand elder, felt that he was so far behind to even see the dust ahead.
”Then how should this pill formula be completed?” Skymaple's words already entailed consulting advice. Even he himself was not conscious of it.
Ye Yuan obviously would not cherish something of little value just because it was his own knowledge. He opened his mouth and said, ”Clear Spirit Jade Fluid is balanced in the five elements, so it is a neutral item. The Nine-leaf Heavenly Fragrance Grass's attribute is wood, so you naturally have to select a water attribute material to complete the pill formula. Among Tier 4 medicinal materials, the Iceheart Dew is most suitable.”
”Ah? Why use the Iceheart Dew? Iceheart Drew shouldn't have divine soul nourishing effects, right?” Skymaple had a doubtful face.
This past dozen of years, he thought of every material and used them too. The only exception was that he did not think of using the Iceheart Dew to complete the pill formula!
Ye Yuan smiled and said, ”Clear Spirit Jade Fluid and Nine-leaf Heavenly Fragrance Grass are both medicinal herbs that have superb effects when used to nourish the divine soul. Just take the Seven Profound Soul Driving Pill for instance; the divine soul nourishing effects are already ample. But the Iceheart Dew has the effect of calming the spirit and focusing the mind, and also the effect of stabilizing the divine soul. Moreover, during the refining process, the water attribute Iceheart Dew even has the usage of improving the wood attribute Nine-leaf Heavenly Fragrance Grass. There is nothing more suitable than it for refining the Seven Profound Soul Driving Pill!”
Once alchemy skills reached a certain level, one's understanding of medicinal pills would also grow increasingly profound.
At times, while blindly chasing the medicinal effect of a medicinal pill, it would instead cause an opposite effect.
Ye Yuan's understanding of medicinal pills was far from what Skymaple could compare to.
The way Ye Yuan saw it, a medicinal pill was a world. Refining a medicinal pill was creating a world!
For a mature world, the most important thing was stability. Then, other things would follow.
Many alchemists chased after the effects of medicinal pills blindly. The result of doing this were flaws in the medicinal pills. There would obviously be side-effects here and there.
A mature type of medicinal pill would definitely not have any side-effect!
In reality, with Ye Yuan's alchemy skills, he could guide Skymaple to use the Extreme Light Profound Gold Fruit to refine out the Seven Profound Soul Driving Pill, but that kind of medicinal pill would clearly have side-effects.
Hearing Ye Yuan say finish, Skymaple and Wang Jie behind him sunk into their thoughts . . .