Chapter 103: Experiments 2 (1/2)

Chapter 103: Experiments (2)

Inside the cave, Su Chen sat at his workbench, continuing his experiments.

He held a beaker in his hand filled with vibrantly red blood.

He grabbed some faint blue powder and placed it inside the beaker, causing the blood inside to slowly begin to congeal.

“The first experiment: excessive cold attribute due to the Frigid Water Herb caused the blood to congeal. Solution: lower the proportion of Frigid Water Herb.

“Second experiment: proportions of Frigid Water Herb are still too high. Lowered proportions again.”

“Fourth experiment: blood no longer coagulates, but the amount of Origin Substance present has clearly decreased due to low temperatures…… Dammit, this little Origin Substance Is not enough. Solution: separate substances with cold attributes and the Origin Substance.”

“Twelfth experiment: Origin Substance separation failure.”

“Thirty second experiment: Origin Substance separation failure.”

“Forty sixth experiment: successfully achieved initial separation of Origin Substance. However, after separation, the effect of the Origin Substance greatly decreases. Will need to determine the core reason.”

“Hundred twenty sixth experiment: Determined that wildly attempting this separation greatly harms the Origin Substance, and my original method of separation is adequate, so I need to give up on it. We’re back at square one; I need to once again figure out how to achieve this separation without damaging what I need……”

Days passed, and Su Chen conducted experiment after experiment.

Iron Cliff left the mountain range once to sell off their beast hides. The money that he had obtained was all used to buy more Frigid Water Herbs.

On the sixty fourth day of entering the Scarlet Mountain Range, Su Chen was able to successfully isolate the unique Origin Substance from the Frigid Water Herb for the first time.

However, Su Chen was still faced with the issue that this Origin Substance was not stable and its effect on Origin Energy was only short-term and was difficult to control. One could say that Su Chen still had quite a ways to go before the Origin Substance would reach a usable condition.

In order to resolve this issue, Su Chen was forced to search for new methods again and again, as well as perform experiment after experiment.

During this time, while performing with the countless number of experiments, Su Chen was actually quite conflicted.

For quite some time, he had wondered whether doing what he did had any purpose? Wasn’t it just a Snaking Mist Steps? Was there really a need to spend so much effort to research, understand, and search for a substitute?

Even if he was able to research it, so what?

In the end, all that he could reap was just an improvement in the introductory stance of one specific footwork technique, yet he had expended so much energy. Was it worth it?

Had he made the wrong choice?

Su Chen asked himself this multiple times.

However, in the end, he did not give up.

It was not because he confirmed that his path was correct. Rather, it was merely because he didn’t want to give up just like that.

The future was always shrouded in fog. No one knew what would happen.

Su Chen could not see the future. He could only see the past.

His past told him to not easily give up.

He finally told himself, “Whether it’s right or wrong, I must continue. At the very least, before my trip to the Scarlet Mountain Range ends, I cannot easily give up.”

Only many years later would Su Chen realize how important this decision was, and how lucky he had been at this moment.

That was right, lucky!

On the hundred twenty sixth day since arriving, Su Chen had finally resolved most of the difficulties that plagued him, concocting his first Soaring Serpent Origin Substance medicine.

After ingesting the medicine, Su Chen felt that his Snaking Mist Steps had very clearly improved.

Although the improvement was limited, this result told Su Chen that he was headed in the right direction.

It was not impossible to substitute bloodlines!

In order to achieve such a result in merely a hundred days, effort was only a small part of the equation. Luck was his main reason – he had unintentionally discovered that Frigid Water Herb possessed the Origin Substance that he needed. In addition, the relatively low cost of this herb coupled with his wealth meant that he could experiment without fear of costs. The Snaking Mist Steps and his clear, penetrating vision allowed him to easily observe and understand the bloodline. Ulrich’s experimental methods and style of thinking had also unintentionally met his need for creating an Origin Substance medicine. Lastly, he did not run into any annoying accidents or major setbacks during his experimentation. Su Chen was able to successfully accomplish what he had set out to do, concluding this period of experimentation.

In the future, if he wanted to achieve similar results, he would probably need to use tens if not hundreds of times the effort that he had used.

If Su Chen had encountered that kind of circumstance in the beginning, perhaps he would have long since given up.