Chapter 367: Direction of Motion (1/2)

”Hm… how do I start this?” Alex wondered. He had made too many mistakes the day before to simply just go back to trying to make a new pill. He wanted to take a different approach this time.

”Let's see… since the motion, temperature, and the rate at which the energy is released matters, I should start by learning how that works,” Alex thought.

He went through his storage bags and brought out a bunch of common ingredients that he had an excess of. He was planning on first understanding how Motion affected the rate of energy released.

”So… since I am planning on testing just the motion, I need to set the temperature constant,” he thought. He set the temperature at around 300 degrees and waited for his Golden Jade Cauldron to be hot enough.

Since he was only using single ingredients, he didn't have to worry about them blowing at all. Once the cauldron was hot, he put in his first ingredient.

The first ingredient was a normal Silver Grass that could be found just about anywhere. He put a single strand of the grass and started moving it clockwise such that it took him exactly 2 seconds to make a complete rotation.

When he finished one rotation, a bit of metal energy was released. He made the clockwise rotation again, and a bit more of the energy was released.

He had to do 4 complete rotations for all the energy in the grass to be released and the grass to finally crumble down to powdered form.

Once that was done, Alex brought everything out and threw it away. For the second turn, he kept the temperature the same and the speed of rotation the same as well, but he changed the direction in which the ingredient moved.

Surprisingly, there was no change in the rate of energy release at all. That confused Alex a little. ”If it doesn't change the rate or messes up an ingredient, why do the recipes bother explaining the direction of the motion?” he wondered.

He brought out a set of ingredients for a normal pill and decided to try his theory on it. He first made a normal pill following the recipe that he knew and ended up making a pill with a Harmony of 52%.

It was a very good result, considering the pill's final energy wasn't Metal aligned.

He then took out another set of the same ingredients, only this time he was going to follow the recipe all the same except for the directions in which the ingredients were moved in.

He started with the first ingredient and moved it clockwise, despite the recipe stating that he had to move it counterclockwise. Once that was done, he proceeded with the next ingredient and moved it clockwise as well.

As he had expected, the energy released was the same as last time and they interacted the same way as well. Then the third, the fourth, the fifth… every subsequent ingredient he put into the cauldron, he moved it in a clockwise motion.

What kept on surprising him was that the energy mixed together exactly how they were supposed to. The motion didn't at all affect the rate of release or the quality of the energy released.