Chapter 368: Speed and Temperature (2/2)

So, he ended up really just making pills with 9% harmony. It was a total failure.

”Hmm… so it had something to do with the powder and not the energy, huh?” he thought. ”I always thought that energy was where it was all at, but it seems that even the powder is an important part of the process.”

He tried one more time, but this time, he simply used the fastest rotation speed for every ingredient possible. The energy in turn was produced at a very slow rate.

This time he made a pill with 13% harmony. While it was a usable pill, to Alex, it was also a failure.

”Okay, so I can't really make a pill if the motion of the ingredients isn't correct. Let's move onto the temperature,” he thought and took out Silver Grass once more.

This time, he was going to try using the ingredients at different temperatures. After testing for a while, he realized that the temperature was pretty simple.

The hotter the cauldron was, the less time it required for the ingredient to turn to powder.

'That's quite easy to remember. However, now I will have to check how they interact with one another and find out what the correct combination of 3 is for each ingredient in each pill,' Ning thought.

He was starting to get overwhelmed a little. If he had to remember it all, it would take him years upon years, and then he would finally be able to learn just the ingredients for common rank pills.

”Oh god, what did I get myself into?” he started to worry. Only now did he truly start to see the true vastness of Alchemy.

”Wait wait wait, don't panic. Surely the Alchemy God's Knowledge skill will help me when it grows. I will probably get more benefit from it, surely,” Alex thought. He didn't know when a growth-type skill would actually grow.

He was hoping for it to be when he reached True realms, but it could have a different set of requirements as well.

”No, I can't put my hopes on an 'if'. I need to learn what I can right now,” he thought. ”It doesn't matter how long it will take, as long as I learn it, surely I can learn it all one day,” he thought.

”Besides, it will help me in the long run, so it can't be a waste of time,” Alex thought and continued.

He started testing the rate at which the energy was released and the powder was formed for each combination of temperature, the direction of motion, and speed of motion, for the Silver Grass.

It took him the entire day to try every single feasible combination he would try on a normal pill-making process. Only when he felt that he had done everything did he stop.