Chapter 174
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Chapter 174: Beginning Alchemy
With Yun Ye adjusting his direction, he decided on a specific course to take. Tomorrow Society entered a stable and orderly development phase, presenting two completely opposite states compared to the outside world.
After another winter, the population of Tomorrow Village officially reached two hundred people.
In ancient times, there was no contraception, and for the common folk, having children was their only form of entertainment. Thus, it was inevitable for families to have many children, especially when life improved and crops flourished.
Baishi Town was the same; unlike modern times where each family often has only one child, even in Baishi Town, a couple would usually have at least four children.
Therefore, often in just one generation, the population rapidly swells beyond control, no matter how much they consume.
Now that Tomorrow Village had sufficient food and a good environment, the number of children being born would only increase. The real problem was the lack of suitable girls for marriage.
A year had passed, and the situation of the women and children brought back by Yun Ye had changed.
All thirteen pregnant women had given birth, but six of them had sadly passed away throughout the year. Their physical potential had been completely exhausted, and after giving birth, they were barely clinging to life.
Even though Yun Ye provided them with Spirit-level superior food, it was useless. Without actively practicing the Qi Cultivation Technique, superior food was just more filling meals; there was nothing that could be done to save them.
On the other hand, the other twenty children had all survived, although three of them had suffered severe mental damage and could only obey commands like mindless drones, unable to recover.
Yun Ye’s plan for them was simple; he assigned them the easiest tasks, such as gathering firewood and plowing the fields.
In the end, all thirteen babies born from the pregnant women were healthy.
With healing Spiritual Law available, as long as there wasn’t damage to their spiritual source, most common ailments were not difficult to treat.
These thirteen children had drawn most of their life energy from their mothers, giving them better constitutions than typical children, resulting in higher survival rates and minimal illness.
For example, Yuexin did not possess a single talent rated E, but she had remarkable adaptability.
These children were not a burden to Tomorrow Society; rather, they were a great gift.
At this point, unless they directly attacked Baishi Town, it was impossible to recruit new members.
Welcoming excellent successors was a joy, not a burden.
Overall, Tomorrow Society was developing well.
They were not lacking in resources.
Water sources were managed and diverted by Water Element Spiritual Law masters.
Salt and fertilizers were handled by Earth Element Spiritual Law masters.
Food was the responsibility of Wood Element Spiritual Law masters.
Even Fire Element Spiritual Law masters could clear fields, incinerating useless weeds, bugs, and insect eggs.
The Only Immortal Flame’s specificity made it the best herbicide and pesticide.
Yun Ye observed Tomorrow Society’s growth over the past year, as various ingenious uses of Spiritual Law were developed independently.
For instance, using the Only Immortal Flame to burn insect eggs and weeds was an idea Yun Ye had never considered.
After all, he didn’t need to farm personally; he was still somewhat distant from that concept.
However, those who truly farmed, such as revival of Spiritual Roots, thought differently. To keep things simple, they would come up with various ways to change things and then immediately promote those changes to everyone.
As a result, everyone was inspired to be creative, thinking about how to further improve efficiency to have more time for cultivation or other activities. Laziness is the primary driver of human progress. This is the significance of gathering people together. The collision of inspiration and knowledge can give birth to even more inspiration and knowledge.
Yun Ye recorded all the extreme spiritual qualities he encountered, noting how to combine them and the results they produced! He might continue to enhance his Spiritual Roots in the next life, finding it useful someday.
“Combination of Ultimate Spirit Water and Ultimate Spirit Fire.”
Yun Ye wrote this phrase in Chinese characters in the courtyard.
In half a year, he had already decided on the direction of the formation. The combination of Ultimate Spirit Water and Ultimate Spirit Fire represented Combination Spiritual Law, All Things Silent.
The reason was simple: before Yuexin matured, he was the most suitable main formation master.
Having reached Minor Achievement in All Things Silent, he could be considered the strongest force in Tomorrow Society at that moment.
At this time, Tomorrow Society had no resources to divert towards researching five different attributes, naturally making it the best choice to follow his path and elevate All Things Silent.
Therefore, over the past six months, Yun Ye set the research direction, encouraging all cultivators with Water and Fire Spiritual Roots to study formations with him.
As for the others, while they could optimize the formations without Spiritual Roots, their efficiency was low. Yun Ye suggested they fully focus on practicing Walking Law; when the formation activated, the greater the number of high-level cultivators, the stronger the power.
Speaking of cultivation levels, after waiting an entire year, there were over three hundred Spiritual Herbs in the Secret Realm.
If he could refine them into spirit pills, it would certainly perfect the Walking Law.
So, Yun Ye decided to open the furnace and refine pills!
With a current reserve of three hundred herbs, the speed of spirit energy accumulation was astonishing, yielding about two Spirit Herbs each day.
This was more than enough for practice.
Moreover, these herbs were all five hundred years old, and even if Yang Lingzhi was the lowest-grade herb, its spiritual essence far exceeded ordinary herbs. He might not need many to complete the Walking Law perfectly.
Yun Ye’s figure flickered as he entered the Secret Realm, where vibrant blue waters swirled, pulling several types of Spiritual Herbs into a wooden box.
He then exited the Secret Realm and set up formation flags in his courtyard to gather spirit energy to some extent.
Tomorrow Village lacked ground fire, so Yun Ye could only use formations as a substitute.
These formations not only blocked external interference and gathered spirit energy but also provided a stable source of fire, benefiting the alchemy process.
"Activate!"
Yun Ye fully ignited the formation, causing a red transparent alchemy furnace made of flames to appear.
Then, with another wave of his hand, a physical alchemy furnace aligned with it, and the overflowing heat suddenly dropped.
Although Yun Ye had already mastered the Pure Yang Alchemy Furnace, to ensure stability, he didn’t just create the furnace; he embedded it within the formation, providing a triple guarantee.
After preheating for a while, Yun Ye took a deep breath, his thoughts sweeping over the wooden box. His Spirit Sense quickly lifted one Yang Lingzhi, placing it into the Pure Yang Alchemy Furnace.
The whole furnace operated in a special manner, with flame power and temperature remaining very contained and controllable.
This made sense because if he were to violently burn it like a boiler, the herbs would surely turn to ash instead of becoming spirit pills.
Before this alchemy session, Yun Ye had already done a lot of homework. With a shift in his thoughts, the black Only Immortal Flame was injected into the Pure Yang Alchemy Furnace, completely activating the entire alchemy process.
Under the burning of the Only Immortal Flame, a large number of impurities from the Yang Lingzhi transformed into black smoke and vanished, leaving behind only a few dozen drops of red liquid that exuded pure life energy while also giving off an intense and explosive feeling.
This was the spiritual essence of Yang Lingzhi; consuming it would produce a burning sensation, and ordinary people might even spontaneously combust.
After extracting it, Yun Ye didn’t rush to refine the spirit pills but instead used various instruments to observe the spiritual essence.
Once he recorded all the data, he continued to refine the other herbs.
Chao Zizhong had offered many formulas, but none used Yang Lingzhi as the main ingredient. Therefore, Yun Ye could only find a formula that was similar for experimentation, knowing that alchemy typically required more than one type of herb.
Besides Yang Lingzhi, the other herbs were auxiliary herbs that had low quantity and age requirements, so Yun Ye didn’t need to spend long in the Secret Realm to gather them.
Once all the herbs were extracted, Yun Ye divided them into dozens of portions and took out one for the experiment.
His approach was the same as before: he directly observed the spiritual reactions instead of relying on luck.
The interaction of these more than ten types of herbs undoubtedly represented a vast project requiring long periods of trial and error.
Yun Ye conducted experiments for a full ten days.
At the end of the ten days, he finally had some insight.
“The biggest challenge in pill refining is controlling the heat; only by using the flame to unify all the medicinal properties can they condense into pills. This feeling is somewhat like… the combustion reaction in the cultivation world?”
Yun Ye’s expression was strange.
If purification meant removing impurities by burning them at different temperatures to extract the medicinal properties, then forming pills involved gathering multiple spiritual materials together and burning them with spirit flames, allowing them to transform into a more unified spiritual material.
During this process, the ‘burning’ of the spirit flames added energy rather than simply burning away the spiritual materials.
This was truly fascinating!
