Chapter 47
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Chapter 47: The Entire Microscope
After his first task, Yun Ye began to take on tasks freely. However, each month he had to complete three to five mandatory Government Tasks, which wasted a lot of his time. Earning money wasn’t as fast as he had hoped.
Surprisingly, Liu Jingyu seemed more normal compared to the other team members.
When working with the others, they mostly pushed their responsibilities onto Yun Ye and enjoyed the benefits without much effort.
In contrast, Liu Jingyu didn’t just let him take the money; she helped out and taught him valuable skills.
While it seemed she had her eyes on him, she actually accelerated Yun Ye’s growth.
By the end of the first month, Yun Ye had mostly completed tasks that yielded low rewards but were quick to finish. Although he had to share the earnings with Liu Jingyu, he had gathered enough contributions to exchange for the "Superior Food Production Technique."
Yun Ye’s task frequency immediately dropped, as he focused on research for half a month.
Half a month was enough time to understand the principles.
According to the book, concentrating life energy through techniques was difficult; a good superior food must use food essence.
Any Spiritual Herb could be made into food essence as long as it possessed spiritual attributes.
Food essence has the ability to absorb life energy, allowing the chef to gather life energy through cooking techniques, greatly reducing the food’s volume and enhancing its nutritional value.
The type of food needed, the food essence used, and the cooking methods depended on the superior food chef’s skill level.
Basically, all superior food chefs aimed to completely activate the effects of the food, reaching master level.
This basic superior food production book also mentioned master-level works above the A-level, called "Spirit-level" superior food.
Only masters could produce spirit-level food, as it completely activates the life energy of the ingredients, creating effects comparable to low-level Spiritual Herbs.
There were no Spiritual Herbs left near Baishi Town; they had all been harvested.
Furthermore, Spiritual Herbs grow over dozens or even hundreds of years, and they wouldn’t sprout again shortly.
To obtain Spiritual Herbs, one would have to take risks venturing deep into danger-ridden mountains.
In such circumstances, even low-level Spiritual Herbs were extremely rare and had no market value, let alone those high-level Spiritual Herbs.
Those who could turn ordinary food into low-level Spiritual Herbs held a status not even comparable to that of regular A-level superior food chefs; even the government treated them as honored guests.
Unfortunately, Baishi Town didn’t have a single master, at most half of one.
The oppressive environment of Baishi Town didn’t provide the fertile ground for masters to emerge.
Outside masters wouldn’t come to such a remote town either.
Thus, Baishi Town had only ever produced half a master at most, and it took a long time for one to coincidentally create a spirit-level superior food that the Ji family of the government couldn’t casually consume.
Even if one had poor qualifications, consuming spirit-level superior food for just one month could awaken their Spiritual Roots, laying a solid foundation and saving several years of effort!
Yun Ye read this and felt incredibly joyful, filled with hope.
This was a visible future!
Since someone had achieved it, he surely had a chance!
Yun Ye spent money to buy a large amount of materials, starting on his learning journey. With Chunyu and Xiahua helping him, it wasn’t troublesome at all.
The materials were divided into two parts: food essence materials and food materials.
Food essence needed to have spiritual attributes, which didn’t mean they must be Spiritual Herbs. In this world, the majority of plants possess spiritual attributes, just varying in abundance. The so-called life energy is also a manifestation of spirituality.
Food essence requires spiritual plants that are more expensive than regular ingredients. However, when made into food essence, only a small amount is needed for each portion of Superior Food, making the overall cost quite low.
At first, Yun Ye naturally started with the simplest processes for making Superior Food.
He ground the herbs, adjusted the ratios, and met various special conditions…
The final product was a glowing powder, very faint and only visible in complete darkness.
It is said that top-grade food essence can emit a strong glow during the day, demonstrating its incredible spirituality.
In his first few days, Yun Ye mostly faced failures because getting the ratios correct was quite challenging. If the balance was off, he couldn’t produce the spiritual effect of the food essence.
After several failures, Yun Ye shook his head and gave up on this rough method.
Making the essence relied solely on experience and feel. Even though he recorded the data from each attempt, the lack of measuring instruments made it inaccurate.
Progress was far too slow!
Thus, Yun Ye abandoned manual methods and decided to take a shortcut.
He needed to create instruments to assist him.
Once he thought of instruments, his mind opened up, and the first thing that came to him was a microscope.
Could spirituality and spirit energy be observed in the material world? Yun Ye was very curious.
Since drug-making was merely the combination of various materials without involving Spiritual Law, this indicated that spirituality could also react naturally, just like matter; that alone held great observational value.
Even if he found no results, it would still be meaningful, as it would at least confirm that spirituality is unobservable in the material world.
Then the focus shifted to how to create the microscope.
Yun Ye understood the principles involved.
A microscope wasn’t technically challenging; it just required two glass slides with one middle thick and the other edges thin.
Since he was just an average person in the modern world, he spent most of his time playing and naturally encountered various novels, games, and videos.
These modern forms of entertainment were truly diverse, showcasing everything imaginable.
Yun Ye had read plenty of novels about scientific advancements and, while he forgot most of them later, he could now recall all those memories due to his rebirth.
He remembered things like gunpowder, firearms, engines, and even nuclear bombs. Even if he only grasped the general concepts, he could manage to create them with time.
The difficulties lay in acquiring raw materials and having an industrial foundation. These aspects would indeed be hard to manage under normal circumstances.
But that was under normal circumstances.
Yun Ye was a revival of Spiritual Roots practitioner of the Fire Element; he didn’t need to build a steel furnace since he was the industrial foundation himself.
With this thought, Yun Ye excitedly rushed out of his house, diving into Hongshan as Chunyu and Xiahua looked on in surprise.
When he returned, he was holding a pile of sand and stones.
“?”
Chunyu and Xiahua looked puzzled. What was going on? Why did he specifically go to dig up a bunch of stones?
“Chunyu, Xiahua, help me sort these out!”
“Yes!”
The two exchanged a glance, and without saying much, they obediently helped Yun Ye with the chores.
They carried water, cleaned the area, and sorted the sand and stones…
Although it felt strange, doing tasks without asking why was a basic quality of a servant.
“Done!”
Yun Ye completed the sorting quickly, managing only a few pieces of glass.
After finishing, the two maids stepped aside. Yun Ye didn’t give any further instructions, so they hesitated to leave and could only watch quietly.
Yun Ye casually picked up a type of stone, and the terrifying high temperature instantly melted the sand and stones.
Then, the glass appeared; it seemed that most stones in this world were also made of silicates.
However, the random sand and stones he picked up clearly had purity issues.
Yun Ye tinkered for a while, feeling that it resembled iron but also other unknown spiritual materials.
He refined it using the glass-making process and cooled it to see the results.
He discovered that the impurities were gone, but the lens faintly gathered light.
…Yun Ye sensed it was spiritual material.
In this world, spiritual materials either emitted light or resembled mist; in any case, they were quite noticeable.
He processed it with fire, likely guiding the spiritual material like in Weapon Forging techniques.
With the glass material ready, Yun Ye began shaping it because he needed a convex lens, not just a random piece of glass.
Since Yun Ye was not afraid of high temperatures, he could mold it directly with his hands, so he first shaped a rough convex lens.
As for precision, he would have to polish it later.
While some people could create items with an error of only a few millimeters through experience, Yun Ye clearly could not.
He could only produce the glass and slowly grind it into the desired convex lens.
Fortunately, as a Spiritual Law master, Yun Ye’s eyesight and physical control far exceeded those of an ordinary person.
An hour later, Yun Ye blew away the powder, and the transparent lens sparkled as it caught the sunlight.
“Ha ha, done.”
Yun Ye set down the lens and began to work on the next one.
“……”
“Sister, it’s glazed? The stone turned into glass, and it doesn’t have any color at all!”
Chunyu and Xiahua were utterly astonished by the scene.
