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Chapter 464: The Immature Idea of the Past
🕑 Added 2024-11-08 13:00:56 +0000 UTCAt the Spirit Food Hall, Jiang Youfu also provided a lot of spirit food. However, due to Liu Qin's physical condition, only a small amount could be used for now, and because of the ruptured dantian, the spirit food didn't offer much help temporarily.
Liao Pantao and Sun Yigao discussed the specific ratios for the medicinal formulas and researched several other restorative pills based on Liu Qin's condition.
Looking at the confirmed formulas in his hands, Liao Pantao suddenly seemed to recall something and said to Sun Yigao:
"Yigao, when I was studying alchemy in my early years, I actually had an immature idea."
Sun Yigao, who was taking notes, looked up and asked, "Master, please go ahead."
Liao Pantao gently stroked the books in front of him, took a deep breath, and reminisced:
"At that time, I was encountering obstacles in alchemy. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't succeed, and I became quite despondent. I then turned to explore other skills, and in the process, I discovered that some of the principles might be interconnected."
"It was then that I had a sudden idea: could we combine other skills with alchemy to create entirely new medicinal pills?"
At this point, he couldn't help but sigh:
"Unfortunately, I had only theoretical knowledge about alchemy and couldn't actually make any progress, so I was never able to validate that idea. Later, as I became busier with cultivation, I didn't have the time and energy to study it, and over time, I forgot about it."
Upon hearing this, Sun Yigao pondered and said:
"If Master’s idea were truly successful, it would indeed make you the foremost alchemist."
Over the years, as the head of the Library Pavilion, Sun Yigao had read various books in the pavilion, so he had a fairly comprehensive understanding of the cultivation world.
He naturally knew that, to date, the symbols, arrays, and tools in the cultivation world were interconnected, but alchemy was a standalone discipline with no examples of similar integration.
As Sun Yigao said, if Liao Pantao’s idea were validated and the resulting pills were effective, regardless of his practical alchemy skills, he would surely become a pioneer in the field.
Hearing this, Liao Pantao smiled and patted Sun Yigao on the shoulder, saying:
"What are you thinking? This is just an idea, and an idea that I could never prove. I am telling you this because I hope you can give it a try."
"As my disciple, if you achieve something in the future, wouldn't I also have some credit?"
Sun Yigao smiled and nodded:
"Alright."
Seeing his agreement, Liao Pantao immediately took out a pile of jade slips from his soul body and placed them between them.
"These are some theoretical records from my past research. They haven't been practiced yet. Let’s discuss and refine them here first, and when we’re ready, we’ll go ahead and test them!"
The way he acted didn’t seem like someone who had just remembered something without preparation.
Sun Yigao looked at the small mountain of jade slips in front of him and couldn't help but smile.
This didn’t look like the 'immature idea' Master described.
Liao Pantao, full of enthusiasm, picked up one of the jade slips and began explaining it to Sun Yigao.
In fact, this matter was not as forgotten and distant as he made it seem. Before his soul was split, he had been continuously researching.
It was just that there was a period when his cultivation broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, and during that time, he didn’t have a lot of time for research. The reason he hadn't involved Sun Yigao earlier was that the precious data he had recorded was stored in his Golden Core stage soul body.
So, after reclaiming part of his Golden Core stage soul body a year ago, Liao Pantao had been busy with various tasks in the sect and also managing his medicinal garden's small world.
There was not much time for sorting out the items in his soul body.
Moreover, his disciple Sun Yigao was also busy.
Thus, it had been delayed until now.
Finally, he could involve his disciple in the experiment!
His ideas and theories from many years ago finally had a chance to be validated!
So, after finalizing the restorative pills and formulas for Liu Qin's current treatment, the master and disciple began working in the alchemy room, going through the jade slips, and occasionally running to the adjacent Array Hall to dig through materials.
Apart from teaching duties on Qingyun Peak and completing the sect's fixed alchemy production tasks, they had no other activities.
They even barely managed to have dinner, coming only every few days, eating quickly, and then rushing back to the alchemy room.
Although their behavior made people curious, no one thought there was any problem.
After all, during this period, they were not the only ones who had suddenly become busy.
The Array Hall and the Tool Refining Hall were also actively learning about lock array production.
In the Array Hall, Mo Yuanjiao was intensely studying the fifth array diagram of the lock array given by Lin Xiao, furrowing his brows.
Despite the small size of the lock array ring, the nested arrays inside had caused significant trouble for Mo Yuanjiao and his team.
The lock array consists of forty-nine arrays in total, and Lin Xiao had already arranged the sequence of these diagrams for them.
Before this, Mo Yuanjiao had failed to engrave the fifth array diagram five times.
He stared at the array diagram in his hand, contemplating where the problem might be...
Although each array had its own separate diagram, Mo Yuanjiao's enthusiasm for studying arrays was evident. He not only wanted to engrave them but also wished to understand the purpose of each array line thoroughly.
Even though he could directly ask Lin Xiao, Mo Yuanjiao preferred to think through the problems himself and only ask for help if he couldn’t understand something.
Meanwhile, the other members of the Array Hall were divided into three groups, sweating profusely as they practiced engraving the first three array diagrams.
These first three diagrams were ones that Mo Yuanjiao had thoroughly studied in the past two days and had taught them directly.
They were only responsible for learning and practicing.
Compared to understanding the meaning of each array line, the intense practice of engraving arrays to ensure stability was much simpler.
Aside from the busy work in the Four Arts Hall, Jiang Youfu, having suddenly gained many disciples, was also quite busy with teaching tasks.
During this period, Jiang Youfu often had his senior disciple, Liu Shengsheng, prepare the dinners at the Spirit Food Hall.
On the other hand, at the Spirit Field Group, with the recent addition of many helpers, the senior members eagerly took up their spiritual plows and started clearing the land.
It looked like they were determined to convert all available land in the Lingxian Sect into spirit fields.
Fortunately, Lin Xiao quickly adjusted the sect's grand formation, allocating a large area of the back mountain to them for reclamation. Otherwise, the mountain peaks after Qingyun Peak would likely have all turned into spirit fields.
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