Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy Chapter 2172 First Try

Silvermist had no more hand in what he could teach Alex. All he could do was wait for Alex to figure out what to do on his own. "I cannot tell you how to use Pills as an ingredient if you can't create the pill in the first place," Silvermist said. "I will be back in a while after you've managed to make the pill."

Alex nodded and watched his master leave. After he was gone, he simply looked at the Blueveined Orchid in front of him for so ti while thinking of all the ways he could mix ingredients together to get the result.

He thought for a while, coming up with so that got close but not perfect. He knew what the Blueveined Orchid did, so coming up with a combination that did sothing similar was not that difficult. However, even after an hour of thinking, his mind was mostly blank.

He had co across a very fascinating problem that he needed to ask his master about. But as much as he needed to, he was stubborn and wanted to find the answer himself. At least, he had enough ti to waste trying to figure this out on his own.

The issue he was having was one where he needed to find a way to get rid of elents inside of a pill that weren't present in the ingredient.

It was just a common bit of knowledge he had known about for so ti now, perhaps since the day he learned the Five Elental Interaction Dao, which was now the Seven Elental Interaction.

The higher the quality of the ingredient, the less the amount of elents it had.

The Common grade ingredient had all 7 elents, with one major elent and the other at a various amount. It included elents that Ruined, Weakened, Controlled, and Empowered the main elent, while also having Yin and Yang as extra.

A step higher, the True Grade ingredient had 6 elents, missing the one elent that ruined the major elent of the ingredient.

Then a step higher, the Saint Grade ingredient had 5 elents, missing not just the Ruining elent but also the Weakening Elent.

The Immortal Grade ingredient had the Controlling elent missing, having only 4 elents, one main elent and one that Empowered the main elent, along with Yin and Yang.

As far as Alex was aware, the Divine-grade ingredients simply had Yin and Yang along with the major elent.

Since he was going to convert a bunch of Saint grade ingredients to form a pill equivalent to the Blueveined Orchid, even if he used only the ingredients that had Wood elent as the major elent and Water elent as the Empowering elent, there was still the Controlling elent which would be tal elent.

Alex struggled to figure out how he was going to get rid of the tal elent in that instance. And that too was with hopeful thinking. The truth was, that he was going to have to use different ingredients with different types of elents to form the pill.

Even if they did not appear to be part of the finalized version, they would still be a complex combination underneath it all. Just because they were turned into a pill did not an they were suddenly gone.

How was he going to get rid of Fire, tal, and Earth energy?

"Do I use my Dao perhaps?" Alex wondered. He did have all the Dao that he would require. He didn't have Wood Dao, but since that was to be left alone, that would work out in the end.

But Alex didn't believe that was the case. One shouldn't need all the Dao to do this or his master wouldn't have told him to try. There had to be sothing else going on.

"Intent?" Alex wondered. Did it all co down to Intent in the end?

"If I force the Intent to get rid of the last 3 elents, would it work?" Alex thought. He needed to try. If nothing else, he would know one more thing not to do.

He quickly went through his mind to find the closest combination of ingredients he could find which would do the exact sa thing as the flower before him.

Once he found it, he ssaged Shi Quanli to bring him the ingredients. The beast woman ca by a while later and handed him the ingredients.

Alex thanked her and imdiately began making the pill. He didn't care about doing it right at the mont. He only focused on doing it. Even if the pill ca out physically terrible, as long as he got the energy correct, he would be happy.

The ingredients turned to powder before his eyes and the energy coalesced in the cauldron, waiting for him to do sothing with it.

If he turned it into a pill right now, it would be an actual pill. It would be a minor cultivation pill of no particular note.

Of course, that wasn't the end result Alex wanted. He needed to condense it now.

'Intent,' he told himself. 'Focus your Intent on removing Fire, tal, and Earth.'

He took a deep breath and began. On top of using his Qi and Intent to condense the energy, he used additional Intent on the removal process, which caused an additional strain on his mind.

Because it was only Saint ingredients, Alex didn't expect the strain to be much at all. However, to his surprise, it was quite a bit of strain. Subduing elents was not sothing he had expected to be this difficult to do.

He pushed against the elents, making them weaker and weaker, but even as he tried, it did not get rid of the elent at all. Each ti he pulled back his Intent, the subdued elent would simply return.

To Alex's sheer confusion, he could not make it disappear at all. He continued wondering what could be done when sothing happened on its own.

As he condensed the energy on its own, there was a change in the elents. The first thing he noticed was the Earth elent fizzling out. Suddenly, it was gone.

While he was surprised, he sensed Fire go out next. Alex didn't understand why it was happening, but it was happening on its own. The two elents were gone, with a tiny change in the amount of Wood in the end.

The tal elent disappeared next, fizzling out right within his senses. The Wood elent lowered a tiny bit once again.

All 3 tis, it was the amount of elent that changed, not the overall energy. The overall energy in the pill was the sa. In fact, it was stronger as it was condensed more and more. When all three elents were gone, all that was left was Wood, empowered by Water, along with Yin and Yang in negligible amounts. Alex felt the change and slowly let go of the energy.

It was completely stable.

"Did I… do it?"

There was only one way to find out. The powder clumped up in a ball at once and a vortex of Qi ford above it as it swallowed all of the energy into it.

Once the pill was ford, Alex pulled it out of the cauldron. The harmony was very low, but… he had done it.