Chapter 175: Chapter 12 Leaving Jiantao Stationi
Translator: 549690339 I
“Senior, please observe, this is the thod of processing the Eel-tail Clam.”
Jiantao Station, Food Preparation Room.
After processing the Eel-tail Clam on the chopping board, Bao Chao presented it to Wang Ba.
Seeing this, Wang Ba quickly morized Bao Chao’s thods and the key points he explained.
Compared to the first step, the difficulty of the second step, the processing thod, has decreased a lot.
It only requires morizing the corresponding processing thod for different ingredients. Once done proficiently, the second step is deed complete.
Whether it’s birds, beasts, fish, insects, plants, or fruits, or even different grades, their corresponding processing thods are all different.
The tricky part is the configuration issues associated with the processing materials for the corresponding ingredients.
Take the Eel-tail Clam, for example.
Ungraded Eel-tail Clams contain toxins in the poison sacs within their skin; these toxins also contain a lot of essence. Hence, you need a specially formulated treatnt liquid for initial detoxification while preserving this essence.
This treatnt liquid is concocted using different spirit materials according to the category, grade, style, etc. of the ingredient.
Wang Ba needs to familiarize himself with the treatnt liquid configuration for each ingredient through continuous trials.
Bao Chao left soon, and Wang Ba started the configuration of the treatnt liquid according to what Bao Chao had explained.
“Three fen of Daylily Leaves, two taels of Willow Spirit Seeds, five Red Fruits…”
As expected, bubbles imdiately started to rise in the treatnt liquid when he soaked the body of the Eel-tail Clam partitioned off.
“Failed.”
Wang Ba shook his head, his inner state remaining unshaken.
He calmly considered which step went wrong.
“A reddish treatnt liquid… I must have used too many Red Fruits.”
“Too many bubbles… it must be due to the Iron Bone Grass.”
He quickly recorded the results on paper.
At the sa ti, he conducted comparative reference experints according to the proportions and varieties of the spirit materials in the treatnt liquid.
“Let’s try again.”
Half a month later.
Watching the body of the Eel-tail Clam quietly floating on the surface of the treatnt liquid before him, Wang Ba finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“Phew— finally succeeded!”
Next to him, he had recorded a thick stack of paper. These were all experintal data he had collected.
With the first success, Wang Ba quickly understood the thod.
Most importantly, intuition might not be accurate, but data never lies.
Afterwards, he started using the Spirit Chicken and Spirit Turtle he brought as experintal subjects.
With different experintal subjects and a wealth of experints, he soon found the rules for configuring treatnt liquid while handling different spirit beasts.
And these rules were sothing not even Bao Chao had ntioned.
So much so that a month later, when he saw Wang Ba confidently concoct the perfect treatnt liquid for the Eel-tail Clam, he couldn’t help being shocked. “Senior… have you studied this before?”
Bao Chao imdiately explained:
“What I an is, although senior’s processing liquid configuration thod is a bit raw, the ratio of different spirit materials is handled extrely accurately. Even I may not do it better than senior.”
Wang Ba just smiled and did not elaborate further.
Bao Chao didn’t mind, thought for a mont, and then brought another Spirit Beast, a rabbit Wang Ba had never seen before, and said with a smile:
“Senior, why don’t you try this ‘Burrowing Rabbit’?”
Wang Ba hadn’t tried any Spirit Beasts other than the Eel-tail Clam and the Spirit Chicken and the Spirit Turtle, and he was instantly excited.
Taking the Burrowing Rabbit and scanning it with his spiritual sense, he quickly understood the body structure and composition of the Burrowing Rabbit in the blink of an eye.
This Burrowing Rabbit was a middle grade Class I spirit beast, and there was nothing special about it except for its two teeth.
The hardness of the teeth even surpassed that of a typical middle-grade Class I magic tool.
The essence contained in them goes without saying.
Instantly, Wang Ba used his mana as a knife, quickly penetrating the rabbit’s body. In just three or four breaths, he easily dissected the burrowing rabbit neatly.
Flesh, bones, skin, fur, blood vessels, eyeballs, teeth…
Next, he started configuring the treatnt liquid according to the rules he understood:
“Liuliang of Jiu Xiang, two jins of Spirit Pepper, five fen of Long Qian…”
Then, with full confidence, he placed each part of the Burrowing Rabbit into the treatnt liquid one by one.
As expected, no bubbles ca out of the treatnt liquid as it did during the first configuration.
Just as Wang Ba was about to ask Bao Chao for another new spirit beast to try, the previously calm treatnt liquid suddenly radiated an eerie rainbow of colors.
He quickly flicked his sleeve. The treatnt liquid was splashed out and exploded midway in the air.
But it was blocked outside by Wang Ba’s mana.
Wang Ba looked at the spirit materials on the table with a grimace:
“How could this be? I configured it according to the thod.”
Bao Chao wasn’t surprised by this result and said with a smile:
“Senior, calm down. The key to configuring this treatnt liquid lies in this Burrowing Rabbit’s teeth. The teeth seem similar to the normal spirit beast’s flesh, but they are actually very different, almost mineral-like. Naturally, the processing required is also different.”
Wang Ba wasn’t too anxious, but after being confident earlier, he was now feeling sowhat humiliated. Hearing this, he seed to understand where the problem was.
Bao Chao added: “In this world, there are countless types of spirit beasts and spirit plants. You will always encounter strange things. The thod of configuring the treatnt liquid naturally can’t be generalized. Therefore, you need to observe, experint, and accumulate experience.”
Wang Ba nodded, not looking down upon the other because their cultivation realm was lower than his own.
After Bao Chao left, he went to the market and bought a dozen or so diverse spirit beasts with his spirit stones.
While he was there, he also gleaned so information from the shopkeeper of the spirit beast store.
“Our Jiantao Station is located in Yan State, not the Northern Yan Dynasty. We are in the northwest of the Chu Dynasty…Our area is rich in various spirit beasts and spiritual dicines found in the deep mountains surrounding us. However, it’s not safe to venture too deep, it is said that Class III spirit beasts reside there. If you’re interested, I do have a map.”
Seeing Wang Ba’s Foundation Establishnt status, the shopkeeper of the spirit beast store was naturally extrely enthusiastic, offering internal prices.
Wang Ba didn’t refuse. He accepted the map, thanked the shopkeeper, and then returned to the dining hall.
One month later.
He had successfully tested each spirit beast he had, one by one, indeed discovering so patterns different from before.
“So it seems that there is no universal rule for the configuration of the treatnt liquid corresponding to spirit beasts of different species. At most, there are similarities, but there are significant differences at their core.”
“However, based on the patterns I have figured out so far, most of the spirit beasts should be able to be treated.”
“Of course, it would be better to find more differing spirit beasts to compare and perfect the rules I have.”
After considering, he took out the map given by the shopkeeper of the spirit beast store and started studying it.
Frankly speaking, he was becoming sowhat restless.
From starting as a mortal and cultivating all the way to Foundation Establishnt, he had never ventured out alone, except when he went to ngxing Villa for a task.
Although staying in Tiann Cult for safety was currently the best solution, he couldn’t help but get restless.
Moreover, Jiantao’s station has been managed by the Tiann Cult for many years. There wouldn’t be much danger near the station, especially now that he had reached the Foundation Establishnt stage, making it even safer.
After repeated hesitation, he eventually made a decision.
He would leave Jiantao Station.
Going out to explore, preferably capturing so differing spirit beasts along the way.
Of course, before this, he made ample preparations. Not only did he buy several Class II middle-grade offensive and defensive talismans, but he also refined the Class II lower-grade flying tool he got from Incense-burning Dao’s red-haired cultivator.
However, while he was sorting through several storage bags he brought with him, he found two storage bags he had obtained during the Jingyue Mansion campaign.
At that ti, his low cultivation realm prevented him from refining them, but now that he was a Foundation Establishnt cultivator with a strong spiritual sense, he imdiately tried to refine them.
This ti, it was done with ease and without any hindrance.
In the first storage bag, there was a small pile of spirit stones and so cultivation resources. Wang Ba estimated that there were about twenty to thirty middle-grade spirit stones.
Among these cultivation resources, Wang Ba only recognized ‘Golden Magnetic Sand’ while being fairly unfamiliar with the rest.
Golden Magnetic Sand was required for cultivating the powerful class I spell, ‘Golden Wind Arrow’. Judging by the quantity of the resources here, it would be sufficient to perfect this spell.
However, no matter how powerful a class I spell was, it would be fragile in front of a class II spell. Wang Ba didn’t plan to waste any more ti practicing it.
Storing these items away,
he opened the second storage bag.
This ti, he was pleasantly surprised.
Inside was a set of Class II lower-grade needle tools that seed to have never been used before. There were also specific thods for refining and using them.
A total of twenty-eight needles could be set up in formations against enemies, its power comparable to a typical class II middle-grade tool.
“Iris Invisible Needle.”
Wang Ba held it in his hand, becoming more joyous the more he looked at it.
Back during the Qi Refining stage, he also received a set of needle tools and had spent so ti practicing with them.
Therefore, he was not unfamiliar with the usage of needle tools.
Although it might not look good for a male cultivator like him to use a tool designed for a female cultivator, nor did it look as radiant as those cultivators who used magic swords,
for him, who had not mastered any spells and relied purely on spirit beasts to be on the frontline, this set of tools was more than suitable.
Concealing his movents, a stealth attack, self-defense…
Under his mana, these twenty-eight Iris Invisible Needles would instantly beco invisible, often evading the spiritual sense of ordinary cultivators.
They were difficult to guard against.
Aside from this, there were also several Class II talismans and a pile of spirit stones in the second storage bag.
Wang Ba naturally accepted them all with a smile.
Apart from these two storage bags, he also found a human skin drum and a jar enveloped by dense Yin energy, which he had obtained from the Incense-burning Dao cultivator.
Using his spiritual sense, he quickly discovered how to use the human skin drum.
It was simple.
Using his soul as a beater and stirring up the human skin drum, he could create a powerful soul attack.
The stronger the soul used, the stronger the soul attack produced.
However, the human skin drum could only withstand soul strength at the early stage of Foundation Establishnt at most, producing a soul attack close to the middle stage of Foundation Establishnt.
Anything stronger, and the human skin drum would likely break and beco useless.
But it was enough for Wang Ba.
And that black jar, Wang Ba also found its usage in the gold paper rubbings from the Incense-burning Dao cultivator.
It turned out to be an instrunt used by the Yin God lineage to cultivate Yin Ghosts.
It was used to contain ghosts, refine them into Destined Ghosts after nurturing them.
However, when Wang Ba opened it, he found no Yin Ghosts inside.
He could only regretfully put it away.
After all, up until now in his cultivation journey, apart from the Yin Ghosts of Incense-burning Dao, he had never encountered wild ghosts.
Fortunately, with the ‘Iris Invisible Needle’, he finally had an extra option.
After refining it and practicing well, he left with his spirit beasts including Jia 15 and left Jiantao Station..
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