CHAPTER 30: CHAPTER 30: BREWING MUTAGENIC POTION

The second issue is that the degree of detail required during the fusion process is extremely high.

When each kind of spirit medicine essence should be fused, how long they should be fused for, to what extent the reaction should be before adding other herb essences... all these details have very high requirements.

This is a very complex process. Any slight mistake can lead to the entire alchemy process failing!

These two major difficulties have blocked countless cultivators. Without exceptional talent and a lot of practice, it’s simply impossible to succeed in alchemy.

Even though this is relatively simple alchemy medicine liquid refining.

And from the difficulty of refining liquid medicine, one can glimpse the difficulty of alchemy.

Under normal circumstances, the difficulty of refining elixirs is at least ten times that of refining medicine liquids. The process is also more cumbersome, requiring more precious pill furnaces and spiritual fire for alchemy aided.

For the centennial blood ginseng and fifty-year flowing light grass, such precious high-year spiritual medicine, for ordinary cultivators, because they are so precious, a single failure in refining could take years to financially recover.

However, for such a high-difficulty alchemy task, although Qi Ping felt somewhat uneasy, he wasn’t overly worried.

Because during the spare time of cultivating spirit medicine, Qi Ping had already practiced and tried it several times!

He had even managed to refine a reduced version of the bloodline mutation potion, which didn’t meet the age requirement, multiple times!

So Qi Ping dared to directly start refining the bloodline mutation potion once the flowing light grass and blood ginseng reached the required age.

In fact, Qi Ping started practicing the extraction technique in the forest from the moment he returned from the Cyan Stone Marketplace.

This spirit medicine extraction technique is more of a skill than magic; it can be practiced by any qi refining cultivator, but the level of proficiency varies from person to person.

The reason for choosing the forest is because, in the forest, jungle druids can gain enhancements like perception increases, spiritual power increases, and mental increases in most attributes, giving Qi Ping a natural advantage in extracting and fusing spirit medicine essence there.

Additionally, Qi Ping’s wood spirit root, the jungle druid’s own affinity for spirit plants, and the brewing artisan talent gave Qi Ping a keen talent for spirit medicine...

Under so many favorable conditions, Qi Ping began practicing herb essence extraction with ordinary herbs alongside spirit medicine cultivation.

The extraction difficulty of ordinary herb essence is not high, and Qi Ping quickly mastered it.

But when attempting to extract the active essence of blood ginseng, even with so many favorable conditions, Qi Ping spent the initial stages enduring extraction failures.

The extraction difficulty of spirit medicine is far greater than that of ordinary herbs, completely on a different level!

Qi Ping finally understood why alchemists are one of the most costly professions.

Even with all these advantages, he failed many times before gradually mastering the extraction technique of spirit medicine essence, and this was just the most basic extraction technique...

By the time Qi Ping completely familiarized himself with the spirit medicine extraction technique, most of the dozen or so blood ginsengs had been plucked to many pits and hollows, caused by hundreds and thousands of practices by Qi Ping.

Each time, a tiny portion was taken without harming the blood ginseng’s life force, and then using plant growth, Qi Ping restored the blood ginseng’s condition before continuing multiple tiny extraction practices.

After hundreds of practices, Qi Ping gradually mastered the extraction technique for blood ginseng.

Fortunately, this spirit medicine extraction process generally doesn’t make the blood ginseng lose efficacy; whether successful or failed, most parts can be used by golden marrow bees to brew honey, with only a small portion lost.

Even this small portion made Qi Ping heartbroken.

In the past nearly half a month, the honey that golden marrow bees used was almost entirely brewed from the spirit medicine essence Qi Ping either failed or succeeded in extracting.

Finally, after numerous practices, Qi Ping not only became proficient in this spirit medicine essence extraction technique but also got familiar with the medicinal materials required for the bloodline mutation potion over a hundred times.

Because for centennial blood ginseng and flowing light grass, even with the plant growth skill, it almost took a month for Qi Ping to cultivate them.

Therefore, Qi Ping had to minimize the possibility of alchemy failure through various means.

...

In the dense forest, under the ancient fir wood where Qi Ping usually cultivated.

This place is where the power of nearby vegetation is most concentrated, allowing Qi Ping to achieve the greatest enhancement boost here.

At this moment, he sat cross-legged on the ground, with a wooden table placed in front of him, and on the table were all the herbs and several jade bottles that Qi Ping had prepared.

"Let’s begin!"

With everything ready, Qi Ping took a deep breath to adjust his state, then commenced his alchemy work.

Firstly, according to the formula ratio for the bloodline mutation potion, Qi Ping began dividing the spirit medicine on the table.

After some effort, Qi Ping finally divided the formula materials into ten portions, with the blood ginseng having slightly more than ten portions and the flowing light grass having twenty percent more.

It was mainly because centennial blood ginseng was limited; otherwise, more portions could have been prepared.

There are two reasons for not extracting them all at once: one is that Qi Ping’s spiritual power cannot support extracting an entire blood ginseng at once, extracting in smaller portions would have a higher success rate.

The other reason is that Qi Ping estimates his success rate for extracting centennial blood ginseng is around seventy percent; by dividing it into ten portions, as long as the luck isn’t too bad, he could definitely succeed in over five portions.

If they were all extracted at once and failed, it would be a total disaster. The same principle applies to the fusion of spiritual medicine.

Anyway, for the configuration of the bloodline mutation potion, as long as the ratio is correct, the quantity doesn’t matter.

After dividing the herbs, Qi Ping began the spirit medicine extraction work,

Ten portions of ordinary herbs were quickly and effortlessly extracted successfully by Qi Ping!

"Ordinary herbs pose no difficulty, almost no likelihood of extraction failure at all."

"Next is the flowing light grass..."

With more portions of flowing light grass, it’s more appropriate to start with it to get familiar with the feel.

Thus, Qi Ping picked up a portion of flowing light grass, skillfully enveloping it with spiritual power and began refining it.

Through a series of smooth operations... as expected, the extraction failed!

However, Qi Ping did not feel much frustration; instead, he felt more assured.

"The properties of fifty-year flowing light grass are much stronger, so the extraction steps and methods need a slight adjustment..."

The second extraction... still failed!

"Failed again? But I know where the problem is now!"

A confident smile appeared on Qi Ping’s face, and he estimated that there wouldn’t be issues next time, confidence gained from hundreds and thousands of practices.

The third extraction... success!

The fourth... success!

...

The ninth... failure!

...

The twelfth... success!

In the end, Qi Ping failed three times and succeeded nine times!

"Not bad!"

Qi Ping was quite satisfied with this result, as the success rate was slightly higher than he expected.

More importantly, with the experience of extracting fifty-year flowing light grass, Qi Ping became more confident in his ability to extract blood ginseng next.

After operating the Wood Shield Technique to recover some spiritual power, Qi Ping once again devoted himself to refining the blood ginseng.

The first extraction... failure!

"As expected..."

Qi Ping wasn’t overly concerned; he estimated that the probability of success would be very high next time.

The second... success!

The third... failure!

The fourth... success!

...

The tenth... success!

Ultimately, ten portions of centennial blood ginseng resulted in eight successful extractions.

"Very good! The success rate reached eighty percent, higher than my estimated seventy percent!"

This counts as a good start for Qi Ping.

Now Qi Ping had a total of eight portions of materials, and the number of final successes would depend on the success rate of the fusion into the bloodline mutation potion...