After the Brewer Big Belly Bee began brewing honey with the fifty combinations of Spirit Medicine set by Qi Ping, he started researching the liquid version of the Fire Spirit Body Tempering Pill.
Without any delay, after adjusting his state, Qi Ping began extracting the essence of the Spirit Medicine according to the Pill Formula.
However, after starting to extract the Spirit Medicine essence, Qi Ping quickly discovered a difference from before.
"The difficulty of extracting Spirit Medicine essence seems to have lessened, and the speed has also increased significantly."
After extracting the essence of several more Spirit Medicine, Qi Ping could basically confirm that in terms of extracting Spirit Medicine essence, the Wood Flame Art spiritual power's extraction ability was superior to the Wood Shield Skill spiritual power. Not only was it easier to extract, but the speed was also much faster, and the consumption of spiritual power was reduced.
Gradually, Qi Ping began to discover the different effects of various spiritual powers during medicinal property extraction.
"Wood-attributed spiritual power improved the precision when extracting Spirit Medicine essence."
"Fire-attributed spiritual power, on the other hand, increased the speed of Spirit Medicine essence extraction and reduced the difficulty of medicinal property extraction."
"No wonder it's said that Wood and Fire Dual Spiritual Root are the most suitable Aptitude for becoming an Alchemist. Just in the extraction of Spirit Medicine essence, they have so many advantages over other spiritual powers, not to mention the more difficult aspects of liquid Fusion, fire refining, and pill condensation."
"Other Spiritual Root who want to walk the path of Alchemy must put in more effort, while Wood and Fire Spiritual Root have a considerable Innate advantage."
"It's also no wonder Alchemist have specialized Cultivation Technique, as well as fire refining methods, Fusion methods, and other all-encompassing Alchemy-related techniques."
However, Qi Ping wasn't very interested in Cultivation Technique specifically created for Alchemy. He valued his own Cultivation Foundation more.
Only by laying a good, solid, stable, and rapidly improving Foundation for his Cultivation could he have a greater chance of reaching higher Realm.
"I won't aspire to the methods of Alchemy. I only need the methods for medicinal property Fusion and more Pill Formula to determine more suitable solutions for the Brewer Big Belly Bee to try."
Due to the reduced difficulty of Spirit Medicine essence extraction, Qi Ping quickly completed the extraction of all twenty portions of Spirit Medicine.
However, the subsequent Fusion of Spirit Medicine essence was the most difficult.
Because the Fusion process of fire refining and pill condensation was very different from ordinary Spirit Medicine essence Fusion, Qi Ping could only rely on his limited knowledge, racking his brain to set up multiple Spirit Medicine essence Fusion plans.
Unfortunately, luck was not on Qi Ping's side this time.
In the subsequent Fusion:
First attempt... Failure!
Second attempt... Failure!
Fifteenth attempt... Failure!
Sixteenth attempt... Success!
Twentieth attempt... Failure!
After the twentieth failure, Qi Ping's face was almost as black as a lump of coal.
"Damn it!"
Although not all twenty attempts failed, it was close to a complete failure.
Because the only successfully fused finished liquid, when Qi Ping tried its effect with full anticipation, he found that the medicinal effect of that liquid was less than 20% of the normal medicinal effect of the Fire Spirit Body Tempering Pill!
Qi Ping originally thought that four or five tenths would be barely acceptable, but what could 20% medicinal effect do?
It was even worse than directly refining Fire Spirit Grass!
"Alas, I overestimated myself!"
After trying, Qi Ping realized how difficult it was to create a liquid formula. This was simply not something a beginner Alchemist like him could concoct.
Even if he shared the Talent of a Grand Brewer, it was the same.
Qi Ping even felt that his single success was due to the Grand Brewer Talent enhancing his sensitivity in Spirit Medicine Fusion, otherwise, it would have been impossible to succeed even once.
"But thinking about it, it's true... Almost every Pill Formula and liquid formula is the result of countless trials and efforts by many Alchemist and pharmacists. How could I easily modify them?"
"This time, it was truly the fearless ignorance! It seems I need to be more cautious in the future and not be blindly confident, especially when it involves my own safety. I absolutely cannot take things for granted!"
"There are too many mysterious and powerful things in the Cultivation World. I am probably far from being able to protect myself. Only by being cautious can I live well."
This time also served as a wake-up call for Qi Ping.
After this attempt, the slight complacency that had risen in Qi Ping's heart was completely suppressed by him.
Losing twenty portions of Spirit Medicine was a small matter; anyway, each portion was very small, so the loss was not significant.
What Qi Ping truly feared was losing his life later due to overestimating himself!
So, in the following time, Qi Ping readjusted his mindset, no longer focusing on Pill Formula modification, but instead putting his energy back into cultivating Fire Spirit Medicine and Cultivating the Wood Flame Art.
Striving to Cultivate the Fire Spirit Grass to a hundred-year medicinal effect and quickly improving his Cultivation were the most important things.
As his Cultivation Realm improved, the synchronized enhancement of his spiritual power and Divine Soul would also allow him to cast the Plant Growth skill more times, and the speed of cultivating Spirit Medicine would also increase.
Qi Ping still decided to leave the Spirit Medicine Fusion experiments to the Brewer Big Belly Bee.
"Professionals do professional things, and professional things should also be left to professional Bees!"
The honey brewed by ordinary Gold Marrow Bee was already not bad. The honey brewed with blood ginseng was much better than directly refining blood ginseng, and with the Fusion of multiple spiritual items, the quantity after brewing would also increase.
And the Brewer Big Belly Bee was an enhanced version of the Gold Marrow Bee's honey brewing ability, far more outstanding than ordinary Gold Marrow Bee in terms of honey brewing ability.
With the same raw Materials, the honey brewed by the Brewer Big Belly Bee sometimes had several tenths more effect than that brewed by the Gold Marrow Bee.
One should know that the honey brewed by Gold Marrow Bee itself could already greatly enhance effects, and the honey from the Brewer Big Belly Bee could further increase the effect by several tenths on top of the Gold Marrow Bee's brewed honey. One can imagine the powerful honey brewing ability of the Brewer Big Belly Bee.
Therefore, Qi Ping was still quite confident in the Brewer Big Belly Bee. Even in the worst-case scenario, it would still be much better than directly refining Fire Spirit Grass.
Thus, with anticipation for the final results from the Brewer Big Belly Bee, Qi Ping patiently spent the next week or so concentrating on cultivating Fire Spirit Grass and Cultivating the Wood Flame Art, with his Cultivation steadily improving during this process.
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More than a week later, the Brewer Big Belly Bee finally brewed all fifty combinations of Spirit Medicine set by Qi Ping into honey!
"Finally, it's all done!"
Looking at the neatly arranged one hundred portions of honey in the honeycomb, Qi Ping couldn't help but feel a little excited. The true honey brewing ability of the Brewer Big Belly Bee was about to be demonstrated at this very moment.
This was also Qi Ping's first true test of the Brewer Big Belly Bee's honey brewing ability.
"One hundred portions of honey, just right!"
Qi Ping had prepared fifty groups of Spirit Medicine combinations for the test, and for each group, Qi Ping had two Brewer Big Belly Bees attempt it separately to minimize the possibility of individual errors.
Currently, it seemed that every group had successfully brewed, which was undoubtedly extremely rare.
This success rate was incomparably higher than that of Alchemist.
However, now that the success rate was confirmed, the next step was to look at the overall effect.
"Crow."
Hearing Qi Ping's voice, the Fire Crow quickly flew from the sunlight at the top of the tree to Qi Ping's front, looking at him with some curiosity.
His master rarely called him if there was nothing wrong; suddenly calling him down must mean something important.
"You try to see what's different about these one hundred portions of honey!"
Qi Ping said, dividing all one hundred portions of honey into two and placing them in front of the Fire Crow.
"Honey?"
A look of confusion appeared in the Fire Crow's eyes.
What kind of Crow likes to eat honey?
However, he still listened to Qi Ping obediently and started eating.
But before he had tried many portions, his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Caw caw... (What's with this rich fire-attributed spiritual power?!) "
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