"Let's see, with the knowledge of Spirit Medicine and an Alchemist's Medicinal Pill notes, how much of the Fire Spirit Pill's efficacy can this fireglow honey formula, based on the Fire Spirit Pill formula, achieve?"
Qi Ping really wanted to see if his Medicinal Pill knowledge had improved his honey formula creation.
The last batch of Fire Spirit Honey, brewed using the Fire Spirit Body Tempering Pill as a prototype, achieved a little over 50% but less than 60% of the original Medicinal Pill's efficacy.
The reason for pursuing such efficacy is that it sometimes concerns not only the efficiency of Cultivation but also the limit of Body Tempering.
Medicinal Pills are so precious in the Cultivation World mainly for these reasons:
The Medicinal Pill's efficacy can far exceed that of the Spirit Medicine itself, sometimes even reaching several times its original effect.
Medicinal Pills can purify some chaotic and useless medicinal properties from the Spirit Medicine itself, making it easier for Cultivators to absorb, for example, retaining only the Physical Body-strengthening properties from the Fireglow Flower.
Medicinal Pills can neutralize some highly toxic or violent medicinal properties, transforming them into properties that Cultivators can absorb.
For instance, while the Soul-Crossing Flower can enhance the Divine Soul, it contains terrifying resentment, and directly refining it would have unimaginable consequences.
The Soul-Crossing Flower can only be combined with the Buddha Heart Lotus and refined into the Buddha Heart Soul-Crossing Pill to become a suitable Medicinal Pill for consumption.
The Buddha Heart Soul-Crossing Pill not only inherits the Soul-Crossing Flower's effect of enhancing the Divine Soul but also carries the Buddha Heart Lotus's effect of enhancing Comprehension Ability, and may even lead to an Epiphany.
This is the true charm of Medicinal Pills, one of the Four Arts of Cultivation.
So, while the last Fire Spirit Honey seemed to retain about 60% of the Fire Spirit Body Tempering Pill's efficacy, which could be made up by taking it one or two more times,
from the perspective of the upper limit, it was still far from enough.
Especially for some Medicinal Pills with special effects, they might directly lose their effect if the efficacy is not up to standard.
However, honey brewed by Bees also has an incomparable advantage over Medicinal Pills:
It has no pill toxins!
No pill toxins!
This effect is the key for Qi Ping to refine a large amount of honey; as long as he solves the problem of unstable Qi and an unsteady Foundation, Qi Ping can consume honey without restriction!
This is an incomparable advantage.
It is important to know that most Medicinal Pills produce pill toxins during the refining process, and once these toxins accumulate too much, they can lead to hidden dangers in Cultivation, requiring a large amount of time to clear.
Therefore, even if some people have many Spirit Stones and can buy many Medicinal Pills, they cannot use them without limit, otherwise, it would not be accelerating Cultivation but self-sabotage.
This is one reason why Qi Ping is so dedicated to researching honey brewing formulas.
With his Druid Plant Growth ability, he naturally has a large amount of Spirit Medicine to consume; as long as he researches the best honey formula, he can consume it in large quantities almost without restriction, and it also saves a lot of Alchemy time, allowing him more time to Cultivate and comprehend the Essence of Fire.
It should be known that Alchemy is an extremely energy-consuming task; many Alchemists have average combat power precisely because matters related to Alchemy occupy 50%, 60%, or even more of their energy.
But Qi Ping's ultimate goal is to pursue the Dao of Immortality and ensure that no one in the world can threaten him, which conflicts with the Alchemy technique that requires a lot of energy.
So, if he can continue to Cultivate the Bees and have them perform Alchemy for Qi Ping, it would be the best choice for him.
Compared to Alchemists, the Dao of Formation Masters involves researching and utilizing the power of heaven and earth, and the Law of heaven and earth. Druids and Cultivation are also like this; they are more similar in nature and more suitable for Qi Ping.
In addition, the powerful combat power and auxiliary capabilities that Formation Masters possess through Formations, such as defensive Formations and Spirit Gathering Formations, are most compatible with Druids who need to engage in home construction.
"Let's try the honey directly replicated from the Fire Spirit Pill formula first."
Qi Ping first tried the most authentic combination.
However, the final result left Qi Ping somewhat disappointed.
"It only reached a little over 50% of the normal efficacy, even worse than the last Fire Spirit Body Tempering Honey."
"Indeed, if the refining method is different, the formula must also be changed accordingly; sticking to the old ways makes it difficult to achieve satisfactory results."
"It seems that in the future, if I want to create the most suitable honey formula, I still need to combine Spirit Medicine and Alchemy knowledge, as well as the honey-making characteristics of the Bee Species."
However, the second batch quickly gave Qi Ping a surprise!
"Approximately 67% efficacy!"
"Indeed! After adjusting two Spirit Medicines based on the knowledge of Spirit Medicine neutralization and Alchemy experience, the effect was indeed greatly enhanced!"
This success directly gave Qi Ping great hope.
"There are eight more batches left; I hope a formula with better efficacy can appear!"
With such anticipation, Qi Ping eagerly and carefully tried them out.
"The third batch, 61% efficacy, not bad!"
"The fourth batch, only 30% efficacy, that's too poor!"
"The fifth batch, 10% efficacy? But it seems to have a special effect, my lower abdomen feels a bit hot…"
After trying eight batches, the highest was still the second formula, which had the highest efficacy of 67% of the Fire Spirit Pill.
"Although there's a slight disappointment, it's actually not bad!"
"After all, I've only just started learning Medicinal Pill knowledge, and I'm limited by the scarcity of Spirit Medicine; reaching this level is already very good!"
"As my Medicinal Pill knowledge increases and Spirit Medicine becomes more abundant in the future, I will always be able to gradually improve the effect of the honey formula!"
"This can be considered a good start!"
Overall, this experiment had already met Qi Ping's expectations.
After confirming the 67% efficacy honey formula, Qi Ping immediately arranged for the large-scale refining of fireglow honey.
The improvement of Physical Body strength also needed to be expedited.
As long as his Physical Body strength was sufficient, Qi Ping's Cultivation advancement would not only be more unhindered, but the upper limit of the Flame Burst Body Technique would also be higher.
This type of body technique has very high requirements for the Physical Body, but its advantage is that its upper limit is also very high, especially for Qi Ping.
Just as Qi Ping was cultivating a large amount of Spirit Medicine, something that greatly excited him happened.
The number of Battle Bee Species in the Bee Swarm reached 10,000!
Four thousand High-Speed Ring-Cutting Bees!
Two thousand Ink Armor Beess!
Two thousand Poisonous Bees!
Two thousand Equilibrium Bees!
Moreover, thanks to the Bee King's advancement, all subsequently bred Bees had their combat power increased by almost 20% to 30% due to the overall improvement of their Physique!
This was already stronger than the first generation of mutated Bee Swarms.
"The Bee King truly lives up to its name as the combat core of the Bee Swarm; its enhancement has brought a significant qualitative change to the Bee Swarm's combat power!"
With this Bee King, Qi Ping's Bee Swarm has a very promising future!
As Qi Ping looked at the 10,000 Bees, only slightly smaller than a fist, in the mountain forest, a smile of immense satisfaction appeared on his face.
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