Chapter 59: Testing the Mimetic Environment

After Li Xuan entered the Xiao Mu Wu, he surveyed the furnishings and layout inside.

But Li Xuan did not expect the Xiao Mu Wu to be empty; apart from a Patterned Mat placed in the center of the room, there was no furniture or décor.

Suddenly Li Xuan thought of something, smiled and shook his head at the empty room, noting that the barren layout was intended to let trainees focus on cultivation without external distractions.

Lanba Academy put sincere thought into this design; without external interference, trainees can quickly enter a cultivation state.

After entering the room, Li Xuan took out a broom, did a quick cleaning, swept away the dust, then sat on the Patterned Mat to contemplate his next cultivation method.

Li Xuan truly despised the local cultivation methods of Douluo Continent, and those methods also greatly affect Alchemy; if Li Xuan still wants to continue Alchemy, he cannot follow that path.

Thus the upcoming cultivation plan is to continuously alchemize Alchemy Pills using soul power, thereby passively raising his soul power level.

Of course, the advantage of this method is obvious: the cultivated soul power is pure and can be controlled at will.

But the only drawback is that it is too slow; it requires too much time.

However, Li Xuan has good talent; using this passive cultivation method his speed is comparable to a diligent ordinary soul master.

Moreover, Li Xuan has already prepared for a protracted battle, and his stock of ingredients is abundant.

But Li Xuan does not intend to start alchemizing Alchemy Pills right away today; he needs to familiarize himself with the environment.

In fact, when Li Xuan first entered the Mimetic Cultivation Environment, he sensed that the soul power there differed from ordinary soul power, but the exact differences still require analysis.

Li Xuan sat on the Patterned Mat, closed his eyes, drew a strand of soul power from the surrounding air into his body, and began to carefully feel how this strand differed from soul power elsewhere.

After a while, Li Xuan opened his eyes, frowned, and expelled the soul power he had just absorbed back out of his body.

The soul power in the Mimetic Cultivation Environment contains an extra thread of warm energy compared to normal soul power, and Li Xuan does not know what this energy is.

At the same time, Li Xuan felt that the soul power here is somewhat purer than normal, though not vastly purer; there are still "impurities", just fewer, and direct absorption would still affect his control over flames.

"It seems even the soul power in the Mimetic Cultivation Environment isn't pure enough; maybe I should kidnap Xiao Wu and force Tang San to hand over the 'Mystic Heaven Art'," Li Xuan sighed helplessly, a bold idea flashing in his mind.

But Li Xuan was only thinking it; that guy Tang San might not actually hand over the 'Mystic Heaven Art' just because of Xiao Wu.

Moreover, although Tang San's character isn't great, he is the protagonist of this world, and Li Xuan isn't confident he could survive the phrase 'you already have a path to death'.

More importantly, Tang Hao constantly guards Tang San; if Li Xuan dared to kidnap Xiao Wu, Tang Hao would hammer him into a meat patty.

Li Xuan has finished analyzing the surrounding soul power; next is today's main event: testing how the Fire-type Simulated Cultivation Environment affects alchemizing Alchemy Pills.

Li Xuan closed his eyes, let his body relax, opened them after a while, then took a bunch of tools from the Void Pearl, preparing for Alchemy.

To be safe, Li Xuan took out a batch of ingredients for alchemizing Yunling Pill, carefully screened and ground them, completed the pre‑alchemy preparation, and then began alchemy.

Li Xuan extended his hand, and a ball of Burning Heart Divine Flame materialized before him, which he lightly tossed forward, instantly turning into a basketball‑sized blue lotus.

After three months of practice, Li Xuan's technique of using his martial soul as a Pill Furnace became highly proficient, allowing him to conjure it instantly with a wave of his hand.

Li Xuan did not add any ingredients, but sensed the temperature of the flame within the lotus.

Sure enough, under the soul power imbued with warm energy, the flame's temperature inside the lotus was higher than normal, while the soul power consumption was slightly reduced.

"This place is perfect for alchemy! The more suitable for alchemy, the more suitable for my cultivation—what a great spot!" Li Xuan laughed heartily. Yet he quickly calmed himself, as he still needed to alchemize Alchemy Pills, so he lowered the lotus flame's temperature to the optimal alchemy level.

Then Li Xuan began adding ingredients, commencing the purification of the ingredients.

In three months, Li Xuan alchemized over three hundred batches of Yunling Pill, having long mastered the alchemy steps for Yunling Pill.

One type of Alchemy Pill after another was poured into the lotus, and batch after batch of essence was extracted.

After Li Xuan purified all the ingredients, a spark of his spirit caused the lotus flame to suddenly rise in temperature; all the essence instantly coalesced, rapidly merging into a single potion, which churned in the high heat, its color shifting from black to blue.

Li Xuan pushed both hands forward, injecting a large amount of soul power into the lotus; this soul power entered the potion, stirring and smoothing any imperfectly blended parts, promoting fusion.

This is the hardest step to control in alchemy, but having alchemized thousands of Yunling Pills, Li Xuan's movements were smooth and effortless.

In less than ten minutes, Li Xuan finished refining the medicinal potency within the potion.

"Pill formed!" Li Xuan whispered, the lotus instantly blossomed and then turned into soul power merging into the potion.

Bang!

The potion experienced a slight explosion, turning into eight round Alchemy Pills that fell from the air.

【Congratulations Host for successfully alchemizing "First Grade Upper-level Yunling Pill*8", gaining the secondary profession "Alchemist" 8 experience points】

Li Xuan waved his hand, and the Alchemy Pills were collected into a porcelain bottle.

Li Xuan casually tossed the pill bottle aside.

"This place is truly wonderful! It not only saves the soul power needed for alchemy, but also enhances the flame, speeding up the alchemy process!" Li Xuan said excitedly after analyzing the whole procedure.

After three months of cultivation, in a normal soul power environment Li Xuan needs only a quarter of his soul power to alchemize a batch of pills, whereas in the Fire-type Simulated Cultivation Environment he needs only a fifth of his soul power for a single alchemy.

Additionally, in a normal soul power environment Li Xuan takes two hours to alchemize, but here only one and a half hours, due to the Mimetic Environment raising flame temperature; Li Xuan must split his focus to control the flame, and once he adapts to the flame temperature in the Mimetic Environment, his alchemy speed can improve further.

Li Xuan sat on the Patterned Mat, reflected on the data he gathered today, and finally nodded in satisfaction, concluding his analysis was sound; aside from classes, he feared the rest of his time would be spent alchemizing in the Fire-type Simulated Cultivation Environment.

Li Xuan rose from the Patterned Mat, preparing to leave the Fire-type Simulated Cultivation Environment.

He had just enrolled, his bedding was still at the Academic Affairs Office, and he needed to send the bedding back to his dorm, then arrange his dorm; now he lives alone in the dorm, and if he doesn't clean, no one else will.

So Li Xuan tidied the Xiao Mu Wu, put the sign hanging at the doorway back inside, and left the Fire-type Simulated Cultivation Environment.

While descending the mountain, Zhou Miao looked at Li Xuan with a surprised expression.

"Kid, you've been here for over an hour! You aren't injured, are you?" Zhou Miao hurried forward to check Li Xuan's condition.

"Professor Zhou, thank you for your concern, but no need; my martial soul is fire‑type, so I can tolerate high temperature, I'm uninjured, I'll head back now," Li Xuan bowed to Zhou Miao and turned away, not lingering.

Seeing Li Xuan's demeanor, Zhou Miao helplessly shook his head, thinking he had indeed underestimated the little fellow.

He then turned and returned to his own room to rest.

Dear readers, today is Friday, tomorrow is a holiday; I wish you a happy weekend. This is today's second chapter, plus the chapter owed from yesterday and today's two chapters… I'll try my best, but I can't guarantee I can repay everything; if I can't, I'll have to try again tomorrow. Sorry, dear readers.

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