Chapter 1452: Principles of Alchemy

Luo Yun's refined medicinal pills varied in size and shape.

Meng Zhangxing and Guo Da had grown accustomed to it; after receiving three pills, they went to cultivate.

"Here!"

Luo Yun grabbed several medicinal pills and stuffed them into Ye Liuyun's hand.

Ye Liuyun looked at those pills and wondered whether Liang Xue and the others would even eat this stuff.

"Well… I refine pills like this, not caring about appearance to save time, so don't mind it!" Luo Yun explained, seeing Ye Liuyun's hesitant expression.

"Don't misunderstand, I just want to ask, what is the effect of this pill?" Ye Liuyun asked.

"It improves bloodline quality and enhances bloodline power." Luo Yun replied.

"Then why did you capture those blood toads alive and then kill them outright? How did you neutralize their poison?" Ye Liuyun asked.

He couldn't see how Luo Yun detoxified those blood toads, nor could he tell which of the herbs she used in alchemy were antidotes, so he worried that the pills still contained toxins.

He asked because he understood alchemy.

Meng Zhangxing and Guo Da didn't understand alchemy, so naturally they didn't think to ask these questions.

Luo Yun then realized Ye Liuyun wasn't disliking her pills for their looks; he simply didn't understand the theory behind them.

This isn't Ye Liuyun's fault; he previously didn't know what poison she had administered to the blood toads.

"That's because the poison I gave them is purified alcohol!"

Luo Yun laughed while explaining to Ye Liuyun: "These purified alcohols, once inside the body, quickly seep into the bloodstream, especially for high-realm martial cultivators or fierce beasts, whose circulation is rapid. The purified alcohol then immediately travels through the blood, causing numbness."

So those two blood toads were drunk, not poisoned! Placed in the alchemy furnace, the alcohol simply evaporated and burned off, requiring no detoxification.

We don't want them dead, because if they die, their blood will coagulate and the medicinal components inside will diminish greatly! But if we refine them while alive, they react to heat stimulation, and once they wake up I can't control them. So we kill them quickly and then refine them immediately, minimizing loss.

After hearing this, Ye Liuyun finally understood.

He looked at the eight pills in his hand and asked Luo Yun: "Can these pills be taken repeatedly?"

"No more than three. You can take them separately or all at once. Any more and they'll have no effect!" Luo Yun told Ye Liuyun.

In fact, the pills she gave Ye Liuyun already included two extra, prepared specifically for him.

"Then could I ask for ten more? I can trade something else for them!" Ye Liuyun asked sheepishly.

He had just noticed that Luo Yun had refined many extra pills, presumably to keep for trading other resources.

"Just take them, what do you want to exchange?" Luo Yun said generously: "You used two fierce beasts to trade for that golden toad, helped me tame two spirit beasts, and even added a demon-transforming pill—I haven't even thanked you yet! What is this?"

Luo Yun then produced another ten pills and gave them to Ye Liuyun.

Meng Zhangxing joked on the side: "She'd even give you herself, let alone a few pills!"

"Shut up! Go eat your pills, you talk too much!" Luo Yun scolded Meng Zhangxing, her face flushed.

In her heart she still wondered: "How does he know what I'm thinking?"

Actually, it wasn't just Meng Zhangxing; Guo Da had noticed too, but he wouldn't say it.

The only one who hadn't noticed was Ye Liuyun.

But after Meng Zhangxing's remark, Ye Liuyun also reacted.

However, after thinking it over, he felt there was nothing between him and Luo Yun, yet he secretly resolved to be more cautious in the future.

So even if Luo Yun didn't want them, he still took out some medicinal herbs.

At that moment, Ye Liuyun thought of the colored gold and the essence‑blood bead he had just obtained, took them out, and asked Luo Yun.

"Good heavens! This is a bead condensed from the blood toad's essence blood, likely stored as cultivation resources for its offspring. Refining pills with this yields even better results!"

Luo Yun originally didn't want it, but seeing the blood toad king's essence‑blood bead, which is indeed rare, she accepted it as an alchemist who cannot refuse medicinal ingredients.

Yet she felt uneasy taking Ye Liuyun's things for free, and the colored gold was also valuable, so she returned the crocodile‑skin armor that Guo Da had crafted for her to Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun couldn't take advantage of her, so he prepared something else to give her.

Meng Zhangxing and Guo Da beside them burst out laughing.

"I say, you two, when will this end? Even flaunting love isn't like this! In front of us, are you exchanging love tokens?" Meng Zhangxing laughed.

Upon hearing that, Ye Liuyun also felt Meng Zhangxing made sense; giving back and forth would only complicate things, so he refrained from giving Luo Yun anything else.

Luo Yun blushed, not knowing what to say.

Ye Liuyun had no choice but to take the crocodile‑skin armor and ask Guo Da to help remove the Formation of the Square Cloud Soul on the helmet, thereby changing the subject.

After receiving the pills, everyone wanted to cultivate immediately, for this forest sea is still extremely dangerous. Although Ye Liuyun protects them, should an accident occur, they all wish to grow stronger.

Thus, upon obtaining resources, they all wanted to cultivate right away to enhance their own strength.

Ye Liuyun also positioned the fierce beasts around the formation to guard it.

This is the territory of the two blood toad kings of the Ninth Heavenly Reverence; for now, no fierce beast would dare approach.

Everyone cultivated within the formation set up by Guo Da, while Ye Liuyun returned to the Xuan Kong Stone and, together with the others, began refining these pills.

Ye Liuyun gave that set of armor to his clone; the two sets differ little, and they take turns going out without needing to swap armor.

Ye Liuyun, however, was eager to see what effect another bloodline enhancement would have.

He swallowed the three pills all at once.

But he hadn't expected that the pills Luo Yun refined would have such an exceptionally strong effect.

He felt his bloodline as if it had been ignited; a fierce burning sensation instantly spread throughout his body.

"This girl's refined medicine is astonishingly potent—stronger than the pills the War God left me!" Ye Liuyun couldn't help but groan inwardly. Had he known the effect would be this strong, he would have taken them one by one.

But now there's nothing else to do; he just has to endure it.

Ye Liuyun sank his Divine Sense into his blood to observe its changes.

He saw his blood as if it were first destroyed then rebuilt, undergoing transformation.

Gritting his teeth, Ye Liuyun soon saw the first drop of newly formed blood.

"This kind of power is truly terrifying!" Ye Liuyun felt, the bloodline power contained in the blood, compared to before, has again undergone a qualitative leap.