Chapter 48

Meng Su took out the Pill Scripture, returned to the thatched cottage, and began to study it carefully. The more he read, the more shocked he became, because the records in the Pill Scripture were almost rebellious toward the end. They were completely different from current concepts.

The concept of the Pill Scripture held that the power of heaven and earth condenses all things, and within this, countless spirit objects are born. Among them, the one ranked first is humanity. Therefore, humans are the best material for alchemy. Next are spirit beasts, and only then are plants and all other things. And these are all acquired spirits; the highest realm of alchemy is to refine innate spirits into pills. These innate spirits can be divided into: heaven and earth spirit Qi, Heavenly Will laws, and world origins. Pills refined from these innate spirits will condense into Pill Spirits, becoming living individuals.

Alchemy is divided into: "Refining objects into pills, refining beasts into pills, refining humans into pills, and refining heaven and earth into pills. Among these, refining humans and beasts into pills is further divided into refining blood into pills, refining bones into pills, and refining souls into pills."

Next is the introduction to pill furnaces. Pill furnaces are divided into three categories: "Artifact Furnaces, Human Furnaces, and Heaven Furnaces."

Artifact Furnaces are pill furnaces made of ordinary metal; these furnaces can only refine acquired pills. Acquired pills are divided into Supreme Grade, Spirit Grade, Middle Grade, and Lower Grade. A Human Furnace uses a human as the furnace, refining spirit Qi into furnace fire and Thought Power as the guide. Using the myriad things of heaven and earth as medicine, it refines peerless pills.

The Heaven Furnace is terrifying; it uses heaven and earth as the furnace, the myriad things of the world as medicine, and laws as furnace fire, refining a realm into a pill.

Meng Su was scared into a cold sweat. How rebellious and advanced in thought this Medicine King was. Once this Pill King was refined, what would happen? This was much more ruthless than Meng Su's Devouring Heaven power; it directly refined enemies into pills.

Meng Su recalled the pill the Reincarnation Lord had refined from Yu Jin'er, and felt even more fear. In the Demon Realm, indeed, nothing can be viewed with common sense.

Due to nervousness, Meng Su's hands holding the Pill Scripture began to tremble.

Meng Su closed the book and shut his eyes. He forcefully suppressed the shock in his heart; the value of this Pill Scripture was absolutely no less than any divine technique or secret manual, and it was actually right by his side. What a great opportunity this was!

Having steadied his mind, Meng Su continued to read downward. The latter part was the alchemy method. The Pill Scripture held that the fire of heaven and earth is divided into Yin and Yang; Yin fire melts, and Yang fire steams and roasts. Supreme Grade Great Pills absolutely cannot do without Yin and Yang fire. Among them, Five Elements fire is Yin, and heaven and earth fire is Yang. The so-called heaven and earth fire is also known as Fire Essence, primarily consisting of flames like the sun and Yang thunder.

Next was the research and planting of medicinal herbs, which Meng Su cared about most. The Pill Scripture wrote that all medicinal herbs and medicinal stones in the world are classified according to the Five Elements: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth. Metal-attribute herbs need Earth-attribute soil to cultivate, Wood-attribute herbs need Water-attribute soil to cultivate, Water-attribute herbs need Metal-attribute soil to cultivate. Fire-attribute herbs need Wood-attribute soil to cultivate. And Earth-attribute ones need Fire-attribute soil to cultivate.

Next, it listed tens of thousands of medicinal herbs or medicinal stones and marked their attributes.

Further on were the ratios of herbs needed for various types of pills and the methods of alchemy. Among them, it discussed the method for refining Pill Gang.

What Meng Su cared about most was whether there were pills to increase Thought Power, because the theme of his Demon Art now was Thought Power; if this Thought Power increased, even if his cultivation realm didn't improve, his combat power would increase significantly.

Even more outrageous was that it proposed a true method for planting pills. The "planting pills" that Shi Xiaoxiao spoke of was merely planting herbs, while the concept proposed by the Medicine King was completely different. His insight was to use herbs of different attributes, combined with Five Elements Earth, and supplemented by Yin and Yang fire; under certain conditions, herbs could directly bear pills.

This was the true planting of pills. But planting pills could not be done directly in the ground; it required a container. This container could be a Demon Beast, or it could be a cultivator.

But regardless of whether it was a Demon Beast or a cultivator, one first needed to convert Demon Power into Fire Demon Power. Then, one would plant. When harvesting, one needed to undergo a lightning tribulation or a solar storm.

Nowadays, Meng Su's Thought Power was formidable, and with formidable Thought Power came a powerful memory; he would never forget what he had seen. After finishing, Meng Su destroyed the Pill Scripture.

In the days that followed, Meng Su began to classify all the herbs in his medicine field according to the Pill Scripture and replanted them according to the Five Elements. Among them, Water-attribute herbs were planted directly on metal. At the same time, he used his own Demon Power to refine water into truth, refining Five Elements True Water; he already had Five Elements fire, so he just needed to refine it into the soil.

After fussing for more than a month, the large medicine field was completely replaced.

Meng Su lay on the reclining chair, satisfied, and smiled.

The Pill Scripture recorded that if one wanted to become a pill furnace oneself, one must cultivate all Five Elements Demon Powers. Now Meng Su had already cultivated the three powers of Wood, Fire, and Water; for Earth Element power, he needed to find Shasha. The Gold Demon Sect had been missing for many years, and he didn't know if there were any cultivators left now.

During this time, Gongzi Jiao did not come to find fault with him, and no cultivators from the Danmo Sect walked to Meng Su's medicine field.

After the herbs were replanted, something embarrassing happened to Meng Su: the herbs he planted became yellow and thin, and quite a few even died. Compared to the lushness before, Meng Su's medicine field looked like a mangy head, patchy and extremely ugly.

Meng Su was not anxious; this should be the discomfort after transplantation, but it would be fine after a while.

Having completed the transplanting, Meng Su spent half a month idling away. During this half month, Meng Su carefully studied the alchemy methods for increasing Thought Power in the Pill Scripture and discovered that this Thought Pill was not easy to refine. There were dozens of herbs containing Thought Power. Things like Spirit Condensing Flowers and Purple Thought Roots all contained Thought Power, but Thought Pills could absolutely not be refined by ordinary pill furnaces.

Thought Power is quite wondrous and has requirements for the pill furnace and the fire. Currently, the mainstream pill furnaces are just bronze pill furnaces, and for pill fire, high-level ones can use Sun Fire Essence, while low-level ones use Earth Core Fire. Even lower-level ones can use Divine Wood Flame.

But none of these flames could refine Thought Pills; the Thought Power in the herbs would be burned away under these flames. The pills refined would have no use for Thought Power.

The fire for refining Thought Pills must be Void Fire. The highest level of Void Fire is Karma Fire. This is a flame condensed from the thoughts of all living things. This flame does not exist in the Demon Realm because it requires faith to have Karma Fire, and the Demon Realm is full of life-and-death struggles where every means is used. Where would faith come from? Next is Five Elements fire; Five Elements fire is between void and reality and belongs to the highest grade of Divine Wood Flame.

Meng Su had Five Elements fire; ever since the Reincarnation Venerable refined Yu Jin'er into a pill for him, he had the origin of Five Elements fire. But the pill furnace requirements for this Thought Pill were also extremely high; one could not use an ordinary pill furnace, but must use the body of a cultivator or exotic beast that possessed Thought Power or cultivated Thought Power as the pill furnace. Meng Su's own body was one. But the Pill Scripture had already stated clearly that the body used as a pill furnace would have its own Thought Power fire refined into the Thought Pill.

If he used his own body as a pill furnace, it would refine Meng Su into an idiot. Meng Su gave up.

Meng Su thought for a while and gave up on refining Thought Pills.

Half a month later, Shi Xiaoxiao brought the cultivators from the pill room to select herbs. Gongzi Jiao followed right behind.

When Shi Xiaoxiao came over, Meng Su was lying on the reclining chair, drowsy.