Chapter 90: Refining Medicine
Zi Di snuck back into the Deep Sea Monster Fish.
In the alchemy cabin, she closely inspected everything before her.
The main thing in her view was a large bathtub.
The bathtub was round and 3 meters in diameter. The bathtub seemed to be made of innumerable multicolored stones fused together and looked utterly gorgeous. Neither the outside nor the inside were smooth, instead it had countless bumps and holes in it.
It was the Magic Medicine Bathtub.
It once belonged to Rou Zang.
But its true designer was an ingenious alchemist.
They meticulously designed the bathtub’s surface with a creative bumpiness. After magic potions and water is mixed, they flow inside these bumps.
The bumps increased the contact area, inducing an enhancement of medicinal effects severalfold.
The Magic Medicine Bathtub was part of the magic ship, the Bath Tub, and consumed a large amount of magic power.
The alliance was victorious in the Snake Rat naval battle. After the war, Tan Qiu dredged up the Bath Tub and in order to reward merits with his tight financial situation, he was forced to reluctantly give the Magic Medicine Bathtub to the survivors.
After the survivors got it, the dragonman youngster, Zong Ge, and the others began to make use of it.
Bathing in it felt quite wonderful.
By sleeping in its warm water, one could enjoy the medicinal soak while also enjoying the natural massage the concave surface provided.
This was the Magic Medicine Bath’s most base function.
In the survivors’ hands, the Magic Medicine Bathtub combined with alchemy formations could give the former a new use, turning the former into an effective manufacturing tool.
This was beyond Rou Zang’s abilities to accomplish.
It was also impossible for the survivors too.
The one who really accomplished this was the tower spirit.
The tower spirit cleverly reformed currently available alchemy formations in War Merchant’s database and had the gold level Magic Medicine Bathtub serve as the core of an alchemy formation.
“The Magic Medicine Bathtub’s most core alchemy technology is coordinated magic time extension. Manufactured potions or magic equipment is essentially about setting up a new magic equilibrium. Through the consumption of a large quantity of magic power to maintain a potion’s magic equilibrium even longer, it will increase its medicinal effect.”
“The formation we built just utilizes this technology.”
“By logical extension, any alchemy item is the same, if one fully grasps its alchemical secrets, they can use them in a broader fashion.”
“Rou Zang was only a fighter, a superficial person. Magicians are the controllers and beneficiaries of knowledge.”
Zi Di sighed to herself.
She was a magician.
Regardless of whether she was alive or dead, she was still one.
She had ample inquisitiveness and cravings for any knowledge.
Therefore, even though the tower spirit was the overseer, and the yellow crab alchemy puppet was the controller of the Magic Medicine Bathtub alchemy formation, and didn’t need Zi Di to participate in the medicinal refinement, Zi Di would still come and watch.
She wouldn’t give up any chance to learn.
And this was a great opportunity, one she treasured.
Because she too had experienced the hardships of trying to make a living. During her studies at the College of Magic, she had a deep understanding of the value of knowledge.
The potion refinement had begun.
The remaining yellow crab alchemy puppet was facing the Magic Medicine Bathtub.
Its two crab legs had turned into drums.
From the drum shaped crab legs, a palm yellow translucent oil constantly poured out of them.
The oil had a rich sesame fragrance.
After the oil was poured in, it immediately layered into the bathtub.
When the layer became 10 centimeters thick, the crab legs morphed, stopping the flow.
Green copper lumps were taken out.
The yellow crab alchemy puppet processed it on the spot, using its crab leg, now morphed into a saw, to cut the copper lumps into smaller pieces.
The copper pieces were dumped into the bathtub.
Not long after, the alchemy formation activated. The Deep Sea Monster Fish’s magic power reservoir constantly imbued it with magic power, increasing the temperature.
In the center of the alchemy formation, the Magic Medicine Bathtub was baking red hot, the oil was boiling, and the copper was melting inside it.
The heat persisted throughout the alchemy refinement.
The yellow crab alchemy puppet took out a bamboo tube.
Inside the bamboo tube was a processed alchemy material with a very short shelf life.
The alchemy material looked like scarlet pollen.
The yellow crab alchemy puppet dumped all the “pollen” into the bathtub, instantly causing a waft of gray smoke.
The smoke was very irritating to people.
But Zi Di was indifferent to it,
She was already dead and a ghost girl.
80%
After the smoke dispersed, the bathtub’s water level rose, almost 80% of it was filled.
Refinement successful!
Zi Di walked into the alchemy formation, carefully observing the Magic Medicine Bathtub from the side.
The Sweet Blood Potion was somewhat thick, and looked a dark red.
But when poured, the viscous potion would turn from a dark red to a bright scarlet.
If Zi Di could still smell, she would smell a rich and sweet fishy odor.
It was precisely this characteristic that the pharmacist who invented this recipe named it the Swet Blood Potion.
The yellow crab alchemy puppet’s crab legs changed again.
The crab legs became ladles.
It used the ladles to rapidly and precisely scoop out the potion into medicinal jars.
These medicinal jars were not conventional thin, slender glass bottles.
Because the Sweet Blood Potion was not to be taken, it was to be thrown.
It was to disperse rapidly in water, create the smell of food, and attract groups of magic beasts, animals, and scavengers.
At first, the Sweet Blood Potion that the yellow crab alchemy puppet was scooping out was of ordinary quality.
Gradually though, when it reached the layer below, the Sweet Blood Potion rose to a bronze level quality.
In the most center layer, the Sweet Blood Potion became iron level.
Then in the layer below that, it reverted to a bronze level quality.
Finally, on the lowest layer, the potion was ordinary again.
“Its clear that this resembles an egg. During the manufacturing process, the center of the potion is where the magic harmonizes the most, therefore it has the highest quality.”
“The Magic Medicine Bathtub is no regular brewing tool; it is just being commandeered as one for the time being. Its real application is still how Rou Zang used it.”
Zi Di continued to analyze.
“The Sweet Blood Potion’s quality limit is the iron level. If it was the silver level, then this temporarily assembled medicine making formation could have refined up to that quality.”
“Reaching the gold level needs both luck and an alchemy master refining it.”
“The tower spirit and the yellow crab puppet can refine iron level things, barely refine silver level things, and are incapable of refining anything of the gold level, that exceeds the limits of their abilities.”
For now, the Sweet Blood Potion refinement had come to an end.
This was because before Zi Di had come, the tower spirit had already refined many batches already.
Having a tower spirit was quite convenient.
The yellow crab alchemy puppet began to tidy up the medicine refinement tools.
It was mainly cleaning the bath tub.
Its crab legs morphed into nozzles that sprayed yellow water from them.
The water washing across the bath tub quickly vaporized, sizzling across it and causing mist to rise.
Two crab legs then turned into large scrubbers, and as water flowed across, it was diligently brushing the bath tub down.
After cleaning it, a crab leg fired an electric current.
The electric current split into tiny currents that interweaved into a net that covered the bathtub both inside and out.
For a moment, the crackling of the tiny currents lingered on.
Magically, where the electric current lashed out, long purple and red hairs grew from the bath tub’s surface.
The long hairs emitted an ominous aura.
This was the accumulated residue from prior medicine refinement, now condensed into visibility by magic power.
If one had hair, one needed to trim it.
The crab legs turned into scissors.
Eight pairs of scissors clipped the hairs.
After being sheared, they were shaved again by the blades.
White form spurted, and the hair strands completely melted at last.
Afterwards, the crab continued to spray water.
Then scrubbed it again.
Then it used the electric current to stimulate the hair growth again.
By the second time, the hairs were five times as sparse and were much shorter.
After five rounds of washing, shearing, and removal, no more hairs grew, and the bath tub was finally considered clean.
This was also because the Magic Medicine Bathtub was not a true medicine refinement tool, otherwise cleaning it wouldn’t have been so troublesome.
After this, it was time to refine the Green Hat Healing Potion.
This time, Zi Di participated too.
She first took out a green hair turtle shell and began to process the alchemy material.
The outer layer of the green hair turtle shell looked like any ordinary turtle shell. But on the inside, “moss” was growing all over it.
If one touched it with their hands, they would find that the “moss” was actually small clumps of fine fur.
The green hair turtle shell most quintessential spot was that fur.
Zi Di took out needle tubes and injected them into the turtle shells.
Inside the needle tubes was prepared medicine, and due to their sharpness, they easily inserted themselves into the turtle shells.
After each turtle shell was injected with the medicine, they quickly softened into a pool of mud.
Zi Di started the alchemy formation, and it cleaned away the mud, leaving just the fur behind.
By the time she finished preparing this material, the yellow crab alchemy puppet on the other side of the bathtub had finished processing the other materials required.
The medicine bath tub was already heated up, and it was filled with a pink mixture.
Zi Di threw the green fur into the bath tub, then threw in the other dozen or so materials in too.
After these materials were added in, she controlled the magic formation so that the liquid in the Magic Medicine Bathtub began to automatically squirl into a whirlpool.
The liquid wildly spun, and the various alchemy materials mixed together in a wonderous harmonization of magic power.
When the liquid finally slowed down, it was a gelatinous thing.
It gave off the impression of elasticity.
This process lasted 30 minutes. Zi Di expended her spiritual power as she stood in front of the medicine bathtub.
She now began the final step.
The yellow crab alchemy puppet handed her a medical bottle.
She removed the stopper, which was also the dropper, and dripped the liquid into the bathtub.
The medicinal liquid was purple red, and when it hit the gelatinous mass, it looked like ink flowing across clear water.
The gelatinous mass changed color at the same time its nature changed too.
This was because Zi Di’s spirit had directed the magic power towards equilibrium.
Following the drops of liquid, the glue first became viscous, then began to clear. Finally, the milky white substance turned completely colorless, as if it were clean water.
“Drip, drip drip.”
“Forecasting attainment of final stage.”
The tower spirit aptly warned.
Upon receiving the reminder, Zi Di dripped the other half down.
The clear and pure water reached the final step, and the new magic power equilibrium had been completely established, its quality jumping from the bronze level to the iron level!
The bath tub’s refinement of healing potions was done.