Refining medicine can't save Doupo!

Chapter 507, "On Spiritual Energy": I've started cultivating immortality; you can do as you please.
"I'll return the Transformation Pill to you. Can you please not hit me?"

Two weeks later, when Jiang Lin left Canaan Academy and took Yao Chen to a quiet place to prepare some high-level pills, a little girl with purple hair followed them timidly.

Yao Chen and Xiao Yan both looked at Jiang Lin with strange expressions, while Jiang Lin glared at Zi Yan, who was standing in the shade of a tree in the distance, timidly poking her head out. He thought to himself, why doesn't this guy look like the brute force king that the inner courtyard students talk about? Isn't she quite delicate and charming?

"Do I look like a violent person?" Jiang Lin asked irritably, as he pulled out the Qingxuan Cauldron from his stomach, poured in the herbs, and prepared to begin refining the medicine. After two weeks of research, Jiang Lin had almost mastered many of the high-level alchemy techniques taught by Yao Chen. He now invited Yao Chen to come and see the high-level cultivation pills he was preparing to refine.

As a result, the little girl named Zi Yan locked onto their location through Xiao Yan's breath and followed them quietly.

"Yes." Zi Yan's face was full of entanglement and distress, because during this period of time, a faint and strange fragrance would come from the inner courtyard of Canaan Academy from time to time. It was very strong at the beginning, but then it began to become smaller and weaker. If Zi Yan did not have the powerful talent of the Taixu Ancient Dragon, she might not be able to smell the fleeting fragrance of the elixir in the air at a distance.

Zi Yan understood that this spiritual master, whom Elder Su Qian had declared absolutely untouchable, possessed not only exceptional weapon-refining skills but also an unimaginably gifted talent in alchemy. Zi Yan's powerful perception allowed her to discern the spiritual master's cultivation elixirs as purest. They lacked any bells and whistles, simply increasing stats, and this was precisely what Zi Yan needed most.

In his recently compiled treatise, "Theory of Spiritual Energy," Jiang Lin offers a relatively systematic definition of spiritual particles. He names the purest spiritual particles, which can be absorbed by everyone, "Primordial Spiritual Energy." In Jiang Lin's view, Primordial Spiritual Energy is the most fundamental spiritual energy in the world, representing the initial state of both fighting spirit and soul force.

Beneath the primordial spiritual energy lies the "yang spiritual energy" and "yin spiritual energy." The former refers to the tangible and visible aspects of the universe, such as spiritual materials, spiritual medicines, and elixirs, all of which can be enhanced through yang spiritual energy. The latter, on the other hand, refers to the more illusory subjective and objective aspects of soul power. For example, the soul pills Jiang Lin refines are derived from sufficiently pure yin spiritual energy to enhance the soul without side effects.

Beneath the dual-state yin and yang spiritual energy lies a variety of 'secondary spiritual energy' with unique properties. The Dou Qi energy that permeates the universe, the Dou Qi within the cores of magical beasts, the energy within spiritual herbs and fruits—in Jiang Lin's eyes, all of these energies are called 'secondary spiritual energy,' and there's even a 'sub-secondary spiritual energy.' However, Jiang Lin didn't continue the divisions, because for him, the three levels of spiritual energy were sufficient.

Because Jiang Lin has the ability to raise the spiritual level of secondary spiritual energy, thus reaching the Yin-Yang state spiritual energy. Of course, Jiang Lin cannot achieve the theoretical primordial spiritual energy.
The closer the spiritual energy level is to the origin, the simpler the effect will be; the further away from the origin, the more complicated it will be.

Of course, after proposing the three realms of spiritual energy, Jiang Lin also added the magnitude of the different realms of spiritual energy, just like there is a star level before the realm of fighting spirit. For example, the elixir that Jiang Lin can refine can be called the fifth-level Yang-state elixir.

For a top-tier magical beast like Zi Yan, the higher the quality of spiritual energy, the more beneficial it is to her growth and evolution. She prefers the highest-grade spiritual herbs and pills, while Jiang Lin's elixirs represent a level currently unattainable by any alchemist. The essence of an alchemist's cultivation pills lies in using spiritual gathering techniques to adjust the ratio of secondary spiritual energy towards a yin-yang balance, thus allowing cultivators to more efficiently advance their cultivation. Jiang Lin possesses a unique advantage in this regard; the combination of his divine essence fire and flawless spiritual body essentially makes him a spiritual energy pressure cooker. Even the patriarch of the Pill Tower would likely be unable to match the purity of his elixirs.

From a certain perspective, when others were still cultivating fighting spirit, Jiang Lin's "Theory of Spiritual Qi" appeared in its initial form, basically announcing that he was going to start "cultivating immortals"
"Give it to you, go play somewhere else." After all, there was a half-ghost, a half-snake, and a ghost watching nearby, so Jiang Lin couldn't do anything to the 'one-beast' girl. So he raised his hand and waved his sleeves, and a crystal clear, natural elixir flew directly in front of Zi Yan, and was caught in the hand by the girl with excitement.

Hiss
At this moment, a colorful little snake quietly crawled out from Xiao Yan's sleeve and showed its pink snake tongue to Jiang Lin.
"I have them all." Jiang Lin didn't think much about it. He waved his hand and another elixir flew out. The colorful little snake swallowed it with satisfaction.

Jiang Lin had recently been studying Yao Chen's advanced alchemy techniques, particularly high-level cultivation pills like the Imperial Extreme Pill. As a result, he had refined a number of elixirs, and his technique had matured considerably. He would also take them to accelerate his cultivation, but they required higher-level elixirs for their effectiveness, so he usually just ate them like sunflower seeds.

And Jiang Lin is also doing another experiment recently.

"Here, you get a share too." Jiang Lin waved his sleeves again, and a flame afterimage instantly flew towards Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan subconsciously raised his hand to catch it with his condensed Dou Ling Dou Qi. Upon closer inspection, he discovered that it was actually a small square-shaped cauldron with fire patterns.
"Ah, this. Elder, it's probably not a good thing for you to give me this." Xiao Yan looked at the fire spirit furnace in his hand, his face twitched slightly, and he swallowed subconsciously.

He came from the Jia Ma Empire. Although "Young Lin" wanted to be a human being at the time and didn't open up the spirit furnace technology, Xiao Yan had come into contact with the experimental materials! And this technology was eventually written down in black and white in "Lin Qi Jian Shi"!
So they all gave me things that increased my cultivation, and then gave me things that consumed it? Xiao Yan looked at the Fire Pattern Spirit Furnace in his hand, a look of helplessness on his face.

"The cooperation between the Nine-One Qi Gathering Formation and the Spirit Furnace allows ordinary people to exchange their future for their realm, while at the same time allowing them to exchange their realm for spirit stones, depriving them of their future. Isn't this a bit too extreme?" Xiao Yan couldn't help but ask.

Before the Nine-One Qi Gathering Formation came out, Xiao Yan was actually still able to accept the spirit furnace as a special fighting tool for production.

However, as soon as the Nine-One Qi Gathering Formation came out, Xiao Yan realized that the combination of these two things would cause the energy of the entire world to "idle".

(End of this chapter)