My health recovery is incredibly fast.

1:10 PM.

He glanced around but didn't see Emily, so he headed towards the alchemy school's teaching area.

Fritz's situation served as a wake-up call for him.

The Church of the Otherworldly Demons is like a venomous snake in the dark; as soon as it finds a weakness in its prey, it will pounce out, bite it, and drag it into its den.

Xia Zuo must always be wary of the Church of the Otherworldly Demons' spying, and even with the Crimson Emblem by his side, he cannot let his guard down.

He recalled his character template in his mind, confirmed that his blood pattern disguise was working properly, then put aside thoughts unrelated to alchemy and devoted himself to studying biological alchemy.

...

In the apprentice to expert stages of bioalchemy, the main learning task for learners is to memorize the habits, characteristics, physiological structures, and breeding methods of tens of thousands of common organisms.

The teaching materials for these stages will use common language to describe the content to be taught, striving to make it easy to understand and remember.

This writing style has obvious drawbacks:

The sentences are not precise enough and contain too much redundancy.

For example, this sentence:

A symmetrical flower has 5 petals, 5 sepals fused together, numerous stamens in the stamens, compound pistil, inferior ovary composed of 5 carpels rolled together, 5-locular, with 2 ovules in each locule.

If we use specific symbols to represent certain things and mathematical operators to represent the relationships between things, the whole sentence will be much more concise.

For example:

,k(5),c5,a∞,g(5:5:2)

Transforming the common language into a symbolic language unique to bioalchemy is what expert-level bioalchemists need to learn.

This involves an expert-level textbook called "The Application Guide to Bioprograms".

This book records the characteristics and physiological structures of almost all living things using biological programs composed of symbols.

When using biological programs to describe a certain organism, there is no longer a need to create a separate organism data card. You can simply write down all aspects of the organism using symbols according to a specific writing approach.

The alchemical school designed biological programs to facilitate collaboration between bio-alchemy and other schools of thought, and to jointly develop biomimetic alchemical systems.

Imagine that magical alchemy uses transmutation circles containing numerous symbols and symbols as recipes for transmuted products.

However, bio-alchemy still uses Common Language as the language for its recipes... Isn't it difficult to align with artifact alchemy?

Every expert-level bio-alchemist participating in the promotion assessment is required to use only bio-programs during the assessment process.

Once the biomaterialist begins researching the bionic alchemy system, the experimental results of the raw materials must be entirely composed of biological programs; otherwise, the bio-alchemist and artifact alchemist responsible for creating the bionic alchemy system will be unable to accurately refine the products.

Xia Zuo first spent six days memorizing all the master-level biological material science knowledge on the spiritual medium, and then drank the infusion of expert-level biological alchemy knowledge.

Considering the large amount of experience he would gain later, he chose to transcribe expert-level bioalchemy knowledge by consuming experience.

After adding this knowledge to his [Knowledge Reserve], Xia Zuo was finally able to understand what the master-level biological materials science knowledge, which seemed like an enigma, was talking about.

After meditating in his dormitory for nine consecutive days, he stepped out of his room on the tenth day, walked through the empty corridor and stairwell, and arrived at the alchemy room.

Inside the double-sealed metal box, the tail of the Type VI Hidden-Tailed Serpent Alchemy Armor lay quietly, awaiting the alchemist's arrival.

Xia Zuo took an alchemical lantern that emitted a faint blue light from the wall.

The area illuminated by the dim blue light immediately revealed its internal physiological structure: veins and arteries of varying thicknesses, the snake tailbone arranged in interlocking rings, and even the subcutaneous fat layer with energy-absorbing and noise-reducing effects.

Xia Zuo cast a detection spell on the snake's tail, and a new item, [Biological Program], appeared on the returned item template. It contained many symbols unique to biological programs, each symbol representing a structure of the snake's tail.

"This is so convenient! I don't even need to write my own biological program anymore!"

Xia Zuo rubbed his chin, sighing silently, his eyes filled with joy.

Back when he was studying poison alchemy, Xia Zuo discovered the peculiarity of the Golden Finger.

The detection technique will directly provide all known information about the target based on the host's [knowledge reserves].

It can not only deduce the toxic effects of compound toxins based on the basic toxins used in the compound toxins, but also save Xia Zuo from the tedious process of translating biological programs, allowing him to avoid the pain of writing biological programs.

The perfect companion for alchemy whizzes!

Xia Zuomei happily placed the snake's tail into the enclosed operating table and dissected it through the glass.

The development of biomimetic systems using raw materials involves a standardized experimental procedure:

The first step is to identify the biological program of the experimental target.

With the help of a cheat code, Xia Zuo directly obtained the complete biological program, which is equivalent to obtaining information such as the toxic effects of compound toxins through detection techniques while studying the book.

In order not to expose his own abnormality, he had to personally examine the experimental target again to make it look like he was studying poisons.

The second step is to summarize the characteristics that the raw materials for the bionic alchemy system must possess, based on the information recorded in the biological program.

For example, the tail of the type vii wrasse possesses amazing jumping power.

After testing, its muscle material was found to have a toughness level of 35, so the raw materials for the alchemical bionic system must also have a toughness level of 35.

The third step is to process the raw materials according to their specific requirements.

This requires the use of an oil called a tanning agent.

Tanning agents are a sub-discipline of oil refining.

Soaking raw materials in tanning agents and allowing them to absorb the tanning agents according to a specific alchemical formula can alter the properties of the raw materials.

E.g.

A certain type of alloy ceramic sheet can have a maximum toughness level of 40. The initial toughness level is 0. For every 5 levels increase in toughness, the hardness level decreases by 1 level, with an initial hardness level of 10.

The alloy ceramic sheet was soaked in a tanning agent to give it a toughness of 35, while reducing its hardness to 3.

If the required properties specify a hardness level of 5, then...

Then, the alloy ceramic sheet is soaked in a tanning agent that can increase hardness—this step may slightly reduce toughness.

The alloy ceramic sheet is repeatedly immersed in a tanning agent that improves toughness or hardness until both its toughness and hardness meet the requirements, at which point the experiment is considered a success.

This is the idea behind creating an alchemical biomimetic system using non-biological materials.

If you use biological materials, it's a different approach.

Biological materialists must first cultivate the corresponding organism—a certain part of its body must have a toughness level of 35 and a hardness level of 5.

Then, this body part is treated with dye – it is soaked in dye oil.

Finally, through alchemical processes, the necessary biological materials are extracted.

The process of cultivating organisms is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the cost of making mistakes is quite high.

Therefore, as things stand today, master biomaterialists in the alchemical school mostly use non-biological materials to create raw materials for alchemical biomimetic systems.

Xia Zuo also intends to do the same.

From identifying the snake tail and obtaining the biological formula to selecting the tanning agent for processing, the entire process lasts nearly 7 days.

Apart from returning to his dormitory to meditate every night, Xia Zuo never left the alchemy room, and he never even went to the fountain square.

His diligent alchemy yielded six sets of biomimetic raw materials that met the required characteristics.

The best-quality raw materials are selected as assignments and submitted to the supervisor for inspection.

Chapter 39 Biotransformation

The tail, being the least functional part of the type VII tarantula, contains only 21 types of complex toxins, all of which are expert-level; there are no master-level complex toxins.

Xia Zuo identified these compound toxins one by one, made spherical samples, and spent a total of 10 days cutting out their corresponding left baits.

Next, Xia Zuo refined the antidote for the compound toxins and cut them into right bait.

There are 3 days left until the end of the training.

Xia Zuo completed all the advanced courses in biological materials science.

At this moment, on the table in front of him were 42 glass bottles and a stack of bionic raw materials sealed in glass containers.

These are the assignments that Xia Zuo is about to submit to his mentor.

The 27-day intensive alchemy session contributed 3700 experience points.

I'm only 1200 experience points away from leveling up...

Shazo would surely regret not having expended experience to transcribe knowledge earlier.

Xia Zuo packed the glass slides and glass containers into a metal box, then carried the heavy box toward his mentor's office.

...

In the sun-drenched office, Adanavaldos was sitting at his desk reading a book.

Several thick books floated around him, and an old, yellowed parchment scroll slowly swirled around him.

Upon seeing the figure approaching from the doorway, he waved his hands, causing the books and scrolls to return to their original positions.

"Mentor, this is my assignment." Xia Zuo placed the box in an empty space on the desk and unlocked it.

“Hmm…” Adanavados stood up, walked half a circle around the desk, opened the box with the Hand of Wind, and his eyes shone with emerald green magical light.

"The part you chose doesn't have master-level toxins, so it's within my expectations that the job was completed so quickly."

He picked up a glass bottle, and a dark blue eye-shaped pattern appeared on his forehead.

Xia Zuo knew that his mentor was using the [Eye of Kolas] meditation method to observe the expert-level bait in the glass bottle. He slowed his breathing and remained still so as not to disturb the other person.

Adanavardos examined each glass bottle, a slight smile appearing on his stern and aged face.

"Excellent, Xia Zuo. Both the left and right baits are of very high quality, all of them are of superior quality."

He picked up the glass container, carefully examined the biomimetic raw materials inside, and commented:

"Oh... you chose Alloy 1331 ceramic slabs as the base material, which is quite unusual. Its initial hardness is too high, and its toughness decreases very quickly after contact with air at high temperatures. However, the Hidden-Tailed Serpent is a cold-blooded animal, and its alchemical bio-armor doesn't possess the ability to generate high temperatures, so using Alloy 1331 ceramic slabs is feasible. Let me see what tanning agents you used..."

The azure eyes on Adanavados's forehead emitted an even stronger blue light.

The surface of the biomimetic raw material is covered with a faint blue light, which penetrates into the material and scatters from the edge cross-section.

"You used 67 different tanning agents and blended them approximately 300 times to give this biomimetic raw material sufficient properties. Very good!"

Adanavados smiled and put down the glass container in his hand, then reached out and patted Shazo on the shoulder.