My health recovery is incredibly fast.

"Okay." Xia Zuo took the crystal, examined it briefly, and then stuffed it into his alchemy pouch.

“As for the reward I promised, I have it ready.” Christo took out a wooden box in each hand. “If your experimental results are the same as the previous test subjects, with no changes, then I will give you this original antidote as a reward. You can take it for research, or sell it to the Category 3 Disaster Response Department.”

Christo shook the box in her right hand. "If you have different experimental results, even just a slight difference, you can get this little gadget. I can't tell you what it is for now. I hope you understand. I have to prevent subjective bias."

Xia Zuo automatically translated the other person's last sentence as:

The effect of this little gadget is very appealing. If you knew what it was beforehand, you might fabricate false experimental results to cheat your way into the reward.

Xia Zuo didn't find anything wrong with the other party's arrangement.

“Your Excellency, I plan to begin condensing my elemental body after visiting my mentor, no later than noon tomorrow,” Xia Zuo added, “noon in the Silver Moon Federation.”

“I’ll wait for your news.” Christo stood up, cleared the sofa, and escorted Shazo back.

...

With a blink of an eye, Xia Zuo returned to Poseidon City.

He took out Adanavados's secret communication ring, glanced at the secret instructions on it, and stepped back into the light of the teleportation crystal.

An hour later, Xia Zuo returned to Poseidon City and used Windwalk to fly towards St. York Community under the bright moon and starlight.

Adannavados's advice was similar to that of Team Leader Hillenburg.

He also revealed some of the history of the elemental bodies to Shazo, but perhaps because he was in the outer sanctuary, his words were more vague than Hillenburg's.

In summary, Adanavados also advised Shazo to choose a universal elemental body.

If other types must be condensed, he suggests choosing the elemental shell specifically for oil alchemy.

That's right, it's oil alchemy, not poison or bio alchemy.

Adanavardos entered the field of alchemy through poison alchemy, and successively studied biology, artifacts, potions, and oils.

Oil alchemy was the last alchemy he mastered, and also the most difficult.

在练金学里，1+1肯定等于2，但在油剂炼金学里不是，1+1可能等于除2以外的任何数字。

Two oils, produced by the same alchemist at the same time, using the exact same raw materials and in the same environment, produced in the same location, at the same time, produced different results.

No matter how many times I tried, there were slight differences in the product each time.

The most critical issue is that these subtle differences can lead to huge deviations in the final alchemical output.

A typical example is tanning agents.

Tanning agents of grade 100 and above are all made using the same alchemical process. With complete control over every step of the alchemical process, the performance of the products varies greatly, ranging from grade 100 to several hundred.

The Mage Temple is currently lacking not tanning agents around level 100, but those above level 200. Tanning agents of this level can only be made by chance, or in other words, by metaphysics. Each one is priceless and has a price of over 200 million points.

The elemental shell, specifically designed for oil alchemy, happens to have the function of enhancing the success rate of oil production and improving the quality of the products.

If it weren't for the online commission from Krestor, there's a good chance that Shazo would have chosen the elemental shell specifically for oil alchemy.

Now, he has to come up with a general-purpose approach.

The next day, Sunday, in the morning.

Xia Zuo arrived at the Elite Academy in Poseidon City.

He asked Hillenburg for a day off from Monday to Wednesday, spending four full days condensing his elemental body.

In an elegantly decorated meditation room, sunlight streams through the transparent glass, casting bright patches of light on the floor.

Xia Zuo sat in a comfortable recliner, with hundreds of elemental bottles of different colors stacked on the table in front of him.

He took out the small crystal Christor had given him and crushed it with force.

Crystal fragments floated in the air, melting like water and turning into a white mirror.

A woman's forearm extends from the mirror, with a small wooden box on her outstretched palm.

After Xia Zuo picked up the wooden box, the woman retracted her forearm, and the mirror disappeared.

Is that Christo's arm?

Xia Zuo was stunned.

It does not seem.

Bicrestor's arms are thinner and shorter, making them look like a little girl's arms.

Forget it, who cares?

Xia Zuo opened the wooden box on the table and used the alchemical tools he had prepared to grind the shrine candles into powder, divide them into 108 equal parts, and add them to the corresponding elemental bottles.

The first step in condensing the elemental body is to enter a shallow meditative state and connect with all the elemental bottles, without neglecting any of them.

As the number of linked elemental bottles increases, maintaining the existing links becomes more difficult, and energy consumption becomes very rapid.

Xia Zuo drank several potions in advance, extending the duration of the [Full of Energy] effect to 5 days. With double the energy, he withstood the consumption of the Link Element Bottle and completed the first step on just one try.

Next, take a secret medicine produced by the scholars of the tower, and then enter into deep meditation. In the ocean of your mind, you will see a luminous humanoid body that resembles your own.

The adorable elements inside the element bottle will float around the humanoid luminous body.

By placing these clever elements in a specific order onto various parts of the humanoid luminous body, an elemental shell can be formed.

This is the current mainstream approach. Compared to the original condensation method, it is both safe and intuitive. Any operation performed on the humanoid luminous body will be reflected on the body, and the steps involved will be completed with secret medicine.

After drinking the secret medicine, Xia Zuo lay down on the sofa and closed his eyes.

As his consciousness sank, a message from the cheat system appeared in his mind:

"Attempting to enter a deep meditation or contemplation state, please select the state you are about to enter."

Following the steps for condensing an elemental body, Xia Zuo chose to enter deep meditation.

"3, 2, 1... Entry failed. Please select the state you want to enter again."

???

Failed?

Xia Zuo controlled his emotional fluctuations.

His intuition told him it was the candle dust.

Xia Zuo changed his selection and chose "Enter Meditation State".

"3, 2, 1... Entry failed. Please select the state you want to enter again."

!!!

Another failure?

What should I do?

Will he wake up directly?

Those 100-plus element bottles would have been completely wasted.

Xia Zuo could even imagine the scene of over 100 well-behaved elements instantly transforming into unruly elements, then flying out of the element bottle and scattering everywhere... It would definitely be beautiful, but... but it would also make one want to cry. This was the culmination of several months of hard work.

Xia Zuo calmed himself down and tried several more times, but all of them ended in failure.

No, no, we have to think of a way.

Xia Zuo brought up his character template.

In the status bar next to the health bar, the effects of the secret potion are counting down, with 71 hours and 45 minutes remaining.

As long as Xia Zuo doesn't panic before the countdown ends, he won't exit this state of constantly sinking consciousness, yet unable to enter meditation or contemplation.

He didn't want to give up this opportunity, so he could only keep trying...

Meanwhile, in the meditation room.

Xia Zuo lay on the sofa with his eyes closed.

Elemental aura emanated from his body.

The scattered lights were attracted by the elemental bottles beside them. They gathered together and transformed into a delicate thread that extended to the mouth of the bottle, entangled the obedient elements inside, and slowly dragged them toward Xia Zuo's body.

Outside the window, day and night change; the sun sets and the moon rises.

Three days had passed by the time the last obedient element was dragged into Xia Zuo's body.

Xia Zuo struggled until the very last moment, until the effects of the secret medicine completely wore off, before he finally woke up from the darkness.

This kind of dedication is commendable.

But reality is cruel.

"What the hell..." Xia Zuo suppressed the profanity he had uttered in his previous life, his eyes reddening as he covered his face and stared painfully at the empty elemental bottle in front of him.

Gone, all gone.

The elements of being well-behaved have completely disappeared.

There are no changes to the character template.

Chest tightness, shortness of breath, and heart pain.

Xia Zuo sighed helplessly and sent a secret message to Christo.

The reply came quickly, in less than half a minute: Open the door after hearing the knock.

Kristotle herself wants to come and inspect the experimental site in person?

"Dong dong dong."

Xia Zuo opened the door and let the cloaked figure outside in.

"Xia Zuo, we meet again." The speaker was a woman, a little older, probably around 30 years old.

“Master Lemon,” Xia Zuo greeted him with a slight bow.

Lemon was the Outer Temple Master of the Tower Scholars, and he led the Tower Mages to obtain two baby deep-sea turtles using a diffraction array.

"Don't be too sad, Xia Zuo, we will make it up to you." Master Lemon stretched out his arm toward the sofa. "Please sit down first, I'll give you some checks."

“Yes, Master.” Xia Zuo walked around the low table piled with empty bottles and sat down.

Master Lemon waved his right hand in front of him, summoning nine orbs of light of different colors.

The orbs of light took turns casting detection spells on the figure on the sofa, and then they also detected the empty elemental bottle and every corner of the meditation room.