Medicinal Manifolds and Puzzles

Ordinary potions and medicines—including pharmaceuticals, poisons, hormones, and the like—usually worked on flesh-and-blood bodies. More precisely, they targeted a particular function within such bodies, such as blood, nerves, muscle control, sodium ion channels, enzyme expression, and so on.

But no matter what, a medicinal property had to act upon something tangible. It had almost no direct effect on things like Life Energy.

Why had the Level 12.0 Heavenly Water Potion become a watered-down potion, mockingly called the Intelligence Testing Potion? Because it primarily targeted flesh-and-blood bodies.

But Level 12.0 cultivators already had one foot across the threshold of energy transformation. To experts at this level, the body did not merely mean flesh and blood; it also included an energy component.

Of course, basic energy was easy to replenish. For basic energy, absorbing Energy Crystals worked very well. Spending an enormous price on potions for that would mean there was something wrong with your brain.

The so-called energy transformation of the body was not merely an issue of energy. More importantly, it involved the logic that controlled that energy.

It was like a battery pack. The batteries themselves—the flesh-and-blood body—were certainly important, and the stored electrical energy—Life Energy—was also important. But the battery control and protection module—the control logic—was even more important.

Most of the potions Chu Fei had encountered targeted flesh-and-blood bodies and only "indirectly affected" Life Energy. As for "hyper-dimensional potions" that targeted life's control logic itself, they were exceedingly rare.

Why was the Rebirth Potion made from Eagle Flower considered so heaven-defying? The most important reason was that it touched upon life's control logic!

The miraculous elixirs of myth and legend, which granted immortality or allowed one to ascend in broad daylight, must have altered life's control logic.

Of course, Chu Fei was not so ambitious as to