Li Qingyao walked up to the Light-and-Shadow Pill Formula. An analytical gleam shone in her beautiful eyes as she studied the daunting list of ingredients and their descriptions.
Her gaze lingered longest on the Void Star Soul Grass and several supplementary ingredients that demanded equally extreme growing conditions.
After a moment, she looked up, her eyes sharp with the insight of someone who had put theory into practice.
"The Pill Soul Scroll's descriptions of these spirit medicines focus on their final effects and ideal forms. But from my research over the years, many spirit medicines from Primordial Antiquity are linked by bloodline to those of later ages, or arose through mutation under specific environmental pressures."
She began to explain in detail. "Take the Void Star Soul Grass. It's said to require alternating exposure to Stellar Power and Void Turbulence. Could we simulate that? We could draw on parts of the Celestial Cycle Star Illusion-Destruction Array to create a stable field that channels Stellar Power, then use a controllable Spatial Formation to simulate currents of Void Energy at specific frequencies and intensities."
"The key is to find a base spirit herb with strong environmental adaptability and an affinity for Soul Power. We place it in the simulated star-and-Void environment we've built, then induce its medicinal properties to mutate and strengthen in the direction of the Void Star Soul Grass."
"I recall a rare spirit plant called the Starweb Ghost Soul Orchid. It might serve as a base plant for our trials."
She pointed to several other ingredients that could only grow amid extreme conditions of water and fire, Yin and Yang, or life and death.
"By the same principle, we can use the Alliance's existing resources and techniques to build miniature Extreme-Ecology Secret Realms. High-level formations would stabilize their core environments,