While Xu Yi was still reeling with doubt, Kong Qi began refining again. This time, he added Black Root Grass and Hundred Seed Lotus first, then He Ye Fruit. After some work, he once again produced a stable auxiliary agent.
Immediately afterward, Kong Qi wasted no time changing the order of the herbs. He added Hundred Seed Lotus first, then He Ye Fruit, and finally Black Root Grass. Once again, he produced an auxiliary agent.
Three attempts, three successes. Every newly arrived cultivator stood there, dumbfounded.
The shock in Xu Yi's heart surged like a mountain roaring and an ocean crashing. He could achieve that success rate too, but Kong Qi clearly wasn't relying on Wood Spirits. He had some secret method Xu Yi knew nothing about.
In his previous life, Xu Yi had lived in a world where science flourished. He was far more open to new things than ordinary people.
In his eyes, what was happening before him was certainly no demonic sorcery, much less an illusion. There had to be some profound underlying principle at work, one that conformed to the laws of the Great Dao.
He couldn't understand it only because he had never even touched the edge of that law of the Great Dao.
In truth, with Qiu Wa's spectrum, Xu Yi had managed to refine Essence Pills in a short time, and with a fairly high success rate.
Yet deep down, he was still utterly bewildered.
Because what he called alchemy was nothing more than a process of endless trial and error. He had merely memorized, mechanically, which combinations of the properties of over a hundred herbs produced the corresponding spectrum of colors.
As for why combining those two properties produced that particular change, he had no way of knowing.
Put simply, he was