Examples of the Sun Moon Empire Growing Stronger Through Pills, Demonstrating Alchemy

"Very good. Today's lesson was more or less complete, so Xiao Changge, let us have a look at your alchemy. Your teacher is very curious to see just how skilled you are at refining pills."

Jing Hongchen was very curious about what kind of pills Xiao Changge could refine. Pills also existed in the Sun Moon Empire. Many Soul Engineers and Soul Masters in the Sun Moon Empire relied heavily on pills to grow stronger. He himself had only reached the Titled Douluo realm with the help of pills.

But this led to a problem: once they reached the Titled Douluo level, further progress became extremely difficult. As a result, he was trapped at the ordinary Titled Douluo level and had no chance of reaching the Limit Douluo realm.

Xiao Changge also had some understanding of the Sun Moon Empire's method of becoming stronger through pills.

The Sun Moon Empire was not so absurdly dependent on "using pills to grow stronger all the time," but it was indeed a systematic and commonplace practice among its Soul Engineers to take medicine to aid cultivation. This stood in stark contrast to Shrek's taboo against taking pills and its emphasis on tempering one's own foundation. However, several distinctions had to be made:

(1) Ordinary/low-talent Soul Engineers: the state distributed medicine to force their growth.

For those in the Sun Moon Empire whose Martial Souls awakened alongside Soul Power, the state provided free training and even directly distributed pills that depleted their potential, helping them rush to Soul Elder and Soul Ancestor before filling the lower ranks of Soul Engineer legions.

The goal was not to turn them into Titled Douluo, but to give them Soul Power as quickly as possible to operate Soul Tools.

These medicines had severe side effects: their Soul Power