Chapter 273: The Method of Lightning Refinement

“So many space-attributed Materials.” Xu Qingyao browsed the list after receiving it from Lin Jing.

“Are you planning to raise a space-attributed Pet Beast?” She put the list away and looked at Lin Jing. She understood completely; at Lin Jing’s level, only the space attribute was worthy of him.

As for the Mosquito Woman, although she is the first Yao Race member of this era and can command a swarm of mosquitoes, she can be mass-produced in the future, and more and more Yao Race Prodigies will be born, completely lacking rarity. But space-type creatures are different.

“Yes, I obtained a blueprint for a Space Turtle that can develop spiritual intelligence from the Divine Machine Manor in an Ancient Kingdom. These are the Materials needed to create it, but I can’t be sure if the Beast Taming Art can Contract this kind of mechanical life. I’ll give it a try,” Lin Jing said.

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“Alright, this can also be mass-produced.” The Senior Sister Great Master shook her head and said, “I estimate it won’t work. Don’t hold out too much hope. Since coming to Qingzhou, I’ve tried. The Beast Taming Art can only Contract Yao Beasts, not even plant life. For things like mechanical beasts or Tool Spirits, it’s probably even less feasible.”

“After all, the Beast Taming Art is the Cultivation Technique practiced by the servants who raised Yao Beasts in the Ancient Immortal Palace. Essentially, it is still aimed at Yao Beasts.

Although our Beast Taming Sect Seniors later made some improvements to the Beast Taming Art, it hasn’t deviated much from the original version.”

“The limit of what the Beast Taming Art can Contract is probably creatures like the Ice Soul Gu. Although the Ten Unique Gu have also transformed into special life forms, their initial essence was still various poisonous insects, which count as Yao Beasts. However, mechanical beasts barely have any relation to Yao Beasts.”

“But that’s not absolute. Since the Seniors of the Beast Taming Sect could improve the Beast Taming Art, perhaps you can too.” Xu Qingyao smiled and said, “After all, you’ve even researched the Method of Transformation and entered the Bodhi Cave Heaven, cultivating the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique. Improving a Cultivation Technique shouldn’t be a problem for you.”

“Spiritual Plants, Yao Beasts, Tool Souls, Corpse Puppets, Strange mechanical beasts, Spell Spirits—perhaps, eventually, you’ll be able to Contract all of them as Pet Beasts!”

Lin Jing chuckled and said, “I’ll take the Senior Sister Great Master’s auspicious words…”

The reason Lin Jing wasn’t 100% certain that the Mechanism Turtle would be the next Pet Beast he contracted during the Golden Core Stage was precisely because he couldn’t determine whether he could ultimately Contract it. As the Senior Sister Great Master said, it is not a pure Yao Beast life form.

However, even if he couldn’t Contract it, it didn’t matter. The reason he wanted to Contract a mechanical beast wasn’t because it would bring him huge benefits; it was purely because he was fated with Mechanism Art, and the entity had accompanied him for a significant amount of time. He felt that contracting a mechanical beast might be very interesting, without strong utilitarian motives.

As for the Senior Sister Great Master’s suggestion of improving the Cultivation Technique, that was indeed a viable path.

Many Cultivators might start with a Cultivation Technique that isn’t very high Rank. After Cultivating to a certain level, it no longer suits them, but they don’t want to switch Cultivation Techniques or scatter their cultivation and start over. At this point, they choose another path.

That is, to improve the Cultivation Technique they are Cultivating.

However, those who can achieve this are few and far between, as it requires a certain level of innate talent and brilliance.

After returning to his Immortal Cave, Lin Jing began preparing for the Alchemy Convention two years later. Since this convention was an Alchemy competition, he certainly couldn’t enter with just the Shapeshifting Grass.

He must refine the Shapeshifting Grass into a Transformation Pill to lower the difficulty of using the Shapeshifting Grass!

In fact, during this time, Lin Jing had already formed some ideas on how to change the effects of the Shapeshifting Grass.

To make the Mutated Shapeshifting Grass effective for more Advanced Yao Beasts, he needed to improve its quality. This could be achieved through two methods.

One was to use external forces to enhance the quality of the Shapeshifting Grass, such as moving the Mutated Shapeshifting Grass to a special treasure land for cultivation, allowing it to undergo secondary growth.

The other was quantitative change leading to qualitative change: using a large amount of Mutated Shapeshifting Grass and extracting their essence through Alchemy Art.

Concentrating countless essences into a single portion to enhance the effect. This is a common method in the Dao of Alchemy for improving the efficacy of low-Rank Spiritual Plants.

If Lin Jing were to choose, he would definitely pick the second method. However, under the current rules of the Heavenly Dao, the yield of ordinary Shapeshifting Grass is extremely low. Even if the Demon Court has a dedicated Demon Emperor responsible for cultivation, the resulting Shapeshifting Grass isn’t abundant. Relying solely on the Senior Sister Great Master’s supply might not be enough; she might need to seize the shares of the other two Saintesses.

“But there’s no need to rush the matter of raising the Rank of the Transformation Pill. In the Alchemy Convention, it’s enough just to demonstrate that the Transformation Pill has the effect of transformation. What Rank of Yao Beast it can transform is not critical in the short term.

“The key is how to allow most low-Rank Yao Beasts to withstand the Heavenly Tribulation! Or rather, to exempt them from the Heavenly Tribulation! Only then can the demonstration proceed smoothly—”

“I wonder if this method will work.” A method came into being while Lin Jing was performing deductions using his Potential Dragon Luck.

This method combined Lin Jing’s current circumstances with some memories of his past life deep within his mind.

In his past life, he had read many web novels and watched various films and TV shows. In some works, when extremely Heaven-Defying Medicinal Pills were refined, they would attract a Pill Tribulation. Only Medicinal Pills that survived the Pill Tribulation were considered truly complete.

But on the Tianyuan Continent, this situation seemed never to have occurred. There were no records, nor any precedent of a Medicinal Pill attracting a Lightning Tribulation.

Therefore, Lin Jing’s final deduction was to use lightning to refine the Pill. By employing a special Alchemy technique, when the Pill was completed,

it would draw down the Heavenly Lightning of the Pill Tribulation, allowing the Medicinal Pill to endure a portion of the Heavenly Punishment on behalf of the user.

Through the tempering of the Heavenly Tribulation, the side effects of the Medicinal Pill would be reduced.

For example, the side effect of consuming Shapeshifting Grass is that it attracts the Transformation Heavenly Tribulation. But if the Transformation Pill refined from the Shapeshifting Grass were to bear a portion of the Heavenly Tribulation power itself through the Method of Lightning Refinement, it might lessen the burden on the consumer.

The path of transformation itself is currently Heaven-Defying. Whether it’s people or objects, they are all part of the Heaven-Defying act. It makes no sense for the Yao Beasts to bear all the cost.

Conversely, if the Transformation Pill itself fails to survive the Pill Tribulation, the Medicinal Pill will be destroyed, resulting in the waste of one set of Materials.

This method uses risk transfer to share the difficulty of the Yao Transformation. As for whether doing this would reduce the efficacy of the transformation, Lin Jing did not know for the time being.

“Coincidentally, I obtained a flame born from the Heavenly Tribulation while I was with the Kirin Clan—the Heavenly Thunder Flame. The Dragon Carp has now completely refined it. I wonder if this Heavenly Thunder Flame can attract a faint Heavenly Lightning to temper the Transformation Pill.”

The Pill Tribulation Method of Lightning Refinement was the method Lin Jing devised that might reduce the side effects of the Shapeshifting Grass. This time, he was taking a different approach, no longer needing to add other Materials for neutralization or dealing with pharmacology, but starting from the Alchemy technique itself. This was a huge challenge for Lin Jing and the Dragon Carp, as they currently only had two years to research this Method of Lightning Refinement.

No, accurately speaking, it was eleven years, as one year could be spent inside the Hourglass of Time, equivalent to ten years.