Chapter Thirty-Six: The Five Elements Spirit Pill

  Yue Yu had been thinking of making this kind of spiritual pill for a very long time. After all, being able to directly increase his cultivation was still very tempting to him, and he also knew the drawbacks very clearly.

  Unfortunately, these spirit pills cost at least 150 taels of silver, even for the cheapest ones. Yue Yu's monthly allowance is only about 2.5 taels of silver, which sounds like a lot less than Ran Li's. However, this big guy still has his parents' legacy of 100 mu of land, which is now being managed by Yue Zhangshi. Apart from saving some money each year as a dowry for future marriage, part of it also goes directly into Ran Li's pocket. As a result, their private savings are substantial. If they were to spend all this money on spirit pills, Yue Yu wouldn't need to do anything else anymore.

  So originally, Yue Yu planned to start this matter after the new year. However, due to that previous thing, his anticipated pharmacy started operating several months ahead of schedule. As for the research on the Ling Pill, it also proceeded with an earlier timeline accordingly.

  What is lost is the gain of the horse, how can it be known as a blessing. This led to Jin Xun and his gang's actions becoming more urgent, but also made him obtain the opportunity to come into contact with these spiritual pills earlier.

  To enrich the variety of medicines in the store, Yue Zhangshi spent a lot of money to buy some spiritual medicines that were not within the scope of the clan's monopoly. The Ling Wan was among them. Such an opportunity, Yue Yu naturally would not let go. Soon after buying it, he secretly analyzed its composition in detail.

  The main component is the demon power crystal, similar to the structure of Peiyuan Pill, which is wrapped with some auxiliary medicines. After falling into the belly, the crystallized demon energy can be re-induced and dispersed, helping the human body absorb it. In addition, some auxiliary medicines also have the effect of neutralizing the demon power true yuan.

  Yue Yu speculated that the reason why the Ling Dan had drawbacks was due to the chaos of the spiritual energy it contained, and there were not many single-attribute You Shous. In fact, even a high-level Xiang Shou like Feng Yi Xuan Hu, its body only contained wind spiritual energy. Fire spiritual energy ranked second, and there were also many other attributes of spiritual energy mixed in between.

  Moreover, the amount of spiritual energy in each person's body is also different. Even if it is a congenital strongman, it is impossible to completely drive out the spiritual energy of other attributes, and can only try its best to enhance the intensity of a certain spiritual energy.

  This makes those pharmaceutical manufacturers who try to improve the Ling pill, clearly aware of this problem to a certain extent, but are powerless.

  Because of the different composition of each person's true energy due to the different blocks of demon power crystals, they can either tailor the medicinal composition of the spiritual pills to suit individuals or objects, but cannot popularize them for the masses.

  But for Yue Yu, this was not a problem at all. Distinguishing the spiritual energy content within a piece of demon force crystal was something that even an innate-level pharmacist could accomplish. And yet, with his current internal breath cultivation being only fifth-grade, he possessed a tool that far surpassed this era in terms of material composition analysis.

  Of course, this does not mean that Yue Yu can absorb these demonic crystal nuclei without any scruples. In fact, the chaos of spiritual energy is only one of the troubles. The most headache-inducing thing is that the heteromorphic true yuan inside the demonic crystal nucleus is essentially similar to the human body's own true yuan, but its nature and composition are vastly different. Humans can absorb it, but their own true qi will inevitably become impure.

  In this regard, even the top pharmacists are completely at a loss. Those innate-level pharmacists can also feel the existence of various spiritual powers, but they are far from thoroughly understanding the most fundamental things like demon beasts and human true yuan, nor is there any other suitable medicine that can change its properties.

  This was originally an unsolvable problem, and Yue Yu himself could only start from scratch without any precedent to follow. However, since he found out that all those who used the Ling Dan, as long as they took the right amount, although their cultivation would be very difficult to progress afterwards, there were basically no cases of true energy losing control or going into madness; and occasionally, people with extremely good luck could even advance one or two levels after that. After these events, he had a startling conjecture - that humans might be able to assimilate these alien true essences after absorbing the You Li Jing crystal for some time.

  Unfortunately, Yue Yu didn't have any substantial evidence to prove this point. Recently, among the few martial artists employed by his family, there were one or two who relied on the Ling Dan to forcibly enhance their strength to the level of a martial artist. However, the problem was that his analytical ability required true energy input into the opponent's body to be completed. Unless it was someone like Rong Li or his family's servants, either with a deep relationship or unable to resist. It's unlikely that anyone would allow him to input his internal energy into their body and manipulate them. Moreover, his current fifth-level Da Hunyuan true energy was also something that couldn't be exposed.

  However, this did not hinder Yue Yu's research on the Spirit Orb. The single-horned bear brought back this time had a rare crystal of demonic energy that contained all five elements. Yue Yu only needed to purify and reduce the amount of spiritual energy inside according to the proportion of spiritual energy in his own body, which was enough to create a suitable crystal of demonic energy for him.

  At this point, direct absorption would have been possible. However, the pharmacists of the Eastern Continent were not pushovers, and they couldn't find a perfect solution to deal with the demonic energy's true essence. Nevertheless, after millions of attempts, they discovered some medicines that could reduce the demonic energy's true essence's violent and uncontrollable properties to some extent.

  In addition, considering that some of the medicinal ingredients can help the human body fully absorb the demon energy, Yue Yu finally decided to use these demon energy crystals in the form of medicinal pills.

  As for the process of refining medicine, it's actually simpler than that of Pei Yuan Wan. This thing isn't very useful, so various Ling Wan recipes are widely circulated, and Yue Yu only spent a few days to fully grasp them, and even made some small improvements based on this foundation.

  At this moment, the three pills named Wu Xing Ling Wan by Yue Yu were spinning around in the bronze cauldron in front of him. The five-colored colors emitted a strong medicinal fragrance. However, looking at these nine spirit pills, Yue Yu was somewhat worried. Although he was excited and expected, he also worried that his speculation might be wrong.

  He shook his head, and Yu Ye shifted his gaze to the left, next to the Wu Xing Ling Dan were two small red and yellow pills. These were prepared for Rong Li, the attribute of the Black Turtle was earth, while the attribute of the Wind Winged Fox had about 30% fire spirit power in addition to wind spirit power. Combining these two, he created these two Huo Chen Ling Dan. Of course, they hadn't been tested either. But this time, it couldn't be helped, and this big guy would have to temporarily act as a guinea pig.

  The corners of her mouth slightly raised, Yue Yu turned her head in Ran Li's direction: "A Li, trouble you to come over!"

  Ran Lijun was facing a pine tree, sweating profusely as he swung his axe with great effort to chop down the fallen pine needles. However, at this moment, the wind from his axe blows fiercely, and often before the blade even reaches its target, it has already been blown away by the strong gusts of wind to an even farther place. It was only after half a day that he managed to chop down just over a hundred pine needles, and among them, more than half were actually ones that he accidentally hit himself with.

  This looks a bit foolish, but Ran Li did this for a reason.

  About a month ago, he had seen Yue Yu practice sword once, at that time this little master was also standing under a pine tree. The large number of falling pine needles were all cut into four pieces without exception, evenly from the vertical axis.

  At that time, Rong Li saw this scene and was shocked, but he didn't take it to heart. However, a few days ago in that battle, when he personally saw that no matter what, Yue You Shun couldn't catch a glimpse of Yue Yu's figure or sword, and his powerful inner energy couldn't be unleashed at all, he was truly shaken.

  In Ran Li's opinion, if he could practice to half of Yue Yu's level, it might not be a problem to challenge two levels higher.

  However, after seven consecutive days of practice, Rong Li was getting more and more anxious, unable to find any breakthrough. So when he heard Yue Yu's call, Rong Li was overjoyed, thinking that Yue Yu had finally taken pity on him and wanted to give him some pointers. But when he turned around, all he saw was his young master's face filled with warm smiles.

  Ran Li couldn't help but shudder all over his body. From what he had learned about Yue Yu in the past few days, whenever she smiled like that, it was absolutely not a good thing!