Late at night, inside the cat house.
"General, the Extreme Realm Pill gives me a very strange feeling!"
Su Qiluo sat on Duke's cat bed, holding Little Husky Shisan in her arms. Su Qiluo was scratching Little Husky's belly.
Lying on his back facing the sky in Su Qiluo's arms, Little Husky's legs were twitching as Su Qiluo scratched his itchy belly, and the dog's face was grinning from ear to ear.
"What's so strange about it?"
Du Ke dipped his brush to write a line of words. Su Qiluo also paused scratching Little Husky's belly, recalling the process of tempering her body after taking the pill.
"It's like my whole body was wrapped in a fishing net. Not only was my skin and flesh restricted, but there was also great pain from the squeezing during the deepening tempering process."
Saying this, Su Qiluo shuddered.
"Especially painful!"
Hearing Su Qiluo say this, Du Ke stopped writing. Although Su Qiluo was delicate and pampered, she didn't have much of a princess mentality and wasn't very delicate.
For the Extreme Realm Pill to make Su Qiluo describe its effects like this, the pain must have been truly excruciating.
"Steel is forged through hundreds of refinements. Endure it and it will pass."
Du Ke dipped his brush to write another line, comforting Su Qiluo. Su Qiluo nodded firmly, "I know, only through suffering can one become an exceptional person!"
When Su Qiluo said this, Du Ke smiled helplessly. This girl was born in luxury in Rome.
Saying this really left no room for others.
The rich second generation isn't scary. What's scary is when the rich second generation works harder than you. Du Ke now truly understood this saying.
"I talked to Aunt Yun about the Extreme Realm Pill. Aunt Yun will think of a way to help you, General, keep some of it."
Su Qiluo had the look of someone expecting praise. Seeing this, Du Ke didn't stint on words of approval either.
"My girl is still the best to me."
Seeing these words, Su Qiluo immediately smiled so broadly her eyes narrowed.
"But the Extreme Realm Pill can only be taken at the Flesh Tempering Realm great success stage. General, you'll have to cultivate well and advance to Flesh Tempering Realm great success as soon as possible!"
Su Qiluo didn't forget what Aunt Yun had told her. Du Ke immediately nodded, "I have my own arrangements, you don't need to worry."
"Just prepare the pills for me."
"Okay, I'll prepare the pills for the General."
Su Qiluo nodded vigorously. Du Ke also continued to write, "At the current stage, what we need to do is continuously improve our strength and become stronger."
"I know."
"Since you know, it's getting late, go to sleep early."
Du Ke wrote up to here, then put down his brush. Seeing this, Su Qiluo put down Little Husky in her arms.
"Then I'm going to sleep. General, rest early too."
Du Ke nodded silently, watching as Su Qiluo left.
After the girl left, Du Ke threw the paper he had just written on into the Black Cauldron's space. Then he turned to look at Little Husky squatting in front of him.
Looking at the little Husky, Du Ke tilted his head. What do you want to do again?
Little Husky Shisan tilted his body and fell over on the ground, exposing his belly. He let out a couple of whines, signaling Du Ke to scratch his belly.
This silly dog!
The corner of Du Ke's mouth twitched as he batted Little Husky and sent him rolling on the ground.
Go play!
Rolling all the way back to his dog bed, Little Husky righted himself, squeezed his eyes into slits, then shook his head and flopped down into his dog bed.
After getting Little Husky settled, Du Ke also jumped onto the platform he usually used for cultivation, staring absentmindedly at the Blood Essence Pills in the wooden box.
Regarding these pills, he had a bold idea.
This bold idea came about after he had refined and swallowed all the pill books Zhao Dan had obtained, gaining a basic understanding of alchemy in this world.
Speaking of this idea, first let's talk about the alchemy of this world.
The pill books stated: To concoct pills, you must first understand the medicinal properties of the ingredients. Medicinal ingredients are like beauties, each with its own temperament and abilities. Generally it takes ordinary people three to five years to understand medicinal properties.
But for Du Ke, it was just a matter of refining some basic medical books.
Next was the matching of the various medicinal ingredients.
In alchemy, this was called sovereign, minister, assistant and demon.
To put it simply, it corresponded to the five fingers of a hand.
Of the five fingers, the thumb had the greatest effect and was the sovereign. The index, middle and little fingers were the minister, assistant and guard.
As for the demon at the end, it was the pinky finger.
Because the pinky was useless, the demon was also useless in alchemy.
In alchemy, you had to consider the sovereign, minister, assistant and guard. The main ingredient was the sovereign, the secondary was the minister, the next was the assistant, and the last medicine was the guard.
The four worked together to produce the best pills.
As for the final demon, the pill books did not go into detail, only mentioning the words "left path takes demon as master".
Once the alchemy apprentice understood the medicinal properties and grasped the principle of sovereign, minister, assistant and demon, they could start learning pill formulas.
As the saying goes, even the cleverest woman can't cook a meal without rice.
Without a pill formula, even the best alchemist was a muddled fool who went into battle with a gun but no bullets.
In addition to the above three points, the most important thing in alchemy was refinement.
During pill refinement, the alchemist had to consider the state of the pill furnace, the firing process, the matching of ingredients, and even the weather which could affect the formation of the pill.
And after the pill was refined, assessing its medicinal potency was crucial.
After all, medicine was one part poison. Even pills that improved cultivation carried some toxicity.
This toxicity was collectively called pill toxin.
Long term consumption of pills by cultivators would accumulate pill toxin in the body, which was only detrimental and had no benefits for cultivation.
Therefore, evaluating the toxicity of a pill was the main way to assess an alchemist.
Pills with three parts potency were low tier, six parts were mid tier, eight parts were top tier, and eight and a half to nine parts were grandmaster level.
As for ten parts potency, the pill books only recorded one line: Unattainable by anyone.
Of the four points of alchemy, the first three were the most important to Du Ke.
As for the last, which was also the most important, it was less important to Du Ke.
After all, he had the Black Cauldron.
The Black Cauldron could even refine moonlight into pills, let alone anything else.
As for how many parts potency the pills refined by his Black Cauldron had, Du Ke figured it should be ten parts, because from the start until now he hadn't noticed the so-called pill toxin at all.
Also, after reading this theory, Du Ke had a new and bold idea in his heart.
Ordinary pills had pill toxin because of the alchemist, so if he put pills refined by other alchemists into the Black Cauldron for secondary refining, would the pill toxin remain?
How much would the potency increase?
What Du Ke was eating now were all pills refined by other alchemists.
Du Ke's dependence on these pills was considerable. After all, paying to win was only a matter of whether it was zero times or countless times.
Already used to taking pills to cultivate, if you told Du Ke to go back and build up his cultivation solely through his own diligent effort, that would be absolutely impossible.
And the pills he had consumed over time, if not a thousand, were at least several hundred.
As the saying goes, tiny bits accumulate to become a glut. Constant dripping wears away a stone, and constant sawing cuts through wood.
Such accumulation of pill toxin in the body was a problem he had to consider.
So he had to find a way, a way to refine the pills made by other alchemists a second time.
Thus was born the idea of double refining the pills.
"Let's give it a try!"
The highly proactive Du Ke immediately put all the Blood Essence Pills into his Black Cauldron's space.
Inside the Black Cauldron's space, dozens of yellow bean sized pills appeared. At the same time, in his heart Du Ke shouted lowly.
"Refine!"
The next second,
dozens of pills entered the Black Cauldron simultaneously. The flames within the cauldron suddenly soared up, engulfing the pills and fusing them into globs of medicinal liquid one after another.
The medicinal liquid undulated within the flames, and wisps of black smoke rose from the flames.
These were black fumes formed by the burning away of impurities.
When the impurities were removed, the medicinal liquid rapidly combined and was kneaded by the flames into blood-red pills the size of rice grains.
Before long, the Black Cauldron shuddered and the blood-red pills flew out, embedded in the void.
"It's done already?"
Du Ke stared at the rice-sized pills, unable to help but blink.
"Let's try them out!"
With this thought, Du ke took out a millet-sized pellet from his dark cauldron dimensional space and swallowed it into his belly.
Then, boom!!!
The wide-eyed and round-eyed Du ke, his eyeballs were also glaring round, this medicinal effect was more than ten times stronger than before, and a thick, intense medicinal power almost exploded in his body instantly.
"Damn, this method really works, but isn't this increase in medicine effect too exaggerated!"
While Du ke was cursing inwardly, he was also quickly taking the stance to guide the qi and blood to absorb the medicine power.
The violent medicine power swept Du ke's body, causing dots of bright blood to ooze out of his skin and fur, the bright blood quickly dyed his dust-free fur into a mess of blood red along the fur.
At the same time, inside the cat house, the faint roar of a beast echoed, although tender, it had already revealed its majesty.