Chapter 193: Pills - 193
The second use of pills, healing, also didn't have too much of an effect on Zhou Fan. Not only did pills not work on him as much due to his Chaos physique, a fact he found out just recently, but he rarely ever needed to be healed. Even the collision of galaxies wouldn't be able to do much to him now.
The only danger he would face was danger from being too arrogant and confident in his abilities. Since Zhou Fan was no fool and had plans to become one, he was essentially completely safe.
Along with the obvious definition of healing, there was another that wasn't really automatically thought of. That was the replenishing of Qi. While such a pill would be useful to Zhou Fan, his Chaos physique still lessened its use.
As someone who was constantly suffering from Qi exhaustion, he found that fact rather saddening. However, quality could be countered by quantity. Although there were usually some side effects from taking too many pills due to their impurities, Zhou Fan's chaos physique was made up of Chaos Qi which would completely destroy any foreign impurities.
Also, he didn't have meridians. There was absolutely no way that impurities could effectively stop him from cultivating unless they clogged up his entire body. If that happened, he would be too dead to worry about cultivating.
Regardless of the pill's effects, Zhou Fan wasn't going to ignore pill making. It was another art that would be useful for him and other future cultivators. He naturally couldn't ignore it.
On top of the mountain, Zhou Fan formed a fire in his hand. While there were many ways to make pills, fire was not only the easiest and most well-known, but simply the best. Other methods were equivalent to choosing to not swing a sword but drop it and hope it cuts whatever is in front of you.
While there were many ways to make pills, most were stupid. Zhou Fan could simply put the flame in the space in front of him, but 99% of cultivators needed to use a cauldron in order to make pills.
It was a lesser way, but Zhou Fan relented and decided to do it that way. He manipulated the stone below him to form a cauldron before he enhanced it to the god realm level.
Such a thing was something that only he could do. He chalked it up to him being the creator of the very world he was in. It was either that or his chaos Qi.
With the terribly made cauldron in front of him that didn't really imitate a cauldron in any way but its shape, Zhou Fan threw the flame down and let it burn as hot as it could without destroying the so-called cauldron.
While it was burning, he left the mountain and found a random patch of flowers and other grasses. Within the world, herbs with spirit Qi had yet to begin growing, so he was forced to make some himself.
With the completely normal flowers, grasses, and other plants, Zhou Fan sent Qi into them. Soon, they became Qi gathering level herbs. Since he felt he would need more in the not so distant future, he began to make it rain life Qi across the entire world. That would help all the normal plants become herbs. Naturally, they would stop at a certain level and he would have to manually enhance them once again, but the rain of life Qi would help in the starting stages.
With the handful of plants, Zhou Fan returned to the cauldron. He grabbed one piece of each of herbs he had picked and placed them in the cauldron. To absolutely no surprise, they soon burnt and turned into waste. Clearly, he had failed to make a pill. It was most likely due to the incorrect amount of materials being put in.
Perhaps the rules would be somewhat looser as he grew in rank, but he had to follow them strictly at his current state. That meant correct material amount, correct timing of putting the materials in, correct fire control, and correct Qi manipulation.
'Such an annoying process.' He thought to himself. If not for the fact that he had slightly learnt some alchemy in his days at the huang long academy, a time when people could still learn and create without him having to do it first, then he would have no clue where to start.
Only due to his previous knowledge, Zhou Fan's trial and error didn't take as long as thought. He learned every single first rank alchemy pill in only a year. That was after he had found and created every herb he could think of.
If there were any more herbs at the Qi gathering level that he hadn't discovered, he would have to once again learn more recipes. Luckily, they would likely be easier with his new knowledge.
Zhou Fan didn't bother stopping to complain about the length of time he was spending and moved on to the 2nd rank pills.
He had to create new, higher level herbs, and trial and error once again. Luckily, his knowledge of first rank alchemy recipes made 2nd rank pills even easier than he had imagined. It only took three years to master.
In those three years, he had not only mastered all the recipes, but had also increased his pill creation speed, although it varied from pill to pill.
Within the world he was in, there was a constant life Qi rain that helped grow new herbs. They grew extremely fast and were plucked just as quickly. The world was not suffering from this, but evolving much faster. In the last four years, it had progress that would have normally taken it four hundred years.
A hundred times increase!
Not only would the world not be upset, but it should logically be thrilled in Zhou Fans pill making.
Zhou Fan continued on to the third rank pills. Once again, a whole new batch of herbs was needed and the amount of life Qi rain increased dramatically.
Chapter 194: World Of Plants - 194
After ten years, Zhou Fan mastered 3rd rank pill making. In those ten years, the amount of materials he had used was enormous. Now, even the plains were filled with so many plants that they could be called a jungle. As for what was once jungles, they were nothing but great tangles of plants taking over an area.
The most unaffected places were the mountains. Still, one could tell from the layer of grass that covered them like hair that they were not untouched.
Despite the immense amount of plants, the world was not really harmed. Instead of resisting the change brought about by the plants, it seemed to go with it. Animals were now evolving into more jungle-like creatures and insects were becoming more common.
One problem that the world was facing was the water shortage since every body of water besides the oceans were completely taken over by algae and other water plants.
By now, the fish population that lived in freshwater had gone extinct. The worst part is that the lack of water would have a bad effect on the plants since they naturally relied on it to survive.
Luckily, the role of water was being carried out by Zhou Fans life rain, but it wouldn't be there forever.
It seemed that the planet was creating more and more natural rain in order to make up for the losses of water, but there was only so much water it could take from the ocean.
Also, at the current rate, the ocean would too be taken over by water plants. While Zhou Fan was thrilled to see the increase in plants, he was not thrilled to see that one of the planets under his mortal dao was facing a possible future extinction.
Therefore, after some thinking, Zhou Fan manipulated the world a little. Instead of going in the normal direction of growing plants, it would now work on evolving plants to be able to survive on only air, and sunlight instead of water.
It would definitely be a major change, but Zhou Fan saw no other way out for the world. Now that he had settled that issue for now, he could continue on to 4th rank pills.
With the world's overgrown plantage, finding 4th rank herbs was absolutely no problem. After 30 years, Zhou Fan managed to master 4th rank pill making. His pills still had little to no effect on him, but like formations and arrays, new types of pills were becoming possible as the rank increased.
He was now at nascent soul level pills and pills that messed with the soul were now somewhat possible, although barely. He had thought that he would struggle to make soul type pills due to the fact that it seemed unlikely the world had any soul type plants, but he managed to find an entire growth of them in an underground cave system.
As the rank of plants increased, their variations did as well. On the top of some mountains, there were flaming plants and at the bottom of the ocean, there were freezing plants. Due to the world's diverse environment, there were many types of plants in many types of places that made many things possible.
Another example was the poison plants that usually took over swamps. They could be used to make poison pills. The poison pills were fairly powerful, but it took really rare materials to create one that could kill an 8th level nascent soul realm cultivator and higher.
As he moved on to 5th rank pills, Zhou Fan experimented and developed a way to store pills. An issue he had earlier had led him to such a creation. He noticed that after around ten years, most of the 1st rank pills began to rot and become useless.
With his new invention, a jade bottle with formations covering it, storing pills was now easy and simple. The jade bottles extended the first rank pills lifespans largely, but the exact amount was yet to be seen.
It took Zhou Fan 100 years to master 5th rank pill creation. There were now more pills dealing with the soul in one way or another, and the effect of those pills was much better on average.
Many more elemental and non-consumptive pills were also available. For example, there was an awfully powerful pill that simply exploded as soon as it was either swallowed or met with an intense force.
Without paying too much attention to the 5th rank pills, Zhou Fan was ready to move on. Sadly, there was once again an issue of plants. Zhou Fan felt that if he pushed it more he may actually end up hurting the planet, but he decided to risk it. Either the planet would evolve with the once again increased life rain and the increased amount of powerful plants, or it would become a wasteland incapable of housing any sort of life whatsoever.
After making even more life rain, Zhou Fan collected the rare 6th rank materials that managed to evolve on the planet.
They would only last him about a month, but that would be more than enough time to tell whether or not the planet would fail or succeed.
As Zhou Fan used the last void traversing level plant, he looked around at the world. Directly adjacent to his mountain, which had been untouched by plants due to an array he set up, there was what seemed like a mountain covered in plants so thick that one couldn't even see the stone.
Not only was it weird that a mountain magically appeared out of nowhere, but it was also weird that, when one looked closer, they would realize that there was no stone beneath the plants.
In fact, the entire mountain was actually just a gathering of plants. Covering the mountain was an extremely large amount of 4th rank, 5th rank, and 6th rank plants. In some places, there were even some 7th rank plants.
Also, this was only a mountain. The plants found on it were usually of the most basic quality.
Clearly, the world had successfully evolved.
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