plumnovel Chapter 38 Hatching of Spirit Beast Eggs
Chapter 38 Hatching of Spirit Beast Eggs
A single batch of pills can yield a maximum of 10 finished pills.
Besides the finished Crimson Sun Pill, there were nine clumps of dark, burnt-looking substance inside the alchemy furnace.
"Improved comprehension can only allow me to understand the process of alchemy and the lessons learned from previous failures more quickly and thoroughly; it cannot make me a master alchemist directly."
"That's why the success rate of this batch of pills is only 10%."
"My experience... and my understanding of refining the Crimson Sun Pill, are not yet up to the standard of an alchemist."
"We still need to continue accumulating experience." Su Qingyan summarized this simply in his mind. Although he was very happy, he was not arrogant or complacent because of this success.
Carefully place the Crimson Sun Pill into a porcelain bottle, then quickly scrape off the burnt substance inside the alchemy furnace and clean the furnace thoroughly.
The time for improving one's comprehension is only one hour, or two hours.
During this period, it was barely enough to refine three batches of Crimson Sun Pills.
Su Qingyan needed to hurry and dared not delay any longer.
After a brief mental review, he began refining the second batch of Crimson Sun Pills for the day.
This time, the refining of the Crimson Sun Pill went more smoothly than the first batch, but after half an hour, only one low-grade first-level Crimson Sun Pill was produced in the furnace.
By the time of the third batch, Su Qingyan had the experience of successfully refining the previous two batches, and he was much more adept and natural in every step of the process.
Just before the comprehension enhancement effect ended, Su Qingyan completed the entire process of refining the Crimson Sun Pill. He looked at the vent of the alchemy furnace, where the pale red fragrance emanating from it was almost twice as strong as the previous two batches.
Seeing this, Su Qingyan was overjoyed.
He knew there would be a surprise inside the alchemy furnace.
Upon opening the lid of the alchemy furnace, two round Crimson Sun Pills lay amidst eight clumps of black, burnt-looking matter.
Judging from their appearance, they are all low-grade Crimson Sun Pills.
"The effect of this comprehension enhancement is truly powerful. After only two batches, the success rate of the third batch of Crimson Sun Pills has already reached 20%."
"If I could still consistently refine Crimson Sun Pills even without the effect of improved comprehension, I could openly declare myself a low-grade first-level alchemist."
"It's a pity we've run out of raw materials, otherwise we would have had to try a few more times."
"Alright, the most urgent task now is to record the experiences and insights from these three alchemy sessions, along with detailed data, and then conduct an analysis."
"Let's seize this opportunity and stabilize the success rate of refining the Crimson Sun Pill in one fell swoop."
After thinking it through, Su Qingyan quickly returned to his study, took out his notebook containing his alchemy insights and experience data, and began to organize and record them.
Once he finishes writing this notebook, if another descendant with alchemy talent appears in the family, this notebook can be used as a beginner's tutorial for alchemy.
Su Qingyan had already thought of a name: "Alchemy from Beginner to Tomb * Crimson Sun Elixir Chapter".
And so, night fell before they knew it, and then the first rays of dawn shone down. Su Qingyan was so engrossed in his work that he forgot to eat and sleep, completely unaware of the passage of time.
Everyone else in the house, including his wife Zhang Hui, saw him engrossed in writing and taking notes, and none of them interrupted him.
By the time Su Qingyan finished organizing his insights and experiences from this alchemy session, it was already morning.
The sun shines directly on the earth.
Su Qingyan stretched his limbs, left the study, and came to the fishpond.
When his gaze fell upon the bluish-green spirit beast egg in the fishpond, his attention was instantly drawn to it.
The once intact eggshell now has a small hole, and the fallen eggshell is floating on the water's surface, where it is being fought over and eaten by dozens of juvenile black water catfish.
"Won't my spirit beast egg be destroyed by the Xuan Shui catfish fry?" Su Qingyan was startled.
Worried that something might be wrong with the spirit beast egg, he quickly stepped forward.
Upon closer inspection, the initial worry in my heart instantly turned into astonishment.
Although the juvenile catfish around the greenish-blue spirit beast egg were fighting and devouring the eggshell, they did not harm the unborn little life inside the egg.
On the contrary, after the shell of the greenish-blue spirit beast egg broke, the Xuan Shui catfish fry took turns nourishing the little life inside the egg.
They rapidly inhale and exhale the spiritually rich spring water in the fishpond, filtering out the spiritual energy from the water with their gills. Once a certain amount is accumulated, it forms a small clump of viscous "spiritual liquid".
One by one, the Xuan Shui catfish fry spat the spiritual liquid accumulated in their mouths into the broken shell of the greenish-blue spirit beast egg, accelerating the development and absorption of the little life inside the egg.
"This kind of symbiotic relationship...I've never seen anything like it before."
"The world of cultivation is truly amazing!" Su Qingyan exclaimed.
After guarding it for almost half a day, there was a new movement inside the greenish-blue spirit beast egg.
A dozen seconds later, a small, wet head covered with dark blue scales suddenly peeked out from the crack in the eggshell.
It's neither a bird nor a small animal.
It was a small snake!
But the snake looked rather strange.
Its entire body was bluish-black, but its belly was snow-white. Most strangely, on each side of its head, there was a fleshy horn that had not yet faded, resembling a catfish's whiskers, and a pair of golden vertical pupils—exactly the same as the eyes of the giant serpent monster in the Blackwater Pool.
"hiss--"
The little snake flicked its tongue, which turned out to be a forked black trident shape.
Sensing Su Qingyan's arrival, it abruptly turned its head, its golden vertical pupils fixed on Su Qingyan with the ferocity of a wild beast, constantly emitting threatening hisses, showing some fear but not making any move to back down.
"Judging from its appearance, it should be a descendant of that giant serpent monster."
"But its color and the fleshy horns on its head are very different from those of the giant serpent monster."
"Is it a hybrid, or has it mutated?" Su Qingyan observed the newborn little guy with great interest.
After observing for a while without figuring anything out, Su Qingyan called Little Grey over and, pointing to the little snake that hadn't yet hatched from its spirit beast egg, asked, "Little Grey, as a fellow spirit beast, what do you think of this little guy's potential?"
Little Grey tilted its head and thought for a second or two, then leaned closer and carefully observed the little snake for a while.
Although the little snake was afraid of Su Qingyan, it was still able to withstand the attack.
Now, facing a spirit beast of the same race as Little Grey, the little snake felt a fear deep in its blood. It trembled all over and didn't even dare to make a threatening sound. It immediately crawled back into its eggshell to hide.
Its innate instincts told it that the eagle spirit beast before it would truly devour it.
"Hey, it seems you're not so brave after all, little guy!" Su Qingyan teased, then put his ear close to Little Grey who had flown back, and listened carefully to the information Little Grey was giving back.
"You mean that, like you, Little Grey, who transformed from an ordinary wild beast into a spirit beast, your aptitude and racial foundation are very weak, and your future growth is very limited?"
"But this little guy is different."
"It was born a spirit beast."
"Its mother is the giant serpent monster from the Blackwater Pool, its father is even more mysterious and powerful, and this little guy seems to have undergone a slight mutation."
"This is a good direction for mutation."
"So, this little guy has a chance to grow into a second-tier spirit beast?"
"Its quality is quite good?"
"..."