《A Comprehensive Guide for Alchemy》 Introduction The following book ¡®A Comprehensive Guide for Alchemy¡¯ is a title reserved by Celestial Alchemist Bananalloy. Copying, plagiarising, pirating, or stealing this guide will not only increment karmic sin, but will notify the creator instantaneously. What punishment is provided is solely dependent on Celestial Bananalloy¡¯s whims, ranging from light burns to divine smiting. This is the 7th edition of ¡®A Comprehensive Guide for Alchemy¡¯ released on 14370 of the Grand convergence calendar (GCC). 1st edition released: 12255 GCC - Outdated 2nd edition released: 12320 GCC - Outdated 3rd edition released: 12650 GCC - Outdated 4th edition released: 13340 GCC 5th edition released: 13990 GCC ¨C Voided due to several incorrect production methods 6th edition released: 14000 GCC Written Jade publishers take no responsibilities for your life if any of the aforementioned sins are met. Written Jade publishers is a trademarked title as of 11800 GCC, created by Writer divinity Asako. Foreword Thank you for your patronage in buying this guidebook. Some background on its origin. One day I had sent down an avatar to another slightly developed cultivating world. They were nothing special, and had not even escaped their own world¡¯s resistances, but their alchemy recently entered a golden age. With that as a reason I decided to aid them a bit, starting a small lab in one of their empire¡¯s capital cities and devoting almost all my time to teaching others. Slight revelations of my skill undoubtedly spread throughout the world and it was not long until I gathered a small, dedicated team of ¡®grand alchemists¡¯ as the world saw it. This is par for the course whenever anyone like us does this sort of thing. However, what I was not expecting was during the refinement of a relatively weak icy song berry. It astounded me to find out that these people never discovered the simple refinement of infusing the berry with flame Qi and using a five-fold crushing sigil to end up with the necessary icy whispers. However, on deeper consideration, I realised that this problem occurred nearly everywhere. And it stemmed from a singular problem. There was no clear guidance for alchemy throughout any of the realms. Even for my education composed of so many high tier manuals is haphazard at best. It was more than simple to see a true goal for my life from that moment, and after finishing up my teaching matters on that world I sunk all my time into a true collective knowledge of alchemy. A single book that is usable by all to build their way up to the peak!Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings. There were many kinks along the way, namely collecting contributions to the field of alchemy from various surveyors. Imaginably, passing over a family¡¯s prized refining method would shake them to their core. As such this could never become ¡®A complete Guide for Alchemy¡¯, however, I have done my best to ensure the validity of all information within. Alchemy changes, and I promise to keep this guide afloat. The waves of time will not drown out our beloved craft. As always, Only regrets last forever! Preface This guide will follow some strict rules in layout, namely that it relies on outside knowledge in several parts. Firstly, knowledge on herbalism will have to come from either my other book ¡®A Comprehensive Guide for Plants and Fungi¡¯ or a competent outside source. Many secondary sources exist, but this guide directly references my other ones. That guide will point out how to adequately harvest and store a vast majority, but not all, of them. However, this one will only glance over the harvesting and storage process. Do note that as an alchemist all these skills are highly important, and one day you will not be a student with a spatial cupboard full of ingredients. At those times it will be necessary to find your own ingredients if no one is selling it. Another matter is all references to the initial book in the ¡®Comprehensive guide¡¯ series, titled ¡®A Comprehensive Analysis of Cultivation¡¯. Although a summarised version is included in this guide, it is highly unrecommended to cultivate using the rough descriptions from here. A deviation is possible and death even more likely. This ¡®Comprehensive guide¡¯ serves the purpose of providing a moderate set of stairs for any apprentice alchemist to climb. From the weakest Mortal level recipes to the few known Endless Ascension alchemy concepts. Even if you can¡¯t complete every recipe in this guide, whether due to physical or cultivation based limitation, a further page will always be able to give a direction. However, alchemy is not purely creating pills, potions, poisons, or explosives. There are techniques, both martial and complimentary. An alchemist has a specialised flame more than capable of battle, while they must also learn how to improve and refine this flame to aid in creation. The techniques available are practically required for an alchemist, however your clan or school may be able to provide a better version than this guide¡¯s copy. Always weigh your choices well! Each recipe will include a set of ingredients and a set of instructions. These instructions will always mention the preparatory steps for each ingredient, even if those steps were mentioned in the literally prior recipe. This is to allow people searching for a specific recipe to not begin a search for a certain ingredient, as I have said in public meetings. If a recipe¡¯s creator gave any insight or words regarding their recipe then those may precede anything else in the recipe, or if an account of their discovery still exists that will supplement that. This may be in the form of a quote or a simple explanation of their mental state and beliefs that idea, it depends entirely on the recipe and creator. Afterall, some recipes were created long before the Grand Convergence calendar came about. Explanations on a products effects will always come after the instructions, and this may be slightly vague in certain products where results are heavily stylised on an individual basis. For the most part, explanations are accurate in a general-use case. Usage will always be placed at the recipe¡¯s end, allowing for non-alchemists to easily locate the method for using an alchemical product. Afterall, everyone uses these, not just alchemists. And a final point before starting, this guidebook is entirely supplementary! It will not replace a proper teacher on the path of alchemy! More than enough people pick up this guide and start running before walking. Do not copy them! With that out of the way, a brief analysis of each cultivation realm to provide insight. These realms will be referenced in each recipe, such that you know the minimum cultivation to create it. The recipe tier will also be included, but an alchemist that only cares about ¡®The best pill¡¯ or ¡®Ultimate poison¡¯ will never reach the top. Try to not enter that state of carelessness, and aim to step up each gradual step. Victory awaits those with dedicated and passionate hearts! A brief look into the cultivation system All cultivation begins from Nothingness, the purest state. Upon nothing a soul is wrought, creating the foundation. From foundation life flourishes and mind incubates, preparing for its existence. Nothingness withers, replaced by destiny, filled by life, soul, and mind. Three wrung from one. Destiny guides all, running dry faster than nothingness. Only now can heart come about. However, heart is not guaranteed. Without heart, Three reduce to none. And the cultivation returns to nothing. With heart, begin the journey of truth. Truth is vague, indistinguishable, and horrid, but worst of all; it lies. Live in truth, resign to it, and refuse cultivation. An existence of failure. DESTROY TRUTH, THREE RETURN TO ONE! DESTROY ONE! See past Nothingness. See beyond Nothingness. See the world that lies beyond purity. A weathered heart of cultivation endures. Every step is painful, but every further goal is another truth. Another lie. Galaxies unknown, stars to seek, worlds to conquer. Cultivation never ends, but destiny must. Never stop destroying truth, but seek to resolve regrets. Only regrets last forever. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Everything returns to life, and cultivation is no different. No cultivator is born with their powers, they may only live and continue on the path. Not continuing is akin to forsaking the path to accept mediocrity, however for some that may be an aspiration. Only one hard rule of cultivation exists, ¡®Only regrets last forever¡¯ No matter what you do, no matter what choices you make, never regret them. That should be the only thing that determines your choices. Keywords: The Three ¨C Refers to the three parts of a human. Life, soul, and mind. All three work together to create the living being known as a human, and for one without cultivation all three are needed for survival. Qi ¨C An energy originating from the universe. A primal energy predating existence, appearing in the same instance as time and space. All three silently supporting and upholding each other. Years of trial and error, as well as numerous enlightenment, have led humans to discover methods to absorb this natural, primeval energy and refine it, enhancing themselves to greater and greater extents. The secrets this energy holds are unimaginable. Dantian ¨C An independent space contained within a specific point in the body. This space requires a relatively large volume of Qi to form, such that it only forms at through completion of the Life exploding tribulation. The independent space is used to store a cultivator¡¯s Qi from that point on, with some exceptions at higher stages, making it harder to attack the core of a person. The location is dependent on the path taken. Tribulation ¨C Test given by the universe to confirm your capabilities on the path. These tests take a wide range of possibilities, from confirmations of your will to divine smiting. There are three results to a tribulation: Losing, enduring, and winning. The first ends in death and the universe treats all as equals in this. Enduring is a success, but you will forever become something mediocre. Only winning over your tribulation can allow for true ascension. Core ¨C An accumulation of all the Qi within your dantian finding its destiny. The core¡¯s exact nature is dependent on your destiny, such that a person swept by the sword will form a sword core. But an alchemist will form a medicinal core, both types provide unique effects. A core is a construct purely created from Qi, only slightly modified by destiny. Its ability to output strength is far above spirits. Sins ¨C A concept of morality placed on all living beings as constraints. In our everyday life we may never notice the shackles, but as you commit sins the weight associated with each will begin to drag you down. With the universe as the judge, jury, and executioner, it does not take lightly to those who skirt its desires. Heart core ¨C A core capable of seeking truths. You may look into the laws of existence, but first the core must be steeled to withstand those truths. Understand yourself and accept it, only then can you withstand the dreadful reality. Through this the heart core¡¯s limit will increase, use Qi to improve your strength further. Core of questioning ¨C A core sprouting with the desire to know the secrets behind truths. By understanding more questions in truths you slowly poke more holes in existence, slowly building up the strength of the core. However, questions only increase the core¡¯s limit, you still require Qi to improve your strength Truths ¨C A representation of the universe. Something presented to us in the form of laws or information, a quantifiable thing that gives inexperienced minds safe refuge. The box is a box because the universe defines it as so, it gives the qualities of a box and displays it to us, but that is a truth. It is a falsehood that must be seen past because it is only a box as by definition. Truths are lies, they keep up safe at night from the infinite beyond, but they are not wrong. Laws ¨C A subset of truths. These are truths that define our natural world, simply denying these things will not remove them though. You must also understand what about them is a lie, and then step into a place without those imposed truths. Nothingness (One) - The initial truth, the oldest truth. Created by the void to cover itself, nothingness is a simple concept used to shield the minds of every living thing from a world they should not see. In turn, both are compassionate towards life, but to cultivators they remain a respectable foe. We do not hate nor worship this unrelenting force, instead spreading its truth willingly, as it was a truth that saved our lives up till the point we escaped it. Flame of existence ¨C A physical representation of your existence. It¡¯s not actually a flame, but most visualise it as such for convenience. Your life force, Qi, mental energy, soul force, Truths, questions, and everything gathered up to this point reside within. A true coagulation of experiences, such is a cultivator. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st line ¨C Natural gathering stage ¨C Like a new life starts from two self-serving cells, cultivation starts from two separated objects that must be brought together. At the start there is nothing, whether the space before conception or the empty body of a cultivator. But by bringing together two parts you can start creating your foundation. The energy of Heaven and Earth, Qi, must be collected and combined with one of the Three to begin cultivation. This decides your path of cultivation, although taking multiple paths is possible, it is strongly advised against. Even geniuses will only take a second path if they realise a high potential in both paths. A person reveals their highest potential in this state without cultivation, as it is their earliest point in life without any truths imprinted onto them. 2nd line ¨C Spirit forming stage ¨C By combining an ample volume of Qi with one of the Three, of your choice, you create a spirit of cultivation within your body. A personification of your ideals and path. The form your spirit takes depends on your beliefs as an individual, such that a good-natured person that sees themselves as evil will observe a demonic-looking spirit. The spirit will begin as a faint outline and slowly condense into a solid form with every step taken on the path, upon complete solidification you will know that you reached the bare minimum foundation.This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source. However, only those aiming for poor results stop here. After completing a single spirit, you may repeat this method to complete a second, identical spirit. Each spirit reinforces the foundation, a necessity for later sections. Six spirits are the bare minimum to be considered ¡®average¡¯. 3rd line ¨C Life exploding tribulation ¨C The path of cultivation is fraught with dangers and tribulations form a part of this. Life exploding utilises two parts, a test of will and power. It''s hard to keep your head straight in life, and this spells defeat in some cases. You will spend a fleeting period in a dream world, every sense as real as can be. In this scene you will come across a multitude of personal and worldly tragedies, in which your choices determine everything. Although only seconds will pass in the outer world, some individuals report spending over a year in their tribulation. Be prepared for an extensive trial. However, it is never this simple. Upon entry to this dream you retain your original strength, but that is slowly sapped with every passing moment. You must prove that your abilities exist beyond strength, and that your mind is capable of supporting life. Withstand the tragedies to endure, or crush them to win. It is an individual¡¯s choice. Either way you form your dantian, however beating your demons will result in a larger, stabler dantian. 4th line ¨C Destiny chasing stage ¨C Probably the most complex stage thus far. Destiny is an extremely complex topic that few understand, even those at the current peak would deign to stare too far into destiny. To chase your destiny and understand it are two different concepts though. This realm asks of you to find your own goals, a faint whisper from the depths of your mind that reminds one of their truest desires. In most cases this results in strong desires for a specific martial path, such as the sword or spear, while others desire supplementary pathways, such as alchemy or formations. No matter the choice, learning more about your true desires will slowly allow you to form a core in your dantian. Finding your destiny will force all your Qi to form a core, and learning more about your destiny will increase the maximum allowed size of your core. Gathering your own Qi to enhance your core is still a necessity. Your body obtains an upgrade in every function, most notably is a mortal¡¯s lifespan increasing to 250 years. 5th line ¨C Heart rending tribulation ¨C The first extremely dangerous tribulation thus far. This tribulation poses extreme damage to your surroundings, and should be completed in a barren location. It will also instantly kill anyone below spirit forming, while those with few spirits will die from a single strike. Some geniuses with at least 12 spirits can attempt to use the power of these tribulations to enhance their bodies. This tribulation is formed in five sections, following the natures of the five auspicious beasts: Starting from the northern flood of destitution, these waters erode away existence. The surrounding land is left desolate of life. Part the ocean to succeed. Following are the eastern storms, sharp winds and powerful lightning strike the cultivator during the tribulation. These winds can easily cut through a Destiny chasing stage cultivator, while the lightning will either scorch your or directly destroy your body. Chase off the storm to succeed. Southern embers of kindling will reintroduce potential into the soils, but will also return you to ash. The barren land becomes extremely fertile farmland through this. Bathe the land in embers to succeed. Next are the westerly roars of the world. These sound attacks attempt to shake your body to such extremes that you shatter into millions of pieces. Roar back at the world to succeed through dominance. Finally you stand at the last challenge, the weight of the world. From above the weight of your actions will attempt to crush you, the world judging you for every sin carried out. Every virtue cancelling a sin of equal value, there is no way to avoid your sins. There will not always be a sky above to support you. Standing firm in front of the world signals victory, buckling under it represents enduring. Collapsing results in execution. Finally over, you may form a heart core. 6th line ¨C Heart forming stage ¨C A cultivator must now find what they represent and cement it into their heart core. The stronger these beliefs the higher a core¡¯s potential. Denying your existence, however, will weaken you. Denying your heart will shatter your core and return your dantian to emptiness. Only death awaits a fool unaccepting of their true nature, although through strong stimuli you can change yourself. Just like any man, woman, or child, nothing is set in stone. Accept your heart, grow from it, and completely form your heart core. Each major improvement of the heart core offers an extra 100 years of lifespan. 7th line ¨C Law questioning stage ¨C Laws are not resolute. They twist and turn, lie and deceit, ruin and abhor. A truth of the world is merely an illusion to be broken, to break a truth depends on the individual. Agreeing with a truth makes you its slave, something that may never be lost in your life. Everything contains a truth, even truths itself, but they are all breakable. Every truth is merely a comfort that a weak mind begs for, only by ignoring the heat of the safe campfire can one understand the lies within. Do not trust your senses, nor your experiences, because all are tainted by truth. Only a firm heart can find the crux of truth and break past it. Seek the laws, and ignore them. Every ignored law will slowly accumulate in your heart core until a Core of questions forms. Every additional question will enhance the core. 8th and 9th line ¨C Truth destroying tribulation ¨C The universe intercepts and impedes you now. Unwilling to allow more to grow past its truths. Failing here will forever destroy your heart core and place the universe¡¯s shackles on you, from this point on you have become a target for misfortune and destitution. Bad luck plagues you and Qi actively works to annihilate you quicker. Only through destroying the truth with questions can you seek that which lies beyond the universe. Understand the world for what it truly is but do not take pleasure in this beyond, it is also another truth that must be ignored. With truth destroyed you must shatter the Three, reforming them into the original one, nothingness. Nothingness, another false truth, impedes your once more. Those accepting of it only realise their end. The original comfort destroyed, now the bounds at which you see can truly open. Truth still exists, but it no longer blinds you. Your core of questions vanishes and is replaced by the Flame of existence. As a solitary being you no longer require others to designate your life, as long as the flame has tinder you will live. Without fuel it will fade, but even the smallest embers can be reignited. 10th line ¨C Exceeding void stage ¨C Nothingness is merely a comfort we take part in to ignore the messy image behind it. More always existed, but our mind cannot comprehend such things. Now, after all this pain and effort, you yanked off the curtain called nothingness. Different from a truth, which directly lies, nothingness simply ushers you away. It understands its own dangers and gives a safe way to ignore it. Now that the mental block of nothingness is destroyed you may move past it, understanding what void truly is and entering a place the universe¡¯s lies can no longer reach you. Nothing is ever void, and if it were then it would be nameless. The fact that it is named nothingness is enough alone to know a lie exists, one it never hid. Void is no different, the true form of nothingness, and endless worlds with infinite possibilities. Just because you see nothing in the void does not mean nothing exists, because everything began here. Understand the origin that contains everything, and move forward. Creation is simply another part of existence, an ignorable part for cultivators. From this point on you dismiss the Three, severing all mortal ties. If you cannot sever your ties then you may wait for them to untie around your neck. Prepare, because this penultimate step only reveals the blank wastes beyond. 11th line ¨C Realm after realm ¨C Reality is cruel. Step after step is taken, and it never seems to end. Every realm signifies another campfire, another truth, another lie. Never stop ignoring them, you have grown beyond truth, and their lies no longer halt you. Only by accepting a truth will your journey come to an end, otherwise they can only look at your passing unwillingly. Truths living an existence without value, they cannot spread their lies and endlessly hope for new guests. Every so often they obtain one, but those guests always end up vanishing. From here there is no direct way to cultivate, every path branches further and further out without end. As cultivators we mark our way through these lands, hopefully finding the next true wonder to behold, and beginning our true jump on these shared lands. Find your journey and walk it, and hopefully ignore all truths on your way. 12th line ¨C A life worth living ¨C Cultivators exist to dispel truth, but life does not. Existence grants a way to seek meaning, but it also grants a multitude of emotions and experiences. You may sever all mortal ties, but more can always be created. The only question is ¡®was it all worth it?¡¯ A brief look into the doctrine of cultivation. From start to end there is a goal, but some people ignore whether or not it holds any meaning. Basics for each tier of Alchemical knowledge Mortal tier¨C Lowest tier of recipes. These can be created by someone with no alchemical knowledge, although those with low cultivation need to exercise some caution to ensure their lives. In most cases the deaths will likely be due to a poison or explosive, and in rarer cases a weak magical item that a recipe calls for. This tier of recipes are generally quite weak. Due to a lack of cultivation, extremely difficult refinements do not exist, although precise measurements may be asked for which will require proper tools. The ingredient list at minimum is two with a maximum of six. Both of these extremes are rather rare, with the central three far more common for list sizes. This is due to a cultivation matter if too many ingredients are merged together. As a result, these effects are rather weak, while the strong ones come with severe side effects. In some cases this side effect may kill a mortal. In most cases simply entering the natural gathering stage will ensure your life in any accident. Since these recipes are technically meant to be for mortal uses it is unlikely they hold any effect on cultivators. The generally beneficial ones can still help though. Conception tier¨C1st tier of real alchemy. From here on you need to have some understanding of Qi and how to manipulate it for beneficial purposes. Of course this means to your benefit, alchemists are not charity workers. This is the tier where alchemy students are most likely to die, as they start interacting with difficult refinements which could backfire at any moment. Combined with their lack of true experience it paves a deadly situation. With this tier truly representing the start of alchemy we see more magical effects. Things that can produce a very real impact like cultivators are supposed to, likewise the weapons are just as frightening. With these recipes we can take a quick glance at the truly malevolent forces in the universe, but still you are blinded by truth. However, at your level it is fine to accept truth, but do not relish in it. On average this holds between four and twelve ingredients, but most recipes fall within the middle of this bracket. The effects from now on truly vary, but a basic concept is always followed. If you try to exceed the effects of the recipe tier then prepare from some side effects. Conception tier recipes are designed for natural gathering stage cultivators, so a poison that works on spirit forming stage experts is likely to kill you instantly as well. Most recipes in this tier focus on changing the individual rather than the world. It is easier to translate oneself than it is the universe. Ambiguity tier¨C 2nd tier of alchemy. Unfortunately, this tier does not offer that much more than the conception tier. Your control over Qi should be far higher now, and you should be capable of protecting your mind and soul on top of your body. This will allow you to not only take on more dangerous recipes but stem out into the domains of the esoteric soul and unobservable mind. By now your alchemical knowledge should allow you to understand when something is about to go wrong and adequately defend yourself during refinement. With more powerful recipes we also see more powerful backfires, however the increase is near equal to your strength gain. For that reason alone the danger of the Ambiguity tier is disregarded. The main danger in the conception tier was your lack of experience, with years of skill to back you up it will only happen if you become arrogant and disregard basic safety. Effects are simply more powerful versions of conception tier recipes. Of course now you also have access to soul and mind related products. This naturally includes poisons and explosives now, allowing you to create some truly scary stuff. It¡¯s not uncommon for a new alchemist of this tier to fail in a soul related recipe and wipe out entire villages as their souls collapse. Ambiguity tier alchemists are considered the hardest to kill amongst equal grades since their healing pills easily overpower any spirit forming stage cultivator. This overpowering nature only works in this tier and cultivation stage, so enjoy the lordship while you can. Preparatory tier¨C 3rd tier of alchemy. You prepare to exceed the mortal level, in a murky goop separating the higher beings and the location they all started at. This tier marks the greatest test for any future alchemist, as it introduces changes to the world. Only by ascending past this tier will you have confirmed alchemy as your destiny if it were your chosen supplement, but did you choose alchemy or was it thrusted upon you? To those who claim alchemy chose them, you¡¯re idiots. Alchemy is a mere concept, and does not possess a living, breathing personification. We all have choices in life, so make yours wisely. Now we enter the realms of actually dangerous recipes. Even the most prepared alchemist could be instantly smote for their minor transgression of forcing the world into their product. Right now you are either at the peak of spirit forming or entrance of destiny chasing, but either will die instantly to a heavenly descension. Do not bite off more than you can chew! Effects can now affect the world around you, but they hold no power over truths. Lightning will bend to your calling, space beckons at your pleasing, and even time can be placed into a collar, albeit all temporarily. The old recipes that improved your body still exist in more powerful and varied forms. Methods to seek out your destiny now open up as the river of fate is visible, although peering in without protection may destroy your existence. Awakening tier¨C 4th tier of alchemy. You are now above the concept of mortals, capable of finding your way through the ever increasing paths of alchemy. It is at this point where many will start to specialise their path. Will you become a poison master or another medicine god? Picking a specialisation will not cut off other paths, but instead will give a clearer direction in this white canvas marked by predecessors. The further you walk the less experience you find, until one day the only visible marks are your own. Recipes now firmly toe the line of the worldly truths, making the world feel a threat by your heightened push. Cases where you push too hard will result in a rebound, as a tribulation will appear to dissuade you. At the same time, attempting to firmly topple it as a mere Destiny chasing cultivator will have you meet your end; you still cannot bear to seek past the truths. Just know they exist, and silently bide your time. Effects are worldly to a previously unbelievable extent. Some competent pills can affect the environment by existing, requiring no more to pull rivers or brew sandstorms. At the same time as a being exceeding pure mortality your body is entirely controllable, all poisons incapable of changing the world have no effect on you. But everything must be paid in full, as all medicines below a point stop working. As long as your pills do not exceed the heavenly truths then they can practically do anything! Few exceptions do exist though, like trying to create something significantly stronger. Or refining some form of ancient energy, like the power of fate. Failures are always good on the path, as the cocky cultivator dies first. World growth tier ¨C 5th tier of alchemy. You now focus on using the world to change oneself. On this long path the only one you can trust unequivocally is yourself, and no amount of love can change that. From here you should no longer aim to change the world through alchemy but to instead transform the world into your products. Gather existence in one hand, your true self in the other, and combine them to birth your unique pill. No recipe for this pill exists, and it likely never will, but your consumption of the world can slowly created this pill. What effects it holds is only known upon creation. Your recipes will no longer appear to follow common sense, although that may have fallen apart long ago. Refining is no longer a matter of processing ingredients but instead completely transforming them into completely novel items, imbuing the world into each component until the change is immeasurable. Now that you can resist heavenly descensions you can start stealing fate and push back against truths. Do know your limits though.This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. Effects on the world are limited. You will come to see that affecting the world means nothing in comparison to individual strength. Controlling time is a game, a toy at best; moulding space like clay is commonplace. Yet none of this really matters. You play around with the truths at best, only by showering these powers in your true heart will you understand how vain all these abilities are. Allow your Three to exceed heaven and earth! Then you will see what true power is. Some were mad that I didn¡¯t mention this. When I say imbuing the world into your ingredients, I refer to transferring laws into them, how you do this is up to you. A universal method will be provided for those without a teacher or proper funds. Reformation tier ¨C 6th tier of alchemy. You must be at the Law questioning stage to reach this tier of alchemy, although there is a major exception. Some can see truths at an earlier stage, allowing them access to this tier. By seeing truths you can also find ways to bend it, a task far more efficient than idiotically pushing against it. Your pills can bend the truth to achieve feats those below would simply claim as impossible. Every additional question to poke against the truth will give you another way to bend it all, improving the overall quality of your products. Imbuing questions into your products is the key skill of this tier, and what makes anything here more powerful. At the same time the return of logical refinements return, but not entirely as the imbuements of laws will still remain. Recipes in this tier are a bit hit and miss. All are incredibly long refinement processes, even for the best in this tier, but their danger is relatively low. The few real dangers are if you try to exceed any truths in your products. Exceeding a truth with spark rage in the universe, which is why the concept of bending is extremely important here. A person may not hear the bent stick, but they will surely hear one snapped. Effects of this tier are namely used to temporarily exceed the limits set by truths. In some way this also represents exceeding laws, but as all laws are truths it barely means anything different. The further you try to bend things the faster your recoil will come about, so a majority of items provide an extended effect by only lightly pressing on that wall. Some say the main power of this tier is to make up for your shortfalls. We reach the decisive point; this can be considered the last well-defined major tier in alchemy. Everyone on the tier of alchemy must come to this point, but after breaking through you may consider diverging from the masses to take a new option. No one can say if your choices are right or wrong. Just don¡¯t regret it. Kindled heart tier ¨C Major 7th tier of alchemy. The flame of existence quite literally defined this tier, and now your carefully nurtured alchemical flame will become one with your existence. The newly created flame will hold the basic effect given by a flame of existence, but more importantly greatly amplify your original alchemical flame¡¯s effects. For this reason you want to refine your alchemical flame to the peak before merging them for greatest effect. This will not adversely affect your existence, but some recipes may call for you to use some of this flame. Over time the flame will return to its original size, but overuse will send you into a timeless sleep. Recipes of this tier are easy to come by if you have access to proper libraries, or this book, but that isn¡¯t where their problem lies. The recipes themselves rarely remain constant, instead changing into near infinitely diverse variants with the minutest of changes in the surroundings. One must even take into account their own aura whilst adding ingredients to these products. Backfires are generally mute at this point unless you interact with an extremely volatile ingredient, in which case it purely depends on your ability to block this dangerous energy. The effects are varied to say the least. The difference between the world and you no longer exists, in fact you have even left a mark on that previous wall of truths. Any product that can affect you will also affect the world, but the difference will be in the area of effect. A pill may warp the surrounding planet, but what does all energy do when contained within a single body? From now on the only limit of a pill is the energy it can contain. At this level of alchemy you are only restricted by precision, which is highly sought for to begin interacting with existence on a smaller scale. More precision means stabler energy, and therefore better effects. Balanced Unity tier ¨C Alternate 7th tier of alchemy, a path created to disprove the majority. Some do not believe in placing all your eggs in one basket, and as such do not approve of sacrificing their child to their flame of existence. To them it is simply not worth giving up a dear friend for some power, and instead seek to place their alchemical flame into a precise balance with their existence. This quickly proved to fail, as maintaining balance with two is simply difficult. It can take centuries to form a minor success. So, someone suggested using three to balance it all. Is that not why all humans are born with Three instead of One or Two? A third flame is worthless here though, and instead you must seek out your polar opposite. This must be an item with power directly countering yours and holds an imagery opposite yours. The only reason this works is due to the item''s actual strength holding no importance in this task. If your opposing item is a mere natural gathering stage sword, then so be it. At this point you can easily refine this item into surviving your flames through various imbuements. With your opposing item found, and reinforced until it can survive your alchemical flame, you can begin the linking process. If it fails then simply try again, it may be that you selected an improper counter item. Do not feel disheartened by failure, some only require hours to gain unity while others take years. This tier alone holds no implicit benefits, and you can complete recipes in an identical fashion to Kindled heart tier alchemists. By taking this path you will soon split away from the majority, including even I, but on the path of alchemy there is no value in reverence. From here you do not need to look up to me, simply steel your heart and walk your own path. Maybe I will join you in this place one day. Endless staircase tier ¨C Major 8th tier of alchemy. We climb the stairs of alchemy day in and day out. Improving, changing, refining, and improving once more. This is the endless staircase, where recipes approach the peak of humanity. Our path of cultivation is an endless spire, and so is our climb of alchemy. We have come across 102 alchemical staircases to date, each allowing us to refine the few recipes for this tier we have to an unfound degree. Some claim that at some point we will hit a wall, others claim we hit it long ago and only seek out a certain point to climb over. With the distance we travelled so far, more than a few seem to consider this tireless climb a falsity. With that matter spreading about there are some who believe this trouble to be another truth far beyond our scope. Like a mortal not realising a distant hill is actually a mountain, we may be miniscule fools blinded by a gargantuan truth. What great irony! Alchemy is my passion, so what does a wall matter? Whether I exhaust my existence on this staircase or ascend upwards hold no difference. As long as I can give my heart to alchemy and those I loved, what more can I ask for? Blank canvas tier ¨C Alternate 8th tier of alchemy. Let your desire spring forth and paint freely! You see your cultivation as a voyage across an endless wasteland littered with campfires, but ignore them to push forward. Meanwhile your alchemy is an artistic representation of yourself, as long as you wish to continue, you may. The universe is your canvas, and your heart a brush! As long as ink flows you can go on and on, whether circular, straight, artistic, sinusoidal, any design is up to you! The blank canvas may be empty, and lack results to vouch for it, but for sure it reminds me of the child-like joy I once saw in alchemy. To freely create to your heart''s content, ignoring rules and concepts. I would certainly enjoy stepping onto the canvas once more, to produce a piece of art unlike my actual painting attempts, but I will always ask myself two questions whenever considering this unadulterated joy. Will I regret leaving my post? At the same time, will I regret maintaining it? For now I can only say the answer to both is ¡®yes¡¯. Unidentified tier ¨C A set of tiers far above humanity. First, how do we even know these exist? Easy! Over the years we occasionally find remnants from other civilisations that tell us our skills mean nothing. How far it goes is completely unknown to us, but this gives us a goal. Something to strive for. Never stop fighting on the path of cultivation! There¡¯s no way to say your heart dedicated to alchemy won¡¯t be the creator of humanity¡¯s next alchemical tier. Good luck students! 1st recipe - Wound cleaning fluid Wound cleaning fluid Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements. Maybe the oldest known recipe in existence, and something anyone dabbling in alchemy tries out. Some scholars record primitive species using this liquid; therefore it may originate from a random animal. Not unique, but certainly symbolic to alchemists. The recipe given has been refined and optimised, unlike its rudimentary form created so many eons ago.

Ingredients and recipe

Broad-leafed fern is normally distinguishable by its overwhelmingly large leaves which are covered in a thick, waxy cuticle. Aside from this they have no obvious traits, so harvesting them is purely dependent on your familiarity with them. Bloodied nightshade is an insanely powerful hemotoxin, and advising children to not even touch the things is important. The flowers are pretty distinct as their pure white petals hold crimson red streaks, giving the source of their name away pretty easily. Capable of forming massive clots in mere minutes, it is not a flower you ever want to be near. However, like any poison it holds a lot of medicinal value. Freshwater is water with little to no salt content. Whether or not it is mineral water doesn¡¯t matter, even if people continue to ask year after year. Heat the freshwater until boiling, easily noticeable when heavily bubbling. Stir occasionally to aid heating up of water. With a mortar and pestle (or even a rock) grind down the two large leaves. Proper method can be ignored here, simply focus on completing the balm. The water should be adequately boiled after this grinding. With the water boiled, remove the stamens from the Bloodied nightshade before dropping it into the water. This step is not entirely necessary, but the stamens may induce symptoms in people with hay fever. Leaving the water over your flame will not ruin the medicine, but lowering the flame can reduce the chances of self-inflicted harm. After half a minute of soaking in the boiling water, use a wooden spoon to remove the nightshade.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. Please report it. DO NOT TOUCH THE WET FLOWER DIRECTLY! Currently, touching it will coat your finger in its highly toxic poison which will kill on consumption. Drops of Bloodied nightshade poison can kill elephants, let alone a weak human without cultivation. Grind the flower down exactly like the leaves and properly mix the two together. Drop this back into the hot water and allow the mixture to continue boiling. Occasionally stir the mixture to allow the potent poison to mix with the fern¡¯s resistive effect. However, these effects combined will only clean the wound of any possible diseases, this does not remove the rest of the flower¡¯s effect. Unlike regular belladonna, mainly called deadly nightshade, bloodied nightshade causes intense blood clots. This gives a straightforward way of removing the remnant poison from the nearly complete fluid. A small nick is made on your finger to drip blood into the mixture, these droplets will visibly coagulate into a sort of slimy solid. Once again, do not lower your finger into this poison-filled liquid. Continue doing this until your blood disperses in the fluid and drain the resultant liquid into another bowl. In a perfect scenario no extra blood would mix into the fluid, but humans can only do so much. Remove the coagulated blood from the heated bowl, if concerned over any remnant poison then fill the container with any water and some more blood. If more slimy coagulant forms then you know that some poison is leftover. You have completed the production of the oldest known recipe!

Usage

With the exceptions of allergies, Wound cleaning fluid can be used by anyone in any number of ways. The most common is soaking less grievous cuts directly, and then leaving them to heal. More serious wounds may be washed in boiled water and then have bandages applied. The bandages are soaked in Wound cleaning fluid to further reduce infection chances. As a final example, some richer human nobles will bath in wound cleaning fluid after a battle. Although the fluid contains no restorative properties, the residual numbing effect from a strong poison reduces some of the pain felt by the noble. Overall, it¡¯s a competent fluid for mortal fighters. Best used in tandem with simple regenerative ointments to clean and heal the wound. Drinking the fluid has no reported effect, although some claim it aids in removing stomach ulcers. 2nd recipe - Skin Protecting sap Skin Protecting sap Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements. Vaguely a recipe, this started off from adding random objects to a sap. The sticky sap already provided some protective measure, but testing with different materials created a far more durable result that could be removed slightly easier at a later date. Due to a lack of proper recording we know nothing apart from it appearing in various ancient texts, but clearly it overcame serious problems that those early tribes previously just endured. Some like to argue that this originates far beyond the wound cleaning fluid, but several sources show that to be false. On the other hand, this is the earliest written account of an alchemical product we have, serving as that other side¡¯s main source of evidence.

Ingredients and recipe

Sandwood trees are a fairly extreme life form, evolved from other desert plant life to survive the endless harshness of the sandy hills. With an unbearably coarse bark it¡¯s common to compare this tree to a source of sandpaper, only further exploited by the actual grains of sand that often wedge themselves into the tree. Be careful to not scrape your body against this tree, it will leave you bleeding easily. Itchcotton sap is the sap from an itchcotton tree. Yes, very astounding. When touched it often compresses and relaxes like cotton, as how it found its name. However, this excessively sticky sap comes with a downside of leaving the skin in a painfully itchy state, and as such should never be touched directly.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. The sandwood bark must be dried for this recipe. The drying process is similar to most roots, in that they are washed before shredding and left underneath the hot sun. Cultivators can directly extract the water to speed this up. After drying you grind up the root until it becomes a fine powder. Rubbing some between your fingers will show it¡¯s extremely abrasive, this is the desired quality. With everything prepared, begin by mixing your sandwood powder into the sap directly. This step aims to remove the ¡®itchy¡¯ quality of the sap, which is caused by innumerable, tiny spikes throughout the sap. These small spikes also stab into skin, causing irritancy. Use a utensil to properly mix the powder with the sap, leaving no section untouched. The abrasive powder will wear down the sap¡¯s tips to a point of relief. This mixing can take several minutes, and far longer in scaled up recipes. After you are completely sure that everything is mixed well. Dice the leaf fibres into small sections, as necessary. No fibre should be longer than 2 centimetres, and should be rinsed first to remove any remnant plant material. The fibres are added to the mixture which is stirred once more to finish the product. When the fibres are spread throughout, it can be applied to any body part. However, the sap will simply stick to everything in its current state. To remove this issue, rinse the sap in cold water, causing it to puff up slightly. The leaf fibres and sand will help it maintain consistency, and keep it in place.

Usage

In more primitive times these made an excellent replacement for shoes or gloves, allowing a normal man to walk several times the distance of their unprotected counterpart. However, this recipe holds little use in a modernised society, especially with the appearance of easy-to-acquire shoes and boots. Simply coat your feet in the product and wade about in a cooled stream for a minute or so before setting off. Well water is normally cold enough to work as well. The greater question is whether or not this is actually useful to you. I can certainly say that if you lack gloves or Qi, then you will need this for recipes down the line. Unless you actually wanted to end up poisoned to some degree. 3rd recipe - Oskat Beetle Powder

Oskat Beetle Powder

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements I''ve used the whole beetle once as a test. Only do this if it''s an emergency and, considering the mild benefits, no emergency can be big enough to justify putting up with the taste or smell. The main use of this rather commonly available powder is to enhance the effect of other stronger ingredients which may not be as readily available, allowing you to use less of otherwise expensive items ¨C Ever-Summoned Demonic God Oskatat while dabbling in alchemy

Ingredients and recipe

Oskat beetles can be distinguished by age due to shell colour. Ideal mature beetles have a grey shell, while immature beetles are a deep brown. An additional point are corrupted beetles, which display no physical differences from other types. You can only tell apart these after finishing the production process. Stalkweeds are long, thin plants that grow like weeds. Can you imagine that? Use any blade to cut them at the base and trim off the leaves growing from their tip. Harvesting is that easy. Before even starting the production you will need to burn the stems dry and grind up the residue. As such you want to try and collect dry plants to make burning easy. Anyone that¡¯s tried to set wet wood alight will know the pain this brings. This component is added to the final beetle powder to complete the product. To prepare the beetle, begin by soaking it in boiling water to kill it. This also removes any residue and dirt on its body. Leave the insect to dry after boiling, and choose an amiable scent in the meantime. Oskat beetle shells produce a scent likened to rotting meat, meaning that some sort of masking is necessary to maintain your sense of smell.Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. You will know if the beetle is sufficiently dry as it snaps cleanly under pressure. From here its innards are removed and cleaned, leaving only the desirable chitinous shell. These are crushed through whatever means available, leaving a light grey powder. It¡¯s recommended to block your nose in this portion, for obvious health reasons, before adding your two drops of fragrant oil. Use a small teaspoon to mix the oil in and properly mask the smell, completing the production of all components. Now to check for corruption, normally from their food sources. If the occasional blue streak appears in the powder then douse the powder in water before throwing it out. The contamination is highly hallucinogenic and has driven some to insanity after long-exposure. Do note that burning this contaminated powder will activate both the contamination and Oskat powder, producing a dangerous dual effect. Providing the beetle was not corrupted, the stalkweed powder is added and mixed generously. This should barely take much time since both are fine, smooth powders. Bottle the product for later use, and try to get some sleep unless you wore gloves. With the forced sleep reducing effects of the beetle, you¡¯ll be lucky to have any rest within the next 24 hours. Skin protecting sap does work as a form of protection.

Usage

As made clear by Demon god Oskatat, this powder reduces the desire for sleep in a forced manner. However, your need for sleep will remain the same. People have died through prolonged usage of Oskat beetle powder because their mind requests sleep while actively denying it. Burning the powder releases the horrid scent within, which no volume of incense can remove. Some people do like it though, so maybe the scent won¡¯t be an issue for you. Alternatively it can be drunk in teas and extracts, but the issue doesn¡¯t just disappear. In fact, it will also taste vile, drinking is rarely done voluntarily as most end up vomiting it out. It¡¯s primary use in the end is a catalyst in other sleep reducing medicines. Oskat beetle powder is actually strong enough for use in a most conception level recipes, but it primarily shines in other mortal recipes. The easy to farm nature of the beetles makes it common for employers to enforce overtime policies, but this practice is waning in the wake of new employee rights spreading like wildfire in the mortal realms. 4th recipe - Blood clotting paste

Blood clotting paste

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements Less of an ancient recipe this time round, but one that shows the ingenuity of all humans. Divine cultivators are not the only intelligent beings, and even they all started somewhere. This recipe is only more special since its creator never even tried reaching for greatness, he appeared completely content improving the life of all mortals. Even amongst the most selfless of alchemists such a person is rare, and as per his wishes he will be given no credit. However, he still holds a place in our hearts as the ideal knowledge seeker we should be. Capable of completely stopping a person¡¯s bleeding, the product certainly has saved many lives.

Ingredients and recipe

Another simple method begun by grinding the petals to a pulp, there are no equipment requirements for this. The weeping part of the name comes from an astounding quantity of water that drips from the flowerhead while plucking the petals. A biological reaction known to make more empathetic children cry, then again, would you like it if someone pulled out handfuls of your hair? Disregarding that regular plants don¡¯t feel pain, lightly press down on the pulp to force out a portion of the water. Either tip the water out or bottle it if wanted since it¡¯s clean and high in nutrients. The flour is purely a thickening agent, nothing impressive there. However the vampiric darkoak is an extremely symbiotic life form. Like meat-eating plants, it will only grow with the addition of blood, which it can easily extract with innumerable tiny thorns along its bark. These thorns slyly penetrate a resting creature¡¯s body for small volumes of blood before secreting a small volume of sap into the site. The sap stops further, unnecessary, bleeding.The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. This entire process normally takes an entire night, Giving a lot of birds a safe resting spot. Through this a long standing relationship has formed between several hundreds of bird species and this type of tree. To finish the recipe, mix together the flour, sap, and petal pulp. This will grow increasingly hard as the flour forces the sap to thicken further into a paste. If the paste is too thick, to the point where it clings together as a ball, add a small amount of the petal water back in. Continue mixing until you obtain a product likened to thick porridge. The complete Blood clotting paste has a shelf life of roughly 3 months, greatly disproportionate to its roughly 10 minute production time.

Usage

This should not be necessary to explain, but here we go. The paste can be spread over a bleeding wound to create a surface level clot. This will stop blood from escaping from the wound, however it still must be closed through another method. You must take care to not let any enter an open wound as it may seal up the blood vessel and cause a deadly embolism. Using the recipes given thus far, a suitable method is as follows. Wash the site with Wound cleaning fluid, then coat the outside of the cut with this paste. Stopping bleeding is pointless if the wound cannot close, so we use a bandage wrapped around the body to pull the two folds together. The aptly placed paste will spread across the closed cut and stop further bleeding. This is the primary method used by less developed armies to save more soldiers. Currently, it only really applies to mortal armies, but it means that wounds previously classed as severe are salvageable. However, triage often means that these patients still rarely make it. So is the cruelty of war. 5th recipe - Blue Bells Itching powder

Blue Bells Itching powder

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements After several test phases I have maximized the amount of itching caused by a single spore. Some may call it excessive payback for a harmless practical joke, I call it justice - Ever-Summoned Demonic God Oskatat as a youth

Ingredients and recipe

That¡¯s right! The first recipe with a weak magical ingredient! To preface the recipe, everything here causes intense inflammations and itches when in contact with skin, so either wear gloves or skin protecting sap. This warning is for your own safety. The blue bell spores are the most dangerous portion of this recipe, since the mushrooms spray them out when buffeted by strong winds. The safest way to harvest these is to pick the mushroom, then cut out the gills to manually scrape out the spores. All of this should be done with protection, if not clear enough by now. It¡¯s in your interest to wear some sort of mask that can block particulates, as a final measure to stop any wayward spores from entering your respiratory system. The spores must remain hydrated at all times! When dried their primary effect changes into an incredible flammability, even lighting on fire in direct sunlight. The dried spores do have their own use in explosives and fire related drugs, but do more harm than good at this stage. Soaking them in water is unnecessary, but they should be kept in a cool, humid room. Poison ivy is a commonly seen plant in any forest, and this particular strain is no different. It¡¯s only stand-out feature is its fur-like bristles coating the leaf. Only those with an allergy to the plant are in real danger, but the itching is hellish to say the least.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road. Next is the virulent poison ivy, processed in a comparable manner to plants before. Grind it to a pulp and press the water out. Remember to not touch it directly, and leave it to dry in sunlight. This may take a few days, but after drying you can grind it further into an ash-like powder. Easily completing the second ingredient. Please note that some alchemical stores may sell an extract of Virulent poison ivy¡¯s oil, which is what causes its itching property. Rather than the stated volume of leaves, 4 drops of this oil work as a substitute. Inflamed mandragora is a root vegetable with substantial fire element Qi, especially useful for anyone cultivating fire Qi techniques. Although the fleshy internals may sear a mortal¡¯s hand slightly, the outside instead contains a mild yang poison that inflames and induces itchiness on touch. The root hairs specifically use small prongs to inject it underneath your top layers of skin. The root favours any location with concentration of fire element Qi, and soft soil as to spread their roots easily. However, growing them in such conditions is far easier than randomly finding one. Any proper protection once again overcomes this, allowing for easy and quick harvesting of the root. Simply cut off a few hairs and grind them down. Mixing them in the ratio given by the recipe will produce a diabolical itching powder. The effect of each plant creates a chain reaction multiplying the effect far beyond any of the individual components. A result of weeks spent with an itchy inflammation. Maybe the worst part is how the inflamed mandragora works well to increase skin sensitivity significantly, making each scratch that much more tempting and rewarding.

Usage

Aside from bringing ruin to your worst enemies, or rather your bullies. This powder is rather safe by all accounts, although a person itching at their rash may end up cutting themselves. Also, rather impressively, this powder is effective on cultivators in the natural gathering stage, although they might seek revenge if you don¡¯t have the strength to support yourself. It can be left on a person¡¯s clothing quite subtly, but please refrain from placing it on underwear. Both men and women will shudder in fear from that day on¡­ Aside from that, it¡¯s main commercial use is a torture method. The victim is tied with a small section of their body, normally nose, covered in the powder. In minutes the itching begins and they¡¯re left in that hellish state until giving up information. An extremely cruel mental torture, but nothing physically harmful. Naturally, don¡¯t use it on people with allergies to the ingredients. That¡¯s the exception that can kill a person. 6th recipe - Acute silence poison

Acute silence poison

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements A poison highly regarded for its amazing usage in traps. As far as age goes, hunter gatherer clans noticed how animals avoided these ingredients, noticing their poisonous potential. Using traps was incredibly rare at the time, but a few upstarts used them to great efficiency, and one particular healer took it upon themselves to poison these animals. Not quite understanding that poisons remain in the creature after death, they luckily evaded a poor choice as the quantity needed to kill a human is dozens of times more than a small rabbit. The result is the best mortal tier rat poisons in existence.

Ingredients and recipe

A simpler recipe this time round, with far less preparation. One note regarding the nettle, it¡¯s original name was simply blackthorned nettle, but a spiteful alchemist forced a name change after his heart was broken by a lovely singer. Yes, even alchemists can be extremely petty. Thornberries are often picked with their crown of thorns included. This crown forms a circle of sharp spikes like the petals of a flower and can easily be cut off with a good blade. If you don¡¯t have a knife, then be imaginative, or read up on prehistoric survival. I can¡¯t include everything here. With the thorns cut off, try to avoid swallowing the thornberry¡¯s juices. It won¡¯t harm you, but best not to consume poisons willy-nilly. Crush the berries into a pulp and squeeze the juices out. Collect the red liquid in a container of your choice and do what you please with the berry, just make sure to cook them to remove the poison. Supposedly, they make a nice sour jam.This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. The bleeding nettle stems have no preparation requirements, wear some protection and squeeze all the liquid out from the stems. The water will also contain some of the poison, which is directly poured into the container of thornberry juice. Mix the two properly with a vigorous shake and you¡¯re ready to go. Just don¡¯t drink the poison, about 30 ml will give severe stomach cramps, vomiting, and diarrhoea. After 50 ml you enter the lethal range, although children and smaller/lighter people will encounter these ranges at lower values.

Usages

You¡¯d imagine this is great for assassinating people, given that it produces no scent or smell, while the colour can easily be hidden. However, it¡¯s a lot easier said than done to make a person consume so much in a quick succession. If not taken in a single instance, then a person can drink over 200 ml in the course of a day and feel fine. It¡¯s only during a high build-up that issues are encountered. As said earlier, it¡¯s great for hunting animals and dealing with rats. A small piece of fruit coated in the poison is enough to kill a smaller rat, while a few coated seeds can kill pigeons and the like. Rabbits are a bit harder due to weight, but even they can be dealt with given proper food. It is generally advisable to let the poison dry on the food before giving it to an animal, such that the fluid is not rubbed off by accident. Understandable, this may not be a choice when hunting larger carnivorous animals as the bloody scent draws them in too quickly. In the end, it¡¯s a versatile fluid for human hunters. How it¡¯s used will always depend on the situation at hand, and who knows, maybe you¡¯ll get away with poisoning someone with it. 7th recipe - Mercurial eyebright powder

Mercurial eyebright powder ¨C By Glas

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirement Possessing an angelic form so sweet it stirs a sense numbing euphoria that could turn the most saintly individual to sin. That is the facade. In truth they are of bruised flesh in constant haemorrhage and malignancy. Of what retains them in abuse I do not know... ¨C Excerpt of The True Bodies; Chapter 6, The Succubus Undressed.

Ingredients and recipe

An unfairly difficult recipe to complete without cultivation. It¡¯s a wonder that those insane societies actually created this product in minimal amounts. Before even starting, an iron mortar and pestle must be cooled to -50 C, or -58 F. This is the bare requirements to even process the liquid silver. For cultivators they can easily cool the iron tools, as necessary. Additionally, the tools should not be reheated quickly as the metal will degrade as a result, instead allow for it to slowly reach room temperature after usage. Some may recognize the term ¡®cold iron¡¯ to refer to any iron used to ward off evil. However this is a lie, a falsehood if you will. Created by the very same groups wished to keep this recipe secret, and it worked quite miraculously. Only fools and preachers could convince others that a piece of metal can restrict the supernatural forces of their world. But whatever keeps you asleep at night, I suppose¡­ With your chilled iron tools, place the liquid silver inside the mortar and wait for it to slowly solidify from the frost. This process may take several minutes, but eventually the liquid will harden. From here, it¡¯s in your best interests to wear gloves so as to not induce frostbite. Use the pestle to smash the materials to pieces, then begin grinding it down into a powdered liquid silver. An incomprehensible name since it is no longer liquid, but what do you suspect from the half-insane men to create this?Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. With a tacky, easily clumping powder prepared, use a regular tool to grind down the eyebright root. Unlike the other toxic metals, this plant only holds beneficial effects, so touching it will not elicit any harm. Grinding down the grey, rock-like root should take no more than a few minutes. Unlike its appearance, the internals are laughably brittle. Mix the ground down eyebright root with your liquid silver powder, producing a powder called silver eyebright powder. You know the mixing is finished when your eyebright root powder is coated in a silver sheen. Liquid silver is naturally attracted to the magical effects of eyebright root, but so is any magically inclined metal. However, you will easily tell that there is too little liquid silver powder to entirely cover the grey eyebright root, easing the last stage significantly. Directly pour the white lead powder into the mortar filled with silver eyebright powder, and mix fervently. You may only stop once no further grey originating from the eyebright root is left, such that only white and a silvery metallic sheen is left. Pour the powder out of the cold iron mortar and into a stone bowl, proceed to wait for the mixture to heat up and revert the liquid silver into, obviously, an actual liquid. As it melts, ensure that you constantly fold the mixture onto itself. And when it finally reaches room temperature you know the process is done. You will bring insanity onto yourself, just like those before you.

Usage

Aside from killing yourself through lead and mercury poisoning, this recipe is rarely usable in most worlds. Anyone with cultivation will see that the mixture is inherently magical to some degree, leaving its only use in those worlds where magic left through the backrooms. Hidden societies in those worlds commonly use this to see the secrets that most deny, although most regret this choice with their non-existent strength. Encircle one''s eyes with the resultant powder and ensure no gaps, lest something backfires and blinds you. Apply white lead paint to the face as a mask, commonly seen in fashion in those places, with care that the circles are not noteworthy. The ward only works on the condition that only you know of it, while illusions of the eye are common, there are more types. Rather than trying to look through illusions, by those searching for what is hidden from the world. However, no self-respecting cultivator would use such a simple ward. The mercury simply provides a path for any Qi to pass through before entering your eyes. The eyebright powder nullifies anything attempting to obfuscate your vision, but that is all. The white lead is nothing more than cheap makeup to hide the truly important component. 8th recipe - Blinding explosive

Blinding explosive

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation required An interesting explosive created by farmers of the ancient era. Many recognized a strange rock that burnt brightly, similar to magnesium, and thought of scaring off wolves at night using it. A particularly bright peasant boy stole some of his parents¡¯ supply to figure stuff out on his own, the end product was an easily combustible powder that released a strong white light. It¡¯s military uses are null, but to this day farmers will always keep a small jar of it on hand.

Ingredients and recipe

It should be clear enough, but don¡¯t leave any of the materials near an open flame. If you¡¯re lucky then a temporary spell of blindness would occur, or you go up in flames on the worst end of the spectrum. Don¡¯t play with fire kids! Gunpowder should be quite well known in any developed civilisation, such that it can be bought. If you can¡¯t buy it then just mix saltpeter, charcoal, and sulfur in the ratio of 75:15:10. Whether this is in kilograms or grams does not matter, just makes sure all the ingredients are a fine powder before them together. Then take the amount required by this recipe. Lightburst talc is a type of talc in the end, meaning that grinding it down by hand is incredibly easy. Just do that and try not to make any sparks in the process, any of these are likely to set off and ruin an entire batch of the powder. Lastly are the blue bell spore, we will go over the collection method even though it was previously mentioned. The safest way to harvest these is to pick the mushroom, then cut out the gills to manually scrape out the spores. All of this should be done with protection, otherwise you can expect dreadful itches for almost a week,If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. In severe cases, people cannot sleep through the itchy hell. Drying the spores cannot be done using sunlight like before. Instead, place a stone bowl into some flames and allow it to heat up entirely. This works best on a campfire or similar, but an oven will work just as well. When you are ready to begin drying, drop the collected spores into the hot bowl. Then simply leave it in this state for an hour or so, stirring the spores gently every 15 minutes. This process may need to be repeated a few times to properly dehydrate them. Although, if you live in an abnormally windless region then you can brave using solar drying instead. A cultivator may directly pull the water out from the spores, which is far faster than either method. With all three ready, pour the gunpowder into your talc powder and mix profusely. You should barely be able to see any of the dark grey powder when finished. Now slowly add the dried spores, taking extreme care not to spill them. Slowly mix them together, in case of creating sparks with your bowl. If you used a wood bowl to stir highly explosive ingredients¡­ my condolences. I assume you to have some common sense. Store the finished product in a dark, dry room. If a jar is used, then consider covering the opening with fabric to reduce water moisture entering the Blinding explosive.

Usage

Unfortunately, the intense light given off is too short lived to ever hold a place for casual lighting. Rudimentary candles are generally more effective, and lots of woods filled with fire element Qi can burn for hours on end with strong lights. It never stood a chance for casual lighting. As for actual uses, the primary is scaring off wild animals on farms. Wolves are always an issue for mortals, especially without any hot weapons, so wrapping this explosive in fabric and lighting it on fire will scare off a multitude of creatures. Especially since most night creatures are more sensitive to the sudden change in light, blinding them for far longer than day-time animals. Additionally, this is more of a minor use, but this powder is good when catching someone off-guard. They are unlikely to recognize what the pouch is full of, and the light will leave them completely defenceless for several seconds, more than enough time to either slit their throat or make a timely getaway. Of course, less harmful actions, like stealing a wallet, is also possible given enough skill. 9th recipe - Sieging explosive

Sieging explosive

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation required Every army of mortals needs weapons, and ways to siege cities/fortresses are no different. Gunpowder discovery came about relatively early in the ancient era, although fireworks took an oddly long time for someone to invent. However, hauling a barrel of gunpowder up to a city wall is difficult and dangerous. One of the largest empires at the time wanted something better, something utterly destructive. They created a powder with nearly 5 times the explosive force as regular gunpowder, but its true power laid in its ability to easily dissolve even metal walls; needless to say they conquered the continent soon after.

Ingredients and recipes

Begin by preparing gunpowder in the standard fashion. Crush saltpeter, charcoal, and sulfur into three sets of fine dust. Then combine them in a 75:15:10 ratio, making sure the result is only a slightly grainy powder. This is likely the only easy part about this recipe because it quickly ramps up in difficulty. Acidstone, where to begin? Acidstone only forms in unique clusters of extremely unreactive stone. If compared to a traditional object, then this stone is about as reactive as gold. However, you may notice an issue with using gold tools to break down a rock. Not just is it impossibly expensive, but you¡¯d be lucky to even chip the acidstone. The only option was using that extremely unreactive stone that facilitates the acidstone¡¯s production. Inert granite is the name, and it''s generally useful property of not reacting with acids leads most low tier alchemists to always keep a set of tools made from this stuff. If you already have one then get cracking, literally. Use hammers to break down the acidstone and Inert granite chunks, then powder them down slowly. In the case of Inert granite, a mortal human will need to use something like a mill to grind the flakes of rock. Acidstone¡¯s lack of hardness allows a stone mortar and pestle to ground it down. Quickly mix the Inert granite dust into the acidstone dust, making sure to thoroughly coat every acidstone grain with Inert granite. Just a few pieces left uncovered can ruin an entire batch of Sieging explosives.This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version. Now the hardest part, but still doable by a mortal. Crystallised magma is found in two main places, either deep underground or in volcanic vents. The latter is easier to find and acquire for obvious reasons. Rather than trying to mine the crystals directly, you will encounter less trouble by mining around the crystal and taking the whole thing. This comes with the problem of unsustainability as creating a new crystal takes far longer than re-growing a chunk. Before even attempting to work the crystal, it must be heated in a hot forge for several hours. Optimally heating it to 1900 C, this may require a specialised fuel that burns hotter than normal. Most blacksmith forges should be able to accommodate this though. Only after proper heating is the crystal pliable enough, although in this case it means that you won¡¯t die upon grinding it. Heating the crystal will settle the intense energies within, which are magical but lack the density to classify as a natural gathering stage ingredient. Nothing else to say, just grind it down and drop it into your portion of gunpowder. If adding it blows everything up then you know that your crystal should¡¯ve been heated more. If the crystal powder and gunpowder fully combine, symbolised by every grain of gunpowder releasing a faint orange sparkle of light like that of a star in the boundless night sky, add in the inert granite coated acidstone and mix well. Pack the finished product into convenient bomb packages and send them to military storages. A competent weapon of warfare is created!

Usage

It¡¯s an extremely powerful bomb that corrodes things. Only extremely unreactive things are ineffective against it, of course this applies at the mortal tier. Most cultivator materials simply ignore the effect of these bombs. A note on usage, the acid only works because the intense heat released by the crystallised magma also strips away the thin layer of inert granite. Thus the acid is allowed to react with whatever it touches, which is a tough stone wall in most cases. Mainly used to collapse city walls, a random soldier can light one of the Sieging explosive pouches and throw it at a city¡¯s wall. Unless the wall is magical, or made of inert granite, you suddenly have a new entry point. Do this enough and you can entirely destroy sections of the wall, beneficial if you¡¯re a warmonger and plan on razing the city anyway. Slaughter and pillage, am I right? As for commercial and small-scale uses, it¡¯s a bit difficult in fighting. Not throwing it far enough signs away your life, while throwing it accurately enough such that an explosion/acid actually harms your target is difficult. One section of the economy that really loves this item is the building sector since this explosive is excellent for demolishing buildings. Actually, considering that empire fell long ago, the biggest use of sieging explosives is now in construction. How ironic for the explosive that brought down walls to signify the creation of new ones? 10th recipe - Body refiner鈥檚 oil

Body refiner¡¯s oil

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements Cultivation is a long, long road. Everyone knows this, and everyone preaches this. However, how many people actually start early enough? ¡®A stable foundation¡¯ is an often spouted phrase, but most just take this to mean solidifying your cultivation at every step. It really means to use every trick possible to be better. Body refiner¡¯s oil is exactly as stated, and designed for a mortal child¡¯s starting point. Created by the joint effort of several cultivator clans, it allows children to take a taste of the hardship imposed by cultivation and sets up a better foundation. Easy to concoct, easy to use, but most importantly, the ingredients are easy to acquire.

Ingredients and recipe

Briefly explaining the ingredients. Copperpetals contain a sticky oil-like substance that provides minor reinforcements to internal body structures. Bladed thistle is a weed in most cases, but its sharp prongs can easily create opening in the skin. Although literally any magical seed oil can be used, a natural gathering stage seed is recommended to avoid¡­ unfavourable outcomes. At most, spirit forming stage seeds can be used as the oil source, but any higher will either cripple or kill the mortal child. Starting with the Copperpetal, remove the stamens and pistil entirely, leaving only the petals and receptacle. Ground the flowerheads¡¯ remains down to a pulp and drop it right into the magical oil. For the thistle, only the barbs themselves are important. To maximise the effectiveness, you take a knife and run it along the stem to remove only the top layer. Repeat this all the way round until you¡¯re left with two bare stems and the part containing the barbs themselves. Use the stems as firewood, or whatever you prefer. Some people talk about eating them for example. The plant fibres of this thistle are still rather tough, so cut the part into sections width-wise. Each section should be no more than a centimetre long before once again grinding up the product. The barb and plant fibre pulp is added directly to the oil as well, finishing the main preparation.Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. Leave the product to rest in a warm, humid room for a week at minimum. Ideally leaving it for a month. This process is important, and will determine the difference between some magic oil with plant parts and actual body refiner¡¯s oil. Copperpetals are naturally too weak to reinforce the body, but using any Qi dense seed oil can enhance the reinforcing oils.

Usage

The effects gravely depend on the oil¡¯s maturity. Resting for more than a month has no effect, but considering it¡¯s almost pure oil the product can last years. Most clans are recommended to store gallons of it at all times, providing they can afford so many magical seeds. 1 week matured oil will hurt the least, as neither the barbs or reinforcing oils have been adequately enhanced. It¡¯s effect is also the worst, but it can guarantee that regular thistle and thorns will not scratch easily. Scraping the plants against your body will still leave cuts. 2 week matured oil is significantly better, and the process will incur two feelings. At the start a horrid itching will appear on the applied site, which shouldn¡¯t be touched under any circumstance. Scratching will ruin the process on that location. From there an intense pain will spread over your body, which some compare to being burnt alive. Actual burn victims disagree, saying that it felt more like lots of bee stings instead. Admittedly, pain tolerance varies from person to person while all humans, especially children, often exaggerate things. The final effect of the 2 week old oil will provide a minor enhancement in gathering Qi, reducing the time to complete natural gathering by 10% on average. The physical body is on par with the 1 week old oil, but heals roughly 50% than the first type. At 4 weeks, or 1 month, the itching process remains the same. However the pain massively increases. The barbs are now strong enough to dig into your surface level blood vessels, causing slight bleeding on your entire body. There is no danger of death by blood loss, but the recipient will feel a deep pain from their entire body. The oil seeps through the miniature holes and reinforces your muscles slightly. The painful process, lasting twice as long as the other two, will result in heightened strength and even better Qi gathering capabilities. Most beneficial is the enhanced skin, which resists against blades minimally. On average you¡¯ll complete natural gathering 25% faster, and receive a 15% boost in strength. You also gain the effects of the previous weaker iterations of the oil. Technically speaking, you can double all the state values by using a spirit forming stage oil, but chances are that any weaker child will experience multiple organ failure in the process. Or they die from blood loss before that, so it¡¯s often not worth the risk. 11th recipe (Part 1) - Extreme cooling urns

Extreme cooling urns

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements A duality alongside the heating urns. This version is excellent for absorbing surrounding heat and massively cooling off the surroundings. No one really knows how this recipe came about, or why as a matter of fact. Many dispute the idea that it originally simply cooled rooms down, but the initial documentations of such a tool only show it holding such a use. The only thing people do agree on is that it makes mortal life a hell of a lot better, something most have understood at some point.

Ingredients and recipe

Extremely easy recipe as you can imagine. It can last a few months per flower, and the flowers themselves are simple accessories to the main extreme yin plant. Therefore they can be harvested in sufficient quantities where even mortal families can buy a few every year.Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators! Fill your chosen sized urn with the specified rainwater and drop the flower in. Take special care to not touch the flower directly. Its intense chill will instantly freeze your hand in those cases, rendering unsalvageable.

Usage

It helps cool rooms down for extended periods of time. In an urn with 1 litre of water it will last roughly 3 months, at the same time reducing the temperature in a 10 metre radius by 15 C. These values all change if the volume of water is changed, therefore exact amounts and sizes are dependent on your home. Extending this slightly, you could stick lots of those in an underground room to create a freezer. It also allows for a constant cold room if desired, both of which are desirable in many professions and homes. 11th recipe (Part 2) - Extreme heating urns

Extreme heating urns

Mortal tier recipe. Natural gathering stage required Exists in duality with cooling urns. These came into existence far later than their colder brother, due to an issue with Extreme yang blossoms simply not working. This led inventors and alchemists at the time to shelve the idea, with the occasional young spark taking a crack at it. In the end a solution was found, but the simplicity of the cooling urn is what led to such a long wait for this recipe¡¯s completion. No one expected a simple reversal to require so much extra effort.

Ingredients and recipe

The recipe isn¡¯t actually that complex, as you just need to dump the hellfire root in last. The issues are the extra procedures required during the entire thing that has to be carefully watched. Brine is another term for salt water and is made by mixing any salt with water. For reference, at 5 grams of salt for every 100 ml of water. Water weighs roughly 1 gram per ml if scales are your only option. Distilled alcohol can be tricky, especially without specialised equipment. This trouble can easily be solved with cultivation by boiling your alcohol and condensing any fumes given off. The ethanol fumes will not be visible like water, so using Qi to sense and guide the trails is necessary. A real alchemist can also do the same with proper equipment, but it may be a waste of time for them to simply refine alcohol. Boil the less pure spirit in a flask attached to a condenser. This device contains two hollow chambers, an inner one for the ethanol vapours to travel through and an outer for cold water to pass through. The cold water will cool the vapours into condensing, giving a relatively pure solution of ethanol.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. Saltpeter simply requires luck to find. It can really form anywhere where the chemical requirements are met. Alternatively it can be bought as higher tier alchemists make the product as they wish. Pure hellfire root must be found, and under no circumstance should it be damaged in the extraction phase. Even the slightest nick on its fragile skin will spew out intense hellfire that most spirit forming stage cultivators will fail to put out. Upon starting, dump the brine, distilled alcohol, and saltpeter into the barrel. Stir slowly until the powder is completely dissolved in the mixture. This is where problems appear, as adding salt to a mixture of alcohol and water will force them to separate. This is entirely unideal. Adding such saltpeter will quickly cool the solution, slowing down the rate at which the mixture splits. This is stirred amply as necessary before the hellfire root is added directly. Once again do not make direct contact with it, your hands will obtain horrific 3rd degree burns. Leave the pure hellfire root in the mixture and stir with your Qi. A wooden spoon will catch on fire, while a metal one will easily melt. A stone one is plausible, but considering the trouble it becomes easier to use QI. The intense heats of the root will maintain a current throughout the water, practically the only thing stopping it from splitting and ruining the product. Once a week, a natural gathering stage cultivator must scrape off the saltpeter that settles on the inner walls of the barrel. Simply grind it back down and drop it back into the barrel.

Usage

Like it¡¯s colder pair this one instead heats up a room. The intense heat keeps any room nice and toasty during the chilly winter months. It also helps great for mortal soldiers stationed on mountains and such, while some richer farmers fill their fields of delicate crops with these to farm all year round. This is unviable for mortal farms, but magical crops have a far higher proceed. Unfortunately, the requirement to have a cultivator babysit the urns is what forces them to fall short. For a small family, a simple fireplace would serve a better purpose than an expensive pot. Anything involving hellfire is rarely cheap after all. 12th recipe - Primouths Potion of Panacea

Primouth''s Potion of Panacea

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements When the King was wretched and old, He brought in physicians tenfold. One presented a bright potion, And in the commotion, He slipped off with a purse full of gold. ¨C Avarice Accumulator Strot Sea

Ingredients and recipe

I deign to call this a potion, let alone an alchemical product. However, considering the number of hopeless saps that greedily swallow this, I suppose it long-since earned its place here.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. In case of any reactions, it¡¯s best to add the vitriol into your water first. Under no circumstances should you drop water into the acid unless an early death is your preference. Properly stir the weakened acid with a glass rod and add wait for the light bubbling to stop. When vitriol and water interact a large amount of heat is released, and it¡¯s best to wait for this to pass before continuing. With that finished, begin adding your dye drop by drop. If you notice any further bubbling or emission of heat it¡¯s in your best interests to rush away. Some sort of cover is further ideal, as an exploding vial will send sharp glass hurtling everywhere. It¡¯d be very sad for someone like you to get stabbed in the eye¡­ With the dye properly mixed, cap the vial and find yourself a fool to purchase your panacea. This thing actually requires better talking skills than alchemy.

Usage

First, you¡¯re a horrible alchemist for trying to sell this concoction to anyone. The product holds no real effect unless someone wants to clean their wound with a diluted acid. Drinking it will not reverse aging, or cure a deathly sick mother. The recipient may actually die faster from the damage caused by an outside acid. At a stretch, this works as a placebo drug. Giving people a way to vent their frustrations in hope a worthless vial will save their lives. Alternatively, it does calm nerves to some degree as the drinker believes it to have some effect. I suppose in that regard it¡¯s a short term replacement for people that drink to calm themselves. Oh, and the burning vitriol will help sell the lie. Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. 1st technique (Replaces 13th recipe) - Mental rejuvenation technique

Mental rejuvenation technique

Mortal tier technique. No cultivation requirements. That¡¯s right! This is the first technique of the guidebook. Now, if you¡¯ve been using this as a supplement, which you should be, then your teacher will have long since taught you a technique like this. However, if you lack that availability then this basic version can be used until you find a variant more useful to you. This technique is made to be as mild as possible, leaving no side effects or permanent enhancements, as to leave as many open doors as possible. Personally discovered by yours truly, it purely exists because I realised how some starting alchemists appear to lack such an art. At the same time I needed something that everyone alive, regardless of situation, could use. Even if you have a rare mutated soul, or you¡¯re a divinity with a mind capable of crushing worlds, this technique is usable on you. It just isn¡¯t extremely good.

Activation and requirements

You may ask why the second requirement is even stated, and the reason is far too many undead beings complained that this technique was a sham. You need a working pair of lungs, which I thought would be obvious enough from the method, but what can I do? The last requirement is in a similar vein, where some beings that cultivate in the sleep questioned me. I swear, it¡¯s only on this first technique that I got these stupid complaints. The technique itself has two major parts, a mental image and breathing form. The image must be prepared in advance since it requires adequate mimicry to a real object. This means the imagined object cannot be vague, with a relatively high degree of quality. Your image must show an object that wakes a person up, this can take many forms depending on where you sleep. For some this is an alarm clock, for others a rooster or similar animal. The imagined image must be personal to you in some way, and some generic awakening device will undoubtedly fail. This is why free-thought is required.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. When you have selected an item with some emotional value, whether in your memories or current life, you must flesh it out to the best you can. If there are some parts you only vaguely remember then simply give a re-imagining of the object. It doesn¡¯t even need to be feasible or realistic, just related to you. Now remember the object well. What does it feel like? Is it heavy? What parts stick out? What does its main part look like? What about ornaments for decoration? A mistake some beginners make is thinking that a clock¡¯s internals must be replicated, but that¡¯s simply not true. Only its appearance is important, so the gears and such should only be seen if you believe a glass clock to be ideal for you. If that is the case, then I¡¯m sorry for the trouble. With the object imagined and visualised, you can practise the below breathing set. Breathing must be done in sets of four, then the next section is started. When all sections are repeated then you restart from the first section. There is some degree of leniency for all actions, but maximum effect is generated by following technique precisely.
  1. In through the nose for 3 seconds , hold for 5 seconds, out of mouth for 2 seconds. In through the mouth for 1 second, expel all remaining air through the mouth.
  2. One large breath through the nose, continue until lungs are filled. Breath out of the nose slowly, at least for 10 seconds, until lungs are once again empty.
  3. Breathe freely for ten seconds, imagining the sound produced by your awakening object. After 10 seconds, if you haven¡¯t already, empty your lungs once more.
  4. Breathe in, with either opening, then breathe out. If on the fourth completion of this breath a dark grey fog escapes, then you know a cycle has completed.

Usage

The mental rejuvenation technique does as titled. It expels spent mental energy at the cost of focus and stamina, providing invigoration to the user only while the technique is active. This sort of technique is useful far beyond just alchemy, and most mortals are encouraged to learn it for matters relating to work and schooling. By breathing in this specific pattern, natural Qi in the air is directed to the brain. From here the Qi slowly leeches in and draws out small amounts of spent mental energy, but not replenishing it in any way. This Qi infused with mental energy is then breathed out at the end of every cycle. Doing this is a short term solution to mental fatigue, allowing a few hours of extremely dedicated work with a huge drawback. The following crash must be accepted, and a mortal should use this technique for no more than 4 hours a day, more than this is fatal. 14th recipe - Mental rejuvenation test: Long haul elixir

Mental rejuvenation test: Long haul elixir

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements This recipe is a test for the preceding technique, as it requires hours of constant attention. It should only be attempted if you have enough spare time, recently slept well, and enough dedication to watch a recipe for hours. The long haul elixir is another old recipe, created before the GCC like many of these ancient kingdoms. The potion¡¯s effect is rather useful for mortals as well, effectively allowing them to stave off the necessity of sleep for a week, and originated from a nameless alchemist playing about with various ingredients. Records show that his cultivation made sleep more of a personal enjoyment, so focusing on alchemy for several hours was part of his normal routine. After babysitting this concoction for long enough he jokingly called it the ¡®Long haul elixir¡¯. The name is accurate and fun, so alchemists keep it as such.

Ingredients and recipe

Once again, buy your low-tier enchanted water! If you can¡¯t, then make it by constantly infusing water with Qi. Please do know that a peak natural gathering stage cultivator can only produce 10 ml of water with their entire storage of Qi. Only spirit forming stage cultivators and above can produce it in non-mediocre amounts. Dry spell lotus is a type of lotus that exclusively forms in desert oases, requiring the intense temperature disparity of a desert to form itself, obviously still requiring water as sustenance like most plant life. Upon harvesting you should remove the roots immediately before storing and keep the flower. This flower must be kept in water, otherwise it quickly withers. Oskat beetle powder is described in the recipe for it, simply asking for an Oskat beetle¡¯s shell. Crushing the shell, after killing and removing the insect, will leave a powder perfect for relieving sleep requirements. Although it does stink to high hell. Shocker juice is more of an entertainment drink than use in most cases. Upon drinking it will send strong electrical shocks throughout your body. All the shocks are too weak to induce heart attacks or damage brain functions, but they certainly leave a kick. Muscles constantly jerking, incessant twitching, and the occasional dead limb are side effects. Make it by juicing the fruit of a shocker tree. With all the ingredients gathered, add the Oskat beetle powder to the enchanted water. Now wait for the powder to dissolve, this takes 10 minutes on average providing you adeptly stir once a minute. The Dry spell lotus is a strange plant, and its effects are only active if ground up in its withering phase. For that reason, take the flower out of its water container and leave it on a table to dry slightly. Upon the first notice of wilting leaves you must start grinding it in a mortar and pestle. It¡¯s fine if you forget to stir the beetle powder during this, the powder will dissolve even without stirring anyway. If you obtain dust then you¡¯ve taken too long grinding it, but if you obtained a ball of bulb that¡¯s slowly hardening then you¡¯ve completed this step. Please note, only the outer layer of the pulp should harden, effectively leaving the internals rather moist and unwithered. With the Oskat beetle powder dissolved fully, add the shocker juice, and stir. Check to see if the quantity of juice is sufficient by dipping your finger into the liquid. If you feel shocks travelling up your arm, not just into your finger, then you know the amount to be sufficient. Shocks to your chest mean a slightly too high quantity, but safe overall. If the shocks fail to move past your wrist then add another 5 ml of juice and try again.Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. If the shocks make it to your head then restart the process. You cannot add more beetle powder now that the juice is added. You can try, but I guarantee you¡¯ll be lucky to survive. The powder will immediately energize and spew the solution into the air, a resulting electrical cloud can stop your heart. From here you should change over to a glass container if you already aren¡¯t. The following stage requires you to see into the liquid. You will know that everything is still okay if the liquid is a dark orange, like ash dissolved in watered down orange juice. Providing your measurements are complete, add the dry spell lotus and begin your babysitting. First and foremost, the lotus produces odd states within the liquid. The most likely state is a sudden boiling, this can be stopped by rapidly stirring with a glass rod. On average, this effect occurs once every minute. Additionally, you may find large sparks appear within the liquid which are stopped by removing the lotus for a second. Note that if the lotus is not removed within 15 seconds of the sparks starting then the electrical build-up will cause the bottle to explode from sheer force. Another two states are rapid spraying of fumes, one will send off a nauseating scent while the other forces you to sleep. The mental rejuvenation technique can offset the desire for sleep given by the fumes, but it''s barely a solution. Both these effects can be resolved by completely blocking the container¡¯s opening. A cork is likely the most suitable object. The last, and only deadly, effect is a Qi wave the lotus may give out. Recognizing the approach of this wave is easy, as the enchanted water, which is normally transparent, will turn a deep shade of red. In fact, the red is so intense that it will completely overcome the other colours in the solution and make it opaque. Stop the Qi wave from happening by removing the lotus and placing it in a bowl of water, you will notice the withered shell is a deep red as well, when it returns back to its brown colour you place it back into the solution. The Qi wave takes 59 seconds to charge up and a single second to release, a cultivator at natural gathering can die if they do not protect themselves in the process. If you can sustain yourself for long enough with that, then a second fact must also be juggled. You should be capable of seeing the hardened lotus pulp, and you must actively crush that layer. Unlike regular water, any revealed internals will still wither in this enchanted water, such that you must crush every formed layer and wait for the solution to eat away at it. The eating speed is entirely dependent on a random distribution of Qi and shocker juice contained within the solution, so it may only take 5 minutes for a layer or up to 20 minutes as the currently recorded maximum. Either way you¡¯ll have to go through roughly 10 layers before the entire ball of pulp is dissolved like this. This massive list of effects and additional tasks is why the mental rejuvenation technique is required, since it¡¯s hard for a normal human to constantly work without rest for so long. The recipe is incredibly tedious with a high chance of death if negligent, which is why it was especially saved as a test. There are ways to speed this up, but they all require extremely precise Qi technique and a higher cultivation. The only issue with this idea is that better potions exist at those tiers anyway, so why bother with this middling mortal tier recipe?

Usage

Okay, so you babysat an elixir for all these hours. Now you get your reward! Some may remember that Oskat beetle powder allows a normal person to reject the necessity of sleep, but their body still requires it. This is due to expended mental power, of which a mortal body can only naturally regenerate through sleeping. This elixir fills that gap, not only staving off sleep for an entire week, but also refilling any expended mental power in the process. Do note that without Qi the reservoir of mental power cannot be stopped, so you cannot sleep even if you wanted to. This also means that the reservoir cannot be saved without Qi, as such this potion is far more useful for someone that recently broke through to natural gathering and wanted all the time possible to cultivate without feeling tired. Many generals will also take it on the eve of a major battle, allowing them to focus throughout the entire ordeal and constantly make proper plans whenever asked of them. Its uses are practically endless for mortals! Who doesn¡¯t want more hours in a day? 15th recipe - Alternative mind numbing solution

Alternative mind numbing solution

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements A far stronger alternative to alcohol. With that out of the way, it also holds more uses. Particularly that it takes effect far faster than alcohol, as both a pain killer and social diluter. Unlike the modern age, where medicine advanced greatly to open up an array of anaesthetics, the primal ages were far more barbaric. Lots of plants and herbs that numb the body were known of, and it was common for a warrior to chew on one upon encountering a great injury. The work of some tribal shamans created a liquid that heavily numbs a target area, or everything if drunk. Unfortunately, it¡¯s far harder to make than alcohol.

Ingredients and recipe

Many of you likely recognize this nightshade as another variant like the bloodied nightshade from the first recipe in this guidebook, good news is that this poison is destroyed by strong acids like that of your stomach. Just don¡¯t drink it in a concentrated form¡­ a large enough amount can still seep through the thinner parts of your mouth and quickly put an end to you Hearty ginger is simply an enhanced form of ginger that provides strong yang Qi and aids in the healthiness of blood. In general it temporarily increases haemoglobins significantly and boosts the productivity of bone marrow, useful for long distance runners who may encounter some small danger on their path. Messengers are a good example of this. Paralysing bears are a nuisance, capable of coating their claws in a secretion that works as a powerful muscle relaxant. However the gallbladder instead produces a less notable chemical that reduces nerve stimulation, practically reducing your ability to sense touch. For obvious reasons this is useful if you recently underwent surgery or a serious physical injury. In the end they are not magical animals, so a trained group of hunters can bring them down. To begin the recipe, all the various parts should be washed in boiled water, except for the freshwater itself¡­ but that shouldn¡¯t be necessary to state. Why are some people so braindead? Moving on, this is the first recipe where we don¡¯t just crush down ingredients! Isn¡¯t that wonderful? Begin by setting the freshwater on a simmer and dropping the nightshade¡¯s petals into it. Don¡¯t allow the water to boil! The rest of the flower holds little use, although its pollen is useful for disabling your sense of smell temporarily. Its nectar is also insanely sweet, and does not hold any of the flower¡¯s poisons. Hearty ginger extract is the evaporated juice of the root. Begin by peeling the ginger¡¯s skin and finding a suitably strong mechanism to juice it. This will take several squeezes per chunk of ginger, but when left with a dry stalk you can use the rest as pleased. Some of the medicinal effects still remain though, so don¡¯t discard the juiced root. It can easily be shredded and chopped before adding to a nice curry or such. Leaving it to dry in the sun can allow it to last months before decaying.If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. To reduce the juice, place it in a metal pot over a low heat and bring it to the boil. Make sure to stir occasionally, and wait until the watery juice becomes a thick concentrate. When it achieves a honey-like consistency you know the extract is ready and must be cooled. Now for the gallbladder, but first a warning. Never consume the body part whole, in sufficiently copious amounts it can start affecting the nerves of major organs and lead to multiple organ failure. However, the first to go is normally the heart, so you won¡¯t suffer at the least! Crushing the gallbladder is pointless, as it will also release a significant portion of the cellular fluids, heavily diluting the bile. A needle and syringe is far more effective, but acquirement of such tools is impossible in some worlds, particularly less-developed ones. The best remaining method from here is cut open the sack and hang it to slowly drip into a cup. You will need at least 10 ml of bile, however the bear on average stores 30 ml. After draining the gallbladder it can be used in whatever way you please, except its intense bitterness gives rise to few uses. Some say that including it in the beer fermentation process makes it taste better, but I don¡¯t like beer so that¡¯s up to you. Add the bile to your hearty ginger extract, which should have cooled off by now, and stir well. The originally cloudy syrup loosens and gains a lime green tinge, showing that none of the ingredients are bad or improper. After simmering for so long, the water should be a faint purple. This colour leached from the nightshade¡¯s petals, leaving them a mix between their original purple and a bleached white. If this is the case then throw away the petals. The colours are actually harder to leach out than the poison, so this effect means their use is long since over. Add the bile and ginger extract mix to the poison and freshwater mix and stir. The flame can be put out allowing the drink to cool down, but ensure that it¡¯s stirred once every few minutes. The purple colour will easily overpower the green-ish extract, unless you somehow removed the petals right before any of the colours could be leached off. Such a thing is easy with cultivation, but a mortal doing so would be impressive¡­ or just really lucky. Don¡¯t be an alchemical idiot savant, you won¡¯t get very far. Bottle the produced drink and hand it out to whoever you want. Not exactly cheap to produce either unless you can artificially produce the bear bile like those technologically competent worlds. At least a normal person only needs a sip to lose feeling in all their limbs.

Usage

Increased blood cell count of 50% for 6 hours, taking effect half an hour after drinking. Heart rate increases by 30% to account for the thickened blood, this would be higher if not for the increased haemoglobin proteins per volume of blood countering the thickened solution. This is for a single 30 ml dose, while 300 ml will likely cause a heart attack in a mortal. This is only the cardiovascular effects as well. The part that everyone cares for, losing sensation in body parts. The solution is very easily used by the injured as well, as just pouring it into the wound site will cause mass numbing of the site. Do note that pouring too much can cut off motor signals to the body part, rendering it limp for up to 6 hours. Unfortunately, this does require an open wound to work, so a bruise or broken bone will not produce an effect. Once again this is a 30 ml dose. Lastly, when drunk its effects are far slower to release. The bile aids in reducing the stomach acid and preserving more of the poison, however it will still need roughly half an hour to enter the bloodstream. A mortal should never consume more than one 30 ml dose an hour, otherwise the concentration will allow enough to penetrate the blood brain barrier and potentially kill. Due to having a particularly bitter taste it is often hard to kill with, although tricking an enemy into thinking that it¡¯s just a rare alcoholic beverage is a documented method. 16th recipe - TEA: Telekinetically Enhanced Alkahest

TEA: Telekinetically Enhanced Alkahest

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements The name is more of a joke, but it does at least hint at how this solvent works. The fact that it held some kinetic effect and worked as a mortal tier alkahest gives no reason for the acronym. Instead it solely exists because its creator wanted it to. Made to solve the primary issue with regular mortal tier alkahest, its alchemist inventor despised the separation process after using the all round solvent. Creating this alkahest wasted nearly a decade of his life, and his golden years enjoy himself, but supposedly the sight of watching this creation work overcame the grief for missing out on so many experiences. Only five years later did he backtrack on that and wish he tried to chase skirts far more.

Ingredients and recipe

What¡¯s that? You can¡¯t understand why a derivative of Alkahest would need the solvent? Maybe you should find a different hobby if that¡¯s the case. Alkahest below spirit forming stage is easy to purchase, and producing it is honestly just a pain. For the sake of not making this take longer than it has to, I won¡¯t be going over any alkahest production recipes, there are already way too many of them. This is just a useful upgrade to the traditional solvent. One might ask why this recipe took a decade to complete, and the answer is how ridiculous the solution was. It isn¡¯t just a matter of mixing everything together this time, instead you actually have to separate and weigh things! The horror! The easiest part is dealing with the weightberries, as they only have to be juiced. Do this as necessary and make do with the remains, be careful if you consume these. They still contain a sizable portion of their effect, albeit in a weaker form. Each juiced berry will increase your weight by roughly 10%, the effect lasts between 3-4 hours and depends on your initial size. Kinetic rebound quartz is a pain. It looks just like normal quartz crystals, except for the one minor problem where any force below a threshold will simply rebound back at you. There are an annoyingly substantial number of mortal miners that encounter this mineral and bash themselves with the back of a hammer when trying to chisel the gemstone out. Due to the minerals relatively impervious nature you find it in unmarred conditions, only leading more people to attempt mining it carefully.Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work! Crushing it requires a massive exertion of force, typically something only a peak natural gathering stage cultivator can achieve. Alternatively, some larger grindstones can slowly break up the mineral. Please take notice of that fact that if the grinding fails then the stone will break. For safety reasons, do consider buying the pre-crushed version of the mineral. The grains should be similar to that of sand particles, although larger ones akin to salt are fine too. From here you need to split the 50 grams of rebound quartz into ten piles of 5 grams each. From here you need to carefully add differing quantities of weightberry juice to the piles. Each pile needs to weigh a significantly different amount from another, luckily the amounts are already ready for you. Simply add the following amounts to each pile: 1st pile ¨C No drops 2nd pile ¨C 2 drops 3rd pile ¨C 5 drops 4th pile ¨C 9 drops 5th pile ¨C 15 drops 6th pile ¨C 25 drops 7th pile ¨C 32 drops 8th pile ¨C 44 drops 9th pile ¨C 63 drops For a total of 195 drops of weightberry juice. Please note that the actual content of the drop is unimportant, instead you must ensure that each drop is the same. Whether each drop is 0.05 ml or 0.2 ml does not matter, but if you make the first drop 0.05 ml then each successive drop for this recipe must be that volume. With this annoyingly precise step completed, one that may require the Mental rejuvenation technique, you must allow the fluid to settle in each pile. This step takes seconds for the 2 drop portion, but almost an hour for the 63 drop pile. You will know the step is done as all the juice dried off. Pour all the juice coated crystals back into your generic alkahest and mix vigorously with a natural gathering stage tool. Any mortal stage tool will dissolve in seconds, and then you¡¯ll need to buy a replacement. Well done, you did all this work to reduce the effort put into separating a normal use of alkahest. Was it worth it though?

Usage

This alkahest derivative solely exists to remove the regular separation process in the mortal tier solvent. Upon dissolving anything, it will separate the contained elements by density. This worked due to the weighted kinetic quartz, which effectively forms layers in the solution to separate any two materials. The reason that only one material can exist in each layer is due to the kinetic function of the quartz causing a mess and slowly filtering it through due to the chaotic effect of two elements of different densities. Now for a new problem. Extracting the layer you actually need. 17th recipe - Ankhezian Philtre

Ankhezian Philtre

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation required An unnatural recipe for sure. Created in the ancient Akup empire, the entire liquid revolves around the concept of life. These people symbolised the god of life through the symbol of an Ankh, not a unique idea in the infinite worlds but one they built up to such a degree that it birthed a god. This god held weak control over the domain of life, and in return for the empire¡¯s dedication to it a small ankh shaped flower sprouted through their borders. Priests worked hard to show devotion through their god by consuming the flower, and some more alchemical minded believers developed useful liquids such as this. The power of life can truly bring about mortal miracles.

Ingredients and recipe

Due to the obscurity of this recipe, as in I personally dug it up for the sake of this guidebook, all the plant names are what the Akups gave to this wildlife. I have tried adapting the recipe to different ingredients, but Otun¡¯s gift cannot be changed in any way. The plant was retrieved a long time ago and specially farmed for its power over the life domain, but its specific type of control means that the only way to replace it would be using a recipe way, way above this tier. Long story short, you gotta buy the rare, expensive ingredients. Sorry. As stated, Otun¡¯s gift is a flowering plant which produces an ankh shaped accessory from its stigma. This shape of plant mass both aided the Akup empire immensely while feeding back some faith back to Otun. This sort of method to gather faith power is common amongst gods, but generally extremely inefficient because of the disseminated power at the same time. Luckily, Otun did not infuse each flower during the sprouting process, instead creating the entire species with this power over life. Warming berries and Calming moss can both be found in wintery forests, a type that formed a vast stretch at the north of the Akup empire. Both gained their name from effects upon eating either, which are non-toxic to clarify. Warming berries are similar to blueberries in appearance, but their skin is ever so slightly paler. Their primary effect is spreading a warm feeling throughout your body, like taking a warm bath after a day in deep snow. This warming feeling is actually a weak healing of the soul, or rather, simply an imbuement. The healing effects don¡¯t actually do anything in most cases, but you feel warmed up as a result. Calming moss is a greenish, grey moss similar to lichens in appearance. It only grows on the bark of magical trees, but finding a few of those should be a matter of time. Natural gathering stage trees are far from rare, especially if any competent cultivator is farming them properly. The calming moss provides an intense mental calming, who could¡¯ve seen that?You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author. The calming moss is a mental equivalent of the warming berries, however the residual effects of such healing on the mind is a calming sensation. Describing this is harder than it looks¡­ Like many times before, mulch the berries into a paste and extract its juice. The juice is added to your freshwater while the remaining berry flesh can be eaten as pleased. Once again, some make it into a jam but you can eat these raw if preferred. Something different for once now. The calming moss is dropped into the juice and water mixture and placed in the sun for 4 days at minimum. This is done for two primary effects: First, the calming effect is leached into the water by day 2. Second, the moss is perfect for absorbing impurities in the warming berries to better exhibit the effects of Otun¡¯s gift. After the sun sets on the fourth day, fish out any moss in the water and prepare for the ritual to activate the flower¡¯s life empowering energy. These ritual components are extremely cheap, and function as more of a formality, but not doing it renders the flowers basic ornaments at best. They don¡¯t even taste nice without this process. The ritual, specially designed by Otun, allowed even civilians of the empire to make use of the flowers, and as such only requires a simple sacrifice with chanting. Any raw food source works for the offering, the only condition that the chosen item is flammable. As Otun is a divine being, language holds no meaning to it. This means that the chants can be translated into any tongue and used. In this case the book includes inscriptions which auto-translate to your native language, providing your language is legitimised. The ritual chant holds 4 lines which are read three times total. After the first readthrough light the offering on fire. From here begin the final two readings and ensure the flowers are nearby. The ritual¡¯s effect only spready up to a metre away, so keeping them at hand is recommended. The chant is as such: ¡®From life, started from nature, we are created. We are moulded by its whims. Otun exceeds nature, moulding it as our lord pleases. The light of Otun changed life, giving intention to the simpleness. Life is Otun. For our sake, Otun rises and grants compassion.¡¯ Confirm the ritual¡¯s completion through the Otun¡¯s gifts, which should now contain faint flowing lights within. If this is the case then the activated flowers hold a myriad of uses, but this guidebook only contains a few. In our case you only have to drop the full ornament into the brewed mixture to complete the recipe. Upon touching water the attachment will dissolve, slowly mixing the power of life throughout the fluid. Do not stir during this process! After a few hours of slowly diffusing through the water you¡¯ll have completed the recipe.

Usage

This recipe actually had a second, informal name in the Akup empire. ¡®Mother¡¯s brew¡¯ If this medicine is drunk anytime within a pregnant woman¡¯s first trimester it guarantees the child will not be stillborn. There are no other uses, and it cannot be used after that specific window. 18th recipe - Falling Brick potion

Falling Brick potion

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements As opposed to a falling human, the brick is less likely to break something on a fall, but not entirely. Originally created by a mortal with a great desire to groom his moustache without fear of pain, but in a bout of inattention added the completely wrong ingredient. Another potion made by complete accident, but these effects were only discovered by the man¡¯s son drinking the unknown potion before he could dispose of it. Quite lucky the boy survived really, but it didn¡¯t take long to realise the boy slightly resisted the force of falling a small distance. In the end mass producing the cheap potion to reduce the number of broken bones in adventurous children like his son.

Ingredients and recipe

Do note that this recipe is refined over the original which just dumped the juice of several weightberries into a solution of the nightshade and Copperpetal. This version greatly improves the potion¡¯s stability and effects, otherwise we wouldn¡¯t use it. Although all the parts of the nightshade contain poison, it can be troublesome to include the stamen due to hay fever in some children. Meanwhile the pistil proves more of a nuisance than a useful plant part, not to mention its relative toughness makes it far harder to leech our weak neurotoxin from it. Copperpetals are an orange, coppery flowering plant. Their petals contain a dilute oil that can reinforce the skin, muscles, and tendons of a mortal. For this reason we only ever care about the petals of this flower unless you¡¯re a gardener that wants to keep the other parts. Rooted weightberries are primarily a nuisance plant since their roots are innumerable and grow downwards of 10 metres. Additionally, their berries cause the effect of increasing your weight temporarily, and the effect is stackable by consuming more berries. Some extremely old ones have such extreme root cultures that even peak natural gathering stage cultivators are rendered useless.Enjoying the story? Show your support by reading it on the official site. Seed oil is seed oil. You should use natural gathering seeds, but there¡¯s no inherent danger of using spirit forming stage seeds. Do note that going above this will increase the poison¡¯s effect by too much, so don¡¯t even try it! Pluck all the petals into a preheated saucepan with a teaspoon (5 ml) of the magical seed oil. Leave the petals to simmer for 5 minutes, and no longer than that. Make sure to stir it regularly to ensure the poison is adequately extracted and enhanced. While the petals are simmering, start mushing up the weightberries. Continuously add a drop of seed oil every 3 seconds while crushing the berries. If your tool runs out of seed oil then stop the crushing to get more, you have to continue until no lumps of berry flesh are left. With 5 minutes up, you can add the copperpetals and enhanced weightberry juice to your simmering nightshade. Remember to add any remaining seed oil here and allow the mixture to reduce, as necessary. You want a creamy consistency, not syrupy. You¡¯ll know the potion is nearing completion by not only consistency, but also its purplish-black colour. After that¡¯s done, filter the product through a thin cloth to remove any small solids and the petals. The remaining fluid is bottled and you¡¯ve finished a Falling brick potion.

Usage

A waste of materials, to waste on the weak! ¨C Exasperated denier Kane when talking about his first completed version of this potion. The actual effectiveness of the potion is rather vague, since measuring the exact damage a person will take when falling from a height is tough to measure. In general it can be concluded into two major effects, drink this potion to activate them: A person will take practically no damage when falling a distance less than 5 metres and landing on their feet. This rule breaks if landing on another part of your body, especially something like your head where you may still die instantly from the collision. This effect is due to a temporary reinforcement from the enhanced copperpetal oils, which will also help against all blunt impacts. Secondly, it reduces the acceleration due to gravity by 20%. This means that your terminal velocity will be lower at any point than someone without the potion. The nightshade will also cause the overall pain you feel to be reduced, but this effect is not just limited to falling. 19th recipe - Berserker鈥檚 sundering

Berserker¡¯s sundering

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements The ideal warrior on a battlefield is hard to define. Do you want intellectuals in your rank and file? Or maybe an unwavering courage to raise morale to its peaks? Slyness befitting a spy or power toppling even the giants? However, for some they simply want their cannon fodder to act as simple minded seekers of death. Doing anything to spill the enemies blood becomes their tenet, a short lived one to be sure. The human empires were just as cruel to their own soldiers as towards their enemy¡¯s men.

Ingredients and recipe

This recipe does boast more ingredients than most Mortal tier ones, but that is exchanged for a relatively low skill barrier like many others with this number. Although with such extreme effects I would recommend not making this stuff. The only difficult to acquire item is the Black-eyed corset¡¯s blood. This venomous boa is a troublesome creature to say the least, especially when in its natural environment which it adequately camouflages into. It¡¯s recommended to bite the bullet and just buy the blood, but others with less choice must remain vigilant in jungles when attempting to harvest one. Heart throb lily induces intense lust if the petals are consumed. This lust will supersede your ability to make reasonable decisions and several people have been killed for trying to force themselves on another in their uncontrollable state. Do cover your hands while touching. Hearty ginger is an incredibly safe root. Feel free to eat it raw, but it does taste bad in that state. Masochist¡¯s dream is a sharp bladed herb. It¡¯s blades are all coated in an intoxicating poison capable of filling your body with¡­ extreme pleasure. Needless to say it, and a few of its derivatives, hold a special place in the hearts of some. In our case it will help those bleeding warriors to fight through the pain, even desiring more wounds!This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. Begin by juicing and reducing the hearty ginger. This process can take a while as you boil it on a small flame, occasionally stirring as to not allow it to burn. When a honey-like consistency is achieved you can take it off the flame. Please note! For all the next parts you must always be wearing gloves of some kind! Pluck all the petals off your heart throb lily and drop it into the fire element blood. Ensure that no solid parts are left over, then drop the masochist¡¯s dream in as well. Do not stir this time! Pour this mixture into a metal pot capable of resisting temperatures of 500 C at minimum. Now prepare a furnace, preferably one used to blast pottery, and leave the blood to heat up, as necessary. This will not take very long as the blood will purposely pull the surrounding heat unto itself. Never let the flames touch the blood directly as it will catch aflame and ruin the mixture. When the blood has transformed into a deep blue colour you know this step is over. This temperature will slightly vary depending on the blood you use, and the time required by implication. Some will heat up to 400 C in 2 minutes, while others require 5 minutes to reach 450 C. No mortal creature¡¯s blood will go above 550 C though, since anything capable of doing this must be a natural gathering stage creature. With your fluorescent blue blood you can prepare the final stage of this process, mix together the cooled hearty ginger extract and snake blood. You are looking for the thick consistency to loosen into a clingy oil. It should voraciously stick to your stirring apparatus but flow well outside of that. Pour that sticky fluid into the searing hot blood mixture. The hot blood will strip your tool of anything stuck to it, allowing you to scrape off any remnants of the sticky fluid and add it. The blood must still be glowing blue while this is still ongoing, otherwise it will fail without a doubt. Leave it all to cool back down to room temperature. You will know the process was successful if you end up with what appears to be regular blood. Drinking, smelling, touching or whatever imaginative actions you use will have no effect on you. Supposedly, its smell reminds a person of their most hidden desire. Some claim it as therapeutic.

Usage

Quite a sad product. To force thousands to their death, it is a lamentable creation. But worse have come into being before this, and so much more after it. To activate its effect, simply burn the blood. It only takes half a minute of breathing the burning product to transform a normal person into a blood seeking fool. This works far better if you give the person a clear enemy, for example a defending army. The blood seeking fool will only care about spilling blood, as it literally brings them joy. Their minds flooded with happiness from seeing their supposed enemies fall around them, basking in the glow of slaughter they cause. At the same time they laugh at any wounds inflicted, even smiling psychotically as you pierce their hearts or decapitate them. On a mortal battlefield they are a force to be reckoned with, one culled man capable of cutting down three of equal stature. 20th recipe - Dried husk poison

Dried husk poison

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements Disregard the figurative name. This poison is another battlefield weapon, designed to directly counter the Berserker¡¯s sundering. Like the prior it exists to spill more blood. Created by a rather vengeful alchemist, and not a weak one at that, he desperately sought revenge against the empire that sent his brother into battle. The unknowing youth plagued by an intoxicating scent of his enemy¡¯s blood, a sad effect of the berserker¡¯s sundering, he inevitably died after sustaining several fatal wounds. All that followed was a vow to crush this empire¡¯s trump card and personally scoop out the emperor¡¯s eyes. Which he did nearly five years after creating this poison.

Ingredients and recipe

Three-eyed corset is a snake on the cusp of evolving to natural gathering. It¡¯s third eye is intrinsically magical and can see through a variety of regular obscurities. It holds a massive advantage in the dark, and natural habitat by default. Blood egg centipedes are a thing of nightmares. They only lay eggs in the arteries of larger creatures, humans included. I¡¯ve heard of at least a few cases where they¡¯ve burrowed into a sleeping human and left hundreds of eggs lining their arteries. Please try to execute every last one. Avian scuttler is a spider¡­ A spider that holds incredulous jumping height. Try to avoid their natural habitat as they often jump from bushes onto your face, although some experimentation reveals that they aim for the back of your neck. Like all the creatures listed they will rapidly kill you if allowed to bite you.Stolen novel; please report. The blood is necessary for a necrosis effect, however rarer elements are virtually impossible to find in non-magical beings. It¡¯s a fool''s errand to find anything lower than a natural gathering stage one. Begin by dropping the centipede venom into an oil of your choice. It can be a plant based oil, so don¡¯t worry about using some odd industrial concoction. Stir idly and begin heating the mixture. Simply get the oil to a point where dripping water in causes massive sputters. If the water explodes on touch then you¡¯ve heated it way too much. With the oil heated to this point you¡¯ve dealt with the biggest issue in the centipede venom. From here you can add the spider venom and snake venom. Whether or not the oil is still hot will play no impact on the poison¡¯s end state, although it¡¯s far easier to handle the cooled oil. With the tiny volume of venom mixed into a massive amount of oil you can add half of the death element blood. Depending on the type of blood used the quantity needed will range between 30 ml and 50 ml. Starting with the initial 25 ml, add the blood a drop at a time. Also making sure your skin never comes into direct contact with the decaying fluid. Gloves and skin protecting sap mean nothing here. DO NOT RISK IT! Only those with Qi barriers can temporarily interact with the blood as it quickly decries Qi to the crypts of time. With the prose over, continue adding it drop by drop. You¡¯ll know the amount is exactly correct as the oil transforms into a black sludge, but will quickly revert back if too much more is added. You will soon find this black sludge is only such in appearance, and still holds all the physical properties of the main oil. Since you will be coating blades in this stuff it is often recommended to use an oil which sufficiently sticks to metal.

Usage

The oil¡¯s effect is simple, once it enters the bloodstream the victim will be incapable of forming blood clots. This is further reinforced by the death element specifically targeting the wound to make it incapable of healing without further treatment. At the very least you must cut off all the necrotic flesh and then seal the wound until all the venom leaves their system. In a duel this stuff is useless, maybe a battle of attrition could argue it but mortals lack the stamina to do such a thing. Instead it was prepared to beat the simple minded enhanced soldiers of the empire, beating back the berserker¡¯s sundering. The best thought tactic of the nations combating this tyrannical regime to use incredibly defensive tactics. By turtling themselves with shields, their coated spears jut out to slowly stab into random opponents. Slowly whittling down the opposing army through pure attrition. 21st recipe - Fatigue reducing potion and rations

Fatigue reducing potion and rations

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements We all know that feeling. Spending several hours performing intensive labour, whether for pay or training, and wanting to keel over and drop dead. So do a lot of alchemists as it turned out, all the way back to the first intelligent creatures. The proto-alchemists, a while into the growing tribal civilisation, yet to entirely cement their craft, held a meeting to calm the greatest problems plaguing their society. This is quite loosely documented, although the fact that it¡¯s recorded at all is a miracle. It was nowhere close to the first gathering of scholars in that primitive age, but it allowed hundreds of different people to compare techniques and recipes. They successfully brewed a bitter compound capable of removing physical fatigue, but not capable of healing muscles. As well as showing alchemical prowess they could all realise basic medical issues like this, soon after acknowledging that healing fatigue would not remove the necessity of rest.

Ingredients and recipe

This is the best version of this recipe available to the world, and the last change was before the tribal period even ended. Stamina herb can¡¯t actually restore stamina. Warriors in these primitive groups would often chew on the leaves raw to relieve any muscles aches, to a limited degree of course. We never changed the name because stamina herb sounds nice. Dead-eye trees are odd. They can¡¯t harm you on touch, nor by releasing any chemicals. If you ate a leaf, flower, or seed then nothing would happen. But take the bark, boil it down, and add it to a stew and you¡¯re in for a strange situation. The bark, and only the bark, has the innate property to focus the chemical effects of any non-magical drug. Fairly good if you want to poison someone with a neurotoxin. Paralysis bombs retain their age-old name as well. These thin mushrooms contain a non-threatening paralysing chemical, and would be quite fun if not for violently spraying it out alongside their spores whenever touched by a living creature. The exact requirement is to send any weak electrical signal into them, for example by touching them directly. Don¡¯t expect to be moving in the hour if you touch them, so wear some gloves when harvesting. Dump the tree bark in a pot of hot water and leave it to soften for half an hour, this is a great time to prepare the other ingredients as well! The paralysis bombs only store their chemical in their heads, so cut off the stems and keep the heads in a non-conductive bowl. As an alchemist you should ideally only use stone and wood bowls at the mortal tier, but I digress. If you have the accuracy then feel free to scrape out the gills of the mushroom to only leave the small cap containing the chemical store.The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement. Pour your enchanted water into a flat plate, leaving a thin film of the liquid, and drop the stamina herb into it. For surety, press down on the leaves to cover their entirety. It really sucks when you only coat one half¡­ The energisation process affecting the leaves right now takes about ten minutes. Try not to let it stay in for much longer since the cellular structure will break down, leaving you with a pile of disintegrated leaves. With that done, take a bowlful of water out of the pot containing bark, ensuring that none of the wood is removed. The mushroom caps are thoroughly washed in this water, and don¡¯t worry if some tiny splinters end up stuck to the fungi. After washing simply tip out the water and place the wet caps in direct sunlight to dry a bit. Remove the leaves from their magical water soaking, but do not leave them in the sun. Simply store them for now. With the bark¡¯s end soon approaching you simply need to wait for the half hour mark to tick by before draining the water. Dump the liquid as you please, it holds no use for us. Cleaning the pot may also be more tedious now, as some sap from the bark likely escaped in that. Pour the remaining enchanted water into a clean bowl and prepare your vial to store the potion. Add the enhanced leaves, cleaned caps, and soaked bark to mortar for crushing, Mulch all the ingredients down together and try to keep all the liquid inside the bowl. Make sure to finely crush the bark such that no large splinters are left over, while also crushing the other ingredients to a fine mush. Now the product can be scooped into a tough cloth, like linen, and slowly drained out into the magical water. This will release quite a lot of liquid, and likely enough to make a few potions just from this single portion of ingredients. Just make sure to stir the enchanted water into the rest to evenly distribute it. But the recipe doesn¡¯t end here this time. The leftover plant mixture is still edible, and contains all the requisite effects to remove fatigue. Simply take a small piece of the plants and roll it into a small ball. These can be left out in the sun to dry, likely taking a couple days. Eating them while wet has no implicit danger, but they¡¯re awfully hard to store due to that wetness. Not to mention losing their form relatively quickly.

Usage

They remove the physical sensation of fatigue, as well as the actual cause of such sensation. On a technical level this means complete removal of lactic acid build-up, while the paralysis chemical targets muscle soreness. This combination effectively allows a tensed warrior to ignore their wailing body to continue acting at maximum efficiency. The potion is roughly 10x more effective than any of the plant balls. Some have suggested adding enchanted water to the balls, effectively tripling their effects, but that also entirely negates their far cheaper purpose. These balls are effective for 10 minutes to be clear. Aside from clear battle usages, it holds a large number of societal usages. Anything from having to work a long day, or simply needing to finish something and rest could result in a poor outcome. Even something as simple as using it to exercise without worry of the intense soreness that comes later. It all comes with a simple warning. Rest properly after consumption! Not resting will result in damaged muscles not healing, and this can easily build up. Expect weeks of recuperations due to muscular lesions and the sort, just because you wanted to work double the workload this week. They¡¯re also popular in nightlife, for self-evident reasons. A note of Food alchemy and Magical cooking This is more of a statement being applied across the guidebook in general, than an actual analysis over the two different topics. To begin we can define the two topics, a necessity for those of you starting with this book as your only insight into alchemy. Food alchemy is already noticeable throughout this story, in recipes such as the Falling brick potion, and Fatigue reducing items. These are recipes that utilise cooking-like methods or produce goods that can be used as food. These will almost always be seen in potions or edible products, but are less likely to happen as cultivation increases. Magical cooking is cooking at its roots. In its case, it primarily focuses on making excellent meals that go beyond the breadth of regular cooking, but it also asks for cultivation requirements as many magical meats require that similar alchemical flame to even begin cooking. The meals in most cases provide no benefits beside a revitalisation of Qi, but considering how delicious they are I have to say it¡¯s definitely worth it. Now to continue. Some like to say that Magical cooking is in some way a lesser version of alchemy, primarily younger pupils of the craft. This is not true. By comparing alchemy and cooking you are trying to analyse two completely different crafts to each other. It¡¯s like comparing formation engraving to alchemy, in that alchemy is clearly less powerful than the mega-formations some can create. Comparing these two different topics aids no one, and instead just serves to attack the people who took on an objectively weaker true calling. It in no way provides useful insight, and even if it did, why does that matter?This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings. If you picked alchemy because you believed that it¡¯ll make you stronger, and no reason beside that, then don¡¯t expect me to help you when your destiny seeking fails. I¡¯ve seen many people that believe their true desire is strength, and then watch that collapse during intense internal debates. I have made the steps for finding your ideal craft noticeably clear in the past, and so have hundreds of others at my level, but if you choose to ignore it then go ahead. But returning to the main argument, I still need to do my job as a senior on this path. To chastise and look down on those belligerent few who fail to understand the place each path holds, you should learn your lesson and curb your pride before it imposes a cost. And rarely is that cost any less than your life. I am not an incredibly spiteful person, neither do I hold grudges for an incalculably long time, but I have my own heart and will. To me it is a disgrace for alchemy to ever bear the name of people who dare to spit on the honest lives of others. To those chefs who are trying to expand their sources and improve, I commend you. However, many of the techniques here ignore the critical values of ingredients that you hold so dear, and the recipes only reinforce this. There are some more specialised books that can help, but this one may simply reduce the quality of your cooking, as has happened to many chefs studying other branches in the past. 22nd recipe - Wolfish claw

Wolfish claw

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements Sometimes you¡¯ll find yourself without a weapon or blade, and then you¡¯ll realise how much danger you¡¯re in. Primitive and ancient humans all realised this as well, although it only proved an issue in the ancient era when strong metal blades held a certain cost. A mortal farmer may be capable of affording hundreds with a single harvest, but when accounting for upkeep, more seeds, extra hands, and everything else, that dwindles to barely buying one or two a harvest. Which also removed any chance for luxuries if bought. In came this mysterious ointment, capable of toughening your nails significantly. In fact, if you made sure to sharpen your nails in advance then they served as excellent claws with the ointment added on. Who created it, no one knows, but it certainly cut down on weapon requirements in the general populace. Oddly enough, according to one empire¡¯s censure the rate of wolf related deaths jumped 200% as soon as the product entered the market¡­

Ingredients and recipe

Do make sure to not leave samples of your blood lying around when making this stuff. Lots of methods can be used to curse or hex you through your blood. Just to alleviate your worries, don¡¯t worry about your hair doing the same. Hair holds little to no intrinsic magical qualities for quite a while, and by the time it does you¡¯re more than capable of stopping anyone from easily taking it. Steel leaf is another plant capable of reinforcing the body, but it comes with a severe restriction. Its magical property moves ridiculously slowly, as in millimetres per hour. So unless you¡¯re willing to undergo a day of torture¡­ It does however work great in surface level reinforcements like this one. Make sure not to run your hand against the leaf¡¯s edge as it holds a sharpness similar to a razor and will easily cut through. Unfortunately, it holds next to no durability and crumbles like, well, a leaf. Copperpetal petals are easy to harvest, simply pluck the entire flower off the plant. Weightberries are a magical product, but considering how easily they grow, and in such numbers, they¡¯re often considered a weed with rather annoying properties. Luckily for us, they made up for it by having a few beneficial uses. The starting step is unconventional for alchemy, but begin by setting all the steel leaf leaves and copperpetal petals aflame. Okay, writing this I realise why so many people wish we renamed them, but it¡¯s far funnier not to¡­. So we probably won¡¯t. Carefully collect all the ash produced from the burnt parts and drop them into 10 ml of your blood. If you notice that you have more ash than blood, just add the last 5 ml. It doesn¡¯t matter if there¡¯s still a bit of liquid at the bottom. Stir carefully, with an inert material, and leave in a cold room to react over the course 5 hours.Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings. It¡¯s recommended to rest for roughly four hours and then begin preparing the weightberry for the final steps. With a little under an hour remaining, cut the weightberry in half and grind up one half into a pulp. Then strain the pulp and liquid through a thin cloth into a clean bowl, doing your best to stop any bits from entering the bowl. It won¡¯t destroy the recipe, but it can result in a less desirable consistency and effect. You can use the drained weightberry as you please, whether you cook with it or dump it is personal preference. From there, roast the other half of the berry over a flame until it gains a charred coating on all sides. With that completed, you can then set a pan over that flame and wait for it to heat up. Rather tediously you have to repeatedly squeeze the liquid from this charred half-berry, but ensure to not just squash it to mush. Removing 100% is impossible without cultivation, but continuing until pressing holds no effect will amount to the same thing. Remove it from the pan and now pour in the juice from the weightberry¡¯s other half. You may need to lower the flame whilst reducing this juice, and make sure to often stir such that it all heats evenly whilst not coming to bubble. You don¡¯t need to reduce it extremely, but roughly reducing the liquid content by a third will be a sign of success. Leave the reduced juice to cool down and wait for the blood and ash to finish preparing. As soon as you mixed the two you will have noticed it fully absorbing all the given blood and producing a clumpy, red powder. If it stains your hand then you haven¡¯t left it for long enough, while there is no penalty for leaving it for too long. With your blood ready, you can begin mixing everything. Add the reduced juice in directly, stirring hard. This will only be difficult for a mortal, while a cultivator should have the strength to require little effort. As you stir the mixture you will notice it grow thinner and thinner, starting from what feels like a ball of dough until thinning into a thick cream. Now to finish, crush the charred berry to bits, which hopefully releases no liquid in the process, before adding it to your mixture. Your ointment should be an extremely dark red with small black grains strewn about. Give a quick final stir to coat all the weightberry grains and you¡¯re done!

Usage

A far less direct name for this product, but it happens. The ointment can be spread all over your nails, which have to be sharpened in advance, to harden into a claw-like state. This will multiply their hardness by dozens of times, making them into effective short range weapons. Do realise that only coating the nail¡¯s top won¡¯t be extremely efficient, and you should also coat whatever bottom-side you have access to. This item is not as permanent as one would hope though, unfortunately exhausting after an arguably useful 6 hours. Considering the portion described here can be used a few times, it isn¡¯t exactly expensive. Weightberries are likely the only costly part, and even a few eggs ends up costing more in most places. As a side note, this stuff can be used to reinforce more than just nails. Because it technically reinforces keratin, it also works wonders at strengthening hair. It isn¡¯t uncommon for some to mix a spoon of this ointment into a pot of water and intensely wash their hair with it. The result is a few hours of stronger, thicker-looking hair, and is sold as a sort of makeup in some places. It is not recommended as a scalp treatment though, as many balding men and innocent girls learn every year. 23rd recipe - Sweetened dreams

Sweetened dreams

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements This stuff isn¡¯t exactly cheap, but it¡¯s loved by most new parents. The rich and powerful will generally get their hands on more powerful items, or simply cultivate until the need for sleep vanishes. It was created for the reason that one would expect. Another king had to constantly endure nightly terrors, to the point where he failed to sleep more than once a week, and normally collapsed from exhaustion at that. A group of hired alchemists concocted a drug capable of solving the king¡¯s problem, but ingestion remained an issue. Simply drinking the potion would cause it to lose effects after three hours, returning him to those terrors. The solution was to coat an incense stick in it and let him breathe in the smoke all night long.

Ingredients and recipe

Last one is quite morbid, isn¡¯t it? Don¡¯t worry, there are enough people dying everyday to facilitate the creation of this stuff. And a single potion¡¯s worth can be used to produce 10 or so incense sticks. If for whatever reason you chance upon a corpse then consider storing some spinal fluid for something like this, but if you¡¯re reading this page for the first time then it¡¯s doubtful. Just be responsible and buy some from your local morgue, they should keep it under ice to guarantee freshness. Mindnode worms are big, for worms that is. They have a common habit of invading colonies and becoming a sort of de facto leader because their main ability is mentally controlling all the members of a colony¡­ Hunt it yourself, with a lot of trouble, or just buy its blood. They¡¯re pretty easy to rear, and most alchemical stores will keep some on hand. Caramelised horsetail is probably one of the only types of horsetail mortals like. Normally these reeds are a troublesome weed that everyone vigilantly snuffs out at the fastest approach, meanwhile these candy-like variants are farmed gratefully. Capable of growing in nearly all wet soil, they produce way too much sugar and end up becoming the major sugar source in most worlds. This sugar also makes it great to just chew on one, swallowing bursts of sweet water with every bite. Do go easy on them though, too much sugar is bad for you. The average stem is half a metre tall, but if you have oddly differently sized ones then make sure you¡¯re using no more than two metres of horsetail. For the big one then, what does spiritually refractive mean? Well, one can consider it a spiritual version of glass. It can be used to focus streams of mental/soul energies, or disperse them the same. This property is all due to refraction, and as there are lots of crystals which perform this feature you can pick any at the natural gathering stage. This recipe can end very badly if you use a crystal above natural gathering though, so take care.The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation. Begin mixing the spinal fluid and worm blood. The originally dark red blood should start glowing in the presence of mental energy left over in the spinal fluid, if there is no glow then you¡¯ve been sold either old goods or something fake. Freezing the spinal fluid does in fact preserve the mental energy. With the product glowing you can leave it to the side until the glowing fades, this can take anywhere from 5 minutes to 20 minutes. Now change over to the crystal. As a magical material its hardness easily surpasses what a mortal can break, but at the same time you don¡¯t want to smash it to pieces. Whether you are a cultivator or not, simply take a hammer and chisel and try to break it along grains. This will cause the crystal to make clean breaks, giving you small shards, but not literal dust. When the shards are roughly the size of your fingernails, no larger than your thumb¡¯s nail, you may stop. For the more precise, ensure that each shard weighs 2 grams or less. Unlike magical gemstones, which are extremely heavy, spiritual ones grow lighter and lighter in weight. So, this small 30 gram crystal is likely the size of your thumb. With the crystal broken, drop them into the no longer glowing worm blood one at a time. If you ever see the fluid light up once again then immediately stop and wait for the glow to stop. This time the glow will rarely last more than half a minute, making this process relatively short. This part needs to be rushed a bit, but it should be easy with a dedicated tool. Simply juice the horsetails and pour all the sugary liquid into the current mixture. There will be no visual differences, but after adding all the juice from your first reed you will notice the spiritual crystal dissolving. No, this is not due to the sugar. For a short period after juicing, and we¡¯re talking maybe 20 seconds, a very unstable chemical within the juice is capable of forcefully breaking apart solid crystalline structures. It won¡¯t completely dissolve the gemstones, but they¡¯re actually swallowable now. Quickly add the second one¡¯s juice, this time mostly to just make the mixture sweeter and diluted. Mix well and use as necessary, but try to avoid drinking it.

Usage

In its potion form it lasts exactly four hours, this is due to an improvement of the recipe over its original creation. Not surprising by this point. For this reason, no reasonable seller will sell the potion directly. The volume of potion drunk has no effect on duration time, so the cost effective use is to slowly consume it overnight, which is why an incense was chosen. Preparing the incense form is simple. Take an unscented rod of incense, coat it in this liquid potion, and leave it to dry in sunlight for 24 hours. There you go, burn it just before going to sleep with a way for the smoke to escape. This goes without saying, but smoke is dangerous to your health, and a way for it to escape is necessary unless choking in your sleep sounds nice. The exact effect of this stuff depends on a person-to-person basis, such that one record even mentions a person to have slept through a high magnitude earthquake. In general the received effect will revolve around a strong dream which practically refuses to allow your leave. Since these dreams are beneficial, rather than the nightmares which devolve some to utter fear of the night, it often leads to cases where people become addicted to the use of this incense. The addiction is purely psychological, like with many other drugs, but such a thing is understandable when this stuff makes every night into a wistful one like no other. Do take care of your mental state in reality still, this stuff won¡¯t magically fix any of that. And some people report their excessively poor mental states actually seeped into their dream worlds only to morph that comfy sweetness into a grey mess of horror and insanity. The mortal mind is a very fragile thing in the end. 24th recipe - Sunlight swarming

Sunlight swarming

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements Some like the bright, warm sunshine, others despise it. This glass is excellent for both groups of people, and more would use it if not for glass being exorbitant in most less developed places. Unsurprisingly, it was once again created for a mortal king with a penchant for sunny days. At the same time having to deal with his wife who disliked the harsh light, but in her defence she burnt really easily. The royal alchemists really could not make heads or tails of this request, how could they make a type of glass that amplifies and blocks lights? Well, they did. And all it took was developing a potion called Sunlight swarming, then carefully coating some windows in it.

Ingredients and recipe

As I said, not anywhere close to a cheap thing for a mortal. You can¡¯t even use natural gathering stage solar/lunar plants since the Qi adjoined to it will completely overpower the glass and shatter it after a full day night cycle. Back on topic. Solar blossom is a mortal flower that holds a small amount of solar radiance, storing an even small quantity of yang Qi as a result. Its nectar is excellent for sore throats, but we only care about the flower itself in this case. Lunar droplet is a surface mineral that condenses off cliff faces that feel the moon''s glow. Before fully condensing they take on a gelatinous form, forming a sort of tear drop shape before setting as the mineral they are. They look nice if that means anything. Mid-tier enchanting water is impossible to make as a natural gathering stage cultivator, yet this recipe requires it anyway. Feel free to make it in the same method as the low-tier variant, just use 20x more Qi. It may take a few days to gather the 80 ml asked by the optimized version of the recipe. For optimal results you should use a crystal that normally separates yang and yin Qi, but if that isn¡¯t available then any two elements will do. The only requirement is that the crystal is in the natural gathering stage, so space and time crystals simply will not do. The lowest of those elements is a destiny chasing stage ingredient. The rebound quartz is often troublesome to mine due to doing as its name says. Due to this, the safest way to mine it is digging around it carefully. Of course, a cultivator can completely overpower its kinetic reflection and crush it. Alternatively, very heavy objects can do the same, which is why grain mills are a common favourite for mortals.You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version. Soft water is a convenient liquid that many natural gathering stage cultivators use to bathe themselves. It can be considered a half-living being, but really it¡¯s more like a jellyfish in that it simply reacts to stimuli. Just make sure you clean the water of any impurities before using it. Grind up the solar blossom whole, and then add the Lunar droplet. Coat the droplet in the crushed flower, and drop it directly into whatever is containing your enchanted water. Now we wait¡­ For 3 whole days. Sorry that this recipe is so long. After the waiting period, of which you should be checking on the crystal daily, you will notice the greatest change after the third day. The previous crystal will have completely dissolved into yin water and some left over solar blossom will have fallen to the bottom. You may notice frost starting to form on this residue plant matter, this means that it¡¯s completely lost its radiant property and can be thrown out. With your abnormally gentle mixture of opposing Qi, we can begin turning it into a potion. This is where you can use the soft water if you have any on hand. Simply drop it into the container for your yinyang mixture and periodically pull it out with a glass rod. It will travel up the rod on its own, just give it the path. You will notice the soft water has grown in mass. Prepare a dry container for it to dump this extra mass and repeat this process until the soft water no longer sucks up anything from the yinyang mixture. This will return all the unused enchanted water to you. There is no adverse effect to leaving it in unless you count wasted money as one. This last step is often called the hardest, but things like the use of kinetic rebound quartz makes it far easier. Begin by dropping the yinyang mixture, rebound quartz dust, and separating crystal all into a container of your choice. You will now need to wait half an hour for the mixture to fully separate with the rebound quartz dust between the two. With the quartz dust acting as a thin film separating the two liquids properly, you can focus on using a precise object to remove one of the two liquids. I cannot stress this enough. You must separate the two liquids completely. Even just a single leftover drop will ruin that entire potion of fluid. There are no do-overs. Reseparating simply does not work after this time, so don¡¯t screw up. I personally used a syringe for this step, alongside a convenient tool that displayed any yin and yang Qi concentrations. Neither is strictly necessary, but they both help immensely. If you separated it properly then you¡¯ve formed the sunlight swarming, a potion which actually takes the form of two separate liquids.

Usage

Unlike normal potions, this one has no effect if drunk. Hmm¡­ I suppose you could count its abnormal temperature as an effect. The solar potion will drastically heat you up for half an hour while the lunar potion will drop your temperature into a deadly range for the same period. I don¡¯t see why you¡¯d drink it as a mortal. If you want to be a human that dies from organ failure rather than the bone piercing winds in the cold, then go ahead. Similar application to the lunar potion if you want to die of hypothermia. It¡¯s actual use is for window coatings. The exact method of use is rather precise, and in some places considered an art. I won¡¯t go into the details, but the liquids are applied by spreading it over the glass and left to dry. The lunar potion must be used first, with the solar potion¡¯s coating sitting atop. With certain layering techniques you can force all the light to only shine through one side of the glass. Do note though, that if you have all sunlight go to the left side, all the moonlight will end up on the right. 25th recipe - Stain creating cream

Stain creating cream

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements No-one believed me when I bragged about my adventures because I always looked pristine. I learned the value of the dirt then. The end result of my experiments was beyond my wildest dreams, yet no-one believed I was the one who invented it. Maybe it wasn''t how I looked that made them dismiss my words - Ever-Summoned Demonic God Oskatat during their adventuring years

Ingredients and recipe

Do not use cream made of milk for this. That is a foodstuff and certainly not intended for skin maintenance. Aside from that, try not to pick anything expensive for this recipe. It would be a massive waste to spend lots of money on a nice cream only to ruin it for this recipe. Mindnode worms can be hunted down in bug colonies, as they create a web of control throughout the hive. Naturally, this web analogy applies to spider colonies as well. Just buy the antennae to make your life easier. Although you will be crushing the thin antennae down, it is best to leave them intact until necessary. Illusive dyeshroom have three discernible parts, of which we only need one. Cut off the stalk, preferably with gloved hands, and wash out all the spores with cold water. Take effort to not breath in any of these highly hallucinogenic spores. They incite a powerful euphoria onto anyone who breathes them in, leaving you in a state of extreme pleasure for hours. Dyeshrooms themselves have no fixed spawning ground. Although, numerous data points show they somehow favour land with a myriad of colours nearby. Considering the mushroom lacks even a rudimentary consciousness, how do they understand the concept of colour? At my stage I know the answer, but it¡¯s a fun thing to pose as a question for newer alchemists. Regardless, we now come across an interesting gelatinous substance. This slime is the residue of any elemental slime, a creature heavily popularised in various media for being weak. Well, life is sometimes smaller than fiction, and these slimes are pathetic. A child could kill one by accident by simply walking on its instinct-driven body. The parts left over after its death, which is its coagulated leftover mass, is called moulding slime. We don¡¯t care for the element here, so pick whichever you like. Some people actually like keeping slimes as pets. I tried it once, but don¡¯t really see the appeal. To each their own¡­ I suppose.This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source. Natural glue means that you will have to process some animal fat to obtain it, of course buying the glue is also an option. As long as it¡¯s made from a living being, then you won¡¯t find any problem here. First we need to fix the texture of the slime, which means breaking down its gelatinous structure. To do this, place it in a pot and apply heat. It¡¯s best to do this slowly as we have no need to boil the slime. You will know the process is done when you can use a spoon to remove just a spoonful of liquid slime. While it is breaking down you dice the dyeshroom cap into small pieces. There is no strict sizing here, but try to keep it tiny. Smaller is better. Drop this into the heated slime and leave it alone. Under no circumstance should you stir it. If the slime starts boiling then lower the flame instead, such that you do everything possible to not touch the liquid slime. You will know this step is going well if the slime is rapidly changing colours and the dyeshroom is slowly dissolving. The dissolving process requires 15 minutes at minimum, while all my tests have taken 20 minutes at the least. Other reputable alchemists I know do claim to have done this in 15 minutes though, so maybe I did something wrong? The recipe is correct at least, I guarantee that. You start chopping the worm antennae into eighths as the dissolving process comes to a close. Then crushing the thin stalks to a mush, leaving white cloudy liquid alongside the flesh. Add it to the colour-changing slime once you are absolutely sure all the dyeshrooms are dissolved. You may stir gently now, if the rate at which colours change increases then immediately stop stirring. This final process will mix that cloudy fluid with the unstructured slime, as well as pulling out any remaining liquid in the crushed antennae. This flesh will not dissolve though, so you pour out the fluid into a clean bowl after 10 minutes. This is ample time for it to remove all the antenna fluid. The final step is hilariously easy in comparison. Add the glue to the alchemical mixture, and stir. Once the mixture thickens considerably you can add it to your base cream product. You will have to stir quite a lot here to ensure that the magical parts mix in properly, not soon after you will have a tub of stain creating cream, Now, now, it does a lot more than just make a mess. The only things bounding it are your imaginations and any material above spirit forming stage.

Usage

Ideal for creating blood-stained clothes without having to cut someone - Ever-Summoned Demonic God Oskatat The name is quite true in the end. This cream can be used to mimic the texture and colour of any texture of anything at spirit forming or below. The magical components simply lack the energy to go further beyond, whilst mimicking things like scent and taste require a far higher complexity. At that stage it is no longer a mortal tier product. Illusive dyeshrooms to give it a variety of colour, and slime to give it a range of texture, all it¡¯s missing is the activator. The mindnode worm antennae include a useful property that allows your thoughts to activate these effects. Simply imagine what you require the stain creating cream to look like and it¡¯ll transform into the substance. If this fails then you¡¯ve either not imagined hard enough or made a defective good. It¡¯s not like this thing can only make stains in the end. The only colour limit of dyeshrooms is metals. So, would a wooden trap door with the seam coated in this stuff not be near impossible to find for mortals? 26th recipe - Extremely bitter bitterant

Extremely bitter bitterant

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements Did I mention that it¡¯s extremely bitter? Bitterants generally exist for one purpose. To stop people and animals from consuming things they should not, and nothing can really change that. You may find the rare person who actually likes the taste of these things, as a result of a very rare mutated taste, but the majority will despise even approaching their tongue towards this stuff. But the reason it was created, even simpler. Parents fed up with their kids constantly sucking on random objects lying around the house. How easily justifiable it is when your kid is suddenly rolling their tongue around your family¡¯s rare divine stone, an item inherited through dozens of generations. It was inevitable for someone to come up with the first, and it spiralled onwards from there.

Ingredients and recipe

This is just one of many bitterant recipes, but this one is famed for having the lowest number of side effects and allergic reactions. As such, most parents will try to go for this type. Pus root juice is exactly what you expect, a vile appearing dark yellow fluid that only matches that in taste. Having tried it in a bet, I implore anyone reading to never take a sip. The most likely following reaction is to force yourself to vomit, because knowing it resides within you only reminds you further of the taste. It can be found in most tropical climates, but specifically grows well in places with lots of competition. The stress of everything trying to kill it only strengthens the intense bitter attributes. Black-spotted lichen exclusively grows in snowy, mountainous regions, although you can form cultures of it in practically any place with snow. The black spots release powerful bittering agents throughout the mass upon sensing touch. This is to discourage other creatures trying to eat it, not that some still don¡¯t try. Softwood ash is barely worth noting. Pick a tree made of softwood, chop it down, strip the bark, and finally burn it to ash. Alternatively, just buy the ash since making it on an industrial scale for fertilizer is common in most places. Resonant crystal worms are probably one of the few worms I¡¯d call beautiful. Unlike the majority of their species, these worms have bodies purely composed of crystals. Their ¡®skin¡¯ is a hard, dense crystal which wards off most blunt and sharp attacks, while their internals are somehow fully functional. Obviously, I know how they work, but let¡¯s keep the magic for you. They are exclusively formed in any mine composed of resonating gemstones. There are quite a lot of these gemstones though, so finding these works of art is barely a chore. On top of this, their natural resonating qualities make them valuable, so a lot of mines set up farms for these lot. Buy a live one, find an abandoned crystal mine to hunt for one, or just buy the blood pre-packaged, your call.Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. Begin the process by putting on a pair of gloves. Unless you¡¯d like all your food for the next week to taste bitter¡­ The actual first step is to use a glass knife to cut out all the black spots on the lichen. A metal knife may discharge a small static current into the lichen, letting it know something has touched it. Glass, an effective insulator, does not release a discharge and lets you remove the spots. If it were not clear, your gloves should also be an insulator. Skin protecting sap does fulfil this criteria. Throw away the rest of the lichen with the black spots removed. These should be crushed with a stone mortar and pestle, leaving a creamy black paste. Pus root juice is obtained by just squeezing a pus root, nothing special. The juice is directly added to your black paste and mixed thoroughly. The resulting product should still be entirely black, but the originally thick cream should loosen into a paint-like consistency. This stuff is technically a competent bitterant, and it works quite well, but very few people want to paint their stuff black. For that reason we now prepare the worm blood. To add it we first heat the blood until it bubbles. Due to its magical nature you¡¯ll need a hotter than average flame, likely reaching 300 C. The crystal clear worm blood will make it more than clear when it begins reaching its boiling point. Now add the lichen and pus root juice mixture to it in a slow pouring motion. Doing it slowly gives the mixture a proper chance to mix together. You¡¯ll know it succeeds as the black fades away on contact. However, dumping it all in one place may require longer to achieve this as you now have to wait for the mixture to diffuse throughout your worm blood. The only reason the solution won¡¯t become completely transparent is because someone cheated you over. Even the expired version of this blood will clear any colour, but it lacks the resonating effect. As a crystal being, the refractive qualities of the worm blood completely overpower the natural light absorption of anything black. For this reason alone, it will always remove a non-magical liquid¡¯s colour. It doesn¡¯t work on solids for more than obvious reasons. Due to the special effect of resonating crystals, this worm blood is similar in that regard. It will increase the bitterness of the pus root and black-spotted lichen by nearly a hundred fold. Drinking even a drop of this would probably make you dispose of your entire stomach contents for the next few days, so just don¡¯t do it. It¡¯s unfortunate that this blood can only be used in a few mortal tier recipes. It simply refuses to resonate with any other natural gathering stage item.

Usage

So, I made quite a point of parents coating it on things they don¡¯t want their kids putting in their mouths, but never explained the exact methodology. You don¡¯t want to dump the item in this fluid, instead applying a thin coating and nothing more. The best method to do this is using a paintbrush to cover the entire object and then leave it to dry. Now your kid won¡¯t suck on your family¡¯s special rock. Please note, I am using rock as a placeholder. Inherited family artifacts are way too vast to generalise, so what better than a joke example? Aside from deterring kids, some may remember how drinking just a single drop will result in days of sickness. Naturally, this means that poisoning a person with this stuff is a way to leave them bedridden for a day or so. Finding cures for these bitterants isn¡¯t exactly hard, so don¡¯t expect it working for awfully long. One may also consider pranking a friend with it. I¡¯ll share some simple insight on that. It¡¯s a fantastic idea for ruining friendships, but if you¡¯re already a manipulative narcissist that does this stuff¡­ 2nd technique (Replaces 27th recipe) - Complete focus technique

Complete focus technique

Mortal tier technique. No cultivation requirements As a direct comparison to mental rejuvenation, this technique holds a direct use in a martial setting. As such, it is generally recommended to train in something similar to this quite early on in your life. It will not only help you as an alchemist but almost any facet of life, providing you go well over your limits. Created explicitly by alchemists to give them an edge in processing with extreme precision, the simplest form existed for hundreds of thousands of years. We have refined and moulded this technique to our whims over all this time, and I present a universally usable version of this technique once more. Similarly, it is significantly weaker than the more specialised variants available.

Activation and requirements

The requirements are exactly the same as mental rejuvenation, and as such you can only have one of the two active at any time. Of course, if you¡¯re a rare person capable of splitting their mind and soul, then go ahead and use them both at once. It¡¯s just questionable if you actually gain anything from doing this. The first thing to note is your limits. Whilst mental rejuvenation forces your body to ignore the effect of your waning mental energy, complete focus does no such thing. This technique entirely focuses on consuming more energy to improve your focus, or your precision to be exact. Set up is important for this technique, and may be the longest part about training in it. However, since most children can easily learn this in a few days I fail to see why any alchemist would fail with my universal technique. Focus on preparing everything the technique asks for and only then start practising it. Begin by visualising a sharp blade. The most critical component is the blades sharpness, and as such you should place more attention there. It does not matter if the metal is fragile, some actually use glass as it¡¯s sharper, but you should give a general form of a blade. This is part of a mental reinforcement. Since we inherently see these items as ¡®sharp¡¯ from an immature age we can ease a lot of the learning process by hanging off this natural occurrence. For races where this concept does not come from, it only makes the overall visualisation a bit harder With the blade formed, to the sharpest your mind can imagine, go ahead and finish it off with a handle. This is not at all necessary. Most people simply don¡¯t feel comfortable with grasping anything with a sharp edge, so this portion will simply remove a level of distraught in the common man. Fancy guards, pommels, or engravings are completely unnecessary. Although, some readers still feel the need to point out how this technique would be improved by adding some. They completely missed the universal point of this technique in the end. With the blade formed you must now transfer to imagining your hand grasping the weapon, although it¡¯s obviously not there. Instead think of what it would feel like, focusing on the texture, grain, temperature, and so on¡­ This part can take the longest for two reasons. You did not visualise the blade properly. If anything about the object is hazy then you¡¯ll already fail with you yourself not truly knowing what the material is like. A beginner¡¯s mistake is just imagining some extremely powerful metal that can cut through everything, but that utterly fails when you need to imagine how it feels. In the name of common sense, just use a simple metal you interact with all the time. Steel and aluminium are common in most worlds already, and those work as good bases. The second point of failure is improper imagination of the feeling. This can take a lot of forms because there are lots of things to consider initially. Some people say the easiest way around this is to simply model the blade off something you own in reality and visualise that. However, I find that using a completely unseen blade is better for training your skills in visualisation and imagining objects, which you will surely need down the line. Just keep on thinking about every part of your object until it is no different from how the actual thing would rest in your hand. Now for the breathing part, except it¡¯s a bit more complex. Unlike before where the only part was remembering the cycle, you now require a build-up of muscle memory. You can do this entirely off memory, but that becomes extremely difficult if you¡¯re trying to practise another technique.If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. Using your imagined blade, cut in the directions as shown by the diagram below. It does not matter what order you complete the cuts in, simply that you complete all five cuts towards their meeting place. Red dots all represent the starting placement of your blade, while the blue dot represents the central meeting point. The arrows are to show direction. For the specifics, you are drawing five lines which connect the points of a star to its centre. Anyone could draw links as to why any of this is important, like saying this is equivalent to dragging the five senses to one, but all that¡¯s just rubbish. This movement is an activator for the technique, nothing more, nothing less. The individual cuts must be completed in a certain fashion though. Use a slow, gliding cut each and every time. Then comes the breathing alongside every cut which, unlike the movements, require a specific order. For example, you may choose to start from 3rd point on the diagram, but you must begin with the 1st breathing action. Your next cut may be the 5th point on the diagram but your breath will be the 2nd one given. This is why muscle memory plays such a big part here, as you will need to choose whichever order is most comfortable for you. The five breaths are as follows: Repeating these actions immediately is not required. Once you finish the final cut the technique will activate which is easy to notice as your general senses are improved massively. If this part has failed then you may have met a shortcoming at one of the many points. In regard to the breathing and cutting part there are a couple more errors you can make. Most notably is not following the breathing set as laid out. There is no need to start off fast, so even if you need a minute to complete the set, go for it! Then there are some who do not line up their cuts properly. These parts can be hardest for people with poor hand-eye coordination, but simple drills every day can resolve this. Making accurate attacks is a requirement for any fighter, even more so for a cultivator where the width of a hair could define your life and death. Not to mention in alchemy, where precision is one of the most important skills to train. A common solution for the latter problem is to train your cuts on pieces of paper with the points marked. This lets you know how far off all your movements are, allowing for easier refinement. The only solution I know of for the former is to simply slow down. Rushing your learning will only hinder you on this long path. Well, there¡¯s nothing left to say from here. If you activated the technique then you¡¯ve done it, if not then go back to the training ground. It¡¯s just a matter of time until you perform it.

Usage

Massively improving the senses is rather vague, so we¡¯ll use some proper justification for it. Using this technique will double your mind¡¯s mental energy consumption in exchange for tripling your overall senses. Do note that this applies to all senses, so hurting yourself will feel a lot worse in this state. As an alchemist the most useful parts will be the improvements to your sight and touch since they¡¯ll allow for more precision in general. Learning to keep your hand stable is another matter entirely though. Unlike mental rejuvenation, this technique only needs to be cast once every 10 minutes. As there is no cooldown between uses it means that most will utilise it once every 9 minutes or so to guarantee they never leave this heightened state, especially since leaving this state could mean losing an important moment of clarity over a more difficult technique. Last are the downsides. Doubling your mental energy consumption is barely a mentionable thing, but this value is pretty poor compared to other techniques. The current most popular technique on the market utilises 3 times as much mental energy for a 5 times increase for your senses. Then you have the far more special techniques that can manage a 10 fold increase in your sense for the same cost of this technique. But those ones aren¡¯t universal, so what can I say? Dump this one as soon as you can get your hands on a good, applicable one! 28th recipe - Complete focus test: Woven layer potion

Complete focus test: Woven layer potion

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements However, this potion will require you to use complete focus or something with a similar effect. Those at natural gathering stage will have natural senses which already meet this potion¡¯s requirements, which kind of undermines this test. Oh well¡­ Originally a conception tier recipe, the high precision required made it impossible for mortals to complete. With the rise of techniques to increase precision the ranking dropped. Weaved layer potions were invented in hopes that humans could mimic the webs of spiders to some degree. That obviously failed, but one of the main ¡®failures¡¯ produced a relatively interesting effect. The creators of such a thing marketed it quite successfully in general.

Ingredients and recipe

Store your blood safely, as to not let anyone get their hands on it. With so many types of silk producing larvae, there are also a host of elemental silks available. It¡¯s in a mortal¡¯s best interest to use non magical variants since the natural gathering stage ones have strong remnant effects that could hurt them. For example, a fire element larva¡¯s silk may burn you on touch. The effect would obviously be better at a higher stage, but let¡¯s just keep this somewhat simple for now. Enchanted water is regular freshwater with lots of Qi infused into it. Even if you have a cultivation it¡¯s in your best interest to buy it. Your entire reserve of Qi for a few ml is not a worthwhile trade. Now the fun stuff. Temporary manipulation gel does two things on consumption. First it allows free manipulation of your body, but mainly only in terms of shifting things around. This stuff is most notably used in mortal tier beauty products which morph this face into a more appealing form. It¡¯s other major use is temporary body modifications, which is the part we care about. Protein cores are simply protein chains which have been refined into a magical crystal. The exact process is quite technical, but you can just imagine it as a very high pressure compression. These are extremely flexible products that help make most body manipulation potions possible at lower tiers. The cores are manufactured as flat disks, an industry standard to make the following procedure easier Drop your protein core in a plate with your blood. Make sure that the thin disk is completely submerged, and then leave it for 3 hours. You can begin on the precise step while doing that. Begin by cutting the thread into segments of length 10 cm. The margin for error on this step is 1 mm, and messing up means buying more thread. This step can be eased by using a mechanical process to cut at every length, but the availability of such a thing depends on too many things. Group the cut up threads into sets of 100, giving you five total sets. Each group of 100 is further divided into two sets of fifty, which you will use to create a lattice of threads. It¡¯s imperative that each thread is weaved in and out of every perpendicular one, but more importantly that the spacing between two threads is no more than 0.1 mm. Some people without Qi claim that a pair of tweezers can massively change the difficulty of this task, and I firmly agree. Mortal hands are rather poor tools, and even cultivators will avoid using them when possible. They¡¯re excellent for handling large objects but rather bad at anything super precise.Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators! This sort of weaving will produce a sort of loose fabric, which is hardly purchasable due to such poor conditions. However, in our case the significantly larger gaps between the fibres is a necessity. What¡¯s that? You could just have a machine do this step for you with higher accuracy? Then there¡¯s really no point in doing this recipe. You¡¯re here to improve your skills, and machines are only so accurate. At some point you will have to rely on yourself, so start from here. I mean, what sort of diligent student cheats on a test? Don¡¯t worry about tying the ends up and drop the completed weave into the enchanted water. The water must soak through into every fibre, easily flowing through the fine holes, for about 5 minutes. The hardest part is done now. Pour the manipulation gel onto a flat plate and drop the wet weaves on top, doing so one at a time. Each weave must be rotated when compared to the one directly below. For obvious reasons, try to avoid rotating it by 45 or 90 degrees¡­ The five layers of weaved silk will slowly sink into the gel, and now you wait for the protein core to fully absorb your blood. Depending on how efficient you were at weaving cloth you may still have a long wait. Those rubbish at it may find their core already prepared. Place the completed protein core on top of the manipulation gel, pushing lightly to force the disk into the substance. The moment your disk hits the weaved silk you must stop and pour the remaining enchanted water all over the gel. It¡¯s quite important that the hole caused by your finger is yet to close up as direct contact with enchanted water is one of the cheapest ways to activate a protein core, and no direct contact means no effect. At the same time, the water will be consumed to liquify the gel along with everything contained within. This means the silk weave and core will lose their integrity relatively quickly and join the transparent fluid as slight wisps of colour. The threads colour will leave something, while the protein core will take on whatever colour your blood is. Since most readers are human I presume red blood. The fully dissolved product can be stirred lightly to ensure complete mixing and finally bottled for consumption. There¡¯s nothing dangerous about this recipe, but it does have an exceptional first time failure rate because people forget a couple weaves here and there. This is why a focusing technique is practically required to do this. Of course, some show-offs like to do it without, but realistically why bother?

Usage

This potion may only be consumed by the person whose blood the protein core absorbed. Anyone else using this potion will encounter frightening side effects which will more than likely end in a gruesome, cancerous death. Consumption is easily completed by drinking said potion. Just down it in one go and the effects will begin after half a minute. The effective time of it will depend on the Qi naturally contained within your silk, as well as the power expended by that specific element. However, even the most expensive shadow effects will last an hour with this potion. Upon drinking your sweat glands will be morphed to produce a secretion which you cannot control. Your body will continuously expel it to form a thin layer of this mucous membrane over your body, similar to a skin-tight bodysuit. You will not experience any loss in mobility or breathability in this state. This membrane over your body holds next to no defensive properties, and even the simplest knife will slash right through it. Instead it holds an intense elemental effect depending on what sort of thread you used, and sometimes the silk¡¯s level of Qi. A few examples are: Fire element silk ¨C forms a heat resistant barrier around your skin, however you can still be lit aflame. If a natural gathering stage silk is used then the barrier is instead resistant to all non-magical flames below 3000 C. Water element silk ¨C An aquatic membrane over your skin allows you to move in water unimpeded (I.E. Water resistance no longer affects you), and your body can passively draw out oxygen from the water similar to gills. Relatively low pressure limit before breaking, but a natural gathering stage silk allows you to go down ~500 metres. Light element silk ¨C The membrane can absorb light passively with no practical limit except the two hour potion limit. All absorbed light can then be released as pleased, whether used as a light source or for a single devastating beam attack is up to the user¡¯s choice. Natural gathering stage silk improves this potion¡¯s duration to eight hours. Listing out each element is a pain. If you care for each one then there are more than enough sources. Alternatively, be an experimental alchemist and just try them all out! Creativity only gives you a brighter path to walk on. 29th recipe - Flavour enhancing serum

Flavour enhancing serum

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements You know what humans are really good at? Making their lives easier even if it¡¯s an utterly incomprehensible idea, and this liquid is a prime example of that. It can only be used for its obvious purpose but is actually the 4th most popular mortal tier drug in existence. It¡¯d be funnier if the recipe were painfully simple, but this one does ask for some skill. Probably the reason it was only invented soon before the announcement of the GCC. Created by a chef who felt his spices lacked that ¡®oomph¡¯ (This is a direct quote), he hired a team of alchemists to find something to increase the main factor in different spices. Enough time spent throwing together food related items eventually garnered some results. I pity the mortal tongue that endures a bad chef nowadays¡­

Ingredients and recipe

How to explain this to those not in the know¡­ You probably understand how somethings have really stupid names because of a joke, right? Well this is an example of that¡­ taken to the limit. Cataclysmic devastators are a chili-like plant which produce a mixture of tastes which have been titled ¡®enough to make gods weep¡¯. Spicy, sweet, sour, bitter, salty, umami, and any more examples I do not have the will to list off. It coagulates all these flavours in a single bundle and destroys any ability to taste the food itself. So, we just add a pinch. They are rarely found on low mountainous cliffsides. As a result they¡¯re farmed in large amounts. All-purpose booster is used to particularly focus the aspect of taste desired, it is activated normally by simply adding it to the spice/herb in question. The booster is a normal looking green herb with a pure white coating the edge of its leaves. Eating it alone has no real effect, although if you have any leftovers in your mouth it may suddenly boost a spice in that food. Like most regular herbs these are awkwardly easy to grow. Any pot with dirt and water can sustain one of them, or they can be found in almost any non-extreme biome. Trailblazers are a root vegetable that people ordinarily consume to deal with internal pathing issues. This can rarely take place in the form of certain body parts lacking particular vitamins and minerals, which will be guided there by this root¡¯s juice. These long spike-shaped roots are found in most grasslands although forests seem more abundant with them. However their effect can be focused in other ways.Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. Diamonds are an interesting material, but these essence seeds are in no way related to the gemstone. They only have the name due to a similar property of intense toughness after flowering. However, the seed oil does hold a special locking property. Thus making it suitable to store the myriad of flavours held by a bit of cataclysmic devastator. The flowers themselves are hard to find naturally, only growing near gemstone deposits underground, so it¡¯s common to just farm them instead. As such the seeds can be bought and crushed, or the oil is generally available in most places. You may as well begin by placing the small piece of devastator into the seed oil since the full dissolution process takes 20 minutes. While that¡¯s going on you extract the trailblazer¡¯s juice if you¡¯re yet to do so. If you bought the juice already then set it aside for now and prepare a clean knife for the booster leaves. You want to cut out the middle component of these leaves, such that only the thin edge is left remaining. Fortunately, this recipe does not ask for extreme focus as you have around 5 mm of clearance from the edge. Although, to be on the safe side it¡¯s often recommended to just trim it a bit on a second run-through. As long as the white edge is completely intact there is no downside to repeated cuts. This is completed 10 times for each leaf, and all the centres can be chucked away or burnt. Since the entire boosting effect is concentrated in these edges it makes little sense to keep the rest. With these edges cut off you can drop them into a cast iron pan to lightly sear them. A light flame is recommended to avoid burning them, and it ensures they receive a thorough heating all the way through. If the idea of a char really interests you then the fire can be massively increased temporarily to give a LIGHT blacking on either side. Some people appear to miss the part where I say to not burn them. Pour your trailblazer juice into the pan with leaf edges and lower the heat once more. While stirring regularly, wait for the solution to reduce until only a minor fraction of liquid is left behind. It should be too little for even a single leaf edge to soak in fully. Directly add these leaf edges to your diamond essence seed oil while pouring the remaining trailblazer juice into a container for later use. If left in the pan it may all evaporate, leaving even more work to make use of the remnants stuck to your pan, or result in you buying more. With clean hands, take a simple utensil, like a spoon, and crush the leaf edges with the leftover seed oil. Try to make sure each part is properly flattened before scraping it off the bottom of this container and stirring rapidly. This can all be ended by adding the remaining trailblazer juice and stirring once more. If all done properly you should have an insanely powerful flavour enhancer.

Usage

By adding a small amount to any dish it will heavily amplify the strongest taste in that dish. This is the way a less experienced chef would utilise this product. Proper chefs will add the flavour enhancer to individual spices and foods as necessary to carefully measure a combination that leads to the best flavours. A competent chef can profoundly change your outlook on food, and many cultivators beyond the destiny chasing stage actually refuse to eat because regular food simply lacks so much in comparison. Even I still drop by a low level world occasionally to enjoy their high-class mortal food. This serum is far from necessary to cook an amazing dish, but it certainly helps supplement for less than desirable materials. Magical cooking at my level is far from cheap, you know! 30th recipe - Clear sight

Clear sight

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements This drug was commissioned by a hunting guild to aid them during the sometimes hour long sessions. Depending on the creature you hunt, even the blink of an eye can decide whether your target escapes or not, and blinking becomes a major issue after a minute or so. The alchemists in question still maintain a few logs of this commission, and noted it as being ¡®decadently easy,¡¯ and ¡®a simple task to give apprentices.¡¯ Which is exactly what they did, as the group of four alchemists just improving their skills with other mortal tier recipes completed this task. The eye drops produced did exactly as asked for by the hunters, and low cultivation worlds that use firearms also quite like these. With the future of technology so hard to see sometimes, you never know if something from the past may someday find a new place in the sprawling worlds.

Ingredients and recipe

Soft water is every weaker cultivator¡¯s preferred method of cleaning, purposely seeking out build-up on your skin and pulling it off. The soft water will dispose of all impurities when dropped into any source of clean water, thus returning it to a good as new state. For obvious reasons, cultivators don¡¯t normally share them¡­ They are all entirely synthetic and cannot be found naturally. The recipe is at the conception tier though. Eyebright root is a greyish green root that easily camouflages with natural limestone deposits. It¡¯s high toughness, when compared to regular plants, makes harvesting easy. It provides a general improvement to eyesight on consumption, but most alchemists prefer using it for this recipe due to far higher effectiveness. If used in certain ways it can temporarily provide magical sight, giving a mortal a way into the secret world beside them. Dust settler is itself a type of dust which catches any particulates nearby like glue. Natively this stuff is found as a rock, but is easily ground up to form this fine powder that resembles flour. If not for the deep green colour it would be nearly indistinguishable from the food good. No advice on finding the rock, it appears almost anywhere. Purified water is hard to make in worlds with lacking technology or cultivators. Either can be used to draw out any minerals and impurities until only water is left inside your¡­ water. Your best option in less technical settings will be to boil some water and condense the vapours in a clean container. Remembering to remove all remnant dust on your eyebright root, add it to the purified water. Your goal here is to adequately soften the root by having it absorb the water. Any added minerals may have resulted in a reaction with the rock-based plant. You can remove it once the root changes to a firm yet soft springiness when squeezed. A ripe peach makes a suitable comparison for texture.Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation. While it soaks you can section the dust settler into two 25 gram piles. Immediately add one to your soft water, allowing the green colour to entirely replace the transparency. Eventually the root will soften and you can remove it at this point. The water must remain pure after this, so using sterilised glass tools is a must here. Some metals are also a choice, but proper ones can be hard to get in some places. The softened root is cut into slices with a thickness no more than 1 mm thick. There is no lower limit here, so go ahead and go through some larger ones if they feel too large. Or measure them, although few like doing that. Dip both sides of the eyebright root slices into the second pile of dust settler, pressing lighting with a tool to ensure good coating. Because you¡¯ll only have a few slices of eyebright root you should not worry about the quantity of dust. You will most likely have some leftover, if that¡¯s the case then just continue finding wet uncovered spots on your slices to cover. In a dish of your choice, bring the remaining purified water to a boil. Ignore that leaching part of the root has likely left it no longer pure, it no longer needs complete purity. Drop the slices one at the time into the boiling water, pushing them gently with a glass object if left floating on the surface. Leave it all to boil until no more dust settler is visible on the submerged slices of eyebright root. Remove the slices at the point. Juice the finished eyebright root and have the soft water absorb all the removed liquid. Bottle the remaining product, you have yourself a few portions of clear sight. And if you add some sort of antiseptic then the remaining water is excellent for cleaning the floor with. As it contains a dust settler, any dust will clump up on the mop/cloth and allow you to easily gather up the whole lot without any worry of it flying off.

Usage

The final solution should be a peridot coloured fluid, completely watering in consistency. A dropper is recommended to place one drop in each eye. You may do this repeatedly, but only up to three times per eye. Each drop will cause that eye to gain a greater effect, but at the same time place it under more strain. Extensive use of this liquid will cause permanent scarring to the optical nerve and result in partial or full blindness. In order of drop amounts. Simply using one drop will create a constantly lubricating barrier over your exposed eye that stops any dust from interacting. This combination means that you will feel no reason to blink as long as the soft water remains. Due to some limitations on creation, namely the mismanagement of soft water, this barrier only lasts for 4 hours. On average, it takes 350,000 uses of this number of drops to scar your eyes. Two drops will contain the previous effect, but the eyebright root now has a chance to activate. Your ability to distinguish contrast will improve, giving notice to even slight changes in shadows, and your effective sight increases by 5%. Roughly 80,000 occasions of this quantity will result in a scarred optical nerve. Three drops contain the previous effects, except the effect is increased to 20%. Doing this 3000 times will damage your optical nerve. Whether you use it to hunt an animal or your bounty target, be responsible. Although, I did once hear a funny case of some students trying to use it in a test. They hoped it would improve their eyes enough to see the paper of someone who actually revised. 31st recipe - Fever supplement

Fever supplement

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements Time for some more common medicines over some enhancement drugs. In this case something given to young children, the elderly, or anyone with a weak constitution in general. These supplements are a pretty early recipe, designed by various tribes independently to aid their young during times of sickness. At the time they knew that curing the disease simply remained impossible, but symptoms are always treatable. With so many options in the surrounding they came to form a simply syrupy concoction that stopped a body from killing itself with an intense fever. It¡¯s really only used in combination with other drugs to form an effective relief and treatment for less serious ailments.

Ingredients and recipe

This recipe is on the simpler side even after accounting for the optimization from tens of thousands of years. This is why I try to include as few primeval and tribal medicines as possible, since very few capable of using Qi at the time would never bother with alchemy. Extreme yin blossom is capable of growing in any below freezing situation, however short winters generally mean the flower is incapable of germinating across the land. They are easily found on higher mountains, but the requirement of a single petal makes this medicine far more affordable. Bee¡¯s grace is the honey from a certain empathetic bee colony. Quite aptly named heartly wonders after translation, they are more than happy to trade their honey for food. Some birds will even take nectar filled flowers to the hive in exchange for a bit. It¡¯s sweet taste along with relatively good anti-disease properties makes it effective for this sort of thing. Weeping dandelions are the flowers which release highly nutritious water when their flowerheads are pressed on, or upon removing a petal. We only technically care for the water within flowers, so quickly extract it into a container of your choice. Lastly we have calming moss. Providing a minor healing effect to your mind, the physical sensation it provides as a result is this cooling feeling. In the past it was assumed this cooling would aid in reducing a fever, but obviously it won¡¯t have any effect. Why use it then? The mind of a child or elderly is still a very fragile thing, and the last thing you want is the yin Qi damaging anything. Not to mention it may be necessary as the inflicted has gone days without rest, which I have seen in far more severe illnesses. Start by washing your solid ingredients in warm water. Boiling water contains minute quantities of yang Qi and may destroy part of the yin flower, while the cooling moss is leached far too quickly by such hot water. We simply want it clean, not inert. Make sure to dry off everything before continuing with the recipe. Crush the calming moss and add the result to your dandelion water. Make sure the dandelion water completely soaks the crushed moss, stirring/shaking depending on the container used. This leaching process will take 8 hours roughly, far faster than the Ankhezian philtre due to us crushing it in advance. It is recommended to not store it anywhere cold whilst the leaching is ongoing.This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there. When the time is up, fish out the moss and wring it of any liquid contained within. Dispose of the moss. It holds no nutritional value to humans, and has lost its restorative component. Add a single petal of your extreme yin flower to the liquid, with protection of course. Directly touching the insanely cold plant is likely to end with frostbite at the least. Ensure the petal is properly submerged and watch the beautiful process. Lines of ice crystals will begin forming over the petals¡¯ veins, like glittering crystals on which they proudly shine light everywhere. From here you¡¯ll see tendrils of ice spread throughout the liquid, branching out mindlessly like it¡¯s forming new roots. Finally the tendrils will bloom with more ice crystals, forming an orchard of ice before finally freezing the entire thing solid. Sometimes it¡¯s just nice to take a step back and watch the world for what it is. Begin heating your bee¡¯s grace to a lukewarm state. In this state you can drop the ice directly into it. You may need to shake the container a few times to force it out due to the liquid expanding while freezing. Coat the ice in your warm honey and wait it out from here. The low heat will slowly break down the petal until it fully dissolves into sandy grains. These are harmless to swallow and contain none of the yin effects. Finally, continue stirring as the ice finishes melting and the overall consistency loosens. Allow the mixture to cool and bottle the product in a dark container. If brown glass is unavailable then any ceramic jar will work just as fine. Make sure to mark the creation of this medicine as well. Even though it¡¯s made of really good honey, it will not last past 3 months.

Usage

Dosage is dependent on age, and there are several separations so pay close attention. For babies and infants between 0 ¨C 24 months: Feed 2.5 ml daily, ideally before they go to sleep. In severe cases this can be doubled to 5 ml daily, but never more than this. If symptoms do not alleviate after 4 days you must seek a medical professional For children between 2 ¨C 8 years: Feed 5 ml daily, once again ideally before sleeping. If they stress that the fever is unbearable then a second dose can be given during that day. A third may be given, but refrain from doing so unless in a life or death emergency. Seek a medical professional if the fever lasts more than 4 days. For children between 8 ¨C 13 years: They may take two ¨C three doses daily, each of 5 ml. It is recommended they only take two though, or even just one if possible. No more than four should be taken in a day, and it¡¯s in their better interest to not take this amount. Seek a medical professional if the fever lasts more than 6 days. Anyone 13 or older: May take two ¨C four doses daily, each of 5 ml. Recommended to take one upon waking and another before sleeping, and the others can be used, as necessary. Up to six can be taken on any single day, but this should not be repeated casually. Seek a medical professional if fever lasts more than 7 days. A small reason why this drug helps. In the state of a fever, your body not only heats up but produces minute build ups of yang poisons. These poisons are mostly as a result of improper chemical reactions, caused by being ill in the first place. As such the yang effect can slowly corrode the mind and body, being just one cause of death during a fever. The yin Qi will destroy the yang poison while the calming moss¡¯ effect will heal that day¡¯s damage to their mind. Combined stopping two causes of death behind a fever, although it does nothing to stop a disease at its core. The honey slightly impedes the diseases progress but nothing to take note of. Lastly, the dandelion water here is used due to high nutrient contents. This makes it perfect for rejuvenating a child who has been struggling to eat under the effects of such a fever. And maybe the most important part. It¡¯s nice and sweet, so very few people would dislike taking this medicine. 32nd recipe - Mouth paste

Mouth paste

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements Different from toothpaste in a couple ways. Most noticeable is how it requires no brushing to make use of, unless of course you¡¯ve coated your teeth in some sort of hard substance that stops it from acting. It was actually created far before toothpaste, but due to certain lacking qualities in technology it was seen as a half-usable product at best. Even then it was known for completely destroying your teeth after several years of regular use, but that all changed as chemistry developed to a certain point. We refined this recipe and a single alchemist literally caused the collapse of an interplanetary toothpaste industry overnight. It was really funny in retrospect, but maybe less so for those involved.

Ingredients and recipe

To start with the chemistry or magical chemistry first? What a bother¡­ This recipe isn¡¯t really possible in technologically undeveloped realms, and is more of an interaction with the more modern form of mortal tier alchemy that occurs. Due to limitations in the cultivation requirements you really only have a few options for making these recipes. And chemistry with some magic is really the optimal one out of them, albeit the more demanding variant. Stasis slime is similar to soft water in a way, in that it sucks up all impurities almost like a living creature would, but several differences exist. Obtained from a slime-like creature, anything given to the gel will be equally distributed within and remain in a trapped state. We have ways to overcome this stasis function though. Enchanted water is water filled with ridiculous amounts of Qi. A peak natural gathering stage cultivator can make it in 10 ml baches, alternatively you can save yourself a lot of hassle and buy it instead. Bee¡¯s grace is an amazing honey with several properties we want. Namely its anti-disease functionality and high nutritional content. It¡¯s made even easier by the bees being a kind and generous group that willingly trade honey for food. In terms of cheap medicines that can be readily changed to combat new diseases it really holds a bar above most drugs. Sodium fluoride is a relatively easy way to get hold of fluoride, a compound used in pretty much all toothpastes and such. I really stress that you should buy this, but I understand if you can¡¯t. I will include a general method to acquire some, but do take care as it involves the usage of highly acidic compounds. Last is the fluorite agitator, used prolifically in the toothpaste industry to boost their effects. Unlike a usual catalyst, which simply reduces the bar for chemical reactions, this chemical directly speeds up the reaction time of any fluorine reaction. Quite literally an agitator in that way, and most elements have one as a matter of fact. They just lose any functionality due to chemicals having no effect on higher stage cultivators. This stuff is all manufactured and must be bought at an alchemical store.If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. For your sodium fluoride, begin by taking any fluorite crystal and grinding it to a powder. Add it to a solution of sulfuric acid to form hydrofluoric acid and calcium sulphate, which must be heated to 265 C to react. Removing the solid calcium sulphate from the solution should be simple. Mix the hydrofluoric acid with sodium hydroxide to obtain a solution of sodium fluoride and water. The sodium fluoride is extracted through use of precipitation. Although there are magical ingredients that can forcefully separate compounds to provide you with sodium or even the fluoride directly, using them in practically any concentration increases your production costs by 100 fold. For the main recipe which uses significantly less chemistry. Add the sodium fluoride to the stasis gel, leaving it to fully distribute over the course of an hour. While that is happening, start heating up your honey till it becomes a runny liquid. It should be akin to caramel in texture. Now remove your heat source and add the enchanted water in steps of 10 ml. Only add a further volume if the resulting mixture begins boiling, and if it still boils after all 50 ml have been added then you grossly overheated your honey. Just restart this process in that case. Allow the dense Qi to reinforce the honey, bringing up its beneficial properties as needed for gum protection and the like. Try to stir it once every few minutes, and it should be done after a total of 10 minutes. Now the slightly dangerous part. Begin chilling your honey and enchanted water mixture to -40 C, it is best to use a flash freezing method if possible, but any cold enough room will do the trick. The mixture should not freeze at the given temperature, but will give off a noticeable chill due to the air above it condensing. The next part must be performed with some sort of blast shielding available. In this step you can add the fluoride agitator in 0.1 ml steps, stirring gently between each drop. If the solution begins bubbling then leave it alone and step behind the shielding and wait for it to stop. A reaction is a sign that you either did not chill the solution enough, or overheated the honey as stated before. The reaction can take one of two forms.
  1. It comes to a rest and returns to its tranquil state. This is the ideal form.
  2. It violently explodes, sending freezing liquid everywhere. This is blocked by having a proper barrier.
Moving on with a finished solution, this can be directly added to the stasis gel and left to distribute over the course of two and a half hours. After that the gel can be packaged and sold directly, just make sure you have a license for such things in most technological worlds¡­

Usage

Imagine it like toothpaste for your whole mouth, except it requires a quarter of the time for an effect several times greater than even the best on the interplanetary market. You stick between 30-50 ml into your mouth and spread it around with your tongue. Don¡¯t swallow it, as consuming large quantities of fluorine is known to be dangerous. After half a minute on every portion of your mouth you spit it out and rinse out any leftovers with water. By removing the human input required to brush your teeth you can more easily encourage people to take part in this. Lastly, using honey as the main disease combatant resolves any problems with the taste, although most manufacturers came up with solutions to those issues millennia ago. If you really wanted to then adding any sort of flavouring is possible for this stuff. 33rd recipe - Wake-up juice

Wake-up juice

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements Coming in many different forms and variations there is no such thing as the original wake-up juice, because of that I have just included the one I like most personally. Also means not having to deal with recipe ownership, some of those corporations keep an excessively tight grasp on that stuff. Whether you want it spicy, sweet, slow or fast acting, and perhaps even active throughout the day, there¡¯s a type of juice for pretty much every case. Exact effectivity is dependent on the type, since some need to be milder or stronger for individual tailoring. In my case I really like this white chocolate flavoured one, my mother used to feed it to me in the mornings to help get me out the door for school sooner.

Ingredients and recipe

Savoury grapes are an old item. Almost identical to white grapes in outer appearance, they contain several small seeds but never a hard pit. This defining trait separated them from olives, which they technically are, but that analysis only came about with some agricultural knowledge. Sugar paste is what it sounds like. Similar to a thick liquid icing, there will always be some obvious crystals due to using full crystals over a ground down version. It flows and therefore is a liquid. Made by mixing sugar with cornstarch and water, how about experimenting a bit to find an ideal ratio? Melting chocolate is difficult if you don¡¯t know how. You should never just stick it on a heated pan as this will burn it instead. To ensure melting there are a few good methods, but the least involved is to boil a pot of water and place the chocolate in another bowl directly on top. The water should not touch this second bowl instead using the emitted heat to slowly melt the solid. Obtuse peppers are a cross between savoury and spicy, but their extreme concentration of spice means you should only use a tiny amount per portion of anything. People crying after tasting a pinch of powder is considered a tolerant reaction.Stolen novel; please report. Explosive chili flakes are similar, but go for a single instance of extreme heat. This deals with the greatest issue plaguing spice, it¡¯s effect of lasting some amount of time. The single burst is a perfect effect for a drink designed to wake a person up, providing you don''t end up a bawling mess after this explosive start. Making chili flakes is just a matter of dehydrating at a low heat until they end up a dry flaky product. Crushing them finely will give the flakes, formed of the flesh, skin, and seeds all combined. Add obtuse chili flakes to the savoury grape juice and stir a few times. Leave this part in a cold room to chill but not freeze. You will know the temperature is fine when the juice slightly solidifies into a less viscous consistency. At the same time add the explosive flakes to the sugar paste. This doesn¡¯t actually cause a reaction, nor a visible response, but the paste¡¯s thickness means it can take a while to fully mix these together. Really it¡¯s just meant to give you something to do while waiting for the chocolate to melt and juice to chill. When all three things are done you can mix them all together in a single pan. Place it over a heat source and stir it throughout. It won¡¯t take long to finally finish this simple recipe, which also tastes surprisingly good. Just learn to hold your spice before taking it.

Usage

In about ten minutes, he''s gonna be as sober as a priest on Sunday ¨C Bartender in an old west tavern. Effectivity greatly varies from place to place and year to year. Chili rarely maintains an exact level of spice forever, such that the same product could wildly differ in results between harvests. This product is always taken orally, and it is recommended you block your nose for the viler tasting ones. The one provided is suitable for children, providing you¡¯re only feeding them a spoonful in the morning. More could create short-term issues like ulcers from the intense discomfort, and long-term issues of taking anything in too large doses exist. One dose (5ml for children) will initiate a reflex action that sends them into a minor coughing fit when the explosive chili takes effect. This lasts at most 5 seconds, such that there is no inherent danger, while they¡¯ll mainly taste the chocolate, sugar, and savoury undertones after. During this tasting, their intense reaction will jolt them awake, perfect to help with that morning drowsiness. From there the residual obtuse chili leaves a slightly uncomfortable feeling. The secondary, weaker, discomfort will last around half an hour. It can be reduced through use of milk or other liquids containing sugar. By maintaining this feeling it makes the temptations of returning to sleep weaker, helping to push you out of bed as much as needed. The product will force you out of bed, but staying up is still determinable through willpower. That¡¯s why this version is so good for children that have school soon, as they don¡¯t need the coaxing. However, for an adult on a weekend it may be better to take something stronger. 34th recipe - Acting potion

Acting potion

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements A mix between a psychedelic and emotional enhancer, although some would argue the former counts as both. Acting is not just about conveying a story, but the emotions within which is often the hardest thing about it. An amazing, yet monotone, actor will never contain the same energy as someone with true passion. That intrinsic desire is what sells a story, what allows someone to fully engross themselves into a made up life, and at its core is what some consider acting. Of course, I am not an actor. But learning what some actors need and making potions based around that is something a competent alchemist should be capable of. I often recommended this stuff to method actors who require that extra level of depth with the character they just cannot yet understand.

Ingredients and recipe

I believe you can see the pattern with most these ingredients already. That being their effects on a person¡¯s mind. This is a pretty long recipe to manufacture, especially if using these base ingredients, but it can be sped up by buying some pre-manufactured parts. We¡¯ll look into that later. Lacing wire is a root vegetable which sprouts a thin stem above ground. This stem then grows a flower which blossoms for 6 days before wilting and marking the root¡¯s full ripening. It¡¯s name obviously refers to the wire-like stem. Their natural habitat was destroyed over 500,000 years ago, now we just farm them in similar reproductions to those environments. Antisocial eviscerator is the main psychedelic component in this recipe, in that it does pretty much what the name suggests. The slug¡¯s blood sends you into an almost crazed desire to interact with people. It¡¯s pretty common for the socially awkward few at parties to drink a shot of this stuff to actually have some fun and join in, although it does often form some¡­ questionable memories. They live somewhere, that¡¯s all I really know. Like any garden slug they appear pretty much everywhere, but far more rarely. Mind splitters are a vegetable that grow above ground like cucumbers or peppers. They contain a large volume of fluid within their bodies like cucumbers as well, diluting the mental effect to quite a degree. This is useful overall as it transforms the chemical¡¯s harsh Multiple identity effect into a gentle coaxing of a dissociative identity. Do be careful with this stuff, there are more than a few people every year that gain a permanent addition to their mind. Lifestones are a great and utterly amazing product. Containing massive quantities of pure vitality and life essence, if you ever want to nurture something there is rarely something better. Of course, this is all on the precondition that the thing you¡¯re nurturing is immune to cancer. The intense vitality is indiscriminate, and if left to its own devices is almost guaranteed to start an upsurge of some cancerous cells. That¡¯s why this ethereal one that can only target spiritual being is so useful. They often form in small nodes in deep tombs, specifically ones where lots of people died. Good old calming moss and its slight mind restorative effects. Like in many other recipes we use this light healing to mend you of any possible damages, thus ensuring your mental stability whilst you screw with everything else. Most often grows on trees in snowy lands, it is farmed en masse at the moment. Now for the recipe. You can start by fermenting the Mind splitter juice for 6 weeks and up to 28 weeks. This will of course require a batch of yeast to begin the fermentation process, however such things are purchasable almost everywhere so it really should be easy. This component is the main time sink of the recipe and buying it instantly reduces the shortest 8 week recipe to a mere 2 week process. Fermenting any juice is rather easy, just seal it in an air-tight container, preferably wooden or stainless steel, with the yeast and leave it to slowly improve in alcohol content. Furthermore, make sure the room¡¯s temperature stays around an average of 20 C. There¡¯s no specific content requirement as long as it hits 2% ABV at minimum, but some people like to go higher for personal reasons.If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. Wrap the ethereal lifestones in calming moss, doing your best to make the minerals covered entirely, and use the lacing wire stems as string to hold the shards in place. You may be lucky enough to obtain one solid chunk of lifestone, or you may have a small bundle of shards, either will work but the former is easier to contain for obvious reasons. Only use a single Lacing wire stem to tie up the bundle as the other is needed elsewhere. Drop this tied pouch into the finished brewed mind splitter juice and leave it to diffuse for a week. At this stage you should avoid buying the pre-formed ingredients as we are now firmly in the territory of alchemy over general alcohol brewing. The latter skill is useful in the long-run, especially if you like fancy drinks, but won¡¯t exactly help you in making more advanced stuff. After a week of brewing you can add half the antisocial eviscerator blood before leaving it once more for another week. Whether you use an air-tight container does not matter after the brewing step, just that it remains in the same warm room. This last step is why we use lacing wire stems over any fine plant fibre. The thin fibres hold a strong adjoining property. This is a vague term, and quite literally hell for me to understand when I first began, but I will do my best to explain it. Adjoining is an ingredient property that everything has. If it can be mixed with something else then it has an adjoining value. For ease we normalise this value such that it will always be a number between 0 and 1, this part is purely for mathematical aid. By extension, ingredients that cannot be mixed with anything else are given an undefined value instead of 0. This is due to a nuance in the definition of ¡®no adjoining ability¡¯ and ¡®impossible to adjoin¡¯. Nonetheless, at this stage we can simply consider adjoining as a sort of bond between it and all other ingredients. Stronger bonds make mixing it all together easier, and therefore increase the likelihood of a stable recipe. For this reason we often seek ingredients with high adjoining values, leading to some ingredients being used often in different tiers. One such ingredient is calming moss, with a value of 0.88 it can be added to pretty much any mind related product without any destabilisation of the end product. This does not include mental attack products which will instead clash with the healing effect, even if all ingredients have similarly high adjoining values. In general I will avoid talking about these values, and if you want to find the value of any ingredient there are dozens of indexes filled with those things. Lacing wire stems have a value of 0.78, so not incredibly high but still good. However, this becomes invaluable when combined with the stem¡¯s rare effect to attract the properties of materials with lower adjoining values. More information regarding this rare effect is well-documented in various books. This guidebook is not intended to teach you the theory behind alchemy, although some theories will be included when recipes require modification on the fly. Cut the stem into 32 equal sections and coat it in the remaining antisocial eviscerator blood. Make sure all sides are properly coated before dropping the stems into your main mixture. Stir it all together and leave it to rest for 12 hours. The product is now ready. The average potion size for an adult is 100 ml. Bottle it according to such.

Usage

Let us start from the effect upon drinking it. After half of it sinks past your throat a faint buzzing will fill your mind, like a fly is stuck by your ear. This sound is actually a mental disorder as you cannot process the sudden effects ongoing and your mind is still trying its best to interpret the changes. Half a minute after it starts it will stop. It causes no permanent damage. By this point it is likely you have completely drunk the potion and all that¡¯s left is to nurture the necessary personality. This can be done in one of two ways, the first is easier for a method actor. Simply play the role. Your act of being the character will inevitably warp the newly formed mind into becoming that person and as long as that secondary mind exists you will genuinely believe yourself to be that person. This heavily depends on your ability to become a character though, so those lacking the empathy and skills will realise a failure instead. The easier method is a slow nurture by reading about the person. Reading out loud to yourself works best, and even going over the same passage over and over will work. In fact, some people just watch a short scene from a movie using the character to nurture the secondary being. I don¡¯t need to explain how useless that is if you¡¯re an actor who will go on to act out this character. With your second personality formed you can now give it majority control over your mind (and body by extension) to watch and understand how they behave. This can be rather dangerous if you create a diabolical or extreme secondary personality, and some upstart actors have killed themselves because of this. The extremely depressed personality simply could not be stopped in time, and well¡­ This potion cannot allow you to learn more about someone more than you already know, however it gives you access to their rawest being. If you struggle with empathising with words on a page then feeling the direct emotions can change it all for you. This effect lasts 16 hours before the secondary personality dissipates and your mind reverts. This reversion includes another half minute of buzzing. 35th recipe - Serene mind

Serene mind

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements What do you mean I¡¯m cheating by using so many mind related products? Well, considering mental stability is my specialisation is it any surprise that I hold an unconditional bias to it? Moving on. Maintaining a dedicated thought process without drugs is rather hard. Some relatively ones that grant unparalleled focus by inhibiting certain connections in the brain do exist, and in some mortal worlds are used carefully to deal with a variety of conditions or to just help students stay on track to study all night long. Obviously, changing the brain is dangerous, far more than influencing the semi-corporeal mind instead. With so many mind related plants available it only took a matter of time for someone to create a combination capable giving anyone intense dedication to the task at hand but also not locking their mind so inhumanistically.

Ingredients and recipe

Calming moss is just too easy to add to any of these in the end. A moss that grows well in snowy regions, it is mass-farmed in most worlds. Attention absorbers are a flower that can grow almost anywhere but requires the attention of other creatures to bloom. For this reason it can be hard to find them naturally, but heavy farming protocols means that buying them is rather easy. They also have a problematic focus-grabbing property upon flowering which often massively reduces farming efficiency. Enchanted water is still just lots of Qi dumped into water, and nothing can really change that. Unless you¡¯re at the spirit forming stage or above it is always recommended to purchase the low-tier stuff. We haven¡¯t even begun talking about the issues with higher tiers of this ingredient. Soothing lifestones are another variant of lifestones which focus on the physical over the spiritual. These cannot in any way nurture or heal your soul, but instead will make up for the food and water you¡¯ll fail to consume whilst using this potion. Like all lifestones they can be found in underground deposits, but these ones are mostly found near places with a consistently exuberant vitality. Forests or large root systems are common examples. Begin by crushing the lifestones to a sand-like powder. It can be crushed smaller, but at that stage it may lose some efficacy. Additionally any larger and the reaction will take far longer due to lower surface area.Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. For a more delicate portion, use a knife to cut out the ovaries of all the flowers. The stamens should remain however, they are crucial in the attention focusing effects. This is a method used by the plant to attract more pollinating insects and thus propagate better. As the ovaries are enclosed it is harder to draw attention to them, but also the few tests on some mutated versions have shown that adding an equal attraction to these seeds only reduced the flower¡¯s ability to propagate. As for why, maybe a small research project for you instead? With all the ovaries removed we can drop the flowers into a bowl filled with our enchanted water. Leave them to soak until bright blue veins begin appearing on the petals. When the veins begin flashing in regular intervals they should be removed. This can take between 1-2 minutes per flower. Doing all four at once is possible, but two at a time is recommended for mortal alchemists. Finally, use the calming moss to bundle up the crushed lifestone. It is fine if the ball doesn¡¯t truly stay together but try to squash it a bit such that it holds temporarily. Take a pan and place it over a heat source. The pan¡¯s surface must be above boiling at the very least, any less will produce no effect, but the ideal temperature is roughly 250 C. With the pan at this heat you can drop the ball of calming moss in and use something to roll it around slightly. It is alright if some of the moss ends up burnt to the pan, but it is required that the entire outside is heated before the ball can unravel to release the crushed lifestone. If hot to the touch you can pour in the remaining enchanted water and stir gently. Use a wooden utensil if necessary to scrape off the burnt calming moss on the pan. Unfortunately, we cannot use oils or lubricants in this recipe. At least those with Qi can directly use that to stop the moss from burning onto the pan¡¯s surface. With all the moss scraped off you can use a flat side to squash the ball. This allows the lifestone to come into contact with the enchanted water if some had not already seeped through the plant. Allow the enchanted water to come to a boil before removing the heat source, stirring a few times as it bubbles away. When the bubbling stops you can leave the mix to rest and begin grinding up the flowers. This is no different than the other times, simply use a mortar and pestle to grind it to a mush and add the fibrous plant mass to the fluid. Mix gently and leave the product to finish for 6 hours. After this time it must be strained through a fine material to remove the residue and then the potion will be finished. Bottle it as necessary.

Usage

Serene mind is a bit of a cop-out in naming terms. In some way it truly does calm a person down and put them into a ¡®serene¡¯ state, but it does this by limiting their ability to focus on multiple concepts and instead focus wholeheartedly on a single one. Of course in the case of some deliberating over committing a mass murder it would be best to not give them this stuff¡­ The exact effects are relatively vague, but it can be said that as the potion begins taking effect you will find yourself more and more attached to whatever task is at hand and its following dependents. For example if you¡¯re focused on cleaning your kitchen then when you finish you¡¯ll move onto the bathroom and then the bedroom. However it is limited at the same time, such that finishing all directly correlated tasks will not cause you to expand further outwards. I.E. You will not go over to your neighbours and clean their homes. Aside from that, this causes no harm to the mind or body in the long run compared to traditional drugs. Although in some cases it may cause harm to your wallet or those around you, so take care when using this stuff. I¡¯d recommend only using it when alone and focusing on an exceptionally gruelling task. 36th recipe - Retching Pustules

Retching Pustules

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements These little sweets are in a world of their own when it comes to the sheer number of ban and limitations mortal worlds place on them. Some people may recognize a poison known as ipecac in a few worlds with a similar function to induce vomiting. Except in a troublesome duality this is so much safer but also so much worse. I kid you not, it was developed entirely for ¡®shits and giggles¡¯, a direct quote. Personally, I think he was just a spiteful bastard that wanted mortal children to suffer, but I can only slander someone so much before their family¡¯s lawyers get involved. Good riddance he died just shy of 800 years ago.

Ingredients and recipe

It is technically a candy until fully consumed, so is it any wonder that it¡¯s loaded with sugar? Pus root juice is our disgusting yellow juice that tastes absolutely vile. We use a load of sugar to cover up the initial taste of the juice. I don¡¯t think sugar needs that much of an introduction, it¡¯s an unhealthy product purely used to make things taste sweeter. Antward sap is the sap of a tree that repulses ants in troves. To be more specific, the reason these trees ward off ants is because the sap actually forms as a thin layer on the bark. This thin layer then clings to the bodies of passing ants, specifically those climbing up the bark, before coating their food stores with the poisonous product. It only takes a couple tries for the ants to follow the chemical trail and understand that something about the tree poisons their food. From there they regularly avoid it. The trees are found in forests with thick canopies, and the tree generally towers above the ferns middling plants. Clouded dilator is technically a drug in the form of a mineral structure. The chemicals for this product take on a rather standard hexagonal crystal form, but that¡¯s digressing a bit. Clouded dilator has two functions, firstly it stains almost any product to a cloudy white colour providing the additional material is either equal to or below it in Qi level. The second effect is a micro-porous dilation, most notably creating tiny holes in the surface of any tissue. These holes are too small for blood cells to pass through, but can allow for molecules to pass through unabated, luckily this does not work on skin due to the layer of dermatitis, but it cannot cause any issues internally on its own.The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there. However, add something else and you can very quickly make it seep through a person¡¯s whole body. Dump all the sugar in a pan and slowly caramelise it. This requires little focus overall, and as long as you keep the heat low and stir regularly you won¡¯t burn the product. While that¡¯s going on you can mix the antward sap and Pus root juice directly. The resulting dark yellow fluid is non-toxic in every definition of the word, but will absolutely force at least one attempt to tear your tongue out. The taste is unbearable and in another entirely different bet where I took a shot of this stuff, I cut off my tongue and grew a new one. It proved a hell of a lot easier than waiting it out. With the caramel finishing up into a runny syrup you can drop in the clouded dilator and watch it transform into a pure white fluid. If left still it is almost non differentiable from a block of ice, but this object is still caramel. With that finished you can add the mixture of pus root and antward to prepare finishing the recipe. Mix the concoction together and watch as the yellow mixture is also given that identical cloudy white colouration. From here it can be poured into greased moulds and left to set in a cold room. A temperature around -5 C offers the best results. After the freezing is over you can pop them out of the trays and keep them entirely dry. These horrible things dissolve near instantly when in contact with water.

Usage

These white blocks will instantly dissolve in the presence of an equal volume of water. It will then retain the colouration, also making the water into a cloudy white drink but without any prior knowledge there is no way for a kid to know what the resultant product is. Drinking the fluid will remind you of a sugar syrup and for all intents and purposes is actually quite nice to consume. If not for knowing better you would assume it to just be sweet. However, a few minutes after the product enters your stomach it will have finished its effect. It will cling to the lining of the consumer¡¯s stomach and begin creating microscopic holes in the lining to release small particles. These small products once again repeat this to enter a person¡¯s blood vessels before making their way to the brain to begin their mental augments. Upon reaching your brain you¡¯ll be sent into a spiral of vomiting, unable to stop the intense convulsions your stomach will be emptied but in no way will it stop. For hours on end, leaving your diaphragm and throat aching, your only options are to wait the drug out or get an antidote. At least with so many bans it is hard to come across this in most worlds, it should also be noted that if you live in a place where this stuff is banned you should avoid trying to make it. If you choose to try anyway then attempt to destroy it soon after. Law enforcement finding it will end poorly for you. 37th recipe - General tonic (Basic)

General tonic (Basic)

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements Tonics, fortunately, are not healing potions. Due to the nature of higher cultivation stages they are only effective to a certain point, but that¡¯s getting way too ahead of ourselves. Let us start on the basis for all of these tonics, the general tonic. The original tonic was developed by cultivation sects almost a million years ago now. It¡¯s purpose is effortlessly simple as to improve the health of mortals, but not just to help mortals for free. You see, cultivators have families, at least most do. And as such, most care about these members they have left behind, again, at least most do, but for the majority it would waste time fretting about their health and situation. Tonics cannot ward off bad luck or provide even the smallest smidgen of Qi, but they can revitalise a person. Their use is simple and direct, to allow a cultivator¡¯s mortal family to live a good life before passing on. The purpose to calm the cultivator¡¯s heart and allow his mortal ties to finally come to rest. They¡¯re also great in developed societies where people don¡¯t want to cultivate but still want to live a healthy life. It¡¯s rarely bad business.

Ingredients and recipe

Lacing wire is once again being used to both hold together certain materials and as a potent adjoining ingredient. Still, at this level worrying about the specifics of adjoining is just a way to confuse yourself. Wait until you understand the principle of elemental conflicts and multiplication before looking at advanced topics. Exuberant heartstone is a type of heartstone, which is a material slightly lower in tier to lifestones. Heartstones can easily be farmed by placing the hearts of powerful creatures (Roughly at the destiny chasing stage) in a case of recursive lifestones. Heartstones are a far milder type of stone, but do not actually release any Qi upon use, instead converting a small amount into a restorative while the rest escapes freely. Lacing wire stems are the stems of root vegetables which produce a flower above ground. In the interest of pollination it is recommended that you wait for the plant¡¯s flowering period to end before removing the stem, although it doesn¡¯t really matter as the insanely thin stem allows it to minimise the energy to create a new one. It can regrow in 2 days at its fastest, so really don¡¯t worry about taking a few. Purified water is just water with a trace amount of impurities, such as minerals. It just helps reduce the chances of adverse reactions. Balanced agar is a type of jelly that focuses on placing everything in equilibrium except, with great irony, itself. The jelly formed nodes throughout its mass but these are undetectable with the naked eye so don¡¯t bother. The jelly is formed in a lab due to low costs, but there are slimes made of this stuff, so hunting them is an option. They spawning grounds are utterly random though, so good luck on that front.If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. A relatively simple recipe this time because it was made for apprentices to complete. No dedicated alchemist wanted to waste time with these things for the family of other cultivators, and really they¡¯re only valuable at the mortal tier. Your heartstone must be ground to a fine powder, similar to icing sugar in consistency. You really can¡¯t go too fine here, so if you feel any grains just go ahead and crush it again. Heartstones are significantly weaker than lifestones so any substantial force along a grain will crack it, as the size decreases it will begin to easily shatter under force at any point. Mix this powdered heartstone with an equal mass of water, 25 ml for those not in the know. As a general rule for water, 1 litre of water is roughly equal to 1 kg. This will form a thick slurry which all three Lacing wire stems can be coated in. Coat the stem¡¯s entire length and leave it to set, this takes around 10 minutes in a warm room. While this is happening you can just pour all the remaining water into the balanced agar. The agar now needs to reposition this all, which takes a little under 5 minutes. In some cases the agar is known to dry out a bit in advance, this can be resolved by adding up to 10 ml of more purified water. No more should be added as it means there is now a fundamental problem with the agar or it is too dehydrated to be of use. With that done you can now cut each stem into 16 pieces and grind them up. This time it is far less stringent and you can just add it to the agar on the condition that no large pieces are observed. You must stir the agar manually here, as it does not entirely distribute internally in an ideal fashion. This can be avoided through use of higher level items, such as redistribution agar which is a spirit forming stage version of this jelly but also really expensive. Bottle the stirred product and make sure that any mortal that consumes it gives it a through shake beforehand for maximum effects.

Usage

First of all, a mortal human may only consume one every year. Any more will send their body into a highly-saturated state which comes with its own issues. Just the vitamin A extremity can cause liver failure, not to mention all the other issues that come with over-filling your body. As for children, they should simply never touch this stuff. Their bodies don¡¯t need balancing, it needs to take its own course to develop naturally. Adults don¡¯t develop their bodies further, unless they plan to build muscles or the like. By extension, no one aiming to ¡®bulk up¡¯ should take this tonic. Writing out its full list of effects is rather long, so it can be generalised into three points. First it will create an agar store of various minerals and vitamins necessary for the body to live normally, automatically filling cells with anything they¡¯re missing. Secondly it will deal with any imbalance in chemicals, this effect is a bit rarer unless you suffer from diabetes or thyroid issues. In the former removing the excess sugar while in the former providing iodine from the heartstone source. This is an effect of vitality power over traditional medicines, which can be transformed near freely into chemicals. Third, and maybe the most underestimated effect, is a general enhancement of your immune system. Actually, this is more of an aftereffect of the tonic¡¯s all-round improvements, but it¡¯s important enough to mention. The improvement¡¯s creation is obvious, your body¡¯s similarly bettered state, however the other point is the higher affiliation between parts of the immune system. The already cohesive system is supported by the agar to send and receive chemical signals faster, such that their reactive-ness to infections is multiplied several times. Some basic logic here: If you¡¯re too healthy to get sick, then you won¡¯t ever be sick. 38th recipe - Potion of limit breaking (Basic)

Potion of limit breaking (Basic)

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements A rarer potion type this time, and one I don¡¯t recommend consumption of. Limit breaking pills and potions exist throughout all stages of cultivation, even at mine, but they always come with a long-term side effect. In some cases that effect may be death, but not in this case. Limit breaking is something every cultivator strives for but in a stable way through cultivation. These potions that temporarily force your mind, soul, body, and essence into a higher stage can either leave you crippled or damaged for periods of time. At these lower stages it will be a mere few weeks, but at mine it can be centuries in the weakened state. Limiter removals have existed since magical herbs started appearing as some natural products already have a slight limit breaking effect, but a small 10% increase in power means nothing in grand battles and as alchemists it is our duty to refine and enhance these effects. If the limit removal has not at least doubled the strength of a person then the drug is practically a failure; people seek power with complete disregard for the backlash when it comes to these things. All you must do is keep them on death¡¯s door, whether they survive will be their fate.

Ingredients and recipe

Four more ingredients to run through. It should be noted that volatile blood is used in almost every limit breaking drug, with higher tier variants used in more advanced products. Bloodwart is a type of mugwort that grows excessively well with blood mixed into the soil but poorly in almost every other situation. I do wonder what allowed this mutation to even be successful in the past, but I guess it just happens sometimes. Seared bloodwort is a more specialised mutated form which only grows well in climates averaging 50 C at the minimum. They are farmed at temperatures of 150 C for efficiency. They can be found in areas where incredulous quantities of yang qi have seeped into the ground, thus heating it up, and bloodshed is common. Good luck finding that naturally. I¡¯m going to skip over alcan seeds for now since they¡¯re irrelevant in this recipe. Crystallised alcan is once more a mutated version of the base plant that grows on top of mineral clusters. It then takes on properties depending on the mineral it primarily absorbs, and magical ones can produce some lustrous flowers. They are often found in any mineshaft growing along the walls in copious quantities. Many consider them as extremely efficient Phyto-mining methods. Worldly heart is a precursor to worldly body. This onion-sized bulb is a special plant that absorbs some essence of the world. I could go on a tirade of this essence¡¯s properties but all you need to know is that it provides the ¡®strength of support¡¯. A mortal¡¯s body cannot withstand the power behind a higher realm, and something to supplement this is required. Considering each bulb is 10 kg due to the ridiculously dense essence, you can make quite a lot of these with each one. Worldly body is a destiny chasing stage ingredient for future reference. Now, five whole litres of volatile blood which has yet to be refined. This is literally just a jumbled mix of blood from at minimum, 60 different creatures. Ideally you want it to be from 180 different beings, but sometimes you have to take what you can get. You also want to ensure that some blood is from each of the four main elements and then some from various secondary elements. As always, rare elements such as space and time are excluded from this. All the blood must be from non magical creatures. Gathering this will give you the unrefined version of this product. I will describe the blood¡¯s refinement first since it must be completed just prior to the start of the recipe. It will transform this 5 litres into a reasonable 100 ml.The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. Blood refinement can be done in a myriad of ways, and arguably the easiest is to just use blood runes, but mortals can¡¯t draw that for obvious reasons. As such we¡¯ll be using a chant aligned with certain dimensions to draw upon their power, of course this also places a burden on the user as we request this power. In any standard case it will draw away a portion of your mental power slightly greater than the power it gives to refine the blood. This is so it ends in a net positive for the dimension. The chant is language specific unlike the one to a god, so don¡¯t expect to understand it. Just try to get the pronunciation down. It goes as follows: Canna droken, Kun arama des; Kun solo bas. Aga kuru san mas duul sa. This would all be so much harder if we didn¡¯t form a standard deal with this dimension long ago. The original chant was around two pages long. Before starting your chant, bring the blood to a boil. Write the chant onto a piece of paper, or any burnable medium, and ignite it before dropping it into the blood. When the burning paper is fully submerged in blood you can begin chanting. It only has to be repeated thrice before completion, upon which you will feel extreme tiredness for a few seconds while the blood undergoes transformation. While you recover from the sudden tiredness, you will see the full volume of blood float out the container and hang in mid-air for a few seconds. It will compress in its entirety, gaining a denser metallic red sheen, and finally drop back down. This new liquid is the same density at least, so a steady pair of hands can pour it into a small bottle for later use. With that done, we can start the main recipe. Drop the piece of world¡¯s heart into this refined blood and shake gently. Then leave it to rest, you just need to cover it in blood but there is no downside to leaving it soaked in the liquid. The seeds of crystallised alcan do not hold any oil, instead storing a strong acid beside some nutrients to allow the future plant a way to dig roots into a mineral cluster. As long as you don¡¯t crush or cut the seeds you¡¯ll be fine. We just need to throw them into an oven to roast for half an hour at 250 C. It is often recommended to use some sunflower or vegetable oil to ensure a consistent roasting. Do try to realise that these cannot be eaten after roasting, it¡¯s not like we¡¯ve destroyed the acid in any way. Seared bloodwart needs to be boiled like you would with any vegetable, but it comes with its own issues. Namely that the plant doesn¡¯t burn in the presence of normal flames, let alone boil in water, this is why we need the world heart in the volatile blood. Just a tiny fragment of world essence will allow a fluid to forcefully enter and boil it. So, add 10 ml of the blood to a pot full of boiling water and stir. Now drop the bloodwart in and wait a few minutes. The fresh stalks will turn limp near instantly as they lose a notable rigidity. With so many holes on a cellular level they have no choice but to allow any fluid inside, further breaking down the plant¡¯s structure. After 10 minutes of boiling it will start disintegrating into a mush at which point we can finish this. Use a fine strainer to squeeze the remaining liquid out of the bloodwart and then wash it with cold water. Add the roasted crystallised alcan seed to this mush and use an inert stone bowl to crush the two together. The strong acid will reduce the bloodwart mush to a liquid, leaving only fragments of the alcan seed. Add the remaining refined blood, which by now will have fully diffused the piece of world heart. Stir the mixture a few times and strain it. The acid should be neutralised by now and as such any fine strainer can be used. The remaining liquid can now be bottled. You have made the product.

Usage

A potion capable of allowing a mere mortal to temporarily reach the strength of the weakest cultivators. But not really. It lasts half an hour after drinking and as soon as it finishes you will enter a comatose state for 6 hours. It only boosts the person¡¯s physical strength to a stage at which they can stand on equal ground to a natural gathering stage cultivator¡¯s Qi, meaning if they have any magical treasures¡­ All strength gain is magical in nature and therefore is not a multiplication of your base body, as such, how much you can lift has no impact on this potion''s final effect. This flat strength increase is popular for many reasons, namely that it allows mortals to ensure their safety more often. Even if you cannot beat a real cultivator it is better than simply being slaughtered, although it comes with a more hidden cost. It is not uncommon to see this potion be used for nefarious reasons, normally robbery. Being able to punch through bricks with your fist just makes that too easy in the end. Not to mention your body becoming impervious to ordinary cold weapons. Firearms can still do damage, but most worlds don¡¯t have access to that technology. This potion really just causes a lot of harm with very few benefits. In terms of limit breaking potions all the mortal tier ones are pretty rubbish. At least you can look at it this way, using this potion will only make you faint for 6 hours, so it ain¡¯t all bad. 3rd technique (Replaces 39th recipe) - Mind鈥檚 eye technique

Mind¡¯s eye technique

Mortal tier technique. No cultivation requirements Sight technique, need I say more? Fine, looks like I will. There are multiple ways to see beyond the realm of standard vision, and different methods will allow for different forms of sight. However, in general these techniques can all be classed into magical and non-magical visions. Infrared vision is non-magical, Qi sense is magical. We like sight techniques for obvious reasons, but some people really disdain training in dozens of them over the years. My advice to them is to suck it up. I still use 12 different sight techniques as needed. ¡®Why?¡¯ you ask perfunctorily. Simple, there is no such thing as a perfect or ultimate technique. And at my level every technique is so overwhelmingly specialised that you need several to fill all the gaps. Just train the technique, it builds discipline.

Activation and requirements

That¡¯s right, a technique that can be taught to all your mortal slaves as we-¨C¡­ Right, we don¡¯t do that stuff here. Anyway, anyone with a soul can learn this technique. This includes artificial and broken souls, so it¡¯s a really lenient thing as you can see. Unfortunately, it¡¯s pretty time consuming to train instead so it makes sense that its requirements are so minimalistic. The average training time is 4 weeks for mortals, but still a week at the natural gathering stage. Having a higher cultivation only poses the question of why you¡¯d bother learning this technique. At the very least the method itself is extremely simple which makes up for the rather high time commitment. Please do note that competency with this technique will still take several more weeks if not months, so prepare for a rather long haul. Although since the experience will aid in using other sight techniques I don¡¯t really see the problem. To begin training you must isolate your mind. This is easily done by trapping yourself in a cave or such, but do make sure it is uninhabited in advance. Way too many people die every year from wandering into unknown caves, some for treasure and others for protection. Just¡­ don¡¯t be like them.The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. Ideally you want to go so far in that it becomes pitch black. This can be easily identified by being completely unable to see anything, even faint outlines. Because this training takes a while you will need a source of food and water which should be prepared in advance. You will only have access to dry rations during this time, but that shouldn¡¯t really be a problem for a cultivator. To begin training this technique you must visualise everything within 2 metres of you in all directions, or until you hit a wall in any direction. This must be done by touching your surroundings and gaining a physical understanding of the surrounding space. Like the prior visualisations, this asks for a proper degree of precision. In general this technique doesn¡¯t ask for you to go as far as grains of dust or whatnot, but rocks and pebbles should be included. You will know if your visualisation is precise enough through a slight eidetic effect. The scene will remain in your mind for roughly half a minute. Repeat this 500 times and you¡¯re done¡­ normally. Some people may have to do it as many as 1000 times, and some lucky bastards finish within 5. This step is entirely dependent on your mind¡¯s original power, meaning people with inherently strong minds will finish faster. Please note that the range given is only the known min/max, and it depends on someone submitting their own lower/higher counts for us to change the record. The exact highest number is 978 times, it¡¯s quite frustratingly close to 1000, isn¡¯t it? And there you go. At some point you will realise that you no longer need to visualise your surroundings, instead you can directly ¡®see¡¯ things in greyscale. This is due to being in complete darkness for this training, but it also makes things easier as trying to visualise colour is generally a lot more difficult. And honestly, there are less troublesome ways to gain coloured sight techniques. Just settle with this until you reach natural gathering stage.

Usage

A sight technique that provides you complete greyscale vision within 5 metres of your soul. Why does the mind technique use your soul? Because this technique really only focuses on strengthening that link between the two. One ¡®sees¡¯ while the other interprets, that is the conjunction of soul and mind. Your vision within 5 metres is unimpeded by regular darkness, but you cannot see through solid objects. Naturally, this means that you voyeurs do not get a field day with this technique, I swear the girls would have our heads if it worked like that¡­ Activation is decided on an individual basis, but the default most pick out is simply closing their eyes and thinking about ¡®seeing¡¯. With a bit of effort you can change the activation to almost any action or thought. Just get used to having two sources of vision before using this technique everywhere. Most people get horribly sick and disoriented when using their eyes and soul to look about, which is why closing your eyes at first is so popular. 40th recipe - Mosquito Repellent

Mosquito Repellent

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements Alright, probably one of the more useful recipes in this entire section of mortal recipes. For those people who often live in the wilderness this is an utterly indispensable item during the warmer months, and could spell the difference between life and death. Mosquitos have always been a nuisance to common people, but when you start mixing in magical energies you end up with far bigger problems¡­ even if the bug itself is smaller now. Another factor to note is that mosquitos are not all bloodsucking creatures, especially in the case of male ones when you look at the non-magical variants. However, they are significantly more hostile as an insect when compared to other beings. In general they will automatically attack anything that nears them, even disregarding the threat of death. As such even basic repellents have existed since time immemorial, but effectivity is questionable. A more perfected recipe appeared around the cultivation empire age when various sects destroyed the mortal empires and began controlling entire galaxies to hoard resources.

Ingredients and recipe

Anibend is a type of orchid known for repelling mosquitoes slightly. Specifically, the stamens release a chemical that sticks to its pollen. This chemical is then spread by the wind and bees meaning that placing them by a window can more or less stop any non-magical mosquitoes from entering. But that¡¯s just in theory, some still enter. Aerosolizing extraction is a pearl-white mineral that causes any non-magical liquid to burst into a fine vapour. This aerosolized state will hold for several months, such that the deodorant industry is half formed on this stone alone. The mineral requires a small concentration of wind-element Qi to form meaning that their common formation ground is off cliff faces. Mining these is pretty easy when you can fly but since these can also be grown, why bother?Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more. Antward sap is excellent at keeping away ants. The tree coats the bodies of thieving ants with the sap and eventually transfers the sap to these hive¡¯s food stores. The sap itself has a neutral taste but can convert the flavour of anything else to absolute trash. Drop the stamens into your alcohol and stir. You need the objects to be soaked in the fluid and structurally weakened as a result. Once that is done you take a knife and scrape off all the pollen on these stamens. Mix the pollen into your antward sap and prepare a spray bottle for the finished product. Using a small flame, light the alcohol infused pollen thoroughly. Doing this supplements the release of its mosquito repelling scent, and the sap should be fire resistant enough to not really care about such flames. If the bundle of sap and pollen refuses to catch alight no matter where you poke it then assume this part is finished, some leftovers will not ruin the product instead only reducing its maximum capabilities. Pour the remaining distilled alcohol into your spray bottle, then add the antward sap sub-product. Finally, add the aerosolizing extract and seal up the bottle quickly. The product will immediately begin fizzing and after no more than 5 seconds begin spewing out alcohol vapours. Give the bottle a hard shake every few minutes for an hour or two. The alcohol is merely a medium for the sap and pollen which does all the heavy lifting. It takes a while for the aerosolizing extract to pull apart the sap into particulates so small that they remain buoyant in mid-air, but it happens eventually. Still, don¡¯t ever spray this around food. It¡¯ll completely ruin the taste of your meals.

Usage

It¡¯s mosquito repellent in a spray bottle. You can either spray it on your skin or nearby surfaced to ward away the critters. Skin is generally recommended since it makes your blood taste bad, but you do have to be careful to not get it on your food. The thin film of sap will be practically impossible to remove as a mortal. Spraying it directly onto the bugs can have a variety of consequences depending on their disposition. Aggressive species may simply go for the kill following such provocation, whilst timid ones will run at the scent alone. Make sure you don¡¯t play with fire! 41st recipe - Mind鈥檚 eye test: Darkness subdues light

Mind¡¯s eye test: Darkness subdues light

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements It¡¯s that time again, a recipe that ideally tests a specific technique. It should be pretty clear that the best test would be any recipe that requires you to be in absolute darkness, in which case this does that exactly whilst also being useful. Created for spies to make an easy get-away in any environment, it did not see much use in those early days with relatively open and clear streets. With the rise of urban expansionism it became extremely useful to slip away unseen into a dark alleyway, and as such gained a significant market. Recipes that require specific environments are simply too rare at this level. It is not a fault of keeping things simple for mortals, but instead that the necessity for environments is born from the ingredients themselves or a certain reaction between them. In this case, it is the latter.

Ingredients and recipe

We make use of a Dry spell lotus due to the nature of this recipe. A full selection of darkness element ingredients at this level is far too difficult to acquire. As such we utilise several light amplifying ingredients and reciprocate their existence with the lotus. Yes, this makes the recipe relatively dangerous. Absorbing mass is the remnants of a troublesome accumulating creature. These sort of beings seek out any similar biomass to their own and destructively make it part of themselves. There are even a few cases of these things growing to consume entire planets. The absorbing mass used in this recipe must be dead, if it wasn¡¯t then chances are you¡¯re already dead. Arcine spores are one of the few abyss items that can actually be used. These spores occasionally float up from an abyss¡¯ lower sections although they can rarely sprout on the surface. The mushrooms are almost entirely inert alchemically though, but they work quite well in a stir fry. The highly refracting crystal is up to user discretion. As long as its refractive index fulfils the recipe criteria there¡¯s not much else to say. Mystic¡¯s water is actually a combination of two other types of magical water. The only reason it is given a separate name is due to the incantation required to begin the merging of such waters. Titled the Mystic¡¯s enchant, one can combine low-tier enchanted water with a jade lily¡¯s internal pool of water. This resultant water gains slight recursive properties, this will be explained in more detail later. Place your refractive crystal into the dry spell lotus¡¯ flower and move all your ingredients and necessary equipment to a completely dark environment. If your eyes can make out anything then it is not dark enough. To see you must make use of the Mind¡¯s eye or a similar sight technique. The destroyed absorbing mass resembles minced meat in some way, and hopefully you bought this pre-processed version. If you bought a solid chunk and planned on grinding it yourself, best learn how to do so in the darkness. Absorbing mass in this state can only absorb energy, and that¡¯s the last thing you need whilst grinding it down. Mix together the arcine spores and absorbing mass. Just like adding spices to your burger mince. Too vivid? Create a flat base from this meat and spore mix, then place it into a deep bowl. The lotus is placed on top, ensuring the crystal never leaves the flower. Now for the dangerous part.Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. To make up for the lack of darkness element objects we instead seek to create an ¡®unnatural¡¯ one. This works due to the dry spell lotus¡¯ ability to subvert reality to a slight degree, in this case transferring the light refracting property of this crystal into the absorbing mass whilst replacing its effects. We replace it with the abyssal darkness contained within each arcine spore. Of course, this reaction is so insanely delicate that even just an over-abundant natural light level can undermine the effects and produce a half baked good. A space with no light is hard to acquire at this stage, but just reaching the point where you cannot see will do. The reaction is started by slowly pouring mystic¡¯s water over the lotus. It will coat the delicate petals and flow down to your absorbing mass. After touching for a few seconds the reaction begins and the natural elements are thrown into disarray. First rule of this step. Never open your eyes. No matter what happens, no matter what you see through your mind¡¯s eye, do not look. A mortal mind cannot withstand the concept of truths and seeing even a fragment will instantly break you. The natural laws holding together your body fails and you reduce to pure energy. At least it is a painless death. DO NOT LOOK Second rule. Do not directly touch the nature subverting objects directly. This one goes without saying, but it still comes as a surprise when I remind people. At this level your inert stone tools should be capable of resisting the effects, however it is always best to prepare spares in case. For the actual process, the only intervention required is usage of a teaspoon to constantly pour the mystic water on top of the lotus. As the water drips down it accumulates at the bowl¡¯s base and after saturating the absorbing mass begins pooling. This pooling does nothing to aid the recipe, so some human intervention is required. Every time you pour some mystic water onto the slowly changing crystal a pulse of distorted Qi is released. This will not harm your body but it may place you through extreme strain as the pulse moves through you. Additionally, your sight using Mind¡¯s eye may turn blurry as the link between your soul and mind is shaken. Disable your technique for a few seconds whilst the link reforms before utilising it again. When the phenomenon finally disperses and you count half a minute since the last pulse then you may stop transferring the mystic water. Remove the darkness emanating crystal from the lotus¡¯ bosom and pocket it. The name of this unnatural phenomenon is called ¡®darkness subduing light¡¯, it describes the creation of an object with the sole purpose of blocking light. There are many unnatural objects like this, each with their unique truth revealing phenomena, but one should be careful to not bite off more than they can chew. A powerful enough phenomena will garner attention from the universe, and pushing on the wall of truths too hard results in it pushing back. Still, the recipe is finished. A standard dry spell lotus can be used thrice for this sort of process. Rinse it off in some purified water and store it properly, you can tell how many uses remain from the layers of petals. Every use of the lotus causes a layer to wilt, and since most of these lotuses contain three layers surrounding the core¡­ The darkness crystal¡¯s real name is Hazed Reality.

Usage

As the introduction stated it is most commonly used as a getaway item. However, as it requires some amount of shadows in the nearby vicinity to work the usefulness in an open field is questionable. It brings up an important distinction between darkness and shadows, which for Qi are two separable concepts, but it matters little at this stage of alchemy. Just ensure there are shadows nearby. The crystal is used by crushing it. The ritual destroys any concept of structure on an atomic level and aside from a surface similarity it barely retains any of the originality. Due to the fragile nature it is normally stored in a small container. Crushing the crystal, with some shadows nearby, will coat everything nearby in a blanket of darkness. Remember, important distinction. Use a sight technique to see through this darkness as necessary and make an escape before your opponent realises to also use their sight technique. Please do note, that as darkness also related to the realm of silence all sounds within this darkness are muffled. You are lucky to hear the screaming voice of someone beside you as a distance shout. Lastly, the average lasting time for this product is 35 seconds. Why such an odd number? Because the universe is petty in that way. 42nd recipe - Attention focuser

Attention focuser

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements Whether taken orally or by injection, this cheap to manufacture drug is perfect for taking on that extra night shift or finishing that paper due for tomorrow. One of the greatest issues plaguing any civilisation is sleep, namely that it takes up time you could be awake and working. However, thus far we have only looked at the harsher and less used varieties of waking drugs. So the natural objective is a far gentler effect product. This stuff does exactly that, which is why it¡¯s a huge business, although the crash afterwards is just as horrible. The current industry leading patent alone is valued around the 10^40 range (in universal Qi crystals). To avoid copyright issues I used an older unprotected recipe.

Ingredients and recipe

Oskat beetle powder is one of the few non magical items with sleep-staving properties, naturally it is put to massive use in mortal tier recipes. Unfortunate that its extreme effects mean that raw use is almost impossible. Even these products do nothing to reduce the resultant crash after use, but at least you¡¯ll be perfectly fine whilst it¡¯s active. Calling Aqueous diffusers a crystal is a bit of a copout. Technically, on an atomic level it does form a crystal lattice, but on a macro scale it feels like a marshmallow. When added to any aqueous solution it will forcibly diffuse the solution through any non-watertight walls. This means a product made with this will not escape a vial, but can easily pass through cell walls which normally stop diffusion of such large particles. No, it does not physically affect the cells. A unit of this crystal is approx. 5 micrograms. Clean blood is any blood that anyone can use. This blank slate of hemomancy is widely used through the medical industry, quite literally saving lives on a daily basis. It does not conflict with blood types, nor is it affected by a species barrier. Production is all done in labs to ensure purity. Don¡¯t bother making it yourself unless your precision is at the atomic level.If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. Rootcell is a plant which forms an intricate locking mechanism at a microscopic level. By coating the Oskat beetle powder in rootcell powder we can reduce the rate at which a body absorbs the former, thus reducing the side effects by spreading it over a longer period of time. Begin by doing exactly this. Grind up dried rootcell and add it to the beetle powder. Mix properly and add the clean blood. Mix once again and leave to absorb this fluid. The dry rootcell cannot make use of its microscopic cages, but any hydration is capable of bringing it back into full force. Clean blood is simply used to kill two birds with one stone. As any being can receive an influx of clean blood it makes perfect sense for an injectable drug to be made of it, this works in tandem with needing a fluid to rehydrate a rootcell. Do not worry about a sediment forming, and instead give half an hour for proper rehydration and locking. It may take up to an hour depending on the room¡¯s temperature. It goes without saying for all recipes thus far, but I have assumed a standard set of living conditions. If you are someone who lives in an extreme environment then I¡¯m surprised you made it this far. Mortal tier recipes are pretty much impossible in your location. Testing for fully hydrated and locked rootcell is easy. Take an inert stone spoon and pull some out. Drain the blood and observe the rootcell directly, which should be dyed a deep red. You will know the process is over if all this rootcell powder clumps together like wet sand. The cages will be intertwined to a small degree, and this aqueous diffuser stops that. Add the fleck of crystal and seal whatever is holding your mixture as tightly as possible. A vacuum-sealed container is ideal, but even just a glass test tube with an adequate stopper fulfils this requirement. From this moment on just opening the container will weaken the product, as such you should be quick and decisive. Over the next few minutes one can watch the sediment slowly disappear as it equally diffuses over your clean blood. This is now a finished product. One final optional step is transforming it into a potion and it is simply a matter of mixing in some enchanted water. The taste is not ideal though, but if you¡¯re scared of needles I can see the problem.

Usage

Keeps you awake for 12 hours, afterwards you¡¯ll endure a strong crash lasting 6 hours. It is highly recommended you just go to sleep during the crash, even if you don¡¯t the mental exhaustion will push you to faint eventually. Injecting the liquid is as simple as filling a syringe, making sure there is no air inside the needle, and plunging it into a vein. I cannot stress this enough, but you cannot repeatedly take this product and you definitely should not overuse veins. Drinking it is even simpler. You drink it, what were you expecting? The moment this colloid enters your body it will forcibly pass through most membranes. Your entire body will be coated indiscriminately, but with the rootcell it causes no immediate damage. The magical nature of aqueous diffusers means that it will not damage cells whilst pulling this powder through the membranes. Enjoy your 12 hours, hope you get all your work done in that time though¡­ 43rd recipe - Departed ink

Departed ink

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements Sometimes it¡¯s hard to let go, and rightly so in many sudden deaths. However, the soul is not reincarnated as soon as one dies and obtaining those final words is possible. Whilst stronger cultivators can temporarily (Or even permanently) pull a soul back from the afterlife, many find themselves too weak to perform such a task. A mortal recipe will never be good enough to pull a soul back, so we look at communicating instead. I hope you know how to write with ink.

Ingredients and recipe

Lots of magical stuff required to form a link between worlds. We¡¯ll go easiest to procure to hardest. The body part will either be easiest or hardest in an ironic twist. This recipe is pretty much designed for mortals who will have a portion of their corpse intact even if their death was at the hands of a horrific beast. Cultivators have a problem of being completely destroyed during their death¡­ Corpsebloom is a flower which only blooms if feeding off a corpse, as such they are a common sight in graveyards. Simply pluck a few petals and you¡¯re done. Yin element blood is harsh to come into contact with. Although a gentler force than its counterpart, that just means the damage it does is more frightening. Taking in any yin force without a proper body results in severe damage to the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. Use gloves or an equivalent when using this stuff. Phased squid ink is easy to harvest all things considered, although the squid being mostly passive helps with this. The problem is how its ink cannot interact with most physical objects meaning specialised equipment is required to harvest it. Once more, just buy it. Wells of emotions are small stones that can be found almost anywhere, although recent advancements do allow us to just synthesize it as pleased. In its initial form it holds no use except for leeching an insignificant percentage of the holder¡¯s emotions. This slowly fills up the stone until it has a use. In our case, we need someone to fill this stone with regret. Fortunately, the stone can only be filled with one type of emotion, so by making sure the first thing it absorbs is regret you can ensure that it will eventually be filled.Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. Begin by coating the well of emotions in your yin element blood, then leave this object to slowly break down over the course of a week. By the end of this time it will become extraordinarily brittle and even just the slight tap from a hammer will make it crumble. Ground up this powder and add the rest of your yin blood to it. Mix the two and place the resultant product above a small flame. It does not need to be heated through, just kept warm enough to stop air from condensing around it. While the stone powder is kept warm, pour 10 ml of phased squid ink onto the body part. You will notice it appears semi-transparent as a result, a temporary phenomenon that higher level recipes take advantage of. We don¡¯t care about this spatial dissociative effect, instead just take the Corpsebloom petals and keep them stuck against the body part. The petals¡¯ natural attraction to corpses should make this rather easy. Now burn the finger to ashes. How you do this is entirely your choice, just make sure the result is a fine grey powder. This step can be rather difficult for those lacking experience in breaking down bone, in which case it is better to use a chunk of flesh over a finger. The final step is mostly a test of the ingredients. Split the remaining phased squid ink into two equal volumes and add them to both your ash and powdered stone. Mix gently with any tool capable of interacting with the ink, which you hopefully should have used half a brain on and picked up before starting this recipe. In the containing with your well of emotions, you should feel a gentle sadness creeping into your mind. You will note that no amount of ¡®joy¡¯ will negate this depressive sensation. Instead just aim to reduce your time spent around the well of emotions at the moment. The effect stated means all your ingredients are of sufficient quality. For the ash, once more there is no physical effect. Instead, standing near the mixture will reveal an intense sensation of death. Anyone with a slight sixth sense will feel sick at this point, however those with stronger sense will either resist or see through the falsified sensation. As a reminder, this is a recipe for mortals primarily, in other words, of course they don¡¯t have a sixth sense. Mix the final two parts and leave the finished ink to rest in a mausoleum for two weeks. After this period of time you will have your product.

Usage

It goes without saying, but this ink only contacts one person. Due to this it is not worth turning into a business, although some have tried. As a gentle reminder, please do not use this to pester the dead. Your friends and family will retain memories for roughly two months after their death, but after that their memories slowly fade before reincarnation. There is no point in troubling the blank soul who will inevitably take their place. Using the ink is simple. A fountain pen is recommended for convenience, although brushes and ball point pens have been used before as well. Load the ink cartridge, if available, with the departed ink and write anything. The connected person will receive whatever is written as a message and can use the connection offered by it to temporarily return some consciousness to the real world. Through this they can inhabit the pen and write something in return. Please do allow some time for the person to adjust as writing through this method is entirely new to most mortals. This ink is mostly used by people who regret not being able to give a final farewell to the people they love. 44th recipe - Potion of the Star Caller

Potion of the Star Caller

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements The star caller is an ancient cultivator famed for his discovery of a new enhancement system. An adept astronomist, and astrologist in his spare time, his knowledge of the stars was at the practical limit of humanity back in the day. Using quite a volume of resources confirmed that starlight is not only delicate but also an endlessly persevering force. This does not refer to the pittance of light actually received by these far off stars but instead the astral energy emitted alongside it. He focused on creating a systematic method of absorbing and refining this force. The theory accumulated to a single factor of humans lacking natural affinity to starlight, so he thought of two solutions. Forcefully gather starlight with supplemental goods or make the first stage in the system to refine a thin starlight attracting skin. We now do both.

Ingredients and recipe

Our recipe focuses on affordability whilst the original version cared little for that. He was an insanely rich cultivator and people of that time cared little for sustainability or affordability. If you published a recipe like that nowadays it would be rejected. Extreme yin is required as a core for drawing in this force however these flowers in particular hold a flaw due to only growing in horrible frigid locations. This icy essence that infused itself with the yin energy can only be removed by a type of pure heat. There are many ways to do this but for simplicity I have chosen core magma. Starlight is a delicate force and the harshness of frost will distort such energies, if not directly dispersing it. Additionally, extreme yin is not a soft force by nature and by applying this extreme heat it counters this harshness to a degree, but weaker yin forces are too ineffective for this recipe. We could use spirit forming stage yin plants but it bloats the recipe cost by several times. Moving on, core magma is magma from the outer core of any active planet. Technically this is grade 1 core magma as it comes from a low-level world, which is also why the ingredient is only at natural gathering despite its toughness to obtain. Moonlit tea leaves are a broad range of teas. As some may know, plants require light to grow but in normal cases moonlight is too weak to help them photosynthesize. This is also true for moonlit plants, however what makes these special is how they absorb lunar energy at night. Without lunar energy they shrivel up and rot after just a few days. All moonlit leaves share the property of clearing the mind for a few seconds after drinking, great for relaxing if highly stressed. Lunar energy is an odd phrase in its own right since moons don¡¯t emit anything. To summarise as many scholars before myself, lunar energy is an annihilated mixture of sunlight from our sun and starlight from far off stars. I¡¯ll stop here so as to not lecture about irrelevant things. Astral shards are collections of spatial forces combined into a physical object. Naturally, these crystal formations are rare and sought after but advancements mean that creating them artificially is possible. The problem is that this process is still really expensive unless personally controlled by a cultivator at the law questioning stage. Only by having a body take on astral properties can we draw starlight to it, and what is more astral than space itself? Last is Mystic¡¯s water. I previously stated it holds a ¡®recursive effect¡¯ and primarily left it on the reader to infer the connotations. Made from a combination of enchanted water and the water contained within a jade lily, and then merged through Mystic¡¯s enchant. The jade lily is a neutral water with few effects when on its own, maybe the only notable part is its rejuvenating effect on mortal bodies. It also really hates combining with anything else in a natural state, the reason this enchant is so important.Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation. Recursive effects mean to repeat, but not in the way one imagines. There is only so much energy contained within something and a natural gathering stage ingredient is never going to overcome this. Recursive effects do not directly amplify effects by repeating the process, but instead apply a time effect which repeats the merging of whatever ingredients you pour it over. Nature is far from optimal, instead it simply goes with whatever works best. Recursive effects allow cultivators who cannot control time to merge ingredients at optimal rates, although such a thing is never guaranteed. A recursive effect will inevitably stop under one of two conditions, either the process is completed or the product providing the effect runs out. In most cases we have the former case. A recursive effect will never ¡®undo¡¯ a perfect result as there should not be anything leftover to cause a recursion. Moving on from that lengthy explanation, let¡¯s hurry up and make this potion. Grind up the extreme yin blossom and add half your Mystic¡¯s water to the pulp. Disperse the ground up flower using it and add the core magma. It is critical that we perfectly remove the frost energy and ensure that none of the core magma¡¯s extreme heat is left over. It is best to use inert stone tools for this part and move back a few metres during the clashing phase. Merging two extreme ingredients is known to have¡­ explosive effects. I¡¯m not joking with the next part. Brew a cup of tea with the moonlit tea leaves, washing the leaves is not recommended as you would with standard ones. Brewing time at the minimum should be 2 minutes, although some types call for up to 10 minutes of brewing. Read up on whatever leaves you purchase in advance. Remove the tendered leaves and grind them up. Allow the cup of tea to cool to room temperature, and whilst doing that begin coating the astral crystal in ground up tea leaves. Completely covering it is unnecessary, just make sure all the leaves are stuck to it. Add the finished extreme yin flower to the tea. If you breathed whilst nearby the original flower you will notice a massive difference in quality. The initial blossom¡¯s energy should have felt like swallowing icy needles which somehow filled every corner of your throat and lungs, but with only a soft energy remaining it becomes refreshing. The flower itself has no scent, unfortunately. Stir the ground up flower with the cooled tea and add the remaining half of Mystic¡¯s water. Finally, drop in the tea leaf covered astral crystal and stir gently. The recursive effect will only last 5 minutes at most, however this is enough to obtain a 98% combination rate. Consider that most products only achieve a 95% rate and you can understand why this stuff is used so rarely. For reference, the annihilation of frost and extreme heat must be 99.99% at minimum to stop a failed potion. The lower mass of ingredients means the recursive effect lasts 20 minutes. Stirring non-stop during the 5 minute combinatory period ensures the best result, although at best it will give you a 98.5% combination rate. The recorded best is 99.98% but supposedly that girl made almost 40,000 of these potions to achieve such a thing. No one has even attempted to beat it. You may want to strain out the ground tea leaves and fragments of cooled magma, but aside from that the product is finished.

Usage

You drink it, we don¡¯t do liquid suppositories here. Expect 3 hours of effects, although a combination rate of less than 98% will reduce the effective time. For obvious reasons, if you had not figured it out, this potion only worked at night whilst in directly starlight. For that reason it is recommended to use this potion closer to a new moon as moonlight will have less chances to interfere. The effect is simple as well, starlight which impacts your body will not be immediately repulsed. This gives even mortals enough time to hold the energy in place and refine it, albeit it very slowly. Needless to say this type of refinement demands good mental prowess. A latter, weaker effect is the attraction of nearby starlight. This force, and the corresponding energy, moves significantly slower than light making it actually useful. For the sake of avoiding complex explanations, a standard Star Caller potion will draw in all starlight in a 10 metre radius around you. Star Caller¡¯s body refinement method asks you to complete a skin mutation first, but there are so many starlight refinement methods that you¡¯re free to pick and choose. Just find one which supports your other skills the best. Hell, there are even a few alchemy related ones. Bonus chapter - A brief summary on the primary astral forces A brief summary on the primary astral forces contained within the universe (partial rewrite on my more in depth analysis of astral energies from ¡®Discerning the Similarities and Distinctions¡¯.)

Introduction

When we look up to the sky we see a grander scene than can be understood. Whether day or night you observe the blue sky stretching to the horizon or the abyss of night. However, the background alone contains an incomprehensible quantity of detail and fascination, let alone the objects populating it. We notice clouds covering the stretches of blue, and on most days you recognize the object quite decidedly responsible for life on your planet. A common celestial body, one called a star. Without the heat provided by such a body the facilitation of life is nearly impossible, although there are some situations where fire element Qi makes up for the deficiency. Alas the life forms created through such powerful forces grow in a flawed state. Astral energies are the best for creating life. When a mortal glances up, whether on the clean day or murky night, they take in some wonders unbeknownst to them. Can the being without any knowledge of photons, fusion, and gravity understand how the blazing ball hung above their heads function? Even on developed worlds, how many understand the processes contained within their star? The science is just one side of its universal truths, as the silent interactions of Qi are hidden within. We¡¯ll start this session as you would a standard day, with the rising sun.

The sun as you know it

When compared to every other star in the universe, your star, the sun, is significantly closer. This is the most significant point in understanding the primary dynamics between astral forces on your planet. You will notice that starlight quickly dwindles at a reciprocal rate during this, inevitably reducing to nothing as the sun finishes its rising portion. At this stage the quantity of solar energy will continue to grow, until the star reaches its azimuth, relative to you, before lowering in an identical fashion. Obviously expect some changes if you live on a world which rotates on an axis, in other words having seasons. I¡¯m not here to discuss meteorological precise-ness. First we will take a look at the Qi within these first few minutes, then the rest of the sunrise. Before the star completely rises above the horizon we encounter a somewhat desirable mixed Qi. Only in this proportion is the solar energy gentle enough to combine with starlight to produce the ¡®Momentary Tranquillity¡¯ Qi. This variant of Qi is most prized for its insanely inert nature, capable of resisting nearly all corruptions and metamorphoses. However, this inert state also makes cultivating with it near impossible. Out of boredom, quite a few centuries ago, a friend of mine developed a cultivation system based around this energy as a joke. He used a clone to barely cultivate it to Law questioning with the support of his main body. Needless to say it is practically impossible for anyone to naturally reach spirit forming with such an energy, and he made sure to destroy every copy made for insurance. No one deserved such a ruined life for cultivating this harsh technique. Moving on, this energy¡¯s inert state makes it amazing in alchemical recipes where an external spiritual pressure is required but you cannot risk contaminating the ingredients. It¡¯s also utilised in a few extremely specific recipes and experiments, but for the most part you use it for defence. Coating your body in it will stop you from using any Qi externally, but any pure energy attacks below a threshold simply become invalidated! Yes, I know that it¡¯s literally useless in battle¡­ Would it kill some people to take a joke? After these first few minutes we get into the bulk of a sunrise and arguably the most important part. The creation of gentle solar Qi. Gentle solar Qi falls into two brackets, ¡®Nuanced Major¡¯ and ¡®Acute minor¡¯, the names could be less confusing in my opinion but I¡¯m an alchemist who makes similarly confusing names¡­ So screw it. Nuanced major, as the name implies, is the more common type of Qi created during this period, but it¡¯s also the one you will absorb if attempted. In many lesser worlds this sort is called ¡®Emperor Qi¡¯ or something of the like due to the purple sunrise which commonly adjoins it. Humans really have a knack for making purple a royal colour for no good reason. It¡¯s one of the best types of Qi to help children set a foundation, however using it to create spirits is a massive mistake that thousands of lesser worlds make. Nuanced major is a gentle force, and as such lacks serious harshness. One can compare it to a flow of water, in this case imagine it as a constant river. This river is excellent at slowly grinding away at objects, quite literally how it eventually cuts valleys. This means that foundation techniques which clear the meridians will utilise this energy, although most are crude and result in overbearing masses of pain for the child. That is because all these crude methods simply ignore gentle flow and try to utilise Nuanced major Qi in a harsh way. This can be related to simply dropping the river off a cliff as to dig a pit, which we colloquially call a waterfall. Do you think this method is safe for a child¡¯s meridian network? Using Nuanced major Qi properly takes roughly 3 years of constant work (Assuming 2 hours of work every sunrise). It is unlikely that any child remains dedicated to such a slow task, which is why those crude methods even come about. Concerned readers should know that more developed worlds have alchemical products or outright better techniques to achieve the same thing. Next we have Acute minor Qi, the almost invisible force. Toughness in absorption is primarily why most lesser worlds fail to discover it until higher cultivation levels. If the Nuanced major sat in your star¡¯s violet light, then Acute minor is firmly within the realm of ultraviolet rays. An easy way to test for this Qi¡¯s existence is measuring the difference in spirituality before and after it emits a day¡¯s worth of Nuanced major Qi. You will notice an energy gap, then it just becomes a matter of detecting this missing part. Acute minor Qi is completely competent as a primary element for your cultivation, however it requires a limitingly high sensitivity to gentle solar Qi to even begin usage. All detection methods for this type require cultivation as well, so only the rare talent can use this. This gentle solar Qi is more akin to a jet of water expelled by a water jet cutter. Specifically, its pressure is purely in the direction of flow, therefore being unable to blow up meridian networks. The problem comes with the fact that these networks are never straight lines, so the massive pressure will impact any bend or turn. This type of gentle solar Qi is difficult to control under pressure but easy beside that. In terms of precision, this type is definitely up there with the severely volatile energies. Using even a slight excessive quantity will result in your meridian pathways tearing. And that concludes the sunrises and sunsets. The latter happens in reverse in case you forgot the difference between the two. Now for the bulk of the day. The star emits Greater solar Qi during this period, which is a type of Extreme Yang Qi. This one contains compressed energy as its core, an effect of the solar fusion which allows stars to even exist. Greater solar Qi is extremely overbearing and explosive, but more importantly holds is primarily filled with Yang energies. This differs from the traditional heat of a star, although this Qi is still extremely hot by human standards. Now, with sunlight dominating we can begin understanding the effects. I suppose the biggest question is where your star¡¯s starlight goes?

The stars in all their glory

It¡¯s a fair question when you begin analysing stars after all. Every star generates starlight, but one only observes it after moving a significant distance away from the solar mass. This is a fundamental point used to teach the usage of science in mysticism, in that there is very little. You cannot rely on your physical constants and measurements to describe the generation and distribution of Qi. Look at spirit veins for an alternate example. I won¡¯t go into it here to stop myself wasting your time. Sunlight is a short-range effect and starlight a long-distant one (But not infinite). Indeed, this does mean a troublesome gap exists between the two where neither exist! This space is given the name Astral Dead zones, or AD for short. Such a shortening is useful when looking at systems of millions of stars all with overlapping ADs. It is rare to encounter a single true dead zone within an entire galaxy. Now that we know this, we simply agree that sunlight is multitudes of times more powerful than starlight and as such completely nullifies the stars in the sky during daytime. This makes sense conceptually as you can cultivate a sunlight and starlight technique in roughly the same amount of time, although the former may be slightly faster due to most people being awake during the day and thus cultivating more during that time. In fact, sunlight techniques would be far faster if not for a human¡¯s meridians requiring some downtime after every set of cultivation, unless dying as a human candle is the way you want to go out¡­ One final reminder is that interactions between Qi only occur when a suitable medium is present, which is physical matter in most cases. Some types of Qi, such as time and space, can utilise the fabric of the universe to interact but the majority cannot directly intervene with such a material. This means that sunlight and starlight both travel in tandem whilst moving away from their source, rarely interacting due to the occasional particles found throughout space. Only upon striking the upper atmosphere do interactions begin, quickly defining the result before reaching the tallest mountains. From here the type of Qi received is decided without any input on your part, the only way to change it is influencing it in space. We¡¯ve completed the daytime cycle, but what exactly is the Qi present at night? Apart from vaguely calling it starlight it¡¯s been given a purposefully unexplained existence. Nothing special happens as the sun finally crosses the horizon, and you find no rare variants of starlight. Starlight belongs to the minor yin subcategory, specifically due its soft and gentle nature. Like the countering Nuanced major and Acute minor solar Qi types, just because starlight is a soft energy it in no way implies it cannot hold a firm sharpness. Yin and Yang merely define initial states. This yin Qi is ¡®Impenetrable boundlessness Qi¡¯, commonly shortened to Impenetrable Qi. It isn¡¯t actually boundless, and its effective range is around 1.5 million light years, but how many mortals can actually comprehend a distance that large? Boundlessness is perfectly appropriate when talking about the level of humans who primarily need this Qi. Impenetrable, on the other hand, is a good way to describe a starlight infused object. Providing it is not annihilated by sunlight on its touchdown with a world, anything doused in enough starlight gains intense durability and energy deflection. Ancient empires reserved metals infused with starlight for royalty, and a king wearing a full set of armour claimed a near unkillable state on any battlefield. When Star Caller developed the first body tempering technique utilising Impenetrable Qi¡­ the results were maddening. Cultivation limitations at the time meant that very few worlds interacted with each other, and Star caller¡¯s in particular ruled over two less developed ancient worlds. The technique found itself in public view due to a few leaks, and his empire actually imprisoned him for such a thing. It is unsurprising when you understand the basis of strength for this empire came entirely from its hoard of starlight metals, and without this explicit benefit they grew threatened.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. It mattered little though. That empire had grown stagnant and refused to innovate with their power, only the more reclusive and knowledge-driven cultivators continued pursuing truths. This stagnation festered and bred outwards into a political dictatorship contaminated with corruption and nepotism, an easy system to overthrow once their dominant factor vanished. Quite laughably, rare records show that Star Caller¡¯s technique required 10 years to cultivate to equal starlight metals. An empire dominating three planets failed to stop a plot they knew in advance with a 10 year time limit! It just goes to show how incompetent later rulers became. The resultant fractured state afterward only drove more cultivators to advance more, and the generation who fought for freedom only further alienated themselves from mortal matters. I recommend E. Flunker¡¯s book ¡®The rise and fall of stars¡¯ on this matter. It¡¯s extremely meticulous and goes through every event relating to starlight metals in that era. Little known fact about Flunker¡¯s beard, but he claimed that only the tears of baby Starwhales can give it that lustre. Is it true? I don¡¯t know, nor care, but it was a funny few days afterwards. Moving back to starlight reinforcements, the reason that metals are easiest to infuse are their crystal structures. By an obvious connotation, this means that infusing actual crystals is also really easy. Metals will always be stronger though, this is mostly due to their formation process wherein they are not single bulk crystals and instead the arrangement of thousands of smaller interlocking ones. This is not the only reason behind a metal¡¯s toughness, but it certainly plays a huge part into its resistance to shattering on impact. Starlight infusions will thus take on this structure, forming their own web of connections which effectively redirect force before physical particles even begin taking an impact. Pure Qi attacks below a threshold are completely re-directed though, this is nothing more than a repulsion effect. The easiest way to beat this stuff is puncturing it with a sharp point and a lot of force, but no one had the level of cultivation to achieve that in the ancient worlds. As for pure Qi attacks, strong enough ones are even harder to generate! We then have Impenetrable Qi as a weapon. An adept controller can use their starlight refined body to redirect Qi attacks back to the attacker. Such a thing is hard to achieve and you only have one shot at such a thing as very few are dumb enough to continue such an assault in that manner. Redirecting attacks like this is incredibly precise though and performing it in the heat of battle is a feat of its own in the ancient world. Nowadays it is seen as an impressive albeit expected technique. At the start of this discussion of starlight I talked about how its minor yin classification only talks about an initial state, and a transformed state of Impenetrable Qi makes it into a viable attacking force. Starlight is naturally a weak force, and as such is rarely found in a concentrated state. This brings about the question, what happens if you lump a large mass of Impenetrable Qi together? Unfortunately, it was proved long ago that compressing loads of energy can never form a physical substance like you can do with gases. Instead it formed a unique state dependent on the type of Qi itself, and this is where starlight became great. Compressed Impenetrable Qi is a blade coating which retains the original materials toughness but reduces the edge to 10 micrometres. For reference, a razor blade is 100 micrometres and as such are useless as weapons. Such thin edges either blunt too easily or snap from a slightly too high load. What does it mean to have such a thin blade with high durability though? That the force exerted is focused on a smaller area and thus cuts through more things with ease. In a scary notion, you can even layer it on starlight metals. The only good recompense at the time was that storing that much Impenetrable Qi takes 5 years of training on its own, but that was when the technique first came about. Nowadays you can achieve both the body refinement and additional storage for this technique in a short 3 years. All assuming you use alchemical supplements. Sunlight also has a compressed form but it grew undermined with newer materials and forms of Qi replacing it. Nuanced major Qi simply forms a remotely detonable ball of energy, and Acute minor Qi forms a coating which is placed around pure Qi attacks. The detonation is instant and linked to your mind whilst the coating is designed to reduce drag on a Qi attack. Hopefully, these examples and explanations have helped you understand how the two astral energies formed by stars actually works. Knowing loads of theory is good and all, but practical examples are just as important. I also hate loading my explanations with maths, which is why not a single equation on the dispersion rate of starlight in relation to the star¡¯s luminosity exists. You¡¯d think cultivators are incompetent by having 7 unknowns in a single equation, it¡¯s ridiculous!

Natural satellites create a ruckus

There are a lot of celestial bodies, far more than people realise, but I want to keep this relatively simple. Imagine if I started talking about the various classes of stars and how their reaction rates massively change the proportionality of emitted Qi, not to mention super giant stars which completely threw out the primary model at the time. Don¡¯t even get me started on supernovae and blackholes. To keep this simple, I refer to rather average stars. Furthermore, I will assume all natural satellites to be large chunks of rocks, thus moons. I even have to specify the natural part since artificial satellites create further complexities. Most planets in the universe have moons, such a thing is inevitable with such time scales. Even if a large chunk of rock passes by every million years, that means a thousand chances to obtain a moon in a billion years. Most planets easily exceed this, therefore there have been lots of chances. For ease we will be treating the moon as a counterpart to your sun, such that it only appears at night. Satellites are even odder during the daytime, but it doesn¡¯t matter in this explanation on easy to observe effects. Most moons hold a low mysticism and this is exclusively due to being bombarded by astral forces constantly and their satellite itself holding some magical component. The most ordinary form of this is Qi crystals, although ores sometimes appear. If a planet is really lucky then the moon may contain an internal biosphere. Although incapable of supporting human life, it is a breeding ground for wondrous astral flora and fauna. Such places hold innumerable wealth and if you found a moon like this then being hunted for it is practically standard. These biospheres are known to intelligently create a Qi blocking wall around their internals such that cultivators cannot discover it in casual scanning. Combining that with a humongous universe allows them to remain relatively untouched for long periods of time. Now that we understand the natural mysticality of the moon, which is close to none in most cases. We can learn where lunar energy comes from because it definitely is not the satellite itself. It was said that starlight is a persevering force, and that once more applies here. Before being trapped in a planet¡¯s gravity and becoming a moon, these rocks floated around in the coldness of space with only the stars as their sources of light. This means no sunlight to counteract the formation of starlight across their surface. As this builds up more and more it eventually creates an infused layer across the entire object, a process requiring hundreds of thousands of years. You can do the same in 10 years using various formations and energy guiding techniques, just to point out the inefficiency of nature. Infusing starlight into objects provides an energy reflection effect, and this is a universal thing. Only Qi types from beyond the Exceeding Void stage and beyond can ignore this rule, and people at those levels already have better energy reflection methods than starlight infusion. Nonetheless, for this satellite it gives the effect of also reflecting the sunlight, but not before it interacts with the layer of starlight infused rock. As said before, most forms of Qi require mediums to interact, just like light interacts with a mirror before being reflected. This creates an awkward situation where the unchangeable concentration of starlight is bombarded with tiny droplets of solar Qi. If the two quantities of energy were in balance then the creation would simply be another bout of Momentary Tranquillity Qi, but this is a moment where the quantity of starlight is vastly superior to the sunlight. Not only that, but the boundary on which they interact is firmly within the starlight¡¯s favour. Yes, by all technical definitions the light emitted by a moon is just reflected sunlight. But that reaction at the point of reflection is so severe we call the result ¡®moonlight¡¯ and title the forces generated as ¡®lunar energy¡¯. Lunar energies come in 12 different forms, all according to the different concentrations of starlight in a moon, the number of moons, and their natural magical conditions. We only care about the most common form which 80% of moons emit. A type of lunar energy called ¡®Lone celestial Qi¡¯. It comes with the primary side effect of culling your ability to enjoy company and is very unpopular for cultivation as a result. All forms of Lunar energies display a primary yin effect, and as such are classed as major yin energies. This primary yin effect is one that many should be common with, mind cleansing. However, since direct absorption results in loss of emotions it must be achieved through a medium. What better medium is there than food? Tea and coffee are the two most common due to ease of consumption. Returning to the formation of the energy itself. Lone Celestial Qi forms when the solar energies are mostly annihilated in an interaction with starlight, this is a large range of 51% ¨C 90%. A higher proportion of annihilation is only possible in moons with significant accumulations of starlight, thus metamorphosing their infused layer. We don¡¯t care about this advanced state. With our heavily reduced sunlight, of which most has been transformed into non-elemental Qi and absorbed into the moon at a humorously slow rate, we can now see a new application of starlight and sunlight. The two do not interact any further and completely retain their independent structures from this point on. Lack of merging is why this energy is still sunlight on a technical level. Against classic logic, the starlight instead willingly shields the sunlight from remaining deterioration, forming a stable bubble around a small enough bundle of solar energy. These sort of love-hate relationships are rare in nature. Most creatures, even of the lowest intelligence, would jump at the chance to kill a weakened opponent, but starlight is one of the few cases of an energy willingly protecting its anti-symmetry. This actually does happen the other way round but requires extraordinarily impossible conditions. Both the starlight and sunlight must originate from the same star for the reverse to occur. So far it has not been achieved naturally. There are reasons for effect to even happen but it falls far beyond the scope of this topic. With our weak sunlight encased in a barrier of starlight, we can now complete the reflection process. This bundle of energy will fly out in a random direction with only a fraction aiming at your home planet. The bubble of starlight can resist interactions with sufficiently low density materials, primarily gases, meaning that reactions only occur at surfaces. This is why lakes may gain faint silver glows during nights with a full moon. What makes moonlight even more amazing is how it goes about resisting interactions. Since it cannot simply make itself inert, the starlight willingly sheds any reacting portions upon contact with various molecules. This is why a solid object is required to force the final merger. If allowed to merge then the moonlight is wasted. Both energies finally combine and annihilate in the starlight¡¯s favour, leaving a meagre concentration of starlight along with emitted energy. In the case of water, and some other liquids (like mercury), the energy will neither be absorbed nor relinquished to nature. Enough accumulation of this energy brings about the notable faint glow. However, directly absorbing the moonlight in its special state is what provides a mind cleansing effect. A human mentality is incapable of managing such a boundary used to separate the energies, and as such all attempts to absorb it require a changed mind. If the person doesn¡¯t change their mind themselves then the Qi does it for them, unfortunate given the intrinsic strength of lunar energies. Lone Celestial Qi is a type of yin Qi, displaying several soft features. The main are its deflection, agility, and cloaking. This makes it barely usable with assassins or people who focus on close-range, quick combat. It¡¯s deflective abilities come in the form of redirection for the most part as it can be used like a river flow to slowly shift attacks in other directions. This means attacks with extreme speed or power will resist though. In terms of agility it can be freely moved within a specific range, only dissipating after the starlight bubble is destroyed. This combined with its deflection property makes damaging an adept user of the same level extremely difficult. Last is the cloaking. This refers to a cloaking from spiritual sense as others cannot directly sense the Lone Celestial Qi. Pure Qi attacks with this are perfect for assassinations as a result, but after realising you use Lone Celestial Qi there is nothing stopping anyone with half a brain from swapping over to less precise sensing methods and locating your attacks. Having a rough idea for attack locations is better than none at all. Also, Lone Celestial Qi is not literally invisible. If you use it in a direct fight then anyone can just look at the attacks. But say you secretly co-ordinated a second stream of this Qi behind your opponent¡­ It¡¯s compressed form produces a special type of sticker. These stickers are placed on a bladed weapon, and upon activation with a small stream of Qi, produce a trail of bladelight for a second. This is only enough time for a few attacks, but the entrapment effect of these lights can give an opening for a killing blow. One matter I ignored was absorption of these Qi. What can you do when there isn¡¯t a sun in the sky or the moon¡¯s phase is a new moon? Fortunately, there is a way around all this. The quick way is keeping stores of your Qi at all times, this is considered basic logic amongst all cultivators. However in troublesome circumstances you can convert non-elemental Qi into your specified type using your spirits. Do note that a heart spirit is best at this conversion. Conversion rates differ from Qi to Qi, but at minimum you can expect a time of 5 hours to fully refill your store. With the big three out of the way we can start looking at more types of astral energies. 45th chapter - Candle light

Candle light

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements When nights are long, and some lack the insignificant light of a moon to provide minimal comfort, you require alternate sources to remain safe. Traditional candles, torches, and fires are all usable but impose a danger. Not to mention that without proper ventilation the smoke build-up can often be deadly. This is not a problem in homes with hearths or fireplaces, but some places are unequipped to deal with open flames. Candle light is a thing to avoid such problems but still be an economically viable production item.

Ingredients and recipe

The type of Solar Qi contained matters little in this recipe. Just never use Momentary Tranquillity Qi as it barely ever reacts with anything. Find the crystal naturally or force a bunch of Solar Qi into an empty crystal. Animal fat has no importance of origin. So long as it is burnable, there are no further requirements. Gracious fireflies are bright little bugs. They¡¯re actually quite subservient if provided with food at regular intervals, so harvesting them is in relatively poor taste. Then again¡­ I¡¯m not the paragon of ethics myself. Did more than a few ¡®questionable¡¯ things in my day. A standard adult firefly holds around 1.5 ml of such fluid.The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement. Amethyst rose is given its name by the sparkling purple petals it produces. Some say that its leaves look like chunks of amethyst as well, but I never saw the relation. Plucking the petals will massively harm the flower¡¯s life force, so you may as well completely harvest it when choosing to do so. Begin by mixing the luminescent fluids with the animal fat. You may need to heat the fat to break it down into a more usable state. Some prefer melting it completely and then recasting it into reduced fat; just ensure the fluid is mixed in well. Then the tricky part. You must cover the pebble sized Qi crystal in your rose leaves, leaving no gaps, before covering it in the animal fat mixture. Although you will not need all the mixture to complete the recipe, at least a tenth of it should be coating the Solar Qi crystal. By extension, you can produce roughly 10 Candle lights from one batch of the mixture. Now we set the well-coated crystal on fire. Leave it burning in a bowl until all the fat is burnt off. The petals must also be reduced to ash for this recipe to work. The moment the fire stops is the greatest problem in this recipe. At this point the Candle light is finished, however it will constantly emit light and heat. This would not be a problem if its source of energy was infinite. As it is not, we require a way to preserve as much as possible. In a similar fashion, who would want to buy a half burnt-out candle? We are able to preserve the crystals by grouping them together and storing them in pure-black containers. Most use silk bags dyed with midnight venom, but there are many options for the blackest black.

Usage

As stated, this functions as a light source primarily. It does also produce heat, but it is comparable to sand on a hot day. It hurts to touch, but pretty much useless at actually cooking. Instead it produces a strong yellow light comparable to a small campfire. If they came with a flaw it would be their length of effectively being no more than 12 hours in a perfect case, as its energy source inevitably runs dry. You could try using larger/stronger Qi crystals to lengthen this time but it quickly grows needless. If you can afford spirit forming stage crystals then chances are you can afford to buy cheap lighting formations. Additionally, their short lasting times makes it easy to sell them. Rechargeable variants do exist, but charging them in direct sunlight for two hours only produces an hour of light later on. 46th recipe - Life detonator

Life detonator

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements Exactly what it sounds like. This is a drug with the express purpose of turning your body into a bomb, obviously used for mass terrorism. It also saw quite a bit of wartime use, but gradually fell out of favour with the soldiers after they realised that the usage of this drug left no POWs. Now it¡¯s mostly used by people trying to ¡®make a statement¡¯ by killing themselves in public places. All a massive mess.

Ingredients and recipe

Lots of research goes into effective explosives, blame weapons manufacturing or whatever. I just want to discuss the effects. Styx water culls life, within 3 seconds of touching the water directly a mortal will lose their lifespan and wither. We utilise an incredibly small portion to instead wither the person¡¯s soul, causing them to lose most of their emotions and sensations. A fearless suicide fighter from that point on. A recipe to make this is included in the later sections, but buy it for now. High tier enchanted water is the same as its low tier variant but with a lot more Qi. No way in heaven or hell you can make this stuff yourself. Chaotic ash is an odd thing, but that¡¯s why chaos is literally in its name. It¡¯s mainly manufactured but sometimes it just appears in the universe. Please note, this method of ¡®appearing¡¯ is different from quantum mechanical processes. An effect of throwing caution to the wind and stirring all nearby Qi into a huge, accumulated pot, this will be the thing making the explosion. Now we just need the pot¡­A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. Bone hearts do this for us. These hearts are formed by more powerful creatures whose bloodlines place incredible stresses on their hearts, so the result is a sort of bone chassis to redirect forces on it. These bones are excellent at temporarily storing energy before reaching a failure threshold, so a small amount is all we temporarily need. Unlikely you can hunt the beings these come from, so once more buy it. Creation is boorish and simple this time. The recipe literally exists to allow soldiers to produce it on the spot just moments before capture. Add the Styx water to the chaotic ash and allow it to rest. Styx water inherently contains no movable Qi, so we only aim to mix the two together for now. Dissolve it into the purified water. Now add the enchanted water to the powdered bone heart. The fluid produces a natural glow due to high concentrations of Qi, so you will know of its full absorption by the glow fizzling out. This takes 10 seconds on average, but can finish a lot faster if stirred. Now pour the Qi dense bone heart powder into the purified water and mix well. When the container becomes a dull grey you know the product is ready. If you plan on actually using it¡­ Well, I try to not get involved with this stuff anymore. Hopefully, no one innocent is harmed.

Usage

You drink it. Over the next 10 seconds your emotions will dull and you no longer feel anything. Some people accidentally fall over at this point as their sense of touch completely dies. Learning how to walk and run without any senses is particularly important. Your sense of sight vanishes after 30 seconds, although you do not have the capability of caring by the time it happens. At the 1 minute mark, give or take a few seconds depending on random chances and the potion itself, you will detonate. Unless you are at the Destiny chasing stage your body vaporises from the quantity of energy which then travels outwards. A mortal who uses this can destroy anything non-magical in a 50 metre radius. Things are harder to calculate once taking building materials and cultivations into account. The radius is drastically reduced if the user has cultivation, and if they exceed the Destiny chasing stage then this potion fails to work at all. Instead their bodies contain the energy and refine it after the chaotic ash wears off. The Styx water¡¯s effects will also fade after 2-3 days. 47th recipe - Flowering essence

Flowering essence

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements People like flowers, right? Well most do at least. However, this poses an issue as not all flowers bloom at the same time, and in most cases are even weeks apart from each other. This completely ignores magical flowers which may only bloom once in their life after a few years of growth, but fortunately there are ways around that in most cases. When someone decided that they wanted their garden to bloom all at once, it only became a matter of time before a needless concoction came about to perform such a thing. But maybe most interestingly is how this thing is an amazing component for some flower based recipes down the line.

Ingredients and recipe

Mystified glare is a weak flower whose only real ability is drawing in the attention of those looking. Famed individuals will wear one to reduce the number of people staring at their faces. You can grow it quite easily with a bit of low-tier enchanted water, although finding it in the wild is pretty easy. Volcanic ice is made by freezing water that is passing through volcanic rocks. There is nothing special about this process aside from minute quantities of volcanic ash being left within the water, this ash functions as rather effective nutrients for plants. Camneer tree sap is the main portion of this stuff, and with it we can use the resultant produce in numerous ways. Our method will be incense sticks which are then placed in areas around your garden, although leaving it as a powder to spread by hand or even diluting it into water which you spray the flowers in are both viable methods. The trees will only grow in fields of lush flowers, no preference on colour, and their passive existence appears to halt wilting temporarily. Like this a flower which may normally die within the week can instead last a month. Take care to not over-harvest the tree sap as it may kill the tree, or just buy it from a store. Try to find one which sells ethically harvested ingredients, as less morally inclined farmers will keep these trees on the edge of life and death to drain every drop of profit.Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators! With your ingredients ready. Start by dehydrating your petals in an oven or with direct sunlight. They should easily snap when force is applied, and from there you grind them into a flaky powder. A fine dust is usable but not necessary in this recipe. With the stamens, scrape of the pollen using a knife blade and add it into your dried petal powder. Do not worry about clumping too much, just stir lightly to disperse it a bit. The rest of the stamens can be discarded unless you have another recipe which requires them. Add half the volcanic ice to this mixture and stir whilst it melts. Such a quantity of water is fully absorbed by the dry petals, slightly wetting the entire mixture. Now the Camneer sap is added with the last of the ice. This stirring is quite intense in comparison, especially since the sap is incredibly thick in a raw state. Some people recommend heating the sap slightly to reduce viscosity, but I find that the temperature increase can ruin this step. If mixing by hand is such an issue then use a machine to do it, or just advance your cultivation to natural gathering. Not like either option is difficult¡­ As you stir more and more you will notice the sap begin to break apart into small balls. This can be repeated more and more until it turns into tiny grain-sized clumps of product. In this finished state it can be added to the water used on your flowers or directly thrown on the plants. For usage on incense sticks you must heat it in a pan till it liquidises slightly. When it becomes mouldable with your hands it is in an ideal form. Take a small amount and smear a thin stick in it. Place in a freezer to chill and remove once solid.

Usage

This product only works on non-magical flowers. No volume of this stuff can force a lengthened blossoming of magical plants. Once used, all flowers infused with the product are set to bloom. This time is random but never more than 15 minutes from the moment of absorption. From here the flowers remain in bloom for a time related to their standard survival time. For plants that bloom for less than 24 hours, it forcibly keeps them open and alive for 3 days. Plants with 1-7 days of bloom time will find their survival time boosted by x6, promptly wilting shortly after such a time period. Those between 7-30 days experience a x2 boost, giving quite a few flowers in this range the shorter end of the stick. And last are the flowers which bloom for >30 days, which receive a x1.5 boost. Do know that flowers which never wilt display no effects under this powder. As for how this stuff can be utilised in further products. It turns out that Camneer trees hold more properties than just boosting and encouraging blooming. When this stuff is mixed into a few other things it becomes a powerful target-seeking weedkiller for example, and another creates a fluid which gives flowers a more vibrant colour. 48th recipe - Thread treatment fluid (CSA-112)

Thread treatment fluid (CSA-112)

Mortal tier recipe. Natural gathering stage requirement This recipe requires complete cleanliness to work, this can only be achieved through either machinery or Qi. The latter works simply by blocking any and all contaminants, this includes the dirt, oils, dead skin and all manner of things on your hands. Note that this product requires an environment with less than 0.5 microgram of dust per cubic metre of space. Civilisations not crushed by their sense of greed begin heavily investing in long-term sustainability, and clothing is a massive part of that. You ideally wish for fabrics with durability mimicking [weak] cultivator goods but with the price of common fibres. The result is somewhat pricey treatments to improve these fluids. Through economies of scale the usage of these treatments only increases the average price of these fibres by ~30% as opposed to the 5000% if done on a per-clothing basis.

Ingredients and recipe

On its own, steel leaf lacks the Qi concentration to become a magical plant. However, by removing so much of its non-magical components we can push that concentration beyond such a limit. Silkflash is a breed of spiders known for creating webs in record time for their strength. They would make excellent silk producers if not for having drastically lowered production rates when stressed, like in farms for example. Their amniotic fluid is particularly good since it contains a sort of transference property. This is useful for the creature¡¯s young as the eggs are generally infused with silk. This sort of transfer during gestation is the Silkflash¡¯s source of intense web crafting. As seen before, crystalline lifeforms are generally quite weird. These lifelines are the equivalent of the blood vessels apparent in some of them. In regular creatures they would almost surely die if you extracted these, but the crystal lifeforms differ from our oxygen desiring bodies. Life lines will regrow and eventually re-nourish the body parts previously without nutrients. Depth force is also called Ocean force in some places. I¡¯ve also heard less advanced civilisations call it abyss force, but this name is inherently wrong. Deep ocean crevices may be called an abyss, but in no way should they be confused for true pits of darkness. This intense crushing force is synonymous with water, creating an aura which forces all nearby particles to exert an equal force on you. Try to not touch these directly.This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. Ignore the ¡®C8¡¯ portion of the name. MS stands for Mystified Steel, an age old derivative of regular steel when alloyed with various magical metals. The A series refers to standard carbon-steel alloys, then the B series was steel alloys itself. The first forage into the B series was using stainless steel to create incredibly corrosion resistant metals. Now, the C series is used for the modernised line of steels most commonly found in advanced worlds. There is also a D series, however the civilisations which use this technology are quite further along in advancement and threatened to sue then kill me if I said more¡­ They¡¯re pretty touchy about their stuff. In your close to dust free environment you may begin the process. The standard shaping for MS alloys are flat rectangular plates. Begin by milling holes along the horizontal and vertical lines of symmetry. Each one must be 0.5 cm in diameter and 2.5 cm from the next hole along its line. Start from the centre of the plate and work outwards to make this easier on yourself, and expect to create 5 holes. Make sure to collect all the produced flakes and particulates. Melt them down using a 5000 C heat source. Mix the steel leaf oil and amniotic fluids and directly add the depth force crystals. Prepare a flat-bottom tub and add the mixture in. Use some common-sense and grab hold of one with incredibly high pressure resistance. Drop in the plate of C8-MS and turn your attention to the molten portion. We¡¯ll be using this in tandem with the crystalline lifelines. Using a crushing method of your choice to reduce it to a fine powder and add the molten MS. Quickly mix the two before it solidifies back into a solid metal, aiming to create thousands of sand-sized grains of crystal coated metal. Use a hammer to then separate these grains from each other. Add it to the tub and leave it in a clean environment for 120 hours. The crystal grains act like a grindstone, destroying not only themselves but the remaining plate. The reason we cut these holes from the plate is purely efficiency. Using molten metal from another source pushes this grinding time to over 500 hours. After this period of time, you must remove the depth force crystals and sieve out any remaining particulates that have settled in the fluid. You now have 1.6 litres of thread treatment fluid.

Usage

Again this process must be done in a close to dust free environment. Submerge the fibres of your choice into this fluid for precisely 32.7 seconds. As you only need a consistent coating around your selected fibre it is not even necessary to literally lower it into vats of this stuff. Different worlds and industries think of different ways to do this. Every litre of this fluid is enough to transform 8000 km of thread. Or about 16 square-km of fabric. However, it is rarely used on the latter. Quite commonly, it is not the fabric that tears on a day-to-day interaction but rather the thread holding its seams together. Simply by stopping these seams from tearing you can massively increase the time any piece of clothing holds itself together. Particularly fragile and weak fabrics are treated though. 49th recipe - Maxifar? All-purpose lighting fluid

Maxifar? All-purpose lighting fluid

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements No. This is not a sponsor. Why the hell would I still need sponsorships at my stage? Maxifar holds the monopoly on mortal tier ignition fluids. In the past the class of liquids was bloated with variations dependent on the fuel you wished to ignite or even just the desired temperature, then one of their leading engineers developed this stuff. Yes, an engineer not an alchemist. The reason I have to name their company is simply because that was all they asked if I shared this recipe, not even asking for royalties for using their patent in a compendium like this. Needless to say I would never reject such a sincere offer, and so I share this knowledge with you all. Once again this is not sponsored, but I do recommend most mortal households to own some of this product. There¡¯s a reason they gained a monopoly on this patent alone.

Ingredients and recipe

That is specifically placenta blood. If you really, and I mean really, want to be picky then artificially made cells also work for that ingredient. Farming fire elemental beings isn¡¯t exactly hard though¡­ Extremely viscous fluid is intentionally vague. But in general you can compare it to existing fluids, namely tar (also known as pitch). Naturally the viscosity should be measured against their room temperature counterparts. Start by adding the wood ash to the blood and stirring. A rather standard procedure, then throw it in an industrial microwave for 10 minutes. The use of thermal radiation is important here, as the heat must be specifically directed onto the blood. Heating up the entirety will not work here. As known, microwaves interact with water primarily.Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original. The viscous fluid must undergo its own temperature dependent process. Freeze it to approximately -220 C, this is relatively hard to do on the fly. Immediately after which it must be heated until it begins bubbling and spitting, but not boiling. Crush the Sunshine seeds to a paste and add them to this far less viscous hot fluid. Stir continuously and then allow it to cool. Once it begins growing hard to make single rotations you may stop. Fireblood roots are a desert plant which thrive on the extreme heat. Unfortunately, they are still bound by their mortal need for water and as such must store it. To further protect it from predators it then augments this water into an incredibly concentrated flaming fluid. On this own it does little more than melt a hole through your mouth, but it becomes rather useful when combined with your hot fire elemental blood. Just add it in directly. No need to even stir it! Now the toughest part, you have to add the tar and seed mix in a specific way, that being any way which maximises their surface areas. Maxifar developed their own method of crushing the tar into long flat sheets, cutting them up, and adding the thin tiny sheets into the product. Each sheet is no more than half a millimetre thick and roughly 1cm by 1cm in size. There is no need to stir here as small enough sheets will melt before even reaching your container¡¯s bottom. Filter out the solids and bottle the product.

Usage

So, what makes this stuff an ¡®All purpose¡¯ product. Surely it cannot fulfil every possible case? Of course it cannot. This stuff is explicitly designed for mortal use, and everyday use at that. It will not help those trying to melt tungsten in their backyard. Instead it lights fires very well, and it is highly controllable. Regardless of how much of the product you use, it will always burn for 10 seconds. Instead the quantity of fluid used will determine its burnt flame¡¯s temperature. This increase is linear to the volume used. 1 ml is equal to 100 C of additional heat. Please note this describes the core of the flame which is generally the hottest, and due to this you must use at least a few millilitres to even create a flame. Nonetheless, this stuff is controllable down to a precision of 0.01 C which makes it ridiculously good for these small bursts of heat. Objects lit on fire with this product to not follow these rules. As always be careful around fire. Especially when most people are not fireproof. 50th recipe - Mobile neutron source

Mobile neutron source

Mortal tier recipe. No cultivation requirements These solid lumps of metal are most often utilised in fission reactors, for obvious reasons. There¡¯s not much to say in appearance or effects beyond doing what it does. And the metal is a pretty boring grey. The origin is slightly better as most races seek out methods to enhance the percentage of nuclear material detonated in warheads. These weapons are immensely powerful and blocking radiation, primarily gamma, requires highly specialised qi transformation techniques. Most normal barriers instead only impede the super high energy photons. This does make nuking weaker cultivators a completely viable attack strategy¡­

Ingredients and recipe

This process can be a bit complicated, mainly due to how cosmic diaphragms work. Start off by dropping the unit of controlled Qi flow into the flower. Then incinerate to ash. Make sure there are no gases within the incineration chamber beside oxygen, alternate gases result in doping of the ash and ruin it. Store the ashes in an airtight container and transfer to a vacuum chamber for later use. The liquid above is hyper-specific in use, and functions as a sort of pressure gate. It allows you to restrict the activation of various processes unless a minimum quantity of Qi passes through it, in this case it will stop neutrons from constantly flying out the metal. Particle freezers are a flower known for catching subatomic particles with rest mass and then capable of keeping them in a stable state for almost eternity. This does mean photons cannot be trapped with it. The area of effect is generally a small ball in front of its flower, which is why we use it.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. First thing to note is how cosmic diaphragms differ from traditional non magical components. This is our first material which actively destroys Qi contained within, and thus is a completely Qi-free item. So how is it useful? Well it is also one of the more esoteric items in the universe due to being so insanely hard to utilise. Very few alchemy recipes actually find a use for it, but one for creating neutrons is simply perfect. This Qi destroying effect is also perfect for removing Qi injecting to the neutron source to satisfy its controlled Qi flow effects. Cosmic diaphragm takes on the form of a thin plastic-like material. It has no friction constant and thus glides between your fingers, and it regularly switches between being entirely absorptive or reflective. Be careful to not handle this outside as the sudden sunlight reflection can blind you. This tiny amount of fabric should be a sheet roughly 10cm by 10cm. You need to fold it into a lotus shape as you would with thin paper. No I am not joking. Please find some guides or references for this step on your own, I refuse to teach origami. Scoop out the innards of a Bloodspark orange and mashup the flesh. Grinding is not necessary. Pour the liquid over your lotus and the flesh into your previously made ash. Try to fully have all the ash used here, even if it doesn¡¯t fully coat this orange, Bloodspark oranges have a standard effect of granting its consumer an electric property, and create some interesting lightning element inks, but we care little for those. Instead it plays a supplemental role in the mass creation of neutrons. Last you drop the shard of regenerative metal into lotus and begin a time distortion process. This can be done through formations accelerating and decelerating the flow of time, or you can begin moving close to lightspeed to endure relativistic effects. Whichever is easiest for you¡­ You will notice this step''s completion as the lotus¡¯ colour changes to match the regenerative metal. Nothing left but to add the ash coated orange and leave such an object to form in a vacuum. This step takes 2 months on average, variation is normally give or take a day due to random particle movements. Compact the final product into whatever shape you desire, this metal is highly malleable.

Usage

This was looked at earlier, but this metal constantly emits a stream of neutrons when provided with Qi. It¡¯s properties allow for simple fixtures in all manners of machines, but most importantly produces too low a quantity to be argued as a weapon of mass destruction. They are occasionally useful at penetrative imaging especially given their mobile nature. But in the end they are mostly used in portable fission reactors, which are about as rare as you imagine given how hard compression is. Anyway, why not just store your reactor in a sub-dimension, that solves all the problems instantly¡­