Alchemy

Alchemy / Pill Cultivation (炼丹) involves the creation of pills for medicinal and battle purposes. Alchemists (丹修) are one of the main groups of people in the world.

## Making Pills

As an alchemist, if you wanted to refine a kind of pill, the first thing you needed was the formula. But then you also needed to know all the properties of the medicinal ingredients. You needed to know which ones you should refine first, and in what order you should refine them.

If there was a problem with your sequence, then it would be troublesome. Furthermore, each medicinal ingredient's properties were different, and they required different levels of heat to refine. If you didn't know those things, you would be like a blind person groping in the dark.

Alchemy requires a strong Pill Flame, but also required a forcible spiritual energy, and the most important requirement was an exceedingly powerful Spiritual Strength.

The other two requirements were not that difficult. As for the Pill Flame, as long as you obtained all the proper preparations, you could seize a flame type Magical Beast and gradually tame it into a house pet. Drawing on the Magical Beast's flame, you could cultivate your own flame to match its formidable power.

Over ninety-nine percent of capable alchemists used Beast Flames. Only a couple people who possessed extremely ancient inheritances of powerful strength could control an extremely mysterious and mystical Spirit Flame found within heaven and earth.[*Citation needed*]

## Limitations

Alchemists had weak physical bodies just like soul cultivators. When they went out, they either used a carriage or a flying Magical Beast.

Alchemists couldn't cultivate quickly, because their cultivation base was secondary. Their Spiritual Strength and Pill Flame were more important.

If they cultivated too fast, their alchemy skills wouldn't be able to keep up. They would be crippling their future. So alchemists would all spend a great deal of time training their Pill Flame and Spiritual Strength. Duan Tianqiao's age had already been the limit.

## Dual Martial-Pill Cultivation

Alchemists required a calm heart.

If they switched professions to become a flame cultivator, that great power would make their hearts violent and warlike, and it would be very difficult for them to focus on alchemy. That was why the paths of flame cultivators and alchemists were conflicting.

When alchemists switched to become flame cultivators, their alchemy path came to an end. And as more time passed, their alchemy skill would regress. In the end, they wouldn't even be able to refine pills.

That was why it was commonly accepted that dual martial-pill cultivation was a dead-end. Within Pill Valley, alchemists possessed grand statuses, while no matter how strong the flame cultivators were, they would be nothing more than fighters.

Furthermore, based on Pill Valley's ideology, alchemists had a path that could lead to ascension, but flame cultivators essentially had no chance of that.

That was why in Pill Valley, alchemy was the correct path, while flame cultivators were all alchemists who had reached the end of their path and had had no choice but to switch.

## Trivia

* Alchemists had powerful Spiritual Strength.
	+ Furthermore, an alchemist had a much vaster amount of spiritual yuan than normal cultivators.
* According to reason, a person would require vocal cords to speak. But an alchemist could make other parts of their bodies rub together to make sounds, so even without a neck, he had managed to cry something out. However, without even a tongue, Qu Chunsheng couldn't cry for help. Well, perhaps if he knew how to rub his eyelashes together to make noise, he could speak, but he didn't know how to do such a thing.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 342 (Wuxiaworld)
2. ↑ Chapter 665 (Wuxiaworld)
3. ↑ Chapter 652 (Wuxiaworld)
4. ↑ Chapter 653 (Wuxiaworld)
5. ↑ Chapter 1371 (Wuxiaworld)
6. ↑ Chapter 1341 (Wuxiaworld)
7. ↑ Chapter 1363 (Wuxiaworld)
8. ↑ Chapter 1346 (Wuxiaworld)