Alchemy

## General Information about ingredients:

### common rank ingredients:

> every common rank ingredient has all 7 kinds of energies with different intensities inside (yin, yang, fire, water, metal, earth, wood)
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### true rank ingredients:

> every true rank ingredient has 6 kinds of energies with different intensities inside
> every true rank ingredient misses 1 kind of energy, the energy that weakens the ingredient
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### saint rank ingredients:

> every saint rank ingredient has 5 kinds of energies with different intensities inside
> every saint rank ingredient misses 2 kinds of energy, the energy that weakens the ingredient and the energy that ruins it are missing
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## General Subdivision of Pills:

> A pill's efficiency was based on how well the harmony in the pill was. Pills below 10% harmony between the ingredients were called a failure.
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> At **10% harmony**, a pill would be considered a **mortal grade** pill. They would barely be a pill and were considered the worst of the worst. Alchemists who could only make Mortal grade pills were called Mortal Alchemists.
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> At **25% harmony**, a pill would elevate to **earth grade**. Once you started forming earth-grade pills on a regular basis, you were called Earth Alchemist. You were considered a proper alchemist once you became an Earth Alchemist.
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> At **50% harmony**, a pill would elevate to **heaven grade**. Any alchemists that made even 10 heaven-grade pills were considered Heavenly Alchemists. Heavenly Alchemists were revered by everyone and were very hard to come by.
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> At **75% harmony**, a pill would be considered an **Immortal grade pill**. But that was just a myth. It was near to impossible to form an Immortal grade pill, so Immortal Alchemists were nonexistent as well.
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## True Pills:

> *"You realized what the difference between True Qi and normal Qi has when it comes to making True rank pills?" Ma Rong asked.*
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> *"Yes. The energy in the True rank ingredients of True rank pills are hard to control, and without True Qi, I shouldn't even try. Only the True Qi can fully control the energy from True rank ingredients," Alex said.*
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> A true pill dont exclusivly use true rank ingredients. Only the important ingredients are true rank that needed to be controlled by true qi. The other ingredients are common rank ingredients that can be controlled by normal qi.
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## Structure, Composition & Symmetry:

### Composition:

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"I know that Composition has to do with the ratio of the powders in the final product so that it can absorb the most energy."

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"Every time you make a pill, you put in the ingredients and turn it into powder right? Forget about the temperature and movements. The most fundamental truth of making pills is that you have to turn an ingredient into powder."

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 "When you mix the energies, they interact with each other, and out comes a single type of energy from the two. However, even though you only see one type of energy, there is in fact both of those previous energies in that resulting energy."

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"They are only hiding because the weaker of the energy interacts with some of the stronger energy and brings it into equilibrium, thus leaving only one type of the energy to be seen by the observer."

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"Also, if an energy comes from one ingredient, only its powder can hold that energy in the end."

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"So, if you make a pill with 14 different ingredients, even though the final resulting energy will be of one type, they will still have all the 14 original energy. They are only hidden because they are in harmony."

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"Since you have 14 types of energy, you still need 14 types of powder to hold it. This is why you cannot throw away the original powder. That is where Composition comes in."

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"If you lose even the tiniest bit of powder, it cannot hold energy that belonged to it. And since all energy is in a harmony, if there is no room for one, there is no room for any."

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### Structure:

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 "Ah, sorry. Structure… is a difficult concept to explain," he said. "You see there are more than one ways to turn an ingredient into powder while releasing the same rate of energy."

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"Ah, yes. I know about that," Alex said. "I came to know a lot about it when I made my own pills."

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"Yes, so when you do the things differently, you end up creating the different shapes of powder. It is those powders that you put together in such a way that there is no gap in between the powders," he said.

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"Having gaps in your pill is one of the worst things you can do. Well, it's less of a gap between the powders being the problem but more of the chaos gaps can bring to the overall structure of the pill."

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"Let's take the 14 ingredient pill from before as the example. When you finish making the pill, you will need all 14 of those different powders to form a clump such that there are as less gaps as possible."

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"Since you can't individually make them, you will have to rely on shapes that more or less fit together perfectly. That way, you get rid of the gaps in the pill."

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"So what you are actually doing with structure is removing the gap as much as possible. A compact pill is always a better pill,"

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### Symmetry:

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"The powder in the pill. Depending on how symmetrical the structure of the powder in the overall pill is, the amount of energy it can store is the same as well."

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"This is why you don't want gaps. Having solid clumps of powder make it easier for a pill to be symmetrical."

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Alex was still a little confused. "What does symmetry have anything to do with it though?" he asked.

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"I don't know," the Royal Alchemist said. "But that's what this book tells me to do, and ever since I did, it's been working for me. So, it should work for you too."

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## Concept behind upgrading & downgrading of ingredients:

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 "First of all, you have to understand that even though 2 ingredients might have the same energy, its actually different in subtle ways. You can never swap the metal energy of one ingredient for metal energy of another ingredient."

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"So, the first thing you do is find out what this aspect of the ingredient is that makes it different."

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"Usually you figure this out by looking at what the ingredient does, rather than the energy itself. If you want to upgrade or downgrade an ingredient that helps in closing up wounds, then the ingredient you want will likely do that same thing but just better or worse."

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"In the end, it's just trial and error. Once you have the ingredients, you just have to try and make a pill that works."

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1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 chapter 512
2. ↑ chapter 12
3. ↑ chapter 461
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 chapter 576
5. ↑ chapter 577