Pills and Alchemy

### **Pills**

“The same pill can have multiple grades. For example, in the tutorial we would be given [Constitution Pills] that would push us toward race evolutions. But depending on how hard missions we undertook there were different ranks, from Low Grade to Peak grade. The better ones held fewer contaminants and stronger effects.

**Chapter 222**

“Most pills contain small amounts of impurities that the body is unable to break down. The more pills you eat the more it accumulates. The problem is that it is very hard to notice that there is a problem before it’s too late. You won’t lose any attribute points, but it might cause your Cosmic Energy to become a bit sluggish. But most importantly; it might affect your attempts at forming a Cultivation Core negatively”

"Eating too many pills will essentially end your path of cultivation unless you deal with the crap"

**Chapter 388**

"Pills that gave immunity to most poisons were extremely expensive. What he swallowed instead was actually a mild poison. It gave similar effects to food poisoning, but that wasn’t why he took it."

"The poison also had the effect that it blocked up his pores, essentially stopping most poison to enter through the air or touch. It was a much cheaper alternative to the antidotes and a popular addition to most wandering cultivator’s survival kits."

**Chapter 220**

## Spirituality

“As for Spiritual Pills, they’re a tier above Peak Grade Pills. They’re the equivalent of a Blacksmith creating a Spiritual Tool. Its efficacy is far better than normal pills, but Alchemists can only concoct them when the stars align so to speak." **Chapter 222**

Spiritual pills didn't grow on trees. Not only did the pill itself have to be of Supreme Quality to have even a small chance of gaining spirituality, but it had to absorb the truths of the universe for a long time to evolve. They were exceedingly rare even in more affluent places like the Twilight Harbor. A few occasionally popped up at auction, but there was no steady supply.

Some factions had Gathering Arrays for their Pill cauldrons and left batches stewing for millennia in hopes of evolving a few pills. And even then, there were no guarantees. So ultimately, most didn't bother. The increase in efficacy simply couldn't make up for the effort and luck required to concoct those kinds of pills. **Chapter 919**

## **Alchemy**

### **Cauldrons**

Cauldrons were used by an overwhelming majority of all alchemists when producing pills, and many were even more expensive than Spiritual Tools. Zac had heard of a few master alchemists who didn't need them any longer and were able to form pills by only using their Cosmic Energy and skills, but these masters were an extremely small minority. Besides, even if those people could concoct pills without a cauldron they would probably still use it for their more important crafts.

The purpose of cauldrons was to make the pill-making process easier and could contain all sorts of inscriptions for this purpose. They could improve heat control, gather Cosmic Energy to infuse into the pills, or just have all kinds of measures to stabilize the highly volatile process of extracting the useful components from herbs. **Chapter 221**

## **Known Pills**

* **F-Grade Leveling Pills** - high-quality...allowing him to shoot up a few levels per day. **Book1, Interlude Chapter**
* **The Coward’s Escape** - truly killed the user for a short duration. It was a tool for escaping various situations that would only end with either death or success, such as inheritance sites or being the target of a quest. It would complete any quests that demanded his death and often even teleport him, the “corpse,” out of the inheritance site. The downside of the pill was that all active quests were considered forfeited upon death, ... **Book1, Chapter 75**
* **Healing Pills**
	+ It was a healing pill he’d bought at Calrin’s for a full 2,500,000 Nexus Coins before coming here. Normally, warriors kept it as a last-resort type of thing, as it was too expensive to use as one pleased. **Book1, Chapter 93**
* **Rivers of Cosmos** - 7,500,000 Nexus Coins, but its effect was also amazing. Not only would it help heal his pathways, but it would also somewhat stabilize them and make them more resilient. **Book1, Chapter 93**
* **Ten Steps to Hell** - If ingested, the victim will wake up every night with searing pain in his chest, as though his lungs are on fire. Every night for ten nights, the pain will keep getting worse. On the tenth night, he will die. **Book 2, Chapter 27**
* **Unnamed Regeneration Pills** - Zac knew it wasn’t as easy to regrow the limbs as the demon let on. It was certainly possible, but the pills were quite rare and expensive. **Book 2, Chapter 45**
* **Pill of Purification** - It was a pill that was designed to combat Miasma. **Book 2, Chapter 52**
* **Supreme-quality Purification pills** - Disrupt the Call Quest Reward. ten golden pills that radiated with such luster that they looked like miniature suns. **Book 2, Chapter 61-62**
* **Fasting Pills** - each of them would allow him to keep going without eating for a couple of days. **Book 2, Chapter 101**
* **Antidote Pill**:
	+ He took out a vial of black pills whose smell made his nose hair curl up. ... was actually a mild poison. It gave similar effects to food poisoning, ... The poison also had the effect of blocking up one’s pores, essentially stopping most poisons from entering the body through air or touch. It was a much cheaper alternative to the antidotes and a popular addition to most wandering cultivators’ survival kits. **Book 3, Chapter 7**
* **Four-Gates Pill** - It was a small purple pill that tried to fly away by itself somehow, making Zac gape in surprise. **Book 3, Chapter 9** a mid-tier E-grade pill ... harnesses the four elements to break open nodes,” Gemidir succinctly explained. “It would likely have an additional effect now that it has spirituality.” **Book 3, Chapter 56**
* **Constitution Pills** - that would push us toward race evolutions. **Book 3, Chapter 9**
* **Blood Boil Pill** - gave a temporary boost to Cosmic Energy and power, though using them too often would harm one’s foundations. **Book 3, Chapter 73**