Finally, Han Cai decided to use Celestial Qi and flame Qi. He conjured a special flame, which he called the Celestial Spirit Flame. Using his flame Qi and Celestial Qi, he created a flame that could maintain a steady temperature for prolonged durations. This flame was suitable for getting the work done. The best part was he had total control over this flame as his celestial spirit burned this flame. But soon he facepalmed himself when he realized why this flame worked.
The reason was simple. The materials needed a normal flame because they were supposed to be built in normal flames; he had been using flame Qi and frigid Qi, which were too potent. All the details about the glassware he had read through were processes done in a normal flame. How could the highly potent flame Qi work in the same way? A normal flame would take hours to heat iron, while flame Qi would heat the iron instantly. Now that he had total control over the flame, he could make the flame burn as a normal flame. Han Cai couldn't believe how naive he had been. Nevertheless, he found a better flame for concocting too.
To create a microscope, he condensed the flame to an extremely small point and used it to slowly melt and shape high-quality crystal into lenses, before assembling them with the same glass used to create the beakers and flasks.
Apart from glassware, Han Cai also needed more advanced tools such as centrifuges and pipettes. To build these, he combined materials from various spirit metals, using his cultivation base to refine and shape them. For centrifuges, he utilized some of the stronger spirit metals, shaping them into thin, circular plates capable of withstanding high rotational speed. To ensure precise measurements, he created pipettes from the same glass as his beakers, but with smaller and more precise measurement markings.
In order to perform the intricate work of breaking down the materials to their base elements, Han Cai employed the unique properties of Yongnian's death Qi. The Qi, known for its decaying properties, was applied carefully to the materials, breaking the molecular bonds without damaging the intrinsic qualities of the elements. This process required great care and precision to extract the pure elements without any impurities.
As Yongnian worked on breaking down the materials, Han Cai used a concoction of his own creation to filter out specific elements. By applying different alchemical reagents, he could isolate elements based on their reactivity, solubility, and other properties.
This blend of cultivation and chemistry opened up a whole new world of possibilities for him. Han Cai felt he was not merely an alchemist or cultivator, but a pioneer on the path of integrating the principles of two vastly different worlds. This new approach had the potential to revolutionize the way pills were concocted. Han Cai imagined himself as if he was the Che Guevara of this world.
After the lab was set up, Han Cai began the process of finding elements in the materials for the longevity pill.
Han Cai took the purple ginseng and started experimenting with it to find the "it" factor, the element that made hundred-year purple ginseng important for creating longevity. Han Cai couldn't break these materials down to the molecular level, but that didn't mean he couldn't. He had Heaven Immortal Yongnian's death Qi acting as the separator to break each element from the materials. Han Cai warned Yongnian that if any of the materials were destroyed, he would make Yongnian drink spirit coffee every day for the next five years. Yongnian made sure not to let his poison Qi poison the materials, only to decay and separate them, filtering out every element that were in the materials. After long trials and errors they succeeded in separating every element that combined together to form a hundred-year-old spirit ginseng.
Once the elements of each material were separated, Han Cai started combining different elements to find which elements formed what kind of bonds and what worked. Hours turned into days, days into weeks, and weeks into months, and months turned into a year.
During this time, his clan contacted him about the banquet and his engagement. The clan received a response from Elder Du that Han Cai was busy with alchemy and had no time for mortal affairs. Since Elder Du spoke up for him, Yan Clan contacted Xu Clan and showed them the letter from Elder Du.
They couldn't do anything now, as Han Cai belonged to the Azure Dragon Sect. Thus, the topic of engagement was kept on hold. The Yan Clan still threw the banquet as it was a tradition, and when asked about Han Cai, the letter from Elder Du was shown by the proud patriarch about how their scion was being appreciated by an elder of the sect.
While the clan was busy with the banquet, Han Cai had figured out the elements needed for the Longevity Pill. From the purple ginseng, he found a special element which he named Ginsenosides, to make it sound scientific. These Ginsenosides contained saponins with potent life-extending properties; they had a special type of Ethereal Essence, a rare type of life force that could greatly enhance a cultivator's vitality. Normal purple ginseng contained it too, but in very low quantities. However, there was a massive amount of purple ginseng available in the market. All he had to do was buy a large quantity of them, remove the Ginsenosides, and do the math. A hundred-year-old purple ginseng had Ginsenosides worth a thousand normal purple ginsengs, but a hundred-year-old purple ginseng cost around a hundred thousand lower grade spirit stones, while a thousand normal purple ginsengs could be bought for just ten spirit stones. Many sects, clans and alchemy halls kept their farms. This was unbelievable. Now Han Cai began to understand why alchemy was called a method that could turn any normal metal into gold.
Similarly, he came across another element in spirit mushrooms which he called Mycelium. As a scientist, he wanted to make them sound very complicated; after all, how could he be a proud scientist otherwise?
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