Chapter 481: Special Training and Alchemy

For the structure of the Martial God Palace, where thirteen great demons converged to form a single pill, Xu Zhi was ultimately very interested. This was because his Food World, while involving cooking and power enhancement, was essentially a form of alchemy. The only difference was in their outward forms.

Alchemy requires a specific order for adding primary and secondary ingredients, along with various medicinal herbs to blend their properties. Cooking also has a sequence for adding main and side dishes, along with various seasonings. "Perhaps I can draw some inspiration from this to thoroughly refine the Food World. After all, I just threw it together casually before and left it to develop on its own. At that time, my inner world was too small, with limited potential... But now it's different. Having broken through to Heavenly Emperor, my inner world has expanded countless times and can be considered a full-fledged world. It might be time to thoroughly study the Food World's systems and rules."

One of his three avatars had been in the Food World, cooking for him as a chef, so its skill level was naturally excellent, perfect for study and contemplation. Xu Zhi looked at the large pot. "Increase the heat, don't cut corners, or how long will this calculation take?" "Yes!" The chip below held its breath, instantly increasing its processing power to maximum, heating up rapidly.

Boom!! The entire cube glowed like a scorching red-hot iron. "It's all about delicacies from land and sea. Using ingredients without spiritual energy is called cooking, but using ingredients rich in spiritual energy is called alchemy!" Xu Zhi looked at everyone in the large pot. "Don't rush to release your essence blood from these rare treasures... Just soak quietly for now."

"Just quietly soaking in hot spring water?" The little white rabbit blinked, resting its arms on the pot's edge, twisting gracefully, and cheering on the glowing red cube below. "Yes, let me sense it first." Xu Zhi shook his head, looking at the lively little animals inside. "The combination of your thirteen materials is definitely fine; you've been researching for centuries. But some subtle aspects are very crude... The simplest issue is that it's a chaotic stew, with no particular order, and the medicinal properties are very mixed." Nevertheless, the Martial God Palace was indeed a perfect alchemy setup. A chip-powered alchemy furnace continuously emitted special spiritual fire heat, while the thirteen demon races above formed the thirteen main ingredients. The Martial God Palace was, coincidentally, a complete Great Medicine of Heaven and Earth! If others knew this, they would likely stop at nothing to capture these demons. Such was the immense allure of great demons.

Xu Zhi picked up a ladle, stirring continuously while pondering: "Undoubtedly, the Food World doesn't have such powerful beings. It's time to test all the cultivation achievements of the Food World... meaning, alchemy knowledge. The main ingredient for this pill should be Lin Hongfeng's true form, the little red chicken... as the first demon possessed by the system, it should be the primary medicinal ingredient, and everything added afterward should revolve around it...."

Xu Zhi mused for a moment. "Lin Hongfeng, you should release your vital energy first..." "Yes!" The little hen turned over in the boiling pot, and a rich spiritual energy gradually spread.

"What should come next? It shouldn't be another demon. It should be a spiritual plant to fill the gap, allowing the clear medicinal properties to blend and temper the potency... What should it be? How about trying a snow lotus first?" "White Lotus!" Xu Zhi spoke. A snow-white lotus slowly turned over in the pot.

"The aura still feels a bit off..." Xu Zhi quietly sensed it. His knowledge was extremely vast, thanks to his continuous learning from Hermes, and he also had a chef avatar. "These two ingredients haven't fused yet. There's no rush to release the third ingredient's power, otherwise, it will be like before, with the thirteen ingredients just entangled but not fully integrated into a harmonious whole... There should be something else to buffer their auras, to facilitate their fusion before adding the third one..." "We could try the Narcissus Vines from the Northern Isle of the Demon Realm."

Xu Zhi, like a grand chef, took up a ladle, tasted a bit, then picked up a pen and quietly jotted down notes. Hiding below, Pan Xuexian blinked, bewildered. "That movement, it's so familiar... It's exactly like the Ogre Boss from the Food World! That boss cooks dishes with the same movements!" The Food World had countless bosses. They constantly attacked players, who were considered food species. Among them, one boss was particularly notorious, constantly attacking players and transforming into an attacking giant, chasing them around like a mushroom picker with a basket. The cooking movements right now were surprisingly similar. "What am I thinking?" Pan Xuexian quickly shook her head. "That monster attacks a town every four months... It's a world-class nightmare creature. These two are polar opposites, one good, one evil. But Emperor Messiah is truly mysterious, possessing such profound knowledge of both cooking and alchemy."

"Don't slack off, increase the heat!" Xu Zhi chastised her, exasperated. Pan Xuexian was stunned. Gritting her teeth, she rapidly began frantic calculations. The entire chip again heated up to over a thousand degrees, emitting a dense spiritual pressure that made Xu Zhi feel it was a perfect innate medicinal cauldron.

In just half a month, besides their daily physical training, these small animals also added the activity of stewing in the large pot. Xu Zhi continuously experimented with the medicinal properties, adding many auxiliary ingredients, and had them perfectly control their own power, ensuring their vital essence leakage reached extremely high precision, mixing and fusing them together in an extremely strict proportion. Finally, the second version of the "Martial God Soup" was completely produced. The biggest difference from the previous hodgepodge, the chaotic stew, was that the thirteen essences had completely transformed into one, indistinguishable from each other...

Deep in the mountains, a pure white light bloomed, as if some powerful spiritual treasure had appeared. "A glowing dish." In this thick, crystal-clear soup, Xu Zhi felt a surge of power. Within the shimmering pale golden clouds, faint streaks of shimmering light floated, revealing the ethereal silhouettes of a fire bird, spiritual rabbits, spiritual birds... and even various flowers, birds, insects, and fish, drifting within.

A group of young girls gathered around the large pot, gasping in admiration as they looked at the floating animals and plants within. "This soup is amazing! It's causing auspicious signs, that's incredible!" "These are divine consciousnesses, the projections of your wills deeply etched into your bloodlines." Xu Zhi's eyes gleamed as he chuckled, "This is the true Martial God Soup, the true Great Medicine of Heaven and Earth!" A sudden auspicious phenomenon appeared. Xu Zhi was also a little surprised; he hadn't expected the legendary phenomena associated with refining divine pills to actually manifest. Currently, it was a pool of spiritual liquid not yet concentrated. If it were condensed into individual pills, it would still emit those brilliant and beautiful auspicious lights of flying birds, insects, and fish.

"Sisters, the new Martial God Soup is ready. Just remember the formula..." "In a word! Add vegetables, let's have hotpot!" The group was excited, quickly grabbing vegetables and dropping them in. After blanching them briefly, they scooped them out and couldn't help but taste. The flavor lingered. "Oh my goodness! This is too delicious!" "Unbelievable!" "Was everything I ate before just chicken feed?!"

They felt infinite medicinal power permeating their bodies, nourishing every meridian. The most astonishing aspect wasn't the vast medicinal power, but the martial arts will and divine consciousness, which washed over their bodies like a waterfall, thoroughly cleansing impurities and causing their souls to tremble with pleasure! "It's magnificent." Lin Hongfeng took a sip, her face instantly flushed with intoxication and excitement. "The medicinal effect is infinitely more potent than before! If we drink this every day, our humanoid forms will advance by leaps and bounds, and the higher our humanoid cultivation, the richer the spiritual energy accumulated in our inner world, which in turn feeds back into our true form's cultivation...." This was a formidable cultivation cycle.

Xu Zhi smiled. "Before, the thirteen medicinal properties were chaotic and mixed. Now that they've completely fused into a harmonious whole, with no trace of the previous individual ingredients, it truly is a proper medicinal soup... But this is just the beginning of integration. Next, you need to adjust the fusion ratios and discover new structures.... This isn't the most perfect version yet." Xu Zhi spoke softly, "The path has been laid out for you. It's simply about the order of adding ingredients, selecting auxiliary materials to blend medicinal properties, and preserving the vital essence of your bloodlines to the greatest extent possible." "Yes!" Lin Hongfeng was very excited, nodding vigorously. "Thank you, Master! We will definitely work hard!" "Walk the rest of the path yourselves. I will return frequently to check on your progress." Xu Zhi had merely provided a starting point. He was eager to see how it would develop in the future, yet also found himself speechless looking at the chip below, still diligently heating up. It had activated multi-core processing mode, but the calculations were still very slow. It would probably take forever to succeed.