329: Soul-Feeding Pills and Soul-Gathering Pills

Chapter 329: Spirit-Feeding Pill and Spirit-Gathering Pill

That’s right, the so-called painting spirit experience is essentially a spiritual substance.

However, this spiritual substance is quite special; although widely present, it cannot be directly deconstructed and extracted from matter. It can only be obtained by killing Another Dimension monsters and other painting spirits.

It's similar to an O-type blood among spiritual substances, or a spiritual substance that acts as a 'filler.'

It can perfectly combine with any spiritual substance and spiritual structure without any conflict.

If a scroll painting spirit is a skeleton built from spiritual substances and spiritual structures, then this special spiritual substance is equivalent to the filling of flesh and blood.

It's like a jar of pebbles; only when it's filled with water is the jar truly full.

This is the essence of a painting spirit's Rank.

Therefore, to develop a Medicinal Pill that enhances a painting spirit's Rank, one must start with this special spiritual substance.

And so, Wu Xian, through the Mysterious Abyss Dimensional Gate, arrived at the Advanced Area of Yaoyang City's Dimensional Control Zone overnight.

Laurel Branch Sword Qi phantoms shot across the sky, effortlessly harvesting the lives of low-Rank Weird.

Although the 'Undying Soul' characteristic was a bit disgusting, with Black and White Impermanence in charge, it could largely be ignored.

The good news was.

The cosmos sack could collect this spiritual substance that exists between existence and non-existence.

But the bad news was that the 'Heaven in a Sack' could only replicate definite items, not spiritual substances directly.

“It seems that only at the moment a monster dies, there's a brief dispersion. If not collected in time, it quickly dissipates into the world.”

Wu Xian researched while killing monsters.

After returning to the small villa in the North District, he delved deeper, combining the ideas and theories of the Dao of Medicinal Pill refining.

Theoretically, this substance should also exist in Materials, especially in 'living' Materials like Spiritual Plants and Spirit Medicine.

What he needed to do was to preserve this special spiritual substance using the methods and ideas of Medicinal Pill refining.

“No, perhaps it doesn't need to be directly preserved, but rather kept in a state where it is about to disperse into this spiritual substance.”

His thoughts gradually became clear, and he began to try it out.

Time flew by, and it was already the afternoon of the next day.

Wu Xian tried various Medicinal Pill refining approaches he could currently handle and master, and finally discovered that one particular approach seemed to achieve this effect.

It was just that the idea behind this Medicinal Pill made him a little speechless.

“So painting spirits are also spirits?”

That's right, this Medicinal Pill was the Spirit-Feeding Pill used to raise Spirit Beasts.

In other words, from a certain perspective, painting spirits could be viewed as 'Spirit Beasts.'

Of course, painting spirits and Spirit Beasts still have significant differences, so the pharmacological principles of the Spirit-Feeding Pill also needed some corresponding adjustments.

As for the technique of 3D composition from scratch, Wu Xian was already well-versed in it.

During the subsequent refining attempts, some new discoveries were made.

During the refining (drawing) process, adding some Spirit Crystals seemed to greatly improve the effect.

Furthermore, not only Spiritual Plants and Spirit Medicine, but also various monster Materials could be used as medicinal ingredients, but some spiritual structures from Spiritual Plants and Spirit Medicine had to be used as the pharmacological core.

Finally, after countless failures, a Medicinal Pill successfully condensed into a Medicinal Pill scroll.

【Spirit-Feeding Pill】

Type: original

Grade: First-Grade

Spirituality: 19

Characteristic: Can be absorbed and refined by painting spirits to increase their Rank.

In terms of spirituality, it was higher than the previous Return Origin Pill, and the overall medicinal properties were also better expressed.

He then imprinted several copies of the Spirit-Feeding Pill and refined them for the scrolls he held.

After a series of tests, it was found that the painting spirit experience provided by the Spirit-Feeding Pill was quite considerable, especially for low-Rank painting spirits, where the effect was more pronounced.

The higher the painting spirit's Rank, the smaller the improvement; above five stars, there was basically no effect at all.

This wasn't because the experience bar was long, but simply a diminishing effect at the medicinal property level.

“It seems I still need to find a way to raise the Medicinal Pill's grade.”

Currently, the cost of raising a two-star scroll to five stars was still acceptable. Considering overall cost-effectiveness, raising it to four stars was the most economical.

“By the way, can this thing be fed to creatures from other worlds?”

“No, creatures from other worlds absorb otherworldly spiritual energy. They should be viewed in terms of Rank and cultivation.”

In short, the Spirit-Feeding Pill might not work for creatures from other worlds.

However, subsequent Medicinal Pills that enhance spiritual power cultivation should also be usable to improve the cultivation Rank of creatures from other worlds.

These types of Medicinal Pills were relatively easy to research and refine; even the pharmacological principles didn't require much adjustment, only needing to be adapted to the rules of the scroll world.

Soon after, the second Medicinal Pill scroll was born.

【Spirit-Gathering Pill】

Type: original

Grade: Second-Grade

Spirituality: 26

Characteristic: Efficiently gathers Spiritual Qi and converts it into one's own spiritual power.

“Piling on the Materials really makes a difference.”

Because it was a Medicinal Pill for himself, Wu Xian was more generous with the Materials when drawing it, and making a Second-Grade Medicinal Pill was within expectations.

He supplemented it with a copy of the Spirit-Gathering Pill and experienced its effects.

The surrounding spiritual energy began to rapidly gather towards him, transforming into Spiritual Qi, and under the catalysis of the medicinal power, it converted into spiritual power cultivation.

The medicinal effect lasted for one hour, and the cultivation improvement was quite considerable.

Next, he released the Laurel Tree for assistance, skipping the process of spiritual energy converting into Spiritual Qi, which indeed greatly improved the absorption efficiency of the Spirit-Gathering Pill. In less than half an hour, he successfully absorbed one Spirit-Gathering Pill.

“With the Laurel Tree's assistance, the flushing of the Meridians seems a bit strong.”

With his physical constitution, he barely felt anything, but others would be different... In the evening, he brought the two Medicinal Pill scrolls to the Club and listed them in the contribution point System.

These past two days, the Club members, under the call and leadership of President Xue Lingling, had been frantically clearing the Netherworld copy in the Hero Tower.

Unfortunately, the personnel were limited, and they couldn't compare to those large Clubs and Dojos.

Their ranking not only didn't improve but even dropped to eighty-fourth place.

The online publicity and advertising effects were also very limited, as were the Club's official website promotions and activities.

Although Yaoyang City had a large population and fan base, the Hero Tower only calculated the popularity and ratings of Silver Tier and Gold Tier League players.

“What should we do, my dear apprentice? If this continues, we might drop out of the top hundred.” Xue Lingling was extremely anxious.

“It's fine, it's dropping slower than I expected.” Wu Xian appeared calm, “This shows that our Domain Scroll has a very high hidden rating, and it will be easier to rise later than other Domain Scrolls.”

“Alright.” Xue Lingling could only secretly comfort herself.

Wu Xian smiled, “I see that the online reviews for us are still very good. Be patient, let the bullets fly for a while; word-of-mouth might take time to ferment.”

“Oh, by the way, should Second Brother post on Weibo?” Xue Lingling suddenly thought of something.

“That's a good idea.”

With the appeal of Xue Zhengying, the former 'King,' he could definitely mobilize a large number of old fans.

The Hero Tower's popularity calculation rules only specified Gold and Silver Tier players but did not specify that they must be active players. This means that many retired players could also provide popularity points.

“But where is Second Brother?” Wu Xian looked around in confusion, “Still at the outpost?”

Xue Lingling said, “Second Brother has been busy pushing floors these past few days. He already reached the thirtieth floor last night.”

“Ah?” Wu Xian was incredulous, “He's... already at the thirtieth floor?”

“Your Dragon Lord is already seven and a half stars with three Fate Marks, plus the blessing of the [Sea God] Divine Sculpture factor, Second Brother has completely recaptured his former glory,” Xue Lingling explained, “Not only the Dragon Lord, but my Ghost Emperor, Little Zhou's Nether Centipede, and others have also reached a considerable level of training.”