C33 - Poison Alchemy Inheritance

Yin Kai continued to look through the other books in his spatial ring. One was labelled as the, "Nine-Petal Lotus Rebirth Art."

After a short read of the summary, it was confirmed as a horizontal rebirth art, and could be paired with the Complete Soul Refinement Technique and the Poison Rebirth Art for maximum effect.

After studying the method in order to practice it later, Yin Kai found several rebirth alternatives. There was the Pheonix Rebirth Art, the Purity Rebirth Art, the Yin-Yang Rebirth Art, and several others beside.

He began to check the poison cultivator's scroll list. Using his gifted memory, he began to memorize the entire plant encyclopaedia.

After about a month's time, he completed this monumental task. Then, he began to work on memorizing the recipes. This took him much longer.

After all, he had to both memorize the plants as well as the timings, the amount of flame, directions of the flame inside the furnace, heat, the applicabiity of certain condensing techniques, special casing elements for the pill, how to change the size of the pill if needed, and more.

No wonder they said being an alchemist was hard!

After seven months, he had finally memorized the entire list of recipes. However, he was growing more and more restless as he waited in the emptiness.

It had been 8 months since he arrived. The only way he knew this was because he had felt Bae Re's avatar, which had been crowing in the Ancestral World of Origin every morning, and he had been tallying the days in his Life Ring.

The more 'descendants' Yin Kai and his pantheon possessed, the more in touch he felt with the world of origin.

With an inner sigh, he began to feed his vermillion bird again. He had a stock of food in his life ring that he handed her now and again.

The truth was, she mostly just loafed around until he popped in. Then, she'd flutter her wings and sit right back down.

'Tcht. Little Loafer.'

He rubbed her head. While she might be a little loafer, she was his loafer.

Unfortunately, the little hen hadn't grown any feathers yet- most likely due to the fact that she aged so slowly. Such beasts had a near infinite lifetime, or so he had heard.

Yin Kai went back to reading all the books he had yet to peruse.

Continuing the alchemy books, he began to memorize the old fogey's collection of condensation techniques. All in total, there were 12 fire techniques and 9 derivative poison alchemy techniques.

They were much easier to memorize than the previous set. Next, he found another primer: "On Pill Veins and Multi-Capping."

'Pill Veins are by and large the greatest bravado in alchemy. If a pill is created perfectly, without any flaw whatsoever, pill veins have a slight chance of appearing.'

'Some alchemy masters focus on pill veins as true mastery of a realm. However, this is often not the case, as true mastery is not required before reaching the next rank.'

'Alchemy is divided into low, mid, and high rank pills per realm, same as herbs.'

'If an alchemy master can successfully create a pill corresponding to a higher rank, they can directly apply to the Pill Union for the corresponding badge.'

'What few know is that there are higher classifications of pill veins. Pill Veins can be tiered into low, mid, and high-grade veins.'

'As an example, those in the upper realms of cultivation can greatly increase the quality of pills in the qi refining realm.'

'Using their heightened senses of perfection, they can skip pill veins entirely and create pill clouds. It is rumored that there is an even higher form of pill beyond that, but I have yet to see one.'

'Multi-capping is a technique created for various reasons. It can hide the pill's effects from the observant eye, add to the strength of pill veins, add a layer of interlaying pill veins, and more.'

'I, the Poison Alchemest Gu Chen, have several multi-capping techniques. Within my collection I even hold a triple-vein method.'

'This being said, by and far my best creation is the "Soul-Suppressing Profundity Capping Technique." I hope my inheritor uses it to the full of its ability.'

Yin Kai began to look through the multi-capping techniques. There was the "Profound Confundity Method," which sealed the pill from prying eyes.

Additionally, there was the "Ancient Poison Capping Art," which made a pill 'look' older than it truly was. This was helpful for muddying pill origins and selling pills to tigers.

There were three methods for strengthening pill veins present within the inheritance. One was the "3-Ring Interlaying Method," which interlayed three sets of pill veins onto the outside of a pill.

However, in order to use this method, pill veins must have already taken shape. It would only help Yin Kai after he had perfected a level of pills, not before.