Chapter 805 - 10: Automated Alchemy Assembly Line

Chapter 805: Chapter 10: Automated Alchemy Assembly Line

"If it weren’t for the repeated confirmations..."

"I wouldn’t believe that the Tongtian Sect Leader really doesn’t understand alchemy."

As Wudi confronted Yunxiao, Wu Peng on Profound Garden Island had already skillfully slipped into a courtyard, just in time to hear Wu Yang’s lament.

Nowadays, Profound Garden Island, expanded by Xirang, has long become one of the largest islands within the Ten Continents and Three Islands system.

Even compared to Golden Turtle Island, Profound Garden Island is hardly much inferior.

"It’s just that he hasn’t learned it; it’s not that he couldn’t learn."

With arms crossed in front of his chest, Wu Fan appeared a lot more calm.

"Alchemy is different from other paths of cultivation; it requires consuming a large amount of resources."

"Especially those precious medicinal herbs, even for us, we might not be willing to use them to practice."

Lounging with his legs crossed on a reclining chair, Wu Yang nodded in strong agreement to this.

"Indeed, if not for the sudden rise of Hundred Lands Mountain Range, we would probably still be miserably searching everywhere for various precious herbs now!"

"No one knows how those mountain people did it; hundred-year-old herbs can be bought by anyone, and thousand-year-old herbs just take some time."

Wu Yang is genuinely curious about how the mountain people managed to mass-produce those herbs.

Based on the Enlightened Six Witches’ common knowledge, the variety of herbs might be cultivated or grafted to get more precious varieties.

But the age of each herb is truly not something that can be faked.

Even optimized varieties have incomparable medicinal strength between hundred-year-old and thousand-year-old herbs.

"That’s the mountain people’s secret."

"Even Wu Zhen hasn’t found out, so don’t get your hopes up."

Slowly pushing open the courtyard gate, Wu Peng immediately saw Wu Yang crossing her legs.

"A girl sitting improperly and snoozing away like that, I wonder who you learned this from."

Hearing Wu Peng’s voice, Wu Yang almost instinctively sat up straight, the laziness on her face instantly turning to a pleasing demeanor.

"Big brother..."

Giving a stern glance at Wu Yang’s deliberate act of weakness, Wu Peng then turned his gaze to Wu Fan.

Unlike Wu Yang, who had been lounging on the reclining chair, Wu Fan was earnestly brewing medicine, though just watching over it.

With technological advancements, even alchemy like medicine brewing has entered a fully automated process.

Automatic stirring crucible cauldron...

Fast-spinning Five Birds Wind and Fire Fan...

Formulaic addition of various herbs into the alchemy furnace...

These processes that previously required the combined efforts of the Enlightened Six Witches now merely need Wu Fan to oversee them.

"I remember that before I left, there weren’t this many things?"

Under Wu Peng’s suspicious gaze, Wu Fan replied confidently.

"Yes, indeed there weren’t, because I bought some new tools."

Wu Fan said as he pulled out a finely intricate Eight Trigram board from under the pill furnace.

In the center of this Eight Trigram board is an automatically spinning Yin Yang Fish.

The eight directions are Innate Eight Trigrams, where one can faintly see the air flowing along with the Primordial Qi.

"This is the new ’Pill Platform’ from Hundred Lands Mountain Range."

"It functions as an array map that can automatically set up formations."

"With the alchemy furnace, it can slowly adjust Primordial Qi and the environment, maximizing the medicinal effects without adhering strictly to attributes and timing."

With a complex expression, watching the "fully automated" alchemy assembly line built by Wu Fan, Wu Peng remained silent for a long time.

"Do you know that using this method for medicine-making might cause your skills to regress quickly?"

After a brief silence, when he opened his mouth again, Wu Peng couldn’t hide the disappointment and concern in his words.

On one hand, he’s disappointed with how convenient and fast alchemy and medicine brewing have become nowadays.

On the other, he’s worried that if this situation continues to develop, might there come a time when Witch Doctors and Alchemists are no longer needed?

As a Witch Doctor from the last era, Wu Peng claims he’s not the kind of conservative old-timer, yet he can’t adapt to this new era as quickly as Wu Fan.

"I feel quite the opposite."

Glancing up at his big brother, Wu Fan held an entirely different perspective.

"This automated method of medicine-making can only produce ordinary pills..."

"As Hundred Lands Mountain Range puts it, these beginner-level pills aren’t even worth putting too much effort and time into."

"With the help of these new tools, I can actually spare more time to develop new pill recipes."

Without letting Wu Peng voice a rebuttal, Wu Fan stated a clearer fact.

"What I can do now, Hundred Lands Mountain Range can also achieve."

"But have you seen any reduction in the number of alchemists at Hundred Lands Mountain Range?"

"No, the number of alchemists there hasn’t decreased; instead, their skills have far surpassed Great Xia."

"Ordinary pills are sold like candy everywhere..."

"Although high-level pills have quota restrictions, those are actually just external limitations."

"Just look at those mountain people coming here; do they look like they’re lacking high-level pills?"

What Wu Fan said was true; any mountain people coming to this Profound Garden Island have, to some extent, treated high-level pills as hard currency.

From their carefree spending behavior, one can easily deduce a fact.

That is, for mountain people, high-level pills are hardly rare, and their preciousness might not even be more than bronze coins.

"Big brother, I think Wu Fan is right."

At this moment, Wu Yang, who hadn’t spoken so far, interrupted the conversation between the two brothers.

"When we were crafting the ’Corpse of Punishment,’ we used a similar principle, didn’t we?"

"Because we didn’t have the ability to craft the Elixir of Immortality, we used a method akin to nurturing Gu, letting it complete the transformation process automatically."

"What Wu Fan is doing now is actually quite similar to that time."

"It’s also automated medicine-making, just that it’s now turned from the Elixir of Immortality to ordinary pills."

"At most... the process is a bit more controllable, and the production is a bit higher."

Sighing deeply, Wu Peng finally didn’t continue to dwell on this issue.

"I’m not a backward old fossil."

"I’m just worried that you’ll get used to this alchemy method and forget your own skills."

With a faint smile gradually appearing on his face, Wu Fan responded softly yet with a firm tone.

"Rest assured, even if I forget myself, I will not forget the craft of alchemy."

"A Witch Doctor always prioritizes human beings rather than becoming mere tool users who won’t know what to do once they leave the tools behind."

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