Chapter 446: Two Solutions.
After speaking, the golem rose higher into the air and flew away. It quickly became a tiny dot in the sky before it disappeared completely from his sight.
Arthur watched it go for a while. When he couldn’t see the golem anymore, he returned his attention to the memory crystal in his hand.
He placed the memory crystal against his head to see if he had missed anything. But when he did so, he realized that he had taken everything the memory crystal had to give, and the memory crystal had become useless because it was a one-time-use consumable.
So he put away the useless crystal and focused on the two new techniques within his mind. Like sect techniques, these two new techniques are bound with curse chains that prevent them from being shared or read by an external force scanning his mind.
Only he could access the two techniques in his mind, and that would remain the same until he died or became one of the leaders of the sect.
He is not sure about the latter, but he assumes that when he becomes a leader, he will gain the authority and the method to break the chains and share the techniques with others.
Until he becomes a leader of the sect, he won’t be able to share them. But he doesn’t care about that for now.
For now, what he cares about is that the two techniques are two versions of the Life Pill Art and represent two solutions to the problem of the inability of the pill to grow.
The main change in these new techniques is that they don’t use the corpses of other powerful beings as raw materials to form the pill. Instead, the pill is formed from the flesh and blood of the user.
In his case, he will cut out a piece of his flesh to use to refine the life pill. The life pill he creates will be very weak and would most likely be at the first transformation of the first mortal coil.
He will need to slowly upgrade the life pill with treasures until it grows to reach the stage that he wants it to. In his case, he will raise the life pill to the third mortal coil.
After it has reached the third mortal coil, he can choose to absorb it into his body and use it as his foundation or keep it outside and use it as an external foundation and an external source of power.
The first solution is for the case when he wants to absorb it. The second solution is for when he wants to keep it as an external source of power. In both cases, the life pill will be capable of growth.
The best part is that both solutions are compatible with any type of foundation. So they still retain the advantage of the life pill art.
The only disadvantage now is that the Life Pill Art has become very expensive to use. In the past, he could use the entire existence of another person to refine the pill. The person can’t complain and has to give up everything they have to the pill since they are already dead.
Daoist Blood Pill had been hoping to use this method to create the foundation she wanted by stealing the foundation of another person. She wanted to use the corpses of the disciples of that sect to create her own foundation.
But now, there is no such goal in the revised Life Pill Art. He will use his own flesh to refine a weakened pill first. Because he used his own flesh, the pill will be very compatible with him, but it won’t be powerful. This perfect compatibility is one of the major reasons why the revised life pill can grow.
He didn’t use his whole existence to make the life pill, so the life pill will be weaker than him, and even if he had used his whole existence to refine the pill, the pill would still be at the peak of the second mortal coil at best.
The weak life pill will have to be strengthened in another way, which will require a lot of resources. But he doesn’t mind this at all because he saw another use for the life pill.
He thought to himself, "Is it possible to forge the life pill into an armament first and then absorb it into my body, thereby eliminating the danger of dying?"
He believes it should be possible because the life pill still retains its compatibility with other foundations. He believes that he should be able to enhance the life pill with the foundation that he wanted first before he then assimilates it into his body.
But he is not sure it is possible, and there is no one to ask. So he shrugged and said, "There is no rush. I still haven’t gotten the bare material for my foundation first. Which reminds me, I should go to the agricultural hall to set up that mission."
"I should also ask for how to help Roar advance to the third mortal coil. Or should I use the life pill art on him? There is nothing that says that it can’t be used on a dog."
As he left for the agricultural hall, his mind couldn’t help but drift back to the two revised Life Pill Art. Now that the patriarch has pointed out what the major problem of the previous Life Pill Art was and why it couldn’t grow, he has realized that the solution was surprisingly easy.
It wasn’t so easy that he could have come up with it. He doubts he would have been able to come up with the solution even if the patriarch had told him to first create a life pill with his own flesh to solve the problem of compatibility.
So he had been clueless that the compatibility was one of the reasons why the life pill couldn’t grow. Even now he is barely figuring out why the lack of compatibility was the problem.