Rebirth of a Quasi-Immortal Spirit

"Mother~" Under Gao Zhun's guidance, Gao Ling's little mouth opened and closed, and she actually managed to say the word "mother" that Madam Zhu had been trying to teach her for a month without success. Madam Zhu finally smiled when she heard this, but she still glared at Gao Zhun and said, "As expected, you, my older sister, are closer to me than I, your mother."

Upon hearing this, Gao Zhun could only force a smile and say, "How could that be? It's our little Ling'er who's smart, it has nothing to do with me, her older sister."

Lady Zhu wasn't really trying to spite Gao Zhun. It wasn't a big deal that Gao Ling was closer to Gao Zhun. Although she was only around a hundred years old and considered young in the cultivation world, she was quite old compared to Gao Zhun and Gao Ling. If she were to compete for favor with the younger generation like this, wouldn't people laugh at her?

As Mrs. Zhu was trying to relax, she didn't notice that her eldest daughter was looking at her with a heavy heart, as if she wanted to say something but ultimately held back.

Upon returning to her family this time, Gao Zhun was prepared not to go out again for a short period of time. Firstly, there was no guarantee that she wouldn't be attacked by endless assassination attempts outside, whether it was the Blood Transformation Pavilion or others, which she couldn't defend against at her current level. Secondly, after being away for so long to train, she needed time to digest the results of this experience. Cultivators cannot only engage in arduous training, nor can they always go on training trips. The best way to cultivate is to combine the two.

In the end, Gao Zhun devised a plan for himself, which directly extended to the battle for the Enlightenment Fruit two years later. In other words, Gao Zhun would spend two years in the Gao family, accompanying Gao Ling as she grew up until she was three years old.

Gao Zhun didn't tell anyone about this plan. She just quietly set aside four hours each day to practice alone in the training room, and no one knew what she was doing in the training room.

On this day, Gao Zhun entered the training room once again. From afar, Ah Zhong seemed to see Gao Zhun holding a very familiar object in his hand. When the other party entered the training room and closed the door, he remembered that it was the test tube he had seen in the Secret Realm Earth.

What is Gao Zhun planning to do with that test tube?

On one side, Ah Zhong was completely baffled, while on the other side, Gao Zhun had somehow transformed the central room of the huge training room into a laboratory. There was a large workbench and a large bookcase next to it, piled with all kinds of jade slips. Some of them were copied by Gao Zhun using her points from the Gao family's library, and the rest were secretly obtained from the secret realm Earth.

On the other side of the workbench was a complete set of experimental equipment, from small items such as test tubes, glass rods and beakers to large items such as centrifuges and chromatographs, which could be described as having everything. Gao Zhun was carrying out her own scientific research work.

This idea had been forming in Gao Zhun's mind for a long time. Not to mention that her childhood dream was to become a scientist, even after she came to the Immortal Spirit Continent, a world of cultivation, and after the Gao family entered the Secret Realm Earth, she had a bold idea: to combine the alchemy and weapon crafting techniques of this world with the science and technology of the Secret Realm Earth to see if she could achieve unexpected results.

Relying on her innate talent, Gao Zhun's comprehension and creativity far surpassed that of ordinary people, so her idea was not far-fetched. Moreover, she happened to have a two-year gap, which she immediately put to use. Her first research focused on combining alchemy with the medical knowledge of the secret realm Earth. Of course, she mainly combined it with the Western medicine's separation and purification ideas, which was also the development direction that traditional Chinese medicine urgently needed in her previous life. Now that she had become a cultivator, she could do it with ease.

First, Gao Zhun started by making Qi-Nourishing Pills for Qi Refining cultivators. The main ingredients of Qi-Nourishing Pills are Poria cocos, Cassia seed, and Scutellaria baicalensis. In her opinion, separating and purifying the effective components of these herbs was a piece of cake. After grinding the herbs, she could separate the different components according to their smell, put them into several test tubes, and then attach their own unique labels. In this way, in less than a quarter of an hour, Gao Zhun separated all the effective components of the herbs that an alchemist could use to make ten batches of Qi-Nourishing Pills at once.

The next step was more difficult. Gao Zhun completely abandoned the idea of ​​alchemy on the Immortal Spirit Continent and directly used the scientific technology of the Secret Realm Earth to mix half of the effective ingredients she had made in the correct proportions. After several processes, she made a Qi Nourishing Pill that resembled the original in appearance. Looking at the number of Qi Nourishing Pills that could only be obtained with a 100% success rate from five batches, Gao Zhun nodded in satisfaction, reached out and put one into her mouth, feeling the efficacy of this Qi Nourishing Pill made entirely with scientific technology. Compared with the Qi Nourishing Pill that she had exchanged for with points from her family, it seemed that the one she made was more effective. The impurities had almost disappeared after her multiple separations and purifications.

Seeing that her plan seemed to have partially succeeded, Gao Zhun turned her attention to the other half of the active ingredients that had not yet been processed into the Qi-Nourishing Pill. She took a deep breath and took out the alchemy tips that Doctor Gao had given her. This was the main event. This time, she would not completely follow the alchemy philosophy of this world. She would still insist on using scientific methods to replace some steps that were unrelated to spiritual energy. She would only use her own spiritual energy when condensing the pill. This time, the success rate was still 100%.

Gao Zhun picked up one of the Qi Nourishing Pills and put it in her mouth. Her eyes lit up instantly. Sure enough, this method of pill refining allowed the remaining spiritual energy from the condensing pill she had sent to be included in the pill. The effect of this Qi Nourishing Pill was almost three times that of the normal pill refining method in the Immortal Spirit Continent, and more than twice the efficacy of the Qi Nourishing Pill made with scientific technology.

The results are in: the separation and purification using scientific technology is more effective than the dual compression of a cultivator's own spiritual energy and spiritual fire in this world. Conversely, the concentration and compression of raw materials using scientific technology is not as effective as the medicinal properties of pills condensed from spiritual energy.

Adhering to scientific principles, Gao Zhun spent the next month making Qi-Nourishing Pills, accumulating a large amount of data, which was so precise that the average efficacy was 3.0879 times and 1.4095 times that of the Immortal Spirit Continent.

Looking at the scrolls filled with alchemy data, Gao Zhun felt a great sense of accomplishment. Next, she would try higher-grade pills to see if all pills had such a huge difference in quality.

In the blink of an eye, a year has passed. Gao Zhun has already experimented with two alchemy methods from the Qi Refining stage to the Nascent Soul stage, as well as a scientific alchemy method from the Qi Refining stage to the Tribulation Transcending stage.

Unfortunately, her own spiritual energy was limited. Although she didn't need to separate and purify spiritual energy, which saved a lot of spiritual energy, she could still only use the method of gathering spiritual energy to refine pills for the Nascent Soul stage. Beyond that, she could only collect data using scientific pill refining methods. The rest could only be addressed after she advanced in her cultivation.

Even so, Gao Zhun gained a great deal from a year of alchemy experience. Not only did she acquire a large number of pills ranging from Qi Refining to Tribulation Transcending stages, but she also created blueprints for a complete set of alchemy production line equipment, just waiting for her alchemy skills to be sufficient for mass production. She could fully foresee that her invention would be enough to drive a revolution in alchemy across the entire Immortal Spirit Continent. Alchemists would no longer be an unattainable profession. As long as you have enough spiritual energy reserves, even someone who knows nothing about alchemy can condense a valuable pill.

In the following year, Gao Zhun turned her attention to weapon crafting. In her opinion, alchemy and science and technology were at odds in many ways, but weapon crafting was different. Therefore, it only took her half a year to reach the peak of weapon crafting that a Nascent Soul stage cultivator could achieve. Moreover, as long as she could advance smoothly, her weapon crafting skills would also rise accordingly.

In the last six months, Gao Zhun converted all her remaining points into materials for refining artifacts. She used various materials of different grades to create refining and artifact-making production lines of different strengths. Of course, there are different explanations for this. Production lines made with low-grade materials can only produce low-grade pills and magic weapons because the materials themselves are not strong enough. Their lifespan is also very limited, usually only lasting about ten years. As for the highest-grade production line that Gao Zhun can currently make, it can produce pills and spiritual weapons for the Nascent Soul stage. It is really limited by her artifact-making skills. Otherwise, with the level of her laboratory, it would be no problem to produce pills and immortal weapons for the Tribulation stage.

"That's the difference between mass production and the laboratory," Gao Zhun sighed inwardly.

At this time, there was only a little over a month left before the battle for the Enlightenment Fruit. Unlike others who were making a series of preparations for this trip, Gao Zhun seemed completely unconcerned. However, no one knew this, since Madam Zhu and Ah Zhong knew that Gao Zhun had spent all the points he had accumulated and that he still had the leisure to teach Gao Ling to recite poems, write characters, and walk, as if he had already made ample preparations.

Just as the last set of production lines was completed, Gao Zhun picked up ten storage rings and walked confidently toward the Treasure Appraisal Pavilion.

With the battle for the Enlightenment Fruit approaching, various forces arrived at the Gao family via teleportation arrays. Along the way, Gao Zhun noticed a sudden increase in the number of Nascent Soul stage cultivators within the family, most of whom were not dressed in Gao family attire. She instinctively looked into the crowd but didn't see any familiar faces, so she gave up and continued walking until she reached the entrance of the Gao family's Treasure Appraisal Pavilion branch.