Chapter 161: Little Caterpillar Alchemy

Chapter 161: Little Caterpillar Alchemy

After swallowing the capsule, Wang Che immediately felt a powerful will impact his soul.

The effect from the five capsules was extremely strong.

Almost instantly, Wang Che felt as if his mind entered a mysterious and magical illusion.

Countless scenes appeared like molecules within this mental illusion.

This was a dream.

The following scenes matched the capsule’s description.

Wang Che saw the ancient landscapes deduced by modern methods.

If divided by era, the period of conflict between humans and Soul Beasts was the earliest Primordial Ancient Era.

Humans used the power of Martial Souls to gradually dominate the land and fought against the ancient Soul Pets.

This struggle lasted for tens of thousands of years.

The scenes in the dream were excerpts derived from modern deductions.

For example, Soul Masters from that time killed Soul Beasts and absorbed their Soul Rings.

Soul Beasts killed humans and devoured the power of Martial Souls to achieve stronger forms of life evolution.

Since history provided introductions, presenting it visually felt more realistic and immersive.

Soul Beasts in the Primordial Ancient Era were very large in size.

Unlike modern Soul Pets, Soul Beasts from the Primordial Ancient Era grew slowly over thousands of years.

Modern Soul Pets cooperate with humans and grow quickly through Life Soul Pact training, but their body sizes lag behind unless they reach the Ten Millennium Spirit Power Cultivation level.

At that point, their size undergoes a huge change.

Life also enters a new and different stage.

However, in terms of strength, modern Soul Pets are actually stronger than Soul Beasts from the Primordial Ancient Era.

In fact, much stronger.

After the Primordial Ancient Era came the otherworldly invasion that changed the world’s structure.

The image capsule only showed partial scenes to depict the tragedy and solemnity of that time.

That era is called the Fallen Ancient Era in modern times.

Both human and Soul Beast populations sharply declined, countless Soul Beast bloodlines and human Martial Souls lost their inheritance and went extinct.

It showed glimpses of countless world-destroying battles, enough to shock the mind and leave a deep impression for a long time.

“Small scenes.”

Wang Che didn’t have any emotional reaction; he had seen too many civilizations fall.

Otherworldly civilization invasions are quite normal.

If there had been a scene where someone crushed the whole world with a slap, maybe Wang Che would have felt something.

But at that time, many powerful humans sacrificed themselves… That solemn feeling, conveyed through the scenes, made the immersion stronger and emotions rise.

After the Fallen Ancient Era, there was a civilization gap, but thanks to the Life Soul Pact, humans and Soul Pets gradually grew stronger and defeated the otherworldly civilization.

This led to thousands of years of civilization development, up to the current era.

Since they were just selected glimpses, the dream from the image capsule felt more like a documentary.

However, the mental immersion was very strong, like watching a high-quality CG movie.

You could feel the pressure from ancient Soul Beasts, the cruelty and bloodshed from the endless fights between humans and Soul Beasts.

The sorrow of being slaughtered in battles against otherworldly civilizations, and the shock when humans and Soul Pets started fighting back.

The flourishing development over the next thousands of years, the constant emergence of new Martial Souls and new Soul Pets, symbolizing the vitality of life.

All of this left a deep impression.

When he woke up, he found that a day had passed.

He gained one more strand of Hundred-Tempered Soul Force, and two Martial Soul Essence Crystals in his hand were gone.

“My Divine Sense improved a little!”

Wang Che was quite satisfied with the capsule’s effect.

Previously, his Divine Sense was like a firefly’s glow, but now it was like a drop of water.

Divine Sense is the hardest to improve, and the Supreme Soul-Nourishing Chapter focuses on nurturing rather than speed in the early stages.

Every step is very solid.

“Next is cultivating Hundred-Tempered Soul Force.”

At his previous rate, it took five or six days to refine one strand.

Now, with Martial Soul Essence Crystals and their pure Soul Power, he could refine one strand in less than a day.

This stuff was really useful and precious.

He took a moment to check on Green Caterpillar and found its progress was not bad.

After a day, the look of pain on the little guy’s face had lessened a bit.

It should wake up tomorrow or the day after.

Wang Che took out the Nine-Shard Root and placed it nearby.

Such Natural Treasures have good effects when placed nearby during cultivation.

However, the root easily makes the spirit fascinated; without a certain foundation in Spiritual Power, it’s not suitable to keep close.

Time flew by.

Before he knew it, three days had passed.

In less than five days, all ten Martial Soul Essence Crystals were used up.

He refined a total of five strands of Hundred-Tempered Soul Force.

That was one strand less than Wang Che had expected.

But it was close enough!

Adding the previous four strands, he now had nine strands of Hundred-Tempered Soul Force, and the tenth was almost complete.

Finally, Wang Che felt he had a little bit of strength.

The Myriad Treasure Dao Palace’s cultivation speed was indeed fast. The more Hundred-Tempered Soul Force he had, the higher his Martial Soul’s Soul Power Level became.

This made absorbing Martial Soul Essence Crystals even faster.

On the evening of the fourth day, Green Caterpillar finally woke up.

Actually, by the third evening, it had fully absorbed the Bloodflame Potion but was still digesting it.

The translucent fiery cocoon around Green Caterpillar gradually disappeared.

It changed from a Green Caterpillar into something like a fire caterpillar.

When Wang Che woke up and saw it, he was a bit speechless.

“A fiery red little caterpillar had no soul at all.”

Fortunately, by the fourth day, its color faded and it turned back into a Green Caterpillar.

This made Wang Che a bit more satisfied.

After finishing cultivation, it was time to use the Little Caterpillar to refine elixirs.

For refining elixirs, a cauldron was not necessary.

True fire and alchemy techniques were the key factors.

The higher the level, the more crucial these two became—later on, even true fire was no longer essential.

The alchemy technique was truly the key.

The essence of refining elixirs was to extract the medicinal power from the ingredients and blend it.

Elixirs were the result of highly condensing and fusing these medicinal properties, creating a powerful transformation.

True fire was merely one of the best options for extracting medicinal power.

If one’s cultivation level was high enough, extremely powerful alchemy methods could instantly merge many herbs into one, refining elixirs in the void, producing pills in the blink of an eye.

“Now use Blazing Charge, but don’t charge—just release the flames.”

Wang Che said.

Regarding this command,

the Green Caterpillar was already very familiar with it.

It had learned this before while brewing ointments in the Floating Forest and the wild.

For this, it had specifically trained for a long time.

The tool insect had already developed a very strong awareness.

“Ssuu!”

The energetic Green Caterpillar shouted loudly.

Clearly, after absorbing the Flame-Blood Elixir, it was in a very excited state.

Following that, intense flames burst out from the Green Caterpillar’s body!

“The flame’s temperature is at least two levels stronger!”

Wang Che’s eyes lit up.

Good.

Even from a few meters away, Wang Che’s skin could feel a strong burning sensation.

From a distance, the Green Caterpillar surrounded by flames looked like a ball of fierce fire!

“Very good! Now control the flame temperature—keep increasing it and see how high it can go!”

Wang Che said immediately.

This was to master the heat control.

In the early stages of refining elixirs, the heat was crucial.

Hearing this, the Green Caterpillar put in all its effort, activating the fire-type Life Energy within its body.

In an instant, the temperature of the flames on its body rapidly rose, until even from ten meters away, Wang Che could feel a faint burning sensation.

“The maximum flame temperature has completely reached the minimum temperature required to refine the low-spec Spirit-Sense Treasure Elixir.”

“It’s time to begin.”

Wang Che nodded slightly, then checked the Green Caterpillar’s various physical strengths.

As the elixir instructions indicated, there was a substantial improvement.

The power test from one of the Green Caterpillar’s Rattler Tail Strikes could be felt.

It was stronger than before.

If it were the current Green Caterpillar fighting the previous Mountain-Hugging Bamboo Bear, after activating the Martial Spirit Armament, its power would match it evenly, no longer slightly inferior.

As for the improvement in Racial Potential, it was hard to detect.

It could only be felt through an increase in Soul Power Cultivation, and even then, it would take at least several decades to notice.

This indicated that the improvement was slight, and naturally, just one or two years of Soul Power Cultivation wouldn’t make it noticeable.

Wang Che didn’t test this excessively.

After training the Green Caterpillar for a while, allowing it to freely control the flame temperature, Wang Che prepared to start refining the low-spec version of the Spirit-Sense Treasure Elixir.

The normal version required more auxiliary herbs, which were also more precious.

The low-spec version only needed the main herb, and its effect could still reach thirty percent of the normal version.

Although the effect was much weaker, just refining a few more pills would suffice.

“By the way, the Flame-Blood Elixir said there was a very low chance of producing a special flame.”

Wang Che looked at the Green Caterpillar. “Hmm… your luck isn’t that good, so probably you didn’t get one.”

The Green Caterpillar blinked but didn’t say anything, silently agreeing.

“Alright, let’s start refining the elixirs. Get ready!”

Wang Che took three-quarters of the Nine-Shard Root, as he planned to refine ten pills at once.

After all, that Empty God Dragon was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast; one low-spec Spirit-Sense Treasure Elixir wouldn’t have much effect.

Taking ten at once would make a difference.

Since the Green Caterpillar had experience, it nodded, and flames burst out from its body again.

Refining elixirs naturally required Telepathy, so the flame temperature on the Green Caterpillar could be adjusted to whatever Wang Che wanted at any time.

It had to be said, using the Little Caterpillar to refine elixirs was even more comfortable than using a cauldron at the beginning in his previous life.

The other auxiliary herbs weren’t very rare; some of them were purchased online by Wang Che for over a hundred thousand funds before cultivation.

They were delivered to this private training base by the Soul Pet Sky-Speed Bird, which dropped off a package. Wang Che signed for it, and the bird left.

Not even a Soul Pact Master appeared.

Other herbs were obtained from the Super Gashapon; even from those Blue Sky and White Clouds pulls, there were some decent herbs.

Hmm… although they were Blue Sky and White Clouds, they still had some use.

In the spacious central area, the ground was covered with herbs.

“Magnetic Sword, later when I tell you to pick up which herb, you pick it up.”

Wang Che said.

“Zzzz!”

The Magnetic Sword watched excitedly, seeming extremely curious about everything Wang Che did.

The Green Caterpillar stood in the center, with flames slowly rising from its body.