Chapter Ten: Pharmaceutical Analysis

  Whether it was Yue Yu's past life or now, the requirements for a martial artist's qualifications were not much different. Apart from the smoothness and tenacity of the meridians, what people valued most was the intensity of one's innate energy.

  This 'primordial energy' comes from the natural circulation of the twelve regular meridians, and every day's production has a certain limit. The process of cultivating internal breath is to temper the 'primordial energy', transform its nature into true energy after transformation, and store it in the lower dantian.

  Among them, there is a distinction between 'true yuan' and 'external yuan'. The true yuan is the core and foundation, as long as the owner does not intentionally try to stimulate its use, it will not be consumed. The latter is attached to the former, and when warriors use their qi, they consume these. It can wait for natural recovery or speed up its recovery through methods such as tu na and tiao xi.

  In this era, although it is not necessary to seek the treasure of "self-sufficiency" in the human body like Yue Yu's previous life, which can combine various spiritual powers between heaven and earth with one's own true yuan to enhance true energy, but it is not without any restrictions.

  In fact, among the internal skills that Yue Yu had seen, almost all of them emphasized the importance of the foundation. The so-called foundation referred to the "true yuan". If the spiritual power from the outside world exceeded the limit that the human body's true yuan could merge with, it would shake the foundation of the martial artist. In lighter cases, they would lose control over their internal true energy, and in severe cases, their cultivation would be completely ruined.

  And the only source of this true yuan is the yuanqi produced by the human body every day. Apart from this, when people are dredging the meridians and strengthening and expanding the meridians at those stagnant places, they must rely on its power. To a certain extent, it can be said that it is the foundation of all qigong exercises, and it is also a resource that is scarce to the extreme.

  What Yue Yu carefully took out from his bosom was a 'Pei Yuan Pill', which came from his mother. It was one of the condolences given by the clan for his father's death in battle several years ago.

  As for its effect, as the name suggests, it is to cultivate the human body's yuanqi. It cannot permanently produce an effect, at most it can only increase the amount of yuanqi produced by one or two days. Nevertheless, even so, it is still viewed as a treasure by the people in Yuejia City. On the market, even with a price of 50 taels of silver, it is impossible to obtain one.

  In fact, the thirty 'Pei Yuan Pills' that were sent down at first, Yue Zhangshi had never used them and secretly hid them in a hidden compartment under her bed for several years.

  However, this kind of medicine is quite common within the clan. It's unclear whether it's made by the clan itself or not, but every month they distribute one or two pills to the strong warriors and some talented younger generations within the clan. In total, the quantity is also quite considerable.

  And now, Yue Yu was planning to use this medicine as her starting point.

  Without a doubt, with his current knowledge of pharmacy, it would be unrealistic for him to create a new drug on his own, and it would take too long. Therefore, the first step that Yue Yu chose for himself was to imitate existing products.

  The true energy inside the body was emitted from the fingertips, fully penetrating into the space between these three fingers, about the size of a dragon eye, a white jade-like medicinal pill. Then, an extremely detailed three-dimensional material structure diagram gradually unfolded in Yue Yu's mind.

  Actually, the analysis of 'Pei Yuan Wan' was already completed by Yue Yu more than a month ago, and this time it's just a re-examination. Most of the substances in it can be easily found in various medicines. However, only one element, named 'Bian Jing', which occupies about half of the composition of 'Pei Yuan Wan', has not been found until today, when a small amount was discovered in those winged mouse bones.

  In Yueshang's analysis, this 'Bianjing' should be the most critical part of Peiyuan Pill. Other medicinal ingredients should serve as a catalyst for drug efficacy and remove the toxicity of Bianjing.

  Only the properties and medicinal effects of this substance have been analyzed clearly by him. Whether it can be practiced or not is still an unknown number. Yue Yu's previous life's study on medicine blood was limited to theoretical knowledge and some superficial experiments. And in this world, Yue Youde guarded against death, let alone the refining process of Peiyuan Pill, even the production of ordinary Buqi Pill and wound medicine had never been witnessed.

  Yue Yu thought about it and decided to use the most primitive method. He put away the 'Pei Yuan Wan' in his hand, and then placed more than a dozen small sand pots for decocting medicine next to the copper cauldron. Then he crushed each of the medicinal materials brought this time into powder, sorted them out and put them into those sand pots. Finally, he scooped in enough creek water, lit the fire and started brewing.

  Next was the control of fire and waiting, but in less than two minutes, Yue Yu heard a sharp breaking sound coming from beside her ear. The corner of her eye swept over, only to see Ruan Li suddenly wielding the board axe in his hand with great force, occasionally glancing over at her.

  Yue Yu smiled and knew that this little guy was reminding himself to keep the promise he made in the afternoon. However, this experiment wasn't finished yet, and there was no mind to do anything else. At this moment, he ignored it and closed his eyes to start correcting and contemplating those basic sword moves.

  Although the auxiliary parasitic intelligent system can integrate his brain cells for calculations in swordsmanship, there is one point that this tool cannot do. Just like Yue Yu can never parse out what kind of substance the true energy and heavenly yuan force inside his body belong to. This auxiliary computing power also finds it difficult to incorporate his own inner breath into the computational elements. It can only rely on Yue Yu himself to 'manually' fill in the physical data when using true energy. Moreover, the calculated results often have a large deviation.

  Mentioning this matter, Yue Yu felt extremely suffocated. At this moment, if he were still in the 23rd century, there would be countless free supercomputers that could be used, and it would take at most ten days to completely figure it out. However, here, the only help available was the limited spare resources in his brain.

  Moreover, these derivations can only serve as a supplement, since exhaustive calculations are impossible to complete, he wants these basic sword techniques to be put into actual combat. In the end, what can still be relied on is one's own understanding of swordsmanship and martial arts combat.

  Now, Yue Yu's only hope is his personal auxiliary parasitic intelligent system, which can evolve again. This thing inexplicably followed him after inhabiting this body, and except for its analytical ability, everything else has returned to the state when it was first implanted. Although it's only level three at most, every time it levels up, it can strengthen the integration of physical resources to a certain extent and improve computational power to some degree. Although not much, it's better than nothing.

  Ran Li let out a muffled hum of protest from the other side, but roughly knew that Yue Yu was doing something very important at this moment. With a hint of curiosity, he glanced over at the pots and pans on this side, then lost interest and found a place to sit down, starting to circulate his Dust-Dispelling Great True Power.

  Ran's internal energy level had reached the peak of a sixth-level warrior, and when he started practicing, his breathing was like thunder. A red-yellow gas about half an inch long kept flashing in front of his mouth and nose. Yue Yu knew that this was the spiritual power of fire and earth attributes, which would only produce a strange phenomenon when it reached a certain density. And in his analytical ability's perception, he indeed felt that some of the spiritual energy around him was rushing towards Ran quickly.

  However, this place is indeed worthy of being a spiritual land, and the replenishment is surprisingly fast. Although Ran's power consumption is great, it has no effect on the concentration of spiritual energy around him. Unfortunately, Yue Yu only has the ability to analyze objects that come into contact with himself, otherwise he would like to carefully search for the source of these spiritual energies.

  Ran Li temporarily focused on cultivating the true power of Huachen, and Chu Tian was happy to be quiet. He waited until the water in those sand pots gradually boiled, then after about another hour, under the uniform small fire stewing, including the wing mouse bone, were all cooked into a mush.