Chapter 4363: Battle of Magic

Through a series of treatments on the medicine, the essence of the medicine can be fully sublimated, which is called medicine refining.

People found that medicine can be eaten, and they can distinguish which ones can be eaten and which ones cannot be eaten, and even what changes will occur after taking different medicines. It can be completed in almost the life span of an ordinary person.

However, the formation process of medicine refining is extremely long. It is conservatively estimated that it may take more than ten generations, or even dozens of generations of unremitting efforts and attempts.

The reason why the refining of medicine will go through a very long time is that different types of medicines will produce new changes simply by mixing them together. It is possible that the medicinal properties will be enhanced, or it is possible that two beneficial medicinal materials will become poisons after mixing.

If we study it further, we will find that simply mixing two medicines will turn them into poisons, but if the two medicinal materials are specially treated and mixed again, they will become medicines that are beneficial to the body.

Simply mixing together many medicinal materials in different combinations is already an unimaginable number, not to mention adding various different refining methods, which makes the number even more terrifying, and even impossible to calculate.

So it only takes one generation to discover the characteristics of various plants, but the art of alchemy is still being explored today.

Of course, after the development of alchemy to a certain stage and level, it will gradually slow down. This does not mean that people's desire to explore is not as good as before, nor does it mean that there are no people with excellent talents willing to continue exploring.

The fact is just the opposite. People who are willing to study alchemy are not only more and more persistent, but also have very high talents, and almost all of them have been cultivated since childhood.

Then the real reason for the slowdown in the research of alchemy technology is mainly human, or it is related to the existence of different forces between people.

Once there are sects and families, some things are no longer simple, especially in the research of alchemy, refining and rune formations. The various forces and sects will never communicate with each other, and will not easily show the results of their research to others.

Because his own forces have studied a little more than other forces, it is a key factor in determining the outcome of the future war between the two forces.

Even if it is not just for fighting, some big forces and families rely on their own medicine refining technology and ability. They at least do not want a new force to rise around them and have the same competitive means as themselves.

It is really like Zuo Feng, who first learned the method of mixing medicine from Zhuang Yu, and then learned the art of refining medicine from Yao Xun and Yao Tuozi. After all, it is still a minority among the minority.

And at that time, it was also because no matter how amazing Zuo Feng was, there was no power behind him. If there was a force behind Zuo Feng, even if Yao Xun and Yao Tuozi cherished talents, and with the relationship with Zhuang Yu, they would never teach him the art of refining medicine.

Although Zuo Feng has been learning the art of refining medicine since he was a child, after experiencing so much, his refining medicine has unknowingly entered the ranks of high-level pharmacists.

With his current level and strength, even if he only has a weak body in the bone refining stage, the effect he can get when he completes a medicine mixing is completely different from the original one.

In the eyes of those who don't understand, medicine mixing is to mix several different medicines together after some processing, but in fact it is not that simple, because medicine mixing is originally the art of refining medicine, or the art of refining medicine is derived from the transformation of the art of mixing medicine.

People first discovered that the mixing of medicines can bring unexpected surprises, and then this mixing gradually formed the art of mixing medicine. And the art of refining medicine is a method formed by a part of alchemists after studying it, through more systematic techniques and special utensils to refine it.

Although the art of refining medicine is derived from the transformation of mixing medicine, the art of refining medicine cannot be simply regarded as a higher existence than the art of mixing medicine.

In fact, in a very long period of time, there were two methods of mixing medicine and refining medicine in the world, which not only coexisted but also competed with each other. And this is also what countless alchemists in later generations have never been able to understand.

In fact, it was nothing that they couldn't understand. After all, the competition that lasted for who knows how long ended with the alchemy technique defeating the mixed medicine method.

Since then, the alchemy technique has been popular, while the mixed medicine method has gradually declined, and even later, not many people have heard of it.

Zuo Feng is one of the few people who know the history of the struggle between the mixed medicine method and the alchemy technique, and he is also one of the few people who know the real reason for the victory or defeat of that struggle.

The simple battle between the techniques was not as simple as it seemed at the time. In fact, it was more affected by the environment and many objective factors.

In a certain period of time, the mixed medicine method was also called "ancient medicine mixing method". Just hearing this name, people who know a little about the past can roughly guess the situation at that time.

A long time ago, the medicinal materials grown on the entire Kunxuan Continent were still called ancient medicines. And the mixed medicine method at that time was called "ancient medicine mixing method" by later people, because it was aimed at ancient medicines.

However, with the changes of the times, for some unknown reason, ancient medicines began to become scarce, while relatively large numbers of some medicinal materials with slightly weakened medicinal properties slowly grew on the Kunxuan Continent.

The many drugs that appeared later basically contain most of the medicinal properties of ancient medicines, but there are more of them and more changes.

Alchemy is also due to this change, and it gradually came into being. Therefore, alchemy is better at refining a large number of drugs together, while the mixed medicine method is better at mixing a small number of drugs.

Therefore, the struggle between the mixed medicine method and alchemy is more of a struggle between conservatives and innovators. The result can no longer represent the high or low of the two methods, but only represents the final choice of the changing times.

New drugs gradually increase, and ancient drugs gradually become scarce. In the end, ancient drugs are almost hard to find on Kunxuan Continent, but new drugs cover the entire Kunxuan Continent. Over time, ancient drugs slowly began to be forgotten, just as people don’t remember any new drugs, because for most people, it’s just a medicinal material, and there is no distinction between "new and old".

Although the times have made a choice, there are still people, or some forces, who pass down the "ancient medicine mixing method" bit by bit, and on this hopeless road, they are still moving forward with difficulty.

The existence abandoned by the times is still preserved in the stubborn beliefs of some people. And one of these people is the ancestors of the Yao family of the Xuanwu Empire.

However, later on, fewer and fewer people in the Yao family were willing to continue to study the "Ancient Medicine Mixing Method", because this was a choice that saw no hope and way out.

Only a few people in the Yao family mastered the "Ancient Medicine Mixing Method", not because the Yao family was unwilling to teach it, but because no one was willing to learn it, and no one was willing to continue to study the method of breakthrough.

Even the few people like Yao Xun and Yao Tuozi were not willing to learn it themselves, but there was a provision in the ancestral precepts that every direct descendant of the Yao family must let one person learn the "Ancient Medicine Mixing Method", otherwise in the future, the members of their lineage would not be allowed to learn the highest-level alchemy of the Yao family, and the patriarch of this line would not be qualified to become the head of the Yao family.

Only people like Zhuang Yu, who were born without the talent for cultivation and were very interested in alchemy, were taught the "Ancient Medicine Mixing Method" when they were young.

However, although such tribesmen have mastered the most ancient and pure "Ancient Medicine Mixing Method", they are limited by their own lack of spiritual energy, so they not only have a hard time on the road of "Ancient Medicine Mixing Method", but also have no new breakthroughs.

Therefore, when Zhuang Yu taught the "Ancient Medicine Mixing Method" to Zuo Feng, it actually contained her helplessness and sustenance, hoping that this method that was almost forgotten by the world could see the light of day again in Zuo Feng's hands one day and shine again.

However, when Zuo Feng practiced all the way, especially after contacting Yao Xun of the Yao family and Duan Yueyao, although Zuo Feng did not completely abandon the "Ancient Medicine Mixing Method", he had almost put all his energy on the "New Medicine Refining Method".

Until today, when Zuo Feng was forced to use the "Ancient Medicine Mixing Method" again in this special space, he suddenly felt like he saw another world, as if he had re-recognized the skill of "Ancient Medicine Mixing Method".

What Zuo Feng used this time was not the real "ancient medicine mixing method". It was a major adjustment based on the original one, and it was completely another form of "medicine mixing".

It was not until the whole medicine mixing was completed that Zuo Feng suddenly felt a sense of surprise. If there were no accidents, Zuo Feng would only follow the original way and study the medicine mixing skills bit by bit. In that case, he would limit himself to a circle.

Sometimes, rules are to avoid mistakes, but at the same time, rules will also restrict innovation. Now Zuo Feng is forced to break the rules because of the changes in the external environment, so he is completely innovating passively.

If it is just from the results of the medicine mixing, Zuo Feng should actually thank the environment here and the bugs that are chasing him.

In order to complete the medicine mixing in the shortest time and at the same time use the special medicinal materials grown in this special space, Zuo Feng must make a huge adjustment to the original medicine mixing method.

As the saying goes, "When you are poor, you must change, and when you change, you will be connected." When you can't see the road, Zuo Feng chooses to force a way out.

Not until those sharp-edged pieces of mixed medicine that had cut his mouth and esophagus and caused blood to flow fell into his stomach did Zuo Feng finally let go of his worried heart, because he knew that his adjusted method of mixing medicines was successful after all.