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The second use of pills, healing, also didn't have too much of an effect on Zhou Fan. Not only did pills not work on him as much due to his Chaos physique, a fact he found out just recently, but he rarely ever needed to be healed. Even the collision of galaxies wouldn't be able to do much to him now.
The only danger he would face was danger from being too arrogant and confident in his abilities. Since Zhou Fan was no fool and had plans to become one, he was essentially completely safe.
Along with the obvious definition of healing, there was another that wasn't really automatically thought of. That was the replenishing of Qi. While such a pill would be useful to Zhou Fan, his Chaos physique still lessened its use.
As someone who was constantly suffering from Qi exhaustion, he found that fact rather saddening. However, quality could be countered by quantity. Although there were usually some side effects from taking too many pills due to their impurities, Zhou Fan's chaos physique was made up of Chaos Qi which would completely destroy any foreign impurities.
Also, he didn't have meridians. There was absolutely no way that impurities could effectively stop him from cultivating unless they clogged up his entire body. If that happened, he would be too dead to worry about cultivating.
Regardless of the pill's effects, Zhou Fan wasn't going to ignore pill making. It was another art that would be useful for him and other future cultivators. He naturally couldn't ignore it.
On top of the mountain, Zhou Fan formed a fire in his hand. While there were many ways to make pills, fire was not only the easiest and most well-known, but simply the best. Other methods were equivalent to choosing to not swing a sword but drop it and hope it cuts whatever is in front of you.
While there were many ways to make pills, most were stupid. Zhou Fan could simply put the flame in the space in front of him, but 99% of cultivators needed to use a cauldron in order to make pills.
It was a lesser way, but Zhou Fan relented and decided to do it that way. He manipulated the stone below him to form a cauldron before he enhanced it to the god realm level.
Such a thing was something that only he could do. He chalked it up to him being the creator of the very world he was in. It was either that or his chaos Qi.
With the terribly made cauldron in front of him that didn't really imitate a cauldron in any way but its shape, Zhou Fan threw the flame down and let it burn as hot as it could without destroying the so-called cauldron.
While it was burning, he left the mountain and found a random patch of flowers and other grasses. Within the world, herbs with spirit Qi had yet to begin growing, so he was forced to make some himself.
With the completely normal flowers, grasses, and other plants, Zhou Fan sent Qi into them. Soon, they became Qi gathering level herbs. Since he felt he would need more in the not so distant future, he began to make it rain life Qi across the entire world. That would help all the normal plants become herbs. Naturally, they would stop at a certain level and he would have to manually enhance them once again, but the rain of life Qi would help in the starting stages.
With the handful of plants, Zhou Fan returned to the cauldron. He grabbed one piece of each of herbs he had picked and placed them in the cauldron. To absolutely no surprise, they soon burnt and turned into waste. Clearly, he had failed to make a pill. It was most likely due to the incorrect amount of materials being put in.
Perhaps the rules would be somewhat looser as he grew in rank, but he had to follow them strictly at his current state. That meant correct material amount, correct timing of putting the materials in, correct fire control, and correct Qi manipulation.
'Such an annoying process.' He thought to himself. If not for the fact that he had slightly learnt some alchemy in his days at the huang long academy, a time when people could still learn and create without him having to do it first, then he would have no clue where to start.
Only due to his previous knowledge, Zhou Fan's trial and error didn't take as long as thought. He learned every single first rank alchemy pill in only a year. That was after he had found and created every herb he could think of.
If there were any more herbs at the Qi gathering level that he hadn't discovered, he would have to once again learn more recipes. Luckily, they would likely be easier with his new knowledge.
Zhou Fan didn't bother stopping to complain about the length of time he was spending and moved on to the 2nd rank pills.
He had to create new, higher level herbs, and trial and error once again. Luckily, his knowledge of first rank alchemy recipes made 2nd rank pills even easier than he had imagined. It only took three years to master.
In those three years, he had not only mastered all the recipes, but had also increased his pill creation speed, although it varied from pill to pill.
Within the world he was in, there was a constant life Qi rain that helped grow new herbs. They grew extremely fast and were plucked just as quickly. The world was not suffering from this, but evolving much faster. In the last four years, it had progress that would have normally taken it four hundred years.
A hundred times increase!
Not only would the world not be upset, but it should logically be thrilled in Zhou Fans pill making.
Zhou Fan continued on to the third rank pills. Once again, a whole new batch of herbs was needed and the amount of life Qi rain increased dramatically.
