Chapter 311: Body Purification Potion

Chapter 311: Body Purification Potion

A rare Stitched Abomination gave Zheng Yichen a rather important theoretical piece of knowledge. If Zheng Yichen had researched this knowledge on his own, it would have taken a very long time to gain relevant experience. After all, compared to an ordinary Stitched Abomination, this specially combined one was like the difference between elementary school coursework and high school coursework…

Well, this comparison was something Zheng Yichen concluded based on Annie’s explanation.

“So muscle tissue could also be manipulated with such refinement. Tsk tsk, habitual thinking truly harms people.” In Kaja, Zheng Yichen controlled his Alchemical Avatar while looking at his arm and muttering. If he had opened his mind to this aspect back then, he wouldn’t have had to specifically search for a special soft-bodied Magical Beast to simulate the muscular parts.

He could directly ‘assemble’ a completely new limb step by step, starting from the fine details of muscle fibers. Even if it was a Magical Beast’s muscle tissue, as long as it was handled well and with the help of Magic power to reject rejection reactions, it could forcibly be transformed into a Human Form arm.

Of course, that was only a change in form. The muscle tissue still belonged to the Magical Beast. It wasn’t like once it became a human arm, it would be exactly the same as a human arm… Well, when usable, the functionality was indeed somewhat similar, but in terms of strength, they were completely worlds apart.

Unfortunately, this method of operation was like stacking building blocks. It wasn’t a holistic change to the original foundation using some method. Otherwise, Zheng Yichen felt he could have seen the direction for researching the ‘Transformation Technique’. What a pity… his conditions were truly insufficient.

He couldn’t very well cut off a few pieces of his own flesh and try to reorganize and reassemble them into normal human body parts, could he? Putting aside the suffering, such a thing essentially belonged to the creations of the Life Domain. It needed to be clarified here: the Otherworld’s Life Domain contained very little regarding the consciousness aspect.

The reason Zheng Yichen once had definite thoughts about Dan Marina’s Avatar was only because the properties of the material Flesh Stone supported it. Without something like that, even if that Alchemical Avatar were left to rot, there was no possibility of it developing ‘sentience’.

As for the previous Stitched Abomination, when Dan Marina managed to get it for him, there was also a related recorded video. Through the recording of the Image Retention Spell, Zheng Yichen saw the complete battle process. That Stitched Abomination possessed a certain degree of intelligence.

“The brain influences the Soul. Therefore, the Soul can be borne or even bound by the brain. Even if an entity’s body dies, as long as the brain remains alive, that entity’s Soul will not depart. There is more than a fifty percent chance it will be influenced by the brain’s state at that time and fall into a dormant state… Of course, when preserving the brain separately, one must find a way to shield the brain from the body’s painful influences, otherwise the target might suffer brain death from excessive pain… Good summary.”

Anne looked at Zheng Yichen’s summary record regarding the connection between the Soul and the brain and spoke to him. This summary record was the result of Zheng Yichen’s subsequent research after watching the recorded video and learning that the Stitched Abomination had intelligence. After all, a Stitched Abomination was, to put it simply, a monster pieced together from chunks of flesh. And a ‘brain’ or something brain-like magically cultivated could, at most, only serve a function similar to an Alchemy Core controlling an Alchemical Puppet.

A kind of alternative AI, not a brain carrying consciousness.

Therefore, when Zheng Yichen realized that Stitched Abomination had consciousness, he immediately suspected there must be other reasons he had overlooked. After research, he found the overlooked reason, and incidentally completed a previous research topic, which was what Annie was looking at now.

“I thought you all would overlook the brain,” Zheng Yichen said, slightly stunned by Anne’s words. Much of the relevant research in this world tended to focus either purely on the Soul or purely on the physical body. Zheng Yi even suspected whether the Creator of that rare Stitched Abomination had truly grasped this information.

A living, conscious brain carrying a Soul, even if transferred to a different body—even if that body was no longer the original—as long as it could function normally and be controlled by the brain, it could eventually adapt.

“I overlooked it once too. In fact, for a long time after my Awakening, I pondered over it,” Anne gently tapped her head. The Otherworld’s research on the brain wasn’t as thorough as Earth’s. After all, the power of Magic allowed Spellcasters to directly explore the Soul. Since that was the case, why bother putting in so much effort to study the brain from a microscopic level?

Want some information? Use Magic to extract it from the Soul. Study braincells and neurons to read memories? Tsk… not possible… Humans aren’t Magical Beasts that feed on brains. That kind of Magical Beast did have a unique Innate Ability to gain the memories of a brain’s owner by consuming it.

Therefore, why study the brain for no reason? Just know it’s important and shouldn’t be easily injured.

“I originally planned to tell you about the related knowledge after some time. It seems it’s not needed now,” Anne put down Zheng Yichen’s summary record, indicating she was quite satisfied with him. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to learn more about Zheng Yichen’s research materials, but most of the research materials she could access were things he recently developed, basically nothing new. And the seemingly special parts weren’t written in a language she understood.

Obtaining them was useless. If she didn’t recognize the writing, others basically had no possibility of translating it either.

The materials recorded in that special writing were kept very hidden by Zheng Yichen. Most were written and immediately placed into his Personal Space on the spot, with only a small portion left outside, not easily found. As for how she discovered it, a Witch’s eyesight was naturally stronger than an ordinary person’s, wasn’t it?

“You can start by trying the simplest assembly. Although thoroughly exploring this in advance has its benefits for you, it won’t have any substantial effect.”

“Well, there’s no hurry about that. Regarding research in the Life Domain, I thought about it recently. Isn’t it a bit monotonous, focusing on just this?”

“Monotonous? You’re overthinking it. Any research involving Life Force belongs to the Life Domain. The scope is very broad. Even the changes of a living seed count as research in the Life Domain. So, entering this field always requires choosing an initial path.” Here, Anne paused slightly and looked deeply at Zheng Yichen for a moment. “Or do you want to choose several paths?”

“Forget it. Let’s stick with this one for now,” Zheng Yichen immediately shook his head. Choose several paths? That was purely looking for trouble when having nothing else to do, giving himself extra work. He only asked because he was influenced by Earth’s knowledge, thinking the Life Domain should lean more towards the natural. Things like Stitched Abominations were already directly interfering behavior. But after Annie explained that the so-called Life Domain involved all entities possessing Life Force, Zheng Yichen felt he had overthought it.

Simply put, the meaning of this term in the Otherworld was somewhat different from Earth’s. This slight difference was magnified by him, making it feel a bit Aberration.

After having his doubts cleared, Zheng Yichen also let go of that little reservation in his heart.

Sensing some movement from the outside, Zheng Yichen quickly gathered the materials in the Underground Workshop and brought out a pile of Magic Potion ingredients. Anne silently left the Workshop through another door. Not long after, he heard knocking from outside. “Huh? You didn’t come here at mealtime?”

Zheng Yichen looked curiously at the Saintess before him. “Wait, how did you get in?”

“The door seemed unlocked when I arrived.”

“Oh… maybe I forgot.” Nodding with a very calm expression, Zheng Yichen in his heart was already cursing Dan Marina. It must have been that woman who forgot to lock the door when she went out!

“What’s wrong?” Noticing Deya’s hesitant expression, Zheng Yichen put down the two potion bottles in his hands and asked.

“Well… I just came to see how your research is going.”

Zheng Yichen immediately understood. This Saintess was here to hurry him along. Considering he had been researching for over a month already and still hadn’t produced any results, the materials provided by the Sanctuary Church back then amounted to a considerable fortune. With no news for so long, even if headquarters wasn’t saying anything, the local branch here was probably getting anxious.

“Go out and have a cup of tea first. I’ll organize the materials on hand and perform the final steps. It should yield a result soon. Your timing is quite fortunate.” Zheng Yichen pointed to the two potion bottles he had just put down. They contained two differently colored liquids, the fusion Base Potion he had extracted.

Tsk tsk, her arrival was truly coincidental. Looking at those two bottles of Base Potion, Zheng Yichen reflected. The new Magic Potion had yielded results over a week ago. The time since then had been for subsequent refinement and study. This potion was quite mysterious. Zheng Yichen didn’t even know which step went wrong during the research.

For others, a wrong step would only lead to failure. But influenced by his own ability, for him, unless it was a result with absolutely no possibility, some peculiar, subtly successful outcome always appeared. This time was the same. His initial research direction was for a Purification Potion formula. There were many Purification type potions. This particular potion was a more versatile, all-purpose kind, effective against both toxins and Curse-like persistent damage, even quite stubborn ones wouldn’t be immune to this Purification Potion’s effects.

Unfortunately, the formula for this potion was incomplete… No matter how good the effect, it was useless if it couldn’t be produced. Zheng Yichen had decided to research and complete this one first precisely because he saw its good, versatile effects, especially its ability to affect ‘stubborn ailments’. However, he failed at completing it and ended up creating an alternative ‘Purification Potion’.

No, it couldn’t even be called a Purification Potion anymore. Zheng Yichen felt calling it a Body Purification Potion was more appropriate. It also had the effect of being useful against any ‘bad stuff’ in the body, but only regarding the physical body, including toxins, not including effects of Magic.

What exactly was the effect? As the name suggests, Body Purification, Body Purification… Of course, it purified one’s own body, expelling any impurities harmful to oneself within the body, including those gradually accumulated from daily eating or other circumstances. Even impurities that accidentally got stuck, like hard objects, which normal bodily functions couldn’t expel, were removed.

It maximally restored one’s physique to its purest state. Zheng Yichen specifically tested it; this purification did not include one’s own ‘antibodies’. That is to say, even if one’s physique was restored to its purest state, one wouldn’t accidentally catch something and fall seriously ill.

What were the benefits of a pure physique? Wasn’t it a benefit that when practicing Magic, the efficiency of the body converting and absorbing Mana was higher? Wasn’t it a benefit that when training, the gains were greater? Indirectly improving one’s own aptitude, wasn’t that a benefit? In this world, besides Mages and other Spellcasters, there were some special professions. Among these special professions, some had extremely stringent requirements for physique.

Only a sufficiently pure physique could receive the power that particular profession system entailed. Overall, bodily impurities were like tiny holes worm-eaten into a complete wooden bucket. Normal Professionals poured in fine sand. Even if some leaked out, once blocked by larger particles, it wouldn’t flow out anymore.

But that special profession was like pouring in water. If your bucket wasn’t tight enough, no matter how much water you poured in, it would slowly drain away.

It was also effective against things like poison because poison also operated on a physical level, so this potion could take effect, expelling the toxin ‘impurities’ the body was contaminated with. However, Curse Magic wasn’t something like poison, so the Body Purification Potion would have no effect. In summary, it lost part of the original intended potion’s effects, producing a one-directional, alternative variant.

“Is this… water?” Deya looked at the potion bottle in Zheng Yichen’s hand, her expression somewhat strange. Whether in terms of viscosity or color, the contents of the potion bottle really looked no different from water!

“You’re insulting me!” Zheng Yichen immediately jumped up in agitation!

“Uh…” Seeing Zheng Yichen’s reaction, Deya had a sense of déjà vu, reminiscent of some senior members of The Church teaching incompetent juniors. “That… I don’t know much about Potionology.”

“Ahem, in summary, this is a variant of a Purification Potion researched based on this Elixir Formula. I call it the Body Purification Potion. Its effect is… blah blah blah…” Zheng Yichen explained the effects of the Body Purification Potion to her, then put away the incomplete Magic Potion formula he had slammed on the table. Once sent over, this thing became his. “The effects are basically as stated. There wasn’t enough time for further experiments. I could only research this much. If your Church wants to conduct more experiments, go ahead yourselves. I’d be very happy if you shared the information with me. If not, then forget it. I don’t really care anyway. Take this bottle back first to shut those people up. Honestly, can research like this be rushed? It’s only been a little over a month and they’re already pushing, pushing, pushing…”

“……” Deya looked blankly at Zheng Yichen, a bit dazed by his rapid-fire speech.