Chapter 205: I Want To Start [classical Chemical Pharmacy]!
The three by the seaside, while appreciating the scenery and eating breakfast, chatted casually, mainly revolving around the cooperation between Happy Home and Bubble World.
Meng Xiyue and Yuan Zhu had long ago formed a strategic partnership, colluding in secret to plot how to exploit the potential of Shadow Domain, and their cooperation was very pleasant.
Now, Zhou Chu hoped to use ‘spirit and faith’ to inspire the two, to change the terrible environment and rules of the Underground World through action together.
Translated, Zhou Chu hoped the two could contribute labor, effort, money, and resources to help her form a Law System. Child Labor Knight Order, starting from Ying Huo City, using the harder-backed Law power to violently overthrow the corrupt Insect Cultivator rule… creating a New Era. Law Underground City that fits her Three Views.
In return, Zhou Chu was willing to share the Child Labor Knight Order, in the form of ‘hiring child soldiers’, to serve Yuan Zhu and others. After all, although she had a bit of a little saintly mother mentality, she was not the naive sweet idiot who stakes everything to save others.
Besides righting wrongs when she sees them and liking to help the weak, then using Law to mentally bully and brainwash them, Zhou Chu also respected others’ fates very much, only helping those who help themselves.
The child laborers under her had all gone through a struggle of thought, reluctantly turning to Law and binding their Dao Seed within their bodies only under the pressure of hunger, illness, and death.
Therefore, once the Child Labor Knight Order matures in scale, she will let go without hesitation. Letting them develop and grow stronger, spontaneously spread, and transform this Bubble World.
But she won’t let them fend for themselves completely, after all, they are ‘foreign domain. Law talents’ cultivated with some effort. So she plans to find a job for the Child Labor Knight Order, to work for the utterly wicked Yuan Zhu and Meng Xiyue, one side providing money and the other labor, which can count as his final merit.
After some discussion, Yuan Zhu and Meng Xiyue nodded in agreement.
“For the sake of our teammate, we agree. However, our resources and strength are limited, we can’t fully fund you, we can only carry out cooperation step by step.”
Zhou Chu nodded: “No problem, just give me a chance. I don’t want these ‘Insect City children’ to, due to lack of livelihood paths and job opportunities, have to return to the backward and ignorant Insect City System, repeating the old cycle.”
Yuan Zhu: “You’re pretty responsible then. Regarding spreading Law in the Underground World, do you have any longer-term, deeper purposes or goals?”
Zhou Chu nodded: “Of course there are. If Law can spread along with the growth of this group of children, then one day in the future, the entire Bubble World’s Supernatural System might be contained by Pale Great Law, thoroughly transforming and saving this world. Once Pale Great Law’s rule power can intervene in this Bubble World, then its process of doomsday collapse will be reversed. This is the path of World Salvation! Helping me is saving the world.”
Yuan Zhu retorted: “Isn’t that right? I can also spread the Path of Holy Light in Cicada City. As long as the power of Holy Light spreads widely enough and takes root deeply enough, it can similarly attract the attention of Holy Light Source, isn’t that also a path of World Salvation?”
Hearing this, Zhou Chu quickly warned: “This idea of yours is very dangerous, you must be vigilant in the future. The essence of Holy Light is ‘recklessly burning life and soul’, which has never changed. Holy Church is hailed as the ‘righteous white path’ on Du Ling Star because its behavior pattern conforms to the narrow ‘good and justice’ criteria. It is the entire Holy Church constraining all members, restraining instincts, and abiding by morals and laws. It is because Pale Great Law envelops the entire planet, monitoring all behaviors and actions.”
“But outside Du Ling Star, in the Nightmare Bubble Layer where time sequences are disordered and causality is confused, Holy Light is not necessarily holy. From the Security Bureau’s archive library, I dug up some information. Among them are no lack of Bubble Worlds with the Path of Holy Light, where they represent the Justice Faction confronting other world-destroying pollution sources. But the Holy Light that ultimately defeated the ‘world-destroying catastrophe’ did not save the world. Instead, it burned the entire world as ‘fuel’.”
Yuan Zhu countered: “Won’t the Law System do that?”
“I don’t deny that the Law System also harbors filthy people, but the essence of Law is an artificial grand Heavenly Dao that unifies everything, its essence and underlying logic far superior to other ‘pollution systems’. At least it guarantees the bottom line, so supporting me is World Salvation.”
Yuan Zhu compromised helplessly: “Alright, I invest in the Child Labor Knight Order!”
Zhou Chu emphasized again: “It’s not child labor, it’s the ‘New Hope Knight Order’.”
At this time, Meng Xiyue, having finished the cake in front of her, wiped her mouth clean, then took out a ‘pumpkin’ pendant ornament from her pants pocket, played with it in her palm for a moment, took out a document from it, tossed it in front of Yuan Zhu, and said smugly:
“Here, the information you wanted, sister collected it all for you. But I still have to remind you friendly: ‘Classical Chemistry, stop at the point.’ A small investment to play around is fine, remember to stop while you’re ahead, don’t get overly obsessed. It wastes wealth and time, produces no results, gets no substantial returns. It’s definitely a niche cold-door field, only wasting wealth and life.”
Yuan Zhu picked up the thick stack of pieced-together information, his face surprised: “This exaggerated?”
Meng Xiyue rolled her eyes: “Otherwise? Classical Chemistry is a dead end. The current mainstream is Alchemy and Alchemy.”
Zhou Chu picked up on something, then observed Yuan Zhu with a curious inquiring expression, and asked: “Why are you interested in Classical Chemistry?”
As if thinking of something, her eyes instantly sharpened: “You wouldn’t be secretly researching and developing some evil forbidden drug, would you?”
Yuan Zhu’s expression immediately became pained, complaining: “Hey hey, can’t I have some personal hobbies? Besides, the path of cultivation requires massive resources and wealth, I also need to make money to support myself, okay?”
Meng Xi joined in the teasing at this time: “If you want to make money, don’t we have cooperation in Bubble World? Once we open up the trade channels between the Underground World and Du Ling Star… No! As long as we can stabilize the resource production of Animal Husbandry Village, we can get a steady stream of returns from Space of Gods, isn’t that enough to support yourself? You must have some unspeakable conspiracy, right?”
Yuan Zhu angrily scolded his teammate: “Right my ass~! Who would complain about having too much income? Moreover, Zhou Chu has already warned us that Space of Gods is absolutely not a benevolent place, even Happy Home may not be without Mao Mao King’s conspiracy. Therefore, we absolutely cannot pin our future on Happy Home’s revenue. What’s more, as a Holy Light Cultivator, I naturally need to start some positive, healthy, socially meaningful undertaking in the Main World, in my hometown Running. So, I chose the niche track of Classical Chemical Pharmacy.”
Learning that Yuan Zhu’s awareness was actually this high, deeply influenced by her own teachings. Whether he was disguising or sincere, he gained Zhou Chu’s approval: “He’s right! To grow stably, we can’t overly rely on Happy Home. Earning a foundation in the Main World through strength is a great idea. However, is your Classical Chemical Pharmacy legitimate?”
Zhou Chu approved of Yuan Zhu’s idea, but still suspected his ‘actions’.
Yuan Zhu was not afraid at all, he truly possessed Earth’s pharmaceutical inheritance, and had personally produced low-quality veterinary medicine in backward workshops in small border countries for employers.
So he met her gaze without guilt: “What a coincidence, I really have a few ancient prescriptions in hand. But lacking related technology and common sense, sticking to ancient Classical Chemistry concepts, vastly different from Alchemy, so I can only seek help from Meng Xi.”
Zhou Chu’s focus was not on business and getting rich, she pursued: “Is it medicine for curing diseases and saving people? Are the side effects severe? Is it addictive?”
Yuan Zhu was calm: “Rest assured, absolutely safe and harmless. It’s antibiotics, you know?”
Zhou Chu relaxed: “Heard of it. When your research succeeds, give me a sample, I’ll send it to Security Bureau for free testing and authentication, to issue authoritative certification.”
Yuan Zhu was not timid at all, instead responding sincerely: “Then thank you very much!”
He was upright and unafraid of his shadow’s slant; the price for such official institution testing and authentication was very high, and required queuing. In the future, if he really classically recreates the ‘Earth medicine’ from his memories, he would indeed need Zhou Chu’s connection to endorse and verify for him.
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In the idle talk, Yuan Zhu had already casually flipped through the ‘information’ and ‘Classical Chemistry textbooks’ that Meng Xiyue collected for him.
In his predecessor’s memories, there was knowledge of Physics and Chemistry. Even New Federation middle school textbooks had physics and chemistry courses, but they were courses like Mechanics, Steam Studies, Basic Alchemy General Knowledge infused with some magical elements.
The math, physics, and chemistry Yuan Zhu learned on Earth were called Classical Physics and Classical Chemistry on Du Ling. Because the foundation of contemporary physics had long become Mechanics Magic Net; and contemporary chemistry had been hijacked in discourse power by Alchemy and Alchemy, not giving ‘Classical Chemistry’ any chance to emerge.
Therefore, from ancient times to now, the ‘chemical system’ based on the Periodic Table of Elements simply did not hold up. So Yuan Zhu had his previous life’s ‘pharmaceutical experience’, but couldn’t apply it at all.
Because even before going to Taixi, he had privately done some simple ‘chemical element’ extraction experiments in Running, all of which failed completely.
In the predecessor’s memories, the cognition of Classical Physics and Classical Chemistry came from History books.
In the ancient times 400 years ago, chemistry and physics were not very popular.
About 1000 years ago, ancient scholars (transmigrators) had proposed the Periodic Table of Elements. But this ‘invention’ was not valued.
On one hand, that era’s productivity was backward, only gate valve nobles had the energy to play with it; on the other hand, Du Ling Star’s physical constants did not match consistently with the world (Earth) they transmigrated from.
Therefore, some basic physics and chemistry theories were normal, but others had errors due to universe differences. Thus the Periodic Table of Elements was disproven early on, then absorbed by the equally unscientific Daoist. Alchemy.
Time flies, in the blink of an eye arriving at the First Magic Resurgence Era 400 years later.
Not only did magic descend, numerous awakened Super Pollution Roots also masqueraded under traditional religious myth systems, borrowing corpses to return to life and supernaturally resurgence.
The ‘discourse power’ struggle in the religious myth field was too intense, so concepts like Physics and Chemistry with similar attributes also couldn’t escape the clutches of Pollution Roots, becoming manifestation mediums for pollution invading reality (Du Ling Star).
Thus, the Physics and Chemistry knowledge that was already unpopular in ancient times was further distorted and supernaturalized in modern times. Step by step evolving to this day, becoming ‘supernatural science’ conforming to the contemporary natural environment.
The steam engines and generators recorded in Classical Physics were successively absorbed and covered by Steam Totem and Industrial God Kingdom; Electromagnetism was covered by Lightning Magic… Mechanics was even used as the foundation for Mechanics Magic Net.
At this point, Classical Physics completely died, its foundation no longer exists. Even if Earth transmigrators come again, they can only sigh at the ocean, that bit of knowledge reserve can feed the dogs, utterly useless.
Classical Chemistry’s situation was the same, long covered and divided by Alchemy and Alchemy. Yuan Zhu had deep experience of this; his bit of chemical pharmaceutical reserve had preliminarily fed the dogs.
Fortunately, there was a turning point.
When Supernatural Powers spread and permeated everywhere in the universe, and original Classical Physics completely failed. Bored supernaturals could instead use the powers they mastered to reverse-simulate a ‘closed experimental environment’ conforming to Classical Physics, recreating the manifestations described in Classical Physics.
This behavior was overkill. But under the Ancient Chemistry system, it also existed.
Therefore Meng Xiyue said Classical Chemistry was niche and small-scale, a thing for rich people to play with.
In the current era, to synthesize ordinary compounds (drugs) under Earth worldview, there was only one way. Establish an ideal experimental environment of 0 pollution, 0 interference. Then strip away all Supernatural Element influences from the chemical raw materials, to have the possibility of ‘Classical Chemistry synthesis’.
This itself was thankless effort; even if ‘finished compounds’ are produced. Once leaving the experimental environment and appearing in nature, they would quickly be eroded by various pollutions in the natural environment, destroying the original drug properties, randomly mutating into ineffective items or Deadly Poison…
But simulating and restoring, and attempting to replicate phenomena in Classical Chemistry, was still a line of work in contemporary Alchemy and Alchemy, thus niche and small-scale, but not extinct; instead, related textbooks existed, specially compiled by Meng Xiyue.
“Classical Chemistry does have a few successful cases. The specific process can be simplified to: first strip Supernatural Elements, then conduct various simulation experiments, obtain ‘compounds’, then artificially add ‘pollution’ to stabilize properties. Reintegrate into Du Ling Star’s supernatural environment to obtain a valuable ‘supernatural drug’.”
“I checked the information, this school has existed for over 200 years, but has always been suppressed by Alchemy and Alchemy, even gradually annexed and absorbed by these two.”
Yuan Zhu: “Is it very difficult?”
Meng Xiyue nodded: “Very! Full of difficulties, hard from start to finish. First, overcome the stripping of supernatural from raw materials. Second, how to incorporate pure classical reactions in the chemical process into contemporary Alchemy or Alchemy theoretical systems. Finally, how the finished product fuses with ‘pollution’ without changing its own properties.”
On Du Ling, recreating elements in the Periodic Table of Elements was extremely difficult.
Just take the single element gold as an example: on Du Ling Star, including Star Realm, Spirit Layer, Bubble Layer, all ‘gold’ is hooked to Gold Law, without exception.
Gold itself has long exceeded the scope of chemical raw materials, deeply bound to Super Pollution Root. Gold Law.
To do experiments, must strip the influence of Gold Law, turning it into the purest ‘gold element’; the cost and price of this purification is extremely high. Once detached from the experimental environment, gold and even gold compounds will instantly reconnect with Gold Law, causing experiment failure.
Similarly, silver and copper, although not monopolized and hijacked by top roots like Gold Law. But there are also massive isomeric forms like Mithril and Orichalcum, each hooked to ‘supernatural systems’.
As for other basic elements, they also bear the brands of their respective pollution systems. The same element with dozens of pollution forms, how is Classical Chemistry supposed to proceed?
