Chapter 233: Major Breakthrough In Alchemy!
After sending away Charmander, Lu Li finally started attending to his own matters.
After witnessing the entire process of Ho-Oh using Life Dew with Immortal Sight Eye, he gained new comprehension in the aspect of pills.
Various pills made from Berries cannot truly be called real pills; at most, they can only be considered super-enhanced versions of Energy Cubes.
The effects of real pills are far more heaven-defying; even basic pills are quite heaven-defying items in the Pokémon World.
In the Cultivation World, basic pills are important resources for cultivators to improve their cultivation level, heal injuries, and break through bottlenecks.
For example: Qi Gathering Pill, Foundation Establishment Pill, Healing Pill, Spirit Condensing Pill, Bigu Pill, Marrow Cleansing Pill, Realm Breaking Pill, Spirit Replenishing Pill, Soul Nourishing Pill, Detoxification Pill…
The various spirit pills that Pokémon eat now are all based on the Qi Gathering Pill; the special one is the Spirit Beauty Pill, which references two kinds of pills.
Then the most special one is the super spirit pill that Bao Bao is eating now; the super spirit pill references the Qi Gathering Pill and Spirit Condensing Pill, and can be said to be the most difficult to refine and highest quality among all pills.
Lu Li now wants to try using the Marrow Cleansing Pill as a base to develop a special pill that can refine the Pokémon’s origin and improve their qualification.
For him who is preparing to take the family route, the Marrow Cleansing Pill is absolutely an essential pill, and there are many places where it can be used.
Next is to truly research out a real Qi Gathering Pill.
However, he hasn’t found anything to reference yet; after all, at home, the only one who can take medicine is Bao Bao, but Bao Bao is a Psychic and doesn’t have reference value.
But the Marrow Cleansing Pill is different; he has referenced the process of Ho-Oh refining life origin.
After finding substitutes according to the recipe in his memory and adding some nurturing understanding from this world, Lu Li began to try.
Today is destined to be an unsettled day; explosion sounds could be heard from the basement almost every interval.
Yao Yifei and Wei He stood anxiously at the basement doorway, worriedly looking at the dark staircase.
The usually carefree Wei nervously looked at Yao Yifei and said, “Sister Yao, why don’t you go in and check? This noise is too scary.”
“Didn’t you say he can’t be disturbed during seclusion?” Yao Yifei asked speechlessly in return.
“But…”
Wei opened her mouth, hesitating to speak.
Yao Yifei helplessly comforted, “I’ll have Espeon pay attention; his life state is very good now, and if anything really happens, I’ll go in right away.”
“Moreover… this kind of explosion sound is clearly a furnace explosion; Lu Li should be researching a new pill.” Yao Yifei added.
Yao Yifei sighed softly, “There’s one thing that has to be admitted: pills are indeed an amazing invention, far more amazing than Energy Cubes.”
The Espeon beside her nodded in deep agreement; pills are much stronger than Energy Cubes, after all, it had personally experienced this.
“I wonder how big a surprise he’ll bring us this time.” Yao Yifei’s tone was full of expectation.
Wei nodded, her face full of agreement. “With such a big commotion, I think his harvest will definitely be huge.”
This explosion lasted a whole day and night.
Lu Li, looking somewhat dispirited with explosion-mussed hair, left the basement.
The bad news is that the Marrow Cleansing Pill wasn’t researched successfully; the good news is that during the research of the Marrow Cleansing Pill, he gained an unexpected joy.
Moreover, this harvest wasn’t small; even from a certain perspective, this harvest wasn’t inferior to refining the Marrow Cleansing Pill.
Seeing Lu Li’s state and appearance, Yao Yifei, who had been guarding the door, was also startled.
She quickly ran up to Lu Li, supported him with her hand, and asked, “Are you okay?”
“I’m fine.” Lu Li calmly waved his hand.
Don’t judge by his current poor spirit appearance; in reality, his mental state wasn’t great right now.
Alchemy is inherently mentally exhausting, and continuous alchemy with continuous failures is even more so.
If not for the unexpected harvest amid so many failures, Lu Li’s spirit might have been even more haggard.
“I’ll rest well first; we’ll talk about anything after I wake up.” After saying that, Lu Li popped a Bigu Pill into his mouth.
The Bigu Pill is the easiest pill to refine; Lu Li casually refined over a hundred; Lu Li, who had no time to eat, now just wanted to save time.
“I’ll help you go.” Yao Yifei said considerately.
Lu Li nodded and didn’t refuse.
Smelling the beauty’s fragrance up close is in itself a mind-refreshing thing; he’s not a monk, so how could he refuse such a good thing.
After returning to the room, Lu Li proactively entered deep sleep.
Six hours later, at eight in the evening, Lu Li finally woke up.
At this time, Wei He and Bao Bao were just playing games in the living room, and Yao Yifei should be training Pokémon in the backyard.
Thinking of his unexpected harvest, Lu Li, unable to suppress the corners of his mouth, decided to go to the living room to show off in front of people.
Upon seeing Lu Li come out, Bao Bao immediately abandoned the game controller and Teleported into Lu Li’s arms.
Bao Bao said in a tone full of innocent heart-piercing words, “Older Brother, did you get results from the new explosive you researched?”
Lu Li: “???”
Lu Li looked speechlessly at Bao Bao in his arms.
“Older Brother isn’t making explosives.” Lu Li explained very seriously.
Bao Bao tilted her head innocently and asked in return, “Then why were there explosion sounds from the basement?”
Lu Li: “…”
Lu Li, with a face full of black lines, said in annoyed embarrassment, “Little kid, don’t ask so much; you just need to know I’m not making explosives.”
“Okay.”
Bao Bao was also sensible and didn’t dwell on the explosion matter.
When Lu Li arrived in the living room, Wei He lightly thumped Lu Li’s chest and warned, “The commotion you made scared us pretty bad; remember to tell us in advance next time.”
“Yeah, I’ll pay attention next time.”
Lu Li nodded.
Fortunately, the basement had special treatment and could even withstand an Elite Level Pokémon using Explosion; otherwise, this villa really would need to be rebuilt.
After Yao Yifei returned to the living room, Lu Li began sharing his harvest.
Lu Li excitedly announced, “After a day and night of research, I developed a new pill.”
“What pill?” Yao Yifei looked at Lu Li curiously.
The excited Lu Li explained, “I call this pill the Ability Activation Pill; its effect is to let the Pokémon have two Abilities.”
“Let Pokémon have two Abilities?” Yao Yifei’s facial expression changed, then she looked at Lu Li in surprise.
This world has Pokémon Ability capsules; that thing can only convert a Pokémon’s Ability and cannot let Pokémon have multiple Abilities.
Moreover, Pokémon Ability capsules also have limitations: they cannot activate Hidden Abilities or convert to Hidden Abilities.
But Lu Li’s pill is even more outrageous; it directly gives Pokémon an extra Ability without even needing to convert.
Lu Li took out a small bottle from the Space Ring, inside which were three crystal-clear pills.
Lu Li: “I named this pill the Ability Divine Pill; its effect is to randomly activate a new Ability. Of course, the newly activated Ability also has limitations.
That is, it can only activate Abilities that the Pokémon’s race originally has. For example, taking Charmander: it currently has Ignite Ability.
After it takes the Ability Divine Pill, it can randomly gain Blaze or Solar Power Ability.”
Yao Yifei asked in surprise, “Hidden Abilities too?”
Lu Li nodded.
After getting Lu Li’s confirmation, Yao Yifei, with her small mouth slightly open, stared fixedly at the small bottle on the coffee table.
“Doesn’t that mean that as long as a Pokémon takes the Ability Divine Pill, not only will it gain dual Abilities, but they’ll also be Hidden Abilities?”
Lu Li shook his head and explained, “It’s not 100% guaranteed to awaken a Hidden Ability; the awakening of Pokémon Abilities is random, unless that Pokémon’s race originally only has two Abilities.”
After Lu Li’s explanation, Yao Yifei nodded in sudden realization.
“It’s not really a flaw; after all, the vast majority of Pokémon only have two Abilities.” Yao Yifei comforted.
Lu Li amusingly looked at Yao Yifei who was still comforting him, then smiled and comforted back, “I know, and I’m not disappointed anyway.”
This Ability Divine Pill was originally a byproduct of his Marrow Cleansing Pill research; this harvest can completely be called an unexpected gain.
For example, this so-called flaw that’s hardly even a flaw—even if it were a major flaw, Lu Li could actually still accept it in his heart.
The Espeon that came out from the Poké Ball curiously looked at the Ability Divine Pill in the bottle.
As a Psychic Type Pokémon, it had heard all of Lu Li’s words and was quite interested in this pill.
Because its Ability is just the normal Synchronize; this Ability isn’t very useful for Espeon, after all, with its fragile body, others wouldn’t grind it to death with status moves anyway.
But Magic Mirror Ability is different; that Ability is a defensive type, and as a fragile one, it lacks exactly this kind of Ability.
Moreover, its race only has two Abilities, so taking this pill would almost 100% awaken the Hidden Ability.
How could this not make Espeon tempted?
Seeing through Espeon’s thoughts, Lu Li seriously reminded, “But this pill hasn’t been specifically verified yet.”
The reason he knew the Ability Divine Pill’s effects was purely because of his Grandmaster Level alchemy skill.
Whether seen or unseen, as long as it passes through his hands, he can roughly guess the pill’s effects.
“I want to try it!” Espeon said very seriously.
The Ralts in Bao Bao’s arms also volunteered, “I can try too; after all, the Ralts race has three Abilities, and my family’s Ralts has the Hidden Ability.”
Lu Li nodded and said, “You two try it then.”
Although he was very sure of this pill’s effects and that it had no side effects.
But things always have that one-in-a-million chance; worried about misjudging, Lu Li went with the flow and agreed, since it was the Pokémon requesting it themselves.
The impatient Espeon used Psychic to pour out a pill from the bottle and quickly ate it.
Ralts didn’t take it directly but expectantly watched Espeon.
After eating the Ability Divine Pill, Espeon’s spirit lifted, carefully sensing its own transformation; Espeon coolly nodded.
“I successfully awakened the Hidden Ability, and I didn’t find anything wrong.”
While Espeon was eating the pill, Lu Li had already activated Immortal Sight Eye; after confirming no abnormalities in Espeon, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing this, Ralts quickly ate another pill.
Soon after, Ralts excitedly announced, “I also gained a new Ability.”
“What Ability?” Bao Bao looked at Ralts full of expectation.
Dual Abilities are a talent that only a very few Shiny Pokémon have; rounding it off, doesn’t that make their family’s Ralts equivalent to a Shiny Pokémon?
“Trace! It’s Trace.” Ralts answered.
The Espeon nearby also praised, “This Ability is pretty good; much better than Synchronize.”
Both being Psychic Attribute and both fragile, Espeon knew too well how useless Synchronize was.
Yao Yifei gently stroked Espeon’s fur, then asked thoughtfully, “How’s the production cost of this pill?”
Hearing this, Lu Li’s facial expression instantly darkened.
Fortunately there was this unexpected harvest this time, or he’d have lost big on this day.
Just the material loss from failed alchemy was as high as 60 million.
This was burning money!
Fortunately there was the Ability Divine Pill to recover some blood, or he’d have lost to the point of becoming a Muggle.
“Production cost is around 9 million; mainly some materials are quite precious and may not be available on the market.” Lu Li answered dispiritedly.
Having been this honest, Lu Li had no intention of hiding anything.
“9 million isn’t expensive, and the cost-performance is pretty high.” Yao Yifei’s face was full of delight.
She originally thought this pill’s production cost would at least be on par with Pokémon Secret Treasures; unexpectedly, the pill’s price was so cheap.
“What materials? I’ll help you collect them, and… you better not trouble Ekaterina and the Fairy Heavenly King with this matter.” Yao Yifei seriously reminded Lu Li.
Although the risk of exposure is low, it’s best not to leak even a hint about this pill.
Lu Li nodded; he originally only considered internal use for this thing.
Lu Li took out a sheet of manuscript paper from the Space Ring and handed it to Yao Yifei: “Then I’ll trouble you; this is the materials needed for the Ability Divine Pill.”
Yao Yifei blankly looked at the draft paper Lu Li handed over, her heart deeply touched.
“You’re just giving it to me like this? Not afraid of the recipe leaking?” The deeply moved Yao Yifei couldn’t help asking.
“I trust you!”
Lu Li nodded seriously.
Sincerity is the ultimate move; at this moment, these three words from Lu Li turned into Cupid’s arrow straight through Yao Yifei’s heart.
The moved Yao Yifei, her beautiful face full of seriousness, said, “I won’t let you down.”
Lu Li smiled and didn’t say much.
“I’ll go find Onix first; collecting materials doesn’t need to be too urgent, take it slow.” Lu Li instructed.
This matter really isn’t urgent; Wei He and Bao Bao don’t need it now anyway, since they don’t battle.
If the materials are ready, Lu Li also plans to satisfy Yao Yifei and himself first; this thing that directly boosts combat power definitely needs to be used on the blade.
