Chapter 89: A Unique Perspective

Inside Gune's private alchemy chamber.

Gune carefully took out the Nightmare Fragment, Soul Saliva Grass, solidified Nightmare Dragon blood, Secret Soul Eye, and the crystal-like, fingernail-sized "Soul Crystal" from their respective soaking Life Springs.

Then Gune took out the previously recorded comparison data and began to compare.

After comparing for five or six minutes.

Gune nodded slightly.

"It's roughly the same as my predicted results. The 'supernatural properties' of these supernatural materials, except for Soul Saliva Grass which has about 5% solubility, are almost insoluble in Life Spring."

"And the supernatural properties of Soul Saliva Grass, when fused with Essence Source Spring, have a dissolution ratio of only about 2%, and the others are also insoluble."

"It's not that they're completely insoluble."

Gune placed the jar soaking the Nightmare Fragment before his eyes and observed it carefully.

"It's just that the dissolution ratio is extremely low, less than 0.1%, negligible."

"If one really wants to obtain supernatural properties dissolved into Life Spring through soaking."

"It would require a very long time to soak thoroughly."

"And this time would need to be measured in months, or even years."

"And in the end, the ratio may not be high; it's possible that after soaking for a year, only one percent of the supernatural properties dissolve into the Life Spring."

"Indeed..." Gune sighed softly.

"Even with Life Spring, the extraction of supernatural properties is still very difficult."

The extraction of supernatural properties is the first hurdle in refining Secret Pattern Potions.

Currently, no one has many good methods for extracting the "supernatural properties" contained within supernatural herbs.

Extracting the supernatural properties from supernatural materials.

This would be the first hurdle Gune needed to overcome.

And for this first hurdle to overcome, Gune already had some ideas.

Other expert alchemists, lacking sufficient Life Spring for experiments, could only use Essence Source Spring for their experiments.

The gap between Essence Source Spring and Life Spring is directly an order of magnitude.

This causes experimental progress to be very slow.

But Gune was different.

During this time, with the accumulation of the Life Spring pool, which had expanded into a "large bowl" and was now expanding into a "basin."

Gune had already stockpiled a considerable amount of Life Spring for experiments.

More importantly.

Thanks to Gune's "Level Seven" Bone Element Potion Secret Incantation, which granted Gune a unique perspective for in-depth insight into supernatural properties.

Gune saw some secrets deep within the supernatural properties.

And by borrowing this aspect that others could not see, Gune had a different line of thought from others.

Currently, the mainstream method in the alchemy academic world is the "high-pressure heating extraction method."

Place the supernatural material in water and heat it. During heating, part of the supernatural properties will dissolve into the water vapor.

Then, after condensation, obtain a mixed liquid containing the fused supernatural properties.

Then purify these mixed liquids.

Perform precise proportional blending.

Finally, use runes, heating, or formations to activate and obtain the potion.

This is currently the only way to obtain "Secret Pattern Potions" within the supernatural alchemy academic world.

At the same time, this "high-temperature extraction" method was also the approach for the previous "high-grade premium potions."

The method Gune currently uses daily to refine high-grade premium potions is this "high-temperature extraction" method.

Thus it can be seen.

"Secret Pattern Potions" and "high-grade premium potions" are essentially of the same lineage.

High-grade premium potions require "supernatural potency," which is relatively easy to extract.

Secret Pattern Potions require not only "supernatural potency" but also the deeper "supernatural properties." The extraction of these supernatural properties is quite difficult.

To extract supernatural properties.

Gune had heard that some alchemy laboratories had already begun constructing ultra-high temperature and pressure extraction boilers.

They wanted to use super-high pressure and super-high temperature to force supernatural properties to dissolve into Essence Source Spring.

But Gune did not fully approve of this method.

The reason was that Gune, using the seventh-level "Bone Element Potion Secret Incantation," had discovered some special secrets about supernatural properties.

High temperature and high pressure are very effective for extracting supernatural potency.

But high temperature and high pressure are not very effective for extracting supernatural properties.

Gune had also conducted experiments by heating these herbs containing supernatural properties in a sealed crucible under high temperature and pressure.

The general conclusion was that even if high temperature and pressure were increased exponentially, the extraction ratio of supernatural properties increased only negligibly.

However, Gune did not dismiss this path.

After all, Gune did not know whether "supernatural properties" might undergo mutation under ultra-high temperature and ultra-high pressure conditions.

But Gune had a better method.

The seventh-level Bone Element Potion Secret Incantation allowed Gune not only to see the supernatural properties of supernatural materials with perfect clarity.

At the same time, Gune could also observe a deeper aspect to a certain extent.

That was the "activity" of the "supernatural properties."

Being able to see supernatural properties was already a rare achievement for expert alchemists and master alchemists, and they all needed tools to do so.

And at a deeper order of magnitude, the "activity of supernatural properties," Gune could see part of it, though not very clearly or thoroughly.

For them, it was a realm completely beyond reach.

At first, Gune did not think this was anything special.

Nor did he realize the key importance of the activity of supernatural properties.

It was not until the Life Tree Gune planted began to produce Life Spring.

When Gune saw the two completely different levels of activity between the Life Spring in the Life Spring pool and the Life Spring he had collected.

Only then did Gune realize that he seemed to have grasped the key to the problem.

And today was the time to verify whether this subject matched Gune's speculation.

If successful.

Then the extraction of supernatural properties would no longer be a problem.

With a flip of his hand, Gune took out a large bottle of Life Spring, about the size of a Sprite bottle, roughly 1000 milliliters.

While drinking the Life Spring, Gune sorted out his thoughts.

"Supernatural properties have many peculiar characteristics."

"One of them is the activity of supernatural properties. This property is tentatively defined as the 'supernatural activation phenomenon.'"

"The supernatural activation phenomenon means that when the material is in an active state, the supernatural properties are in an active state."

"For example, when the 'Nightmare Fragment' is inside the nightmare creature's body, its supernatural activity is quite active."

When the nightmare creature is killed, and some supernatural beings use special collection techniques to collect these 'Nightmare Fragments,' the supernatural properties within them settle down.

"Another example: Supernatural Soul Saliva Grass, before being collected, its supernatural properties are also in an active state; after collection, its supernatural properties also settle down."

"Preliminary subject: If the Nightmare Fragment and Soul Saliva Grass are given life activity, will their supernatural properties become active?"

At this moment, the 1000 milliliters of Life Spring in Gune's hand had already been drunk down by 500 milliliters in one go.

Gune was too full to drink anymore.

After resting for a while, Gune gritted his teeth and continued drinking.

When he had finished all 1000 milliliters of Life Spring, Gune felt that the spring water had reached his throat; if he moved, the Life Spring would spill out.

After waiting for over a minute, the Life Spring began to be digested significantly, and Gune clearly felt warmth spreading throughout his body.

"Life Spring is not simply water; in essence, it is a liquid containing the supernatural properties of life."

"From the fact that long-term consumption can strengthen the body, improve constitution, and increase lifespan."

"Life Spring can be regarded as a kind of Secret Pattern Potion, only it is a naturally produced Secret Pattern Potion. One cannot help but admire the wonders of nature."

At this moment, rich life force began to emanate from Gune's entire body.

Gune had drunk so much that his body could not absorb it all; it was normal for it to dissipate.

At the same time, what Gune needed was precisely this dissipation of life source force.

With one hand, Gune held that 150-year-old "Soul Saliva Grass."

Gune began to construct a "life channel."

Using runes to construct specific transmission channels was easy for Gune, who was on the path of rune analysis.

After a few seconds, a finger-thick channel, like a void bridge, connected the Soul Saliva Grass in Gune's palm.

"Breathe in... breathe out..."

After a deep breath, Gune manipulated the "life source force" emanating life energy from his entire body, surging along the life channel toward the Soul Saliva Grass.

"The moment to witness a miracle has arrived!" Gune said softly.