Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 174: Brewing Bear Spirit Bile Detoxification Potion

After completing the practical combat data testing of Perseus Eye, Locke immediately spent eight hours quickly writing four articles.
One was a magical plant data submitted to Lilith's Cottage combat department for competition use, one was a research on magical plants that defend against specific magic, curse magic, one was about the practical manipulation method of using magical vines through grafting cultivation to develop defensive magical plants' magical counterattack abilities and various techniques to improve this method's success rate.
The last one was about Perseus Eye's purification ability when reflecting curse magic and its specific damage mechanism against vampires.
In short, one experiment and one product could produce a pile of high-value articles. Locke could even assign some less important parts to the three students he tutored, allowing them to also gain some low-scoring articles.
Locke had already examined the unconscious Howard and confirmed that this plant magic's purification energy damage to vampires was based on two forms of damage.
One was a structure similar to holy magic, and another was a structure similar to dispelling magic.
After repeatedly deliberating over his wording, Locke wrote at the end of the article, "Perseus Eye's purification energy is more similar to life magic's restraint against undead creatures like vampires. It's a natural evolution produced after life adapted to the concept of vampire curses."
"This purification energy has burning and other damage effects on vampires similar to holy magic, but compared to holy magic, this damage is somewhat gentler. It also possesses dispelling characteristics that holy magic lacks, namely dispersing the blood curse energy entangled in vampire blood, returning vampire blood to its original state."
"That is, returning to a state close to human blood."
"I believe Perseus Eye's appearance proves that natural environments, after suffering long-term devastation from negative energy magic, will automatically adapt to this magic and produce corresponding restraint mechanisms. This is part of the natural ecological chain. Perseus Eye Lichen itself is proof of this possibility."
This last paragraph in Locke's article was meant to propose a future development direction. Based on Perseus Eye Lichen, continued research might develop a magical plant system specifically designed to restrain curse magic, even ecological environments, and derive a series of plant magic specifically designed to restrain curses.
Of course, this direction was far too broad, and with his current abilities, it was impossible for one person to achieve.
Locke had no intention of immediately pursuing this direction. He was just elevating the status of his Perseus Eye Lichen at the article's conclusion.
Fantasizing had no limits after all but this could enhance the value of Perseus Eye Lichen in the eyes of general scholars and readers of this article.
It could also possibly improve his article's evaluation score.
The difference between B-level and A-level was significant.
Many people published numerous B-level articles but didn't have a single A-level article.
Moreover, this idea was currently just a simple inspiration. Perhaps in the future, someone who read his article and happened to have related interests or foundations could fully implement his concept.
This was the significance of the White Wizard Association's article system.
After finishing these four articles, Locke stood up and stretched his muscles. He was about to sleep when he looked up and discovered it was already dawn outside, with roosters crowing.
"I actually stayed up this late, it's already the next morning." Locke rubbed his temples. Although wizards had very powerful mental strength and could go months without sleep but meditation methods seriously warned that during meditation practice, it was best to sleep ten days each month.
Otherwise, there would be a risk of Sleep Demon mutation.
Since he had finished writing four articles and it was already the next day, Locke didn't want to sleep anymore.
Even if he occasionally slept one day less in a month, sleeping only nine days instead of ten, it wouldn't have much impact.
People shouldn't be too obsessive about such details.
"But sleep is still very important." Locke rubbed his forehead and said, "In that case, let me first complete brewing the Bear Spirit Bile Detoxification Potion."
"This potion should be the most complex one I've made besides the Minor Viridian Potion."
"I can write several more articles from this."
Locke had entered a period of rapid article production and high-speed development. The research content he had accumulated over the past six months would rapidly burst forth with many results during this period, and these results could be converted into many high-scoring articles.
Locke first went to the botanical garden and collected a Jade Iris Lichen and a Perseus Eye, then returned to his simple laboratory.
The simple laboratory had a set of basic potion brewing equipment provided by the academy as a benefit for first-class wizard apprentices. Although it wasn't very comfortable to use, it was sufficient for experiments.
In the laboratory, Locke skillfully cut and juiced the two Jade Iris Lichens (including one variant), using column chromatography separation equipment to separate the main active magical structure components of the two Jade Iris Lichens from the mixed liquid, further improving extraction quality.
Actually, this step wasn't necessary.
Brewing Bear Spirit Bile Detoxification Potion didn't require separating the main active components from Jade Iris Lichen juice but the Reeves family had once given him a set of column chromatography separation equipment, so Locke used it conveniently.
This could slightly improve the Bear Spirit Bile Detoxification Potion's quality, optimizing the process.
This was the same type of operation as Robert's previous optimization of Worm Regeneration Potion processes to improve potion quality.
Locke set up a cauldron and snapped his fingers. A blue-green wood elemental flame appeared beneath the cauldron.
Locke methodically added various brewing materials for Bear Spirit Bile Detoxification Potion.
At the same time, he silently recited the key points for brewing this potion.
First, this potion required switching between three types of magical flames that assistants must master: wood elemental magical flame, fire elemental magical flame, and earth elemental magical flame, plus one uncommonly used magical flame, air elemental magical flame.
Wood elemental magical flame was the most commonly used magical flame. Fire elemental magical flame was used to extract magical structure components from various materials. Earth elemental magical flame was used to remove toxicity from various potion materials as much as possible.
But the most unique aspect of Bear Spirit Bile Detoxification Potion was the need to harmonize two main materials, jade lichen juice and bear bile, combining their components into a new component that was the potion's main active ingredient.
This required using air elemental magical flame.