Help Request: New Alchemy Pills
Added 2024-04-11 12:00:09 +0000 UTCHello everyone,
First, thanks for joining my Patreon. I really appreciate the support.
So, from comments yesterday on RR and things that have been said in the past, I'm beginning to feel that my creativity with alchemy pills is somewhat limited. I can think of plenty of ways for an alchemist to support a run-of-the-mill adventurer, but I have a harder time thinking of ways he could help simple townsfolk, people in the Pavilion, or even himself beyond basic cultivation resources. (Trope-laden roofie like substances to aside.)
If anyone has any great ideas, feel free to share them below. You can list the name you would give your pill and its intended effects.
Comments
Maybe some pills that temporarily boost stats. Like strengt, dexterity, endurance. Or pills that are supposed to make one activity better/ faster like running or swimming. I also remember from other story's a pill that makes you better at remembering what you study durring it's effect. Or a pill that makes you better at certain forms of qi manipulation (Like meridian builder but for crafting professions).
Allpa
2024-04-22 15:29:13 +0000 UTCMost importantly, he gets a small credit benefit every ascension he uses it when he decides it’s time to die.
Ambrose
2024-04-18 01:15:04 +0000 UTCSomething both good for him and potentially profitable to sell I’ll call the false ascension pill. Something that calcifies the flow of chi so that users become much more powerful at the cost of future ascension potential. Mortals can gain the power of the weakest cultivators, and those at the end of their natural path get a small boost to cultivation.
Ambrose
2024-04-18 01:14:21 +0000 UTCThere also Body Enhancement aspect of cultivation, like cultivators of a certain affinity need to subject themselves to their element to increase their affinity(like sitting in a fire, under a waterfall, buried in the earth, lost in a forest, contemplating about a sword in an armory) so instead of doing all the tedious work you can give exorbitant amounts of money and Soul treasures to Su Fang to make you a pill.
Anshul Kumar
2024-04-17 14:44:03 +0000 UTCHe can gain some insights from the System and create Memory Enhancement pills, Comprehension pills, etc.
Anshul Kumar
2024-04-17 14:43:59 +0000 UTCBeauty Pills to retain the appearance of youth is a common concept that would surely be a big earner there are a slew of possible ideas for Affinity pills utilizing the special energy we saw, whether a simple increase or something like burning out a wood affinity to increase a fire affinity
George
2024-04-16 22:16:46 +0000 UTCSoul Ignition Pill to temporarily boost the soul's power so the user can more clearly see energy, whether for a breakthrough or to complete some difficult task like fighting or making a pill a good one could have no side effects or even strengthen the soul, while most would leave the soul temporarily or permanently weaker after use
George
2024-04-16 22:13:42 +0000 UTCon the flip side, a Surging Energy Pill could amplify mental effects and make energy leap to tasks, which could be useful in combat
George
2024-04-16 15:22:06 +0000 UTCan Energy Calming Pill to deal with deviations seems sensible - it really shouldn't be a mystery that disturbed energy makes the mental effects worse It could require an herb with an affinity we haven't seen yet and leave the person who takes it unable to do much with their energy while it's in effect, to explain why it's not popular and common
George
2024-04-16 15:19:29 +0000 UTCI assume pills would work better for mortals, so a mortal might require a rank-1 pill to regenerate organs or grow out lost limbs, a rank-2 pill for permanent alterations like adding cat ears or changing sex, and a rank-3 pill to permanently add a constitution or Qi Affinity, but the required ranks would be higher for cultivators . As such it might be cheaper to give a mortal a pill to give them a temporary ability to scry for precious metals, or make them a genius for an hour, rather than buy a pill for cultivators. ...And you would force-feed your clan heirs improvement pills young to increase their future prospects, contributing to Arrogant Young Master Syndrome. Anyway, some applications: Hair Growth pill, for when a Jade Beauty gets their hair cut in combat. Eagle Eye pill to correct nearsightedness. Brawn pill to convert fat into muscles. Cleansing pill to remove heavy metals or bad qi from mortals living in a bad environment. Symmetry pill for making you prettier. Warmth pill for surviving a snowstorm. Buoyancy pill (instead of life vest). Scentlessness pills for traveling the wilderness without getting eaten. Digestion pills for stomach-ache. Grass-eater pills for digesting cellulose, if ingredients for fasting pills can't be found. Strength pill for beasts of burden. Rubber Body pill to make difficult childbirths easier. Life Support pill to oxygenate tissues and keep someone alive even when their heart stops. Dreamer pills to give someone pleasant dreams. Radical Perspective pills, to give someone a temporary boost to visual-spatial processing (at the expense of language centers) if you need that to better control qi for a breakthrough. Truthsayer pills for interrogations. Contentment/Discontent pills to make a population more or less prone to revolting. As long as you have a good model of how alchemical effects work, you can just ask 'how would an alchemist fix [mundane problem]?', 'OK, but what if they don't have ingredients for that?', and 'Is this better than how a normal cultivator would fix the problem? BTW, isn't non-pill alchemy a thing? Can't the MC be asked to make incenses, or bath salts, or even condiments?
Elaborate
2024-04-15 11:19:59 +0000 UTCLong lasting drugs that could offset the mental effects, like Adderall for the wonderlust effect.
Neneera
2024-04-15 08:09:01 +0000 UTCAnother idea would be to find more forms then pills. There is potions, salves, powders, gases, and more. Have the MC experiment trying to make the pill in different forms and see if it leads to different effects. Increase duration, decreased side effect, etc. For Pill idea's they can just be anything. The idea is by utilizing pills you can make and do anything. An example would be [Ghost Hand, Meridian Pill - Cultivation Edition] - A pill which instead of containing medical energy, contains someones QI. This qi is "programed" by the Marital Grandmaster to move in a specific way. The Qi is overlayed over the user's Qi and moves to create a meridian. It doesn't finished it but allows the person to get a feel for it and a general idea. These pills are cultivator specific and are all custom made using the Qi of the customer. Usually made by Masters for their disciples learning their cultivation technique. A common pill outside of the wastes. The pill genre is Ghost Hand, the type's are Meridian Construction, Muscle Saturation, Filter Creation, and Whirlpool Building. The Edition is the use, Cultivation Technique, Martial Technique, and Crafts Technique. This pill is no that common thought since using it reveals information about their cultivation technique and can be used to cursed the host of the Qi inside.
Moon Winchester
2024-04-13 17:31:51 +0000 UTCInstability Pill Making. A "novel" way of making pills using the toxins natural in herbs to poison your body or create instabilities to create interesting effects. Physical Growth Pill - Utilizing conflicting elemental toxins to your natural qi causing a reaction to create growth hormones increasing your hight. Or version of this pill can decrease height. This works because during martial disciple you saturate all muscle groups in QI. The brain is a muscle. By introducing specific toxic energy to the QI that fills that region the conflict can create an unexpected by product. MC is able to do this because he can time loop/go back to previous save. Earthly Dao might intervene but after observing what the MC was doing, know it will open up a HUGE new path in alchemy he might let it happen. After all no one is stupid enough to experiment on themselves with toxic energy, plus everyone has been made to believe that toxic energy is not good. So even evil alchemist who use others for experiments don't mess with it since removing it always make the pill more "pure". But the thing is, everything is bad for your health. You just don't know the beneficial ways to use it.
Moon Winchester
2024-04-13 17:21:30 +0000 UTCOne pretty simple idea would be pills to temporarily (like a couple minutes or maybe an hour at higher levels) give someone an affinity for a different type of Qi. I imagine this would be created using similar materials and techniques to the pool that improves fire affinity, but would only give someone an effect like a temporary peak 9 star or low 8 star earth affinity along with a small amount of qi to go with it. This would be pretty interesting because depending on how the person uses it, leftover qi of the wrong affinity when the pill wears off could have disastrous side effects...
Tetrasimplex
2024-04-12 22:34:55 +0000 UTCMortals don't need to afford them. The people that will pay for them are the ones that want to advance into 4/5/6 stage. Basically trade low tier resources for a high tier one(karma).
Nidi
2024-04-12 15:05:34 +0000 UTCOh, recreational drugs that aren't too problematic (think alcohol level) - think about how that "drug addict" meme for those cultivators might become disturbingly real in that way. Now that we are on the topic of disturbing pills, then pills that puts various kinds of mental effects on the consumer is also an option, from "study pills" to "loyalty pills".
Ninetails
2024-04-11 20:06:01 +0000 UTCThat's a ton, include a lot of what I could think of.
Ninetails
2024-04-11 19:56:58 +0000 UTCFasting Pill - to replace need for food Water Purifying Pill - to make water suitable for: watering plants, animals, people Longevity Pill - to slow down ageing Enriching Pill - fertilizer, you can use common herbs to grow or improve rare herbs yield or the other way around (especially powerful in combination with high purity pills/perfect ones) Growth Pill - to speed up growth (both living creatures and plants) Smelly Dirt Pill - to drive pest away Fertility/Birth Control Pill - to enhance or lower a pregnancy chance Bloodline/Sprit Seed Pill - to improve the next generation/boost spirit root chance Inner Balance Pill - like a multivitamin, but with a little bit of oomph Skin Restoration Pills - healing pill designed to be especially effective on skin, including aesthetic improvements Inner Heat Pill - to help living being keep themselves warm Restful Pill - to replace need for rest Stamina Pill - to replenish your stamina Strengthening Pill - pill from chapter 2 to make your body stronger Skin Hardening Pill - to make skin less susceptible to light damage Persistence Pill - to make people more mentally enduring, focused, goal oriented Cleansing Pill - pill that helps with removing impurities Fire Resistance Pill - pill to help you endure high heat for some time, as well as other variations Reclamation Pill - to boost nature in resetting the environment Decomposing Pill - to boost decomposition Mental Malleability Pill - to suppress discontent and make person more controllable Rage/Bloodlust/Madness Pill, Living Cauldron Pill, Karma Harvesting Pill - you know how it is with a coin and sides...
Nidi
2024-04-11 18:40:26 +0000 UTCAre monsters a thing in your world? If so, then there is a lot of things that could work there. Beast lure, repellent, and scent hiders. Higher tiers can work on the town level or even on beast waves. But in general, pills enhance people. Formations enhance locations.
DarknessSmiles
2024-04-11 17:01:40 +0000 UTCTo be honest there should be plenty of ways he could help ordinary people, just stop thinking of alchemy=pills and start thinking of a scientist with a strong background in chemistry and biology and see what those can do in society for stuff like fertilizers, pest control, breed improvement for plants and possibly animals. Those are already basis for large scale economic influence even without looking at aspects like maybe alchemy that could change a non-cultivator into a cultivator or biological and chemical warfare. But the problem is that I don't think those things fit the world you have build. Everything serves those in power and diverting resources from those in power to those not in power will probably be dealt with harshly (easiest is just to exterminate this separated environment entirely killing everyone and putting new seeds in to try again). Then there is the Dao also manipulating things in a new direction because things are to peaceful here, so both worldly and "over"worldly powers would interfere. Unless what he is doing is actively moving in the direction the worldly Dao wants to move things. At the moment he is just not influential enough to start moving things in meaningful ways, especially if those in power are monitoring karma flows and he is unable to hide from that.
Game Devil
2024-04-11 16:37:24 +0000 UTCPills for different ailments (for healing) or similar pills to the one he buys at the beginning of each run → body enhancement, maybe some food “replacement” pills often called like thousand grain pill or whatever
GeneralDuck
2024-04-11 14:46:58 +0000 UTCWhat kind of problems would a town have? Better to fix real problems that to fix imagined ones
Sanket More
2024-04-11 14:38:06 +0000 UTCPills need not be for humans only - they can be for plants or the soil - to improve soil fertility or help crop growth.
lenkite
2024-04-11 14:33:21 +0000 UTCCosmetics is my first thought. Its a complex and exacting discipline. Moreover, its the sort of thing elders/deacons/disciples would not want to be getting from the sects alchemists. So it would make sense for it not to have come up in the story. I'd make it so that a pill/paste/whatever that changes someone's physical characteristics, even temporarily, only works "at rank". And you need higher rank pills for longer changes. I.e. A martial master needs a rank 2 pill to change something for a few hours to a few days. A rank 3 pill for a few weeks to a few months. And a rank 4 pill for a permanent change. This means the expectation is that cosmetic pills need to be nearly perfect to reduce toxin levels. And remember a martial grandmaster would have great eyesight and easily tell if the shade of red isn't perfect. Also, thinking about it, I suspect in this world both men and women would use cosmetic pills. Remember irl, some grey hairs and a few wrinkles makes a man look distinguished. But in cultivator land it makes you look weak - amd shows you have flaws in your cultivation.
Curtis
2024-04-11 13:57:12 +0000 UTCA good way to think of alchemy pills is like potions. They don't all have to give permanent effects, or help cultivation. They could be poisons, aids for combat, even making them reactive and acting like mini grenades that could do elemental damage depending on the ingredients used! Also I love that you are asking your following for ideas when you are stuck, makes a big difference :)
CrabClaw
2024-04-11 13:26:12 +0000 UTCMind boosting pill ( lightning + water element) - makes one smarter and think faster for duration Talent compression pill - compresses and sacrifices ones cultivation for boost in element affinity, efficiency dependant on reached cultivation Affinity sacrifice pill - sacrifice ones element affinity of same element as cultivation for cultivation level Affinity exhange pill(per elemennt) - sacrifice feeding affinity to fed afinity to boost its rank ( sacrifice wood for higher fire and etc)
Donekulda
2024-04-11 13:20:35 +0000 UTCPills for mortals: fake comprehension pills, straight up lsd. Qi rush pills, temporary energise them to martial deciple 1. Health and longevity pills. Creativity pills. Fertility pills
Epeen
2024-04-11 13:12:28 +0000 UTCPills to help a mother in childbirth. Pills to help correct any defects in children. Pills to help awaken livestock to create better qi food if that's a thing (and it's actually better if the livestock doesn't have any natural talent, that way they will stay at the level you want them to be). Pills to increase attention spans. Pills to replace or reduce the need for sleep (basically allowing a third longer of a life). Pills that glow brightly (lightbulb replacements)? Pills to put under trees to help them grow, grow them into a certain shape, or shift the qualities of the wood. Shapeshifting pills. Viagra. Food pills that never go bad for famines.
Hangwind
2024-04-11 13:07:24 +0000 UTCFormations are more of a help village A B and C with problem XYZ, but something to cure diseases or fast healing that is easy to mass produce, maybe even without Qi in it, something for babies to protect against ailments or a boost to Qi for better growth, and of course the ever classic aphrodisiac, oral contraceptives and 1001 beauty products, but not sure if that is an actual help but it would bring in profit for sure =) Stuff to ward off tired/exhausted or a boost to focus is always useful, temp boost to senses/QI sense, extra speed.
Hasse
2024-04-11 13:05:47 +0000 UTCYeah essentially once he learns herbalism maybe some kind of "qui-vision" pill really basic though so that perhaps mortals can tend to better herbs too somehow? And obviously the main price would be "affinity-enhancing pills" essentially the ability to grant someone cultivation without using the system (though those would be stupendously expansive!). Apart from that really anything that we in our modern world have as drugs would work... Stamina enhancement (yes BOTH ways lol, for work and for fun times after). Pills to prevent pregnancy, minor small pills for headaches, pills to somehow boost social confidence (Alkohol but without bad side effects so people don't become addicts) and all kinds of small effect medicinal things... Those pills may also be creatable without "real magical herbs" and only require specific plants with such miniscule amounts of medicinal energy Cultivators disregarded them completely, once Fang learn herbalism though... He may be able to develop a new breed of "pseudo 0.1 Rank herbs" they do nothing for any cultivator but can make a mortals life 100 times easier!
Gopard
2024-04-11 13:02:16 +0000 UTCFor cost, most of the mortal ones could be tier 1. The kind of thing apprentices make for practice and so at least relativity cheap.
Joseph
2024-04-11 13:00:22 +0000 UTCCosmetic pills! Hair, skincare youth elixiers. Comprehension pills. Just straigth up happy pills
Khress
2024-04-11 12:59:50 +0000 UTCPain relievers, Concentration extenders Pills to mitigate the personality issues from cultivation techniques temp or perm Better QI control A variety of permanent buffs - Basically think mini blessings Adding more time to achieve each level without negative issues
Joseph
2024-04-11 12:57:21 +0000 UTCPills that make ones cultivation senses better either temp or permanently Pills that make your body accept qi easier and/or more forgiving for cultivation Techniques not being perfect Pills that increase the base foundations of your body allowing you to get more strength/power in each cultivation level pills that stops or extends qi stagnation Life extension pills
Joseph
2024-04-11 12:53:33 +0000 UTCHave to say, I'm liking the idea of making pills for mortals based on what they need. Not sure it's workable at this stage, how does a mortal afford something made by an alchemist? But it fits really nicely with other plans I have had for the future.
Greg Tolley
2024-04-11 12:50:23 +0000 UTCwater purification pill...that seems the most important for mortals. Water has always carried a lot of diseases. Also, if you want any sort of meaningful travel, being able to have a clean water from any creek etc is a game changer.
Randomranter
2024-04-11 12:36:44 +0000 UTCEmotion numbing pills. Makes the life of a mortal less depressing.
Sinnje
2024-04-11 12:25:13 +0000 UTCElemental resistance pills
israel araujo
2024-04-11 12:20:42 +0000 UTCKarma pill
israel araujo
2024-04-11 12:20:24 +0000 UTCHiw about a pill that helps old people move better, then maybe a few different pills that help with pain in a variety of ways, then a (few) pill(s) that help in childbirth, pills that purify water sources like wells, a pill that gives mortals a surge of strengh and maybe a pill that gives people that are about to die a bit of strength so they can give their goodbyes to their loved ones. Sorry for the grammer etc. :)
Oliverthms
2024-04-11 12:20:13 +0000 UTCSome powders with various effects
israel araujo
2024-04-11 12:20:05 +0000 UTCMaybe some sort of pill or powder that can make agricultural fields yield more, stay more nutrient or something like that? Thats just in the farming field. Could have substances that enhance smithing, formations or anything really. It doesnt have to directly affecting an individuals cultivation☺️ Hope it helps.
Christian Mordal
2024-04-11 12:19:25 +0000 UTChttps://amazing-cultivation-simulator.fandom.com/wiki/Pill
israel araujo
2024-04-11 12:17:14 +0000 UTChttps://wuxiacraft.fandom.com/wiki/Pills
israel araujo
2024-04-11 12:16:06 +0000 UTCLongevity pills, toxins pills, or n
israel araujo
2024-04-11 12:14:14 +0000 UTCEnergy pill like coffee but concentrated for a quick burst or for a long period of increased energy 2 fragrance pills you eat one and for however long your body Oder changes to whatever fragrance you put into it 3 sleeping pills 4 water purifier pill 5 a pill that works like a multivitamin or something 6 beauty pill like reduces pimples or something similar doesn’t make you 10/10 but does improve how you look slightly 7 cheap grain pills for the poor worse than food like dog kibble but better then nothing
Ray 27
2024-04-11 12:14:09 +0000 UTCI think the biggest one that's missing is explosive pill you throw them people and they explode
zenot funr
2024-04-11 12:01:53 +0000 UTC
