Alex perford the sa test with the sa amount of water treasures, using cultivation pills for this turn.
As the test progressed and ca to an end, Alex could tell there had been significant improvents to his cultivation session this ti around, which the formation below him made clear for him.
This ti, the lowest amount ca to be 1382, the highest 6324, and the average 2621.
Alex took so ti off to compare the numbers to all that ca before it. Compared to the actual tests, it was a massive improvent, but compared to the control, there were so strange differences that he tried to make sense of.
In contrast to the baseline, just using Water root with water aura had been on average twice as slow.
However, to the baseline while using a pill, the current value was closer to four tis as slow.
While the low and high values fluctuated, the average was what told Alex the real truth, so that was what he focused on.
"While I had 1758 average for regular baseline, my Water root only managed to get 755. But when I did the sa test with pills, my average shot up to 9611 for baseline, but with Water root, it only shot up to 2621."
If the values were ant to be kept the sa, the pill should have improved it to at least 3000. But it hadn't. That probably ant that the pill was more than just a strict multiplier on their cultivation speed. It did more for people who were already more than good enough.
"It does open up our ridians and allows our body to absorb more Qi and faster. That is probably why the change is so drastic," Alex believed.
This ant that cultivation pills were biased toward helping those that didn't need it in the first place. There was a certain sense of irony hidden in there sowhere.
With the Water root still the only root he had, Alex perford two more tests. One was a test where he forced his Water root to beco weaker thanks to a pill he ate. And the other one was where he made it temporarily even better.
Making a Superior grade spirit root was quite difficult, so Alex didn't expect to get much answer from there. But from the test where it was weaker, he hoped to gain a lot.
Just as he thought, improving the spirit root barely added any improvents to his overall scores. While weakening it drastically lowered it. His average nearly reached 250, which was 3 tis as low as his average with his regular Water root.
Alex would test it a few tis more, but he was more or less certain now that having a Superior spirit root was way more necessary than he could've ever been led to believe.
Alex did the sa test with cultivation pills as well and got similar results.
Alex also did the sa test but with a regular root on top of it this ti around, and there were slight improvents. The water aura in the room helped, but so did the regular Qi, which his regular root could absorb all on its own.
On average, the score Alex received for that test was 823. He was now close to reaching half as high as his average for baseline. With pills, however, the gap was much wider.
Finally, 2 years since he started doing the tests, he ca to the final set of tests he was ready to perform for Water root with no other elental spirit roots working alongside it.
Alex had created 3 types of pills for the Unity test.
The first were a set of pills that suppressed a singular spirit root, which Alex had already tested.
The second were a set of pills that helped empower a singular spirit root, which was also sothing Alex had already tested.
The third and final set of pills were special compared to the two. Instead of suppressing or empowering any specific root, they transford a person's neutral root entirely. Based on a seed of an idea from a pill Alex had made many years ago in his only alchemy competition against the Dragon Emperor, the third set of pills could give Alex an additional spirit root.
Alex ate one of the pills he had prepared for this test, and within seconds, his neutral spirit root gained an elental affinity, slowly becoming a Water spirit root. Now, Alex had two of them.
And he couldn't help but wonder just how that would change his cultivation speed. Would that improve it? Or would it make no difference?
He wasn't sure how long the pill's effects would last, so he started cultivating the mont the changes occurred.
As Alex cultivated, he gained a strange feeling he had never gained before. The two roots, now both Water roots, seemingly fought each other to take in the Water Qi that flowed through his ridians.
Alex felt an imdiate drop in his cultivation speed, and for a bit wondered if this would be his worst result just yet. Perhaps it wouldn't be as bad as when he had no Water treasures, but not that much better.
However, after the first week of cultivation, the two roots began changing. They no longer fought each other, seemingly understanding what the situation was and that they couldn't change it. His body slowly adapted to the fact that he had two spirit roots and worked accordingly to provide each with the Water Qi he took in.
By the next week, his speed was much better than before.
Another month passed and Alex finally ca to an end of that particular test. He looked down at the result and couldn't help but be surprised.
At the lowest, the score was at 211, more than half of what he gained with just one Water root.
At the highest, however, his score was 1922. That was a 50% increase from a single root score.
On average, the score had gone up from 755 to 1026.
For the first ti during this entire test, Alex had finally managed to gain a score that was more than half of his baseline.
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