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It was obvious that this "Magic System" was extrely complex, nothing like the simplicity described in novels—just sitting cross-legged with eyes closed, absorbing spiritual energy from the heavens and earth, and then releasing it whenever needed.
This "Magic System," even with Richard following the Monroe Chapter's descriptions and adding his extensive speculations, left him with a multitude of questions about many aspects.
For instance, what exactly was the "Super Body State" that the first Life Remolding aid to achieve? What kind of state was the "Highly Activated State" required for the second Life Remolding? And what state was the "High Energy State" for the third Life Remolding?
To these questions, Richard could only speculate, explore, and experint.
According to so explanations in the book, the "Super Body State" of the first Life Remolding was a mystical state where the spirit temporarily detached from the body and experienced the wonders of the external world. It felt sowhat like a dream but with maintained self-awareness.
Richard interpreted this "Super Body State" to be similar to ditation, or what is known as "Mantla" in Sanskrit. In Sanskrit, "Mantla" could be divided into two parts, "Man" and "Tla." "Man" ant "mind." "Tla" ant "to lead away." Therefore, "Mantla" ant leading the mind away from all worldly thoughts, worries, desires, and ntal burdens.
Yet, the "Super Body State" was not entirely equivalent to "Mantla" ditation. Comparatively, it was deeper, maintaining a relaxed self-awareness and even more detached from the body, delving deeper into the spirit, akin to the ultimate state of ditation—Zen.
Or, it could be considered a form of "Nightmare" state, known as "Sleep Paralysis": when soone suddenly wakes from sleep, the brain regains consciousness, but the motor centers remain asleep, resulting in a phenonon where the spirit cannot control the body. One could think and recall, but unable to move any limbs, causing extre panic for those who experience it.
Alternatively, it could be like the "Lucid Dream" many people sought: half-awake, half-asleep consciousness, being fully aware of dreaming and able to control and create any dream scenario, becoming like God in creation and destruction, achieving fantasies impossible in reality.
Simply put, the "Super Body State" was a deep level of "Mantla" ditation, and achieving this was no easy feat. Even real Yoga Masters could not guarantee complete imrsion into ditation at will. As for the so-called "Nightmares" and "Lucid Dreams," they were even rarer, with success rates less than one in ten, even after deliberate sleep adjustnts.
Such unreliability was entirely unacceptable to Richard. From a scientific perspective, only a 100% success rate could prove a thod's feasibility.
To make the elusive "Super Body State" consistently achievable, Richard considered relying on drugs.
Admittedly, using drugs would have so impact on the body, but drugs might be the most convenient and quickest thod. Normally, one could not remain consciously awake while the body slept, but with certain special drugs, such as alkaloids with anesthetic effects, it was entirely feasible.
Many plants contained these alkaloids, such as those from the Solanaceae, Fabaceae, Ranunculaceae, Papaveraceae families among dicotyledons. By adding plant materials into equipnt and undergoing a series of chemical reactions to remove impurities, high-purity anesthetic alkaloids could be obtained.
Thinking this way, Richard set to work.
Complex instrunts continued their functions, distilling, condensing, filtering, precipitating, dissolving, crystallizing...
"Pssssss," a large amount of white steam erged, "plop-plop," the jar lids constantly bounced, "drip-drip," yellow drops erged from the horn tube, "gurgle-gurgle," a considerable number of bubbles ford in the beaker...
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After a busy half day, the entire experintal process reached its final stage, with the liquid in a beaker cooling, crystals ford, appearing murky yellow, as if filled with dust inside.
With just a glance, Richard couldn't help but shake his head, realizing this first attempt was a failure for one simple reason—impurities.
His experintal process was correct, having considered various impurity removals, but the entire experint spanned over twenty segnts, and the current world's instrunt manufacturing created inevitable small errors at each step.
One error, two errors were acceptable, but ten or twenty errors were problematic, with quantitative changes accumulating into qualitative changes, thoroughly polluting the final crystal product that should have been pure, making it unusable.
Failed!
Richard shook his head again, yet without showing any anger. Having been in this world for fifteen years, he already understood its nature, knowing that no matter how strictly he demanded of craftsn, the instrunts were always flawed.
The solution lay in impurity removal and purity enhancent.
To enhance purity and remove impurities, an appropriate solvent, or rather an extraction agent, preferably organic, was required.
However, producing organic extraction agents was no easy task.
Many organic solvents required high temperature and pressure conditions, was he supposed to figure out how to make a reaction kettle, a fractionating tower?
The one easy organic extraction agent could be Ether.
Hmm, wait, Ether!
Richard's eyes suddenly squinted, as he recalled sothing.
Ether!
Yes, Ether!
Ether could be used as a drug extraction agent, but then again, if Ether were available, what more extraction would be needed? Ether itself was a more efficient anesthetic than alkaloids!
Yes, Ether was an anesthetic!
Ether belonged to a type of liquid anesthetics, one of the most commonly known anesthetics, even if never seen in real life, it was often featured in films—where a villain would cover a victim's mouth and nose with a sudden cloth soaked in a volatile liquid, causing the victim to inhale and shortly after collapse unconscious.
In those scenes, the liquid on the cloth was Ether, a colorless, transparent liquid that highly volatilizes and acts quickly as an anesthetic.
Yet preparing Ether industrially was sowhat difficult due to the requirent for Aluminum Oxide as a catalyst, and Aluminum Oxide, or tallic Aluminum, was much rarer in this dieval-like world, ten to a hundred tis more scarce than gold or gemstones.
But laboratory preparation was much simpler.
Laboratory preparation of Ether only required two materials: Sulfuric Acid and Ethanol. Sulfuric Acid was available, and as for Ethanol—what was Ethanol—Ethanol was the scientific na for alcohol, sothing he had plenty of. Using alcohol to prepare Ether seed like basic high school chemistry, perhaps he had overcomplicated things.
Richard spoke to himself, slowly standing up, his gaze landing on the instrunts on the table beside him. He stepped closer, quickly dismantling the instrunts, then used a large test tube, conduit, cork stopper, flask, iron stand, iron ring, and separatory funnel to assemble another set of apparatus.
After completing the assembly and checking for airtightness, Richard began to load the chemicals. He poured anhydrous ethanol into the flask, then slowly added concentrated sulfuric acid, plugged in the cork stopper... heated... cooled...
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