Chapter 77
"The experiment continues next time they break through too" I tell Elder Song after a few moments contemplation. "None of us knows if it will naturally stay with him like an innate gift, or if he’s going to have to focus to keep the skill. And if he has to attempt to keep it, can he do it without knowing how he gained it?"
"You’re too good to me. New research material is hard to come by at my age."
"Glad to be of service Elder. Now about that Alchemy learning?"
"Ah, yes. I myself am a fairly accomplished pill refiner. I’ll just transfer you my experience and you should be able to keep up with just a little practice." He’s already taking a learning spell scroll off the shelf and touching it to my head.
Memories are flooding in. All vaguely related to alchemy, but in the most perverse and unexpected ways. I didn’t need to know the entirety of the 15 years he spent creating a super potent aphrodisiac with contraceptive effects. The century spent investigating poison might be useful later though. The so called resurrection pill that is actually a simulacrum that self destructs after a year is just cruel.
No wonder the kindly Elder Song was banished, this guy is a true mad scientist. There’s even basic knowledge of cursed pills in the memory dump, though he never was brave enough to make them.
The influx of foreign memories is making my head hurt, and I can feel the memories and attached emotions slowly changing me. It’s like gaining centuries of life experience, it’s changing my world view, if not my personality itself.
It’s an hour before the headache clears and the memories settle. "Well that was intense" I finally manage to get out.
"Interesting, there doesn’t appear to be any damage or overwritten memories. I wonder if it’s due to the fact you’re a physical cultivator with no mana type Qi to corrupt? Or if it’s due to the fact you’re female?"
"What happened to the others?" I ask, realizing that I, like everyone else, am an experiment to him.
"They all thought they were me for a while then died from incompatible energy flows. Your energy channels seem fine though."