Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

Chapter 216 Antibiotics and Cultivation

"Oh!!!" Su Li clapped loudly.

Song Mingyu bowed to Su Li with obvious satisfaction. She, who was usually quite gloomy, showed a rare, unusual side of herself.

"Then Mingyu..."

"What Mingyu? Call me Dr. Song!"

"Alright, Dr. Song, could you please tell me about your masterpiece?"

"Hmm." Song Mingyu picked up the somewhat silly weasel by the scruff of its neck and handed it to Su Li. "See? This guy survived."

"Yes, I saw it. Doctor Song's skills are truly miraculous!" Su Li quickly praised.

Song Mingyu peeled back the neck of the ice weasel, revealing the large swelling on its neck. "During the hunt, I found some cysts of elemental bacteria on the monsters I hunted."

“I extracted these cysts and infected these ice ferrets, which aggravated their condition and disrupted the balance of viruses and their immune system.”

"Then, I started injecting them with my latest research findings. Fortunately, during that previous epiphany, I 'saw' many things that I wouldn't normally be able to discover."

"If I explain the technical stuff to you, you probably won't understand. So I'll just give you my results."

"I prepared an antibiotic from the spores of the Phantom Ice Mushroom."

"This antibiotic can affect the aggregation of elemental organs and cell walls in elemental bacteria, causing newly reproduced elemental bacteria to lose their ability to exchange ice elements with the outside world, turning them into ordinary bacteria and losing their elemental characteristics."

"We humans do not have cell walls, so this antibiotic can only target ice-type bacteria and is basically harmless to the human body."

Now Su Li understood. Wasn't this similar to the effect of antibiotics on Earth? "So, we're no longer afraid of elemental bacteria?"

Elemental bacteria and elemental erosion are both problematic, but elemental bacteria are the most troublesome, as their outbreak progress is very difficult to reduce. Now, with this potion, there's no need to fear elemental bacterial outbreaks anymore.

“If you keep taking it, you won’t be afraid of these elemental bacteria.” Song Mingyu nodded. “However, elemental bacteria are very tenacious, and existing bacteria are very resilient. This antibiotic can only inhibit the deterioration, not eliminate the original elemental bacteria.”

"It's better than nothing," Su Li said with a smile.

With this achievement, Su Li felt much more at ease.

“But this antibiotic research has come to an end. If we want to continue, this amount of experimental equipment is not enough.” Song Mingyu sighed. “I will explore other avenues for research. As for you, help me culture fungi.”

"How do we do it?" Su Li asked.

Song Mingyu handed over a few pieces of mushroom. "Hmm, this Illusion Ice Mushroom is a type of wood-decaying fungus. Grind up some brown ice wood, then put the mycelium on it, and try to cultivate it with your moon attribute magic. Experiment with it a bit. You don't have much to do these days, just sitting there cross-legged with nothing to do."

“I wasn’t daydreaming; I was thinking about how to change my meditation method,” Su Li retorted.

Song Mingyu was taken aback. "Then I'll do this."

"No need, cultivating mushrooms doesn't take much time," Su Li said with a smile.

Seeing that Su Li did not seem reluctant, Song Mingyu nodded. "Then I'll leave it to you. I still need to continue studying the cloud patterns of the brown icewood."

Song Mingyu returned to his workbench and began fiddling with the materials using magical energy. Su Li picked up the mushroom that was handed to him and found some brown ice wood nearby.

Then, he took the wood deep into the cave and began to carve wood shavings.

While her hands moved mechanically, Su Li's mind was constantly recalling the origins of the sun and moon she had seen during that world explosion.

Long ago, Su Li sensed that her cultivation method could be modified. The feeling was mysterious, like a pillow that she had always used suddenly starting to strain her neck, so the idea of ​​slightly raising the pillow naturally came to mind.

He now has the idea of ​​modifying his cultivation method, but he is not quite sure how to modify it.

So he began to recall the explanations of the basic techniques he had memorized.

The system provides basic techniques with very detailed explanations, achieving maximum universality. It is said that even those with intellectual disabilities can learn them step by step. It can be said that it breaks down these things and feeds them to students.

The magic energy cultivated through this technique is unbiased and infinitely close to the theoretically pure magic energy.

After these magical energies are cultivated, they will be further modified by Su Li, who will imprint them with a spiritual mark, transforming them into magical energies with Su Li's characteristics.

This process involves a transformation. When Su Li cultivates, there is an extra transformation step. This step not only slows down Su Li's cultivation speed, but also causes the consumption of magical energy.

If the cultivation method is changed, and it is modified to directly cultivate the magical energy of the Su Li attribute, a step can be saved, and the cultivation speed of Su Li will become extremely fast.

During this time, Su Li came up with many ideas.

His first thought was about meridians, and the internal energy cultivation methods in martial arts novels, allowing demonic energy to circulate within his meridians, passing through different meridians and giving them different attributes.

However, the problem that troubled him was that he had almost no understanding of the essence of traditional culture.

For him, meridians are simply energy channels.

So he abandoned the path of unlimited, specialized fantasy novels.

He considered various theories, such as traditional Chinese martial arts, chakras, and the secrets of the human body, but none of them seemed quite right for him.

After much deliberation, Zuli finally chose a visualization method.

Visualization is a practice derived from traditional Qigong and Buddhist meditation. By concentrating one's mind on visualizing a particular object, one can counteract delusions such as greed, or it can be a convenient method of meditation for entering into right view.

Appearing in numerous novels, practitioners use visualization of various objects to communicate with them and approach the visualized entities. Many novels even depict the attainment of various supernatural powers through visualization.

Coincidentally, Su Li had just transmigrated and sincerely repented for wasting her time, wanting to study hard. She had learned about meditation and visualization techniques.

At that time, he was already engrossed in reading novels and watching animations, and he couldn't calm his mind. When he was reading, he gradually stopped recognizing the words on the pages. Whenever he did something for more than a while, he would constantly replay various animation scenes and music in his mind.

To calm himself down, he chose to rent a room and exercise by climbing stairs every day, listening to white noise, and learning some meditation techniques online. He would close his eyes and visualize himself, and then try to use his mind to depict his body. Gradually, he really became much calmer and regained his focus.

After much thought, Su Li felt that visualization seemed to be the most suitable method for her.

Then give it a try first. If it doesn't work, make some progress and then ask your mentor for guidance.