Each discovery did more than expand the puzzle. It broadened its very scope.
It was similar to climbing a mountain. The higher one went, the farther one could see, witnessing an exponentially greater picture.
Liam had initially seen the Great Quiet Desert's lack of magical plants as an incredibly limiting factor, which it was. However, his recent experiments had expanded what he could do with the far fewer available ingredients, at least the poisonous ones.
With the Poisonous Refinement, Liam had sort of concocted a harmless version of his venom. He had greatly limited its deadliness to a specific target, which could be as ethereal as the Qi.
That opened the path to turning something as incredible as the rank 3 venom into a mere complementary ingredient, enabling recipes Liam had previously believed unavailable in the area.
