The Legendary Master’s Wife - Chap 100

Chapter 100: Magic Pill Recipe

Three days later, Kong Wen as expected, sent someone to call him over.

Due to his outstanding performance in the Hall of Mages, the Elders of the Mage Division all agreed that he should be able to practice that soul training manual. Once he practiced those techniques, he would be a core disciple of the Tian Xin Sect.

Swearing the oath took place in front of Kong Wen and a few of the Elders.

With the protection of the blood seed pact, You XiaoMo swore the oath straightforwardly. He swore in front of the Elders that he would forever be loyal to the Tian Xin Sect, and would not reveal the contents of the soul training techniques to anyone. The contents of the oath were done by repeating after one of the Elders. It had always been like this so they were not afraid that the oath taker would be able to take advantage of some loophole.

After leaving the Hall of Mages, You XiaoMo followed Kong Wen to the secret chamber.

In the secret chamber, Kong Wen passed on that soul training manual to him. Since it was a low grade technique, the content was not much. Compared to the Heavenly Soul Scripture that had over ten pages, this volume of low grade techniques had not more than six pages.

You XiaoMo read it over once and stored it all in his memory. With the increase in his power, he could now remember everything firmly after reading it through just once. Much like the so-called photographic memory. It was also because of this that he had read most of the books in the first level of the library in the short span of half a year.

“Shifu, I’ve decided what I want.” After leaving the room, You XiaoMo remembered that he still hadn’t made his request, so he simply brought it up before leaving.

Kong Wen was not the least bit surprised, replying calmly, “As long as it is within Shifu’s abilities, you can ask for whatever you want.”

Those words meant that if it was not within his abilities, the request would become invalid or he would have to come up with another one.

You XiaoMo had guessed as much. Luckily his request was not especially difficult, “Shifu, I …I want to go take a look at the third level of the library’s East Pavilion.”

Kong Wen immediately frowned, “What do you want to do on the third level of the library?”

The third level of the library’s East Pavilion was considered a restricted area. The books displayed inside had considerable value. Disciples couldn’t go inside without explicit authorization from the higher ups. Even though You XiaoMo was a core disciple, he still wasn’t allowed inside. With his current status, he could only go to the first and second level.

“Disciple heard that the third level of the East Pavilion has recipes for level four magic pills. So disciple wants to go take a look.” You XiaoMo stole a look at him.

Kong Wen was the head of Capital Peak and a high level mage. He didn’t need the permission of the Elders to enter the third level of the library. He also had the right to allow his disciples to go to the third level. He learned all these from asking Da Shixiong during their last conversation.

Kong Wen clearly didn’t expect him to make this request. After some hesitation, he said, “You are now only a level two mage. The things in the third level of the library are not things that someone at your level can touch for now. Even if I let you go take a look, it is not of much use to you.”

“Disciple understands but disciple still wants to go have a look … ” You XiaoMo lowered his head and spoke softly.

This was also something he found out later. Having magic herbs and a soul force didn’t mean that mages could refine a magic pill because only a few magic herbs were required for low level magic pills, it only took a paltry five steps to form a magic pill. So a specific recipe was not needed. But this was not the case for level four and above magic pills.

For example, a level four magic pill. It required eight types of magic herbs. Since each type had a different effect, if an error was made while putting a few types together, the effect would be lost making that magic pill worthless. So it was necessary to follow a recipe when conducting the blending steps.

You XiaoMo had looked all over the second level of the library and he still didn’t find any recipes for level four to level six magic pills. So he guessed that recipes for level four and up magic pills are not things that were easily given out. That was why he wanted to go look for them on the third level.

But he still didn’t qualify to enter the third level, so he made this request of Kong Wen.

If he made this request before swearing the oath, Kong Wen would absolutely not agree because level four and above magic pill recipes were only passed on to core disciples. Now, he was only a little suspicious.

“Since you are determined to go to the third level, Shifu will not stop you. But you can only go in for four hours. You have to come out after four hours without delay, understand?” Kong Wen said.

“Disciple understands.” You XiaoMo immediately promised happily.

Then Kong Wen took out a red tablet and handed it to him and his name was written on the tablet. Using this tablet, he could enter the third level of the library but he could only enter the third level of the East Pavilion. The West Pavilion couldn’t be accessed with this tablet.

“This is a one time use tablet made by Shifu. It can be used to enter the library only once. Once it is used, it will destroy itself automatically.”

Since his Grand disciple and Second disciple were already level four mages, they would occasionally go to the library. So Kong Wen already prepared a few of these types of tablets. The tablets contained his soul force and when it was destroyed, he would be able to sense it.

After receiving the tablet, You XiaoMo ran non-stop to the library.

After the assessment, he was no longer busy. He didn’t have much to do these days so he simply headed to the library to take a look.

The library guard tossed him the level two tablet as usual. You XiaoMo didn’t refuse because he could only go to the third level for four hours. So he could wait the rest of his time on the second level.

The third level of the East Pavilion didn’t contain as many books as the first and second level. But if these books were to be brought out, there would most probably be a huge pile of people fighting and snatching.

You XiaoMo took a rough look and there were not just magic pill recipes on the bookshelves. There were also dissertations from high level mages for over several thousand years. Just the dissertations alone were enough to fill three whole bookshelves. If it was not for the time limit, he would hole up in the library for one or two months and read every single one.

Two hours passed by very quickly and You XiaoMo somewhat reluctantly closed the book in his hand.

With level four to level six magic pill recipes he used his soul force to slowly carve them into his soul because normal memory was no use.

The person who wrote down these magic pill recipes seemed to have been very powerful. Each word seemed to have some sort of charm. After looking at them for a while, the mind would feel like it was in a trance. In an instant, all the previous memories would be wiped out. This was a very sinister move and luckily Da Shixiong told him about this before so this trip wouldn’t be wasted.

After one hours, he finally committed all the magic pill recipes to memory. He spent the remaining hour on the dissertations of a few high level mages. He wanted to find Ye-shishu’s dissertation of magic herb cultivation. Too bad he didn’t find it even after looking through all the bookshelves.

After leaving the library, as expected, the tablet changed into a puff of flying ash on its own, just like what Kong Wen said.

You XiaoMo didn’t go to look for Kong Wen again. He ran back to his room and took out a brush, paper, and inkstone.

This was his first time using the soul force to memorize things so he didn’t know how effective it was. He was worried that he would suddenly forget it all one day so he decided to write out all the magic recipes for now.

Three different levels of magic recipe, altogether there were several tens of magic pill recipes. You XiaoMo was just about to start writing when he realized one fact …

Damn it! He couldn’t write using a brush …

After a whole lot of mouth twitching, You XiaoMo only managed to write three crooked and shaky characters. The twenty first century was a time of fountain and ballpoint pens. Brushes had long ago been discarded into who knew which corner. One might not even be able to find one person out of ten that could write using a brush.

After struggling for half a day, You XiaoMo finally realized that he had to start by practicing calligraphy. But where could find the spare time for that now? After thinking it over for half a day, he still decided to write the magic pill recipes down first. Although his calligraphy was very much like earthworms crawling here and there, as long as it could be read, it should be good enough.

The sun that was hanging high above everyone’s heads, after going through a thousand trials and ten thousand tribulations, finally crawled below the Western horizon.

The tightly closed door was pushed open from outside. A slender shadow was cast from the fiery red sunset, making it look very long. It was cast from the door into the room, falling on a chair …

Ling Xiao walked in lightly and quietly. Turning around he saw You XiaoMo asleep, sprawled on the table.

You XiaoMo was using one of his arms as a pillow. Saliva dripped from the corner of his mouth onto the half written white piece of paper. Drop by drop added up to form a puddle of saliva.

Ling Xiao walked over and bent down to pick up a piece of paper that had fallen to the floor. He turned it over and saw an impressive ten or so crooked shaky characters. Usually, people could fit several hundred characters on this sheet of paper and he could only fit ten or so. On top of that, they were too horrible to look at.

Ling Xiao lifted the corner of his mouth, and couldn’t help letting out a chuckle.

These characters, one look and one could tell that this was someone that was just starting to learn how to write. Due to poor strength control, some strokes were as thick as a baby’s arm while others were rather small. They were large and small, all uneven, making them appear extremely funny.

Ling Xiao picked up all the papers that had fallen on the floor. Taking a closer look, he found out that they were all level four magic pill recipes. He couldn’t help but frown. Why was he writing all these magic recipes for no good reason?

“Oh …” You XiaoMo moved his mouth while in dreamland. He unconsciously turned over his face and continued sleeping.

The exposed side of his face, because it was slept on for almost an hour, was bright red. Like a huge pimple.

Ling Xiao stretched out his finger and poked his nose. A slight smile appeared on his face, “Seems like you have earned a benefit.”