The Legendary Master’s Wife - Chap 12

Chapter 12: The Danger of Magic Pills

Returning to his room, You XiaoMo’s mind slowly cleared up. The words of the pink dressed girl revealed quite a bit of information. That ‘Da Shixiong’ most probably was a top level disciple of the Warrior Division , while the pink dressed girl should be a mage. Even though You XiaoMo was not very sociable, he knew that she couldn’t possibly be from Capital Peak. That pink dressed girl should be a disciple from Heaven Peak or Flying Peak. After having tossed the petulant voice of the pink dressed girl from his mind, You XiaoMo started to read his book seriously.

Speaking of the quality of magic herbs, the book actually did touch on the subject. Magic herbs would grow differently depending on the method of cultivation, leading to good and bad magic herbs. However, without exception, regardless of cultivation method, the quality of magic herbs had never exceeded 95% perfection. Of course, this would directly affect the quality of magic pills. It was recorded in the book that problems arose in the method of cultivating magic herbs several thousand years ago. From then on, no one had been able to cultivate top quality magic herbs, affecting the usability ratio of the herbs. Therefore, magic pills were divided into three grades: top, middle, and low grades.

Flipping further, You XiaoMo studied how to judge the quality of magic herbs. Simply put, it was related to the spiritual energy absorbed by mages. Magic herbs were called so because they absorbed the spiritual energy of the universe. Spiritual energy would flow through the meridians of the magic herbs, soaking them in energy day by day until they growed to maturity. Therefore , the quality of the magic herbs could be determined by the amount of spiritual energy contained in them.

Only now did You XiaoMo understand that the white mist he saw earlier on the stems and leaves of the Peaceful Mind Flower in the medicine garden represented magic herbs of the best quality. But the probability of this happening was not high. Even in the level one medicine garden, there were only the occasional few plants this had occurred to. And in the high level magic herbs? The probability of this happening was practically zero.

Furthermore, because of the different magic pill grades, there was a predetermined risk for the practitioners of the Warrior Division when they took the pills. The lower the grade of the magic pills, the higher the risk. For example, for low grade magic pills, since the quality of the magic herbs lie between sixty to seventy percent, the risk for the practitioners when they took low grade magic pills reached up to thirty-five percent. Not high yet not low.

The results for mid grade magic pills were slightly better. Since the quality of the magic herbs were from seventy to eighty-five percent, so the risk of taking midgrade magic pills was only twenty percent. Naturally, the lowest risk was the top grade magic pills. The quality of top grade magic herbs was ninety percent so the risk of top grade magic pills was only eight percent. This was why top grade magic pills had always been the goal of mages and practitioners. Other than spending time refining magic pills, the high level mages of the Long Xiang Continent also regularly devoted themselves to researching the cultivation methods of magic herbs.

However, there were some exceptions.

Five hundred years ago, a high level mage discovered another way of reducing the risk of magic pills. That was to refine the extraction process, removing the impurities. The more impurities were removed, the better the quality of the magic herbs, leading to decreasing risk in the resulting magic pills. Later, when the discovery was passed on, it caused a huge uproar among mages.

From then on, more and more mages adopted this method , o ne after another, hoping to further distill the magic herbs to reduce the risk of the magic pills. However, this method could only reduce the risk of the magic pills, not increase the grade. That was because the grade of magic pills was dependent on the level of spiritual energy contained in the magic herbs. Removing more impurities did not affect the original level of spiritual energy contained in the magic herbs. Regardless, the method discovered by the high level mage was still very useful. Going through the distillation process, the risk of low grade magic pills was reduced to fifteen percent, midgrade to ten percent, and top grade to five percent.

All this information left You XiaoMo confused and disoriented. It was really quite complicated. Now he understood why those disciples said earlier that refining magic pills was not easy. It looked like it took so many steps just to refine one magic pill. Refining a level two magic pill within six months did not seem plausible no matter how one looked at it. You XiaoMo’s head started to ache. It looked like he needed to put in two hundred percent more effort if he planned to stay within the Tian Xin Sect.