The Legendary Master’s Wife - Chap 126

Chapter 126 : Level Three Mage

Inside the green and flourishing dimension, You XiaoMo took twenty or so level three magic herbs from the wooden rack. Then he entered the small wooden hut and took out the Jin Ming Cauldron from the cupboard.

He was going to refine level three magic pills so he didn’t want to use the inferior cauldron because he was afraid that if he were to crack open another so soon after the tragedy with the first cauldron, he wouldn’t know what excuse to use to convince his fellow disciples and shifu.

But the most important thing was that the original cauldron was only capable of refining level one and level two magic pills.

Da Shixiong already said before that level three magic pills were the first hurdle for mages. It required a lot of soul force during the refining process. If he was to use the previous cauldron, it wouldn’t be able to accept too much soul force most probably causing it to split open or even explode. So, in order to avoid that kind of situation, he could only use the Jin Ming Cauldron.

Taking the cauldron and magic herbs, You XiaoMo walked to a stone platform in the courtyard.

This stone platform was long and squarish, the length, width and height was about one meter each. It was a platform for refining magic pills that he bought for this purpose in HunJi City. After buying it, he put it inside the dimension and hadn’t used it until now.

Now he planned to refine magic pills in the dimension so it was just the right time to try it out.

First, You XiaoMo put the twenty or so stalks of magic herbs neatly on the stone platform. Then he moved the Jin Ming Cauldron onto the platform. There was a customized depression for the cauldron on the stone platform. When he bought it, he had it made according to the measurements of the Jin Ming Cauldron.

Level three magic pills, other than requiring a higher amount of soul force, it also required more than three stalks of magic herbs. Six stalks of magic herbs were needed, twice the amount for level one and level two magic herbs.

The first level three magic pill that You XiaoMo wanted to refine was called the South Star pill which was a rather unique level three magic pill. It’s uniqueness lie in its ability to increase the power of the Sky level practitioner that took it. The amount increased was not huge so if one wanted to increase the power by one star, one would have to take multiple South Star pills.

But it also had its limit and that was that it was only meant for Sky level practitioners. Also, it couldn’t be used constantly because once the body acquired a resistance, the South Star pill would lose its effect on the practitioner.

As for Man level practitioners, they could also take the South Star pill. But they must have a powerful person to channel the medicinal effect of the South Star pill. Otherwise, taking it at random would only result in the body exploding.

You XiaoMo picked out the materials needed to refine the South Star pill and then put a stalk of Mountain Mouse Herb into the cauldron.

The biggest difference between the Jin Ming Cauldron and the inferior cauldron was that the Jin Ming Cauldron did not have small holes on the rim. So distilling magic herbs could only take place inside the cauldron. Also, in order to increase the rate of success, most mages would chose to distill the magic herbs one by one when refining magic pills of level three and above. This way, the time it took would definitely be greatly increased.

You XiaoMo didn’t want to fail on his first attempt at refining a level three magic pill so he simply followed the pointers from the books to distill the magic herbs.

Without feeling any pressure, he finished distilling the first stalk of magic herb. He considered for a bit before simply throwing in two stalks of magic herbs. He distilled the two stalks of magic herbs separately inside the cauldron into two pools of green liquid. Since there were no small chambers, he could only rely on his own spirit to control the two pools of liquid to stop them from mixing with each other, greatly increasing the difficulty of distillation.

At first, he was still not used to it so he spent close to half an hour to finish the distillation. Fortunately, after the first time, the following times were relatively smoother.

More than an hour later, You XiaoMo finally finished refining six stalks of magic herbs. Each stalk of magic herb was only distilled twice because they were top grade magic herbs, so there were few impurities. If more distillation was required, the process would be more difficult.

Looking at the six pools of green liquid suspended inside the cauldron, You XiaoMo heaved a sigh of relief.

Unexpectedly just distilling six stalks of magic herbs would take this much time. Luckily he had sufficient soul force, otherwise there would only be a little soul force left after finishing the distillation, meaning that this magic pill could only be wasted. No wonder a lot of disciples stumbled at this hurdle as level two mages. Seemed like it was not so easy.

But if he didn’t distill them two stalks at a time, the time spent would be even longer and he took less than two hour to complete the distillation. Compared to others, taking close to four hours, this speed was already very good.

After collecting himself, You XiaoMo got ready to start the blending step.

Since level three magic pills required six types of magic herbs, the number of steps were also greatly increased. Not just twice the number needed for level one and level two magic pills. The whole ten or so steps, if there were any mistakes at any step, this magic pill would be rendered useless.

Some magic herbs had rather potent medicinal properties. In order to not overpower the medicinal properties of the other magic herbs, the pool of green liquid must be divided into several portions. Only this way would a smooth blending process be guaranteed.

Firstly, You XiaoMo took a small pool of green liquid and merged it with another pool. The whole process was done cautiously. After smoothly blending them, he started on the second blending step, followed by the third blending step…

When he finished with the fifth blending step and was preparing to start the sixth step, his left hand jerked suddenly. Half a second later, a exploding sound was suddenly heard coming from inside the cauldron. A wisp of white smoke curled upwards. You XiaoMo watched this scene wide-eyed and with his mouth hanging open. He actually failed?

This was the first time he failed since he became a mage. You XiaoMo suffered a very heavy blow.

Although he already prepared himself before starting the refining process, but now that he actually failed, he still felt a little disheartened. He thought that he would be able to maintain his zero failure record. Unexpectedly he immediately stumbled at this huge level three hurdle.

Fine. Six types of magic herbs were actually a little much. A momentary slip up was normal. There was nothing to be depressed about. It couldn’t be smooth sailing all the time although he felt that ever since he entered Tian Xin Sect, he had yet to experience smooth sailing.

You XiaoMo pat his face that had been stretched tight for more than two hours. Then he took a sip of the spiritual water to replenish his soul force that he had used two-thirds of. He was now certain that he could definitely refine level three magic pills.

Then he again took out six stalks of magic herbs and threw two of them into the cauldron and started his distillation journey. Since he already did it twice, this time it went very smoothly.

An hour later, he completed the distillation of the six stalks of magic herbs. It took a little less time than before. Now it was time for blending. He raised his spirit to a hundred and twenty percent. If he failed again this time, he would have to write his name in reverse and be known from now on as Mo XiaoYou.

It was not the same now that he had the determination. His confidence and motivation was surging like the waters of the YangTze river.

Another hour later, the Jin Ming Cauldron suddenly buzzed. Right after that, an emerald green magic pill suddenly flew out. You XiaoMo had no time to deal with the sweat on his forehead, hastily stretching out his hand to catch it. Unexpectedly…he didn’t catch it!

The magic pill fell on the stone platform, rolling a few times and was about to fall off when You XiaoMo hastily rushed over, finally catching it this time.

The emerald green magic pill rolled around in his hand a few times. Its quality was quite high, on the high side of top grade magic pills. Managing to refine a magic pill of this quality left You XiaoMo very satisfied. It was worth it that he deliberately distilled it twice.

You XiaoMo put the magic pill into bottle. Then he took stock of his remaining soul force. Only one third remained. This rate of consumption was too high. Like this, he would have to take a sip of spiritual water after each pill.

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but thank his lucky stars that he had spiritual water. If not, after every magic pill, he would have to rest for over half an hour before continuing. That was because his recovery rate only allowed him to recover half after over half an hour.

You XiaoMo took half a sip of spiritual water and waited until his soul force recovered. Then he started on the second magic pill.

Time flew by in the blink of an eye. After that he didn’t make any more mistakes. The number of pills in the bottle increased from one to ten. The time taken also slowly shortened as he got more and more familiar with the process. At first, he could only distill two stalks of magic herbs at a time. Now he could already do three stalks at a time.

You XiaoMo put the last magic pill into the bottle and finally stopped to rest.

Counting the hours, it had already been sixteen to eighteen hours. No wonder his stomach was already making gurgling sounds in hunger. It was right about the time for dinner so You XiaoMo didn’t hesitate, leaving the dimension right away.

The room was very quiet and there were also no sounds coming from outside. Maybe everyone had gone to the canteen.

You XiaoMo straightened out his clothes before opening the door and stepping out. The warm and cozy evening glow shined on his body immediately causing him to feel sluggish. He couldn’t help but let out a yawn.

The scenery at Capital Peak was actually pretty good. Every time the sun was about to set, the mist would start to wind around, making everything turn hazy. It gave of a feeling of what humans would call fairyland.

By the time he reached the canteen, because he was a little late, the canteen was already filled with a sea of people.

Looking as far as the eye could see, everywhere was a mass of bobbing heads. Each table seemed to be occupied by a group of people, gathering in groups of two or three, talking very enthusiastically, the noisiness could be compared to a wet market.

You XiaoMo swallowed. Usually he also came relatively late but this was the first time he saw the canteen so packed. Inside, there was very long line of people queueing up to get food.

Just when he was hesitating over whether he should just head right back and eat his own snacks, a voice calling ‘Seventh Shidi’ suddenly came from his right. This voice was very familiar.

You XiaoMo turned around and looked over. The one that called out to him was sitting on the first row, at the second table. That person saw him look over and his expression actually turned a little awkward. If it was not Fifth Shixiong Zhao DaZhou, who else could it be?