The Legendary Master’s Wife - Chap 20

Chapter 20: Accumulate Energy Pill

You XiaoMo handed over the forty pills that he had set aside. Zhao-shishu flipped through the records. Ninety level one magic pills. Surprisingly, a complete success. Again, another record. But he was only a little surprised. After all, a high success rate for level one magic pills was not a big deal. During the exchange, Zhao-shishu gave him a magic bag to store his magic pills. The magic bag had a capacity of five square meters. The Tian Xin Sect had plenty of these small scale bags. Each disciple was entitled to have one. Fang ChenYue did not give them the bags earlier because he was busy.

The capacity was rather small, but it was better than nothing. However, You XiaoMo was not like the other disciples whose faces lit up upon receiving the magic bag. That was because he had already figured out how to deal with this issue. But in front of Zhao-shishu, he left an impression of someone that was not easily fazed.

Following this, You XiaoMo asked Zhao-shishu for a hundred portions of magic herbs. Zhao-shishu was not surprised, quickly sorting and counting the magic herbs before handing them over to him. This was because he was not the first one to bring the cauldron back to their room. Hardworking and smart Capital Peak disciples would also do it that way. After that, You XiaoMo smoothly obtained permission from Wu- Shixiong to go down the mountain.

In the dead of the night, when everything was quiet, You XiaoMo took out the cauldron that he brought back from the stone room. Then, he took out the one hundred portions of magic herbs from the magic bag and placed them on the table. The reason why he brought back the cauldron was so that he could refine magic pills at night. But they would be different from the ones he refined during the day. This time, he was going to try to reduce the risk associated with the magic pills.

Due to the quality of the magic herbs being a limiting factor, even if his talent was great, he had no way of improving the grade of the magic pills. So, he could only work on the distillation step, reducing the risk associated with taking magic pills.

During the day, You XiaoMo observed the other disciples when they were refining magic pills. He discovered that when they distilled the magic herbs, they could do it only one or two times, not more. So the risk associated with the resulting magic pills was only reduced by fifteen percent. That left the low grade magic pills with a twenty percent risk. So he thought to himself, if he were to distill the herbs further , would the risk get lower? He didn’t dare attempt it during the day, so he only chose to do so at night.

He put the cauldron on the table and picked up three stalks of magic herbs: Rock Jasmine, Rabdosia Herb, and Korean Mint. These three magic herbs made up the Accumulate Energy magic pill. The Accumulate Energy pill was directed towards practitioners.

Usually, before entering the world of mages, practitioners were ordinary people. Ordinary people needed to open up the meridians in their bodies in order to become practitioners. Opening up the meridians required the assistance of the spiritual energy of the universe. Therefore, if they did not have help from a shifu, they could only rely on the Accumulate Energy magic pill.

The Accumulate Energy magic pill was able to briefly concentrate spiritual energy in the body. This spiritual energy was able to help in opening the meridians. Due to the fact that the Accumulate Energy magic pill was a level one magic pill, its effect were limited and it also had a high associated risk. Therefore, most people would choose not take the Accumulate Energy magic pill unless it was a last resort.

Of course, You XiaoMo was aware of this. But he also knew that the main reason why people did not take the Accumulate Energy pill was because the risk was too high. If not careful, it was possible that it would cause the spiritual energy to run amok in the body. Not everyone would be able to survive the fallout. But if the risk was reduced, the outcome would be different. The effect of one low grade Accumulate Energy pill was limited, but if multiple pills were taken and if the risk was not high, then the choice would be easier.

When the time came for him to sell them, he should be able to get a higher price. But this was just what he thought, the reality would depend on the effect of the Accumulate Energy magic pills he refined.

Thinking of this, You XiaoMo threw the magic herbs into the cauldron and started the distillation process. That involved the removal of impurities before dropping them into the cavity of the cauldron. Doing this repeatedly would get harder with each repetition, using up more and more soul force.

During the day, it took You XiaoMo the time to brew half a small cup of tea to refine one magic pill. But with the additional two rounds of distillation, each magic pill now took twice as long. Although the time needed increased, the risk actually dropped. It was unclear how much risk was reduced. The light blue color of the magic pill appeared a little stronger. The difference was noticeable when examined closely.

You XiaoMo didn’t know how to judge the risk of magic pills. After trying out one pill, he went on to the second one. Like this, he only managed to refine fifty pills through the night, half of which were only distilled once.

During the day, he went to the stone room as usual. Refining one hundred magic pills, just like the day before. At night he returned to his room and continued refining pills without sleep or rest, finally making it through the first batch of magic pills.

The next day, he gathered all his belongings and prepared to go down the mountain.

Notes:

rock jasmine: Androsace Umbellata

korean mint: Agastache Rugosa