The Legendary Master’s Wife - Chap 53

Chapter 53: Pleasant Surprise

For the following short period of time, You XiaoMo used the excuse of his leg injury to gradually cut down the number of times he went to the Hall of Magic Herbs to collect magic herbs. This dawdling dragged on for almost a month. His ‘leg injury’ finally healed. During this time, he took one thousand and two hundred magic herbs. It appeared as if he only refined four hundred magic pills. In reality, he was busy gathering the mature magic herbs in his dimension.

Ever since he found out that the spiritual water could accelerate the growth of magic herbs, You XiaoMo had been thinking of how to use the spiritual water to cultivate magic herbs. After a few experiments, You XiaoMo gradually figured out a few points.

Firstly, concerning the level one magic herbs. Level one magic herbs grew much more quickly than level two magic herbs. If one didn’t water them with spiritual water, it would take a few months to grow. If one used spiritual water, it wouldn’t even take half a day for the magic herb to change from a seed to a fully mature magic herb. The effect was very impressive , but because it was so impressive, You XiaoMo felt it was somewhat wasteful.

Although the lake took up one fifth of the dimension, it was unknown if it would get replenished. What would happen if he used it all? With this in mind, You XiaoMo tried to dilute the spiritual water with ordinary water. He found out that although the effect of the diluted spiritual water was not as strong as undiluted spiritual water, it still had an accelerating effect. It was only that the rate was a little reduced in accordance to the degree of dilution. With this, he could adjust the rate of growth of the magic herbs.

After figuring this out, he simply stayed in his dimension carrying out tests. He also requested Ling Xiao to go down the mountain to help him buy fifty big wooden barrels because he already used up this month’s two trip quota. Also, frequently going down the mountain would attract attention.

Ling Xiao knew that during this time he had been busy planting magic herbs. Although he didn’t say he would do it, he bought the fifty wooden barrels for him that very day. You XiaoMo never expected that he would be so fast. He only asked for them not four hours before and Ling Xiao already broug ht the wooden barrels over. Feeling moved, he almost promised him ten or more magic pills right then and there. Luckily he was able to stop his mouth in time.

Ling Xiao also didn’t ask for compensation. Seeing that he was busy, he simply left.

When You XiaoMo got busy, he easily forgot those next to him. So he didn’t realize when Ling Xiao left. On top of that, his bubbling spirits caused him to not take any notice. After moving the water filled barrels into his dimension, he started to dilute the spiritual water.

He prepared two different dilutions of spiritual water according to what was needed of the three types of magic herbs. One was for watering level one magic herbs because they grew too fast ; You XiaoMo wasn’t able to come in everyday to take care of them, so to avoid being wasteful, he diluted the spiritual water with a one to one hundred ratio. This way, the magic herbs would take five days to grow. However, watering magic herbs could not be stopped, basically they needed to be watered once a day.

The second one was for watering level two magic herbs. Since level two magic herbs took a longer time to grow when compared to level one magic herbs, the dilution factor was lower. But You XiaoMo didn’t want to spend time harvesting magic herbs, so he adjusted their growth rate to one month.

As for level three magic herbs, since he couldn’t use them now, You XiaoMo planned to observe them for now. So You XiaoMo put diluted spiritual water in fifteen of the fifty wooden barrels. The rest were filled with ordinary water just in case.

After finishing this, You XiaoMo gathered up the mature magic herbs and place d them on racks. Luckily , he had the foresight to buy over ten racks. He put the ready magic herbs on top of them. When the time came, he just needed to take them from these racks.

But while he was picking magic herbs, he made a big discovery. He discovered that whether it was the stalks or the leaves, they were all filled with spiritual energy. The high concentration clearly showed that they were top quality magic herbs.

After this surprising discovery, he went to check on the level two and level three magic herbs. While he was experimenting, these two levels of magic herbs also matured one after the other. At this time, the magic herbs in the field were already the second batch. These two levels of magic herbs were also top quality, on a completely different level than the ones in the magic herb gardens of Capital Peak.

You XiaoMo immediately thought that this situation was related to the spiritual water. Since the spiritual water was a result of super concentrated spiritual energy, condensed into liquid form, wouldn’t that mean that magic herbs watered with the spiritual water would all be first class? Although there were some doubts, You XiaoMo was almost certain of this. This was because he had already checked when he was harvesting the magic herbs. Each and every one was undoubtedly top quality.

This made You XiaoMo’s spirits rise as if having been injected with chicken blood . This many top quality magic herbs, if they were to be refined into magic pills, wouldn’t they all be top quality magic pills?

Having gone down the mountain twice, he already enquired about the prices of magic pills. Top grade magic pills, no matter the level, once they appeared, they would be snatched. So for higher level top grade magic pills, they would usually be sold at auction. As for low level magic pills, if the quantity was high, they could also be sold at auction.

Although very excited, You XiaoMo didn’t immediately use these magic herbs to refine magic pills. Since he had to take care of magic herbs, refine pills for Ling Xiao, and deal with the occasional visit from Da Shixiong, he was busier than most other people.

Only after he finished all these things, and after his ‘leg injury’ had healed, did You XiaoMo leave the room. Before he could notify Ling Xiao, Da Shixiong Fang ChenYue coincidentally came over. Saying that Shifu wanted to see them to discuss some matter, they both headed over together.

Although he was Kong Wen’s disciple, You XiaoMo had only met Kong Wen a few times. Most of the time it was Da Shixiong that went to see him. But this time there was an added good news. Apparently, that Second Shixiong that You XiaoMo had yet to meet, Fu ZiLin had returned.

Fu ZiLin returning meant that he had found that magic herb. You XiaoMo was very curious about this little genius of a Second Shixiong.

It was said that there was not much of an age difference between him and Da Shixiong. The two of them entered the Tian Xin Sect at the same time. However, Kong Wen did not take them as disciples at the Tian Xin Sect. When Kong Wen was outside, he chanced upon them, and discovered that their innate talent was not bad, so he simply accepted them as disciples before bringing them back.

After that, the two of them did not fail to live up to Kong Wen’s expectations. Only in two and half years, the both of them became level three mages one after the other. It must be said that usually people took two to three years just to progress from level two to level three.

For example, Zhao DaZhou was about the same age as them , but he was only a level two mage. Although he would soon rise to level three, he had already spent almost five years at this level. Furthermore, he grew up in Capital Peak. However, one of the reasons was also his poor understanding.

On top of that, the transition between level three to level four was more difficult. Fang ChenYue and Fu ZiLin also spent a few years before managing to breakthrough. It was only that their two characters were poles apart. Da Shixiong was nice and warm. Second Shixiong was poker faced, only showing emotions when facing his childhood friend Da Shixiong. As for his relationship with others, one could well imagine.

The meeting place was at Capital Peak’s Assembly Hall. When two of them arrived, most of the people had already gathered .

You XiaoMo had originally thought it would just be a meeting between shifu and disciples. He didn’t think there would be other people. One of them was Zhao DaZhou’s father, Zhao Zhen. Looking at this array of people, he must be a blockhead if he still thought this was just an informal gathering between shifu and pupils.

You XiaoMo took a sweeping look over the place, but he didn’t find that Second Shixiong although the others were already there.

Seeing them enter, Kong Wen signaled for them to go over. Who would have guessed that the first thing he asked was about that one month of closed-door cultivation. That was his secret, how could he say anything!