After slightly muttering to himself, Elder Huo stated: "If you have enough contribution points, you can go visit the Black Prison."
Gu Zuo stared blankly: "Black Prison?"
Elder Huo sighed: "All the prisoners there are wicked and beyond redemption, but not to the point where they triggered great turmoil."
Gu Zuo was absent-minded, but he seed to understand a little.
Following which, Elder Huo began explaining to Gu Zuo.
The Black Prison was located in a certain secret location in the Inner Sect. It had three internal barriers and three external barriers, and it was guarded extrely tightly. Under normal circ.u.mstances, martial artists weren’t allowed entry. On the contrary, the frequency of pharmacists going through was comparatively high as long as they had a disciple token and contribution points.
As for why?
That was because the living people of various realms within the Black Prison were the test subjects of the Qingyun City pharmacists.
Gu Zuo was startled, and said: "Using those people to test dicine on?"
Then he promptly understood. Since Elder Huo previously stated that they were all people beyond redemption, rather than executing them... The aning was that it was better to have them to act as a donation to the pharmacists’ cause? After his heart hesitated for a second, he cald down.
Yes, even in modern tis, those who wanted to make breakthroughs weren’t without live specins for their experints. Only, they normally wouldn’t use humans. In addition, there were many kinds of other limits and restrictions.
But this was also because science and technology was very advanced in the modern era, and there were many things that could be used as subst.i.tutes. It was different now. If one didn’t use a living person, there basically wasn’t any way to conduct experintal verification.
People beyond redemption...
Right. He really didn’t need to take the moral standards of the modern era here to display a heart of false sympathy.
After thinking it through, Gu Zuo revealed a grateful expression to Elder Huo: "If it wasn’t for elder, I’m afraid this disciple wouldn’t have had this channel. Many thanks, Elder Huo."
Elder Huo received this grat.i.tude with a smile.
It was indeed as such.
Although the Black Prison nominally permitted pharmacists free pa.s.sage, the number of pharmacists who knew about the Black Prison weren’t that many. After all, not everyone had the qualifications to do testing on live specins...
After that, Elder Huo said: "If you have enough contribution points, I’ll guide you to the Black Prison."
Gu Zuo had a helpless expression: "At this mont, I don’t have..."
Elder Huo smiled placatingly: "Pharmacists also have many ways to obtain contribution points. Every refined dicinal pill that’s fit for a Xiantian martial artist’s consumption is worth one contribution point. Or you can go to the Consultation Pillar to answer complex problems for other pharmacists, and get contribution points that way — These two are the most common channels the Sect’s internal pharmacists use to get contribution points.
He continued: "If you want to go to the Black Prison and receive dedicated live specins, a Xiantian stage one requires ten contribution points. After this, every realm’s promotion of one grade requires double the contribution points."
Gu Zuo heard this and did so quick calculations. Then he felt the view before him darkening.
Those contribution points were frightful!
Afterwards, he sowhat hesitated: "Elder Huo, if it was a pharmacist..."
Elder Huo’s smile stiffened.
Gu Zuo was a bit embarra.s.sed: "About my findings on the mutated Scarlet Blood Rice, it was also effective after I inhaled the poison..."
Elder Huo understood: "There are also pharmacists. It’s just that they’re even more expensive. Moreover, they aren’t part.i.tioned based on the true qi realms. Rather, it’s by their dicine refining skills. Ordinary low-level pharmacists are two hundred contribution points, mid-level ones are four hundred, and high-level ones are eight hundred. Student, you should look carefully before choosing."
Gu Zuo let out a long sigh: "I understand. I’ll go to the Consultation Pillar, and look at the questions there first. I only hope that I can find ones that I know, and that so troubleshooting questions show up with lots of contribution points..."
Elder Huo had a kindly expression. He extended a hand and pointed to a place not far away.
Gu Zuo saw there was a small building over there, with a concealed side door.
Elder Huo said: "Go on."
Gu Zuo nodded. After expressing his thanks to Elder Huo, he scampered over like a wisp of smoke.
In the Consultation Hall, there were only ten Consultation Pillars. Compared to the martial artists’ Mission Pillars, the styles were about the sa, but the numbers were fewer for so reason. Furthermore, the issued missions were different. One could only ask about difficult problems here; one couldn’t ask others if they had such and such dicinal herbs —After all, if a pharmacist wanted, there were naturally many martial artists willing to help. Ordinarily, one would also have their own social circles to exchange dicinal ingredients. There really wasn’t any need to issue missions.
Instead, a mutual exchange of complex problems was the optimal thod of increasing each other’s dicine refining skills.
Gu Zuo walked before one of the Consultation Pillars, and inserted his disciple token into the groove on the stone platform.
In a split second, he experienced the feeling of "going online" like his big brother did.
Almost in the blink of an eye, Gu Zuo saw the countless writings on the pillar stop moving in front of him. Each row of text was preceded by a number. If he was finished looking at these rows, he only needed to use a finger to tap the stone platform and the text would automatically scroll to the next page.
After that, Gu Zuo saw those so-called complex problems. In actuality, there were many that were about supplenting fragntary prescriptions. So were about unidentifiable flas, and so were about cultivation thods. There were difficult hand seals, or hand seals with lost pages. There were challenges and questions when refining dicine. The list went on and on.
Among them, the ones with the highest contribution points were those about supplenting fragntary prescriptions. The more precious and unorthodox the prescription, the higher the contribution points rewarded. There were even so that only posted a na and a small list of dicinal herbs, and the contribution points could be negotiated directly... One could say it really was very advanced.
Gu Zuo carefully pondered over things.
It had to be ntioned that if he had to choose, he would naturally select the prescriptions.
Money would be falling into his lap, and it would be even easier to find an excuse for it.
With this kind of thinking, Gu Zuo started flicking on those problems asking about prescriptions one after another.
Tranquil Ocean Pill, Plum Blossom Pill, Golden Light Pill, Starry River Pill... So had an impact on qi and blood, and so could treat dubious and terrible illnesses. There were ones that could help martial artists refine their bodies. So were auxiliary dicinal pills that had special effects. For example, after taking it, there would be improvents to one’s fire attribute abilities within the body.
What was pleasantly surprising was that each and every prescription posted here that had a definite na were all recorded in the >. What was even more interesting was that so of the prescriptions asked about were actually for dicinal decoctions. It was just that the people who obtained those prescriptions weren’t aware of this.
From this, one could see how powerful an inheritance the item books sent by the system were.
Incomparably detailed. Incomparably ticulous...
Gu Zuo decided very carefully on his choices.
Any that suited the great majority of martial artists and could earn large amounts of money couldn’t be picked. Any that were unorthodox but exceptionally precious also couldn’t be picked. Any whose effects were too strong likewise couldn’t be picked. As for those that could treat incurable illnesses... His gaze fell upon a row of text, and he hesitated.
The prescription of the Steadfast Heart Pill.
In total, it required a little more than thirty dicinal herbs. This prescription was badly damaged, and it was short seven herbs.
If soone knew this prescription and wanted to bargain as soon as possible, they could discuss a pretty good price.
The Steadfast Heart Pill’s greatest use was to repair the heart.
— If a martial artist wasn’t able to achieve Xiantian and his heart had a congenital defect, he could repair it completely using the Steadfast Heart Pill.
Of course, if a person suffered from heart problems but hadn’t stepped onto the martial path, an ordinary person’s body could maybe live for forty or fifty years. If they could recover enough, extending the lifespan to seventy or eighty years was possible. rely, living would be relatively bland and every year would always be painful.
And once they set foot upon the martial path, their weakened heart would basically be unable to withstand the pa.s.sing of qi and blood. The higher they cultivated, the faster they would die. Above all, with the checkpoint of entering Xiantian, if their heart problem caused the qi and blood to flow the wrong way, it would directly kill them — Naturally, if they were really lucky and crashed their way through, their lifespan would be slightly longer, but at most it would only be a hundred fifty years. Pain would forever plague them, and each use of Xiantian true qi would ravage the body.
Unfortunately, they would die slowly due to the Xiantian qi. Every year would be more painful than the last. Even after reaching certain realms, they wouldn’t be able to get stronger due to the pain. They would ultimately die a miserable death.
Tragic. Too tragic.
Gu Zuo gave a sigh.
Wasn’t it just heart disease? Still, there might’ve been all kinds of pathological changes.
Firstly, the Steadfast Heart Pill could resolve the problem, but it belonged to a category of Human-Level dicinal Pills that was the hardest to refine. Not only were the dicinal herbs precious, a high-level pharmacist would have to make frequent attempts to be able to refine it. Secondly, even if only a few were refined, it wouldn’t be enough. At the minimum, the patient would need to continuously take the dicine three months before their lifespan was predicted to end, taking at least one pill a day — If the dicine was taken every day consecutively, the results would be wonderful. The repaired heart would be even st.u.r.dier.
This signified...
A costly pill refining. The best outco would be refining ninety pills, and the fewest would require forty-five.
Take Gu Zuo as an example.
His efficiency distantly surpa.s.sed ordinary pharmacists and he often disregarded the dicine refining ranks of others. He was currently at Xiantian Realm stage one. Relying on his own thods, he didn’t dare guarantee refining without blowing up a cauldron. Even more, he couldn’t guarantee refining top grade pills. Even if top grades were refined, this type of pill was said to have perfect conditions of three pills per cauldron. Forget about even more.
This was the case for Gu Zuo. If other high-level pharmacists tried to access this prescription for the first ti, then the failure rate...
Even if it were wealthy people, their scalps would turn numb thinking about the necessary costs to refine enough successful pills.
But there was no need for doubts that the Steadfast Heart Pill was extrely precious.
Gu Zuo thought about it a lot, but he wasn’t thinking about the other party saving money. Rather, he was hesitating about whether he would sell this kind of precious prescription or not.
If he didn’t sell it, this would be treated as himself having never read this problem, which was admittedly very easy to handle. Yet, the crucial point was that Gu Zuo clearly discovered from that problem that the fra of mind of the person requesting help was very urgent — This definitely weren’t the thods of a pharmacist who only wanted to study the prescription. It seed that person who issued the problem was soone who they themselves or soone close to them was the one who had the incurable illness. They needed this prescription!
If it was the actual person... Gu Zuo felt their desire to survive.
If the patient was a relative or good friend... Gu Zuo was touched by the other party’s willingness to pay enormously for their relative or friend.
In that case, what should he do?
The prescription was only precious. There definitely wasn’t any danger.
Except, because it was precious... Should he ignore that fleeting cry for help in that problem?
Gu Zuo knew that this world was a world where the weak were prey to the strong, but the law of the jungle didn’t an reckless abandonnt without the slightest virtuous thought. He hesitated for a mont before withdrawing from the "computer".
To answer people’s problems, he encountered problems himself.
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