Chapter 474: Chapter 452: Apprentice
Yamada Jungle, Chituca Territory.
In the “dicine Room” of a wooden house, Tang Qi was intently staring at the cauldron in front of him, containing what seed to be a solidified, stagnant golden mass with a layer of impurity film on the surface, like that which appears when slting gold. Beneath the film, intense heat and muffled sounds faintly emanated.
In one hand, Tang Qi was holding the “rubber fruit,” with a texture similar to frosted glass, hard yet with an ineffable resilience.
All the while feeling it silently, with his other hand clenched into a fist, he thumped the impurity film with several punches, “bang bang bang”.
At first, ripples appeared, but by the final punch, it seed entirely solid, hard as iron.
“Almost there!”
His pupils contracted slightly.
Then, the hand holding the rubber fruit plunged into the cauldron, turned upside down, with the fruit’s bird beak aid at the center of the impurity film.
Ding!
An unimaginable scene unfolded in an instant.
The seemingly fragile bird beak effortlessly pecked through the impurity film. The gray-black impurities washed away instantly as dazzling golden light burst forth. A powerful sucking force snatched away the rubber fruit from Tang Qi’s hand, a dark gold liquid reversed its flow upwards, heading into the pulsing web-like patterns.
Boom!
Tang Qi’s figure abruptly retreated, a huge black shadow grazing his nose, a terrifying force faintly conveyed. If it had landed on an ordinary person’s skull, it would undoubtedly result in a shattered cranium.
“First rule of configuring Rubber Man Secret dicine, watch your head.”
So comical knowledge flashed through his mind.
His eyes turned towards the dicine Room, clearly sensing behind the farce, there must be blood-filled lessons.
Inside the cauldron, a weird substance was rapidly expanding and contracting.
Wrapped in golden light, the dark substance grew rapidly, reaching the limits of the dicine Room space in a mont, just a hair’s breadth from shattering the dicine Room and the entire wooden house, then retracting in an instant.
Tang Qi could imagine, a typical Pharmacist, when configuring “Rubber Man Secret dicine”, retreating a step too slow, would be t with a shattered head.
Outside the dicine Room, Tang Qi stood silently.
Watching it expand and contract over and over, after about several dozen breaths, calm returned to the dicine Room, and the thing retracted.
One second!
Two seconds!
Three seconds!
Tang Qi remained still, just waiting.
Just as the fifth second was about to pass, there was another “boom” from inside the cauldron. The pitch-black substance violently exploded out, faster than any previous ti and with even more astonishing force, but once again, it missed its target and had to retract in dismay, finally restoring peace, as the golden light also faded away.
“Second rule of configuring Rubber Man Secret dicine, even the potion can deceive you… It lacks intelligence but has ford a peculiar chanism. It will pretend to be calm, luring the Pharmacist to approach, and then launch a final attack, all within ten seconds.”
Recalling the sowhat bizarre knowledge, Tang Qi stepped back into the dicine Room.
His gaze lingered on the cauldron. Inside lay a strange object, fist-sized, resembling a pitch-black pill, but with dark golden web-like patterns on its surface, emitting a faint stench.
Yet in just a single breath, that stink gave Tang Qi an urge for addiction, making him want to grab it and keep on sniffing.
Tang Qi suppressed the impulse and looked at the special image ford in his mind.
[Curios: Rubber Man Secret dicine.]
[Quality: Excellent.]
[Information Fragnt One: An extrely high-quality secret dicine, consuming it grants one the body of a Rubber Man, allowing for a certain degree of stretching and twisting of one’s own body, and obtaining super defense; other abilities need to be developed by the consur.]
[Information Fragnt Two: It is the initial stage of the “Rubber God” series of secret dicines. To configure the next stage “Rubber Warrior” secret dicine, it requires rubber fruit aged over a hundred years, and the configurator must be at least at the apprentice realm.]
…
A vast number of Information Fragnts were exploding, but Tang Qi just glanced at them and looked no further.
He was currently adjusting his breathing, slowly extending his hands. In his mind, the various Knowledge of the Original Secret dicine School was churning. The mont his fingertips touched the dark golden exterior of the Secret dicine, an unexpected tide of Knowledge burst forth.
Boom!
Tang Qi’s mind felt as though a black Monster had suddenly intruded, swelling continuously, shattering the familiar Secret dicine Knowledge. New insights were rapidly erging, swirling, fragnting, comprehending… This strange process lasted for quite so ti.
When he once again felt Peace, and looked within himself, brand new characters were taking shape in what should have been the solitary label “lter Wizard” on his Profession slot.
“Original Secret dicine Apprentice!”
“The second type of Professional Level power.”
Tang Qi’s mouth curved into a smile, feeling the Knowledge that was both familiar and alien.
Past accumulations, upon his touch of the Rubber Man Secret dicine, had successfully transford, propelling him into the Realm of “apprentice.”
“Wind’s Secret dicine, Spirit Communication Secret dicine, or other Secret dicines, they are all for accumulation, until one compounds the Rubber Man Secret dicine, touching the core lineage of the School… That secret of replicating and transforming Nature had always been hidden within familiar Knowledge. Shattered and rebuilt, it then reveals itself. A Secret Alchemist unready in accumulation, unable to successfully compound Rubber Man Secret dicine, might also have their skull crushed before success.”
While recalling the mysteries of progression within the Original Secret dicine School, he did not forget to mock the absurdity of the process.
Apart from the change in the Profession slot, on the Skill Bar.
[Secret dicine: Knowledge of the Original Secret dicine School, Realm: Apprentice; Progress: 0%.]
Unsurprisingly, after being promoted to the Apprentice Realm, the progress was reset.
An apprentice of the Original Secret dicine School is, in fact, equivalent to the “Professional Level” of other Secret dicine Schools.
Because in this School, the next Realm is astonishingly “Secret dicine Master,” where, according to the Knowledge within the School, each Secret dicine Master has a profound understanding of Nature, and even with empty hands and a naked body, they could concoct High-level Secret dicines deep in the jungle.
Such power was sowhat similar to “Wilderness Favored,” only directed differently.
“Let’s not think about the Secret dicine Master for now. After the Promotion to apprentice, the range of Secret dicines I can compound has expanded by several tis. So Secret dicines, even to the current , are of no small help. Although I’m reluctant to say it, the bait that these bizarre Evil Seeds sent to
is indeed…”
“Delicious!”
With a pleased exclamation, Tang Qi casually stuffed the “Rubber Man Secret dicine” into Gluttony’s appetite.
He had plans for how to deal with the Secret dicine; there was no need to rush.
His gaze returned to the dicine Room.
To one side, in a corner, a mountain of various precious materials piled up, including plants, Fruits, seeds, and so corpses of Extraordinary Creatures, only a small part of which related to the “Giant Demon’s Sleep” Secret dicine.
Tang Qi had no intention of checking to decide how much to “embezzle.” He intended to pick out the materials needed for the preparation of Giant Demon’s Sleep and then let Gluttony swallow all the rest.
But just as he was about to act, a pale green twisting ripple spilled out from the void, condensing into a bizarre symbol.
The corresponding aning erged in Tang Qi’s mind.
“An invitation?”
Tang Qi muttered slowly, his eyes seemingly piercing through the ripple, glimpsing behind it a vague, pale green World where several blurry but familiar figures sat, all watching Tang Qi, waiting for his decision.
“Sooner than I expected!”
Tang Qi spoke calmly, as if he had anticipated this.
Then, he extended a finger and touched the symbol.
In an instant, the ripple spread silently, pulling Tang Qi into that blurred World.
In a setup similar to a “Council,” the other seven Transcendents invited by Numba were all present. As the last to be invited, Tang Qi, seemingly because of the “Weak Chicken Alchemist persona,” only garnered a wink from the female adventurer; the rest just glanced at him briefly before turning their heads to look at the initiator of the invitation.
The presence has always been very low, even lower than Tang Qi’s—that Witch, always shrouded in a green robe, coming from a faction known as the “Earth Mother Witch” School.
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