Chapter 24: Chapter 24 Discovered?
"I’ll imdiately make a trip to the Treasure Pill Pavilion, I should be able to return in at most half an hour! Alchemist Chu, please rest for a while in my Alchemy Room, how about that?"
Niu Baotian instantly lost his nerve, he no longer dared to negotiate any terms with Chu Feng.
"Go ahead!" Chu Feng waved his hand.
He sat alone in Niu Baotian’s Alchemy Room and felt sowhat bored. He casually surveyed everything inside the room.
There was a dicine cabinet against the wall, the kind with many small drawers.
Each drawer had the na of the dicine written on the outside.
A Pill Master with their own Alchemy Room would usually store so commonly used dicinal materials for convenience in alchemy. Generally, these were cheaper auxiliary dicines.
"Eh! Because of that idiot Liu Ping’s blessing during today’s alchemy class, he inadvertently gave
so Yellow Earth. Now with a complete set of auxiliary dicines, as well as a Pill Furnace and Earth fire, I might as well concoct a batch of elixirs to enhance my cultivation."
Chu Feng’s cultivation was only at the Second Level of Swordsman; it was far too weak.
So much so that despite his superior combat experience and mastery of so exquisite moves, he could not unleash even a tenth of their power.
His own elder brother, the Eldest Prince of the Sword King Mansion, now resorted to standing guard at the city gate.
Chu Feng found this hard to swallow.
To change all of this, he must swiftly enhance his own strength and then use his alchemy skills to secretly assist his brother.
"To concoct the Pei Yuan Elixir, Yellow Earth is the main dicine; for the auxiliary dicines, I’ll select so with Fire Attributes! It should sowhat benefit my Nine Yang Strange Fire."
Abnormal Fire was one of Chu Feng’s strongest assets, and the more potent it was, the better.
No sooner thought than done, after he had gathered the auxiliary dicines, he imdiately began the alchemy process.
...
A full hour went by, and at this mont, Niu Baotian ca running back, drenched in sweat. A hint of joy on his face suggested that things had gone well.
However, as soon as he entered his own Alchemy Room, he was stunned.
Because he saw Chu Feng engaging in alchemy, and his Fire Control technique was almost magical. It made Niu Baotian, the teaching director, feel ashad.
Although Niu Baotian was a Second Grade Alchemist with not inferior skills in Fire Control, he was far inferior to Chu Feng.
The difference between them was more than just a star’s gap.
"Is this... really just a student from the Alchemy Academy?"
Niu Baotian’s eyes widened, he was dumbfounded, and his face showed embarrassnt. Having witnessed Chu Feng’s alchemy skills, Niu Baotian felt that he was the student and Chu Feng the instructor.
"Extinguish!"
At this mont, Chu Feng had also completed his alchemy. He pinched a formula and perfectly controlled the furnace fla, gradually extinguishing it.
It was done effortlessly, as naturally as if lons were falling after ripening, without a ripple of disturbance.
Many fail in alchemy specifically at the step of extinguishing the fire.
If the fire is extinguished too quickly, the elixir goes from high heat to sudden cold, which will directly cause it to crack and break. If the fire is extinguished too slowly, the cooling process of the elixir is too prolonged, leading not only to loss of efficacy.
It can also result in a loose structure of the elixir or a difference in quality, with odd and strange appearances.
Hence, alchemy is a craft with extrely high technical requirents.
"I was idly bored, and since I had the main ingredient on , I borrowed your Pill Furnace and concocted a batch of Pei Yuan Elixirs! I took so of your auxiliary dicines, so just deduct ten silver taels from the paynt for those two Fla Burst Pills."
Chu Feng said indifferently.
"No need, no need, having Alchemist Chu refine elixirs for
is my honor! Moreover, a bit of auxiliary dicine is not worth much money at all. You have saved my life, and if I were to charge you for so auxiliary dicine, that would really show an ungrateful spirit!"
Niu Baotian waved his hands repeatedly while handing over three silver banknotes to Chu Feng.
"All in all, it sold for three thousand silver taels!"
Receiving the three thousand-tael banknotes, Chu Feng was quite surprised. According to his thoughts, a Fla Burst Pill would at most sell for 1,200 silver taels at the very limit.
Unexpectedly, it sold for an extra 600 silver taels.
No business is done without cunning, and he surely didn’t believe the Treasure Pill Pavilion was a charity. They’d be looking to underpay rather than overpay, so why would they give extra silver?
"Alchemist Chu, are you satisfied with this price?"
"Hehe, you might not believe it, but my luck is truly good. Taking the Fla Burst Pill to the Treasure Pill Pavilion for sale, it happened that a big shot had just arrived there. Talismanic Elixirs are sowhat rare in the Jianyun Dynasty."
"He imdiately ca over to take a look and seed very excited when he saw it. He asked
how much I was selling it for."
"I rembered what you said, that the price couldn’t be set too low. A normal first-grade Talismanic Pill sells for around one thousand silver taels. Yours had good quality, so I just quoted three thousand taels. Unexpectedly, the dignitary didn’t say another word and just handed
three silver banknotes of a thousand taels each."
Niu Baotian told the story of selling the Fla Burst Pill with great pride.
A heavy sinking feeling suddenly gripped Chu Feng’s heart, realizing he had been careless.
If this dignitary ntioned by Niu Baotian was his own senior disciple, it was very likely that he had recognized it from the special characteristics of the elixir.
"Did that dignitary ask you anything else?" Chu Feng tried to keep his tone calm, asking casually.
"He asked who had refined the elixir, and I said it was my own work, then he didn’t ask anything more," Alchemy Master Niu’s tone clearly carried the intention to please Chu Feng.
Chu Feng nodded, still feeling a bit anxious.
"From now on, whenever you’re asked who refined any elixir you sell, insist that it was your own work!" After saying this, Chu Feng took out a Detoxification Pill. "Take this, and then I’ll use needle therapy to clear your channels and detoxify you, at the very least it can ensure you’re safe for a month!"
"To completely remove your poison, I fear we must wait until I can refine a third-grade elixir to find a way!"
Chu Feng fully understood the complexity of human hearts.
If he couldn’t show Niu Baotian so hope, it would be difficult to ensure his loyalty.
Indeed, upon hearing his words, Niu Baotian’s face imdiately revealed a hint of hopeful joy.
"Thank you, Alchemist Chu!" He thanked him repeatedly.
Compared to not long before, Niu Baotian seed much more sincere. The tone and expression of his gratitude were also very natural.
It seed that all the doubts and grievances in Niu Baotian’s heart had been dispelled.
If Chu Feng had the ability to detoxify him but purposely delayed doing so to use him, it would certainly breed resentnt in Niu Baotian’s heart.
Now things were different, not only was he devoid of resentful energy, but he was also hopeful that Chu Feng would advance to a third-grade alchemist soon.
After granting Niu Baotian a Detoxification Pill and having him take it, Chu Feng imdiately perford needle therapy on him on the spot. Combined with the effect of the Detoxification Pill, he extracted the poison from Niu Baotian.
Although the needle therapy only took about a quarter of an hour, Chu Feng was sweating profusely, almost to the point of collapsing from weakness.
This body’s cultivation was just too weak.
He couldn’t help shaking his head with a wry smile, knowing he needed to increase his cultivation to that of a Tenth-Order Swordsman as fast as possible.
Niu Baotian felt a lightness and exhilaration he had not experienced since he had been poisoned, a feeling of weightlessness that ca with being free of illness.
"Alchemist Chu, thank you! Should you need , Niu Baotian, to do anything in the future, just command !"
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