"And then, I combined one thousand year old ginseng, and a bit of wild everbloom to my other materials and I had done it. Behold!"
Dan Master Hideyoshi of the Profound Pill Union held up an item between his fingers.
A small brown pill with four and a half golden striations running along the circumference. There was no doubt about it- this was a rank seven pill.
aning that Dan Master Hideyoshi had beco the first Pill Venerable that Tayar had seen in 1,800 years.
"The legendary Blue Dream Blood Pill!"
"I thought the recipe was lost..!"
"Ohhh..!"
"I can't believe it. A rank seven pill in front of my own eyes."
"And for him to have beco an official Pill Venerable, that ans that..."
Dan Master Hideyoshi smirked to himself proudly as he dug in his back pocket and pulled out two more pills just like his first ones.
"No way!"
"Three in the sa place! You have to be shitting !"
"Oooohhh..!"
"Those things are supposed to be able to cure soone of any internal injury and correct any faulty physique! Just one goes for millions of gold!"
"He is a genius...!"
Dan Master Hideyoshi sucked in the praise and hushed whispers of the crowd.
He reveled in this feeling of elation as he celebrated his accomplishnts after so many years of hard work.
As a dwarf, only one path was posed to him when he was growing up. tal work and smithing.
He was expected to help arm the other races of light so that they could cut down and pillage more fallen lands and violate their people.
Unlike his brothers and father, he didn't
want
to participate in such barbarity.
So, he turned to dicine.
His family was accepting at first, but when he revealed that he wanted to help fallen and light races alike, they were outraged.
He was forced to leave ho shortly after- completely reduced to the town pariah in only two nights.
But he didn't care. His goal hadn't been changed, only strengthened.
He set out on the path of becoming a Dan Master with the goal of healing all bodies through dao- not sharpening arrows to pierce the one's people deed 'unsavory'.
It had been almost 2,000 years since then.
Dan Master Hideyoshi had devoted himself to every single area of pill study that he could find.
No matter how obscure, outdated, or useless the information seed, he studied all of it.
He had not much talent for cultivation, but he was able to follow along enough to keep his youth and strength for a bit longer- at least until he knew all that this world was keeping hidden from him.
Because his travels took him just about everywhere in the world, he ca across many likeminded individuals.
He founded the Profound Pill Union, and together he educated his disciples in the way of the pill.
Even though his Sect is the weakest in terms of manpower, it holds so of the most influence in the world.
Dan Master Hideyoshi has sold pills to human kings, elven royalty, Aya, dark elves, the list goes on.
But the work of himself, or his sect mbers, is never cheap- which also ans that his Sect is one of the richest.
Despite all of his success, he still lived for monts like this.
It felt wonderful to see his hard work and study being acknowledged so passionately by the masses.
You could say that praise was one of his largest weakness- alongside drink and study, of course.
Which was why when he noticed certain spectators behaving as if they were amused with his effort, he began to feel just a little bit insulted.
- Approximately Two and a Half Minutes Ago...
At the back of the room, Aveena, Lucia, and Veril were watching Dan Master Hideyoshi's pill demonstration.
It was Veril's idea to co here, since she thought that it might help broaden her horizons in the area of pill study.
And to their credit, the three sister-wives were actually paying attention at first.
...At first anyway.
But all of them were first ti parents.
So it wasn't surprising that after only five whole minutes, all of their thoughts started to sound the sa.
'Do you think that we should celebrate Christmas with our daughter this year?' Veril thought telepathically.
'That's one of your old earth holidays, right? Why the sudden interest??' Lucia tilted her head.
Veril scratched her cheek absentmindedly.
'Oh, you know... I didn't have that great of a childhood growing up, so I want to do better for her... I will do better. Christmas was always one of those things that I thought would be really nice as a family. Decorating, cute clothes, Santa Claus, the whole thing.'
Aveena nodded her head in approval. She was sold as soon as she heard 'cute clothes'.
'It sounds like a good idea, but if we do it or her then we should do it for all of the kids in the sect. Maybe the adults would like to participate too.'
Veril was already getting excited about the idea, and quickly started running through ideas with the girls.
But just because the girls were talking about this didnt an that they were the only ones in attendance today.
They had brought Velreth along so that he could hopefully impart his own little bits of knowledge in whenever the mont fit.
Of course, no else in here could see the tens of thousands of years old immortal. aning he was free to float around and judge as he saw fit.
When Dan Master Hideyoshi first pulled out his pill from his pocket, Velreth's expression beca downright ugly. And of course, his words even more so.
"Is this so sort of crude fallacy?! THAT is the pill he's sticking out his chest with such gusto over?! This is nonsense! No, it's shit! Complete and utter griffin shit!"
The girls took a break from gushing over their daughter to check out the source of the old man's irritation.
'What's wrong, Grandpa Vel? They look fine to .' Lucia shrugged.
Velreth spun around like a barber chair- with clear incredulity in his eyes.
'Fine!? FINE!?!'
'''Yea.''' The trio of girls nodded at once.
Velreth looked so angry that he could have died again.
'Those dirty, sad, shriveled up things look FINE to you three?! Unthinkable! They look like testicles that haven't seen the oasis of soap and water!'
Veril and Lucia had a real fourth-grade sense of humor. Aveena did too, but being Sect Leader to children had given her a way better poker face.
So even though Velreth was genuinely upset and not trying to crack jokes with the three of them, they couldn't help but let a little sothing slip out.
*Snicker!*
They regretted it as soon as the noise left their lips.
The girls were at the very back, with the rest of the Sect Masters and their closest disciples. They all heard them.
And even though he was at the front, Dan Master Hideyoshi had heard it too.
"Dai-Shi, and the Ladies of Black Myth. Was there sothing about my presentation that did not satisfy?" He asked.
Velreth: 'You tell this fucking dwarf that he's a shitty hack who wouldn't know what a good pill was if it bent over and lifted up it's-'
'''Shut up, Old Man!!''' The girls scread internally.
Aveena quickly put on her most business-like deanor. "Not at all, Master Hideyoshi. It was a most impressive spectacle."
"Was it..? You didn't seem all that interested."
Dan Master Hideyoshi stepped down from the podium into the sea of people.
...Due to his height, he quickly got lost.
But eventually, the taphorical sea parted and he was standing in front of the girls holding his dirty testicle pills.
His face was calm, but he had a look in his eyes that Veril knew all too well. The look of a man who's pride had been insulted, and his lively-hood trounced upon.
"...I know. You must have seen pills much more interesting than this ager thing in your ti as Sect leader, eh? So truly riveting stuff." He chuckled.
A few of the older Sect mbers chuckled within the room- adding to the feeling that was becoming eerily similar to hazing..
And yet, Aveena had to maintain her cool. You don't always get respect by flying off the handle and snapping necks.
When it ca to individuals like these, they had to be beaten on equal intellectual fighting grounds.
So even though she was beginning to boil inside, Aveena smiled cooly as if not a thing was wrong.
"Not quite, Dan Master. But our darling Veril here is a bit of a pill prodigy herself. If you must know, we were exchanging so playful marital banter about the kind of rewards we would give her if she could make such a thing herself."
Several n coughed and averted their gazes.
Veril's face turned beet red. 'Stop! Why do I have to be used as the excuse!?'
'Make it up to you later. Promise.' Aveena thought back.
'Licking my ass is not going to make agree to-'
'I'll give my ti to hold Yukiko to you, so you'll get her for twice as long.'
'Okay, you can keep going.'
Aveena's smile only widened further with Veril's approval.
"In fact, I'm glad you've co to , Dan Master Hideyoshi. My darling sister would like to try her hand at making this pill you are so proud of. You wouldn't be open to a small competition, would you?"
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