In Zheng-Fu's room…
Once Zheng-Fu entered his room, he took out his spatial ring and examined the items to check if everything was still in there…
"Now I have only 2,400 monster crystal coins left, but it's still a lot. The good thing is I don't have to buy the spatial ring myself and get to have my own dicine mixing bowl at the sa ti." Zheng-Fu checked his new belongings and smiled feeling delighted. Before this, he wondered about the cost of a spatial ring.
He also had to speculate how much he was going to get from selling his dicines. The experiences in In-See City and at the auction house helped him understand pricing better…
The first thing that Zheng-Fu thought about doing after coming back to his clan was to co up with a dicine formula that boosts the effect of the Body-Strengthening Ginseng. He thought that if his weakened body had not been fixed yet, he would have to suffer the sa physical problem. The best way to deal with this is to find the right formula to turn the Body-Strengthening Ginseng into dicine…
Thud!
Zheng-Fu took out the dicine mixing bowl that he got from the Association of the Alchemists. He could tell that this bowl must be sothing special because there was an aura radiating around it…
"This mixing bowl is not like the one that Master Sue-Wu has. It's not like the one in the test room. I think it must be sothing better judging from the aura around it." After Zheng-Fu finished speaking, he took out the ingredients that he needed in order to produce a first-rank dicine. He wanted to practice so he beca more skillful in dicine production.
The first-rank dicine that he was going to make took a few ingredients and had a short process to make. He just did not know yet what kind of pill and quality or which rank he was going to make from these ingredients. This was because he just ca up with this new formula…
Kank!
Klink!
Whoosh!
Vroom!
And the production of the first formula that Zheng-Fu solely ca up with had begun. The boy put an ingredient after an ingredient and started the whole heat fla process slowly with utmost care. Not long after everything was being thrown in, the ingredients started to integrate quickly.
Then an explosive smoke occurred and a grey pill floated over presenting itself on the surface of the mixing bowl…
Boom!
Grab!
"Yay! Finally, my first pill. Even though it's a first-rank pill, the aura that ca out of it makes it look different." Zheng-Fu said while looking at the grey pill in his hand with extre joy. This first-rank pill could be as great as a second-rank pill because it shared the great sll of a second-rank pill…
"But how am I going to know the effect of this pill? I can guess the effect of it by looking at the ingredients that I used, but… Ahh! I know who I am going to try this pill on!" Zheng-Fu looked at the pill and gave a cunning smile because he knew who he was going to give this pill to. When he realized that, he started to mix more pills from that very sa formula.
He gave it another 20 tries and he succeeded every single ti. This made him more skillful at so certain level…
"I guess that should be enough. I think I'd better move on to the second formula." After he beca skillful on the first formula, he moved on to the second formula right away. The more he put his hands on the dicine mixing process, the better he beca at dicine production. His control of the heat fla had beco better too…
But little did Zheng-Fu know that the more he gave the dicine mixing a try, the more intense the herbal sll ca out. Right now, his room was filled with that sll and it was sent outside through each window and hole from his room…
"Wait… Dear wife! Do you sll sothing?" Kong-Shi asked Tang-Ling whether she could sll sothing herbal amid their conversation…
"Sll!?"
Sniff! Sniff!
"That's right. It slls like herbal dicine, dear!"
"Yes!"
After the husband and wife agreed to sll the sa thing, they stood up and started to walk towards the source of the sll. They finally stopped in front of Zheng-Fu's room…
Tang-Ling: "The slls co from here!"
Kong-Shi: "But this is Zheng-Fu's room. Why do the slls co from his room?"
Tang-Ling: "Well, dear husband! Don't you rember that our son has been hanging out with Elder Sue-Wu lately? They are now master and student too. Master Sue-Wu probably gave him so herbal dicines to help him ease so muscle pain…"
Kong-Shi: "Do you think so?"
Squeak!
"Oh…! Father! Mother! What are you doing in front of my room?" Zheng-Fu rushed to put everything away because he was aware of his parents' presence in front of his room before he ca out to greet them. He asked his parents the question while making an innocent face…
Tang-Ling: "Your father slled sothing herbal and it was from your room, so he took here…"
Kong-Shi: "Yeah! I slled an herbal dicine from your room, so I thought…"
"Oh, that! Master Sue-Wu gave an herbal dicine for to boil, so I guess that was where the slls ca from." Zheng-Fu started to make an excuse…
Tang-Ling: "See? I told you. You're being too paranoid, dear husband. Well, just go back to your rest, Zheng-Fu. We're not going to bug you anymore…"
"Yes, mother!"
Kong-Shi and Tang-Ling walked away right after the conversation with Zheng-Fu. Zheng-Fu then rushed to close his door imdiately and gave a long exhale out of relief. He was not ready to let anyone know about his dicine production business…
*How co Zheng-Fu looked suspicious? It's like he was hiding sothing. He's been stranger and stranger day after day. It's like he's not himself anymore. Or is it because he is in love?* A lot of crazy thoughts happened in Kong-Shi's mind about his son. He felt that Zheng-Fu had been behaving differently.
Sotis he hardly acted like a small boy but looked like one at another. The whole thing made Kong-Shi feel the difference…
"Phew! That was close. I have to be more careful next ti. Now I have 20 pills from the first formula. I've got another 12 from the second one. I'll give it a try again tomorrow." Zheng-Fu went to the dicine Tower early the next day.
He had an appointnt with Master Sue-Wu about dicine production…
Clomp! Clomp! Clomp!
At Sue-Wu's dicine mixing room…
"Are you here?"
"Good morning, Master."
"Hi."
Tong-Lang: "My genius student! What are you doing here? And who did you just call 'Master'?"
"Greeting Master Tong-Lang. I'm here to see Master Sue-Wu, sir!"
"Master Sue-Wu!?" Tong-Lang gave a quick look at Sue-Wu with a little suspicion and then laughed…
"Hahaha!"
Tong-Lang: "Are you also his Master?"
"Yeah! I saw that he was interested in alchemy, so I took him in as my student. Are you also his Master?"
"That's right! My brother, Tong-Tieng, and I are his Masters, teaching him martial arts." Tong-Lang said while giving a dry smile because he could not say confidently that he taught the boy martial arts because he had not taught him that much so far…
Sue-Wu: "I see. It's good that you are here, Zheng-Fu. I'll give you a first dicine lesson today. I know that you have read the Fundantal Book of Herbal Plants for a while now, so I'll give you so tests today about herbal plants…"
"So tests?"
Zheng-Fu was kind of disappointed because he had rembered everything in the book. However, he did not want Sue-Wu to know that, so he turned his disappointed face into a curious face and then said, "Yes, Master. I've read it and get to rember so of the information in there, sir!"
"Great! The first test is for you to prepare the ingredients for these three dicine formulas." Sue-Wu said and gave Zheng-Fu three pieces of paper that had three dicine formulas in them. These formulas were physical healing dicine, muscle relaxant dicine, and muscle extension dicine. They were all first-rank dicines.
Zheng-Fu sent out the widest smile when he saw the three formulas because they were the easiest formulas for him…
"Yes, Master!" Zheng-Fu rushed to get the ingredients right after he registered Sue-Wu's order…
Tong-Lang: "When did he get into alchemy, Elder Sue-Wu?"
Sue-Wu: "About last month, I supposed."
About last month!?
Tong-Lang: "Is that so? I don't know that the boy is into alchemy too. Is he going to get into everything? Zhuangyuan study, martial arts, and now alchemy? There are still ironsmith and wizardry left for him though…"
"Yeah!"
As Sue-Wu spent his whole ti in the dicine Tower, he did not know much about what had been going on around the clan. He was busy mixing dicines and thought of new dicine formulas to better his arts. That was why he did not know about Zheng-Fu being the winner of this year's youth martial arts test and his study to beco a Zhuangyuan.
It did not take long for Zheng-Fu to get back to Sue-Wu with the ingredients for all three dicine formulas…
"I've got everything, Master. Here they are!"
Sue-Wu felt a little startled when he saw Zheng-Fu back so soon because he thought that the boy would take much more ti gathering everything that he asked him to…
Sue-Wu: "Great! You were pretty quick there. So, let's begin making so dicines then. But first, let's give you a lesson about building a heat fla…"
"Is it done this way, sir?"
Roar!
*Whoa! How did he…!? This boy learned too fast!*
Sue-Wu gasped when he saw Zheng-Fu produce his first heat fla. Zheng-Fu intended to produce a red regular heat fla, so he would not startle Sue-Wu further. He did not want Sue-Wu to suspect him for far too much. Tong-Lang did not react much when he saw Zheng-Fu perform because he did not know anything about alchemy…
"Ahem! Gr…gr…great! You're very quick, boy. Since you can produce a heat fla, we can now begin with the dicine mixing process." Sue-Wu tried to deliver a sentence while wanting to bang his head against the wall because it took him about five years to create a first heat fla. He had to understand it first before producing it successfully…
Sue-Wu led Zheng-Fu to the dicine mixing bowl instantly. He told Zheng-Fu to do things step by step. Tong-Lang got to see Zheng-Fu and Sue-Wu interact in the dicine production with interest, then he said, "Is this the arts of alchemy? It's not easy at all!" Tong-Lang even tried to produce a heat fla while he was speaking, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not make it happen.
That was why he said that it was not easy to do alchemy…
"Just rember that every step of it is very crucial. If you miss just one, then you'll fail." Sue-Wu explained while Zheng-Fu started to mix the dicine. However, since Zheng-Fu tried to practice about 30 tis last night, he beca more familiar with the dicine mixing process. When he had to mix these easy formulas today, he felt at peace doing it…
Vroom!
All of a sudden, a cloud of smoke ca out of the mixing bowl, followed by a mild nice sll, filling the room…
"Is it done!?" Tong-Lang asked loudly…
*Did he just produce a pill successfully? I can't believe that this is his first ti. He's a real pro. The boy's very talented.* Sue-Wu thought while smiling…
Grab!
"Here it is, Master! My first pill. A first-rank physical healing pill!" Zheng-Fu grabbed the pill that was floating on the mixing bowl and handed it to Sue-Wu. Sue-Wu took the pill and examined it. And all of a sudden, he turned into a shock…
Sue-Wu: "This pill is much better than all the pills that I have ever produced!"
Tong-Lang: "Better than Elder Sue-Wu!?"
"Are you being too kind, Master? All I did was just everything that you suggested to , exactly what you told !"
Sue-Wu took out another first-rank pill that he produced himself and compared it with Zheng-Fu's. He found that the sll and energy that ca out of them were slightly different
than he expected. Then he said…
"It is better than mine!"
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