All Wonders Pill Novice

Dried scallops were easy enough to sell. Their taste was unique, and people often bought them home to make soup.

But Fire Hound Whips had rather limited uses.

The young man was so young—why did he already need something like this?

Heh heh...

"You needn't call me Senior. Just call me Shopkeeper Liu. What should I call you, little friend?" the fat shopkeeper asked with a beaming smile.

"Greetings, Shopkeeper Liu. My surname is Luo. Just call me Little Luo."

Luo Chen could not help acting so humbly. The amiable fat shopkeeper before him exuded an aura that made him deeply uneasy.

He had felt this aura before. Foundation Establishment Stage experts naturally gave it off.

Before such an expert, he naturally had to show sufficient respect.

Shopkeeper Liu smiled faintly. "So it's Fellow Daoist Luo. I do have both medicinal ingredients you mentioned, though the quantities truly aren't very large."

Luo Chen had expected as much.

Great River Market lay in a borderland close to the Eastern Wasteland, part of the Inland Region that stretched for thousands upon thousands of miles.

Of the two ingredients he had asked about, dried scallops were an aquatic spirit herb, usually transported from very far away.

Small quantities were to be expected, but having them was enough!

"Can you gather one hundred portions of dried scallops? As for Fire Hound Whips, I want ten."

"I do have that much, but the price is not cheap," Shopkeeper Liu said with a chuckle.

When he said not cheap, he did not mean outrageously expensive, but expensive relative to Luo Chen's Third Layer of Qi Refining Stage cultivation.

Especially given the other man's clothes, which truly did not make him look wealthy.

"What price?"

"One hundred portions of dried scallops cost ten Low-Grade Spirit Stones. Ten Fire Hound Whips also cost ten Low-Grade Spirit Stones."

Luo Chen's eyelids twitched.

He even suspected that this fat shopkeeper had some sort of clairvoyance, able to see that he had exactly twenty Spirit Stones left in his clothes.

"So expensive?"

"Do you want them or not?"

"I'll be buying from you long-term in the future. Can't you give me a discount?"

"Hundred Herbs Hall, a five-hundred-year-old establishment, Four Regions Chain—fair prices, no cheating the old or the young, no bargaining!"

"Fine. Pack them up for me. Here are twenty Spirit Stones."

Gritting his teeth, Luo Chen reluctantly took twenty Spirit Stones from his clothes.

At a speed invisible to the naked eye, the fat shopkeeper snatched the bag of Spirit Stones from his hand.

"Xiao Ling, fetch one hundred portions of dried scallops and ten Fire Hound Whips!"

With the goods in hand, Luo Chen hoisted the large bag of herbs by the entrance and left Hundred Herbs Hall beneath the shopkeeper's knowing smile.

Before night fell, while there were still no rogue cultivators robbing people on the road, Luo Chen hurried home, travel-worn and dusty.

Looking at the huge pile of things on the ground, Luo Chen sighed.

Years of savings, gone in a single day.

Calculating carefully, he had only saved fifty Spirit Stones over the years, and today he had spent every last one.

Especially those final two main ingredients, which alone had cost twenty Spirit Stones.

"Five-hundred-year-old establishment, my ass. It's a black shop! May you go bankrupt soon!"

After cursing the corrupt merchant a couple of times, Luo Chen forcibly encouraged himself.

"They'll come back. They'll all come back!"

"The Spirit Stones I earn in the future will only increase!"

After saying that, he took off his Low-Grade Magic Robe, folded it with great care, and jumped into the nearby creek wearing only a pair of underpants.

This place was relatively remote. Though it was also close to the Eastern Wilderness Million Mountains, most people returning from the mountains traveled eastward, so the area was sparsely populated.

He did not have to worry about anyone seeing his body, nor would he need to marry them afterward.

After a refreshing wash, he scrubbed away every sort of smell he had picked up during the day.

Though he also knew the Cleanse Spell, that thing was more like detonating a ball of spiritual energy over his body to blast away dust. It was nowhere near as satisfying as taking a bath.

He only used it occasionally when cleaning his Magic Robe.

Returning to the wooden house, Luo Chen changed into another pair of underpants and casually draped a gray hemp shirt over himself.

His wet long hair hung down his back as he retrieved a cowhide-wrapped bundle from beneath the floorboards in the corner of the room.

When he opened the bundle, there was a yellowed Bamboo Slip, a Thin Booklet, and a piece of parchment inside.

The Bamboo Slip's contents were simple. It was called the Evergreen Art, Luo Chen's main cultivation method, and it only went as far as Qi Refining Stage Level 9.

He had heard that this cultivation method was the Medicine King Sect's entry-level cultivation method, with the Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture above it.

This cultivation method had come from a fortuitous encounter in his youth: a corpse within a Wild Mountain Cave.

Luo Chen had never stopped cultivating this method. Apart from cultivating every night, he spent most days when he was not refining pills cultivating it as well.

But its effects were truly minuscule.

Even now, he was still at the Third Layer of Qi Refining Stage, with a breakthrough to the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining Stage nowhere in sight.

Its proficiency, however, had risen quite quickly and had already reached Mastery Level.

It was estimated that before long, it would break through to the Perfect Level. Grandmaster Level was within reach!

He desperately wanted to know whether Grandmaster Level Proficiency in the Evergreen Art could greatly raise his cultivation realm.

The parchment recorded the incomplete Pill Recipe the previous owner had acquired—the Jade Dew Pill.

Luo Chen had no interest in it. Leaving aside that the Pill Recipe was incomplete, even if it were whole, he had no plans to study it.

After all, this was a Tier 2 Pill used only by Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators. The various medicinal ingredients were not something he could afford to prepare now.

Back then, the original owner had exhausted all his savings, barely gathered one set of ingredients, and even found many substitutes, dreaming of becoming fat with one bite.

He had likely been so poor his eyes had turned red.

All of Luo Chen's attention was on that Thin Booklet.

Opening it, he found the Grain Avoidance Powder Pill Recipe written on the first two pages.

Unlike ordinary Pill Recipes, which only listed the medicinal ingredients required, this booklet was filled with the proportional quantities of every ingredient and the processing methods for each herb.

It even mentioned control over the heat.

That was precisely why the original owner had been able to get started so easily back then.

After paying the price of only a handful of failures, he successfully refined his first batch of Grain Avoidance Powder.

From then on, he had gained the capital to remain in Great River Market.

Luo Chen had long since read this Pill Recipe until it was worn through.

What he needed to study next were the following five pages.

"All Wonders Pill: water and fire coexist, yin and yang are balanced. It stimulates yang energy without harming the kidneys' source essence, and aids arousal and endurance."

Enjoying alone was not as good as enjoying together; when yin and yang entwined, its wonders were beyond words!

Thus, this pill was named All Wonders.

To put it plainly, this was the Cultivation World's Blue Little Pill.

Of course, according to the description of the finished product, it should be red.

If this thing could be refined, there would definitely be a market for it.

As long as one was human, one had needs in that respect, even cultivators.

Even in Great River Market, one of the six top shops was Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion.

Female cultivators were scarce here. A crowd of men who constantly entered the mountains to hunt demon beasts and gather herbs had an even greater need in that regard.

As for why the original owner had never tried refining this pill, Luo Chen could not guess what he had been thinking.

Afraid of losing face by selling this kind of pill?

Heh. Cultivation was nothing to be ashamed of!

Calming his mind and focusing his spirit, he carefully reviewed the five pages of the All Wonders Pill Recipe once again.

The processing of every ingredient, the order and timing of their addition, the quantity in each portion, control over the heat...

Once everything had been committed to memory, Luo Chen opened the panel in his mind.

[Name: Luo Chen]

[Lifespan: 27/75]

[Spirit Root: Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth]

[Realm: Third Layer of Qi Refining Stage: 75/100]

[Cultivation Method: Evergreen Art Mastery: 235/300]

[Spells: Cleanse Spell Novice 49/100, Entangling Spell Proficient 176/200, Fireball Spell Mastery 268/300]

[Skills: Tier 1 Alchemist: Grain Avoidance Powder Grandmaster 501/1000]

[Achievement Points: 10 points (usable for Corresponding realm cultivation method, spells, Skill Entry)]

His gaze paused first on his lifespan, then fell upon the final entry.

Achievement Points!

Every cultivation method, every skill, every spell would provide one Achievement Point whenever it broke through a proficiency tier.

As long as he gathered ten Achievement Points, he could use them to gain entry into any cultivation method, spell, or skill of the corresponding realm.

He had acquired the Cleanse Spell not long ago, so he had only just entered the novice level and had not had time to grind its proficiency.

Moreover, spells of any kind consumed quite a bit of spiritual energy.

Combined with the pressure of survival, he had invested most of his energy into pill refining.

In the end, it had not disappointed him. His Grain Avoidance Powder refining proficiency had broken through to Grandmaster Level, bringing him a full five Achievement Points.

Adding the Evergreen Art's two points, one point from the Entangling Spell, and two points from the Fireball Spell.

He had accumulated exactly ten points!

And all his savings had more or less gathered enough ingredients to refine the All Wonders Pill ten times.

Success or failure would be decided tomorrow!

And now, Deep Blue, add points!

Oh, no. All Wonders Pill refining technique, entry level!

With a thought, ten Achievement Points vanished.

In their place, an additional label appeared on the Attribute Panel.

[Tier 1 Alchemist, Grain Avoidance Powder Grandmaster 501/1000, All Wonders Pill Novice 1/100]

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