With the Magic Exchange Meeting successfully concluded, the Flame Swordsman Regiment returned to its intense yet orderly training routine.
Ang temporarily handed tactical training over to his deputies and shut himself away in the magic laboratory to research an entirely new Magic Potion—a supplementary potion intended to enhance a warrior's Qi force.
He knew that his own Qi force had once been greatly enhanced by Glow Crystal and obsidian, but that method clearly could not be replicated for other warriors.
Those two materials had almost no effect on anyone else.
To find an enhancement method suitable for most people, Ang spent two months studying behind closed doors, consulting numerous ancient potion formulas and even personally gathering and testing the essences of various magical plants.
At last, he brewed the first bottle of pale white, faintly green Magic Potion—made from the essences of fifteen plants, including Windwing Grass, Red Serpent Vine, Twilight Flower, and Ironheart Grass, supplemented with zeolite powder.
The potion looked ordinary enough. It tasted bitter with a hint of coolness, like mountain spring water mixed with the lingering sweetness of herbs.
Without hesitation, he raised the bottle and drained it in one gulp.
The instant the potion entered his stomach, the Qi force within him seemed to awaken and began circulating slowly on its own—without any deliberate prompting, it flowed as though pushed along by a gentle breeze.
As he focused, a thought from him made the flow of Qi force within his body suddenly more than double in speed.
Through his inner perception, the thread of Qi force that had once been like a tiny stream now flowed through him like a smooth little river.
When the potion's effects gradually faded, that "stream" settled down again, yet it remained somewhat broader than before.
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