An Unprecedentedly Monstrous Pharmacist

The moment Gu Ding picked up the potion-making tools, he became completely absorbed in the process. His hands moved with lightning speed, his fingers never stopping, his movements fluid and almost perfect.

The people sitting two or three refining tables nearby were also slightly distracted while refining their own items. They glanced in the direction of Gu Ding and couldn't take their eyes off him.

"Damn, is that guy concocting a potion? How come his movements are so graceful? I always end up looking like a complete mess when I try to concoct one. I wish I had two more hands." A young man who looked to be in his early twenties was completely mesmerized by Gu Ding's movements. He had only recently been promoted to E-Grade Pharmacist and was practicing with E-Grade Cellular Repair Agent, trying to increase his success rate. After seeing Gu Ding's concoction, he wished he could disappear into the ground.

"Why are other people who concoct potions so handsome? Is it really because they're good-looking? No, I need to get plastic surgery and get a more handsome face. I'll be able to break through to D-Grade Potion in no time!" A man in his forties stuck his little finger in his nostril and turned his head to look at Gu Ding's concoction.

"If it were really about looks, you definitely wouldn't have passed the F-level pharmacist exam," a woman in her forties remarked sarcastically. "That young man, on the other hand, is at least S-level, or even SS-level."

Gu Ding was completely oblivious to the commotion he had caused; he was completely absorbed in the process of making the potion.

This was the first time Gu Ding had concocted such an unfamiliar potion, so he tried to slow down his movements, afraid of making a mistake. Even so, the speed of his ten fingers was still like a phantom, so fast that it was almost impossible to see clearly.

He handled each step with great care, and soon they reached the crucial step: adding the Beast Blood.

The difficulty in crafting the Berserk Potion lies primarily in the fact that the addition of the Beast Blood of Gene Beast can cause instability in other potion ingredients, even leading to explosions. Therefore, after the Beast Blood is added, it must be mixed using a special method immediately. Even missing just 0.1 seconds will result in the failure of the entire potion's creation.

Therefore, Gu Ding was very careful. At the same time as dripping the Beast Blood into the bottle, he lightly flicked the bottle with a finger, and a force instantly rippled out, completely mixing the Beast Blood in less than 0.001 seconds. This control of force was something that could not be achieved without mastering martial arts. And this finger technique was something he had learned from the alchemy records of ancient pharmacists.

After the most difficult step was completed, the subsequent refining process became exceptionally simple. In less than twenty minutes, a bottle of blood-red D-Grade Berserk Potion was filled by Gu Ding.

Those in the public practice hall were all novice pharmacists, completely unaware of what kind of potion Gu Ding was concocting, let alone that the blood-red color represented a Perfect Quality D-Grade Berserk Potion. However, they could tell from Gu Ding's act of bottling the potion that it had been successfully concocted.

The Berserk Potion actually provides different boosts depending on its quality. Common quality Combat Strength by 50%, Good Quality by 100%, Superior Quality by 0%, Ultimate Quality by 300%, while Perfect Quality provide a whopping 500% boost, meaning Combat Strength directly becomes six times its original level.

Among the crowd, someone raised a question, "What kind of potion was that? What grade did he concoct?"

"I don't know what kind of potion it is, but judging from his smooth movements, it should at least be of Good Quality, or even Superior Quality," someone nearby replied.

"That's not necessarily true. Just because someone's movements look good doesn't mean the finished product will be good. He's just showing off." Some people raised objections out of envy and jealousy.

"If you're so capable, why don't you try making one yourself? You can tell just by looking at the refining technique. As long as he doesn't fail, the potion he makes can't be of low quality." Many of Gu Ding's supporters also retorted.

Just then, someone was so focused on watching Gu Ding's refining process that they neglected the potion they were making, causing the potion to explode with a loud "bang," attracting everyone's attention.

The bottle exploded because the first person to discover Gu Ding's exquisite refining technique was a young man in his early twenties. After watching Gu Ding's refining process, he frequently became distracted during his own, ultimately leading to the tragedy. An entire set of E-grade refining equipment was destroyed. Even in this public practice area, where items are free to use, damage still requires a compensation fee. Fortunately, the compensation fee is only half the cost of the equipment.

A set of E-grade equipment costs 100,000 Star Coin in the Long Teng Universe Country, but here it only costs 100 Universe Coin. However, for beginners, equipment failures are very frequent. Advancing from F-grade to D-grade generally requires at least a hundred failures. Some unlucky individuals might even experience over two hundred failures. Therefore, for ordinary people, choosing the public practice area is significantly cheaper than buying their own equipment.

The bottle exploding had never happened to Gu Ding before. But he had seen it happen to others, so the loud bang only made him turn his head slightly to take a look before he continued to concoct the second Berserk Potion.

This little incident only briefly drew everyone's attention away, and then many people focused more on the potion-making in their hands, worried about encountering the same bottle explosion as that young man.

But Gu Ding's second refining speed was more than twice as fast as before, so fast that his hands were completely invisible. And this was Gu Ding 'Gu Ding true refining speed. In eight minutes, the second Perfect Quality D-Grade Berserk Potion was successfully refined.

The terrifying speed at which it was refined left many people stunned.

After the Berserk Potion was completed, Gu Ding took out new materials and began to refine the second potion— the Wind Leopard Gene Enhancement Potion.

There are many types of gene-enhancing agents, among which the most commonly used is the ordinary Gene Enhancer, also known simply as Gene Enhancer. This type of Gene Enhancer acts directly on the Gene Chain to provide permanent enhancement. As long as the cell strength reaches the upper limit of the corresponding gene level, this enhancement has a certain probability of allowing the user to advance to the First Order Gene Body.

Another type is the Gene Enhancer with a prefix, similar to the Wind Leopard Gene Enhancer. This type of Gene Enhancer extracts the corresponding Gene Segment from the Gene Beast and injects them into the user as a potion, temporarily granting the user the abilities and effects of those Gene Segment. These potions have a time limit; after the time limit expires, the temporary Gene Segment will automatically break down and be excreted with waste products from the body. Because the characteristics of various Gene Segment differ, the preparation of different Gene Serum also varies slightly.

When Gu Ding competed with Sa Ze before, he had refined an F-grade Gene Enhancer in Medicine King Valley. Although this time it was a D-grade, he was still very skilled and quickly got into the zone.

At this moment, in the public practice hall, some people who had finished refining their own potions stopped and gathered around Gu Ding. Many recognized that Gu Ding was refining Gene Enhancer. They didn't know which type of Gene Enhancer or what tier of potion Gu Ding was making. But they did know that Gene Enhancer were basically the most difficult type of potion to refine. This was because the gene extraction process alone was extremely complicated. And for Gene Serum below the ** level, due to low demand and high costs, Potion Factory wouldn't take on such a laborious and thankless task as gene extraction. What was sold on the market were semi-finished products; what was extracted was a complete gene chain, and the specific segments needed to be extracted by the pharmacist.

Under a microscope, Gu Ding accurately located the desired Gene Segment in less than five minutes and extracted it completely, astonishing everyone. Generally, this extraction requires extreme care; for a first-timer, the process would take at least half an hour for an average person, and even for a genius, it would take at least ten minutes – and that's the standard for an E-grade Gene Serum. Gu Ding's five-minute extraction led some to suspect Gu Ding had refined the same potion multiple times before. However, this was actually Gu Ding's first time refining this Gene Serum called the Wind Leopard. The Wind Leopard is a seventh-tier Gene Beast, and its Gene Chain structure is several times more complex than that of the White Rhino from months ago, making this extraction speed truly remarkable.

After the most difficult extraction was completed, Gu Ding continued refining the potion smoothly. It took a total of twenty-two minutes to complete one tube of D-grade Wind Leopard Gene Enhancer.

After storing the vial of potion in his Storage Space, Gu Ding took out the same potion ingredients and began the second refining process. He was completely absorbed in it, unaware that the number of onlookers around him was growing.

The Forget-Worry Star has a rotation period of 48 hours, and its daily sunshine duration is usually between 25 and 26 hours. When Gu Ding's spaceship docked at the port, the star had already risen for more than three hours. After refining for about nine hours, at noon, he had refined a full twenty vials of Perfect Quality potion.

Meanwhile, hundreds of people gathered in the public practice hall to watch, which also attracted the attention of the D-level and above pharmacists from the Forget-Worry Star branch of the Medicine God Alliance. They naturally recognized the names of the potions that Gu Ding was making and knew the difficulty of making them. When they saw Gu Ding continuously make more than ten tubes of Perfect Quality potions, those pharmacists were completely shocked.

In an instant, the entire public practice hall was surrounded by layers upon layers of people, completely packed. Only the area within a two-meter radius around Gu Ding became a pure land, and Gu Ding stood as a sage upon that pure land.

Everyone watched his refining process with rapt attention, and no one dared to make a sound to disturb him. Even a few S-Rank Pharmacist learned a lot of practical things from Gu Ding's miraculous techniques.

Everyone completely forgot that this afternoon was supposed to be the time when Queen Elizabeth was giving a lecture at the Medicine God Alliance's Forget-Worry Star branch. (To be continued.)