Mental Energy Potion

After carrying Liliath out of the area where the battle had just taken place, the two of them found another large tree to hide in.

After using her Pupil Technique, Liliath looked extremely weak. However, moves like that normally came with some aftereffects. Given time to rest and recuperate, she would recover.

Gu Ding did not ask what the Pupil Technique did or why that giant beast had reacted so strangely. Though he could not help being curious, such life-saving techniques were a person's absolute secret.

Seeing the wounds on Gu Ding's body, Liliath took out a bottle of potion from her Storage Space and handed it to him. "Bone injuries need to be treated as soon as possible. Otherwise, they'll be troublesome later on."

Gu Ding took it and examined it. The potion was entirely blue—a bottle of E-Grade Good Quality Cellular Repair Agent. This single bottle cost at least two hundred thousand Star Coins.

"You really aren't very good at managing money," Gu Ding said with a grin.

"A woman only needs to know how to spend money," Liliath said, curling her lips.

But Gu Ding inwardly grumbled, Old Dad was right. Women really are creatures that are hard to understand.

Aside from some bruises, Gu Ding had several fractures, and his internal organs had suffered some damage as well. If left untreated for too long, they could leave serious aftereffects. He injected the bottle of Cellular Repair Agent directly into his vein.

In just a moment, he felt the cells in his body becoming active and entering a rapid repair process.

About ten minutes later, all of his external wounds had healed. His bones had entered the preliminary stage of healing, and his internal injuries had also been alleviated to a certain extent.

"One bottle a day. You need injections for at least three consecutive days." As she spoke, Liliath handed him two more bottles of potion.

"No need. Once we find a suitable safe place, I can make Cellular Repair Agents myself." Though Gu Ding said that, he did not actually have enough potion ingredients. He simply felt embarrassed about taking Liliath's things. He had accepted the first bottle because his body desperately needed repairs, or something really might have gone wrong. As for the second and third bottles, they were unnecessary. His natural recovery ability was stronger than an ordinary person's; as long as he was careful, he should fully recover within a few days.

"You're an E-Grade Pharmacist?" Liliath had not expected Gu Ding to have that identity.

"My current certification is only F-Grade," Gu Ding corrected. "But I should be able to make E-Grade Potions too."

"Pharmacists really do make money. You're so young, yet you can afford armor." Liliath propped up her chin and looked Gu Ding over from head to toe with an affectedly mature expression.

"This armor was a gift. A piece of armor costs several hundred million Star Coins—how could I possibly afford it?" Gu Ding explained with a bitter smile.

"The one who gave you the armor was a woman?" Liliath pressed.

"Yeah." Gu Ding did not deny it.

"I knew it!" Liliath curled her lips.

"I'm mostly recovered now. What about you?" The two had rested for nearly half an hour, and with the Cellular Repair Agent's effects, Gu Ding's body had largely recovered.

"What I consumed was mental energy, so my body feels weak and I can't fight. I need at least five hours of sleep before my body can regain basic function. To recover my full combat strength, I need at least twenty hours of sleep." What Liliath meant was that Gu Ding would have to handle the rest of the journey alone. "Potions that restore mental energy are too expensive, and they're scarce even at that price. Once they appear at an Auction House, they're snapped up at exorbitant prices."

"Potions that restore mental energy are that expensive?" This was the first time Gu Ding had heard of such a thing.

"Yeah. I once saw a D-Grade Mental Energy Recovery Potion sell for 1.6 billion Star Coins at an Auction House." Liliath remembered that auction clearly. "I didn't bid at the time. One reason was that the price was absurdly inflated. The other was that D-Grade Potions are for sixth- and Seventh Order Gene Body powerhouses. I'm only a Second-Order Gene Body, so it would have been too wasteful."

"Ordinary D-Grade Gene Serums cost roughly one to three million Star Coins for Qualified Quality, and five to eight million for Good Quality. Even Perfect Quality ones should only cost sixty to eighty million, and at most wouldn't exceed one hundred million Star Coins. It looks like mental energy potions really do carry a serious premium." Gu Ding increasingly felt that pharmacists had it easy when it came to making money.

"The mental energy potion sold at that auction was Superior Quality," Liliath added. "It's normal for the premium to be that severe. In the entire Medicine God Alliance, fewer than ten people possess formulas for Mental Energy Potions. Potion Factories have to pay high prices to purchase even slightly unusual potion formulas from the Medicine God Alliance, let alone formulas this scarce. The Medicine God Alliance simply wouldn't sell them."

Potion Factories were enterprises that purchased potion formulas from the Medicine God Alliance, then used machines to mass-produce and sell them. There were quite a few such enterprises. Long Teng Universe Country alone had more than thirty thousand of them.

Potion refining was an extremely precise process. Even when making the same potion, different pharmacists would have slightly different methods. Therefore, the refining processes the Medicine God Alliance provided to Potion Factories had all been simplified to a certain degree to make them easier for machines to operate. In one sense, this reduced the Potion Factories' operating costs, but it also resulted in lower potion quality. Potions produced on assembly lines were usually only Qualified Quality. Good Quality potions required separate production lines.

The formulas supplied by the Medicine God Alliance to Potion Factories were also ordinary, commonly used potions—the kind with high demand but low value. As long as Potion Factories could make money, they did not have many complaints.

As for special formulas, they were generally circulated only within the Medicine God Alliance or privately held by pharmacists. Potion Factories had no way of obtaining them. Nor would they risk offending the Medicine God Alliance by stealing potion formulas. Doing so would only get them blacklisted by the Medicine God Alliance and shunned by other Potion Factories.

"I have several hundred formulas for Mental Energy Potions in my database." Sea Emperor's voice soon reached Gu Ding's ears. "I'm realizing now that your era's civilization has lost far too much. People of your era have only grasped the bare surface of many ancient civilization inheritances, yet they treat them like treasures."

"Enough of that. Let's go and try to get there before dark. I just hope we don't run into another monster like that one on the way." As Gu Ding spoke, he carried Liliath onto his back again, jumped down from the tree, and sprinted toward the Shipbuilding Factory.