Ultimate-Quality Divine Potion
After obtaining the S-Rank Pharmacist identity token, Gu Ding did not leave Medicine King Valley immediately, but instead headed towards the medicine warehouse with the token in his hand.
The S-level pharmacist assessment has four possible results: unqualified, qualified, good, and excellent.
The number of pharmacists who pass the assessment to "excellent" is extremely small, and the Medicine God Alliance will focus on training them, granting them several privileges that other pharmacists do not have. One of these is that they can obtain one thousand portions of first-class god-level virtual potion materials for free. Gu Ding Gu Ding have had no idea about this if the virtual girl who guided him through the assessment hadn't told him.
Gu Ding was originally racking his brains about how to obtain god-level potion materials to practice with, because Medicine King Valley required points to exchange for virtual medicinal herbs, and he had no points at all. Unexpectedly, by participating in an assessment, the medicinal herbs were delivered to his doorstep.
There are thirty-six types of first-class divine-level regular potions. A thousand portions of materials are enough to refine these regular potions nearly thirty times. For Gu Ding, barring any unforeseen circumstances, refining one potion two or three times should be sufficient to master it, so a hundred portions of materials should be enough.
Upon arriving at the herb warehouse, Gu Ding handed his token to the administrator. The elderly administrator, after receiving the token, looked up at Gu Ding with some surprise. "You have a thousand portions of first-class divine-level potion materials. How many do you intend to take?" "Thirty-six kinds? Three portions of each?" The administrator looked at Gu Ding with some suspicion. He had been a herb warehouse administrator for many years and had seen many S-Rank Pharmacist had achieved excellent results in their assessments. In the past, he had only ever encountered people who took five kinds of potion materials at most. He hadn't expected Gu Ding to take thirty-six kinds, and only three portions of each kind. He gave Gu Ding a disdainful look and then distributed the potion materials to him.
As Gu Ding collected the potion materials, he was still wondering why the administrator's attitude had been so good at first, but then seemed to become less welcoming. However, he didn't dwell on it too much and continued walking towards the potion-making hall.
Inside the alchemy hall, the public lobby is open to the public free of charge. However, a private alchemy room requires points. The points required for each day of use in a god-level alchemy room are considerable. But Gu Ding, as S-Rank Pharmacist with an excellent assessment result, has one hundred free uses of a private alchemy room. The receptionist, a young woman, scanned Gu Ding's token across the registration page, then glanced at Gu Ding, saying, "You have one hundred free uses of a private alchemy room. After this use, you have ninety-nine uses remaining. East District Room 1024."
Gu Ding took the token and was about to leave when the young girl added, "Judging from your token, it seems like this is your first time entering a private refining room. There's something I think you should know as well. Because the number of private refining rooms is limited, each one is monitored. If you're inside doing things unrelated to refining for more than half an hour, you'll be forcibly ejected."
"In other words, the interval between refining two potions cannot exceed half an hour." Gu Ding knew that many people with insufficient mental strength needed to rest and replenish their mental strength after each refining before refining the next potion. But this was not a problem for Gu Ding; his soul strength was sufficient to support the mental strength required to refine a second-grade divine potion.
"That's right, so if you want to rest during breaks, you should pay attention to the time limit and it's best to set an alarm." The little girl nodded.
"Thanks for the reminder." Gu Ding nodded and walked towards his refining room.
Gu Ding found East District Room 1024 without much trouble. He scanned his token at the door, and the door opened automatically. Gu Ding stepped inside.
This single-person refining room was much larger than Gu Ding had imagined. It wasn't a small, enclosed room; it looked more like a professional laboratory. The lighting was excellent, and all kinds of equipment were readily available.
Gu Ding glanced at it briefly, then took out a piece of material and prepared to start refining it.
The first potion he chose was First Class Body Strengthening Potion, which was relatively simple among god-level potions. Gu Ding also wanted to start with a simple potion to understand the difficulty of refining god-level potions.
This physical enhancement agent uses over a hundred different ingredients, nearly three times the number of ingredients used in an S-level Cell Enhancer. Moreover, most of the ingredients in god-level potions aren't raw materials; the vast majority are semi-finished products processed in Potion Factory. Of course, the virtual items Gu Ding currently possesses are the same—simulated semi-finished products from Potion Factory. Without these semi-finished products, it would take a pharmacist over ten days to produce a single bottle of potion from scratch. With these semi-finished products, a pharmacist can complete a vial of potion in a maximum of two hours.
Gu Ding first mentally simulated the complete refining process, and after about ten minutes, he finally began refining.
One by one, medicinal materials were added into the container, divine energy was inputted for energy harmonization, and mental power was used to rearrange and recombine particles, while the temperature of the divine fire was controlled...
He controlled every step precisely, without making a single mistake. Throughout the entire process, he was extremely cautious, fearing the slightest oversight.
About an hour and a half later, the first potion was finally completed. Gu Ding looked at the final product and frowned slightly. "Where did I go wrong? Why isn't it Perfect Quality?"
"I don't see any problems with your refining process; every step is almost perfect." The Sea Emperor had also been watching Gu Ding's refining process closely. Although the speed was a bit slow, it was because of his caution. "The Ultimate Quality is also quite good. Few first-class god-level alchemists can refine this."
"I have two more sets of materials, I'll give it another try!" Gu Ding wasn't giving up, so he started the refining process a second time.
This time, Gu Ding was even more cautious than before, spending nearly two hours carefully observing every step he took until he finished and saw the vial of red potion. His brow furrowed even more. "Still Ultimate Quality..."
"I don't think it's your problem. It's very likely that there's a problem with the potion ingredients," the Sea Emperor suggested. "It's possible that the Potion Factory used some simplified methods in the production of semi-finished products in order to mass-produce them. This weakened the efficacy of the semi-finished ingredients. When Medicine King Valley simulated the data, it referred to the data from those factories, so this kind of thing is not impossible. Moreover, ordinary pharmacists only refine potions of qualified or excellent quality, so they wouldn't discover this problem."
"I'll try a different potion!" Gu Ding took out the ingredients for the God Source Replenishment Potion and began refining again.
An hour and a half later, Gu Ding finally refined the God Source Replenishment Potion, and it was still of the Ultimate Quality.
Gu Ding refined a second bottle, which was still of the Ultimate Quality.
Next, Gu Ding tried a third potion, but the result was the same twice: not a single potion of Perfect Quality was produced.
What Gu Ding didn't know was that his refining process that day had already been discovered by the monitoring personnel and reported to the higher-ups of Medicine King Valley.
This refining video was also uploaded to the Medicine King Valley Video Section and seen by many pharmacists.
"Six vials of potions in a row. All of them are of the Ultimate Quality. His control over all factors throughout the entire refining process is nothing short of perfect. If it weren't for the limitations of the materials, these six potions would probably have reached Perfect Quality." A short, stout old man, his face flushed, stared intently at the video projection with his small, round eyes, not blinking for a long time. "This kid does have some skills. I wonder who taught him."
After staring at the video for a while, the old man dialed a number.
A middle-aged man sat upright in a hall, holding a cup of tea and sipping it slowly.
Seated below was a powerful figure in purple robes, exuding an aura as vast as the sea, yet he seemed restless. "Potion Venerable, I will be undergoing the True God Tribulation in two years. What do you think about the Tribulation Crossing Ancient Pill..."
"The Tribulation Crossing Ancient Pill can only be considered half a True God Pill Formula. The reason I haven't refined it for so many years is that refining this kind of pill does not improve my potion-refining skills at all. If you have a formula for Ancient Second Grade True God Potion, or if you can lend me the formula, I can consider it."
"But..." Just as the purple-robed expert was about to explain something, the Potion Venerable's wristwatch suddenly beeped.
The Potion Venerable looked down at his watch and quickly waved to the purple-robed expert, saying, "Excuse me for a moment."
He darted into another room and answered the phone, "Teacher, is there something you need?"
"It's nothing important. I just saw a video of a kid making potions in your Medicine King Valley's video section. I'd like you to help me find out about that kid, and more importantly, I want to know who his teacher is." An old man's voice came from the other end of the communicator.
"Which video?" The Potion Venerable was somewhat surprised to hear this. Even his teacher had been alerted; that young man must be extraordinary.
"The title is 'How to Make a Divine Elixir of Ultimate Quality,'" the old man repeated after glancing at the title.
"I'll go check right away. Is there anything else?" the Potion Venerable asked.
"That's all, that's all. I'm hanging up."
Upon hearing the other end of the call end, the Potion Venerable immediately opened the Medicine King Valley's video section, found the video of Gu Ding refining potions, and watched it on fast forward from beginning to end. Just as he was about to look up Gu Ding's information, he was interrupted by the boy from before.
"Sir, that guest in purple robes has been waiting in the reception room for over five hours. Do you think...?"
"I had completely forgotten about this. Why didn't you say so sooner?" The Potion Venerable frowned slightly and remained silent for a moment before saying, "He is, after all, a guest. I was negligent this time. Tell him that once the materials are ready, I will make time to help him refine it as soon as possible."