[Crude Healing Potion (E-)]

That's right, the way alchemists distinguish their work is by looking at the ingredients.

If anything other than plants is added during the refining process—whether it be insects, other living creatures, or the blood of a Magic Beast...

Make no mistake, my friend, that is a one-hundred-percent Magic Potion.

These Earthworms were collected by Lan Qingyou while she was out gathering herbs over the past few days.

In addition to the Centipede, she had collected quite a few good things, such as Green-Eyed Frogs, Amplifier Bats, Red Stone Rats, Withered Wood Snakes, Stone-Nitrate Leeches, Fire Red Ants, and Grass Saw Worms.

To be honest, Lan Qingyou felt disgusted at first.

But as an alchemy novice, she lacked materials more than anything else and had no right to be picky; encountering them was fate, and they had to be collected.

Not collecting them would be a disservice to the great teacher Albert and a desecration of alchemy itself.

These were all drying on the second-floor balcony, and in another two days, they would be dry enough to be ground into powder for storage.

Because of the Supreme Rule, she had been collecting them in secret and hadn't put them out.

But now that she needed to craft a Magic Potion, she had no choice but to bring them out into the open.

There are two ways to use a Centipede in alchemy: one is to put the whole thing into the brew as she was doing now, and the other is to grind it into powder after it dies.

The effects of the two are different, the methods of use are different, and the resulting Magic Potions will also differ.

Because this time, Lan Qingyou was focused on lowering the opponent's attributes.

Pay attention and take notes; the great teacher Albert will be testing this.

Busy until the afternoon, Lan Qingyou finally finished making today's potions.

Because she no longer had those Enamel Jars, it wasn't as hectic as yesterday.

After cooling and settling, Lan Qingyou began to bottle them.

[Apprentice Grade Magic Potion · Slow-Acting (E)]

[Effect: Upon hitting an enemy, the potion bursts into a mist that clings to the enemy's skin, reducing their Agility by 3 points for 10 seconds.]

[Description: 3 points of Agility is not a small amount, and 6 points is not a lot; let the enemy taste the feeling of an instant brake!]

Looking at the attributes of the Slow-Acting Magic Potion, Lan Qingyou nodded with satisfaction.

With this potion, she at least had a chance to escape in a hostile environment.

Don't look down on the standard Apprentice Grade Slow-Acting Magic Potion just because it only reduces Agility by 3 points; it might not seem like much.

But you have to realize that the limit for a Blue Star Person is only 10 points of Agility.

Even if she were unlucky enough to encounter a superhuman with maxed-out Agility, this 3-point reduction would be enough to make them face-plant.

Just think about it.

Someone accustomed to high-speed movement suddenly losing control and slowing down will always need a moment to adapt.

Even if it's just for a few short seconds.

And those few seconds of adaptation are the perfect moment for her to escape or counterattack.

Of course, all of this assumes that Lan Qingyou can actually hit the target.

However, Lan Qingyou wasn't worried about that.

With a batch of 200 potions, if she throws them all at once, at least one is bound to hit, and she wouldn't even feel bad about it.

After all, this is for saving her life; why feel bad? The deed would have been done long ago.

As for whether the person using this potion would be in danger...

She didn't know about others, but Lan Qingyou knew for certain that she would be fine.

To be honest, Lan Qingyou felt she still had too few materials.

Things like the aforementioned snakes, insects, rats, and ants could each actually produce potions more useful to her than the Earthworms—oh, wait, more useful than the Slow-Acting Magic Potion.

But unfortunately, she didn't have enough of them to brew a full batch.

Brewing them in small, individual doses without the proper tools would be a waste.

That was why Lan Qingyou chose the Slow-Acting Magic Potion, which could be mass-produced in one go.

These were all decisions made after careful consideration.

She had self-awareness and knew her own limitations; she couldn't expect more, so she had to—and could only—win through sheer quantity.

After bottling all these life-saving potions, Lan Qingyou began to clean her tools.

Once that was finished, she began to filter and bottle the Healing Potion.

[Effect: Restores 3 Health points per second for 10 seconds.]

[Description: A barely usable Healing Potion; does anyone actually need this kind of thing?]

She did need it, why wouldn't she? Plenty of people would want it.

Seeing the snarky remark in the appraisal, Lan Qingyou retorted back.

Although it only restored 30+ Health points over ten seconds, it was still 20+ points lower than the Apprentice Grade version.

But Lan Qingyou guaranteed that there were definitely plenty of people who needed them.

After all, people had previously complained that even the +50 Mana Potion was unnecessary, so a +50 Health Potion would certainly be less popular than a +30 one; for someone like her who only had 20 total Health points, using a +30 one felt a bit wasteful.

Therefore, even though these +30 Health Potions were made using a soup pot, Lan Qingyou wasn't worried about selling them.

With two hundred +30 Health Crude Healing Potions and two hundred +30 Mana Crude Magic Potions, Lan Qingyou kept only 10 healing potions for her own use before contacting Shang Chuan.

It was past five in the afternoon, which was roughly the time when everyone out hunting and gathering returned to the Shelter, and also the busiest time for Shang Chuan.

Although people would return from time to time during the noon hours.

Most still chose to fight outside for the entire day, or would return to drop off materials when their inventory was full before heading back out, so very few people were able to stop and browse the Trading Post.

Unless they had obtained something good.

She wasn't sure about other districts, but in District 666, because Lan Qingyou had tied basic materials to Mana values, prices had always been relatively stable, and even the prices in the black market remained consistent.

For a merchant, this was certainly a massive boon, as it allowed him to predict his business environment more accurately and reduce risks.

However, Shang Chuan was feeling a bit restless today.

He sat before his Magic Desk, hands operating the Trading Post interface on the panel; although everything looked normal, the way he kept glancing at his friends list and the way his leg shook under the desk showed that his mood was anything but calm.

It was almost six o'clock, and there was still no word from Lan Qingyou.

While he didn't think Lan Qingyou would run off, it was thousands of units of materials at stake, plus the one hundred potions as payment, which made him increasingly anxious as time passed.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

His friends list suddenly chimed.

The muscles in Shang Chuan's face twitched, and with a swipe of his right hand, he skillfully opened the friends list.

Lan Qingyou: "[Crude Healing Potion (E-)]"

Thump—thump—thump—thump—thump—

Upon seeing the effects of the healing potion, Shang Chuan's heart began to beat violently against his will.

One hundred percent! An absolute one hundred percent profit!

His throat feeling a bit dry, he grabbed the Shuaishifu Jasmine Honey Tea beside him and took two large gulps.

Lan Qingyou: "How many do you want."

I want them all!