"Potions first came from the Maya culture: 'Melt them into juice, cast in the bones.'"
Cen Jing spoke enthusiastically to Jiang Han. In the inn room, the beautiful witch took off her clothes and changed into a swimsuit.
Though Jiang Han felt a little shy, since the other woman had done it, she figured it should be fine for her too. She changed out of the clothes she had bought that day and put on the simple swimsuit provided by the inn.
"Although there is no evidence that the first witches in the world were born among the Maya, they clearly had supernatural beings similar to witches even in ancient times. In that saying, 'them' broadly refers to spell plants, while 'bones' refers to materials taken from monsters. That was the origin of the earliest potion-making: the combination of spell plants and monster materials."
As she explained, Cen Jing called the inn's front desk and asked them to send up a set of potion-making equipment.
The stuff was like power strips in later times; every inn kept several sets on hand.
Potion extraction equipment was not only used to make potions, but also to brew coffee or make tofu powder—something mixed with potions to produce wonderful effects. Witches who loved life often carried half a packet of tofu powder with them, using it to restore their strength in emergencies or as a tool for sneak attacks.
Jiang Han had previously borrowed her younger sister's extraction equipment.
It included a crucible mixed with mithril, a brush made from black fire-dragon wood, glass made from ice slush for storing the ovarian nests of powerful witches... more than a dozen cumbersome tools. If Jiang Han had been the one using them, she probably would only have known how to use the crucible and