Strange Medicinal Powder (Please Follow!)

As if sensing the somewhat bizarre fluctuations in her Beast Master's emotions, Color Spirit looked at Chen Wei with confusion in her eyes.

"What? Haven't you always wanted to try what this medicinal powder tastes like? If you don't want to taste it now, then forget it."

After saying that, Chen Wei made to withdraw the spoon in his hand.

"Ya! Yiya." (ω) (No, I want to eat it.)

Color Spirit immediately protested with several clear cries. She had never said she did not want to eat it.

Thus, beneath Chen Wei's expectant gaze, Color Spirit slowly extended her snake tongue and gently licked the Vitality Powder on the spoon.

Seeing this, Chen Wei fixed his eyes on Color Spirit, whose expression had not changed in the slightest. He wanted to know what she thought of his handiwork after tasting it.

"Well? How does it taste?"

Looking at Color Spirit before him, who had narrowed her eyes and remained motionless for a long while as though time had stopped around her, Chen Wei asked in surprise.

At the same time, a foreboding feeling rose in his heart. No way, right? Could she actually faint from eating such a tiny bit of medicinal powder?!

Chen Wei instinctively sensed Color Spirit's condition through their Beast Master contract, only to discover that her mental state was unexpectedly good.

"Yiyiyi-ya..." (￣へ￣) (So-so. It's not as tasty as I imagined, but it's not exactly bad either.)

Color Spirit opened her bright, watery eyes and tilted her adorable little head. Seemingly still savoring that strange sensation from just now, she called out softly with some uncertainty.

"Ah... it's not bad?"

Chen Wei glanced at Color Spirit's mouth twice in astonishment. He could hardly believe that something so bitter actually tasted fairly acceptable to Color Spirit!

Ignoring her Beast Master's stunned expression.

After satisfying the curiosity that had been burning within her for so long, Color Spirit, finding it rather dull, directly turned around and returned to the sofa where she often practiced her meditation technique.

"Looks like I measured a gentleman's heart with my little snake heart. Chen Wei wasn't lying—this thing really isn't very tasty."

Lying on the sofa, Color Spirit thought thoughtfully.

Meanwhile, Chen Wei, who was trying to learn Color Spirit's true thoughts through their contract, frowned. Where had his pet beast learned all these expressions?!

He remembered only showing Color Spirit the instructional videos for [Eastern China Basic Language Enlightenment]. It had only been a few days, so how was she already applying Blue Star's allusions so readily?

"You're a Cold Jade Snake with ice and psychic attributes. Don't tell me you want to put on glasses and become a language professor in the pet beast world."

Chen Wei muttered under his breath, though there was a hint of delight in his heart.

Color Spirit truly was worthy of being his initial pet beast—her talent for learning was completely maxed out!

Coming back to himself, Chen Wei looked at the tiny bit of medicinal powder left on the spoon, hesitation flashing through his eyes.

That shouldn't be right. When he made too much food, Color Spirit would occasionally help finish it. She also loved the grilled fish that he thought tasted good.

By all rights, their tastes should be about the same!

Could it be that freshly made Vitality Powder had a uniquely awful taste? Perhaps its flavor would improve somewhat after it had fully cooled!

Thinking this, Chen Wei shut his eyes, gritted his teeth, and, refusing to believe it, licked the powder on the spoon again.

"Cough, cough!"

At once, Chen Wei's violent coughing rang out through the kitchen.

He was truly speechless. How could such an awful-tasting medicine exist in this world?

Even more ridiculous, he had personally refined this medicine himself. He was completely tormenting himself; calling it reaping what he had sown would not be an exaggeration.

As Chen Wei struggled inwardly, the thought that the Vitality Powder before him would be his rations for the next month made his scalp tingle instantly.

After a while, Chen Wei, having rinsed his mouth and tidied himself up, looked at the large amount of Vitality Powder in the earthenware pot before him with a troubled expression.

In his previous life, he had eaten quite a few strange foods. Even canned herring and dried Icelandic shark, which others considered especially disgusting, had been sampled by Chen Wei because of his intense curiosity.

How should he put it? Compared with drinking the Vitality Powder in front of him, he would rather choose either of those two dark cuisines.

Chen Wei silently wrapped the Vitality Powder in the earthenware pot in paper, then shook his head with a wry smile.

He could not understand why, when every step had been done properly, the medicinal powder he made had turned out this bitter.

Its taste was utterly different from the Vitality Powder he had bought at the medicine hall—one could even say they were worlds apart!

Chen Wei stood where he was in silence for a moment, then went to his bedroom, picked up his phone, and sent Liu Muning a message.

"Sister Muning, this is the first Vitality Powder I've refined. It tastes especially bitter and astringent. Did I mishandle some part of the process?"

Below the text, he attached a photo of the medicine that he had just taken.

To be honest, there were many people Chen Wei could ask about difficulties in medicine refinement, but the only authority figure he truly trusted was Liu Muning, whom he had only met not long ago.

While studying the knowledge of medicine refiners, he had also met quite a few friends online.

To resolve certain refinement issues, Chen Wei and those medicine refiner friends had all joined a shared group chat, [Eastern China Alchemy Society].

The Eastern China Alchemy Society was full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers. Looking at their usernames, Chen Wei found that every single one was at least an intermediate medicine refiner.

It was said that the group administrators and even the group owner were already esteemed advanced medicine refiners.

That said, truly capable medicine refiner bigshots would not spend all day idling in group chats.

Every day when Chen Wei woke up and saw 999+ messages in the group chat on his phone, he knew exactly what kind of group he had joined.

Only the people in the Eastern China Alchemy Society occasionally discussed alchemy knowledge that opened Chen Wei's eyes and actually worked. Otherwise, he would have left that strange group chat long ago.

As for taking the Vitality Powder he had just finished refining and asking those big shots, who casually spoke of high-grade pills at every turn...

After thinking it over, he chose to give up. He would probably get no serious answer that way.

More than ten minutes later, Chen Wei's phone vibrated. It was Liu Muning's reply.

"Judging by the color in the picture, there's no problem. Vitality Powder usually only has a slight bitterness. After trying it, how effective was it exactly?"

"The effects are much better than the ones I bought from the medicine hall. It's just that the taste is bitter in a very abnormal way."

"Very good. No need to change anything."

"If you find it too bitter, add some rock sugar or honey when you take it. That won't affect its effects."

"Alright, thank you, Sister Muning."

After politely ending the conversation, Chen Wei looked at the medicine packets sitting not far away. His brows immediately knitted together, and he helplessly shook his head.

Come on. What had to be faced would be faced eventually. Waste was a very bad habit.

After completing his nightly strengthening routine, the exhausted Chen Wei stared at the black medicinal liquid before him, into which he had added a generous amount of rock sugar, and bitterness rose in his heart.

Meanwhile, Color Spirit, lying in the blankets beside him, raised itself in puzzlement. Its eyes fixed on Chen Wei, carrying a trace of confusion.

"Didn't my Beast Master usually just down it in one gulp? Why is he hesitating today, never daring to make a move?"

A moment later, as though it had figured something out, Color Spirit's eyes lit up. It hurriedly volunteered to Chen Wei through their contract.

"If you can't drink it, then don't. Let me do it!"