31 Trouble Comes at an Unexpected Times! 1 (1/2)
”What is wrong with this description? Did the name Yantai Pill is fake?” Zhang Wu Ji was surprised by the name it was shown in the description. Up to date, many of the items he read in their descriptions matched the name given by the public, and even the Iron Ruler he made, or the Dirk he crafted carried the name correctly. But when he looks at the description of this pill he just made, it was completely different from what he knows.
Low-Quality Mutual Destruction Pill
-Usage 1: Completely recover the Injuries and exhausted Strands of Fighter Qi immediately, the effect will gradually reduce in minutes, and two hours after consumption, the consumer cultivation will reduce by half.
-Usage 2: Allowed the user to obtain the ability to utilize Death Qi. Amount of Death Qi utilized will further increase the injuries and reduction of cultivation by 5% each time.
-Durability: 7/7
-Special: Instantly paralyzed consumer's sense of pain upon consumption.
”Damn! The Yantai County is seriously vicious!” It was a pitiful fact that they were destroyed, but in order to cover the fact of this deadly pill,they changed their name into a glorious Yantai Pill, known for their usage to instantly recover their injuries and replenish exhausted Fighter Qi. But no matter what, it was an immoral act to hide the side effect of the Yantai Pill from the public even if the pill were to meant to be taken at a life and death situation!
If he did not possess the ability to discern and read the true condition of the product he touches, perhaps even as a Pill Master himself, Zhang Wu Ji will still be deceived by the hidden fact behind this fake Recovery Pill. It wasn't qualified to be called as a Recovery Pills at all, but it was far more qualified to be called as a Forbidden Medicine! This truth was revealed to him indirectly, out of a coincidence.
But...
Does this fact... Worth destroying the fame after death the Yantai County received after so long? No matter what, the Yantai County still being worshipped as heroes among the humans, because of their sacrifice to fight against the Beast Infestation, only to end up as being swallowed completely, leaving no human alive within the whole piece of land.
”For the name of human's protector that had sacrificed themselves, I will let you keep this small hint of deceit down to your grave. But under my eyes, I will promise myself that this Yantai Pill that I concocted, will not be used by any of the people belonged to the Seven Star Sect in any situation!” ZhangWu Ji decided. It was a painful decision to do so, but sometimes, the legend is what leads people to survive through times, and not the truth.
And at the same time, Zhang Wu Ji noticed another fact, which leads him to agree in one of his hypothesis. The destruction of the Yantai County was, in fact, a disaster caused by themselves, because of their approach and extreme cultivation in concocting their famous Yantai Pill.
Yin-Yang Mandrake Plant
-Usage 1: the Yin Yang Mandrake is sexless until they matured. Upon maturity, the medicinal effect within its body will be transformed into a precious medicinal ingredient, suitable to be concocted into many different kinds of Medicinal Pill due to their Yin and Yang harmonized quality.
-Usage 2: the Yin-Yang Mandrake Plant is a well sought after aphrodisiac coveted by the Beast because of their effectiveness and the ability to increase the count of copulation they can endure. A female Mandrake enhanced female beast conceiving and birth ability, and a Male Mandrake increase the amount of production and time they can copulate.
-Durability: 4/4
”I think, none of the residents inside the whole Yantai County does know the fact that the Mandrake Plant that they were so proud and massively cultivates throughout their land, was the reason their county was destroyed. The beast honestly cannot be blamed for this, because even a human might lose control when their sanity is already been controlled by lust, especially the whole Yantai County is cultivating them all over in their lands.
He can only describe the ending of the Beast Infestation as;
”War because of Lust, Death because of Exhaustion.”
”In fact I do feel pity for the crowd of beast during their successful Infestation, but there should be a large number of casualties as well, due to the aphrodisiac.” he feels like laughing because he successfully discern a truth, but it was an ironic incident, the moment he understands the fact hidden for so long.
”I should look for more knowledge and information related to the Yantai County's Mandrake Plant first. Since the description stated their harmonize Yin and Yang within the plant is suitable to concoct many medicines, there must be some hidden recipes that not many people know. Perhaps looking for their remains will be a good choice to start.” he decides that no matter how dangerous the pill and the mandrake, they still worth a chance.
With 98 remaining Mandrake Plants remained, Zhang Wu Ji separates their differentiation, according to a set, and it was unfortunate there were only 14 remaining Male Mandrake Plants, and the other 84 belonged to the Female Mandrake Plant category. In the end, he only able to concoct fifteen Mutual Destruction Pills, or he decides to remain with the name Yantai Pill for now.
The remaining 70 Female Mandrakes plant are to be sold in the Free Market when it's possible because they will be no use for him at this moment. Instead of keeping them for another three months, it was a better suggestion to sell them for the prices of 1 Qi Sensing Pill each. It will worth 70 Qi Sensing Pills at the end of the day.
Next, it was the turn of the one and only Sun Facing Fruit.
Sun-Facing Fruit
Concentration: 82 units
Usage 1: The fruit essence extracted from the Sun Facing Fruit is a high-quality material to be concocted into Qi Sensing Pills. According to the scale, every 10 units of essence were worth 1 Qi Sensing Pill after completing the concoction.
Usage 2: The seed of the Sun Facing Fruit can be planted to bore fruit after three months.
Durability: 4/4
It was an easy task to concoct the Fruit Essence from the Sun Facing Fruit. All he needs will be to land a cut in the middle of the fruit and remove the seed which was as big as an avocado seed. The flesh of the fruit carries the texture similar to a sponge, whereby pressing them hard the juice inside of the fruit will be extracted.
To concoct the Qi Sensing Pill, the process must be done from a completely cold Pill Cauldron. The chances of failure are almost non-existent because the concoction process is too simple. By firing the cauldron and continue to stir their juices, the Qi Sensing Pill will slowly form. According to the senior Pill Masters that publish their own revision books, the concentration enzyme inside of the fruit essence is very likely to bond together when they were left under the stressful condition of heat.
As their maximum number of essence unit are 10, each of them will be combined in a size of ten and results in few marbles looking pills left inside of the cauldron when all the fruit extracts run dry. Normal fruit always carries over 70 units in their fruit, while some better fruit produced by the Imperial Kingdom are likely to yield the amount of 90 to 110 units in their fruit because of fertile land, Condensed Qi Atmosphere, and professional Botanist.
Not too long, he ends up eight Qi Sensing Pill richer, without any special note to be found from his handmade Qi Sensing Pills. After taking a proper rest, he started to works on the Yin Ling Fruit, which look like a peach but void of the seed inside of the fruit. Instead of having a seed inside, the Yin Ling Fruit is filled with pulps that hold the Yin Ling Fruit juices together.
The process is only allowed to be done by hand, where the next step after harvesting, is to peel the skin of the fruit like it was a pomelo fruit. The peel was then discarded to reveal its mesocarp, or also known as the white flesh layer of the fruit. By peeling them one side after another, it soon revealed the juicy vesicles, which the human name them pulps in his own world.
The process of extraction the juices were actually easier than its difficult descriptions mentioned by the recipe. By gently removing the central column that holds all the pulp together, Zhang Wu Ji easily extracts the juices from the fruit like a bubble is popped. That pull revealed the central column with many cork-like tips, which hold the juices in the pup together.
By removing the column, the juices flow into the cauldron. He then throws the remains into a basket and proceeds with the next fruit. Following the procedure stated by the recipe, a total of five Yin Ling Fruit is required to complete a cauldron of concoction, where it will then be fired and stirred, until it reaches the medicinal potency they required.
Following the instructions, the concoction quickly formed into a pile of powder, with seven pills remained at the bottom. Because the Yin Essence Pill possess the coldness that can sooth the clash of Yin and Yang element within a cultivator body, it was a commodity that was sought after by many cultivators, especially for those reckless cultivators that accidentally went out of control.
Yin Essence Pill
-Usage 1: Improve the body activities and enhance the metabolism rate. Overdose effect is non-existent.
-Usage 2: Balancing Yin and removing Yang. Female consumption will have no side effect. As for the male, an overdose of the Yin Essence Pill will cause hormone to unbalance, turning the male into a sissy for a while.
-Durability: 4/4
-Special: Usable as a temporary mediator for patient inflicted by serious Yang Element injuries or poison
”This pill effect is as usual again. It means that only the Yantai Pill effect has been tempered. The recipe must be either modified or changed due to some unspeakable reason. But that is not something I need to handle. As long I can control the usage of the Yantai Pill for those people close to me, it will be more than enough.” Zhang Wu Ji reconsiders his thought while continue to make another batch of concoction.
The end results were positive enough, giving him a total of 75 Yin Essence Pills.