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4.03% Learning To Live As A Cultivator / Chapter 13: Chapter Thirteen - I find out about the request system

Chapter 13: Chapter Thirteen - I find out about the request system

Leon spent a week melting and refining those herbs into pills. Naturally, he created a fair few Clear Spiritual Pills and Burning Essence Pills, before attempting anything else. He wanted to make a pill called One Heart Pill. It was the lesser cousin of the Blood Pill, easier to create and using less herbs. It was a common pill amongst apothecary's that served commoners more so than the Blood Pill. Leon felt that if he had a stock of healing type pills, he would have greater chances of survival. Leo had also experimented with ways to make this pills side effects less, for as well as being high in impurities, it could damage the meridens if too many were taken in a short space of time. These experiments had created some success.

The usual way to make them were to brew silver nettle leaves into a tea, before melting a wilted lily flower in this tea and then adding purple spirit grass seeds to soak in the mixture as the tea was boiled away using a constant heat. Leon practiced this method for a while, only failing once when a moment's inattention burnt the seeds as it boiled dry far faster than he had assumed it would. Once he had ten pills, he tried Leo's method.

That was to soak the seeds in the half the tea mixture, then crush the seeds into powder, add the rest of the tea then boil this mixture under the same heat, forming the pills with spiritual energy before the tea boiled dry. It was more difficult, Leon threw away several attempts before he managed to figure out the timing. The resulting pill looked more vibrant and pure than it's dull, speckled counterpart. He stored the new pill away for his own use in the chest beneath his bed.

It seemed that while Leo's experiments were better in the long run, they were not the easiest of recipes to follow. So Leon decided to stick with the basic recipes for now until he was more versed with the creation of pills.

As he now had the rest of the ingredients to hand, he made an attempt to create the basic purifying potion. The recipe was fairly easy to follow and he simply had to add his spiritual energy to the liquid to ensure that opposing ingredients bonded. He crushed dried nettle roots into a powder and dissolved it in boiling lake water. Flowering sweet sunclover was soaked in the water over night, once removed from the heat. The liquid was then drained and all leftover herbs removed before being boiled for a second time then poured directly into bottles.

Despite potions being easier, they took longer to make and were not as easily carried by practitioners and cultivators so were not as in demand as pills. A lot of alchemists did not bother making too many. That and there was still the chance of failure, as Leon proved as his second batch turned murky overnight and thickened, when he reboiled it, into mud. He wasn't sure where he had gone wrong, so was overly cautious on his third attempt. However this potion came out as clear and refined as the first batch, so his worries were unfounded.

Once the week was out, he separated his pills into those he wished to keep and those he would hand in. He had no real use for the either the spiritual nor energy pills, so he decided to stockpile a few, as Leo had done, but hand most of the rest in. He kept half of the potions and most of the one heart pills. Once done, he wandered over to the central compound. He was looking forward to eating rice again.

There seemed to be more students around this time, perhaps as it was not yet lunch time and he had not taken the long way around via the library. He also learnt that gossip was not just something found in his first life.

"Did you hear? Some outer students were picked to become inner students!"

"Was it true that Caprian was taken?"

"Hope so, some of us wanted to actually keep our pills!"

"I got a fair bit of silver out of him though!"

"And where exactly are you going to spend that around here?"

"I heard Aries was also chosen."

"That's not a surprise though, is it? He was very talented after all."

Leon exhaled a small sigh of relief. That must have been the reason the Caprian had not come to his hut for the pills. This was a good thing for him. Now he only need concentrate on worrying about himself.

He handed in his pills and potions and was surprised to see Teacher Sagi there again. He allowed the old man to check his pulse again, he thought maybe this was normal? The teacher gave him a nod, seemingly satisfied.

"Have you taken any requests recently?" The man suddenly asked. Leon had to rake through his memories to figure out what he meant and then recalled that students and teachers from all over the various schools would ask for things in exchange for other things. It was a good way of obtaining things not available from the basic stores like the Herb Hall. He shook his head. "Teacher Corne of the Martial Arts School requested a high amount of Blood pills and I thought of you. You have always been reliable. I didn't mention it first due to the deviation, but you seem on track now. If want it, go take it off of the board."

"T-thank you Teacher," Leon bowed slightly, his glasses slipping on his nose, before wandering over to the notice board hanging on the side wall. Fifty pills was a large number, but it was in exchange of a set of knives. This was good for him, he only had one and partially due to the amount of carving he had done, the blade was showing signs of wear, despite his maintenance. He also took one other requests; one seeking a type of mushroom that could be harvested in the woods in exchange for a bag of rice. He hoped he already had this type of mushroom, he would go to the library and look it up.


Chapter 14: Chapter Fourteen - I create fifty Blood Pills

The Blood Pill, being a step better healing pill than the one heart pill, was naturally more difficult to produce. It required silver nettle tea leaves, red lantern flowers, red lantern seeds and purple spirit grass. Just as the one heart pill, it required the brewing of the nettle leaves into tea, but the purple spirit grass should be boiled in this tea before the flower was added.

The improved method of the one heart pill would actually turn this pill into a poison, congealing the blood inside the body. Leo had found this out when he had fed the experimental pill to a dying bird only to accelerate its death by mistake. He was quite remorseful and realised how dangerous his experiments could be… that did not stop him entirely though, just that he became more cautious learning as many details as he could about each herb and pill to lessen accidents.

Instead, he had found that this one improved with the quality of the red lantern ingredients; the flower should be at its peak, no disease nor wilting and the seeds were actually better if very old and dry. These old seeds minimized the risks of turning the pills into poison as it was the liquid content in fresh seeds that caused problems and the amount of healing tea old seeds could soak up was maximised.

Leon used the traditional method first, but picked out the driest seeds that he had received from the Herb bundle he had received from Herb Hall for later experiments. As it turned out, a lot of them were dry. Unfortunately, the flowers were not in peak condition either. After a few failures, he managed to get the hang of creating this pill and successfully made ten pills before he was unable to continue.

The following day he created five and lost two. He was upset about the losses, especially as he would have to go and collect more herbs for these pills. So he created some other pills that he had made before so that he could get more herbs. He spent the rest of the evening yawning as well as carving decorative pieces for the hut. He was living there, he might as well improve it.

In the end, he took two weeks to create fifty Blood pills and three Improved Blood Pills, the latter ones he carefully hid away.

Leon visited the Herb Hall to hand in the completed request, he wasn't sure if this right or not, but had not noticed any other way in the diaries. The seniors were surprised to see him when he last visited the hall to grab more herbs, as if they were not expecting him or had forgotten about him, but now they did not bat an eyelid. They did not need to concern themselves about this one, Caprian was no longer paying them to cause trouble.

As the request was from teachers of the inner school of the warriors, however, the seniors did not take the items from him summoning Teacher Sagi instead. Leon waited quietly for the teacher and was surprised to see that the man had brought with him an inner school warrior.

"Leo, this is Pike, one of Teacher Corne's students," Teacher Sagi introduced. Leo had written that if a teacher took a liking to a student, they would receive much more comprehensive tutoring than other students, who could just show up for lectures when they felt like it. "Pike, this is Leo, one of the more reliable students in the alchemy school. If Teacher Corne wants items in bulk in the future, best simply find Leo."

Pike nodded and bowed to Leon, who flushed slightly red and bowed awkwardly back. Pike clearly had the shape of a warrior from stories, broad of back and muscular and with golden skin. Unlike most of the students, the length of his chocolate brown hair barely reached past his shoulders. "Nice to meet you," Pike greeted.

"N-nice to meet you too," Leon replied quickly, but Pike did not react to his stutter. "Oh, th-the Pills!" He took the blanket from the basket, the only thing he had to hold the jade bottles in and revealed the fifty blood pills, five pills to a bottle.

Teacher Sagi looked a little flabbergasted. "Do you not have an interspatial pouch?"

Leon helplessly wondered what that was so could only reply no. Pike covered his mouth to prevent himself from laughing, his bright eyes sparkling, and took something from his belt. It was a pouch no bigger than his fist. "Here, I stored the knives in here. You can keep the pouch, I don't need it." Leon took the bag curiously and opened it up thinking that a set of knives could never fit in such a small space. His eyebrows almost disappeared into his hairline as he saw that the inside space of the little bag was many, many times bigger than the outside. Pike tried not to snicker over the boy's innocent reaction. What sort of country bumpkin was this? He took another pouch from his belt and placed the jade bottles into it. He then turned to Teacher Sagi and begged his leave.


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