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4.34% Learning To Live As A Cultivator / Chapter 14: Chapter Fourteen - I create fifty Blood Pills

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.


Chapter 15: Chapter Fifteen - I can’t find the right mushrooms

Leon held the map in hand and added another line on it using the burnt end of a stick, he had found more mushrooms, but they were still not the type he was looking for. The book he had read had stated that the type of mushroom he was searching for had a blue hue in day light, no spots and a flat, circular top. These were brown with black speckles, definitely not the ones.

With a sigh, he glanced at the roughly drawn map he had created. His small hut was at the centre of it. To the west and slightly north was the lake and in between this was the wild sunclover patch and the mushroom log. To the south of this he had found another wild sunclover patch, a whole mess of wild onions in a sunny, clearing, and a few small gatherings of different mushrooms. He tapped his chin with the dry end of the stick before deciding to head west from here. In this direction, he found a river that seemed to head northwards, perhaps towards his lake. It was just deep enough to contain small fish and small crustaceans. His mouth watered, wondering if the latter tasted like the shellfish he had eaten sometimes back home. He would come and check this place out again.

Continuing west, he noted down a few other features, such as a tree that was easily five times the size of most of the aging trees in the woodland, a steep decline, heading south down the mountain and the wall of an attached mountain to the furthest point west that he could walk. This, he estimated, was at least two and a half hours walk from his hut. It was also riddled with caves and would require a longer time to explore. For now, the sun was already declining, there would likely only be enough light to see him home, so he left the western edge and headed roughly in the direction of home, only stopping to take a fruit from his pouch and ease his hunger.

Ah, he should have had breakfast at the food hall that morning, he mused, but it was an hour away in the opposite direction of this land, so he had settled for finishing his last couple of tubers. He would have to find more once he was able.

With this thought still in mind, when he left for the west cliff caves very early the following morning, he took his basket in order to gather any foodstuffs he could find. He didn't want to soil the inside of his spatial bag with mud or bugs. Before he had even reached the caves, he had gathered onions and roots. He had not found any large crustaceans, but that was alright, he didn't want them to flee or go bad while he explored anyway. After picking some mushrooms that he knew were okay to eat, he finally reached the caves. He took out his glowing sphere that he'd taken from home and very cautiously peered inside the first one.

It was a bit disappointing. Really. It was just a small cave, no hidden tunnels or anything, with a dusty floor, rock for walls and ceiling. It was very dry, no moss nor fungus could thrive here. This was the case for many of these caverns, though one led to a larger cave that had sparkling crystal veins embedded into its walls. It was a mesmerising sight. Leon made a note of this cave.

As he followed the mountain side south, he noticed the amount of moisture increase within the caves, one that dipped below the ground level he was used to, even had a small, slightly salty spring. Naturally, weeds were peeking out in places where the light from the entrance touched the ground and mould lined the inner walls of this cave, but it still lacked any mushrooms.

Just as he was about to leave, he noticed a dark alcove to one side. It had been so drenched in shadows, he failed to notice it at first. He ducked inside finding it led to a narrow tunnel that he had to crawl through. Inside was an impressive sized pond, though like the spring, the water had a salty residue. To one side of the pond were mushrooms! It was too dark to see their colour, so he harvested a few, before turning to leave.

As he did so, he suddenly heard a shuddering breath. He froze and scanned the cave with the light from his sphere. In a corner, near to the small tunnel, there was the body of a man. There were wounds littering his body and his face was very bruised. Was he alive? His chest heaved once more. Yes, he lived but was unconscious.

Leon withdrew two jade bottles of pills from the spatial bag. He mostly had the one heart pills and they were weak at best. With a heavy sigh, he withdrew one of the improved blood pills he had made from Leo's recipe. It was the strongest pill he had on him, it would have to do. He took the pill from the bottle, then took out the bottle of water he had brought with him. He knelt beside the man and pushed the pill into his mouth before teasing his tongue with drops of water, his instincts forcing him to swallow.

Leon placed his basket upon the ground before slipping out of the cave to gather firewood. He could not leave the man as he was and he did not think the willowy frame of his current body would be able to carry him out, so he would make do and leave when the man was able to fend for himself. With such thoughts in mind, he returned to the cave to cook mushrooms.


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