Chapter 4: Medicinal Bath

{ As I said in the first chapters, there must be a lot of mistakes in the chapters. But for those who don't care about that, thank you. This is the last chapter for today. I'll try to send one or two more tomorrow, but I'm not sure. Hope you guys are enjoying it, because I really enjoyed writing these chapters today.}

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"Big Sister Xin, I need some medicinal materials."

Yang An passed a piece of paper to Yang Xin as soon as he saw her coming out of the bathroom.

"Yang An, all these are medicinal materials that improve and strengthen the body. A long time ago, I got some medicinal materials and asked Grand master Gu Yan to prepare them for you, but there was no effect."

Yang Xin looked at the medicine list and, like an excellent alchemist, she recognized all the medicinal materials on the list with a single glance.

"Big Sister Xin, I want to try. You know... since I can't refine pills, I can only do this..."

Yang An shook his head with a troubled expression and wet eyes.

"Sigh! Alright, Big Sister will get them for you, okay?" said Yang Xin as he shook his head lovingly. Even though medicinal herbs were relatively expensive, it wasn't much. In addition, the Alchemists Association had a stockpile of several precious herbs.

"Heh, thank you Big Sister Xin. You're the best!" Yang An ran and hugged Yang Xin with a childlike smile.

His head was level with Yang Xin's breasts, but he didn't care. If Yang Xin wasn't disgusted by this, why wouldn't he take advantage of it?

Yang Xin shook her head with a smile as she combed Yang An's hair. In her opinion, as long as her nephew was happy with it, so what if these medicinal herbs were wasted? After all, the herbs could grow back in the future.

Yang An smiled from ear to ear at Yang Xin's promise. In that case, he wouldn't need to spend his allowance on medicinal herbs just yet.

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As soon as Yang Xin left to get the medicinal herbs for his nephew, Yang An sat in the lotus position, entered his library once more, and began to study all the Alchemy books that were more or less at his level.

As stated earlier, he was an alchemist genius in Glory City. However, his current knowledge was barely enough to understand the books on the first floor of the Library. It made him wonder what the abilities of the floors above would be like.

Even so, with just an hour of basic reading through the library's Alchemy books, Yang An felt as if his knowledge had expanded to a time or two more than a day ago. Several mistakes he had made in the past were also as clear as the light in his eyes this time.

Yang An briefly left to see if Yang Xin was back, but soon returned when he realized that she hadn't arrived yet. He didn't make much of a point of cultivating at this time, as his body couldn't withstand the pressure of a powerful technique, and he also didn't want to suffer trying to collect a remnant of soul power.

So he spent almost three hours inside the library studying the books on the first floor, when he finally decided to go out once more. But unlike the time before, he didn't return to the library this time. That's because just as he opened his eyes to the outside world, his aunt's soft, smooth face came into his line of sight.

"Have you finally woken up!? For a moment I thought that you had entered the legendary state of enlightenment and would advance in your cultivation." Yang Xin pinched Yang An's pale cheeks, and then handed him a simple storage ring.

"Here are twenty-four sets of medicinal herbs that you asked for. There happened to be a lot left over this month, so Gu Yan didn't mind giving you anymore. He trusts you a lot." She said as she saw him accepting the storage ring.

"Thank you, Big Sister Xin, thank Chairman Gu for me." Yang An peeked inside the storage ring, and was shocked to see the amount of medicinal herbs.

Excited to test his knowledge, he quickly started walking towards the back of the alchemist's association. There was a special room for the alchemists, about fifty square meters and with all the daily necessities for two weeks. In the last few months only Yang An had used that room, and it was now practically his at this point.

However, just as he was leaving… Yang Xin said in a worried tone:

"Yang An, I really hope you know your limits. Don't try too hard on something you know doesn't work."

She really was worrying a lot about this nephew of hers during the tragic information about his talent. Even she didn't know how she was managing to handle the association's affairs and take care of her nephew at the same time.

Yang An nodded, "I will be in isolation for a few days testing this new drug in the testing room. I hope no one disturbs me in this time."

"If I don't leave within two weeks, you can come in and force me out of there!" Yang An smiled at his aunt, then ran to the back room of the association.

As soon as he left the room, Yang Xin fell to the ground and sighed in relief.

She didn't say anything, but she was extremely worried when she tried to wake Yang An from meditation a moment ago and failed. All this time, she was holding back only with willpower not to show her fragile side to Yang An.

But luckily and for his happiness, he woke up fine, and he didn't have any problems.

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Meanwhile, in the back of the alchemists' association, inside a house measuring just over fifty square meters, Yang An was facing a deep tub measuring over two meters as he probed inside the storage ring with his spiritual sense.

He was finally going to start preparing the medicinal liquid! From the book, it wasn't too difficult. It is enough that the materials were played in the correct order, and at the right time. Any delay or change could lead to the failure of the preparation, and the complete loss of materials.

Yang An closed his eyes to recall the process once more, and then began.

A violet plant suddenly appeared in his hand, and then Yang An threw it into the bathtub.

"Violet lotus Grass - Ssss~" Steam began to come out of the water as soon as it came into contact with the plant.

Soon after, a blue-colored apple-like fruit appeared in Yang An's hand.

Waiting for the water to start turning violet...

Ten seconds after changing color completely, play Blue Litter Fruit.

This time there was no visual change, but Yang An was attentive and noticed that the water began to emit a faint sweet fragrance.

Soon after, a small bamboo about five to six centimeters appeared in Yang An's hands, but it also flew into the bathtub as quickly as it appeared.

Thus, more than twenty different plants were thrown into the bathtub. In the last ingredient, Yang An took out a Jade box where the main ingredient was.

A silver rank demon spirit! As soon as the Demon Spirit came into contact with the blood-red water of the bathtub, its entire containment crystal was disintegrated, along with its last shred of consciousness.

At that moment, the water was extremely hot. Just getting close could cause an average person second and third degree burns.

Yang An hesitated for just a second, before taking off all his clothes and jumping into the bathtub. But just as his body touched the water, a painful roar escaped his mouth.