frightfiction Chapter 698 Helping with Alchemy
Chapter 698 Helping with Alchemy
Zhong Ran and Mu Jinning have been creating finger techniques during this time, and have gained a deeper understanding and knowledge of supernatural powers.
"You've been using your fists most of the time, and it's become an unwitting habit."
Momentum is an extremely subtle thing. Geniuses who keep practicing a spiritual skill will gradually cultivate momentum.
They hadn't deliberately cultivated it, nor had they paid much attention to it, so they rarely noticed it.
Their fighting style is also diverse, unlike Ah Sheng's, which relies solely on weapons and fists.
Moreover, he rarely uses weapons, but rather his fists, which results in a powerful punching motion.
Ah Sheng was still somewhat bewildered, not knowing what power was.
"Sister, isn't this a bad idea?"
Zhong Ran smiled: "No, very good, Ah Sheng is amazing."
After comforting Ah Sheng, she turned to look at the four mercenaries.
The four were quietly retreating, but both clones were staring at them.
If they weren't so self-aware, they would have all rushed in to fight.
"We're just mercenaries, here to do a mission."
The only woman said, "Master Zhong, we have no grudge against each other, please let us go."
Zhong Ran smiled and said, "As my senior sister said, we have no grudges against each other. It was my brother who didn't understand and that caused that misunderstanding."
"If the four of you have something to attend to, you may leave now."
Just as the four were about to turn and leave, Mu Jinning suddenly called out to them.
"and many more."
The four of them froze, slowly turning around to look at him, utterly puzzled as to why Mu Jinning had asked them to do something.
"Please don't overthink it. I didn't mean anything by it. I just thought that you four must often travel in the forest, so you must have quite a few spiritual herbs on you, right?"
"I wonder if you could sell us some?"
He seemed to overhear Zhong Ran and Xiao Ding's conversation, which suggested that they had run out of elixirs.
These mercenaries must have plenty of elixirs on them; they can buy them.
Upon hearing his words, the four mercenaries were stunned and exchanged glances.
"You want to buy elixirs?"
They all knew that a genius like Zhong Ran was a guest of honor in the Alchemist Guild. Would she lack spiritual herbs?
Oh no, I heard they entered the Forest of Death and probably used up all their elixirs from refining too many pills.
So, upon seeing Zhong Ran nod slightly, they became excited and took out all the spiritual herbs they had.
"By the way, we got quite a few magical beasts and two array stones last time. I wonder if you want them?"
The four of them brought out all the resources they might have that could be useful to Zhong Ran.
"We don't need spirit stones, could we exchange them for a pill with pill patterns?"
Zhong Ran frowned. They had brought out quite a few spiritual herbs, including two of them of the sixth rank.
They mostly look down on those at the fourth or fifth tier; they wouldn't even consider those below that.
Although these medicinal herbs are very valuable, they cannot be exchanged for a pill with pill patterns.
Moreover, there are four of them. You can't exactly say that the four of them pooled their resources to buy one together, can you?
"Master Zhong, we can add more spirit stones. We just want a fifth-grade Breakthrough Pill with pill patterns."
When you reach a certain level in your cultivation, you need to comprehend more advanced techniques before you can advance; you can't just rush ahead because you have resources.
Of course, geniuses like Zhong Ran are different.
For those at the Nascent Soul stage who want to advance to the Void Refinement stage, even a fifth-order Breakthrough Pill with pill patterns might not be enough to succeed.
However, possessing such a pill could increase their chances of success by 50%.
In other words, they originally only had a 50% chance of success and didn't dare to advance, but with the help of pills, they can now completely break through to a higher realm.
Reaching the Void Refinement Realm opens up a whole new world.
It's also possible that, given their talent and strength, they might only reach the peak of the Nascent Soul stage for their entire lives.
However, possessing a top-grade Breakthrough Pill might help them attempt to break through.
A fifth-tier Breakthrough Pill.
Zhong Ran examined it carefully and found that she did not have this type of pill.
Seeing her expression, the woman reacted quickly: "Or, we can prepare the medicinal herbs ourselves and ask Master Zhong to refine the elixir for us, would that be feasible?"
The price of having someone else refine the pills is better than buying the pills directly.
Zhong Ran raised an eyebrow: "So, you have some magical medicine on hand?"
If that's the case, then it's not impossible.
"Yes, we were ready a long time ago."
They had started preparing for their promotion long ago, and the elixirs were already ready.
Initially, they only wanted to find a high-level alchemist to help them refine the Breakthrough Pill, but after Zhong Ran became famous, they changed their minds and wanted to ask Zhong Ran to help them refine it.
However, they didn't have the chance to meet Zhong Ran and the others.
After encountering him just now, I was so frightened by Ah Sheng's demonstrative punch that I almost ran away in a hurry.
Only now that Mu Jinning has expressed her desire to buy spiritual herbs do they dare to bring up this matter.
Of course, if Zhong Ran already possessed this kind of pill, they could buy one.
"Alright, give me the elixir, and I'll collect the pills in three days."
"You know the rules, right?"
Considering the abundance of spiritual herbs and array stones, Zhong Ran even gave each person an additional ten million top-grade spirit stones.
There's also Ah Sheng's monster meat; they have quite a few monsters.
This time, she even wanted the meat of second- and third-tier magical beasts.
The clones are edible.
“Okay.” All four of them took out the spiritual medicines they had prepared, each of them had prepared three portions of spiritual medicine.
This is an unwritten rule in the alchemy world: when hiring an alchemist, one must bring three portions of medicinal herbs to prevent failure in the alchemy process.
The possibility of Zhong Ran failing in alchemy was almost nonexistent, but she didn't want to break these rules.
Rules still need to be upheld.
After accepting their spirit stones and medicines, she told them to stay in the vicinity for three days and come back to her to collect their pills.
The spiritual energy here is decent, so she might as well refine pills right here.
Seeing that she was going to refine pills here, Mu Jinning looked around and, taking into account the terrain and trees, set up a simple spirit-gathering array and a concealment array so that no one could see her refining pills.
Zhong Ran's alchemy was not difficult. She handed the spiritual herbs to the small cauldron and let it refine them first.
After that, she would condense pills herself. With one portion of medicinal herbs, she could make twelve pills, and the remaining eleven portions of spiritual herbs could be saved for the time being.
These are things that don't need to be known by outsiders.
It was supposed to take three days, but Xiao Ding only spent half a day refining two portions of medicinal herbs.
Zhong Ran successfully condensed the pills in just two hours, producing twenty-four pills.
She put away the twenty coins, leaving four, and then closed her eyes to rest, taking the opportunity to cultivate.
The four mercenaries didn't go far; they also made use of Ah Sheng.
"Ah Sheng, do you want to fight a magical beast? We've discovered an eighth-tier magical beast, but we're not strong enough to get close."
An eighth-tier magical beast is already equivalent to the Integration Realm.
They didn't know exactly how strong Ah Sheng was, but they figured he must be quite capable.
Adding Mu Jinning along might create an opportunity?