Feicui Long gets up at around 7 in the morning, wets a piece of cloth and cleans his body a little, he has realized that he probably has not taken a bath in two days, so at least he wants to clean himself a bit.
But while he is doing so, he realizes something. That in his memories he had been bathing in a public bathhouse, which is not very far from here, so he then decides to go to that bathhouse, then he picks up his tent, his blanket and leaves at a light pace.
Arriving at the bathhouse, he can see the sign that says "Bathhouse – Ludwig Von Auswitch", the double door is wide open and different people enter it. So he simply follows the crowd and pays his entrance fee to a young woman who is receiving the money.
The young woman hands him a towel, a bucket and a soap prepared by the bathhouse, everything costs him 20 copper coins, although it seems a bit expensive to him, he did not want to look for another bathhouse, so he simply goes in, bathes and leaves for yesterday's bar to have breakfast.
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When he was finally close to arriving he saw the sign that said "Hilda & Family Bar and Restaurant.", it is perhaps the first time he paid attention to the name of the bar, he thinks that maybe it is a good idea to learn it since he is going to be eating here often.
It is perhaps the best option, then he continues walking and takes a seat at a table, orders a breakfast and a beer from the waitress. Who apparently is called Olivia or at least that is what she told him when she saw him enter and greeted him.
While he eats, he takes out the map that his self in this new life has been using, this map is a treasure in itself. It may be that in this life he has not been able to advance his cultivation, but his talent in other areas is incredible.
On the map one can see zones marked and cartographed by himself, some are little known and others he alone has explored and that is why it is a treasure. Any adventurer, hunter or mercenary would pay a lot to know these locations which are all safe zones. Whether for resting purposes or for monetary purposes.
He has taken out the map to see which zones he will go to, this time he chose to go to another forest. For different reasons, but the main one is to let the medicinal plants and mushrooms recover while he harvests others.
Although medicinal plants are energetic plants whose dormant spirit has not yet awakened. And therefore their growth is accelerated, it is better not to exhaust them too much especially if you want to use them to make money by producing medicines with them.
By the time he has finished his breakfast he has already marked which zones he will go to today, he collects the map, stores it and pays the waitress and adds a tip.
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About 12 hours have passed since he left the bar.
Today he is going again to the alley, only that this time he did not pass through the market, since he wants to start setting up his small alchemy laboratory. While thinking about this he arrives at the place where the formation was shining, he sets up his tent and his blanket.
But more important than that he uses his control of mystical energies. Which occupy second place among the basic energies and are composed of mana, psionic energy, spiritual energy and the 15 primary elemental energies.
These latter in turn are the lightning element, wood, fire, water, earth, metal, wind, crystal, light, darkness, arcane energy, plasma, poison, acidic and basic.
If one masters all these four mystical energies you are called a master of mystical energies, by the way the first place is the so called neutral energy or without attribute or also called neutral Qi and it is what most cultivators use.
In any case using his mastery of the earth element he raises several small earth walls and a small roof with a circular hole in the center. After that he begins to engrave inscriptions of all kinds. From runes, seals, talismans, glyphs, sigils, followed by several line formations and a master formation.
What he did next would seem like madness to any cultivator who was not an alchemist or a similar profession, but considering that his cultivation was not going to advance much further due to the curse of the Superior God of curses.
He did not mind using all his remaining energy stones to grind them and use some as energy supply and storage cores.
All this work is precisely to create an improvised alchemy furnace and also to improve the quality of the medicines that he was going to produce thanks to the master formation, after activating the small alchemy furnace it begins to shine beautifully.
Feicui Long says while wiping the sweat from his forehead: "Ufff, I honestly thought my energy stones were not going to be enough, but with this I can start the next stage to make a living."
After that, he takes out several medicinal plants, some he puts on a rock cutting board or rather a flat rock that he had picked up before and began to cut them with one of the knives he had bought yesterday. The cutting was delicate and careful, when he finished cutting them.
He places the remaining ones that he took out into an improvised mortar made of rock that he himself made and begins to grind them while pouring a little water from his spatial canteen.
Following the process he carefully places the cut plants into the improvised mortar and puts it into the furnace and afterwards places one of his hands on top of the furnace and begins to pour energy into the furnace and with the other he throws runes, seals, talismans, glyphs and sigils at the ingredients.
As time passes the furnace shines a bit more until it reaches a maximum glow and stays like that for about 30 to 45 minutes. Until finally the emitted light begins to slowly and gradually decrease, which takes another 5 minutes, when it goes out.
Feicui Long sighs in relief and soon takes out the mortar, inside it one could see 25 to 30 small pills, he quickly grabs them and carefully puts them into a small bag.
Afterwards he tries to take out the mortar, but it crumbles into pieces, to which he simply lets out a sound of resignation and speaks to himself: "Well at least the production of blood recovery pills was successful, I am glad I found a few blood flowers today to complement yesterday's blood grass."
After that, touching his chin, he adds: "With that said, according to the market value blood recovery pills are worth 5 pills for 50 copper coins, so in total it would be about 2 silver coins and 50 copper coins to 3 silver coins, not bad for the small amount of material used."
Only for him in the next moment to shake his head and raise his shoulders with regret: "But in the end, although I would like to make more, without a mortar I cannot make them, it seems that I will have to buy a good rock to make one myself, but above all I need to get a few energy stones for the inscriptions, for the moment let's sleep for today."
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The next day he followed the same routine, but this time he did go to Nancy's herbal shop to sell, this time he made 50 silver coins with everything sold and immediately went to buy a granite cutting board and a granite block to create the mortar, both things cost him about 25 copper coins.
Feicui Long also obtained about 25 energy stones, on which he ended up spending another 15 silver coins, he also bought several dozens of opaque glass and ceramic bottles for about 25 silver coins.
His plan is to sell to low income adventurers, hunters and mercenaries and be able to sell cheaply to poor people, the latter is not because Feicui Long is a super kind person or a saint, but because after everything he has lived through in this new life, he feels a certain empathy for these people, leaving that aside his total earnings today are only 10 silver coins.
When he arrives at his tent he begins to use the tools, especially the chisel and the hammer, in addition to using the earth element to give it shape.
Finishing the mortar he begins to engrave a few runes to strengthen its resistance and durability. A few seals so that it retains medicinal energy and a few talismans so that it helps even more in the creation of the different types of medicine.
Finally he establishes a formation of lines and drawings as a feeding formation and places an energy stone as a feeding and energy storage core, he repeats the entire inscription process with the cutting board, spending a total of 7 of the 25 stones he obtained earlier.
With that said he begins to refine medicine, he refines about 3 to 4 sets of blood recovery pills. After which he begins to cut and grind the ingredients for another medicine, these are the bone recovery fruit that he picked up two days ago and the bone strengthening grass that he picked up at the place he went to today.
Both serve to create a bone regeneration pill, which 5 pills are worth 75 copper coins at market price, this time in the refinement he could only create 3 sets of 25 pills each.
Before going to sleep he stores all the medicines in different bottles, the blood recovery ones and the bone regeneration ones he put in ceramic bottles, since they are the cheapest type of pills that are normally found, it is not worth putting them in a glass bottle even if it is transparent glass.
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Thus time continues to pass until a week was completed, in only herb sales Feicui Long has made a total of 1 gold coin and 50 silver, while the pills he has not begun to sell.
This is because he wants to have enough sets to sell for a good while, he is confident that they will sell well and that is because although normally a basic blood recovery pill or basic bone regeneration pill is of mortal quality – grade 1 – mortal rank.
By the way his are grade 3 – supreme rank, being close to advancing to grade 4.
This may seem confusing, but the quality or rarity classification system, which is used for medicines, treasures, skills, cultivation techniques and even to classify a person's talent or the level of a special general constitution or a specific one such as a body or a bloodline.
It is one of the many points established in the first treaty that the 3 clans of the absolute universe signed at the beginning of time.
In any case, the system is simple: There are 11 normal quality classifications which represent the so called great realms in order they are, mortal quality, earthly quality, sovereign quality, mythical quality, spiritual quality, sacred quality, immortal quality, divine quality, universal quality, celestial quality and absolute quality.
In turn each category is divided into 9 grades, where every 3 grades represent a small cultivation realm and its divisions. For example mortal quality represents a great realm, which is called the mortal great realm. But this has 3 small realms which are divided into 9 grades each, these 3 small realms are in order the elemental realm, the mystical realm and the ascending realm.
Therefore the first 3 grades of mortal quality represent the elemental realm and if we go further, the first grade represents the first 3 grades of the elemental realm, the second represents the 3 intermediate grades of the elemental realm and the third grade represents the 3 advanced grades of the elemental realm and then so on with the other realms.
In addition to what was previously explained the grades are divided into ranks which are, lower rank, intermediate rank, upper rank.
After this there also exist another 4 special quality classifications, they are called this way because instead of representing a great realm and its grades they represent a small realm.
These represent some small realms called transition realms or also called the 4 palaces, the name of these realms are earthly palace realm, spiritual palace realm, divine palace realm or also called demigod realm and absolute palace realm.
As can be inferred, these 4 special classifications have names that are exactly the same as those realms and they are special, since they are not divided into 9 grades but only into 3 grades.
Now then, despite the fact that Feicui Long feels a bit proud that his pills are of higher quality. Especially because his cultivation would normally prevent him from creating ones of such an advanced quality.
Of course this latter point could be ignored if Feicui Long were a genius in alchemy. But the reality is not like that, his talent can be said to be mediocre at best and he knows it. So in reality this is largely due to the help of the master formation that he used.
The type of master formation used is a very special type, they are called alchemy assistance and enhancement formations, although there also exists a version for refinement and smithing that Feicui Long also knows.
These formations can have a multitude of effects, but this specific one that Feicui Long used only has two, quality improvement and ingredient stabilization, therefore for the most part it is thanks to the formation that he can surpass his cultivation and talent limits, but even so it would be wrong to give all the credit to the formation and take it away from Feicui Long.
The reason is very simple, master formations by themselves are extremely complex, so much so that normally what you need anywhere, whether in this universe or another, to be called an inscription master, is to master the use of runes, seals, talismans, glyphs and sigils, master 10 types of line formations, 10 runic formations, 10 seal formations, 10 talisman formations, 10 glyph formations, 10 sigil formations, 5 mixed formations and 1 master formation.
For this reason many tend to look down on inscription masters even though to be an alchemist or a refiner-smith you need to be one, which ultimately led pure inscription masters to create a title system different from that of alchemists and refiners.
In that system the title "inscription master" is actually more of a title for beginners, which would be called apprentice inscription master and it is the first one that must be obtained to go for the second which is beginner inscription master, and so on until advancing to reach advanced titles such as true inscription master or great inscription master, among others, in any case master formations are extremely complex and for that reason only one is required to be mastered.
Now if we look at this type of master formation like the one used by Feicui Long, it can be seen that it is one of the most complex types of all, so much so that only one person among 100 million is capable of understanding half of the basic principles of this special type of master formations.
While the probability of finding someone who is capable of establishing the most basic form of this type of formation is 1 in 1 billion and going even further the possibility of being able to mix two basic effects in one of these formations would be 1 in 10 billion.
The effects used by Feicui Long, one is an advanced effect and the other a basic one, so you would easily have to search among trillions to establish a formation like this, not counting that Feicui Long could add all the possible effects, the reason why he did not do so is that each effect increases the use of stones exponentially and Feicui Long does not have the amount of stones required to add so many effects to his small furnace.
So in the end, being able to establish such a complex formation is already an achievement in itself and therefore a large part of the credit would have to go to Feicui Long who was the one that established the formation.
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In any case, Feicui Long has finished preparing the 3 signs that he bought in the market, he plans to place one in front of his tent, another near the entrance to the alley and the last one in the bar that he frequented.
The signs were simple, they said that medicines of all kinds were sold in the alley and indicated the direction. At least two of them say that, the other one only says "medicines are sold and medical treatments are performed" which is the one that will be in front of his tent, in addition to that he modified them by placing runes that prevent them from being stolen.
That said, Feicui Long begins to place the signs, first he places the one in front of his tent and then the one that will be near the entrance, afterwards he heads to Hilda's bar, he finds Olivia the young woman who works as a waitress and asks her: "Hey Olivia, can you tell the owner about whether I can put a sign next to the door."
Olivia only replies to him: "Of course you can put it."
To which Feicui Long, a bit confused, tells her: "Are you sure?, aren't you going to ask your boss or something?"
Olivia looks at him and confidently says: "Of course I am, why wouldn't I be sure?"
Feicui Long, being a bit doubtful, replies again: "But she is the owner of the bar, what if she gets angry?"
Olivia brings her hand to her face and says: "It seems you don't know, but Hilda, the owner of this bar, is my mother, therefore I as her daughter can decide on such trivial matters."
A bit surprised he looks at her and then realizes that the owner of the bar has deep red hair, exactly the same as Olivia's and that her eyes were olive colored like her mother's, then without wanting to delay any longer he leaves the bar to put up the sign, to which Olivia follows him with curiosity.
This time the sign will not be nailed to the ground because here there is a clearly paved path, so he takes out a nail that he prepared for this occasion and nails the sign to the wall.
Olivia curiously reads the content of the sign and opens her mouth slightly in a sign of surprise, to which shortly after she begins to look at Feicui Long with bright eyes overflowing with admiration and asks: "Are you really an alchemist and a doctor?"
Feicui Long responds in a humble manner: "It can be said that I have certain knowledge in those fields."
At which Olivia's eyes shine even more, Feicui Long begins to feel a bit embarrassed, it is not that he is not used to being admired, but the fact that such a young girl like Olivia who was barely 13 years old and still lacked 2 years to reach adulthood looked at him like that.
It made him feel a bit more uncomfortable, especially because those eyes reminded him of a certain person that for some reason he could not fully remember.
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In any case, having fulfilled his objective he has breakfast and simply returns to his "home" and waits for someone to come, which does not take too long.
The first to arrive is a timid young adventurer, who says while stuttering a bit: "G-good morning, is it true that you sell medicines at market price?"
Feicui Long responds while pointing at the medicines that he had placed on a cloth on the ground: "Of course, I have everything from blood recovery pills, bone regeneration pills, healing potions, energy recovery pills, mana potions, stamina potions, spiritual recovery pills and more."
The young man, upon seeing them, opens his eyes a bit and says: "I-in t-that case, give me one bottle of blood recovery pills, one of bone regeneration pills, one of energy recovery pills and one healing potion."
Feicui Long, who takes what the young man requested and gathers them in one place, while extending his other hand says: "Of course, that will be 3 silver coins."
The young man, trembling a bit, takes out the 3 silver coins and places them in the extended hand, after which he takes the medicines and examines them a bit, the young man opens his eyes wide showing how surprised he is: "T-this, a-are you sure you want to sell me this just for that price?"
Feicui Long responds with seriousness on his face: "What the sign says is what I do, I said I would sell them at market price and that is what I do."
The young man, still somewhat stunned, bows and thanks him before leaving.
After the young man leaves happily, a group of 4 hunters who seemed to have followed the young man, approach at first hesitantly, but then just like the young man they leave happy, and so little by little more people continue to arrive and thus it continues for 3 months.