Chapter 41 - Is there any worth in that? (1/2)
After Ao took his time to explaining to Krune what a brothel was, Krune could only apologize to Go Gao and Lu Ganan, he then remembered the man from the s*x shop.
'Humans from s*x shops can't be trusted, I will remember this!'
Go Gao and Lu Ganan could only cry after that, they decided to not make problems for Krune again, who knows what will come from this low EQ human form demon beast.
That same day, Krune went to the Alchemist Guild to practice pill making, he spent his entire day there, he also failed quite a few times, after all, between making basic pills and more complicated ones, it's obviously harder to achieve success with the later.
There was one thing that made Krune gloomy for a time, a pill called Wisp's Will, this pill didn't use wisps as components, simply put, when you directly absorb a wisp spiritual energy, there will be side effects, after all they aren't 100% pure, but this pills corrected that problem, the only issue is that you would lose around 30% of the wisps spiritual energy in the process, after taking the pill, the energy that you received from wisps will be filtered and the impurities removed, but the process loses a lot of spiritual energy as well, so, for the people of Makui Planet, it wasn't a very famous pill, wisps are very expensive, they usually couldn't afford to lose that much spiritual energy even if there is impurities in that.
When night came, he returned to the mercenary guild to cultivate, but not before eating his fill in the restaurant on the way.
This cycle continued for the next three days, Krune could now be successful in over 80% of his tries, of course, the sync of the elements inside of the medicinal liquid made from the herbs is still something hard for him to accomplish, even more now that he is making harder pills, in the end, he could only sync the same 20% to 30%, this isn't a lack of talent, but a gap in cultivation, the higher one's cultivation, the easier it is to control elements, it is already a miracle that Krune can sync the elements at his level.
'I guess I can finally take orders, the rules of the alchemist guild state that one must be at least 50% successful in their pill making at the level of the pill that they are trying to make, I tried quite a few different ones at the Three Stars level so I'm pretty confident on it.'
Krune then went to a monitor in his alchemist room and opened the list of orders available to be selected, he scrolled down and after pondering a bit, he took out three orders for Three Stars pills.
One of the pills was the spiritual explosion pill used for breakthroughs, that was the pill the Ao Sulian wanted to buy in the past to use during his breakthrough into the 4th stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm, as any other pill, it also had several levels, and the one asked was for the pill to be at least three stars.
The second was foundation reinforcement pill, this pill worked different from the 'Five Elements Paste', it reinforced your foundation straight away to a certain percentage, but the more you took it, the lesser the effect, the body would start rejecting the pill, so it was only good for the first three or four pills, after that it would become almost useless, so it was usually used after one got in the late stages of Foundation Establishment.
The third one wasn't a cultivation related pill, but a healing pill, Three Stars Healing Nectar Pill, the recipe of this one is quite complicated, even among the complicated ones, but Krune wanted to practice this pill so that he could make a few ones to bring with himself in the future.
'If I concoct those three pills without failing, I will receive a total of 1327 Rank Three low and middle quality spirit stones, and I can finish it all today, no wonder almost everyone wants to be an alchemist, as long as they are good at making the pills, they can make a lot of money in such a short time'
But that's what Krune wants after all, he decided that he will now gather twenty thousand Rank Three spirit stone and try to create his seventh Spiritual Energy Meridian.
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Time passed by and just like that, one month was gone, during this time Yusa, Ao and Krune took one more mission to get some minerals in another Danger Zone, this one was simpler to complete since it had the same cultivation level recommendation as their own, so there was no bonus, nonetheless it still rewarded them with 550 ranking points, the main reason of taking this mission was for them to train in real combat, Yusa had already broken through the 4th stage and Ao is steadily moving to the 5th, Krune also took this opportunity to test his strength at the 3rd stage, he challenged an ordinary 7th stage Demon Beast and was able to defeat it quite easily.
When they came back Yusa and Ao left again to continue their cultivation, Krunes cultivation speed is too fast, they can't relax or they will be left behind by him in no time, not to mention that Krune's battle prowess is already higher than theirs, they can't lose in cultivation realm too.
After going back to the Alchemist guild, he spent his time accepting orders and cultivating at night until he gathered the twenty thousand Rank Three Spirit Stones he wanted, in fact, even Krune thinks that he is exaggerating, it shouldn't cost him this much sprit stones to open the seventh Spiritual Energy Meridian, but it's always good to be prepared.
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Back at the Mercenary Guild, Krune sent a to Ao and Yusa telling them that he was going to create another meridians, so that they could keep an eye out for him and check how it is made themselves, they gathered at the entrance after that. Yusa then asked.
”Where you want to go to do that?”
Krune then answered
”Katiu Forest is too far, it will take over a week to go and come back, is there a good place where I can focus on absorbing energy without people bothering me?”
This time it was Ao who answered.
”If all that you want is to be out of sight, you can rent a house in the city for yourself.”
Ao then explained that by paying a certain amount per month, you would be able to get a place that is only yours for a certain time period.
Krune agreed to the idea, with Yusa and Ao's help, he rented a small house in the borders of the city, it has a lot of space around and a small house in the center. Ao then said.
”You just need to set up a concealing formation and it will be done, I can call a formation master over if you want, a common formation shouldn't cost much anyway.”