Chapter 4 - Tragedy of Xiedinghongren (1/2)
Tragedy of Xiedinghongren
Chapter Summary: An Xian feels that her pricing was too conservative!
An Xian arranged a square cloud array in the flower field, using spirit stones as an energy source, which could improve the quality, spiritual power, and growth speed of the flowers and plants. At the beginning of planting, the spiritual qi¹ that nourished the flowers and plants were all provided by the array method. When the flowers and plants matured, a cycle would gradually form in this area, and the qi would convert and converge with each other, endlessly.
However, before the cycle took place, a process would be required. An Xian had more than 30 spirit stones in her hand. One spirit stone could safeguard four acres of land for three to five years with sufficient spiritual energy. As long as there was no additional consumption, then the array formation could operate for two to three years on its own.
More than a dozen kinds of flowers and plants were planted row upon row. Beautiful reds and brilliant purples were mixed together, covering the entirety of the earth. Just like an ocean of colors, undulating with the wind, carefree. And instead of sea breeze, burst after burst of pleasant flower fragrance was mixed in every wind wave.
An Xian walked through the sea of flowers and picked up fresh pieces of petals from lively plants. The petals fluttered and danced in the air, and as if consciously, the petals gathered on her palm, turning into specks of light and disappearing without a trace.
Seeing those materials she collected for refining medicine was enough, An Xian returned to her residence. She took out her new furnace and started the day of refining medicine.
An Xian’s online shop, Huahua World, offered five conventional medicines: Ningxiang Pill², Dreaming Pill³, Buyuan Pill⁴, Jingxin Powder⁵, and Qingshen Water⁶.
The so-called conventional drugs referred to the commonly used drugs related to daily life activities. It consisted of cleaning, nursing one’s health, sleeping, improving one’s appearance, nourishments, and so on. Apart from conventional drugs, there were also a plethora of drugs under different categories of usage or industries. Such as medicaments for medical treatment, energy-concentrated drugs, special function drugs, and animal and plant breeding drugs.
Because the shop was only open for a few months, the variety and quantities of goods weren’t large. Moreover, the popularity of Huahua World wasn’t particularly high among the plethora of similar shops in the online community, but the positive rate had reached 99%. The remaining 1% could be surmised coming from the black professional households, or the loyal back powders7 who still place orders with criticism at the end of every review.
The furnace used by An Xian to refine medicines was from the work of a highly respected master back in ancient times. It actually belonged to the category of quasi-immortal devices, which was now used to refine a kind of ordinary medicine that possessed no grade. It really was overkill and could be described as hiring a talented person to an insignificant position⁸. Every time the furnace was opened, An Xian could feel its grievances.
“Lulu, dear, we’re in troubled times now. Everything here is simplified, once the cultivation base is restored in the future, it will merely be a matter of minutes to refine top-grade immortal medicines!” An Xian patiently appeased the rising temper of her family’s furnace.
The furnace’s body trembled a few times, and suddenly puffed out a huge amount of cloudy gas from a gap in the roof, creating a foggy atmosphere in the room that would last for a few seconds. As the furnace finally expressed its frustration, it ceased to move.
Due to the limited materials and An Xian’s family’s unwillingness to dilute the poor medicinal substances, a large number of semi-unfinished products that weren’t completely disseminated were refined, so the quantity of pellet produced in every session in the furnace was quite small. Despite that, according to this era’s evaluation standards, even if it was only a demi-finished product, the quality still far exceeded other similar products.
While the first batch of medicines was still warming up in the furnace, An Xian opened the Starnet to browse the web to pass time and conveniently clicked on a forum. A colorful promotional picture suddenly popped out of nowhere occupying most of the screen.
[The most majestic, weird and most wonderful costume party in history is about to happen tonight at the Goddess of Moon Stadium!]
‘What the hell?’ An Xian closed the nauseating, colorful promotional picture without looking at it.
In the forum she entered, she mainly discussed drug-related content, including the people’s medication experiences and recommendations from various high-quality pharmacies.
[Thinking back about those dark pills that I tried when I was young and ignorant!]
[Recommended by family, Clear Jade Pavillion’s Xiaoxingxin Energy Ball~~ It works within a minute and would last up to a hundred minutes!]
[I just want to know when the forum will be able to clean up those junk advertisements. As soon as I opened the forum today, my eyes almost got blinded by the ad pop-up window of a certain NC prom! (Does the title have 60 yet?)]
{T/N: anyone can tell what “(标题凑够60了吗?)” means?}
[I bought a special, highly effective medicine yesterday. It says that it can make people jump for 30 meters. Today, I intentionally made a live broadcast. If the jump is less than 30 meters, I must definitely complain to that store!]
After filtering each and every promotional ad that ceased to stop, for now, An Xian’s eyes were fixed at the post and curiously opened the post where the author would try the pill.
The post was set up in a live broadcast mode. After accessing, a virtual broadcasting room would be the first thing to see. The audience inside the space all displayed meng images to provide privacy to their identities. Besides that, they could also roast the author at will and could also adjust the font of your own subtitle and equalize your own music sound effects as well.
At this time, the live camera was facing a red pill placed on a porcelain plate.
“This is the protagonist of the day: Zong Yun Pill⁹, a 2-star middle-grade medicine purchased from the pharmacy. The price is 4999 points. The main effect is to enhance your muscle strength and jumping ability by leaps and bounds in such a short time. It requires the user’s mental power to reach at least D level, and there should be no critical illness.” The voice of the host rang out from the “Xiedinghongren” in the broadcast.
1st floor¹⁰: [Taking a seat and watching.]
2nd floor: [Landlord¹¹, are there any emergency personnel by your side? If not, it’s strongly recommended that you find one as a reserve ah!]
3rd floor: [Just looking at the appearance of the pill, you can tell that they’re delicious.]
4th floor: [Host, stop dilly-dallying, take the medicine quickly!]
Xiedinghongren: “Don’t worry, in order to achieve the best results, I specifically searched for a quiet, spacious, and obstacle-free testing place. Please see.”
The scope of the camera moved up, and what appeared in the video was a mottled and outdated abandoned building.
Xiedinghongren: “This building is about to be demolished. The measured height is 29.5 meters. In case of no accident, I could jump to the top of the building after taking the medicine.”
23rd floor: [Landlord, you can even find such a dangerous building. This alone is worth 999.]
[Lazy Bones rewards Xiedinghongren with 999 points for seeking death coin.]
[notwearingclothes rewards Xiedinghongren with 999 for seeking death coin.]
[Ihaveamouthful rewards Xiedinghongren with 999 points for seeking death coin.]
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After a series of rewards from the audience, the camera scope finally returned to capture the figure of the brave and strong warrior of today’s live broadcast— Xiedinghongren.
44th floor: […I never thought that you were such a host.]
45th floor: [Host, has the person who sold you the medicine taken note of your body weight beforehand?]
46th floor: [Visual estimation of the host’s up and down and left and right diameter difference is less than 5 cm.]
47th floor: [I bet 13 points as courting death coin, the host can only jump 9 meters at most.]
48th floor: [Am I the only one who should be worried about how the host could land safely when falling from the air?]
49th floor: [Just sit down and wait for the host to perform as a falling object from a high altitude.]
Xiedinghongren: “Don’t worry, I have C mental strength, a robust body, and am wearing a complete full-body protective gear. Say no more than 30 meters or even 50 meters, don’t even think of me falling. Okay, let’s stop talking nonsense. I’m about to take the medicine.]
The man threw the Zong Yun Pill in the air and caught it with his mouth. With his face warping into a distorted expression, and then commented, “This tastes like fermented stool…”
75th floor: [We will give you another 999 points as courting death coins, just please don’t describe the taste of the pill in detail. We only need to know that it’s unpalatable.]
Two minutes later, the efficacy of Zongyun Pill began to take effect from the camera.
Xiedinghongren: “My body is brimming with so much energy that I feel feverish now. And like a beast whose blood is boiling hot. I seem to be able to go to heaven at any time!”
115th floor: [GOGOGO! Host, speed to the heavens!!]