5 Soul healing pill (1/2)

As Long Tian sat on his bed thinking of what to do he heard voices outside his room. He could hear the voices of his parents outside his room. He did not know how to face them. He was the son of the God of Trinity. And yet he was also the son of Bai Mu. He had all the memories of this life, and the feelings that came along with it. After all he was indeed Bai Mu's son.

Afraid of what they will find out, neither of his parents were extending their senses into his room. Long Tian closed his eyes and focused his senses outside.

”... to do. What if he never wakes up?” Xiao Mei-er said.

”You heard what doctor Mu said. He will wake up soon.” Bai Mu said, trying to comfort his wife, even though he did not sound very convincing himself.

”Do you think we can get the Soul Healing Pill? The Soul Healing pill that is being auction off tomorrow is a sixth ranked Dao class pill. Can we even afford it.” Xiao Mei-er asked.

”I do not know. I have already told the elder council that I'm willing to pay any price to get the Soul Healing pill. If we add all of our assets into the mix, we should be able to afford it.”

The moment Long Tian heard the name of the Soul Healing pill he was stunned. The Soul Healing pill was a famous pill. Some pills were randomly named by the alchemists and there would be hundreds of pills with the same name all having different effects. Most of the pills were like this as there were far too many alchemists and they would all come up with their own version of the pills and name them as they like. Yet there were also some that had standard names that were for specific purposes. These were some of the most popular, widespread and powerful pills. The Soul Healing pill was one such pill.

The Soul Healing pill was not a single pill, but rather a class of pills. Depending of their effectiveness they could of the Qi, Soul, Dao, Immortal or God classes. All the pills were demarcated based on two criteria, their class and their rank.

The class of a pill was represented by the effectiveness and the power contained in the pill. There were five classes of pills Qi, Soul, Dao, Immortal and God. Each class corresponded to a specific step in cultivation. Also for a person in some step of cultivation, taking a pill whose class was below that of their step would not result in much of an effect of the pill being shown.

The ranks of a pill determined the difficulty in concocting as well as the power and effectiveness within a class. There were nine ranks to a pill. A higher ranked pill would be more effective than a pill of a lower rank but of the same class, but it will always be less effective than a pill of a higher class but lower rank. But the difficulty in concocting may not be going up as easily. According to the common knowledge, the difficulty in concocting only goes up by four ranks between two pills of the same rank but different class. For example a first rank Dao class pill will be as difficult to concoct as a fifth -rank Soul class pill and as difficult as a ninth rank Qi class pill. A much higher ranked pill of a lower class could be much harder to create than a lower ranked pill but of a higher class.

Another thing that demarcated the strength of pills was the number of circles in a pill. The circles of a pill was determined by how precious the materials used in making the pill was. For example if a more powerful or older medicinal ingredient, or a more valuable medicine cauldron was used, then the pill would have more effectiveness and thus circles. Though most pills are mode with just the required ingredients and thus would usually only have one or two circles. Thus usually people would only specify the number of circles if it were four or higher as only then would it have a relevance.

The Soul Healing pill had many formulas, and depending on its formula its rank and class could change. Almost all named pills had multiple formulas for multiple ranks and classes.

Long Tian continued to listen. If he was able to get a Soul Healing pill, he could use it as an excuse for why he woke up. Even though it would be a waste of time and resources, he could also use its power to step on the path of soul cultivation.

In the path of cultivation it was generally agreed that the Qi path was more favorable than the other two paths. This was because of two reasons. The first was the difficulty in practicing the three paths. The path where the talent played the most part was the soul path. It was almost impossible for people without absurd talent to walk this path. The path which required the least talent was the body tempering path. But this path required great amount of resources and often the body tempering path was filled with great pain and thus needed great willpower.

But the qi path could be practiced by anyone as long as one was ready to put in enough effort. Thus it was the path followedby most people. Due to this many different styles and variations arose, allowing people to cultivate in different ways, and as long as one could cultivate using the technique that suited them the most, they could easily find themselves improving at an increased rate.