Chapter 180: Exam Date (2/2)

Immediately, a strong medicinal scent escaped out from the bottle. With just a single smell, Ma Rong could tell, this was not a simple pill. She immediately took out a pill tester and tested the pill.

57%

Her eyes turned wide seeing the absurdly high harmony percentage. ”Wha— how?” she asked, shocked that her disciple was able to make this so fast.

”This is what I wanted to talk to you about, Master. Check the other two pills as well,” he said. Ma Rong followed his suggestion and took the stopper out of the remaining two bottles. Similarly strong medicinal scent escaped from both of those bottles.

Her hands started to shake a little as she put the pill into the Pill tester. Both of them resulted in 58% and 59%. This just caused her to have more shock.

”What is going on? Did you make these?” she asked. As the harmony levels got higher and higher, the more difficult it was to make the pill. An alchemist could only have so much energy in the cauldron after the intense process.

Due to the multitudes of minor mistakes, the energies released would always end up in some ways not mixing together. That would make the total energy in the cauldron have less than ideal amount of the resulting energy.

This energy would then have to be absorbed by the powder before forming the pill, which was another place where the energy would be less. All in all, an Alchemist would have a very hard time making a pill with high harmony. Especially, once it got above 40%.

And yet, her disciple in front of her had 3 pills all with harmony above 55%. This was something unprecedented to her.

”Yes, master. I made these yesterday night,” he replied

”How did you do this?” she asked. Suddenly increasing your ability as an alchemist, at this level was not an easy task.

”That is what I wanted to talk to you about master. In the tiger sect, I accidentally took in an unknown blood essence, and ever since then my ability towards anything Metal aligned has improved significantly. ”

”I can use metal aligned skills with damage behind them, and make pills where the final energy is Metal at Heaven grade quite easily. Do you have any idea why a blood essence would do this?” he asked.

”What do you mean unknown blood essence? explain thoroughly,” she asked.

Alex explained all the circumstances surrounding the blood essence and the resulting effect as much as he could.

Ma Rong fell into deep thought after hearing that the essence had targeted her disciple on her own.

”I do not know the answer to this. I have never heard of someone directly taking in blood essence without putting it through a pill or something. Go and check if there are some other things that have changed in you. Since we don't have any records about this, the only thing we can do is wait to get to the Cardinal City and look through the library ourselves,” Ma Rong said.

”I see, Master. Let's do that,” Alex said.