Chapter 460 - True Pill Training (1/2)

Alex checked his Qi once more but there was no doubt that about 5% of it was True Qi. He was only in the 1st Mind Tempering realm and was already 5% of the way into getting ready for the True realms.

He stood up and checked his aura, but he realized that there wasn't any difference in it.

”Hmm… so it's only because I have such a thick Qi that I got to make so many Qi into True Qi huh?” he thought. ”I wonder if I will get more True Qi when I log out.”

He couldn't know that until he tried, so he forgot about it for the moment. He took out the talisman from the storage bag and looked at it.

”Oh, she's teaching me in her house? I thought she'd come here,” Alex thought with a surprise. Since it was time for his alchemy lessons, he left.

He went to his master and sent out his spiritual sense to find her. Surprisingly, she was already in the Alchemy room practicing her own Alchemy.

Alex walked up to the alchemy room and stayed outside, waiting for him to finish. He could see her struggling to control the fire.

'Why did this happen to her?' Alex couldn't help but feel bad every time he thought about his master losing her alchemy skills.

He kept watching until she was barely able to make a pill. She pulled the pill out of the cauldron and put it in the pill tester.

34%.

That was the harmony the pill tester showed the pill had. An alchemy master that could make Heaven grade True pills was now struggling to make a decent Earth grade one. In Alex's eyes, that was one of the cruelest tragedies life had played on anyone.

'Still, 34% is quite a progress,' Alex thought.

”Oh, you are here? Come sit down,” Ma Rong said.

Alex walked forward and sat in front of her with the cauldron in between the two of them. Ma Rong took back her cauldron. She caught Alex's gaze at her pill tester.

”Sigh, yes. Your master has indeed fallen into such a dire state. I can barely make such pills,” she said, half-mocking herself.

”I-It's fine, master. 34% is still 34%. I'm sure you will be able to increase that up to 50% and make Heaven grade True pills once more,” Alex said.

Ma Rong flinched a little when she heard that and her face twisted to show a hint of agony and sadness she was hiding inside.

”Is something wrong, master?” he asked.

Ma Rong took out the pill she had just made and threw it to Alex. Alex caught the pill and looked at the pill trying to understand what was wrong with it.

He checked the color and smell of the pill as well as he could, and that was when he realized.

”This is a common pill!” he said in surprise.

”Yes. Your master has become so incompetent that she can't even make a Heaven-grade common pill now,” she said.

”But… But just because your Qi turned into Yin Qi shouldn't mean suddenly losing so much ability, right? As far as I can understand it should only affect the temperature,” Alex said.

”No, it's different. My Qi affects the temperature, yes, but it also affects the energy. Do you remember about the attacks that my body stopped so easily?” Ma Rong asked. ” Similarly, it also stops all energy that comes close to my body. So, if I stay close by, the ingredient's energy in the cauldron starts suffering too.”

”That's why its so hard. If even the energy of the cauldron starts being hampered with due to my body, it's impossible for me to do anything,” Ma Rong said.

”That's… there much be some way to control it, or maybe even suppress the constitution altogether right?” Alex asked.

”I… don't know, but it's not your problem to think about. For now, focus on yourself. It's not like your own body doesn't have mysteries that need some explanation either,” Ma Rong said. ”You are just as unique of a person as me, perhaps even more so.”

”Okay,” Alex said after seeing Ma Rong not wanting to talk about it at all.

He took out his cauldron and kept it on top of the fire. While the cauldron started heating up, Ma Rong started explaining.

”Do you know the theory behind making True pills?” Ma Rong asked.

”Yes, just the theory,” Alex said.

”Tell me,” Ma Rong asked.

”Uh, making True pills is the same as making common pills. The only difference is that True pills have a few ingredients in them that are of True rank, which requires one to be in the True realm to use,” Alex said.

”Hmm… the fundamentals are at least there,” Ma Rong said. ”Do you know any more?”