226 Pill Tester (2/2)

The third attempt exploded at the sixth merge of liquids. Fourth attempt was the same. Fifth attempt at the seventh merge of the liquid.

At last, on the sixth attempt he had managed to merge all the liquid together. Now he needed to turn this liquid into a pill, and to do so he needed to catalyze it with spiritual energy.

Too much spiritual energy and it would explode, too little and it would turn to paste and lose much of its power.

The first batch exploded. The second was a goopy liquid that could not even be considered a paste. Another three explosions later and Xue Wei finally laughed like a madman with a small middle-ranked Earth Warrior's Rising Qi Pill in his hand.

”Not bad, not bad,” he laughed. ”It's a middle-ranked pill! Must be because I distilled it quite a few times. Could also have something to do with my merging technique. Oh well, who cares. Got to find someone who can test it.”

Having said this, Xue Wei left the hotel room that looked like the aftermath of a hurricane that had ravaged the place after the many explosions.

Walking around town, Xue Wei soon found a youngster who was training to become an Earth Warrior. He was clearly poor, but his talent was rather amazing to have reached the Earth Warrior level as early as he had.

”Hey, you there,” Xue Wei pointed at him and smiled. The boy was stunned, but he stopped in his tracks and looked at Xue Wei curiously. ”Are you interested in a Rising Qi Pill? I just refined it—it is a middle-ranked pill, but it is also one of my first pills. If you take it in front of me and let me see the results, I will give you a low ranked essence stone!”

The Earth Warrior was stunned by the proposed deal. Not only was he going to get a middle-ranked Rising Qi Pill, he would also get a low ranked essence stone for eating it? That could be used to support his family for a very long time.

”I would gladly be your pill trial!” he said honestly. Xue Wei grinned as he took out the pill.

It was not a pretty-looking pill. It just barely passed as a middle-ranked pill, but even so it had quite a few impurities. It was after all his first pill.

”Don't worry,” Xue Wei said when he saw the young man quickly changing his opinion. ”I will guard you while you take it. I am an Ordinary Knight, so I should be able to protect you,” he promised. The young man no longer stood on ceremony after that.

Quite a few people had noticed that something was going on and were watching curiously, but no one really understood what was happening.

Seeing that the young man sat down at the side of the road and popped a pill into his mouth, many knew that he had accepted a pill test. Many were curious as to what would happen when he consumed the pill. Sometimes miserable things would happen to the pill tester.

Xue Wei was incredibly excited. This was the first pill he had ever created, so he was eager to know what it was like. He saw that the heaven-and-earth essence became denser around the boy before it suddenly shunted into his body at a speed so fast that it could not possibly have been caused by a pill designed for Earth Warriors.

”Did I make a mistake?” Xue Wei muttered to himself contemplatively. The young man was grimacing. The heaven-and-earth essence that was pouring into his body was being refined into Qi as fast as his body could manage, but this was much more energy than anything he had ever had to manage before.

Xue Wei did not really care about the young man's fate. He had willingly decided to become a pill tester so his fate was up to luck. No one could blame Xue Wei if he died.

Three hours passed before the flow of heaven-and-earth essence stopped pouring into the body of the young warrior. His face was red, and blood had trickled out of the corner of his lips for some time, but he was not dead. When Xue Wei observed him, he saw that his strength had risen from the second layer to the fourth. This was an improvement caused by Xue Wei's Rising Qi Pill, clearly. It was not bad at all.

”I guess merging them like this works,” he said to himself after consideration. Seeing that he had gotten such an outstanding result meant that there was no problem in merging the herbs one at a time instead of trying to keep them separate and then merging them all at once.

As to why the result was much more potent than what he was expecting, he had no idea.

”Hey kid, here's your payment,” Xue Wei said casually and gave him a low ranked essence stone before he turned around and left, not caring about the rest. He had already gotten the result he wanted from the test.

After returning to his room, he once more threw himself at concocting medicinal pills. He found that it was incredibly fun and rather challenging. In fact, although inscriptions were difficult, alchemy was much more fun.

Unfortunately, there were quite a few explosions as a result of his attempt at concocting pills. At times it would be every second hour, at other times it would take up to five to six hours before there was an explosion.

The staff of the hotel rushed around everywhere trying to figure out who was the cause of the ruckus, but no one dared believe that it would be Xue Wei, and thus the cause was never found.

After managing to create Earth Warrior pills with no issues—even high-ranked Earth Warrior pills—Xue Wei smiled. He was rather satisfied with his achievements before he threw himself at the next challenge. He would not be truly satisfied until he could make Rainbow Pills.