24 Clearing Pill (1/2)

Mo Qingcheng ”It is not broken it is melted.”

Mo Qingcheng ”Hmm for those using spiritual sense they will notice purer energy when it is broken. For those who rely on vision it is in form of some changes in the core.”

Jiang Chen ”What type of changes?”

Mo Qingcheng ”It is more like process happening quicker than before. Mo Qingcheng yo can't drop the temperature faster either it will cause core crystal to crack away.”

Jiang Chen ”Hmm good I will try. How much essence should I collect?”

Manager ”Usually 10 drops is considered perfect amount. Since you are doing for first time even single drop will indicate you have some proficiency in using this cauldron.” he was not optimistic because that cauldron was laying there for over ten years and no one made an attempt to test it.

Mo Qingcheng ”I would have been able to extract ten drops of essence with closed cauldron and around 8 drops in open one.”

Jiang Chen ”Why is that ?”

Mo Qingcheng ”True energy evaporates quickly and since nothing is preventing it from reabsorbing into atmospheric energy .”

Jiang Chen ”So both methods have disadvantage and advantages?”

Mo Qingcheng ”Yes.”

Jiang Chen slowly placed the beast core in the cauldron and closed it then activated his god's eye to see the beast core in the center of cauldron.He could see it clearly as it was open. Jiang Chen slowly sent his fire attribute energy through the the opening given for that. There was no reaction when he passed the fire energy at first and then he slowly increased the energy he is sending and finally the crystal started melting and the process was too slow. Even though Jiang Chen knew that it may not be any problem for him to increase the energy he still asked Mo Qingcheng.

Jiang Chen ”Wife is it ok if i increase the energy supply by bit. The core started melting but it is too slow.”

Mo Qingcheng ”No problem. But don't increase or decrease suddenly. It should be a steady increase or decrease.”

Jiang Chen did as she instructed ans increased the supply of energy by few strands slowly.

The melting of core was now faster than before but Jiang Chen did not dare to increase is more fearing he might melt away inner core with higher energy. It took over an hour and still outer core was melting. Then suddenly Jiang Chen felt like some sudden change happened in the core and he gradually started reducing the supply of energy core. Jiang Chen then quickly moved his heavenly energy inside in the form of a bubble shape. Jiang Chen reduced the temperature slowly and felt that at some point it would be enough.He observed little of true energy got evaporated because of high heat.

Jiang Chen then waited patiently using steady energy as supply and periodically a drop of energy melted fell down and Jiang Chen caught them using the bubble formed by heavenly energy. It continued for another few more minutes and all the core was melted down and Jiang Chen collected all essence in his bubble.

Jiang Chen ”Wife it is completed? I collected the true essence and isolated it with my heavenly energy. I guess I spent over 8000 strands of heavenly energy for it.”

Mo Qingcheng ”It would be shameful if you failed with the skills you have. How many drops did you collect?”

Jiang Chen ”I didn't count let me make a quick check.” Jiang Chen converted the bubble to hour glass shape and slowly counted the no. of drops falling.”

Jiang Chen ”Wife there are 8 drops.”

Mo Qingcheng ”Good you are not bad with more experience you can make perfect ten or even better.”

Jiang Chen ”Is there even better number than that.”

Mo Qingcheng ”There is but it is called mythical. No one was that absolute even that bastard from Pill Heaven Palace.”

Jiang Chen ”Oh! Is that the old foggy they tried to marry you to curry favor.”

Mo Qingcheng ”No he is even older than that. I was to be married to his son/disciple. ”

Mo Qingcheng ”Jiang Chen burn few drops of essence or else manager will die of shock.”

Jiang Chen ”How many should I burn?”

Mo Qingcheng ”Leave 5 or 6 drops. It would still be in believable range. Also it would name you as genius. Even in my place 5-6 drops in first attempt is called a Super genius. Your wife was just short of it by a drop.”

Jiang Chen ”You mean I am better than you?”

Mo Qingcheng ”It would be humiliating if you aren't with all the things you got. I already knew before hand that your count would be more than my first time.”

Jiang Chen ” All wife's teaching.” he said smugly then slowly opened the cauldron and slowly poured the extracted essence inside the crystal bottle manager gave him.

Manager was not speaking anything at all he was completely dumbstruck seeing this. Jiang Chen was able to collect 5 drops of pure essence from beast core using a closed cauldron and that too when he was using it for first time.

Manager wanted to say only one word monster but he knew he can't say that to his young master.

Manager ”Young master are you sure this is your first time with the cauldron. Leave closed cauldron even first timers in open cauldron can't collect this many drops.”

Jiang Chen scratched his head he should have burned few more drops.

Jiang Chen ”Uncle I liked this one can I take it.”

Manager ”Absolutely young master it is fate of the cauldron that it was chosen by young master.” he himself was not sure whether he was flattering Jiang Chen or speaking his true opinion.

Jiang Chen ”Thank you uncle. I will let father know about it. So father don't blame you.”

Manager just smiled at it. Their young master as good as ever .Always speaking politely and caring about others. No one rivals him among younger generation either in character or strength and there was no need to speak about martial skills he is without a rival even with senior generation involved.

Jiang Chen ”Wife what is the use of this essence now.”

Mo Qingcheng ”This essence is used as ingredientfor pills and pastes. Also one drop of the beast essence is used mixture in beasts diet. There are many uses of it. You know single drop of it costs around 50 gold coins.”

Jiang Chen ”What? One grade one core's cost is just hundredgold and one drop of true essence is worth fifty gold coins.”

Mo Qingcheng ”Yes. When one use demonic cores directly there would be too many losses so many prefer using pure essence directly. ”

Jiang Chen ”Doesn't that mean if I buy beast cores and convert them to true essence I will get three times profit.Also there are thousands of beast cores inside the store room of palace.”

Mo Qingcheng ”True but it would be waste of your time. Also there are not many buyers here. But it would be helpful for you to keep them in reserves.”

Jiang Chen ”True. What are next items I should be buying.”

Mo Qingcheng ”Ask manager for the crystal bottles .I guess they should be available in the store.”

Jiang Chen ”They sure are.”

Jiang Chen ”Uncle I need this crystal bottles?” these bottles are specially made for holding alchemy pills and true essence since Jiang family have connections outside they are available here.

Manager ”We have only few dozens of them if you want more you should go to pill hall.”

said passing few empty bottles to him . Jiang Chen paid for these items because. Cauldron is made by his father but they have to import these items from other cities .