Before Shuhang knew it, a week had already passed by. Other than training his body, Shuhang had also spent much of his time reading through book in his 'Library'. Much of it was in order to increase his knowledge of the cultivation world, especially in elixirs, while the other was to find the type of techniques that suited him the most. The one thing that slowed his progress a lot though was the fact that he still had school to attend which also gave him a crap ton of work.
Although he wanted to just skip all that stuff as it would become useless to him later on, he still needed to be able to get into Jiangnan University so he could only devote some of his precious training time to school as well. At least he was until he finally remembered he could hax with the cheating- uh... Boosted Gear. So when he tried... and actually succeeded in boosting his 'memory' and 'comprehension speed', Shuhang wished he could time travel back into the past just so he could kick himself in the head....
With his new and improved memory and learning speed, Shuhang simply no longer bothered with school matters anymore after he speed read through the entire year's worth of materials. This in turn gave Shuhang a lot more time to focus on the cultivation side of things. What Shuhang was currently focusing on the most was pretty much everything related to medicines used during Foundation Building stage.
The more he learned however, the more crestfallen Shuhang became. The reason is because there was just no way for Shuhang to procure any of those ingredients now matter how good a recipe he's got! It was then that he remembered the recipe that 'Medicine Master' hadn't released yet. "That's right! Didn't Medicine Master's new recipe focused on reducing the need for 'precious' ingredients and using more easily accessible stuff? I could just do the same thing! And with the 'Library of Heaven's Path'... all I need is trial and error until I could use just mostly ordinary ingredients. Hehehe so what if the efficacy will be reduced to a worthless level? With the 'Cheating Gear', that shit wouldn't even matter! Yosh, got a plan... now to start experimenting! :D"
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Another week passed by and Shuhang was once again laying depressed on his bed. The hell... it was actually much harder than he thought! So... many... ingredients! That number of combinations is just goddamned insane! And this is him already using an already revised recipe! Trying to imagine doing that from the original recipe instead... damn Medicine Master is really a genius.... With really no other choice... Shuhang could only grit his teeth and continued using different combinations and checking for errors with his 'Library'.
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Many sleepless nights later, Shuhang was already on his 3rd week and he's finally found 'perfect' combination with just using ordinary ingredients! He didn't bother to name this recipe though as according to his 'Library', the efficacy compared to the original was barely 0.1%, but who cares!? He's got the mother of all haxes, the 'Cheating Gear'! So with great expectations... and all of his allowance, Shuhang finally bought all the needed ingredients and was ready to start producing some 'Body Tempering Liquid (shit quality)'!
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He failed... translating things from paper to actual hands on process was harder than he realized. And so his ingredients promptly went to waste... as well as his money. Damn it! He WILL make that damn medicine or go bankrupt trying! With great determination, Song Shuhang pressed on like a man possessed, and finally succeeded at the end of the 3rd week, going into 4th. Looking at that finished product, Shuhang swore he's never seen anything so beautiful before... finally! His path of cultivation truly begins from now onwards!
After carefully... very carefully storing and preserving his finished product, Shuhang finally turned his attention towards getting a good 'Meditation Technique' and a 'Basic Fist Techniques'. With all the techniques in his 'Library' though... what was there for him to fret? When it comes owning a bunch of techniques, there's not a single damn person, immortal, or demon in this world that could beat him!
Within the confines of his 'Library', Shuhang called forth all techniques and compiled everything into one 'Perfect' meditation method. What should he name it though.... "Got it, from now on I'll call this technique the 'True Heavenly Way'!" Checking the description of this meditation method though, Shuhang couldn't help but started drooling like an idiot when he saw this technique could do...
Not being able to wait any further, he did the same thing with ALL the 'Basic Fist' techniques. As for the name though, Shuhang just carelessly named it the 'True Heavenly Fist' technique. Now almost delirious from pure happiness, Shuhang almost couldn't wait start cultivating right away until he remembered how late it is already...
It was also then that Shuhang remembered that if the medicine efficacy was too high and his body wasn't strong enough, he might actually lose his life from imploding! "Damn that was close! Good thing I managed to held myself back.... No other way... I can only double.. no triple my efforts into physical training for another week. At that time is when I truely start my cultivation journey!"
With a plan set in stone, Shuhang buckled down to reconfigure his self torture-... no no 'training' schedules! Done with his new schedule, Shuhang finally went to bed, his heart full of anticipation for the coming days. The next day really made Song Shuhang want to slap himself for coming up with such an insane self torture manual... no other way to call it than that really.
For the sake of becoming a true cultivator though, Shuhang pressed on. Before he knew it, his month long goal of only focusing on physical training came to an end. Holding one jar of the 2nd revised version of the 'Body Tempering Liquid', Shuhang took a big breath and called out the 'Boosted Gear'. "Hmm, it's finally time... Target, Medicine Efficacy - Duration, Permanent!" [BOOST!]