Chapter 10 - Flame Art Manuel

After looking at his stats, Tang Ling finnally took the time to open the book that the Elite Imp that dropped.

The book was thin and the cover was made of leather, a material that he never came across. It was said that in ancient times, things like leather, wools and many primitives materials existed. But as time passed, the materials were replaced by synthesized materials which had greater efficiency and long lasting. He knew as he liked reading books about everything. Leather in those days are almost extinct and are only used by poweful leaders just like the royal family.

Tang Ling excitedly read the content of the book, it was dropped by the Elite Imp so it was naturally precious. On the cover was written {Flame Manual}

In the book were ill.u.s.trations of a human and the structure of a flame. With many scribbles and chinese words, it explained something but he couldn't understand.

The system rang out :

[Reading Flame Manuel... By reading the book, Host has unclocked two hidden stats : Wisdom and Intelligence. Wisdom is the experience and knowledge of things, it cannot be quantified. Intelligence is how your brain works and how good it is. Also cannot be quantified.]

[The knowledge you have do not have any relations with the Flame Manual and your Intelligence cannot replace your lack of knowledge.]

[With the System's help of maximizing the profit, you managed to understand a part of it. Learnt Flame Arts -weakened]

[Discovered : Flame Art Manual (Lower Magic)

A martial art that allows one who is lower than cultivators to learn power of nature. Obviously called "magic arts" it is a Magic grade as it can be considered as magic. In fact, the arts manual is lower than that. With the manual being incomplete and the weakened version by the [System], it is obviously trash.]

[Learnt : Heat

You can now heat the weapon to deal damage to the oppenent. Deal extra fire damage. Consumme 1 Mental energy or Qi per minute.]

Tang Ling was disapointed, he knew that Heat was a trash skill that only dealt a little more damage for the unknown mental power. But it was still an extra damage right ?

As for Intelligence and Wisdom, it was pretty normal, although he experienced many things, it was still in the slums where only brawls existed and no mystic powers and martial arts. So it had no inferences to the comprehension of the manual.

Tang Ling carefully stored the manual and went to the Apothecary. He peeked at the apothecary as he carefully grounded the herbs and made it like paste. Tang Ling knew what he did, his father would sometimes take a bunch of weed to paste it like that to accelerate his recovery when he was injured. Although little Tang Ling was spectic, how a bunch of weeds could do the same things as modern technologies, the result proved the opposite. His wounds would heal up in 1-2 days. He then practised the various techniques that his father teached and with those teachings, his [Medecine] reached LV 2. Tang Ling recalled that there were a bunch of books that father used to read before his death. One was called {Copy of Zhong Healing Edict}.

But it wasn't his matter for now.

He looked at the apocathery, his technique was more exquise than him and didn't waste any mouvements. He was pretty sure that his {Medecine} was Lv2 peak or Lv3. Also, Tang Ling wanted to see what materials that the apocathery that he used if it could help him select better herbs.

After a few seconds, the paste revealed its stats :

[Shizou Paste (Common) : Heal 50 HP instantly and 100HP over 10 seconds. Cool: 30 seconds]

Shizou Paste ? What could it be ?

Tang Ling couldn't restrain his curiosity and directly went to the apothecary.

"Isn't that Tang Ling the newcomer ? Welcome !" said the apothecary while smiling. This attitude was surely influenced by his reputation in the village.

Tang Ling exchanged some plaisanteries with the apothecary. After knowing his name, Tang Ling cut off the chase and went directly to what he wanted : "Apothecary Huang, can you tell me the ingredients of the Shizou Paste ?"

"Huh ? Do you want to gather the ingredients to me ?" asked Huang Mu, suprised. It had to be known that his medecine was cheap so gathering the herbs required a lot of time and a little profit. Even if this Tang Ling wanted to gain money, he could do anything than him. Mining or gathering fur would be better than herbs picking right ?

"Nonono, you see, my father had teached me how to make bandages and pastes but didn't teach me the herbs to pick for the paste. I would use any weeds to make bandages or paste in the past. So I'm here to see the best combinaison or set of herbs for me to create." Tang Ling was quite frank, he directly admitted his intention. He was normally a good person and didn't really like to lie.

"I see" the apothecary nodded. He was impressed of Tang Ling's honesty and started explaining various ingredients that one could make a bandage or a paste but also some concoctions that one could make.

[Shizhou Paste, Basic Bandage, Breath Powder and Qi Small Pellets Recipe learnt]

Shizou Paste was to recover injuries, Bandages were to stop bleedings and start recovering, Breath Powder was a powder to accelerate qi circulation and Qi Small Pellets are the most difficult one; increase qi circulation cycles and recover qi. The effects depended on the ingredients and the quality of it. For example, if Huang Mu failed his paste and made a [Shizou Paste (Common-Failed)] it would only recover 25 HP and 30 HP in 10 seconds and if it was really trash, it could have some side-effects.