Chapter 115 - 115 - Thousand Poison Pill

"Okay master," Xia shouted cheerfully.

The old dragon soul felt a kind of vain pleasure listening to his cheer. "yes yes, my student I will teach you properly," he said, "but before that you need to know my name as well right?"

"Yes, what is your name, master?" Xia said.

"My name is Quiyin Long," the soul said proudly. He gazed down at his student to find him nodding with a thoughtful look. 'Oh, thank god he believed It.' he let out a breath of relief. His actual name was just Quiyin*, but since he had a tinge of dragon blood in his heritage, he always called himself Quiyin Long*.

"Master," Xia whispered.

"Yes, let's get to pill making,"

The old soul gazed at the numerous herbs in front of him and whispered, "You are making a thousand poison pill?"

"Yes master, I Am. I know the herbs involved in making it but... I was sleeping when my mom taught how to process it," Xia mumbled awkwardly.

The old dragon soul nodded. "Please don't sleep when I'm teaching thought," he whispered.

"Never," Xia assured.

So the master and student squatted next to the cauldron. Quiyin instructed him to pick up the blooming moon flower.

"This herb should be crushed before adding it in," he said, and gestured for Xia to crush in between his palm. Xia did so.

Then the dragon soul picked up the two leaved clover called Gleem clover. "This one should be cut,"

Xia nodded. He summoned a small knife from his space and chopped up eth leafy herb.

Next came the important herb, the Lusiha herb. He slowly picked it out of the jade box and held it up to the Quiyin.

"Oh my god, how did you get this? This is a very rare herb," the dragon soul exclaimed.

"Oh I had to fight a demon lord for this,"

"What!" the old soul was curious as to how this little guy managed to defeat a demon lord and got this herb. But the cauldron popped and bubbled, shutting down his curiosity.

Usually thousand poison pills can be made without the Lusiha herb, but its effectiveness reduces by half.

"This one is very fresh so you can toss it in directly. If it was dried up, you have to soak it overnight in spring water to rejuvenate it," Quiyin said holding the precious herb in hand.

Later He showed Xia how each herb should be prepared. But Xia already knew some of them, so eth process was fast. Soon they added all the herbs one by one.

They all mixed together and formed a small puddle of liquid at the bottom of the cauldron.

"Nice... it's coming out good," Xia whispered.

"Not so soon. This is the part where you should watch the fire." The dragon soul warned. Xia reduced the fire a little.

Xia was dedicated in his effort to watch the fire.

The old dragon nodded his in appreciation. "When I give you the signal, I want you to supply spiritual energy into eth cauldron. And roll it softly so that they form into a pill like shape," he said.

Xia held onto the lid, ready to supply spiritual energy at the right time.

"Now!"

Xia let his spiritual energy out in a form of a line and sent it through the two smell holes on the lid. Touching the herbs with his spiritual power was a weird feeling, but he got over it soon. He rolled the almost solid herbs into a ball.

The first pill was not perfect. It looked a little jagged. Usually when the pills do not have a perfect round shape, they lose their medical properties and spiritual energy quickly .

So Xia rolled the next ne carefully. The second one he rolled was almost a perfect sphere with a shiny gleam to it.

After this, he got a hang of it.

With the remaining herb sludge, he quickly rolled out pills after pills.

"Now stop," The old dragon soul whispered.

Xia let go of the cauldron. His sweat was running down his nose, dripping drop by drop. He never knew that pill making was so difficult.

"Good job, kid," Quiyin said with a cheerful smile.

"Thank you, master," Xia shouted and bowed to him.

"Get up, get up soon little brat. You don't have to bow down to me. You are the mate of a golden dragon, so you should behave so," he said.

"Behave how?"

"You should not bow down to anyone. He is a royal, so you are also one now. You should maintain that prideful behaviour. Golden dragons are considered very sacred as they rule the three realms. The heavens earth and the Rakshasa* realm. So you should always dress, talk....." the old dragon went on with his chatter.

The crayfish's brows scrunched up in a frown. 'Just because I'm Long's lover, I have to behave differently? No wonder he said his world is different,' he thought.

He sighed and nodded. "I will try my best to learn all these qualities, master," he said respectfully. But secretly he thought, 'I guess I have to pretend to be a disciplined gentle man from now on,'

The cauldron went back to the golden colour. That would only mean that the pills were ready to be taken out.

Xia carefully picked up the little pills from the bottom of the cauldron. They were bright green with a tinge of white flecks added to it, just like the Gleem clover and blooming Moon flower.

"Here, put them in," Quiyin gave him a small jade bottle.

Xia stored them in and closed the lid. There were a total of ten pills from the batch. Overall, it was quite successful for an amateur.

"It's a sky level pill," The old dragon soul exclaimed.

"Wow, I'm so good at this," Xia exclaimed with a prideful smirk.

"Stop smirking kid, this is one of the easiest pills. Just because of the Lusiha herb, its level has risen." The old dragon poured cold water in his heart.

Usually a thousand poison pill is only ranked at earth level. But because of Lusiha herb the level had risen to sky level.

Xia pouted.

"But with hard work you can make an even an ascent level pill," the dragon said.

Note-

Quiyin - Literally means earthworm. i used google, please scold him if I'm wrong)

Long- literally means a dragon.

Rakshasa Realm- Demon realm.