Chapter 193

Chapter 193

Half-complete Pill

The numbers on the shelves denoted the alchemist level. A level five alchemist possessed Body Severing Realm cultivation at the very least. Readers wouldn’t understand what they read if it was above their level, anyway.

It didn’t bother Mu Yu. He strolled toward the shelf labelled “six”. Suddenly, the scenery changed, and energy pushed him back. He saw the shelf again. Put simply, the formation restricted him from even seeing the cover of rank six pill manuals.

“Petty,” grumbled Mu Yu. “Elder, may I ask where Speed Alchemy is?”

“Another one of you wants to see Speed Alchemy? I threw it away already.”

“You threw it away? Can you just throw books here out? You could have given it to me. What a waste.”

“Young man, you won’t master alchemy if you try to take shortcuts. The book should’ve been burnt long ago to save you young ones from dreaming of becoming alchemists overnight instead of investing time and effort properly.”

Speed Alchemy, as the name suggested, taught alchemy in express format. Ku Mu never named any downsides to it. Presumably, the consequences weren’t worth fretting over if Mu Yu didn’t need to become an alchemist.

Mu Yu headed back to the entrance, where the elder was, and requested, “Would I be able to trouble you to share with me the risks involved when learning it? It would help convince me to give up on it.”

The elder raised his head and had a long, hard look at Mu Yu. “Who is your shifu? I don’t recall seeing you anywhere. You must have a gift for alchemy to be permitted in here. Why do you want to take shortcuts?”

Mu Yu needed fifteen minutes to go from the end of one shelf to the other.

“Daoist Lie Yang’s Handbook, Qiu Tian’s Lost Manual... I can’t do squat with manuals for level three alchemists.

Mu Yu saw a door with “Half-Complete Pill” written on it at the end of the row. Curious what it was all about, he tried pushing the door. Since it wasn’t locked, he sneaked inside. It was rather murky inside the room that wasn’t too large. Luminous pearls on the wall acted as lighting, albeit barely. There were tripod pill cauldrons the size of chairs arranged in the middle. They were old, thick and heavy, but there was spiritual energy coming from them.

At close range, Mu Yu could see a different coloured pill hovering in each cauldron. Around the pills themselves were herb juices or powder. The text on one of the cauldrons read, “Reversal Pill, a pill capable of winding one’s physical condition back twenty years. This old one was unable to finish the last step despite his best efforts in this lifetime. I pray someone in a future generation can complete my formula so that I may rest in peace.”

The anguish and regret came through in the text. The formula was written underneath. The reason the creator couldn’t finish it was due to gui herb and liaozhi clashed, yet they were mandatory components. The liaozhi to be mixed in last still hovered around the half-complete pill.

Mu Yu found the other half-complete pills faced issues of their own. All of them were conjured from ideas that could be classified cheat items. For instance, if logic held its weight, rewinding one’s physical condition twenty years without any side effects would mean another twenty years of life, obviously. However, the upgrades during the twenty years would remain twenty years later if not have improved, meaning the consumer would continuously break previous records at their previous age.

By the looks of it, the room was a storage room for all half-complete pills over the course of history.

Xiaoshuai read the formula for reversal pill and then praised, “The inventor of this pill is a genius.”

“I’m baffled as to why the lizoazhi and gui herb clash. I’m pretty sure I can combine them perfectly,” said Mu Yu, returning to the cauldron.

“You, an unqualified alchemist?”

Mu Yu: Another day, another round with this joke. Does he never get tired of this?