Story 3 - Spiritual Vines and a Smokey Pill Cauldron (20)

Story 3 - Spiritual Vines and a Smokey Pill Cauldron (20)

The first thing I did when I returned to my station was clean everything using the provided supplies a helpful clerk brought me. I also vehemently complained about my inability to use a damn 5th Layer technique due to it risking a worsening of my internal injuries. And that Little Spring couldn’t help me. Fuck, I was bad at cleaning by hand, but it was necessary.

The others, who could all use the cleaning technique were already started preparing the ingredients.

After I was done wiping down my worktable, my side hurt like a bitch. But it was just the normal burn I expected.

Shit. Why didn’t these assholes let people rest after each pill?

I secretly made imagined plans to eventually overthrow their leadership. Then I kept going.

The trick to dealing with constant pain was to keep momentum. Momentum helped me get through each day with a headache, and it would help me get through this tournament with internal injuries.

Another Employee came over with the various white boxes filled with spiritual plants and set them up at my station before leaving.

Instead, when you put these two opposing forces together it, for some god unknown reason, broke the damn universe and instead caused a violent energy-filled reaction. This was also what made them the most important main ingredients in this crazy pill that only someone insane like a Body Cultivator would take. But, because of this reaction, they needed to be placed first and last.

Next, were the two oddest spiritual plants in the bunch — Vibrant Dual Serpent Weed and Bitter Root of Thwarted Arrogance.

Vibrant Dual Serpent Weed was a bright green weed that grew in the shape of two serpents attempting to consume each other. There was this whole mythology going on with this plant about two snake-type spirit beasts but it was just cute bullshit that didn’t matter in the long run.

What was important was that this was one of the ingredients so significant that it helped give the pill its name.

This spiritual plant, when paired with Nine-Starred Ghost Anise, was actually a very good healer at the molecular level, for injuries that had immediately occurred. So, it was useless to me in my condition.

But this pairing needed to go into the cauldron near the end. And, since it didn’t work well when placed near the Frozen Yin Ice Grass, that meant that the Peony had to go in last.

I wasn’t exactly happy about that part since finishing a volatile solution with the second most volatile plants in the pill was a ‘recipe’ for disaster. I could still make it work, though, being as impressive as I was.

Of course, the most volatile was the Fire Poisoned Stinging Lilly, but it was also the easiest to deal with as it could be paired with the Frozen Yin Ice Grass.New novel chapters are published on