"Junior brother Long Feng, under the special arrangement from the Education Building and also from the approval of your master, Elder Tang Wen himself, you are here allowed to choose one from this two offer while staying and studying in the Bronze Pill Hall." Liu Ming repeated the instruction he heard this morning.
"First offer, is that you could choose to select the options of completing your daily task altogether in one time, but the amount of your preparation is higher depending on your assignments."
" the Second offer is that you could choose to complete two mission without rewards, as the minimal contribution to the Hall."
"This is available for you due to the good performance each time you came over to prepare the Thunder Spirit Pills. The Education Building had even considered putting you on the list if any specific mission came to you if it's related to this pill." Liu Ming finishes delivering the message and awaits Long Feng decision.
"Senior brother Liu Ming, could I choose the second offer then? I will complete two mission each week without rewards as the minimal contribution to the hall." Long Feng decided to take the second option.
"Of course you could. If in that case, you can leave to the Education Building then, and choose one mission to be completed this week, because there is only four more day left for this week." Liu Ming accepted Long Feng's selection, and guide him to his next step as follow up.
"I will, thank you, senior brother, for the help, if you may need more assistance in concocting the Thunder Spirit Pill, please let me know, I will come to help no matter what." Long Feng replied as he excuses himself from the camp.
He proceeds directly to the Education Building and enter the Mission Hall to report himself on his selection, and been given a list of mission that specifically chosen for the disciple to complete the no rewards task.
"Hmm, there is quite a few selections that are very suitable for me."
"Excuse me, big brother, may I ask a question?" Long Feng hesitates a little as there is a few mission that's very suitable for him to choose.
"Yes? Of course, you can." the staff replied as he turns around facing Long Feng.
"Is there a restriction that we can only choose two mission from here under such condition as me?" Long Feng asked his question.
"Of course not. You may complete as much question as you want, but after the first two no reward task, the other task that had been completed will be converted into points, and you will be allowed to exchange for certain ingredients and materials for cultivation."
"Do remember about this matter as well. Once you manage to complete a total of 100 task, you will be allowed to exchange higher rarity ingredients, so make sure you take note of it." the staff answered Long Feng's question and also inform him about the differences when completing a number of missions.
"If in that case, I will take this two mission for now." Long Feng select two mission from the list and allows the staff to process the preparation of ingredients to be delivered to his room.
Calming Spirit Dew Pellet (1st Grade)
Requirement: 25 Lower-Rank Pellet or higher grade from Mission taker himself.
Due Date: Delivery before the end of Sunday.
Payment: None
Mystic Suction Pellet (1st Grade)
Requirement: 25 Lower-Rank Pellet or higher grade from Mission taker himself.
Due Date: Delivery before the end of Sunday.
Payment: None
"With this two more pill mission, now I have a total of 3 different Pill refining task I need to complete, added with the Internship work on Sunday." Long Feng reminded himself on the task he currently has on hand now.
But before this, Long Feng quickly make his trip to the Virtue Hall first, because, in the same time, he have a Sword Art to practice with Han Feng Xian for this remaining 8 days, before Senior Han leaves.
Getting used to the normal life and duties he has to complete each single day, Long Feng started to like this kind of environment. In his mind, having a motive and a duty in life is challenging, and as his struggle is currently in the form of refining pills, cultivating and practicing martial arts to defend himself, he found out an aim in life.
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"Another two more weeks and I will be able to return to visit mother. I wonder how is my mother now... I hope Aunt Gu and Uncle Tang is always by her side when she needs." Long Feng think about his mother in mind.
"Senior Han, Long Feng is ready for today's sword practice." Long Feng politely invite Han Feng Xian to guide him in learning the Defensive Wu Sword Art.
"Great, let us start the lesson for today." Han Feng Xian throws one of the wooden swords by his side to Long Feng and grabbed one for himself, and start sparring with Long Feng.
In his surprise, Long Feng's adoption of the situation and smoothness of performing the Sword art is even better than yesterday. In every ten of the strike he launched to attack Long Feng, five of it managed to be parried or missed from its target. On the same time, Long Feng even manage strike back twice.
"This kid is really something." Han Feng Xian continues to spar, putting a little more effort into the practice.
"Oh? Looking at the situation seems like my little disciple is improving at a scary speed." even Elder Tang Wen is a little surprise as he saw Han Feng Xian add a little effort in their practice.
The two of them continue to practice their sword art technique, as the time pass, even Han Feng Xian obtain a slight enlightenment from this practice as his opinion regarding the sword art is slowly changed.
"Although Xiao Feng's sword is slightly messy in general opinion, his messiness is capable of creating a point to take an offense position, instead of only being in defensive."
"The Defensive Wu Sword Art is created based on the holy beast of Xuan Wu, which focuses solely on defending, Although the sword art contain much of the essence of the Xuan Wu's habit in defending itself, the art still lack the emotion of the beast within its art, so through this way, the art failed to perform itself as the strongest defensive holy beast ability."
"By understanding the emotion and the tenacity of the beast when playing the sword, by understanding the anger as you failed to defend yourself, again and again, this will create an opening, and allow the Defensive Wu Sword to become Offensive!" Han Feng Xian's mind becomes even clearer as he starting to understand deeper regarding the essence of the art he mastered.
"I am too confident of myself and failed to notice that an art can still be improved even if it reach the peak of mastery. I would never imagine that this fact is shown to me by a young child that no older than 10 years old." Han Feng Xian felt embarrassed. If he received such enlightenment earlier, perhaps the previous battle would be even easier for him to achieve a victory.
Looking at Han Feng Xian suddenly stopped sparring but goes into a deep concentration, Long Feng stopped from the practice, and quietly leave Han Feng Xian alone so he could go into his deep meditation. With this practice is now over, Long Feng proceed to complete his daily task, and deliver the ingredient to his master before he excuses himself back to his room.
Within his room, Long Feng noticed that the ingredient for the two mission he selects this morning have been delivered.
Soul Calming Grass, ten portions.
Morning Dew from Spirit Bloom Flower, ten portions.
This is what required to concoct the Calming Spirit Dew Pellet.
Zebra Stripe King Leech's Blood.
The sap of Beast-eater Plant.
This is the ingredient to concoct the Mystic Suction Pellet.
The Calming Spirit Dew Pellet usage is to allow a cultivator to enter meditation mode much easier. This pellet usually high in demand especially for the cultivator from Martial Hall, and some of them from Culture Hall.
This is due to the heavy practice and amount of fighting and killing in their usual activities would cause a destruction in mind, indirectly cause them to be harder to enter meditation mode, and absorb the Essence Qi in a normal condition.
The Calming Spirit Dew Pellet as well could allow the cultivator to refine the absorbed Essence Qi easier and allow them to increase their cultivation speed, but this effect only last for 30 minutes each pill. The higher the rank of the Calming Spirit Dew Pellet, the longer they could last.
While for the Mystic Suction Pellet, it is the most sought after pellet by all cultivator due to the effect of the pill included double absorption of Essence Qi and double the coverage of absorption radius. This allows the cultivator to have a double result when cultivating.
The Mystic Suction Pellet also works very well with Tempering Pellets, such as Internal Flame Pill, Spiritual Water Pill, Thunder Spirit Pill, Metal Morphing Pill, and Earth Forming Pill. This makes the pill hall or the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion to always have special offers to those who intend to purchase either of the pills.
Calm and confident, Long Feng prepare his table with the ingredients and preparing to heat up his furnace to get ready with the pill refining process. First, he places the ingredient for the Calming Spirit Dew Pellet on the table, which he just converted into a Pill making station, and gathered one portion of the ingredient to start with.
Perhaps it was due to the requirement of the pill is on Lower-Rank pills, Long Feng concoction confidence is slightly better than what he is before. As long he could concoct the pill and make it edible, he could hand over the pills without worries.
But if he managed to perform well, that would be a bonus for himself, as this will increase his overall experience, and contribute to being able to make much stronger pills in the future.
Extracting the essence from the Soul Calming Grass!
Thoroughly boil the Morning Dew, and remove the impurity within the water!
Mix the grass extract into the cleaned Morning Dew and divide them equally.
Due to ease Soul Calming Grass contained a different amount of extract within, so each single concoction will results into a different number of pills if successfully refined.
For this first portion of the ingredient, Long Feng managed to nicely divide the concoction into a total of 7 equal parts, as he refines the concoction and forming them into each single pill.
After a total of 30 minutes of refining session, he finally succeeds in forming all 7 of the pills, and as a result from the effort, he obtained a total of 6 Lower-Rank and one Middle-Rank Calming Spirit Dew Pellet (1st Grade). As tomorrow morning will be Thursday, that means Long Feng still have a total of 3 days to hand over the mission for Calming Spirit Dew Pellet and Mystic Suction Pellet.
Deducting the half day to spend in the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion from morning on Sunday, Long Fend Decided to spend more effort to concoct and refine as much he could, and still make a visit to the Virtue Hall by afternoon as usual.
On that night itself, Long Feng take his rest slightly late compared to normal, as he spends another two more hours to refine another 4 portions of the Calming Spirit Dew Pellet. As a result, he currently has a total of 23 Lower-Rank pills and a total of 6 Middle-Rank pills ready in hand.
For the remaining five portion, he decided to keep them in hand for now and refine them for sale or personal use in the future. After all, the pill master in Bronze Pill Hall is not restricted from open their own pill business or sell the pills to another establishment for money as this is one of their source of income to further improve their skills.
After repeating the usual habit such as feeding the Atlas Moth Worm, dripping a few drops of blood into the Pitcher Plant and meditate for an hour, Long Feng proceed to have a rest and wake up slightly late the next day.
As he does not require to attend the camp and help to produce the Thunder Spirit Pills anymore, for now, he decided to concoct another few more portions of the Mystic Suction Pellet and try to hand over the mission if he successfully completed it.