Triple Concoction Pill (1)

"What's wrong? Too many options to choose but not enough to pay for them?" the elder took the three Medicinal Recipe scrolls back from Yang Guang's hand and placed two back into the case.

"You should play with this for now." the elder tossed the [Triple Concoction Piill] recipe to Yang Guang. Following his action is a hand that extended out to ask for payment.

"Thank You!" the elder smiled as Yang Guang paid for the recipe willingly. In total, the cost of the Triple Concoction Pill Recipe cost 500 merits to purchase. After deducting 100 from the fifty bottles of Inner Blood Pill, the elder takes 400 more Merit credits to cover the balance.

"Please excuse Guang-Er if there's nothing else." Yang Guang turned around and get ready to leave.

Back to the rented Pill-Refining Room, Yang Guang unrolls the recipe to check its content and what kind of pleasant bonuses it can give.

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Triple Concoction Pill (Ao-San-Wan)

-Uses: Improve general health. Resolving blood clots, cleaning bloodstream, and removes the stubborn residue of impurities left due to Soul Qi deterioration. After a battle, taking this pill and refine it with Soul Qi will also help to mend the injuries for an incense stick time. The refinement can be executed three times, hence the Triple Concoction name.

-Ingredient: Three-Flavors Firefruit | Blood Fruit | Blood Clam | Blood Marten | 10 years old Ironwood Root | Water Lily Root

-Preparation Method: The three blood products has to be evenly mixed before cooking until they formed into a fine powder. Water Lily's Root has to be refined using Soft Flame until the extract turned into the color of wheat. Cold Flame is used to collect the extract from the Firefruit, and Ironwood should be crushed and cook with Intense Flame until they melted. The end product shall be a maroon red pellet with a greyish pellet core.

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"Worthy of 500 merits point. But looking at the elder's attitude, there's a hidden intention behind his action. I guess I'll have to refine a few pellets to persuade him." Yang Guang smiled and placed the recipe scroll inside his Spatial Jade Bracelet.

And since there's a need for him to assemble the Medicinal Herbs required for the concoction, Yang Guang rang the bell inside the room twice to call a book-servant.

About three minutes later, a book-servant came knocking on his door for his permission to enter.

"Enter," Yang Guang replied. He also put aside the book of study related to how to control the Jade Flame.

"Shu-Tong Xu Wenyang greets senior... Eh?"

"Senior! It's you!" Xu Wenyang is surprised when he noticed that Yang Guang is the senior he's going to attend this time.

"It's actually you, Wenyang. Come! Have a tea with me before we continue." Yang Guang invited Xu Wenyang to come inside the room and chat with him. After all, it has been almost two months since the day they went to the city center together.

In between their discussion, Yang Guang noticed a few differences between him and Xu Wenyang, who's belonged to the Lei-Zhen Manor, which is under the jurisdiction of Thunder Tower.

Disciples in Thunder Tower learned a different set of skills, namely the Thunderous Jade Finger, a martial art that could turn every finger into a damaging hammer. Except that, Xu Wenyang also learned the shared martial art of Polished Jade Tower, known as Sorrow Shattering Fist.

This Sorrow Shattering Fist is also available for Yang Guang to purchase when he's trying to exchange his Jade Coins inside Qi-Zhen Manor.

And because the Thunder Tower concentrated their studies in Mechanical and Armament Theory, they are almost the counterpart of Yuan Yao, who rely on the skills of Battling Pills. Their strength is also at the last of three towers, with Tempering Tower as the strongest, Mystic Tower as the richest, and Thunder Tower as the laziest.

They are named laziest because it took them from ten days to half a month to produce a mechanical tool or armament.

But still, the armament or mechanical tool made from them can be said as top quality even when used to be compared against those made from Steel Refinery.

They exchange words for an hour, and it took Xu Wenyang another hour to bring the Medicinal Ingredients back from the Sect's Disciple Treasury.

After Yang Guang paid him a hundred Jade Coins as his labor fee, Xu Wenyang left the Pill-Refining Room, leaving Yang Guang inside alone.

Soon, Yang Guang started to arrange the Medicinal Ingredients according to the steps written on the recipe scroll.

To start the process, Yang Guang prepared one of the three cauldrons inside the room while processing the three Blood Ingredients. Although the Blood Fruit is the same as the one used to make Blood Coagulating Powder, a different procedure is needed to prepare it for the Triple Concoction Pill.

The Blood Clam has to be unshelled and cook under an Intense Flame for its extract to drip out from the soft flesh, while the Blood Marten has to be slaughtered on the spot to collect the blood. In this way, the medicinal value inside will not deteriorate when preparing.

The three types of Blood Extract is then poured into a round container and then placed on top of a turn stool. As Yang Guang turn the handle, the vessel will move consistently and resulted in a mixture. The mixture is later cooked until it settled into a fine powder.

He prepared the three remaining ingredients after that. As the material seems to be less troublesome compared to the Cold Heat Pellet, they quickly formed into three separate bowls of the medicinal part.

The Water Lily Root shrinks into the size of a front tooth. The Ironwood melted and formed into few drops of silver liquid. As for the Firefruit, it turned into a bowl of red-colored essence.

The three bowls of the medicinal part are then combined with the powder from Three Blood Ingredients, and cooked inside the Medicinal Cauldron until the smell of caramel sweetness releases from the inside.

His progress in refining this Triple Concoction Pill can be said to be smoother than anything else. When the cauldron is finally cooled, a maroon-colored pill is taken out from the Medicinal Cauldron, which has a light grey inner core inside.

"Yes! It's a success!" Yang Guang inspects the pill again and again until he's satisfied with his works. But to make sure that the Medicinal Pill he refined is edible and working, Yang Guang ate the Triple Concoction Pill.

He also immediately follows the instruction written on the recipe, and channel some Soul Qi to surround the Medicinal Pill.

"Urgh!" about a stick of incense time later, Yang Guang coughed out a mouthful of blood.