No Proper Farewell

Lu Ciel took a deep breath, imitating his master as he calmed himself and his aura. He took out the Body Rejuvenation Pill recipe and learnt it.

Observing this, elder Bai smirked, amused with his disciple's intention.

After the information about the pill recipe flowed into his brain, Lu Ciel's eyes were vacant making him look like he was dazing. However, this look can be misleading as in his mind, his adrenaline and focus was in the state of equilibrium.

"Fire." Lu Ciel monotonously willed.

With the skill being used, the sleeping fire awakened once more as it burned the cauldron from bottom to top.

After ten minutes, the cauldron was now burning red. However, Lu Ciel did not stop using the skill as he continued to burn the cauldron into glowing red for another ten minutes.

"Heh.." Elder was delighted with what he was seeing. "His focus was directed in imitating the actions of my pill refining while his adrenaline was directed in the details of how was the refinement proceeding. This kid really is smart."

Once the cauldron was glowing red, Lu Ciel stopped the skill and monotonously casted, "Water."

With that, the set of herbs that was placed on the open wooden boxes were absorbed by the globs of water that Lu Ciel manipulated and willed in to the cauldron.

"Now this is where things get real." Elder's Bai smiled.

In Lu Ciel's mind, his master's instruction were replaying. "Segregate the impurities from the essence of the herbs.."

"Segregate the impurities.."

"Segregate.."

With this in mind, Lu Ciel unconsciously felt the different densities in the water that he manipulated. With the registered density of the essence in his mind as heavy. He manipulated the water to separate the light density away from the heavy density that he was feeling.

After fifteen minutes, the separated watered gushed out of the cauldron, charcoal black liquid was extinguishing the intense heat of the cauldron. However, that's okay since he was already in the final step.

Seeing this, elder Bai's eyes were sparkling in anticipation.

As Lu Ciel was now in the process of combining the essences of the herbs. He spread his arms and fingers as well and clapped them together, willing for the manipulated essences to be combined.

Fimutes have already passed by, elder Bai estimated that his disciple was already able to split the combined essences and was now in the process of solidifying the pill. Thus, he probed the pill inside of the cauldron to learn how will his disciple solidify the pill from the lack of intense heat.

Lu Ciel can't just activate the fire manipulation art once more due to the skill cooldown, and if he can really activate the skill once more, the water manipulation art will deactivated and he will lose control with the combined essences.

"What?" Probing the pill inside the cauldron, elder Bai was shocked with what he've found out.

Lu Ciel did not split the combined essences but instead done the opposite. He was making the combined essences more compact to the point that it became only twice the size of elder Bai's refined pill. After doing that, Lu Ciel manipulated for the compact essences to roll around inside of the cauldron for it to be intensely heated until it solidified and was not able to control it anymore with his manipulation skill.

With that sign, elder Bai willed for the refined pill to come out of the cauldron and as the pill floated in his hand, he blew on it to remove the burnt impurities that were covering the pill. As the impurities were blown away, elder Bai can't help but be dazzled with what he's seeing.

"Amazing." Elder Bai muttered as he looked at his disciple who was sweating profusely and breathing hard, then looked back at the floating pill in his hand. He had never seen this kind of pill quality before. It was like a fused ruby and emeral gem which was like the nucleus that can be seen on his perfect-grade pill. Thus, elder Bai used his

Body Rejuvenation Pill

Rank: Common

Grade: Spirit

Description:

• A common pill which transcended perfection.

• ×2 to the regeneration speed and x2 regeneration effectivity rate for 200 hours.

• BONUS: x2 to all Stats that will be gained within Apprentice Realm

Then, he took out the perfect-grade pill that he just refined to compare it.

Body Rejuvenation Pill

Rank: Common

Grade: Perfect

Description:

• A common pill which was refined to perfection.

• ×1.5 to the regeneration speed and x1.5 regeneration effectivity rate for 300 hours.

While elder Bai was comparing the two pills, Lu Ciel was finally able to catch up with his breathes. "Did I pass?"

With his attention taken away, elder Bai simply nodded silently as he looked at his disciple in wonder.

"Really?" Hearing this, Lu Ciel's eyes were sparkling in delight. "That's great!"

"Here you go, kid." Elder Bai gave the perfect-grade pill that he refined to his disciple. He put the spirit-grade refined pill in a small vial, placing it in his inventory.

"I have to leave now, kid. I don't have the time to accompany you anymore. Congrats!" Before his disciple can take notice and react, he also gave a high-tier [Epic] cauldron to him and a small bag in a hurry.

"Thank you, mas.." As Lu Ciel recieved the promised rewards, he admired the cauldron for a moment but, when he was about to face his master to show his gratitude, he got confused as he can't see any old man in the surrounding. "Eh?"

"Lady Mi Chell?" He looked at the female receptionist however, he can't see her in the viccinity as well. With that, he realized that he was the only one in the surrounding. Thus, he went to the reception area right away.

"Lady Mi Chell." Lu Ciel was glad to see the female receptionist in her desk. He approached her sighing in relief, "I'm glad I was able to see you. When did you leave with my master?"

"Lu Ciel." The female receptionist greeted back. "What do you mean? Elder Bai instructed me to leave back when he was going to show you something, I think. And elder Bai just left a second ago instructing me that you will be renting the training room for another week and to restock 30 fishes in the pond. The payment for the rent is already with you, he mentioned, and it's in the small bag that was given to you."

"Oh.." Lu Ciel nodded in understanding. "Did he tell you why he just left in a blink of an eye?"

"I see." Though, Lu Ciel knew that his master was in a hurry for some reason, he wondered what could have been the reason why he left in an instant without proper farewell, if there's any. "May I know how much is the total payment?

"Of course, staying at the training room is ten spirit stones per night." Mi Chell, the female receptionist started to provide a breakdown of the cost which made Lu Ciel's eyes bulged in shock with how expensive the rent was.

"For a week of stay, it will be a five spirit stones discount in the total of 65 spirit stones." After providing the total amount of the rent, Lu Ciel's face was hard to explain as he looked at the sweet smiling face of Mi Chell.

"Err..can you tell me how much is that in gold?" Lu Ciel just asked to learn how much would the spirit stones would be in gold currency. However, Mi Chell cocked her head as if she did not understand what the young man was saying.

Seeing this, Lu Ciel can't help but sigh as he just opened his to take out the small bag that was being referred. With the bag in hand, Lu Ciel saw milky white crystals.

"65 spirit stones huh.." Lu Ciel poured out 65 milky white crystals on the reception desk. Seeing the contents in the bag, Lu Ciel estimated that there were only a hundred spirit stones. He felt that his heart was bleeding to how much will be left to him after pouring out the payment for the rent.

"Sir Lu Ciel! What are you doing?" Mi Chell exclaimed in shock to what was the young man doing?

"Eh?" Lu Ciel was bewildered with the receptionists' reaction. "I'm paying in advance for the rent?"

"No. I mean, why are you paying so much?" Mi Chell could not understand the reason behind for paying such a big amount. "These are all spirit crystals. The total payment with the discount is 65 spirit stones only."

"Excuse me?" Lu Ciel was surprised to learn that these milky white crystals were spirit crystal. With that he slowly put back the rest of the crystals in the bag while looking at Mi Chell to see whether she was messing with him. "How much is the convertion rate of spirit crystal into spirit stones?"

Hearing this question, Mi Chell can only shake her head towards the ignorance of this young man. "That would be one is to a hundred. Which means you will only be paying one spirit crystals if you don't have any spirit stones with you, and I'll be giving you a change of 35 spirit stones."

"Come again?" Listening to what Mi Chell said, Lu Ciel was having a hard time believing. Mi Chell's smile were twitching as she can't help but be frustrated with this prodigal young man.

For a long moment, Lu Ciel was finally able to believe what this female receptionist mentioned to him. With that, his eyes were shining in the sweet delight of finding out that he had a hundred spirit crystal as allowance given by his generous master. Also, learning that he was actually being saved by this female receptionist, Lu Ciel felt very thankful that he could kiss her.

×××××

After three days of nonstop flying away from his disciple, elder Bai was still in a very good mood. He was able to land in one of the main cities of the divine central empire, the Owl City.

"Good day, elder sir! Welcome to the Owl's Nest." A half-winged race butler greeted elder Bai. He was now in a 5-star hotel.

Elder Bai only nodded as he approached the reception desk, smiling as he took out a small bag, taking out a piece of milky white stone. "Hi, I'd like a standard room for a night only."

"Of course.."The half-winged race receptionist smiled sweetly as to comply with the elder's request. However, after seeing the milky stone, her sweet smile twitched as he informed. "Elder, the standard room is one spirit crystal."

"Yes, I.." Elder Bai smiled in reply as he indeed knew the standard rate of this hotel. However, before he can finish his sentence, seeing that what he gave was a spirit stone, his eyes bulged as he opened the small bag to check the contents. There, he saw spirit stones. 'Shit.'

"Here you go." With that realization, he can't help but cough to excuse the embarrassment as he gave the small bag to the receptionist, paying a hundred spirit stones. "My bad, I took out the wrong bag."

Saying this, he can't help but feel like his heart was bleeding as he knew that he gave the wrong bag to his disciple.