Evolution of life

Chapter 10: Expanding Spirit Elixir

The shipment has finally arrived... Looking at the computer's prompt, Li Xing finally let out a sigh of relief. He had been waiting anxiously for these goods for the past few days, and the value of the shipment was almost equal to half of his current net worth...

As for why it was only half...

Because the seven days since he posted his poems on the website had brought him another income! After seven days, his account had nearly 40,000 Star Coins! Looking at the account, he gained a lot more confidence. These days, without money, you really can't do anything.

Especially in cultivation, every step seems to cost money! It's really expensive, and for someone like him who has no background or foundation, saying all the right things is no match for having more zeros in his account...

"It's arrived?" Someone emerged from his bracelet and looked at the information on the computer, saying, "Then let's go get it as soon as possible. The sooner we finish this, the better. After we finish, we'll have to leave immediately for the first administrative city of your Earth district.

It's the closest departure point to where you live. The sooner we get there, the better we can understand the situation of the Earth players." "I understand," Li Xing knew what Shadow Blade meant, and he also wanted to go there as soon as possible... After breakfast, he went straight to the post office to pick up the package he had ordered, along with a large amount of materials. Upon returning home, Li Xing put the tables together and took out all the items from the package. It was a fairly complex set of equipment, which took up both tables. Then, Ying Rui began explaining to Li Xing one by one what each piece of equipment was used for. After listening, Li Xing felt overwhelmed...

It was too difficult! For example, the extraction equipment according to Ying Rui's explanation, the material had to be put in at exactly the right moment, and it was not one by one extraction. It required continuous input, one after another, and the material had to be extracted based on experience, which Li Xing had never done before...

Ying Rui also said that according to the materials they had bought, at most three bottles could be made. In other words, if all three attempts failed, the materials would be wasted...

There were too many steps! He was already overwhelmed just listening to them, especially when extracting two kinds of juice and mixing them together, the hand had to shake the mixture at a certain frequency. There are many other steps involved, and all of them combined would be nearly impossible!

"It's not that I'm underestimating myself. If it were me doing this, I would probably fail three times in a row..." Li Xing looked at Ying Rong with a troubled expression. "Nonsense," Ying Rong rolled her eyes at him as if it was the most natural thing in the world. "Do you think making potions is an easy thing to do? The training of a potion maker is much harder than that of an ability user, you know."

Oh! Li Xing was stunned. That meant that he would have to spend even more time on potions. In that case, wouldn't his already limited time be even more inadequate? "Don't worry. It's not for you to make," Ying Rong waved his hand to indicate that Li Xing was thinking too much.

Not for him? Then...

Li Xing looked up at Ying Rong, who was floating in the air. It seemed like Ying Rong couldn't touch physical objects. It was all just an illusion... "Yes, it is me who will make it, but I need to use your body. Anyway, explaining it would take up too much time. Let's just have you experience it directly." Ying Rong's words made Li Xing even more confused. As an outsider, it was difficult for him to understand...

"Stand by the table," Ying Rong ordered without explanation. Li Xing adjusted his state and slowly came to the table. Then he looked at the Shadow Blade. The Shadow Blade came up to the table, and his form began to change rapidly. Originally, he looked like a ghostly human, but now his two hands were becoming murky. One moved slowly towards Li Xing's head, while the other covered all the instruments...

In an instant, Li Xing felt a difference...

As the Shadow Blade used his spirit as a medium to connect him with these instruments, Li Xing felt as if the instruments had become part of his own body. He understood the structure and operation of the instruments in an instant. It was as if the instruments had been made by him himself...

"It's begun," the Shadow Blade said calmly. "Yes!" Li Xing's confidence soared, as the steps for making this substance called Expanding Spirit Elixir had been told to him by the Shadow Blade several days ago, and he had memorized them. Now the problem of operation had been solved. This time, it should not fail...

He took out a fruit-like material, peeled it, and the knife sliced through it without even removing a single piece of fruit flesh. Li Xing's control over his muscles, honed through this period of training, and now enhanced by the Shadow Blade, had reached an extremely high level...

He also dissected herbs, extracting the useful parts intact, without making a single mistake... He even felt what the materials were being broken down into and how the potion was blending as it was being put into the extraction furnace.

Now... Open it!

He again placed a material into the furnace, feeling its internal conditions while quickly processing the next material with one hand. Multi-tasking is one of the difficulties in making potions, but now it's no problem for Lee Sung.

One and a half hours later, with the assistance of Yeong-bi, Lee Sung's first bottle of Expanding Potion, officially came out...

"Wow..." When Yeong-bi withdrew his assistance, Lee Sung almost fainted... His head hurt so much! It felt like he hadn't slept for ten days in a row, and his brain was exhausted to the extreme! "Go eat a berry quickly." Yeong-bi said, seeing that he was uncomfortable.

Stumbling, he came to the place where berries were stored. He gulped down two at once... "Ah," it felt like a wave of the sea had washed deep into his brain, it was an indescribable sense of refreshment... Ten minutes later, fully recovered Lee Sung came to the table, excitedly looking at his first creation.

It was said to be a second-level potion that could expand the amount of energy a low-ranked ability user could store. It was also a highly sought-after potion on the market.

"Should I just drink it down?" Looking up at Shadowblade, Lee found that his condition was not too good either, and he was floating in mid-air, as if in a state of meditation. Not daring to disturb him, Lee carefully put away all the instruments. After cleaning everything up and carefully putting the potion in the cabinet, he waited quietly for Shadowblade's recovery.

Two hours...

"Ugh, I'm so tired..." Shadowblade finally opened his eyes. As soon as he spoke, he sighed, "It's been a long time since I felt this tired." He turned his head and looked at Lee, asking, "How's the potion?" "Here," Lee quickly pulled out the potion. Shadowblade examined it for a moment and nodded approvingly, "Good, it's over 80% complete, and for a first-time attempt, it's a very good score."

Hearing those words, Lee finally relaxed. He had been worried that he might have messed up earlier, but it seemed that he had overthought it. "Drink it straight, there's no special requirement," Shadowblade said. "Okay," Lee opened the bottle and drank it all in one gulp. The taste wasn't great, even a bit bitter...

Five minutes later... "I don't feel anything," Lee said curiously. "That's normal," Shadowblade explained, "The Expanding Spirit Potion is a potion with a very even quality. The changes it brings are subtle and gradual." "The effects of the potion on your body will take at least 30 hours to complete," said the shadow blade. "So long, he thought it would be instantaneous." However, you don't have to rush, if you want the effect to be fast? Relax, there will be plenty of them in the future. The shadow blade looked at Li Xing with a hint of meaning.

This made Li Xing shiver involuntarily...

With the return of the vital essence fruit, there is no need to worry about the consumption of physical strength. Therefore, after a busy morning, the afternoon still needs to be tense training. According to the shadow blade, the effect of the return of vitality potion is about one tenth more spiritual power than one's original level. This number is not small, which means that at the same level, you are one tenth more spiritual power than the other party!

This can completely crush the other party, of course, under the premise that the other party has not taken the potion...

In the evening, the training ended, and Li Xing felt the powerful energy surging in his body, which was very comfortable. The upgrade of the ability often leads to the improvement of the whole body quality, and the human body's various aspects will begin to slowly evolve as the difference between humans and non-humans becomes greater. When entering another level... It's just the way things are. You can't expect a group of people who are fundamentally stronger than you to put themselves on the same level as ordinary people. To change this outcome, you must work hard on your own. Put your hope in yourself, not on others...

"Take a good rest today, we'll have to continue tomorrow. We only have two more materials left. We need to make the most of our time and finish them quickly. Oh, did you book your flight?" "Yes. I booked a flight for three days from now, direct to our destination." "Yes," Shadow nodded lightly, then continued, "If all the remaining two bottles are successful, we only need to take one more. Its effect is more one-time, drinking it three times in a row, the third bottle will have no effect, so it's better to sell it online." "I see,"

Li Xing felt slightly disappointed. He had thought that he could take it multiple times to make his spiritual power stronger and more abundant... Now it seems that it's not as simple as that. If he could take it twice, it would be great. At least he would have more confidence in the competition in a few dozen days...