A pill is something that seizes the wonders of heaven and earth, refining them into one.
When Martial Artists take a pill, their strength can increase rapidly, but this boost isn’t without its risks.
The Spirit Herb and Spiritual Medicine used to make pills all have different properties.
Even if an Alchemy master is highly skilled and fuses them together, it’s hard to make the result perfectly flawless.
That’s why, no matter the grade of the pill, there’s always a difference in Purity.
From the lowest Yellow Grade, Low Rank, all the way up to the top-tier Heaven-Rank Supreme-Grade, it’s always the same.
Ordinary Alchemy masters usually make pills with Purity between sixty and eighty percent.
A truly skilled Alchemy master, after years of practice, might be able to make pills with ninety percent Purity.
If a pill’s effectiveness is below fifty percent, the medicinal effects and impurities cancel each other out, so you barely absorb any essence after taking it.
That’s called a waste pill.
And if a pill reaches ninety-nine percent effectiveness, since no Alchemy master can make a pill with one hundred percent, ninety-nine is the limit, and that’s called perfect Purity.
The pills Xiao Minghuang gets from the System have Purity that matches the Purity of the pill she gives away.
At first, the Essence Replenishing Pill she gave away had seventy percent Purity—not high, not low.
The System’s compensation, the Creation Mending Heaven Pill, was also seventy percent Purity.
But the pills rewarded by the Xia Emperor mostly had about sixty percent Purity, so their effects were pretty weak.
Once she understood this,
Ye Ruoshui suddenly took out pills with such high Purity, so of course Xiao Minghuang was shocked.
She carefully examined the remaining nine pills.
“Eight pills at seventy percent Purity, two at eighty percent Purity!” Xiao Minghuang murmured.
Ye Ruoshui gave a shy smile, bit her lip, and said, “It was my first time doing Alchemy, so I didn’t control the heat very well.
I’ll work hard and make a perfect Purity pill next time!”
Hearing this, Xiao Minghuang’s eyes widened, her pupils showing a mix of helplessness and surprise.
“This was your first time doing Alchemy, and you already made pills with eighty percent Purity, and you’re still not satisfied?”
Ye Ruoshui furrowed her delicate brows, sounding a bit unsure.
“I just followed the instructions in the book, step by step.
Isn’t it… isn’t it pretty simple?”
“Grinding the herbs, kneading the mixture, Life fire, refining…” Ye Ruoshui recited the pill-making process smoothly and fluently, without a single pause, as if she’d memorized it by heart.
Xiao Minghuang sighed.
Now she understood why the little girl’s Cultivation was so slow and why she couldn’t focus.
“When heaven closes a door for you, it opens a window.”
“???” Ye Ruoshui looked completely lost.
“Don’t worry about what that means.
I’ll take this box of pills.” Xiao Minghuang accepted the box of pills.
“I’m going to give it back to you now.”
【Ding!】 【Detected that the host has successfully given away an Opportunity/Chance/Serendipity!】 【Congratulations, host! Tenfold Critical Hit/Bonus triggered.
You’ve received Qi Replenishing Pill*100!】
Hearing the System’s voice in her mind, Xiao Minghuang handed the Brocade Box back to Ye Ruoshui.
Ye Ruoshui looked even more confused.
“I really do like this gift a lot.”
Xiao Minghuang took the box back again and tucked it into her clothes.
After all this back and forth, Ye Ruoshui’s big, pretty eyes seemed to have two spinning circles in them, totally unable to figure out what Xiao Minghuang was doing.
With a hundred high Purity Qi Replenishing Pills in hand, Xiao Minghuang was overjoyed.
The higher the Purity of a pill, the fewer impurities it has, the faster it can be refined, and the stronger its effects.
A pill with eighty percent Purity is at least twice as effective as one with seventy percent!
Compared to the Xia Emperor’s pills with sixty percent Purity, the effect is a full two times stronger!
Even though Qi Replenishing Pills are just Yellow Grade, Low Rank, and pretty low level, the Spirit Herb and Spiritual Medicine needed to make them are common and cheap.
If Ye Ruoshui could make a ton of high Purity Qi Replenishing Pills, and then Xiao Minghuang could get a ton of compensation from the System…
A hint of excitement flashed in Xiao Minghuang’s eyes.
She seemed to have found a new way to get rich.
Plus, Ye Ruoshui clearly had amazing Alchemy Talent—her first time doing Alchemy, and she could already make pills with such high Purity.
With that kind of Talent, what if she made even higher-grade pills?
For a moment, all sorts of ideas flashed through Xiao Minghuang’s mind.
The next second, she licked her red lips and looked at Ye Ruoshui with a bit of hungry anticipation.
Ye Ruoshui, under that gaze, shyly lowered her head.
“Your Highness really does like the gift I gave.
Looks like I have to work hard and make a perfect Purity pill as soon as I can!”
Ye Ruoshui knew that her Highness’s Cultivation would only get higher, and her own Cultivation Talent really wasn’t great, so if she wanted to keep up with Xiao Minghuang by raising her Cultivation, that was just wishful thinking.
So, she had to find another way, from a different angle, to make sure Xiao Minghuang couldn’t do without her, so she could always have a place in Xiao Minghuang’s heart.
No doubt about it, she’d succeeded.
At that moment, Xiao Minghuang felt like she’d never be able to live without this little girl Ye Ruoshui.
For no reason at all, she leaned in, got close to Ye Ruoshui, heard her heart pounding, and gently pecked the little girl’s soft lips, like a dragonfly skimming the water.
“Chu!”
After all that, Xiao Minghuang’s expression stayed calm as she closed her eyes to rest.
In her mind, a kiss was just a way for girls to show affection and closeness.
But Ye Ruoshui, who’d just been “ambushed,” froze up instantly, her mind going blank, her face turning bright red, and little puffs of white steam rising from her head.
“Your Highness kissed me! Your Highness kissed me! Your Highness kissed me! Your Highness kissed me! Your Highness kissed me!”
Right then, Ye Ruoshui’s mind was a total blank, those words repeating endlessly, never stopping.
No one knew how long that lasted.
The sun was setting in the west.
The carriage rolled into a forest.
Xiao Minghuang glanced at Ye Ruoshui, whose eyes were still full of pink bubbles and who hadn’t snapped out of it yet, and reached out to tap the little girl’s forehead.
“Stop daydreaming, snap out of it!”
Suddenly tapped on the forehead, Ye Ruoshui clutched her head and whimpered, “Your Highness is bullying me again, wuwuwu~”
Xiao Minghuang’s head was full of black lines.
She couldn’t help but think this little girl was getting better and better at acting.
“I’m going to hunt a few wild rabbits.
We might have to spend the night in the Forest.”
As they got closer to Beiyang City, the villages and towns along the way became fewer and farther between.
There wasn’t even a single household where they could stay for the night.
Even though Xiao Minghuang had stepped into the Qi Refining Realm, she’d need to reach the Gushing Spring Realm before she could ignore hunger and cold.
As for Ye Ruoshui, who was still in the Body Tempering Realm, she needed to eat a lot of meat to replenish her energy.
The moment she heard the words “wild rabbit,” Ye Ruoshui’s stomach started growling.
Honestly, she’d been hungry for a while, but she’d only managed to hold on this long thanks to Her Highness’s stunning looks.
“I’ll start getting things ready right away.”
Xiao Minghuang nodded and turned to head deeper into the Forest.
As she went further in, the Sun had completely sunk below the horizon, and the light grew dimmer and dimmer until she couldn’t even see her hand in front of her face.
Xiao Minghuang looked up at the sky.
All she could see were towering trees.
If she couldn’t see in the dark, she’d probably get lost for sure.
“I need to hurry. Ruo Shui’s probably starving by now.”
