Lord of Mysterious Wizard

Chapter 67: Chapter 67 The Charm of Gold Coins

Spirit Communication Secret Medicine only requires one Black Goat Eye in its formula, but Tang Qi is not naive enough to believe that he is a super genius who can succeed on his first attempt, despite having fully acquired all of Professor Cassel’s knowledge in secret medicine.

But theory is one thing, and practice is another.

Thus, he bought up all the Black Goat Eyes at Thorne’s stall and even arranged for next week’s stock. Before leaving, he spent a Wei Lei to buy a pretty pebble from little loli Claire, playing with it in his hand as he walked towards the next stall.

Meanwhile, in his mind, he silently calculated the most important materials in this shopping list.

Secret medicine, unlike other professions. @@novelbin@@

In some ways, secret medicine is closely linked to ordinary people.

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Many herbs that ordinary people use to treat diseases or poisons can be materials for some secret medicine formulas.

Because of this, Tang Qi’s special ability wasn’t very powerful here.

It meant that many of the materials Tang Qi needed could not be classified into the Extraordinary Domain, thus failing to trigger Tang Qi’s abilities and unable to be identified in the shortest time.

This time, however, Tang Qi was rather ambitious.

His knowledge of this place came from the intelligence of Professor Rick Cassel, who had found the materials for the Spider Demon Secret Medicine in this market, turning his female assistant and captain of the guard into a giant spider.

But Professor Cassel’s target was simple, only one type of secret medicine and he had plenty of time.

But Tang Qi was different, the secret medicine he wanted to craft was not just one, but at least… five.

If Professor Cassel were here now, he would bluntly criticize: “Greedy little guy, arrogant high school student, you are trampling on my intelligence, you will definitely fail, ending in complete failure.”

Indeed, Tang Qi’s behavior seemed somewhat presumptuous.

Professor Cassel had mastered secret medicine for a long time, though he only started to truly value it after he was diagnosed with cancer, probably also because the Spiritual Tide began to return at that time, and the secret medicine, he thought ineffective, started working.

Even so, his accomplishment in secret medicine should be close to an apprentice, definitely stronger than Tang Qi who had just mastered the theoretical knowledge.

But even him, he wouldn’t dare to attempt crafting five different secret medicines at once.

For this, Tang Qi had a reasonable explanation; if it were only secret medicine knowledge, he would not be so impudent and would practice in order. But for Tang Qi, secret medicine was not just knowledge, it was… a skill.

That reason was enough.

Perhaps in the beginning, due to lack of proficiency, he might fail, but once started, everything would be different.

While other beginners in secret medicine might struggle to gather a large amount of materials, spending a fortune, and possibly end up crafting nothing, resulting in total failure. In fact, crafting Spider Demon Secret Medicine nearly exhausted Professor Cassel’s salary for several years.

He was a distinguished university professor, that amount was enormous.

But such things, in Tang Qi’s case, were absolutely impossible.

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“The main materials for the Spirit Communication Secret Medicine, besides Black Goat Eye, also need a powder of Black Crystal, some White Pine Needles, and a dozen or so non-difficult-to-obtain auxiliary materials; gathering a dozen portions of the corresponding materials isn’t too difficult.”

“But the other four kinds of secret medicine will be much more troublesome, with less than three hours, is that enough to gather everything?”

Tang Qi suddenly slowed his pace a bit, his brows slightly furrowed.

This gathering takes place once a week.

If Tang Qi had plenty of time, there would be no urgency; if not this time, then the next would do.

But Tang Qi always had a strong sense of urgency, driving him to speed up the process time and again. Currently, most of his combat ability comes from the Meditation Method and Blood Python No.1, with the Chaga Fighting Technique also contributing.

Against Resentful Souls and Evil Spirits, these means wield tremendous deterrent power.

However, if the opponent were similarly a person from the Mysterious Side, Tang Qi could not predict the outcome.

The emergence of secret medicine knowledge was a huge surprise for Tang Qi.

Achieving a rapid surge in combat power might be difficult for other Extraordinary Professions, but it was possible with Secret Medicine.

Tang Qi initially wanted to tackle the “Rubber Man Secret Medicine” directly. According to Professor Cassel’s memories, of the three foundational secret medicines, the other two – “Wind’s Language” and “Spirit Communication Secret Medicine” – were true foundations, with mastery attainable through diligent practice.

However, the difficulty of the Rubber Man Secret Medicine was unimaginably high. But with high difficulty came high yield. Once the concoction of the Rubber Man Secret Medicine was successful, it meant laying the foundation for the highest combat secret medicine within the Original Secret Medicine School.

The Original Secret Medicine School, due to its veneration of nature, didn’t possess combat capabilities as potent as the Maya School, thus it had long disappeared into the stream of history.

But upon accessing the memories, Tang Qi realized that this was a misconception.

At least within the school, there was a secret medicine of terrifying complexity. If it could be concocted, the individual consuming the secret medicine could achieve combat powers that, if not comparable to the Divine, would certainly surpass several among the so-called Twelve Saints that Tang Qi had witnessed.

That secret medicine was actually a series, starting with the Rubber Man Secret Medicine, followed by Rubber Warrior, Rubber Demon, and finally the ultimate Rubber God Secret Medicine. Once ingested, one achieved near immortality as well as horrendous attack power.

Regrettably, the difficulty of this series of secret medicines was so great that the entire school perished without having able to create the final Rubber God.

Knowing this, Tang Qi had no choice but to switch to another series.

Below the level of Secret Medicine Apprentice, he could concoct a different strengthening series. Of course, this was also because Tang Qi had no other choice: besides the Rubber Man series, the Original Secret Medicine School had only two other strengthening series available, and Tang Qi chose this one.

Starting with the “Swift Secret Medicine,” advancing to Phantom Secret Medicine, then Mist Secret Medicine, and finally the series’ endpoint, the “Fog Body Secret Medicine.”

A total of four types; although the materials were inherited from the same lineage, strictly speaking, not one was duplicated. Thus, accumulating them became a massive project.

Even though Tang Qi, on this trip, only needed to gather the main ingredients—those auxiliary components could be bought in bulk from both Herbal Medicine Street and Ore Street on Midtown Avenue—it still proved quite challenging.

But soon, Tang Qi thought of a solution.

“Hum.”

His gaze suddenly fell on the central tent at the gathering, which occupied the largest plot of land.

Since the gathering had no organizer, Tang Qi had no place to hire helpers.

Yet in a wandering circus, there would surely be numerous errand apprentices willing to work for Tang Qi, and the circus leader would likely not refuse this windfall from heaven; after all, it was just lending out a few apprentices while he waited to collect money.

What Tang Qi needed to do was draw up the materials needed, distribute them, and then pay.

With this thought, Tang Qi leisurely entered the wandering circus, which was bustling with various scents, and everything proceeded just as smoothly as Tang Qi had imagined. The rotund circus leader simply could not refuse the charm of “Divine Grace.”

He quickly lent Tang Qi five apprentices. After delegating the tasks and promising a generous tip upon completion, the five apprentices, only a few years older than Tang Qi, thanked him profusely and cheerfully set off.

Tang Qi, originally pressed for time, suddenly found himself with spare moments. Muttering to himself about “the charm of gold coins,” the somewhat idle Tang Qi couldn’t help but begin wandering around aimlessly.

With the pressure of collecting secret medicine materials gone, Tang Qi soon discovered many interesting spots hidden within the gathering.