Lord of Mysterious Wizard

Chapter 72: Chapter 72 Mist

“Ten, nine, eight, seven…”

Inside the brick and stone building, standing before the workbench, Tang Qi watched the Crucible that had already been lidded, his voice muttering the countdown. It was quite rare that even when in the midst of activating a Skill, a trace of nervousness could still be seen on his face.

Perhaps because the results of several previous attempts had all ended in failure.

“One!”

As he uttered this word, Tang Qi’s hands swiftly removed the Lid.

Bang!

...

Another familiar sound of explosion shook Tang Qi’s heartstrings.

The outcomes of his earlier potion mixing attempts were all the same due to some small, subtle mistake. Unfinished secret medicine would explode, bringing Tang Qi many bad experiences. In order to extract Extraordinary Power, once the mixing starts, the ingredients would undergo strange mutations. If successful, all is good, but failure often resulted in consequences akin to a cruel prank.

For example, during one explosion, the liquids smelled as foul as the legendary surströmming can. If it were not for the fact that Tang Qi had previously taken the Second Sequence “Phantom Secret Medicine”, the repercussions could have been quite dire; at the very least, he would not have been able to attend class for several days.

Even so, the floor of his home had taken a beating.

So, upon hearing the sound of the explosion once more, Tang Qi was inevitably nervous.

His gaze swept over quickly, ready to instantly flee from the spot at the first sign of trouble.

However, this time what occurred was not an accident but a very unusual sight.

After the explosion, streams of black liquid surged from within the Crucible, seemingly poised to splash out and stain the entire workbench black, but the moment this liquid overfilled the borders of the Crucible, as if drawn by some force, it was pulled back.

Whoosh! @@novelbin@@

Suddenly, all the liquids rapidly contracted back and then transformed into an odd “Pupa” at the bottom of the Crucible.

A black Pupa that appeared to be forever changing shapes.

“Did we succeed?”

“Hum”

As ghost light began to appear before his eyes, and when the familiar interface was about to pop up, Tang Qi quickly picked up a glass bottle and placed it next to the Pupa. With a gentle scoop, it indeed slowly entered the bottle, and a brand-new secret medicine was born.

[Curios: Mist Secret Medicine.]

[Quality: Excellent.]

[Information Fragment One: It is an excellent secret medicine that, upon consumption, will grant the consumer a Mist Body. The amplification effect is limited by the consumer’s physical condition and spiritual power.]

[Information Fragment Two: It is part of the Third Sequence of the Original Secret Medicine School’s Fog Body series.]

[Information Fragment Three: Before taking it, one must have first consumed the Second Sequence’s Phantom Secret Medicine, or unknown consequences will occur.]

“Phew”

Holding the glass bottle, Tang Qi exhaled turbidly.

At this moment, he looked somewhat fatigued and was covered in grime, with quite a few bloodshot veins appearing in his eyes. After carefully placing the newly born “Mist Secret Medicine”, he did not immediately consume it but instead silently glanced at the wall clock.

8:15 PM.

“Has a whole day passed?”

Tang Qi felt somewhat disoriented as he glanced through the gap in the curtains at the sky outside. Nightfall had already enveloped everything.

Despite being supported by Meditation Method, and having long ago transcended the scope of an ordinary person, after having worked at the workbench for a whole day, Tang Qi still felt very fatigued, especially after the joy brought on by the success of the Mist Secret Medicine. As he relaxed just a bit, every part of his body protested.

Now, Tang Qi somewhat understands why the Schools possessing knowledge of secret medicine had perished. After all, according to the effects of the various secret medicines, one could easily arm a powerful extraordinary army.

Today, after trying his hand at concoction, he realized that mass production of secret medicines is nonexistent.

He has a special ability, allowing him to use secret medicine knowledge as a skill, and his success rate in concocting secret medicines far exceeds that of ordinary Secret Alchemists.

Yet even so, as the number of concoctions increases, the success rate seems to stabilize at a certain value. Even if Tang Qi disregards the consumption of spiritual power, he would still need to incur additional costs to produce more secret medicines.

Moreover, this is just for the First Sequence secret medicines. With each subsequent increase in Sequence, the success rate would drop again, and the costs would soar dramatically.

The mass production he envisioned is difficult to achieve.

Additionally, there are limitations to the consumption of secret medicines.

The same secret medicine can only be used once, and repeated use does not stack the effects.

Furthermore, to consume higher Sequence secret medicines, one must have already consumed the previous Sequence. For instance, the prerequisite for the “Mist Secret Medicine” before Tang Qi’s eyes is that he must have already consumed the Phantom Secret Medicine, which in turn requires prior consumption of the Swift Secret Medicine.

Besides these, there are other subtle restrictions; it’s clear that there’s no such thing as a free lunch in the world.

Of course, this doesn’t affect Tang Qi’s progress.

He did not immediately consume the Mist Secret Medicine, but instead washed up and cooked himself a pot of nutritious and sweetly fragranced shrimp brain vegetable porridge. After comforting his stomach, Tang Qi entered a Meditation State right in front of his workbench.

Compared to sleep, meditation is more efficient and effective.

Whew!

The golden Sun, having been completely outlined, emerged in the midst of darkness and nihility…

…

An hour later, Tang Qi awoke, full of energy.

His previous fatigue had vanished.

Tang Qi returned to his workbench and glanced over the rows of secret medicines in the freezer, the pupa-like Mist Secret Medicine being the most conspicuous. He took another look at his Skill Bar, and there was a significant change in the progress of his secret medicine knowledge.

[Secret Medicine: Knowledge of the Original Secret Medicine School, Realm: Beginner; Progress: 15.8%.]

Tang Qi himself probably didn’t expect that the skill of secret medicine knowledge, which he had only begun to learn the day before, would suddenly advance faster than his other skills.

This seems surprising, but the process is not complicated.

Before concocting the Second Sequence Phantom Secret Medicine, the progress was 2.1%. After the successful concoction, it immediately jumped to 4.1%. Additionally, Tang Qi spent materials to concoct several bottles of Phantom Secret Medicine, and the progress shot up to 7.8%.

The current progress is clearly due to the recent successful concoction of the Mist Secret Medicine.

A single bottle of Mist Secret Medicine took the progress past the ten percent mark.

“Higher Sequence secret medicines bring more progression?”

“That makes sense, it makes me even more eager to see, after the success of the Fourth Tier Fog Body Secret Medicine, which is the endpoint of this enhancement series, what will the progress look like?”

“Let’s start!”

Unexpectedly, Tang Qi didn’t consume the Mist Secret Medicine straight away like before, but instead quickly cleared the workbench and brought over the materials needed for the last Sequence.

His plan was to make a full-on effort to hit the “Fog Body” Secret Medicine.

As the final Sequence of secret medicine, the materials Tang Qi brought over were surprisingly few. Not to mention the main ingredient, the auxiliary ingredients were pitifully scarce, merely a dozen or so types.

However, what was even scarcer were the three main ingredients, which were particularly eye-catching.