Chapter 293 - Beast Attracting Pill

Alex smiled and asked, "Do you guys have ingredients to make pills?"

"Of course, we are alchemists. We always have different ingredients on us," Fan Ruogang said proudly.

"Haha, Yes we do, brother Yu," Wan Li said with a nervous smile.

Zhou Mei nodded as well.

"Well, if you guys do have them, then let's go to the Alchemy hall to take some pills. You guys are probably agitated from not being able to make pills for the last few days," Alex said.

Zhou Mei and Wan Li's eyes shined when they heard they could go somewhere where they could make pills. Fan Ruogang however made a weird face.

"Ahh… I don' really care about pills, but whatever. Let's go make one. Actually, let's go by the market once. I want to try making today's pills. I want to beat the harmony level of that Huang Fu guy. He probably already learned about that pill from his master before me, and simply flaunted his knowledge today," she said.

"Ah, Fanfan, that's not possible. For the sake of competition, he isn't allowed to do that. Sect Leader said so herself," Wan Li said.

"Oh, did she? Well, whatever. I still want to beat him," she declared.

Alex smiled and asked, "Why don't we make a competition out of this then. We will all learn the recipe and… in 6 hours after entering the Alchemy hall, whoever makes the best pill is the winner," Alex said.

Fan Ruogang's eyes lit up abnormally when she heard that it was going to be a competition.

"Alright, here you guys take the recipe," she said as she gave her recipe to Wan Li. Zhou Mei took hers out and gave hers to Alex.

Alex looked at the recipe just once and immediately learned it.

The recipe was for a pill called Beast Attracting pill. The pill was made using a bunch of beast parts that were used to make a pill that spread a very strong fragrance when it interacted with Qi. The pill then attracted various beats depending on its harmony level.

Mortal grade pills attracted Skin tempering and Muscle tempering realm monsters.

Earth Grade pills attracted Bone tempering and Organ Tempering realm monsters.

Heaven Grade pills attracted Meridian Tempering and Mind Tempering realm monsters.

The purpose for pills with a higher level of harmony was not written. Probably, not even the Royal alchemist was capable of making pills with 75% harmony, even if it was a common rank pill.

He had already learned the pill recipe but giving it back immediately was a bit suspicious, so he asked Wan Li to write the recipe down for the both of them and took it.

They then took a detour to a place that sold the different ingredients. Since the ingredients were mostly beast parts, Alex, unfortunately, didn't have them.

So he had to end up buying a lot of those. Thankfully, he was loaded with money right now and didn't have to worry about the cost.

Once they got their ingredients, Alex showed them the way to the Alchemy Hall. At the register, he asked for a room for 6 hours and paid upfront. He and the other 3 were then taken to 4 different alchemy rooms at the back of the hall.

After the door was closed, Alex sat on the seat with the Golden Jade cauldron in front of him and got ready to make his pills.

"This is the first time I'm making an all monster ingredient pill right?" he thought. Monster corpses usually had one or two parts that could be used as ingredients.

But he had never come across a pill recipe that used only them. 'I wonder how the Royal Alchemist came up with the recipe,' he thought.

The cauldron had heated up and it was time for him to put in the ingredients. The recipe appeared in his mind as he knew what to do next.

He took out the first ingredient and put it in. He slowly swirled it around until it became powder and the energy was all released.

Once the first ingredient was done, he put in the second one which released more energy that mixed with the already existing energy.

Then third, and fourth. He kept doing that until he finally put in the last ingredient.

'Oh, so the final energy is wood, huh,' he thought. He quickly started compressing the powder, and a minute later, he had a pill with him.

He quickly pulled out the pill and held it in his hand.

Beast Attracting pill - 38%

'Hmm… not bad. I could've probably done better if I had focused more on the pill making,' he thought and started making another one.

The first one had taken him only 20 and the following ones took even less. In an hour, he ended up making 3 pills. However, every hour after that, he ended up making 4 pills each.

Sometimes, he made more due to making 2 pills at once.

By the end of the 6 hours mark, he had managed to make exactly 28 pills. He looked at the time and realized he only had 3 minutes left.

So he cleaned his cauldron, put everything back into his storage bags, and left the room.

Fan Ruogang was already outside, constantly tapping her foot, annoyed about something. Alex walked up to her and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I've been waiting here for nearly half an hour, that's what's wrong," she said in an annoyed voice.

Alex was a little surprised and asked, "Why did you leave half an hour earlier then?"

Fan Ruogang's face suddenly turned all red and said, "I didn't know how long it had been while I was making the pills and unknowingly left too early."

PFFTT

Alex started laughing. "Hey don't laugh. I didn't have a clock with me okay. That's why I left so early," Fan Ruogang said with a red face.

Alex couldn't stop laughing for a few more minutes and only stopped laughing when the other two arrived.

Fan Ruogang seemed still mad so she said, "Alright, let's just see who won and get it over with."