Chapter 26: First Time Making Medicine

That night, the moonlight was as calm as water.

At this time, in the sleeping quarters of the Mu Residence's west courtyard, Mu Ruyue was panting and drenched in sweat. She wiped the sweat off her forehead and gazed at the medicinal materials spread out across the table with a satisfied smile.

After several hours, she had finally enhanced the age of all the medicinal materials. However, the Qi Nourishing Medicine indeed consumed a lot of energy, and with her current strength, she could only enhance 50-year-old medicinal materials to hundred-year-old materials.

Anything more would require more Qi.

"These fifty beads can be sold for money, and the rest will be used to refine elixirs."

As she spoke, she took out the alchemy furnace she had purchased at the market today.

Now, she was going to refine a low-level human-grade Revitalization Powder, which was one of the most common elixirs.

Swoosh!

With a flick of her finger, a flame burst from her fingertip. She lightly waved her hand, and the flame leaped into the alchemy furnace, flickering and dancing.

The crimson glow of the fire illuminated Mu Ruyue's fair face. Though she was still young, her beauty had already begun to shine brightly, surpassing even Mu Tingting.

Since it was Mu Ruyue's first time refining medicine, the flame dimmed after just a moment, and the hundred-year-old medicinal materials inside the furnace were wasted...

"Failed? Then let's try again!"

Mu Ruyue sneered. From as far back as she could remember, she had never known what it meant to give up.

Swoosh!

The flame sprang up again, burning fiercely under the furnace.

This time, with the experience of failure, she controlled it more skillfully...

For the entire night, Mu Ruyue persisted through repeated failures. The pile of hundred-year-old medicinal materials beside her turned to ashes, causing Yan Jin to wince in pain a few times.

A spendthrift! This woman was clearly a spendthrift!

Those were hundred-year-old medicinal materials, not common weeds. Yet she wasted a pile without any remorse? They would have been better off being consumed by him to increase his strength.

It wasn't until the sky began to lighten that Mu Ruyue successfully refined the Revitalization Powder.

She looked at the elixir in her hand and frowned slightly: "It took a whole night to refine a low-level human-grade elixir. It seems I need to deepen my knowledge of alchemy."

If anyone had heard her, they would have been tempted to strangle her.

Without any guidance, she had learned to concoct a low-level human-grade elixir in one night. How were other alchemists, who needed three days and nights under a master's guidance, supposed to survive?

Even the most outstanding alchemist in the continent's history took two days for their first attempt at medicine refining.

Of course, Mu Ruyue's speed had much to do with her extraordinary spiritual power and the abundant supply of hundred-year-old medicinal materials. As everyone knew, the longer the age of the medicinal materials, the easier it was for an alchemist to refine them.

"Girl," Yan Jin yawned, his sleepy eyes half open, "is it already morning?"

"Yan Jin, I need to visit the herbal shop."

Clutching the Revitalization Powder, Mu Ruyue's eyes flickered. Previously, she only had one hundred-year-old medicinal material, so she wasn't concerned. But this time, she had to ensure no one could recognize her.

A man without a crime, yet with a jade, would be slain. This truth she had experienced in her past life.

In Feng City, the bustling streets echoed with vendors' shouts, occasionally interrupted by galloping horses, adding to the lively scene.

At this moment, in one of the busiest herbal shops in Feng City, a slender girl with a bamboo hat walked in and threw a bundle onto the counter without a word.

The shopkeeper was startled. He frowned as he opened the bundle, and upon seeing its contents, he could no longer remain calm.

"This... These are hundred-year-old medicinal materials? There must be dozens of them."

Hundred-year-old medicinal materials, while not as rare as thousand-year-old ones, were still precious. Moreover, there were fifty beads of hundred-year-old materials here. Even an experienced shopkeeper was stunned by such a large quantity.

"Miss, are you sure you want to sell these hundred-year-old medicinal materials?" The shopkeeper swallowed hard, looking at Mu Ruyue with a mix of surprise and doubt.

Since the girl's face was obscured by the bamboo hat, the shopkeeper could only tell from her voice that she was young. Clearly, anyone who could produce such an amount of medicinal materials was not an ordinary person.

But what puzzled the shopkeeper was how she had obtained these fifty beads of hundred-year-old medicinal materials...

"Yes," Mu Ruyue nodded slightly, her eyes under the bamboo hat calm as a still lake, "besides that, I also have a Revitalization Powder."

"Revitalization Powder?"

The shopkeeper was stunned. Even though Revitalization Powder was a low-level human-grade elixir, alchemists were highly respected in this land. He naturally dared not underestimate anyone selling such items.

"Miss, for these fifty beads of medicinal materials, I can offer you one hundred gold coins per bead. As for the Revitalization Powder, we need our alchemy master at Huichun Hall to appraise its quality to determine the price. If you trust us, you can leave the Revitalization Powder here and come back tomorrow to collect the money. How does that sound?"

Mu Ruyue shot a calm glance at the shopkeeper and, after a long silence, finally said, "Huichun Hall has a good reputation, I trust you. I'll come back tomorrow then."

"Thank you very much, miss."

The shopkeeper breathed a sigh of relief. He instructed his subordinates to fetch the gold coins and handed them to Mu Ruyue personally. Taking the coins, Mu Ruyue wasted no time and left...

"Hundred-year-old medicinal materials, huh," the shopkeeper chuckled, picking up one of the materials. However, his smile froze when he saw a small, green sword emblem at the bottom.

Disbelieving his eyes, he quickly examined the other materials. Though not obvious, each one had the same green sword emblem at the bottom.

"These... These are Huichun Hall's medicinal materials. But I know all the herbs in Huichun Hall. We never had this many hundred-year-old materials, and we've never had any stolen. Then how did she get them? Wait, I remember a few days ago, a girl bought a hundred beads of fifty-year-old medicinal materials. I personally selected them, so I remember clearly. But how did fifty-year-old materials become hundred-year-old materials?"

Yes, these were indeed the materials he had sold.

But what on earth had happened?

"No, I must report this to Master Wu Yu. This is too incredible."

Fifty-year-old medicinal materials turning into hundred-year-old ones in a few days? This shocked the shopkeeper profoundly. This matter had to be brought to Master Wu Yu's attention.