Return to the Academy

Knowing that the Taurens would never let him go, Li Jiye didn't stay in Falling Maple City for long. After waiting half a day, he rented a horse that could travel hundreds of miles a day and returned overnight to Polar Star City.

A few weeks had passed since his departure from Polar Star City, during which his gains had been plentiful. He was most satisfied with the pharmacy skill replicated from Ashley and the Divine Blessing skill from the Unicorn.

Everything in the Academy was as usual. Li Jiye sent the horse to an inn and returned home, feeling immediately relieved to see his parents in great spirits.

It wasn't an exaggeration now to say that Li Jiye was loaded. He had already sold all the magic cores harvested from the Demonic Beast Mountain Range. Although his storage bag seemed shabby, it was filled with thousands of gold coins. This was no small amount of money, and if ordinary people had this amount, they would probably instantly become among the richest in any city.

But Li Jiye had his ambitions elsewhere. After thinking about it, he finally used the money to purchase several medicinal materials.

Polar Star City's auction house was well-known to be almost all-encompassing. Most of the medicinal materials he purchased were ingredients used to make potions. The magic cores of Tier 1 Earth Element demonic beasts were used for body-building materials, which were plentiful in the Polar Star City's auction house. Without even spending much money, Li Jiye managed to purchase a considerable amount of these materials. After preparing them, he returned to Polar Star Academy's dormitory.

The battle with Odyssey, the Tauren leader, had benefited him considerably. Although the elemental energy in his body was only at Tier 2 intermediate level, the fact that he had managed to break through the heavy Tauren encirclement with the power of Godspeed Steps and the strength of his body made him realize just how important body-building was to martial artists.

With this in mind, he shut himself in the dormitory for several days and carefully studied the refining methods of the body-building potions.

Body-building potions were extremely useful for low-level martial artists, and their refining method was also straightforward. The main materials — the roots and the Earth Element magic core — were very cheap. First, he made the potion according to his own method without adding a neutralizing agent. As expected, Li Jiye, who had mastered the pharmacy skill, successfully configured the body-building potion after only one attempt.

But he only tried this potion once before throwing it aside.

Without using any neutralizing agents, these body-building potions were extremely potent. Even Li Jiye, who had gradually adapted to the pain of body tempering, couldn't stand it. Even though the medicinal properties inside were extraordinary, it wasn't something normal people could consume.

After this failed experience, he immediately refined the pharmaceutical potion according to the original formula. However, the configuration this time was a little unexpected.

Despite adding the neutralizing agent, the potency of the body-building potion wasn't weakened. However, after taking it, he noticed that the stimulation and pain weren't as strong as before. He thought hard about it, and realization suddenly dawned on him.

"It's the Divine Blessing! The A-level skill caused the potions I made to be more effective than those made by ordinary pharmacists!"

In order to prove this idea, he made several batches of healing and energy-replenishing potions. Just as he suspected, with the buff of the Divine Blessing, he seemed to be able to increase the potency of the potions by about 30%.

This was magical!

Even though he was restricted to configuring Tier 1 potions now, as long as he continued replicating the pharmacist's skill, he could make Tiers 2, 3, and even higher leveled potions in the future. Divine Blessing would also help increase their effect…

He was almost walking on air with ecstasy.

He cultivated about twenty bottles of body-building potions.

The next day, the auction house was engulfed by a stream of people. All the big family clans and pharmacists had gathered here for one sole reason. A genius pharmacist had developed a body-building potion that wasn't painful and still had undiminished effect!

This was an unprecedented breakthrough!

The group known as the Chief Pharmacy Masters drank the body-building potions made by a student of Polar Star Academy in turn, their expressions all different. Some gasped in amazement, while some remained silent, and some even cried bitterly while hugging the body-building potion contained in the ordinary glass bottles.

Physique was the foundation of a martial artist's practice!

Although a martial artist's bones and physique could be tempered by the body-building potion, it often caused excruciating pain, almost as painful as scraping bones and marrows. This was the reason why ordinary martial artists would only dare take the potion once in their lifetime.

But now, someone had actually reduced the side effects of the body-building potion. That is, the almost maddening pain was now almost completely eliminated. How could these pharmacist masters not be shaken to their cores?!

However, Li Jiye was completely unaware of the commotion he had brought about in the auction house. He was still busy refining the pharmaceutical potions. After sending the items to the auction house for sale yesterday, he had taken a much-needed nap. Thus, he was completely shocked to see several people standing in front of his dormitory door as he was leaving.

Among this group were a few senior sisters who were well-known even in Polar Star Academy, as well as members of the Pharmacist Association who had rushed here from outside the city. Even several senior mentors from Polar Star Academy had quietly made their way here.

Feeling a little confused, Li Jiye was about to ask them what was going on as the group of people smiled warmly at him the moment he walked out.

After conversing with them for a long while, Li Jiye finally realized that he hadn't hidden his identity when he sold the excess body-building potions. If anyone interested in it asked, they would immediately find out he was the creator of the potions.

Thus, most of the people had come to befriend him. Li Jiye spent half a day exchanging greetings with each of them and then sent them away. He watched them leave with a wry smile on his face.

He honestly hadn't expected his improved body-building potion to cause such a commotion. He didn't know if it was a good thing that he had been exposed to the public, especially since he had to keep his replicating skill a secret. On one hand, the number of people he could come into physical contact with had increased greatly. For example, many of the seniors and mentors just now had exceptional talents, which would be extremely beneficial for him to improve his strength.

But on the other hand, his replication skill's potential was unimaginable. If he so much as slipped up, he might become everyone's target.