Chapter 68 Chapter 68 Refining... Refining the Pill? ...
In the early morning, soft light shines through the window lattice and falls on Tang Li's face.
Everything in the game world is beautiful, but because it is too beautiful, it sometimes lacks a sense of reality.
So she bought some i-plug-ins online according to Wordless's suggestion, which were designed to make the gaming experience more realistic. The effect was quite good, and it was very suitable for players like her who spend all day playing games.
Under the warm sunshine, she woke up on time the moment the light fell on her face.
A good sleep makes her feel particularly energetic.
Tang Li could no longer remember what expression she had when she made the proposal but failed to articulate it, nor did she know if he had noticed anything. She refused to dwell on things she couldn't understand.
Thinking about the book she hadn't finished reading yesterday, she didn't get busy right away after a quick wash. Instead, she sat on a chair by the window and carefully read the last few pages of "In-depth Analysis of Herbal Properties" in the morning light.
The view in the book that different light-based medicinal herbs are essentially the same made her think, as if she had touched the weak point of the bottleneck again.
Light magic can not only burn but also heal. How do you strike a balance between the two?
Before she could figure out a clue, the private message channel vibrated slightly. Tang Li clicked it and saw that it was a message from Li Zi.
[栗子] to [Lucky Star]: Xiaoli, Xiaoli, check out the world channel and forum!
[Lucky Star] to [Chestnut]: What's wrong?
[栗子] to [Lucky Star]: The forums are going crazy. Those players are so quick to act. It's only been a day, and someone has already figured out a way to break through the level. Although the specific information hasn't been fully released yet, the general direction is correct. Several major gangs have already started to take action.
Once the big gang succeeds, the method of breaking through will probably be completely exposed.
In order to cover up the truth, they even arranged for people to go to different towns for advancement, but they still couldn't escape the sharp eyes of the sharp players.
Tang Li looked at the long string of messages sent by Li Zi, without much surprise on her face. She tapped her fingertips and replied.
[Lucky Star] to [Chestnut]: This is normal. We made such a big noise yesterday, and the eyes of the entire server are probably staring at us. Moreover, our gang probably has undercover agents from other gangs. As long as someone is interested and does a little analysis and inquiries, they will always be able to find some clues.
With such a large player base, there is never a shortage of smart and action-oriented people.
Although the news about the Wind and Rain Camp has blocked a lot of attention, the players, especially those stuck at level 20, are not stupid.
Do you still need to choose between mastering a novice village, which sounds rather illusory, and the level breakthrough that is just around the corner?
[栗子] to [幸星]: Oh, that's true. It's such a pity. I thought we could take the lead by one or two levels with the first-mover advantage, but now the secret can't be kept. You don't know how crazy these people are. They are so excited. I feel the competitive pressure all of a sudden.
This is actually understandable.
Didn't you see that Fengyu Tongzhou has completely dominated the player rankings? Everyone who makes it onto the list is a natural talent in the game. Who could stand this?
She would also be excited if it were her turn.
Tang Li could imagine Li Zi pouting on the other end, and couldn't help but smile.
[Lucky Star] to [Chestnut]: Don't worry, every step ahead we take is an advantage. Don't forget, we still have the [Giant Banyan Beehive], a treasure trove of experience. Even if others know the advancement method, we have this copy as a backup. Our experience acquisition efficiency will not be easily surpassed in a short period of time. Keep steady and proceed at our own pace.
[Chestnut] to [Lucky Star]: Yeah! Xiaoli, you're right! Then let's hurry up and go play a few more Honeycomb dungeons before everyone else fully reacts, right? We didn't get enough yesterday. If you're okay with that, I'll go meet up with Ju Ge, He Bi, and Ci Ge. They're in the guild right now, and they've finished their work, so they shouldn't have anything else to do right now.
Li Zi wasn't really afraid of being caught up by others, so Tang Li comforted her with a few words and quickly changed the subject.
Tang Li looked at the time. Broad daylight was a good time to brush the dungeon, so she replied directly: Okay, I'll get ready and see you at the dungeon entrance later.
[Chestnut]: OK.
After ending the communication, Tang Li quickly tidied up the things on the table and checked the supplies in her backpack.
"Let's go, I'll take you to level up." Tang Li called out the Xirang in the planting space, got ready, and teleported the little guy to the entrance of the Giant Banyan Hive dungeon in high spirits.
"Here I come." Cibudiyi was the first to notice her. His eyes lit up instantly, and soon a team application was sent over.
"Well, you guys are so fast." Tang Li looked away uncomfortably and touched the lively Xirang beside her.
"We just arrived too."
"Is that so?" Tang Li didn't know what to say, so she had to look away. Yesterday, it was reported that the Banyan Beehive was an experience book, and today many gang members who could defeat it came here in groups.
The entrance of the dungeon, which was originally deserted, became much more lively. The giant banyan guard who collected the tickets had a smile on his face, and even the wrinkles on his face looked fewer.
"Xiaoli!" Li Zi ran over enthusiastically, "Xirang is here today too. We haven't seen each other for a long time." As she said that, she squatted down and touched Xirang's little head.
"My lovely Xirang, you are the cutest slime in the world!" Li Zi thought of his pet again and quickly summoned the Glimmer Dragon cub he had exchanged for in the event a few days ago. "Our Xiaoguang is also the cutest little dragon in the world!"
"So cool!" Tang Li, who couldn't afford a dragon pet, was envious for a second, but when she looked at the lovely Xirang beside her, she felt that not having a dragon was no big deal.
"I have one too, hehe!" Seeing this, He Biduoyan also released his dragon to show off.
Unlike Tang Li and Li Zi who need to take care of their secondary professions, He Bi Duoyan always follows other gangs to open up new areas when he is not in a team with them. Therefore, his pet has also gained a lot of experience. In appearance, it is at least a circle bigger than Li Zi's little dragon and looks much more majestic.
A dragon is only majestic when it grows big, so Tang Li also expressed his admiration.
The next second, a larger dragon appeared in the open space less than 50 centimeters away from her.
"..." Tang Li looked at the man who was looking at her expectantly, but her words were incoherent. She knew where the dragon came from without even thinking about it.
Judging from the other party's expression, does he want her to praise him too?
Haha, man.
This strange desire to win is so childish.
Although he was complaining in his heart, Tang Li still gave his dragon some face and praised it again and again.
But her words didn't express what she meant, and she didn't seem as happy as she had imagined. Was it because she thought she didn't praise her enough?
Tang Li scratched her head.
"Okay, let's go into the dungeon." Juerlizi, who couldn't stand it anymore, sighed and asked a few people to get down to business.
“Here it comes!”
Everyone was very focused when they got serious. For most of the next day, the five-person team was immersed in the efficient rhythm of clearing the book.
With the experience of completing the game perfectly the first time, they have a clear understanding of the dungeon mechanism.
His command, which was not well-expressed, was more precise and concise. His monster pulling was as steady as a rock. For example, Li Zi's treatment was always around, and his output was still agile and sharp. Tang Li found a better balance between controlling the field and auxiliary output. With his control skills, he restricted the Queen Bee Guard's deadly charge many times at critical moments.
Although there is no longer the thrilling feeling of the first time of opening up the new land, the smooth and tacit cooperation is still very enjoyable.
They completed four dungeons in a row and caught bees four times after the dungeons were completed. The experience bar rose steadily at a speed visible to the naked eye.
After clearing such a high-intensity dungeon, even with Tang Li's debuff causing trouble, everyone still gained a lot of skill books and equipment at the end.
The useful ones were distributed on the spot, and the rest were thrown into the warehouse.
After several expansions, the gang now has tens of thousands of members. Except for the elite players, most players are between levels 15 and 20. The level 20 equipment in the Hive is still very attractive to them.
When the last copy ended, it was already dusk in the game.
A day passed like this. In the evening, Cibuduo and his team planned to explore a new dungeon that would open at night. Tang Li was thinking about the new potion research that she had not yet completed, so she had no plans to go with them.
After exchanging all the bees caught in the dungeon for honey, Tang Li said goodbye to her teammates who were still reluctant to leave, and called Xirang, who was eating a portion of honey diligently, to go home.
It seems that Xirang really likes honey. He took a few more portions and handed them to the little guy. Tang Li touched its icy and slippery jelly head and said, "Go and play by yourself. I'll go and get busy first."
Throughout the day, the diligent slimes and robots accumulated a full warehouse of harvest, most of which were sent to the restaurant by Tang Li.
Aunt Tiger is becoming more and more capable. These days, while Tang Li is busy researching potions, many new dishes are developed by Aunt Tiger.
After thinking about it, she took out some of the honey she had obtained today and shared it with Aunt Tiger. By the way, she issued a task to collect honey in the gang, buying the gang members' excess honey at a high price and sending it to the restaurant.
After doing all this, Tang Li took a look at the gang's seed stock and found that only one third was left, so she optimized some of it and sent it over.
Now she has become more and more skilled in doing these things, and her superpowers are much stronger than when she just woke up. It didn't take her long to optimize a large number of seeds.
After the number of seeds increased, we were able to cultivate a batch of second- and third-generation seeds without debuffs. However, I don’t know if it’s because of the reputation of the Doom Restaurant or what, but people don’t buy into the cooking food without debuffs.
Tang Li had no choice but to work harder and use her special powers to continue providing optimized seeds with debuffs.
After returning from the gang, Tang Li picked some fruits from the yard, sat down on the recliner, picked up the book she had not finished reading in the morning and continued reading.
It turns out that reading can bring people physical and mental relaxation.
After reading the entire chapter, Tang Li's fatigue was swept away and the sky became completely dark.
"This quiet night is perfect for research." Without stopping for too long, she put down the book and walked straight into the laboratory.
Taking a deep breath and clearing her mind, Tang Li placed a small amount of freshly harvested sunlight wheat and moonlight wheat on the workbench.
She did not rush to do anything, but closed her eyes and recalled her thoughts from reading in the morning. Then she opened her eyes, took the Sunlight Wheat and Moonlight Wheat in her hands, and carefully felt some subtle insights from the flow of the forest witch's natural power.
"Maybe I was wrong from the beginning. Sunlight wheat and moonlight wheat are not two completely mutually exclusive things. Why do we use them to make potions separately? Sunlight and moonlight, where is their balance point?" She murmured to herself, always feeling that if she solved this question, the next problem would be easily solved.
She started a new round of attempts.
She first took out a piece of high-quality life essence, which she had opened from the treasure chest she received when she collected high-grade medicinal herbs. It was purer than the original life essence.
Carefully pouring the essence into the clean magic crucible, she then picked up the magic wand, the tip of which was surrounded by a faint green glow, and stirred it several times according to a specific technique. The essence of life in the pot began to boil. These were all familiar steps that she had memorized by heart long ago.
After reaching the desired temperature, Tang Li nodded with satisfaction and added various medicinal herbs in turn to obtain a pot of emerald green liquid.
After boiling it three times, she grabbed a small bundle of sun wheat and dropped it into the emerald green liquid.
The moment the two blend together, the whole pot of liquid makes a slight "sizzling" sound and the energy begins to become active.
She immediately used her magic to guide it, trying to keep it steady.
By the time the energy calmed down, the emerald green liquid had turned into a pot of golden soup.
Seeing this, Tang Li started to take out the same amount of moonlight wheat.
As soon as the silver wheat came into contact with it, the sunlight energy, which had been relatively well-behaved under the restraint of magic, immediately produced a strong repulsive reaction. The gold and silver light spots collided violently like water and fire, and the liquid in the crucible began to boil unsteadily and change color.
"No..." Tang Li immediately withdrew the moonlight energy and used magic power to stabilize the mixture that was about to collapse, with sweat slightly on his forehead.
It was close to exploding.
Tang Li poured out the entire pot of potion and cleaned the crucible again, feeling somewhat frustrated. It seemed that doing so could only allow the two to coexist, but could not truly make them "compatible".
She put down her magic wand, rubbed her brows tiredly, and her eyes unconsciously swept across the workbench.
Suddenly, her eyes fixed on the windowsill, where there was a small pile of honey.
It seemed like she had put it there before going to bed last night, intending to use it to study cooking today.
She has been busy since morning and has not had time to take care of it.
Honey...honeycomb...blend...honey seems to be a blending agent as well?
A thought flashed through her mind like lightning!
If she remembered correctly, many Chinese medicines use honey as a binder without affecting the medicinal properties. Perhaps this natural harmonizing property could solve her current dilemma?
She had no better idea anyway, so why not give it a try?
She immediately picked up a portion of honey, opened the bottle, and a sweet aroma emanated.
Without hesitation, she picked up a slender crystal dropper on the laboratory table, sucked up the nectar, replaced the original life essence, and put it into the crucible.
The next steps remained the same, as herbs were put into the crucible one by one, slowly changing into different colors.
Sunlight wheat... Moonlight wheat... Finally it's time for the two to merge.
The feeling of resistance... opposition... mutual exclusion came over me again.
Tang Li did not panic, but picked up the honey on the table and used the magic wand to carefully drip it into the mixture.
This time, there was no violent reaction. The sweet and smooth honey was like a skilled mediator, gently penetrating between the energies of gold and silver.
The light spots that originally repelled and conflicted violently seemed to be wrapped and soothed by some gentle force after coming into contact with the nectar, and the conflict quickly subsided.
Tang Li's heart was pounding. She immediately concentrated and picked up the magic stirring stick again. She guided her natural magic power full of vitality and stirred it slowly and evenly along the "harmony field" created by the nectar.
The process went exceptionally smoothly.
The energies of gold and silver no longer resisted, but began to slowly and steadily rotate and blend under the combined influence of nectar and natural magic.
The liquid in the crucible was no longer boiling, but instead emitted a warm and soft glow. The color gradually changed from a chaotic mix to a uniform, lustrous light gold, and it seemed as if tiny rays of the sun, moon, and stars were slowly flowing inside.
As the stirring continues, the texture of the liquid begins to change, slowly becoming viscous from its original pure liquid state.
Finally, when all the energy was completely integrated and stabilized, and the light was restrained, what was left at the bottom of the crucible was not the expected test tube medicine, but three longan-sized, extremely round, light golden pills with fine textures on the surface?
Ah this???
Tang Li looked at the three meatballs lying at the bottom of the crucible and was stunned for a moment.
"...It's made of both medicinal herbs and honey, and then rolled into balls..." She picked up one, which was warm to the touch and exuded a faint sweet and herbal fragrance. "...I was wondering why it felt so familiar. Isn't this making an elixir?"
"It seems like I walked into the wrong set." She couldn't help but complain.
This style of painting seems to deviate a bit from the track of a Western fantasy pharmacist. Can it be considered that she has completed the mission?
She was unsure.
But no matter what, it can be considered a breakthrough.
In the end, the joy of success overwhelmed this little hesitation. Tang Li picked up the pill and checked its properties:
【???】
[Heal]: Immediately restore 30% of health and mana after use, and continue to restore a small amount of health until the health is restored to 80%.
[Full Stomach]: Instantly removes the "weak" and "tired" status, instantly restores physical strength to full, and increases the maximum physical strength by 50 points for the next two hours.
[Curse]: Those who are loved by light will be hated by darkness. After using this curse, there is a 50% chance of being hunted down by dark creatures.
Amazing healing ability, powerful satiety ability, not to mention the curse at the end, Tang Li was extremely satisfied with the properties of this pill.
"Let's call it Xiaoyao Pills." The moment the name was completed, the system prompt sounded in Tang Li's ears.
System: [Congratulations to the adventurer for completing the Trial of Saint Mage Zoe. The Life Staff has been unlocked 5%. After equipping it, your meditation speed increases by 10% and your intelligence attribute increases by 5%.]
Meditation speed affects mana and physical strength recovery, while intelligence attributes determine the spell limit.
Almost at the moment the staff was unlocked, Tang Li's spell bar began to rise.
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