Chapter 9: Fengling Yueying

Although Gao De didn't have much understanding of the mage's world, he could understand how exaggerated the ability to strengthen spells was.

This is a sublimation of the essence of magic!

"A complete origin can strengthen a spell of the corresponding rank. If I master more spells in the future and strengthen all the spells I have mastered..."

Just thinking about it was enough to make Gao De feel excited.

What is this equivalent to? This is equivalent to others playing the normal version of a game, while he is playing the modified version—this is even more awesome than a "pay-to-win warrior"! "Is this your effect?" Gao De's attention shifted back to the "crescent" gemstone floating in the very center of his Magic Star Sea, exclaiming in his heart.

At this moment, he already understood that this gemstone was definitely a supreme treasure, or should be called a priceless treasure.

While marveling at the magic of the crescent gemstone, Gao De grabbed another gray-eyed mouse from the cage, and with a familiar snap sound, sent it away again.

His mind immersed in his mind.

Inside the gemstone, following the integration of the "Big Dipper" representing the gray-eyed mouse origin into the 【Mending】 magic model, only one light spot was left flashing.

This eighth gray-eyed mouse did not light up a new light spot for Gao De.

Origin:

0-level—【Human】 (1/7), 【Gray-eyed Mouse】 (Used) "One kind of creature can only obtain one point of origin..." Regarding this, Gao De had long expected it, but speculation was speculation, and it still had to be verified through practice.

It can be seen that although the crescent gemstone is powerful, there are not no restrictions.

However, even with many restrictions, and even if Gao De currently didn't know the upper limit of the gemstone's spell strengthening, whether it could only strengthen 0-level spells, but even if it was just like this, this crescent gemstone was worthy of the evaluation of a priceless treasure.

Because 0-level spells, although they don't seem to be of high rank, were all created by famous great mages in history, rigorous and perfect, and have been passed down for I don't know how many years, and no one has been able to innovate and strengthen them.

One can imagine how difficult it is to strengthen spells itself.

"What exactly are you, following me to this world, and possessing such incredible abilities..." Gao De secretly thought in his heart, and also secretly paid attention.

An innocent man is innocent, but his treasure is his crime.

If outsiders knew he had such a treasure, greedy people who heard the news would drown him in an instant, trying every possible way to kill him and seize the treasure.

Not to mention the distant ones, Master Seda might be the first to kill him and take the treasure.

"Must be careful and cautious in the future, and must never expose the existence of this treasure."

Fortunately, this gemstone had taken root in his Magic Star Sea; as long as he didn't actively promote it, who would have thought he possessed such a precious treasure? And, because of the existence of the gemstone, Gao De saw for the first time a tiny hope of escaping his current predicament.

—Buying spell formulas with lethality, mastering new spells, and then strengthening spells through the gemstone, perhaps there was a tiny possibility that he would be strong enough to resist Master Seda head-on.

Gao De looked at this gorgeous gemstone in the Magic Star Sea and decided to give it a name.

After all, it was not a simple gemstone; it just looked like one on the outside.

Its essence was some kind of magical treasure, so it should have a name.

Gao De looked at the "gemstone" like a crescent moon, and then thought of its magical effect equivalent to a modifier in a game, his heart moved, and a very suitable name popped up in a flash of inspiration, "I'll call you..."

"Fengling Yueying!"

Gao De suppressed the excitement in his heart, as if nothing had happened, cleaned up the corpse of the little gray mouse, and then went to the dining room for lunch.

In the afternoon, it was still work time.

The daily work of the herb garden was mostly herb cultivation, processing, and brewing some simple potions for Master Seda.

It was said to be a simple potion, but there were only three people who could handle this work.

—Everything requires talent.

And Gao De was the strongest among all the apprentices.

Therefore, he was lucky enough to have a separate "workroom."

Of course, these things were learned from Amy, and even his workroom was pointed out to him by Amy, otherwise he really wouldn't have been able to find it.

Gao De's workroom was not big, just a long work table, on which were placed many tools needed for brewing potions.

And on one side of the work table was a foot-operated bellows, a stove, and several crucibles of different sizes hanging. The bellows were used to control the heat; it was said that advanced potion masters all used magic to heat, which was not only convenient but also more precise in controlling the heat.

At the other end of the work table was a larger shelf, on which rows of raw materials needed for brewing potions were placed, contained in various different containers.

After seriously scanning this familiar yet strange environment, Gao De took a deep breath, "Then let's start."

His work in the afternoon was to brew a primary spider venom potion.

Just as alchemists, weapon refiners, and formation masters are called the "Three Great" in the sub-professions in Xianxia novels, in this world, although there are many disciplines related to magic, such as magic puppet studies, scroll studies, etc., these are all minor paths, and the ones with the highest recognition have always been these three disciplines:

Alchemy, Potion Studies, and the most mysterious Rune Studies.

Alchemy can be compared to weapon refining, and Potion Studies is easier to understand—alchemy.

As for Rune Studies, with the predecessor's knowledge, he really didn't have any corresponding understanding of this discipline.

But in short, Potion Studies, as one of the three major disciplines, had very deep knowledge, and it was by no means as simple as putting all materials into a pot and boiling them in order as Gao De had seen in some Western movies.

First, before brewing the potion, the required materials must be magic-infused.

Magic-infusion can release the properties of the materials, and through the precise control of the potion master, make them more consistent with the needs of the potion.

This is a very important step, and the difficulty is also extremely high.

Most apprentices could not do the work of brewing potions because they were stuck in this step.

Gao De narrowed his eyes and reviewed all the details in his mind again.

"1 stalk of snake-tooth grass, 1 stalk of mountain wormwood, 1 portion of green spider sac..."

According to his memory, Gao De took the main materials needed for brewing primary spider venom potion from the shelf on the side for later use.

Then, he took out the snake-tooth grass and put it into a wooden bowl on the table that looked ordinary but was also very ordinary.

After calming down slightly, Gao De stared at the gray-green snake-tooth grass in the wooden bowl, mobilized his mental power, and his five senses became extremely sharp at this moment.

About two minutes later, in his field of vision, some different things appeared on the surface of the snake-tooth grass.

Spiral DNA-like ripples, sharp serrated ripples, wavy ripples... nearly seven or eight kinds of ripples were being released from the snake-tooth grass in a strange but regular form.

Gao De knew that these ripples were the embodiment of the many properties of snake-tooth grass.

Snake-tooth grass was not a precious herb, but it still possessed seven or eight kinds of medicinal properties. Of course, he only needed one kind of medicinal property belonging to "poison" to brew primary spider venom potion.

Gao De's face was solemn; he reached out to touch the snake-tooth grass in the wooden bowl, and at the same time, the mana in his body extended, concentrated in his palm, then climbed along his fingers onto the surface of the snake-tooth grass, and then continued to flow into the sharp serrated ripples, as if charging it.

Thus, except for the sharp serrated ripples representing the "poison" medicinal property of snake-tooth grass, all other ripples stopped being released at this moment.

It seemed that the stillness of the other ripples gave the sharp serrated ripples more space to stretch, plus Gao De's "charging," so its volume expanded by nearly double at this moment.

But the stillness only lasted for a moment.

Soon, the other ripples were released from the snake-tooth grass again, squeezing the space that originally didn't belong to it occupied by the serrated ripples.

But the serrated ripples were powerful, and these returning ripples could only take back a little of their own territory, and most of the territory was still firmly occupied by the serrated ripples.

Seeing that the work was done, Gao De, who had been tense, finally let out a sigh of relief, knowing that the magic-infusion of this snake-tooth grass had been completed, and silently withdrew his mana.

The whole magic-infusion process took no more than a minute from start to finish, but the consumption of Gao De's mental power and mana was not small.

Snake-tooth grass was just an ordinary herb without any rank; one can imagine how powerful mental power and mana are needed to magic-infuse high-rank herbs. No wonder it is said that powerful potion masters must also be powerful mages.

Although this was Gao De's first time performing this magic-infusion operation, the predecessor had already operated it many times, and muscle memory made him not make any mistakes.

With this experience, the magic-infusion of the remaining materials was even easier.

Soon, all materials were magic-infused, and the first step of the work was completed; the next step was to process the materials.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 10 =====