Chapter 6: Heimerdinger

Seeing these few entries appear, Ning Feiliu's eyes immediately revealed a hint of joy.

Just as he had expected, as long as he came into contact with items like pills or medicinal herbs, he could trigger tasks related to Singed.

However, he had to obtain the detailed prescriptions to complete the tasks.

This seemed somewhat difficult.

But...

It wasn't impossible.

Ning Feiliu looked at Ji Boda and said, "Doctor, I actually have a presumptuous request. Could I buy these few prescriptions from you directly with money?"

Ji Boda frowned, looking as if he were in a difficult position, "Young Master Ning, this..."

"I'll offer one Gold Soul Coin, how about that?" Ning Feiliu took out a Gold Soul Coin directly and said.

"These prescriptions are my family heirlooms..." Ji Boda's eyes lit up, but he quickly shook his head, sighed, and said.

This also proved that in the Douluo Continent, ordinary people could never spend the time and energy to research any prescriptions.

However, Ning Feiliu chuckled, "Doctor, this is where you are in the wrong. Aren't these pills common ones found in medical clinics? How did they become your family heirlooms?"

Yet, Ning Feiliu had seen his expression just now, and the Douluo World itself was a world where "all things are inferior, only martial souls are superior."

He was actually looking at how young Ning Feiliu was, and seeing him be so generous, it seemed like he hadn't seen these pills before, so he lied that they were family heirlooms, wanting to swindle Ning Feiliu.

"Young Master Ning, the prescriptions you want are all in this Compendium of Prescriptions." Ji Boda didn't waste words and took a book directly from behind him.

Apart from martial souls, they rarely spent any effort researching other things.

In Ning Feiliu's view, the main reason was that the Douluo World lacked pills or Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure that could improve cultivation or assist in practicing soul power; looking through the original text, apart from the Mysterious Water Pill in Douluo II, there were only those Immortal Herbs.

That was why Ning Feiliu suspected Ji Boda was trying to bluff him just now, so he conversely pretended to have seen through Ji Boda's trick, and holding an attitude of giving it a try, he bluffed Ji Boda in return.

Seeing this, Ji Boda's pupils shrank slightly, and he said somewhat awkwardly, "I didn't expect Young Master Ning to know..."

This was revealing his identity to put pressure on Ji Boda.

And then, perhaps these things would not have any improvements or innovations for hundreds or thousands of years, remaining in constant use.

Everyone was eager to use all their time to practice soul power and improve their cultivation.

Especially in medicine and Pharmacology, taking pills was not as effective as a Healing Spirit Skill from a healing-type Spirit Master; thus, the development of medicine and Pharmacology relied entirely on the flashes of inspiration of certain genius figures.

Immortal Herbs were only known to Tang San, who had transmigrated from another world, to be capable of improving cultivation.

At the same time, he calmly revealed the jade tablet at his waist, which was the jade tablet representing the status of a direct descendant of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Then, by taking the opportunity to use the status of a direct descendant of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to apply pressure, Ji Boda indeed confessed directly.

As for the Mysterious Water Pill, that was a matter for Douluo II, so during this period of Douluo I, pills and herbs were still not valued.

The book did not look old, as if it were a new book printed not long ago, with the four characters "Compendium of Prescriptions" written prominently on it.

Ning Feiliu nodded, placed the Gold Soul Coin directly on the counter, and handed it over.

Ji Boda took the Gold Soul Coin and revealed a smile.

After all, his cultivation was that of a Soul Ancestor; once one reached the level of Soul Ancestor or above, one could no longer go to the Spirit Hall to collect the Spirit Master Subsidy, but had to be self-reliant.

Although one Gold Soul Coin could not compare to the one hundred Gold Soul Coins for a Soul Elder, it was still money.

Moreover, he had only bought the book Compendium of Prescriptions for one Silver Soul Coin; reselling it to Ning Feiliu now meant ten times the price, which was simply a huge profit.

Ning Feiliu actually knew roughly that his offer was high, but as long as he obtained what he wanted, what did giving others some benefits matter?

Besides, it was only one Gold Soul Coin, not something very expensive, so there was no need to be petty and unable to take any loss.

Moreover, could this even be considered a loss?

Ning Feiliu flipped to the location of the four pill prescriptions and looked through them all.

"Three qian each of Red Flame Deer Blood and Velvet Antler, three qian of Chongning, two qian of Soul-Calming Grass... mix with Honey Dew and roll into pills..."

"Five qian of Earth King Carapace, two qian of Jade Blood Flower..."

"One stalk of Volcanic Blood Lotus, six qian of Soft Bone Rabbit Bone Powder..."

Just like that, as Ning Feiliu looked through them one by one, the task he had just triggered was also completed directly.

Those four lines of small text appeared before his eyes once more, then shattered one by one, turning into experience and knowledge that surged into his mind.

Adding the original one year of apprenticeship experience from Singed, he now had two years of apprenticeship experience from Singed, and together with the five and a half years of experience after he officially became an alchemist, all of it vividly merged into Ning Feiliu's thoughts.

At the same time, he discovered that he seemed to be gradually able to understand why these prescriptions were combined in this way, but although he could understand, he frowned at this moment.

Because a thought emerged in Ning Feiliu's mind: if the main useful components of these medicinal herbs could be extracted, wouldn't the effect be better than making them into pills like this?

He didn't even know why this thought had suddenly appeared in his mind.

But Ning Feiliu thought about it; this was probably the difference in thinking given to him by Singed's experience.

The knowledge Singed learned was not traditional medicine, but rather closer to the modern medicine of his previous life.

Modern medicine and traditional medicine are different; drugs in modern medicine are not made directly into pills from individual medicinal herbs, but rather, while ensuring the efficacy remains, the components most useful for certain illnesses are extracted.

Then, other compounds like starch, cellulose, and magnesium stearate are used to make an outer shell to wrap the effective components and produce tablets.

According to Singed's experience, these prescriptions of the Douluo Continent were very primitive and barbaric, simply an insult to his knowledge.

Under this influence, Ning Feiliu also felt that this was somewhat inefficient, but he didn't think too much about it.

He closed the book directly, but just at this moment, he saw a line of small text appear on the book "Compendium of Prescriptions".

【Improve any three prescriptions in the Compendium of Prescriptions to obtain Heimerdinger's thinking pattern】

This... can medical books also trigger tasks?

And it's the thinking pattern of the great inventor Heimerdinger?

In the background story, the great inventor Heimerdinger was the chief scientist of Piltover, and because he was a Yordle, he possessed an unknown lifespan, making him truly knowledgeable.

It's just that Heimerdinger's research was more inclined toward mechanical technology, and his knowledge and experience were not suitable for the current Ning Feiliu.

However, they were both involved in scientific research, so there were similarities; his thinking pattern as a top-tier scientist might also be able to help Ning Feiliu later on.

(End of chapter)