Chapter 1456: Ancient Secret Medicine and Bankruptcy

The difficulty of promoting Sword Master was not low. Su Xiao had already obtained six fragments of Master's Power. With the remaining four, if he had enough Paradise Coins or Soul Crystals, it was not impossible to obtain them.

As for challenging a designated powerhouse in the trial grounds, although Su Xiao had no certainty in his heart, he was not too worried either; after all, his current raw strength was right there.

Was that really the case? Many people had challenged the trial grounds, intending to obtain the Proof of Glory, yet over 95% failed.

X, after checking his swordsmanship, he found that the improvement of X was not small. The bonus to the attack power of blade-type weapons had increased by 15%, and the power of the blade aura had increased by nearly one-third.

Su Xiao took three gemstones from his storage space. These were three Legendary-grade gemstones.

Mad Knight (Legendary-grade gemstone): Attacks carry 0.9x real agility attribute in damage that ignores physical defense (88 points).

Elegy (Legendary-grade gemstone): If reinforcement causes the weapon to shatter, Elegy will shatter in place of the embedded weapon.

Blood Hunter (Legendary-grade gemstone): Each time an enemy is killed, the lower limit attack power of the embedded weapon will be permanently increased, up to a maximum of 30 points.

The three Legendary-grade gemstones each had their own features: power enhancement, auxiliary type, and permanent growth gain. Su Xiao attempted to embed them.

【Yes/No to embed Mad Knight, Elegy, and Blood Hunter into Zhan Long Shan +13 (Legendary-grade)? If this embedding is completed, it will consume 120,000 Paradise Coins.】

Su Xiao checked the remaining Paradise Coins and chose to embed them.

The sheathed Zhan Long Shan floated into mid-air. The three Legendary-grade gemstones rapidly shrank, eventually becoming the size of rice grains, and were embedded into the end of the hilt.

The embedding was completed quickly. In this way, Zhan Long Shan had a total of five Legendary-grade gemstones embedded, and coupled with that terrifying reinforcement level, the slashing power could be imagined.

Fortunately, Xiang Bubu Wang was selling skill scrolls; if Su Xiao had to do these things himself, it would have wasted at least a dozen hours, or even a whole day.

After being busy for a while, Su Xiao converted most of his gains into strength. Now, only the newly acquired alchemy recipe and two Legendary-grade treasure chests remained unopened.

After pondering for a moment, Su Xiao decided to master the new alchemy potion recipe first, as this potion recipe was too special.

【Ancient Secret Medicine (Alchemy Potion Recipe)】

Origin: Reincarnation Paradise

Quality: The recipe is Legendary-grade, and the produced potion is Gold-quality.

Type of potion produced: Recovery/Permanent gain type potion.

Usage conditions: Alchemy Potion Lv. 20 (satisfied), master more than five alchemy potion recipes (satisfied), real intelligence attribute above 85 points (satisfied), pay 200,000 Paradise Coins.

Effect: After using this recipe, the 'Ancient Secret Medicine' ratio formula will be unlocked.

Rating: 500 points (Legendary-grade item rating is 400–530 points)

Introduction: A potion that synchronizes gains and recovery, lost for many years. After mastering this recipe, you need to be cautious. You will become a precious talent that many major forces in Derived Worlds/War Worlds/Native Worlds will try to win over or snatch.

Selling price: 215,000 Paradise Coins

After waiting for about two hours, the Ancient Secret Medicine recipe shattered in Su Xiao's hand. The skill scrolls on Xiang Bubu Wang's side had all been sold. Excluding the cost of mastering the new recipe, Su Xiao had only 79,920 Paradise Coins left.

【You have unlocked a new Alchemy Potion recipe.】

【Ancient Secret Medicine: Each production consumes 500 mana points. Required materials: Life Cohesion Essence, Water of the Void Spring, Bud of Birth, Holy Oak Fruit, Crystal Bottle.】

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Seeing the materials for the Ancient Secret Medicine, Su Xiao felt a headache. Except for the crystal bottle, he had never heard of the other materials.

【Yes/No to spend Paradise Coins to replace the required materials? It will consume 10,000 Paradise Coins.】

For a potion with a production cost as high as 10,000 Paradise Coins, Su Xiao didn't know what the effect was yet, so he chose to produce one bottle to see how the attributes of the Ancient Secret Medicine were.

After consuming the Paradise Coins, several materials appeared in Su Xiao's hand. The crystal bottle was not needed; he had many in his alchemy laboratory.

Entering the laboratory, Su Xiao began to get busy in front of the workbench. The potion was not generated out of thin air, but required him to mix it by hand.

Because it was his first time mixing it, Su Xiao spent more than two hours and wasted three sets of materials before successfully mixing a bottle of Ancient Secret Medicine.

【Ancient Secret Medicine】

Origin: Reincarnation Paradise

Quality: Gold

Type: Recovery/Permanent gain type potion

Effect: After drinking, it can rapidly restore 90% of health (can restore health derived from real stamina attribute), and in the following 30 minutes, permanently increase health by 20 points and poison resistance or random elemental resistance by 1 point.

Rating: 400 points (Gold-quality potion rating is 310–400 points)

Introduction: A rare ancient potion, integrating life-saving and self-enhancement.

Seeing the attributes of the Ancient Secret Medicine, Su Xiao's eyes lit up. This potion was simply getting stronger the more one drank it. If he drank dozens of bottles, his survivability would be greatly improved.

Of course, not to mention the wasted resources of drinking dozens of bottles in a row, any potion would develop resistance if drunk continuously in a short period, with diminishing effects, until it became ineffective.

Using 【Ancient Secret Medicine】 when injured was the best choice. Improvement also required accumulation over time, letting the body gradually accept the potion's gains; this was the most rational choice.

Just as Su Xiao finished producing the 【Ancient Secret Medicine】, Xiang Bubu Wang returned to the exclusive room. As for Amu and Benny, Amu went to soothe his empty stomach, while Benny was using a tablet computer to do business in the trading market. The starting capital was 50,000 Paradise Coins, which was invested by Xiang Bubu Wang. It held 40% of the shares, Benny also held 40%, Amu, who was just tagging along, held 10%, and Su Xiao, who was basically unrelated to this matter, also held 10%.

For this, Xiang Bubu Wang even verbally established a company, named 'Listed Company'. It wasn't that it was going to be listed, but the name was just 'Listed Company'.

In Xiang Bubu Wang's words, Benny was simply a money-grubber. Master, you didn't see it; when selling skill scrolls, that cat-star person seemed to have had a switch flipped, scamming those contractors who came to buy scrolls until they doubted their lives.

Su Xiao was surprised before: ten skill scrolls, how could they sell for nearly 2 million Paradise Coins? It turned out that Benny was managing the finances.

"I said it would lose a lot."

Su Xiao smiled, and Xiang Bubu Wang shook his head, meaning: "That cat-star person is very shrewd."

Just at this moment, the door of the exclusive room was pushed open. After the listless Benny walked into the room, it jumped directly onto the bed and burrowed its upper body into the quilt. One look and it was clear it was autistic. The 'Listed Company' had declared bankruptcy, cooling down faster than the fundraising process.

Xiang Bubu Wang looked at Su Xiao with reverent eyes, meaning: "Master, how could you guess that?"

Su Xiao could naturally guess it. Benny had only just entered the Reincarnation Paradise. Being able to make money before was also relying on the astonishing financial power of over 1 million Paradise Coins.

This was like investing 20 million versus investing 500,000. The former was easy to make money, while the latter was full of difficulties.

Ignoring the autistic Benny for now, Su Xiao took out the two Legendary-grade treasure chests. He was prepared to do whatever he wanted with these two chests with the overwhelming posture of 10 points of luck.

Just at this moment, the money-grubbing cat Benny darted out from the quilt and squatted on the wooden table in front of Su Xiao, staring intently at the two Legendary-grade treasure chests, its money-grubbing nature revealed without a doubt. ===== CHAPTER 1457 =====