《The Only Real Cultivator》Chapter 23
Advertisement
I lay down and forced myself through the book on alchemy. Through it, I discovered how alchemy worked. The alchemy of this world had nothing to do with chemistry. It was actually far, far more complicated.
The book gave me overviews of many branches of Alchemy. They specifically stated that everything in the book was the most simplified version of the truth. But basically, an alchemist would gather a bunch of herbs to create a paste or pill. Afterward, they would throw them into a fire and pray everything worked properly. If everything worked properly, only the impurities in the medicine would burn, leaving a more pure form of the medicine. If it works, the pill or paste would qualify to be called a First Cycle Pill, which meant it had gone through one cycle of refinement. Repeating the burning process would make it a Second Cycle Pill, etc.
I know it sounds silly. How burning medicine ever became a legitimate method of refinement, I don’t think I’ll ever know.
But it worked, and that’s what mattered. Certain types of refinement could even bring out hidden traits in the medicine. Each successive refinement was more difficult to carry out. Only master alchemists could make fifth cycle medicine.
I finished the book and set it down. I pushed myself into the bed. “Haaaaah” I sighed, it was so comfortable I fell asleep in less than two minutes.
The next day, I went to get Chen Wei. When in doubt, push your problems onto somebody else. I walked to the front gate of her residence. An armored soldier stood by the gate. I waved at him, “Is Sect Head Xing in right now?”
“Do you have a referral?” he asked. Only somebody from this world could move in the amount of armor he was wearing.
“She told me I could come if I ever needed to. I don’t have an official referral, but I do have this.” I held up the guest talisman.
His eyes widened. “I’ll notify her of your presence.” He disappeared behind the gate.
I nodded and waited silently.
A long moment later, Chen Wei and the soldier appeared at the gate. She bowed, “Welcome, Grandmaster Jin. What have you come here for?” The guard stared at his sect head in shock before hastily bowing as well.
I frowned. “My name’s just Vi- I mean Jin. I’ve got something I think is pretty important. Can you come with me?” I asked.
Advertisement
“Yes, Grandmaster,” she replied.
“It’s just Jin.” I turned around and let her follow behind me.
A couple minutes later, we walked into my new garden. The pineapple rose out of the ground to appear before us.
Chen Wei took two steps back. “Wha- what is this?”
“It’s a pineapple, but that doesn’t matter.” The mouth of the pineapple opened, revealing Hui Ming. She was crouched in a corner, with red eyes that looked like they didn’t get enough sleep. She was short and relatively thin, but her black clothing clung on her tightly, tightly enough for me to see the six abdominal muscles that poked from her stomach. She didn’t look like much when I saw her yesterday, when I only had a bit of moonlight. In the light of day, it became obvious she had trained her body to peak performance.
She didn’t try to escape. A hint of fear appeared in her eyes when she saw Chen Wei, but she hid it quickly.
“This is?” Chen Wei asked.
“I found her snooping in my yard last night. She says she’s spying on the sect. You can take her if you want,” I said.
“Grandmaster captured her. You can keep her if you wish,” she said.
“Chen Wei,” I looked into her eyes, “Please. Stop calling me grandmaster.”
She tightened her shoulders. “But-”
“Stop doing it,” I stated, more fiercely than I should have.
“Then what would you like to be called?” she asked.
“No Grandmaster Jin, no Senior Jin, no Master Jin. None of that. Just call me Jin,” I said.
“But-”
“Look. I’m younger than you. Why call me grandmaster? I don’t deserve it, it makes me uncomfortable, and it makes no sense, not in order of importance. Stop with that incessant bowing too.” I took a deep breath. “I’m not sure why you’re doing all this, but I can guess. I can control plants, so what? You don’t need to shovel respect onto me. Just talk normally.”
“Normally?”
“Normally,” I said. “Like you were when we first met.”
“Sorry Jin, but I might be able to make the transition that quickly.” she looked at the ground.
I smiled and clasped her shoulder. “You’re getting there.” She smiled back.
A rustle came from the pineapple in front of us. I’d forgotten about her. I coughed, “Anyway, she was spying on your sect, don’t you want her for some, I don’t know, interrogation?”
Advertisement
If I’m honest, I just wanted her off my hands.
“Not really. Can I step into this... pineapple?” she asked.
“Go ahead. Uh, you might want to watch out though. I think she’s pretty strong,” I replied.
“Thank you- I mean, thanks,” she said. She jumped into the pineapple and approached Hui Ming.
“Careful…” I warned.
She took three steps forward. She was about to take the fourth when in one fluid motion, Hui Ming grabbed the dagger at her waist and stabbed at Chen Wei’s throat. I could hardly even see it.
Chen Wei blocked the dagger with her bare hand and staggered backward. From the amount of blood streaming down her arm, the dagger must have cut at least a centimeter into her palm. Her blue sleeve turned dark red.
“What did I tell you?” The Twentytacle Trap still left in the pineapple came to life, its twenty vines stretching to grab Hui Ming.
Hui Ming lunged at her neck again. Chen Wei pulled a sword out from underneath her robes and blocked it. Hui Ming tried to make a dash out of the Prison Pineapple, but I willed it shut. I stayed outside and focused on controlling the Twentytacle Trap still inside.
The Identify skill was, for lack of better word, overpowered. It was nothing like the identify skills from those light novels and LitRPGs I had read in my old world. In exchange for only being able to identify plants, it gave me a ridiculous amount of information. So much information that I could feel everything the plant could feel. If I had learned to read braille, I would be able to read it with my vines. Combined with the Control skill, my plants became extra limbs.
I connected with the Twentytacle Trap. I felt around with the tentacles and quickly found Hui Ming. Before she could attack again, I latched onto her body and locked her down again. In the tight confines of the prison, she was no match for my traps.
I dropped two seeds to the ground. I reached down and pulled out a modified Meaty and Skinny Ginseng.
After gaining the Identify skill, I found the ginsengs actually strengthened my body on top of healing it. I modified both of them so that they only healed.
“Where,” she said through gritted teeth. “In hell,” she clutched her palm, ”did they find a fourth stage expert to spy for them!”
She finally started talking “casually” with me, and it was only through a haze of pain!
I willed the pineapple open again. I rushed in to find Chen Wei crouching on the floor of the pineapple, gritting her teeth and wrapping her wounded hand in torn pieces of her robe. “Here, eat this quick!” I fed her pieces of the two ginsengs. I stared at her bloody palm. “Didn’t I warn you?”
She stopped grimacing not long after. I assumed the pain from her cut had went away. “Huh? What did you feed me?!” she yelled. She immediately sobered up, “Sorry grandma- Jin. I didn’t mean to yell at you.”
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Grandma Jin?
“One of my plants,” I dismissed. I pointed at the tied up Hui Ming. “She’s in the fourth stage of Dao Formation? Is that good?”
Both girls looked personally offended at my question. I genuinely didn’t know!
“Of course it is!” said Chen Wei, “I’m at the fifth stage and I’m the leader of a sect.”
“That’s no good,” I said, half to myself. How was I going to get rid of her now? Back to the original plan, I guess. “She’s all yours. Just make sure not to let her go,” I leaned in to whisper, “and don’t let her tell anybody I can control plants, either.”
“How can I do that?” she whispered back. “I don’t have a way to guarantee she won’t tell any guards.”
I couldn't suggest any cruel methods, I was too much of a goody-two shoes for that. “You can, like, wrap her mouth in something,” I whispered.
“She’s too powerful. She can easily break through any cloth,” she said.
I rubbed my hand against my forehead and stopped whispering “Oh come on, there needs to be some way to do this.” Chen Wei didn’t say anything and continued staring at me. “Oh no. Don’t tell me...”
“I think you’re going to have to keep her.”
“Shit.”
Advertisement
Pandemonium
Anima, the primary source of energy in the world of Janus. It resides in the soul of all living things and in nature itself. It can be used to do all kind of magical things from powering vehicles to walking on water. Of course, it can be used for violence as well. One person took the phrase "used for violence" and took it to an next level. That person eventually became known as the first true God. This God plunged the world into a millennium of darkness, until another true god appeared and brought back light to the world. These two became known as the Night God and Sacred God respectively. This story takes place thousands of years after their battle.... This is the tale of Amelia Rosa, who came across a living legend, who was thought to have disappeared from the world over a century ago. Having been caught in a conspiracy by the country she served all her life, she was forced to slaughter countless enemies until the point of exhaustion. She was later saved by this legend known as the Devil King Rory, who showed that his title as a legend was rightfully earned. With no attachment to her country left, she embarked on a journey with him to find her place in the world. There was one problem....Rory was completely shameless contrary to his legends! He was naked and drunk in the streets when they first met, and was still naked when he saved her. He had no shame or morals whatsoever and was a failure of a person. Even so, Amelia had no choice but to follow him. Follow the two as the travel the broad world, and watch as Rory's past slowly revealing itself; along with the hidden truth of the world.
8 158Demons and Candy
This is a RP that me and a friend did, that we are turning into a story. It will be a series, WARNING- it gets really dark and has a lot of triggers in it, so read with caution. I write this on wattpad and fanfiction.net wattpad- https://www.wattpad.com/story/252338499?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share_writing&wp_page=create_story_details&wp_uname=rp_together&wp_originator=A6f2Zmn9iT5ooVDopGSjo0sWtuKCIrvLRyn8K%2FKK13hzdmiWcg%2FPENqA%2FhpxwBC34hHKQV1hMTMbZ4LFpklDw6MuB%2FQLz4%2FrMaFsX0GzOeEGvGLhxZnnGczXFNJBh6sm fanfiction.net- https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13820108/1/Demons-and-Candy
8 99Equilibrium
A normal citizen, a normal life, a boring daily routine. every thing goes the same way and that every day. Not accepted in society, developing a hate for all and everything.BUT, a complete new chance , a second chance estimates as you were chosen by God to become a deity yourself. This is the story about such a citizen becoming the deity of Equilibrium. How will he change the worlds? How will he be affected?Well I´ll tell you Hope you can enjoy and please give me suggestions and your opinions this will contain gore, splatter, strong language and maybe sex
8 192ArmourXDemons
Planet earth is invaded by Demons in the year 2020.Over 30 years later humans are still alive and defending themselves, but how can they get rid of their attackers?And how can they defend against these foes?Why would they invade planet earth?And how has human society changed to tackle this problemThe only hope of Humanity: Completes.Human pairs consisting of Armour and Controller(guy/girl combo), with superior physical abilities.This story follows a Broken, a Armour(/Controller) who lost his partner.Chapters update will roughly be every month.The whole story will probably contain a maximum of 20 chapters, but I will go with the flow.Date: 4.12.15
8 181YoonKook| Fanpage
The rap line is famous +Jin Who is a model with Taehyung as a younger brother. Jungkook runs a fan page for them but mainly SugaInstagram sure
8 149ASS STORY (END)
Seorang Gadis yang sangat mencintai pria 'dingin'. Harapannya tak pernah pupus selagi masih ada peluang. Ia terus berjuang mendapatkan hati sang 'pangerannya'. Akankah ia terus berjuang? Atau ia akan berhenti untuk berharap dan ia akan melupakan segalanya? Mau tau kelanjutannya? Penasaran? Baca ya... thanks❤
8 67