"Master, I finished all the task you asked." Long Feng speaks as he entered the room and go over to the table where elder Tang Wen is reading a scroll.

"Oh, did you had a good time absorbing the released essence when tending the moss?" Elder Tang Wen asked.

"Yes, master. Did you purposely arrange today's task so disciple could absorb and rejuvenate himself in the middle of his task?" Long Feng, who is quite well informed and knowledgeable from all the scroll and books he read.

"Tell me what you can see from this arrangement?" Elder Tang Wen Is still motivated to "test" Long Feng to see how deep is his knowledge in the field of resources and refinement.

"Dearest Master, first you intend to have me absorb the released essence as I tend the Hundred Layered Moss, so I have some unrefined essence within the body to be absorbed back into the Black Bitter Mint plants when I harvest the matured leaves."

"Due to the curtain of Qi produced by the plant is very nourishing with clean Qi essence, it was absorbed by me, in the end, to further rejuvenate my body, preparing my body for the moment I clean the Clear Toad Fruit. To cultivate the fruit, the cultivator usually works out around the fruit, such as cleaning, cultivating, practicing martial arts, or even reading to allow their body essence to be absorbed and refined by the fruit, thus creating wax for harvesting."

"Through this on and off task, it could be used as the slower but more refine version of cultivation due to the time allocated to refine, temper and absorbed is more difficult than depending on the Cultivating Pellets." Long Feng explain his own understanding on the way his master assign the task for him to complete.

"My beloved disciple, your understanding in this matter is very accurate, except one part." Elder Tang Wen praise his disciple as he should, but also no giving him too many credits from guessing correctly.

"Ah! Then can master tell this disciple where he overlooked?" Long Feng quickly ask for his master's guidance on which part he accidentally overlooked.

"The Black Bitter Mint essence curtain should be absorbed until none of them left on the plants. The reason is that when the matured leaves are harvested, the leftover leaves will need to be open to challenges and place under risk, to allow them to mature perfectly."

"Like us humans, the plants and the animals have been ready for challenges that may come any moment from now. One that grows under a silver spoon will never understand the worthiness in each moment of their growth, and similarly, one that grown so much undernourishment but without any stress, could not be labeled as precious at all."

"Do you understand?" Elder Tang Wen finished his explanation, and look at Long Feng.

"This disciple understood master's explanation and also master's motives on giving disciple this task. I will learn and also put my mind in the correct path because only through the correct mindset one could improve and proceed on his path, undeterred by outside distraction and failed to cultivate correctly." Long Feng quickly thanked his master for giving him the guidance in cultivation and choosing its path.

"Here, this is a pot of **Blood Cleansing Pitcher Plant**, put this plant in your room and drop your blood within each single day so it could refine your blood and provide you with clean and purely refined blood for your consumption once every single week."

"Cultivate daily with the plant by your side so the plant could refine your blood along with the Qi escaped from your meditation, and create a pitcher of Pure Blood solely for your consumption. Do not look down on this pitcher, the more you use it to cultivate, the purer the Pure Blood it produced, and since its refined from your own blood, you won't need to spend the effort to refine it as it would blend into your body smoothly." Elder Tang Wen hand over a pot of small plant, shaped like a pitcher Cup to Long Feng before the time to leave the Virtue Hall is over.

As he returning from the Virtue Hall, Long Feng took a slightly longer trip, traveling from the Education Building to the Tower of Knowledge, and as he passes the tower, Long Feng direction is blocked by two disciples that just exit the tower with two books in each of their hand.

The three of them did exchange a look before one of them initiate a conversation.

"Hey you, new disciple, what is your name?" the bulkier one among the two spoke first, placing some intimidating behavior when he speaks.

"Dear both senior, this junior's name is Li Long Feng, just call me Xiao Feng for short." Long Feng introduced himself.

"Long Feng? You're that new kid that they say possessed the Sky Elemental Qi?" the one seems like the boss between the two asked.

"Yes senior, that Long Feng is me. Senior if there is nothing else, I would like to return to my room as I had been ordered by my master to cultivate and improve my strength." Long Feng politely answer, and gave them a reason to stop asking anymore as he needs to return to his room.

"Heh… Tie Shou, looks like this junior still doesn’t know who he is speaking with." the bulkier guy commented, and move towards Long Feng to stop him from continuing to leave the tower area.

"Qiu Ping, let him leave, sooner or later, he will hear about my fame anyway, why bother about those moments of ignorance he had given me? He will come over and lick my shoes like a dog soon enough." Tie Shou haughtily commented about Long Feng's action but decided to not take any actions.

Although Long Feng is bothered by the attitude of this two senior, he knows based on his current standing, he has no right nor background at all, so he decided to not taking offense from both of their behavior. He turned over again and again, from left to right, and again until finally, Qiu Ping allows Long Feng to pass through under Tie Shou's order.

"Basic Anecdote of Master Liu, Hundred form of Medicine Cooking." Long Feng manage to take a glimpse into the book on Qiu Ping's hand.

As he returned to the room, Long Feng emotion is slightly stirred.

Although he doesn’t look for trouble with others, they will still try to come over and tried to cause some trouble.

He was being polite and nice to the others, but this two senior does not only disturb him on his path, they even look down on him indirectly, assuming that Long Feng will soon be licking over his heels when Long Feng know his identity.

For a child that struggles all the way until he managed to enter the Pill Hall, Long Feng is extremely disturbed by this two senior's attitude and behavior toward him.

Perhaps this isn't the first time they did it to the other juniors, but this doesn’t mean that they have the right to look down on their fellow outer disciple juniors.

"I must quickly build myself a stable foundation, so I could stop relying on my current attitude to survive within this Pill Hall. Tomorrow will be Wednesday, and three more days I will be required to attend the Medicinal Supplying Intern job that I accepted. I should try my best to obtain some resources that would be helpful to my cultivation, so I will gain a quick leap in term of cultivation strength."

Annoyed by the distraction did by the two seniors, Long Feng walked while reciting the motive he came into the Pill Hall, to calm his mind before he returns to cultivate.

"I come here to become a renown pill master."

"I come here so mother's life would be better."

"I come here for a better cultivation path, and to made my own success out from nothing."

"I come here because I want it, I won't give up to those small bullies, but I won't stand aside hiding either!"

"I will carve my path in this Hall, and make myself the best pill master among everyone, and make mother proud!"

"Oh! And master as well."

"Let's get back to cultivate, I need to get stronger as soon as possible, or else the Intern job I accepted might not go well due to my lack of cultivation."

On that night, the cultivation process goes smoothly, perhaps it was due to the calmness from what he have obtained from attending his master lesson, or perhaps due to the success of refining the four Thunder Spirit Pill all by himself, although he exhausted himself at the end, or perhaps it was due to the slight disturbance from the senior that managed to make him fired up to train diligently, so he could overcome them in term of achievements.

Meanwhile, unnoticed by himself, the pitcher which had a few drops of blood from Long Feng, started glow dimly as if there is a brilliantly shining pearl hidden within its pitcher and tried to spread its like past the pitcher's thick layer of skin.

This phenomenon happens due to the special attributes within Long Feng's blood, but currently, it is still unknown to anyone yet.

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"Junior brother Long Feng, that is a very good result today!" The senior brother that allows Long Feng to remain within the Thunder Spirit Pill production group praise him again and again, after seeing his today's result.

"Senior Brother Liu Ming, you really praise me too much, please do not be too humble in front of this junior!" Long Feng felt awkward as the senior brother is behaving too polite to him until some part of it would make other felt that Long Feng is the boss of the group instead of Liu Ming.

"Junior brother, how can I not praise you, today is just your second day, and without any mistakes, you happen to produce a total of 4 Middle-Rank First Grade Thunder Spirit Pill today. Just like this, our task can be cleared earlier than our expected completion date." Liu Ming continued.

"Senior brother, what is this completion date you mentioned about ?" Long Feng felt himself is hearing something new once again, so he quickly tried to question deeper for further understanding.

"Junior brother, you don’t know too much as this is still your first week within the Pill Hall. Once you are on your second year in the hall, you are allowed to select your own task to fulfill, such as this Thunder Spirit Pill mission."

"There are many large amounts of demand for pills from few different city, in an example, the Thunderburst Jade City often post a request for first-grade Thunder related pills from the hall, while the Jade Spirit Town often request for the Body Strengthening Pills."

"My current task is taken in a team of 10, which consist of me and another 4 senior of yours that you could see on the special station, and another 5 of your senior brother which is inside the Garden to prepare the ingredient for us now." Liu Ming explained. Due to the skill of his pill refining is higher in success rate that the others, he leads the team in the production team, while allowing those in the material collection team to act independently."

"With your help in the production team, who can produce around 4 pills each day, we can expect around 100 pills to be covered by you alone, which leave us senior to bothered by the remaining 39,900 pills." Liu Ming explain the difference in number, but his explanations gave Long Feng a headache due to the number that was in explanation is not huge, it made Long Feng felt weird on why his 100 pills worth so much to his senior brother mission.

"Senior brother, it is just 100 pills, how much help it could be compared to the total of 40,000 pills you need?" Long Feng asked straightforwardly.

"Junior brother, you doesn’t understand the importance of this part, so let me explain it to you."

"When you are expecting to cultivate, would you prefer using 100 pills that made by 100 different pill masters, or would you prefer using 100 pills that were made by between 1 to 5 pill masters?"

"Each pill contains a difference amount of impurity within, and each required a different approach to finely refine them, so they don't affect by the after effect from refining the impurities during cultivating."

"If you have 100 pills by 100 different masters, you will need to refine it 100 times, repeating procedures which guaranteed safe to use, but time-consuming to improving yourself."

"So the others would prefer a master that could refine a healthy amount of pill each time, to ensure the quality differ from each pill is not too different, thus they can refine it more quickly."

"This is also one of the reasons why we need you to plant your mark on the pill. It is to allow those who are used to your medicine, repeatedly purchase medicine from you again and again." Liu Ming explained, revealing another opportunity within the hall open to the pill master they nurtured to have a chance of success.

"Senior brother, Xiao Feng will try his best to help you in this task." Long Feng felt grateful for the piece of information given by Liu Ming.

In one person's life, information sharing is always the most crucial trade between two sides or sometimes in a special condition, exceed two.

Although this piece of information is obtainable if Long Feng asked his master, or even through the Education Building, perhaps, the way it was given is barely as depth as for how Liu Ming describe it.

One piece of information, especially important to every member of the Pill Hall, is as important as the recipe and their own way of refining each single pill.

"Junior brother, hold on for a moment." Liu Ming stopped Long Feng from leaving the camp.

"Senior brother Liu?" Long Feng stopped on his track, and turn around looking at Liu Ming.

"The requirement for this task is to provide three Middle-Rank pills, since you produced four, of course, you will have one additional point for exchange in the Education Building." Liu Ming withdraws a piece of gemstone in deep purple color and passed it to Long Feng's hand.

"this purple gemstone worth a total of 2 points in exchange department. Although it is not a big number, few points could give you a very good exchange rate, depending on what you are looking forward to changing." Liu Ming continued.

"As a senior, what I could tell you is try to don’t keep too many points because of the main thing for this point system, is for you to get one step further compared to others." he continued.

"Thank you, senior brother. Xiao Feng will remember your words in mind." Long Feng cupped his hand together, and excuse himself from the camp.

Repeating almost the same procedure, but instead of taking a nap, he chooses to cultivate by absorbing the available Essence Qi surrounding him, and drip some blood into the pitcher cup as he starts.

Once again, the pitcher cup glows dimly, indicating the sky elemental is nourishing both the pitcher and the host.

"Xiao Feng greets master, how is master today?" Long Feng greets his master as he entered the Virtue Hall. This time Elder Tang Wen is seen kneeling on the North-East part of the Virtue Hall, tending the pot with extremely delicate movement.

"Xiao Feng, come and sit beside me. Master want you to see how the cultivating of this Rock Dragon Elderberry*** is done." Elder Tang Wen pat the floor near him, indicating where Long Feng should sit while looking at how he tend the plant.

"Master, is this the plant known for providing the extract used to concoct the First Grade Blood Dragon Ointment, which allows the user to stop bleeding and injuries when hunting some cultivation beast ?"

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(**Carnivorous Plant, look for Nepenthes Albomarginata as a reference of how this plant looks.)

(***Raspberry like fruit, look for Salmonberry / Rubus spectabilis as reference on how this fruit looks)