Chapter 7: Slow Recovery Potion

  Finally collected 30 undead ribs, Lin Jie returned to the Undead Lake.

  "I still need more undead ribs." Araso put the ribs into his backpack, a dark glow enveloped Lin Jie.

  "You have completed Alaso's request, completion rate 10%, reward experience 2930."

  "You have learned Perfect Potion."

  Lin Jie was delighted, but this task still had a follow-up? However, completing the task required 300 undead ribs, which was really too many. Relying solely on himself, he estimated that it would take three days and three nights to brush them up, and spending time in this place was obviously a very foolish behavior.

  Lin Jie took out a symbolized rib bone and asked, "What's the use of this thing?"

  "Ah, the Rune Rib is the essence of a high-ranking undead's physical strength. One Rune Rib can be exchanged for 10 Undead Ribs. You can hand them over to me."

  "You have completed Alaso's request, completion rate 27%, reward experience 4500."

  "You have obtained Rune Cloak."

  "Your level has been upgraded to 3, and you have obtained 5 free attribute points and 2 fixed attribute points."

  Windrunner Cloak

  Warrior, Paladin can use

  Requirements 3rd level, heavy armor

  Defense 5-8

  Health +20

  Stamina +1

  Additional: Rune Energy, you activate the power of Rune Cloak, increasing your maximum health by 20 for 3 minutes.

  Upgraded! Lin Jie was overjoyed, the reward for this task was really too generous. However, it's impossible to go and brush these undead ribs foolishly. Lin Jie returned to Merle Town and set up a sign at the Terror Demon spawn point: "1 copper coin per unit, large quantities of Terror Demon saliva wanted". Terror Demon saliva is the only material that drops from level 1 monsters, but NPCs don't collect this disgusting thing, causing most players to discard it randomly.

  One copper coin can be exchanged for a loaf of bread. Many players' eyes lit up, and they quickly collected the demon's saliva from the ground, throwing it at Lin Jie, filling his backpack in no time.

  "Brother, what's the use of picking this up?" a player asked.

  Lin Jie didn't respond, and directly set it to auto-trade, using up all the copper coins on his body. In less than half an hour, his body was filled with Demon's Saliva, and all the copper coins were used up.

  "Hey, don't go, I still have some here."

  "I still have 4 groups."

  Lin Jie hastily said, "Everyone wait a bit longer, my backpack is full, I'll come back and collect in half an hour."

  The people's enthusiasm is unbearable... Lin Jie returned to Meier Town, and the scorching helmet was sold successfully for 20 copper coins. These demonic saliva have a very important use: alchemy! Ordinary pharmacy has a failure rate of up to 50% before proficiency reaches 1000 points, and there is also a chance to get low-quality medicine, making pharmacy a purely money-losing profession in the early stages.

  The benefits of perfect pharmacy are that there is no system failure rate correction, as long as the skills are sufficient, the success rate of refining medicine is very high, and there is a chance to get high-quality medicine.

  He is now going to manufacture the medicine that the Medicine King of his previous life was most skilled at making, and which made him rich: Slow Mana Recovery Potion. Magic is the second life of mages, priests and other spellcasting professions, but it's also what restricts their leveling up. At this stage, mana potions can't be used, and water recovery is slow and requires leaving combat, so what to do? That's where the Slow Mana Recovery Potion comes in.

  10 demon saliva + 1 crystal vial + 2 dissolving agents + 1 neutralizing agent can produce a bottle of slow magic potion. Lin Jie clearly remembered that this potion had a huge market before level 10, and when pharmacology was still in its infancy, it swept the pharmaceutical market with unprecedented momentum, and the pharmacy king made a fortune, earning tens of thousands of gold coins!

  Now this benefit has fallen into one's own hands. Hehe......

  "First pour in the solvent. Then add the devil's saliva..." Lin Jie read out loud, these were all Medicine King's experiences. It was laughable that this guy used to be his rival, yet now had become his instructor.

  The mixture slowly shook, the color of the medicine changed from yellow to blue, and finally fixed, just like pudding thinned out in an instant.

  "You have created a Slow Return Potion, Alchemy Mastery +1."

  Slow Mana Potion: After use, recover 2 magic points per second for the next 10 minutes. Continuous use reduces effect by 50%, up to a maximum of 200%.

  In his past life, Yao Wang was greedy and insufficient, swallowing an elephant with a slow-acting poison pill that sold for 15 coppers. Countless people grumbled in their bellies, Lin Jie being one of them. A single potion selling for such a high price was simply crazy! And this time... he put the potion up for auction at a starting price of 15 coppers and a buy-it-now price of 20 coppers.

  In the early stages where mana consumption is not high, a bottle of slow mana potion can support 10 minutes of casting, which indirectly increases leveling efficiency, and this is still exclusive manufacturing!

  After manufacturing a batch of medicine, Lin Jie continued to collect Terror's Venom. This item is only produced in the town of Mel, and can be collected in large quantities at one time, but afterwards, it needs to be collected again after players have killed monsters. When the second batch of medicine appeared, the system reminded Dingding.

  "Your Slow Return Potion has been sold for 17 copper coins."

  "Your Slow Return Potion has been sold for 16 copper coins."

  The copper coins in Lin Jie's backpack kept increasing, soon turning into silver. There were already silver coins! This was just the beginning, as Lin Jie still had over 200 bottles of medicine left in his backpack that he hadn't sold yet. With scarcity making them precious, he only sold 20 bottles at a time.

  Continuing to throw 20 bottles of medicine into the auction house, Lin Jie began searching for an item: lower-level detoxification potions and all detoxification potion materials. At level 5, a copy would be opened: Wood Castle, which produced most of the profession suits and weapons. However, all monsters inside Wood Castle had toxic damage output that could be stacked, causing the demand for detoxification potions to skyrocket. In his past life, when Wood Castle was opened, the price of lower-level detoxification potions increased tenfold, and the value of pharmacists who knew how to make detoxification potions also rose sharply.

  "Any formulas?" Lin Jie couldn't help but smile, the low-level detoxification potion formula was a marginal product. The reason was simple: the proficiency increase was small and the success rate of refining was not high, one formula only sold for 15 copper coins. Lin Jie swept away 13 formulas in an instant.

  At the same time, the slow-acting antidote was sold out again. The guild's headhunter was patrolling around the auction house, trying to find someone selling the antidote. Lin Jie threw in another batch, ensuring that all lower-grade antidotes and related materials disappeared from the auction house before leaving satisfied.

  He wants to hoard goods! The sharp rise and fall of commodity prices are beyond human control, but he can influence the magnitude of price fluctuations!

  This time, the price rebound of detoxification drugs at lower levels will be even more terrifying.

  Ding~

  Regional Announcement: To the friend selling slow-moving magic potions, I am the Iron Wall Empire's Shield of Heaven. I sincerely invite you to join our guild and offer you a vice-president treatment. If interested, please contact me.

  Lin Jie couldn't help but smile, issuing an announcement to recruit people? This guy is really generous, and he'll probably be able to make a name for himself with this move.

  Join the Iron Wall Empire? Lin Jie hadn't thought of that, their collapse seemed imminent, but Lin Jie was indeed interested in advancing this matter...

  This time, the sale of potions was much slower, and Lin Jie wasn't in a hurry. He took out 1 silver coin from his backpack and went to the general store to buy 5 throwing silver guns, 3 capture traps, 1 transformation scroll, and finally spent 60 copper coins on a displacement scroll, which allowed players to move instantly for 3 meters.

  As for the auction house's medicine, Lin Jie couldn't help but smile. Did he still not understand the player's mind? The buyer was dangling the seller's appetite, trying to make him think that it wouldn't sell and would have to be sold in large quantities at a low price. Since that was the case, Lin Jie simply took down all of his medicine.

  "Ugh, I'm so annoyed!" Qiu Yuan sent a message, somewhat exasperated.

  "What's wrong?"

  "I wanted to buy a slow-motion potion, but my older sister told me that the seller was intentionally raising the price, and asked me to wait for 5 minutes, saying the price would drop. But before I knew it, someone else bought them all out, and it seems like they were all sold out... Ahhh..."

  Lin Jie burst out laughing.

  "You're still smiling!"

  "I really want to sympathize with you, but please wait until I finish laughing, haha...". Thinking of that voluptuous woman being toyed with and her embarrassed expression, Lin Jie couldn't help but burst out laughing several times before coughing dryly and saying, "I actually bought quite a few, I'll mail some over to you."

  Qiu Yuan raised an eyebrow and said suspiciously, "What's a warrior like you doing buying a slow-acting antidote?"

  Lin Jie's expression turned serious as he said, "I want to wait until that kid sells out, then I'll double the price and throw it back up."

  "Pfft, pfft, pfft, scoundrels, all of them are scoundrels!" Qiu Yuan looked down on him for a long time before saying with a smile, "Then didn't I make you lose money?"

  "Ah, what a loss, I regret it." Lin Jie said with feigned intent.

  "Hmmph, no way, hand over the medicine now!"

  Reminded of Qiu Yuan's charming appearance when she swung her fists, Lin Jie couldn't help but curve up the corners of his mouth and mail her 20 bottles of slow-acting antidote. "I'll be blocking messages next, you might not be able to contact me."

  "What do you want to do?"

  "Mission."

  "Oh..."

  Qiu Yuan was very obedient and didn't ask, she could tell that Lin Jie didn't want to say.

  Lin Jie closed the chat message and walked out of Melville. The continent of Ji Yuan had seen countless prosperous races, in history, this war-torn continent had experienced elemental governance, dragon eras, demon eras... etc. These races hid in every corner of the continent, during civilized eras, disasters struck, demons also appeared on the roads, where they appeared, famous "demon cuts" emerged, dividing the continent into three parts.

  The place where the devil's fire burned, gradually solidified into a mountain peak - the top of darkness. What's strange is that there are no monsters or treasure chests on it. If Lin Jie from his previous life didn't think that there must be an achievement point to get here, he probably wouldn't have come here even if you killed him, and what happened later wouldn't have occurred...