Chapter 317: Accepting An Apprentice？Is that Okay？
Translator: Udong Editor: EbonyFrost, Udong
Zo Surry wore a completely surprised look on his face which made the other people stupefied too. The strongest potion for bone injuries that only existed in the legends? The level 10 Potion concocted with multiple kinds of level 11 medicinal materials? The Frozen Soil Potion?
"Frozen Soil Potion?" Qian Jin blankly looked to the crimson jade medicine bottle grasped in Snay Rouse’s hand.
Snay Rouse peeped at Qian Jin through the corners of his eyes. "Aha! Scared? This is the miraculous Frozen Soil Potion!" He thought.
Frozen Soil Potion? Qian Jin forced a bitter smile from his empty face, which, as seen by others, was a self-mockery for suffering the nightmare caused by this potion.
It was Frozen Soil Potion. The bitterness of Qian Jin’s look became darker. What was placed in the crimson jade medicine bottle was Frozen Soil Potion…this…this…c.r.a.p?
Qian Jin kept sighing and shaking his head. As put by Uncle Adams, the inventor of Frozen Soil Potion was a dumb**s. To concoct a level 10 Potion with level 11 medicinal materials? It could be achieved even by a pig. A real high-level pharmacist should be someone who was able to make level 8 or 9 potions with level 7 medicinal materials.
Only an idiot would use level 11 medicinal materials to make level 10 potion.
Qian Jin found his worries were unnecessary. Crimson jade medicine bottle was used for keeping such potion? Was this Snay Rouse’s trick? Or he had too many crimson jade bottles? Thus he had nothing to do with them but use them as dustbins?
Zo Surry raised his wizened hand and patted Qian Jin on the shoulder. "Young man, don’t feel frustrated by this defeat. You possess wonderful basic skills, so I’m willing to take you in as my…"
"Please hold on." Qian Jin bent over slightly and gazed at Zo Surry with a polite smile. "I’m not going to lose."
"You don’t admit defeat?" The arm of Zo Surry patting on Qian Jin’s shoulder was suddenly stopped, and Noan Leta stretched out his neck wondering whether he got it wrong? Qian Jin had already shown a self-mocking smile which indicated he admit the defeat. It was Frozen Soil Potion which was also famous to other fields except for bones! "He must have heard of it as it shared too high of a reputation." He thought.
"Why should I admit defeat?" Qian Jin smiled faintly, saying to himself that had if he knew that he was confronted with Frozen Soil Potion, he didn’t need to work so hard in concocting the potion. Eighty percent of the invested efforts was enough to defeat this Frozen Soil Potion, even if it was placed in the crimson jade medicine bottle.
Qian Jin picked up his work kept in the cheap pottery bottle and lifted it up. "Mine is called the Iron Bone Potion."
Iron Bone Potion? Noan Leta looked at Zo Surry with a doubtful look. Why hadn’t he ever come across such a name?
"And allow me to break down its efficacies and ingredients used." Noticing the wry face of Zo Surry, Qian Jin explained, "I used the tailbone of Wolf-Tail Tiger, arm bone of Iron-Arm Bear, and roots of Steel Saw Gra.s.s…"
The expression of Snay Rouse turned more and more crooked. Theoretically, the mixing of these medicinal materials could produce a potion for strengthening the bones. However, whether it could offer great effect remained a pending issue since these materials themselves were low…
"What have you said? Say it again!" Zo Surry grasped the cane hard, tottered to Qian Jin, looked into the latter’s eyes closely, and asked, "Could you repeat your concocting method."
Snay Rouse looked at Zo Surry in sheer doubt. "Why so excited? This potion…" He thought.
After careful listening to Qian Jin’s ill.u.s.tration, Zo Surry slowly turned back with a faint smile on the face. "Luck. It’s sheer luck that you have met with me. If this was judged by another person, the winner would be Snay Rouse."
"What do you mean?" Snay Rouse asked in an unbelieving tone. "Do you think that I lost this contest? His potion…"
"Is much better than yours…" Zo Surry shook his head without turning to Snay Rouse. All his attention was stuck on Qian Jin. "Your concocting technique had just been proved true by Grandmaster Zoeso of Holy Capita Pharmacy several days ago."
Holy Capita
Snay Rouse was shocked when he heard the name Zoeso. One of the three most admired grandmasters in the bone field. The man who was acclaimed as [Potion Artisan] by the public? Holy Capita Pharmacy which was the name of the Central Pharmacist Union and Zoeso was one of the five presidents.
Zo Surry wore a dark face and turned to Snay Rouse sympathetically, feeling regretful towards this person. Though having a lot of precious props, including the level 10 Frozen Soil Potion made with level 11 medicinal materials and stored in a crimson jade medicine bottle, he was really hit by bad luck this time.
Theoretically speaking, it was impossible for him to lose the game. However, who he ran into was this whimsical young man who concocted the so-called Ultra-Potion named by Zoeso.
It was given such a name as it belonged to the level 10 potions made of medicinal materials of lower levels.
From the letters sent by Zoeso, Zo Surry knew that although this type of potion was difficult to make, the required medicinal materials were easier to be found. If exerted to the largest extent of its medical efficacy, it would rise up to be the top potion among all level 10 potions for curing bone injuries.
"Snay Rouse, you are defeated." Zo Surry patted Snay Rouse on the shoulder. "If you do not accept this result…"
"Definitely I don’t!" Snay Rouse thumped on the table with two hands, causing the medicine bottles placed on the table to bounce up incessantly. "How could I accept this result? I have the crimson jade medicine bottle, as well as the Frozen Soil Potion. How could I be defeated? I bet you don’t really understand bone field…"
"If you don’t accept this…"Zo Surry waved his hands, "you can go to the Holy Capital and find Zoeso. If I misjudged, I will give you two of my crimson jade medicine bottles."
Zo Surry took out two crimson jade medicine bottles from the anther sac bundled around his waist. They were twice the size of Snay Rouse’s!
Qian Jin gazed at Zo Surry enviously. If he had two crimson jade medicine bottles, he would place some top level 10 potion into them and wait for ten days or half a month for the medical efficacies to improve. It might uplift this level 10 potion into a level 11 potion; the level that could only be obtained by grandmasters.
Snay Rouse looked at the crimson jade medicine bottles in Zo Surry’s hands blankly, feeling shocked that this old man dauntlessly backed up Qian Jin.
"Well, well, well." Snay Rouse turned back to Pam Honzi and slightly bowed at him. "Respectable family leader, I have to leave the Pam Family and go to the Holy Capital Pharmacy for some time."
Pam Honzi looked at Snay Rouse bitterly, knowing that this top pharmacist in bone injuries hired by the Pam Family had really got mad today. It was impossible to have him stay... Compared to Qian Jin, he was of smaller value. So…let him go.
Zo Surry didn’t cast a glance at the angrily leaving Snay Rouse. He smiled and grasped the two crimson jade medicine bottles. "Young man, you have really wonderful basic skills. Are you interested in studying pharmaceuticals in internal organs? I am somewhat proficient in this." He said.
Hardly had Noan Leta recovered from the shock, he was. .h.i.t by another severe shock. "What? Zo Surry? Grandmaster Zo wanted to take Qian Jin in as his apprentice? What kind of luck is this?!" He thought.
The gap between a grandmaster and a pharmacist could be depicted as that of a big mountain and a small hill. It went beyond the difference in t.i.tles.
Nearly all existing grandmasters were apprentices of an older generation of grandmasters. Only grandmasters had the potential of cultivating grandmasters. Relying on individual efforts? Noan Leta shook his head lightly and sighed. The reason why he had been a high-level pharmacist for a long time was because he was an apprentice of a high-level pharmacist. No one would instruct him after, thus he had to depend all on himself.
Pam Honxuan cast an unnoticeable look at Pam Honzi’s slightly heaving shoulder as he realized why he was unfit to be the family leader while Pam Honzi was. When he was considering whether to do a trade between Qian Jin and his group, this brother of him had already decided to ally with them. Even the grandmaster had become so attracted to Qian Jin that this grandmaster wanted to take him in as an apprentice.
Qian Jin looked at Zo Surry gratefully. If it was not for this grandmaster’s wise judgment, he would have become a loser in the game. "But why did he think so highly of his potions? In Uncle Adams’s opinions, he is on the novice-level.
"What do you think of it?" Zo Surry stared at Qian Jin, the rarely-seen prodigy, expectantly. Now that he had already given his offer, Zo Surry bet anyone with a normal brain would immediately kneel down and acknowledge him as the master.
"Organ potion?" Qian Jin chuckled. "Good, I happened to have learned something about the organ potion. It will be my pleasure to ask for advice from a grandmaster like you."
Zo Surry was shocked. "Ask for advice? Is he not willing to accept me as his master? He doesn’t believe in my competencies in internal organs? Well, provide his solid basic skills, there must be another pharmacist coaching him who infused him with high insights. But as long as I exhibited my abilities, he must be moved to accept me as his instructor." Zo Surry thought.
Noan Leta gazed at Qian Jin admiringly as Qian Jin kept the leisure att.i.tude toward the grandmaster. This young man was either insensitive or over-confident.
Zo Surry propped one hand on the table and pushed up his gla.s.ses on his nose with the other. He looked at Qian Jin intriguingly and asked "Young man, will you tell me which organ you have learned to make potions for?"
Which? Qian Jin twisted the corners of his lips. He was forced to learn potion for organs. Though Adams was not as tough as Eulalia, it was not easy to get away with his training.