Way of the Knights

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Raven gazed at the pill, after inspecting it thoroughly he sighed in relief, he managed to minimize the impurities contained. In the end, it was due to him not having enough practice and power to support the concoction that lead up to the pill having a tiny amount of impurities.

The pill that he had concocted is a very special pill since it requires a high amount of skill to create. A Longevity Pill.

A single pill that could instantly extend someone's life for couple hundreds of years. It doesn't matter what cultivation bases they have, so long as they haven't ascended yet, this pill will take effect. But of course, one couldn't simply abuse such pill to gain perpetual life, the heaven's will never allow such thing. Repeated consumption of Longevity Pills had a diminishing effect on each subsequent pill taken, it also has an upper limit of ten pills. Once one consumed 10 longevity pills, the 11th one would no longer work even if it was highest grade there was.

Before majority of the human tribe ascended to the Divine Realm, they were already aware of such pill. In fact, in their eyes, there are much better options compared to Longevity Pills. But due to it's additional benefit, they often called it as: Time Reversing Pill.

Don't be mistaken, the pill can't turn back time. The only reason why they call it like this is because, once consumed, a person would regain some of their youthful vigor back.Once the pill started to take effect, their previously white hairs will turn black, their wrinkles will recceed and some of their loose muscles would become compact and active once again. All of this will happen in just a minute after consuming the pill. Which is why many people called is as Time Reversing Pill, since its effects made it look like time was returning them to their youths.

The Longevity Pill that Raven made was actually one of the more rarer ones. It's not a perfect grade Longevity Pill as some impurities remained, even so it's nearly there. This pill alone could extend a whopping 1000 years extra to anyone who consumes this. Meanwhile, a perfect grade Longevity Pill could restore a staggering 2000 years of longevity.

"Well, this is a pretty good sign. Maybe when I step onto Warrior Realm, I'll be able to perform the Heaven and Man Furnace even better. By then, all of my concoctions should have no impurities in them."

Being very careful, he place the pill into a jade vial and sealed it with an inscription to not waste it's efficacy. So long as no one opens this vial, the efficacy won't disperse.

Raven sat down to recover his lost energy, casting the technique nearly emptied his energy reserves and greatly stressed him out.Heaven and Man Furnace, is one of the more advanced concoction techniques that is recorded in the Sacred Leaf Holy Scripture. It was an unorthodox method that one Grandmaster Alchemist gained enlightenment from, once he managed to perfect his technique the doors to Ascension opened for him and thus he became one of the few Saint Alchemist that had ever graced the earlier civilization.

This technique uses both Heaven and Man to form the furnace. The Heaven's will hold up the ingredients while the man sets fire to himself in order to embrace the essences, birthing to the creation of a pill. This method is extremely strict and stressful. To create the flames, one had to combine energy and spiritual energy together. Then they have to agitate them to a very high degree resulting in heat which will eventually form a True Soul Flame. Because the True Soul Flame is created by mixing Raven's energy and spiritual energy, it's temperature depends on how much fuel he added on to them, additionally this flame won't hurt anyone that Raven deemed as an ally. Even so, True Soul Flame is mostly used in alchemy. Flames that could be used offensively are many and much better compared to this.

After resting for a bit, Raven didn't concoct another Longevity Pill for the sole reason that he's out of ingredients. In total, it cost him at least 100,000 gold cards just to get enough materials to make one. Selling this for double the amount isn't considered as too expensive at all, but Raven didn't plan on selling this publicly. This pill would undoubtedly cause too much uproar if it was sold just like a regular pill. And even though he implemented a plan to at least prevent the Black Curtain Guild from getting their hands on his pills, there no saying that it was enough to stop them. The last thing that he wanted was to deliver a longevity pill to extend their lives, he'd rather commit suicide by then.He had a solid plan to prevent them from getting this, but that has to wait until the showcase.

Now that he's rested, he planned on helping them out. He decided to brew some Moonshine for the time being.

Moonshine, another recipe from the Sacred Leaf Holy Scripture. The favorite liquor of the masses during the Sacred Leaf Era.

Compared to the rest of medicines he's planning to reveal, this probably has the most minor effects.

Drinking a glass of Moonshine allows one to enter a state of enhanced sensitivity and perception. If he has to quantify this amount, then it would be at least a 50% increase. Only, the gist of this is that the materials needed to brew Moonshine was extremely cheap. 1 gold card and a month is all it takes to have one bottle. To the current Raven, 1 gold card is nothing. Selling one bottle of Moonshine for 3 gold cards is already a huge profit for them but Raven wasn't planning on raising the price for that high. This is because Moonshine was the favorite drink of the Sacred Leaf Era. Commoners or Nobles, all of them enjoyed a bottle of Moonshine whenever they wanted to. Due to its effects, the citizens of the old era became flourishing and Raven plans to recreate that sight. Even if he doesn't earn a single cent from this, he would be immensely satisfied.

Raven dallied no longer, the first step for him was to make a time enchantment using a bunch of inscriptions. The materials needed for this is quite expensive but nothing for him to worry about. Creating the enchantment also didn't come as a challenge for him since he had done before, how else would they brew the previous batch and release it tomorrow then?

The time enchantment array needed time before it starts working, Raven used this time to prepare the brew. Raven specifically chose durable and cheap bottles to store the liquid. The concoction was simple enough that it doesn't require any complicated techniques, easy enough that even Paul has no chance of messing it up.

He prepared at least 500 bottles this time, in addition to the ones already brewing earlier, this would make 2000 bottles prepared. But of course, since it was him who's brewing this, he had to step it up.The time enchantment that he made just now is a higher grade compared to what he created earlier. In here, he could adjust the time ratio for 1:30, one day outside is equivalent to 30 days inside the enchantment, all the way to 1:180, one day outside equivalent to roughly 6 months inside the enchantment. Just like any good wine, the longer Moonshine is brewed the greater it's effects. The grades of Moonshines depend on the brewing time. 30 day brew would be the lowest grade, three months brew would be a B-rank. 6 months brew would be an A-rank and 1 year brew would be a highest rank which would be S-rank.

After he prepared the brew, he glanced at the enchantment behind him and nodded to himself, it was ready. Briefly turning off the enchantment, he waited for the light inside to go dim before heading inside.Neatly arranging each crates, Raven made sure that there are no problems of sorts before leaving the enchantment and turning it on once more. As he saw the light lit up inside, he knew that the enchantment is already doing its magic, which left him satisfied.

He patted his hands and locked to door of the Pill Concoction Room behind him, making sure that he leaves an invisible mark before he left. This mark would let him know if anyone beside Richard and Jacob wants to open this room.He then went back to the room where Richard and Jacob were and saw them wolfing food like starved beasts. When the heard the door opened and saw him, they choked on their food, creating a somewhat embarrassing scene.

"Take it easy, I'm not going to steal your food."

"M-master!" Richard and Jacob hurriedly stood up and greeted, there were faint traces of blush on their cheeks as the memory of the embarrassing scene became imprinted onto their minds.

"Don't let me disturb you. You two worked hard enough, bear with it for a couple of days more and this difficult time would end." Raven said as he sat down beside them. "Right, do we have any news about the venue and the invitations?"

Both him and Jacob looked at Richard since he was the one tasked with this. Seeing the expectant gaze of the two, Richard rubbed the back of his head and said:

"Well, about that...."