Chapter 13
11.45 million star coins!
According to the exchange rate of 1:10,000, Xia Fei could exchange them for 114.5 billion federal dollars!
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The purchasing power of the federal dollars was equivalent to a third of the olden US dollars, which also meant that it was close to 40 billion US dollars!
With this much wealth, Xia Fei could already be listed as the top 100 wealthiest people in the federation.
Furthermore, this was star coins, the universal currency, and it was a completely different concept with the federal dollars that could only be used in the federation! Apart from the federal government, no one else possessed such a huge amount of star coins.
“Sir, since your account balance has exceeded 10 million star coins, our Endaro Interplanetary Bank has upgraded your client grade from ordinary client to 1-star VIP client. We have prepared a dedicated VIP room for you, please follow me.” Dawson respectfully said.
Those with money were the boss. It was a rule that would never change, and it was the same for the entire universe.
It was a huge deal for westerners to invite others for a meal at their homes. This meant that Andre considered Xia Fei as his friend.
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“Unfortunately, I cannot accept your invite tonight. I have other things to handle. I will definitely visit some other day.”
Xia Fei tactfully rejected Andre’s invitation because that batch of medicinal ingredients and the Wind Eye Ring he purchased had arrived, and he had more important things to do.
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Andre arranged Xia Fei’s hotel with enthusiasm and had also reserved a Lincoln stretched luxury limousine for Xia Fei’s usage. For the wealthy Rothschild Family, such a matter was not worth mentioning.
The Plaza, top floor, presidential suite.
Xia Fei locked himself in the bathroom. In front of him was a large pile of medicinal ingredients and a strange-shaped concoction device.
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This place was worthy of being a presidential suite. Just the bathroom was already around 60 square meters, and it was already bigger than Xia Fei’s previous one-room apartment. It had sufficient space to put down all the medicinal ingredients.
“Medicine concoction is a very precise task. The purification of each medicinal ingredient and the sequence are all crucial. If you mess up and lower the medicinal effects, it is considered a minor problem. For serious cases, you might cause an explosion.” Phantom stood at the side and spoke when he observed that Xia Fei was flustering while purifying the medicinal ingredients.
“These are merely medicinal ingredients. Why would they explode?” Xia Fei wasn’t convinced.
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“You need to know that this is a lost art from my discipleship. We use different characteristics from each medicinal ingredient to conduct the precise proportioning. The effects are far beyond regular medicines.”
“Different medicinal ingredients would have some conflicting or complementing relation. Take the Blue Star Herb and the Cold Moon Plum, for example. If used individually, they would be able to increase the speed of active cell movements, but when put together, it would become a fatal poison, and there would be no antidote to cure it.”
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“However, if you purify the Blue Star Herb to 41% and the Cold Moon Plum to 59% before adding in the Summer Night Pickled Plum Seed that has a purity of 73%, the prescription wouldn’t have poison and would have a 70% increase in effect than the Blue Star Herb that is at 70% purity.”
Xia Fei frowned. “To put conflicting medicinal ingredients together to compose a medicine is simply too insane! In case of a slight mistake, it’s all over.”
Phantom spoke as though he didn’t care, “That’s why I asked you to be careful.”
“Such a precise concoction is truly radical. Isn’t there an ordinary concoction method that is milder?” Xia Fei asked.
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“Ordinary? My discipleship has never had this term. No matter what we do, we would do it to the best of our abilities. Right now, you have yet to encounter a true society in the universe, and you don’t know how cruel it is out there. Every warrior had to do their best to improve themselves, and there were plenty who would risk their lives to improve even by 1%.”
“To stand firm in the society of experts, you have to become sufficiently powerful. Only the strong are respected, while the weak don’t even have the right to speak. If I use the words that you taught me to say this, the universe is where only paranoid people would survive.”
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With Phantom’s guidance, the bathroom now had 17 different colored bottles. There were red, green, purple bottles placed in a row, which was truly beautiful.
“This is a primary cell activation medicine that is formed with a combination of 17 different medicines. After consuming it, you will greatly enhance the cell’s vitality and would then be able to strengthen the physique intensity and toughness. The allocation of medicine isn’t considered difficult. As long as you follow my instructions, I guarantee that you will be safe.”
The concoction device had three different entry points, and they were responsible for purification, mixture, and catalyzation.
Now that the purification work was done, next was the mixture and catalyzation processes.
The medicine bottles had a display screen where the amount of medicine required could be keyed in. When pouring the medicines into the entry point for the mixture process, the bottles made automatic adjustments according to the amount set. It allowed the precision to achieve one ten-thousandth of a milliliter.
When pouring the medicine in, precise control was also required. What to put in first, what to put in next, when to put it in… There must not be any error.
The mixture part of the concoction device was emitting a slight sound, and it sounded like the buzzing of a bee. Xia Fei could hear that it was flying around inside the concoction device at a very high speed.
After accurately pouring the first seven medicines according to the time frame, Xia Fei picked up the eighth bottle and carefully brought it over.
When the green indicator on the machine had lit up, Xia Fei poured this bottle of white medicine hastily.
*Whoosh*
The mixture device suddenly emitted a sound that was like a car tire losing air. Immediately after, a yellow vapor was fuming out from the concoction device.