Chapter 74
Jiang Chen found it interesting that a shy girl was doing business with him, since usually shyness didn’t go with business. That was why he was joking around.
But as a result, Wen Meng thought him to be a frivolous guy.
“Apprentice brother, have you brought the panaceas?” Wen Meng said.
“Sure.”
Jiang Chen pointed at the table with his right hand. The mustardseed ring on his index finger sparkled. Then three long wooden boxes appeared out of nowhere.
A mustardseed ring?!
This was a sign of nobler people than those who came by airships.
“Why are you behaving like this? Your master hasn’t arrived yet. It’s not yet time to draw conclusions,” Meng Hao stood up discontentedly, trying to protest.
Xiao Xiao sized him up and said disdainfully, “Who are you? You are not even a disciple of the Natural Law School. How dare you speak to me?”
“Who are you? You’re in the same state as I am!” Meng Hao turned red. He had lost his patience with a girl that he knew nothing about.
“State? Listen to me. I’m a genius alchemist. My master is the Medicine Elder of the Natural Law School. My state isn’t high at the moment, but I’m already a senior disciple.” Xiao Xiao didn’t get angry. Instead, she told of her identity proudly.
“The Medicine Elder?”
Meng Hao was greatly surprised. He was a grand supreme elder in charge of the panaceas of the Natural Law School with supreme authority. No wonder the steward feared the girl so much.
“Are you afraid now? You’d better leave here before my master’s arrival,” Xiao Xiao sneered.
Jiang Chen had kept silent by then and finally started to speak. What he said calmed Xiao Xiao down. “To sum it up, you don’t trust my panaceas. Since you claim your master is the Medicine Elder, you should have a good eye for panaceas.”
She laid her eyes on the wooden boxes on the table with some disdain, and opened the box in the middle. An aroma of medicine greeted her.
“Some frauds cheat inexperienced people with special synthetic perfume.”
Xiao Xiao curled up her lips and picked up one panacea. She observed it carefully and sniffed at it.
Then, without Jiang Chen’s permission, she broke off a small part of it and chewed it.
Then she spit it out and asked Jiang Chen, “These are recovery panaceas?”
“Exactly. It’s called Revival Elixir.” Jiang Chen looked at her with approval.
“What’s the percentage you can recover with one panacea? How long does it take to work?” Xiao Xiao asked again.
The percentage meant the percentage of one-tenth of one’s strength.
No matter how wonderful a recovery panacea is, it was impossible for people to become full of vim and vigour again with only one pill. They had to take a great amount to achieve that.
Therefore, a recovery panacea’s quality could be decided by what percentage of strength one pill could recover.
Average recovery panaceas could recover less than ten percent of one-tenth of one’s strength.
Better ones could recover more than ten percent.
If a recovery panacea could recover twenty percent, it would be a holy class.
Of course, this standard only applied to people in the beginning of the middle stage of the Gathering Yuan State. After all, people in different states had different strengths.
“Between forty and fifty percent,” Jiang Chen said.
“Pardon?”
Xiao Xiao frowned. She thought she might have misheard.
“Between forty and fifty percent,” Jiang Chen said again.
This time Xiao Xiao heard it perfectly. She looked at Jiang Chen for a few seconds and asked, “You mean, you’ve refined recovery panaceas that are able to recover forty or fifty percent?”
“Exactly,” Jiang Chen nodded.
“Ha!” Xiao Xiao had a good belly laugh until tears ran down her cheeks.