Chapter 59: Not for Sale
At seven in the morning, sunlight streamed in through the gaps in the curtains. On the sofas flanking the low table, Su Xiao and Kaisa sat facing each other, having already finalized the details of their cooperation.
Kaisa originally didn’t want a thirty percent share; he preferred ten percent. Suffice it to say, this bastard Kaisa had an incredibly keen sense for danger. He had already vaguely guessed what Su Xiao intended to do.
Besides buying out the Sun Church’s entire stock, Su Xiao had another plan. This opportunity to reap benefits was something he had never encountered from the first rank to the eighth. He was going to take a risk and make a huge haul.
Su Xiao could sense that the Treeborn World was not far off. Fairy Maiden, Huishenshi, and Shenfu—each of these three was a threat, let alone when they formed a team together.
What made things even more troublesome was that this time, the Treeborn World had issues. Even before it began, many violators had obtained invitations through unknown channels. It was easy to imagine that when the time came, it would be a chaotic mess of demons and monsters.
What Su Xiao had to do now was only gather resources and continuously strengthen himself. The enemy had superior intelligence? Overwhelming numbers? No problem. As long as he was strong enough, he would kill every enemy that came, one by one.
He had always known his own advantages. Enemies he could defeat generally couldn’t outsmart him, and those who could outsmart him generally couldn’t defeat him. It wasn’t luck; rather, he did his utmost to avoid enemies he couldn’t handle.
Take Arcane Eternal Star, for example. To avoid them, even at the eighth rank, Su Xiao rarely set foot in the Void. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to, but that he couldn’t. If Arcane Eternal Star caught even the slightest chance, Su Xiao was certain he would die without a burial place, with no opportunity to turn the tables or escape.
Arcane Eternal Star had ended the Law Annihilation Era and become the supreme overlord of the Void. It must have its own formidable and extraordinary qualities.
For now, Su Xiao set aside thoughts of Arcane Eternal Star. In the near term, the greater threats to him were Huishenshi, Shenfu, and Fairy Maiden.
Joining the Sun Church this time was an opportunity. Setting aside all his concerns, Su Xiao decided to take a gamble.
Seeing the look in Su Xiao’s eyes at that moment, Kaisa, sitting across from him, shuddered, but then a gleam of greed erupted in his own eyes.
“Kaisa, ten percent or thirty percent, the choice is yours.”
“Thirty percent.”
Kaisa chose to follow his instincts. Although taking ten percent meant lower risk and wouldn’t involve him in certain subsequent matters, getting thirty percent… was just too tempting.
For now, they needed auxiliary materials and finished Sun Potions. Kaisa would handle the former, and Su Xiao the latter.
Kaisa’s plan was this: for the auxiliary materials, there was actually no need to buy them in advance. He could get them on credit. He would take full responsibility for this aspect, and Su Xiao wouldn’t have to bear a single cent of the cost for the auxiliary materials.
The price of the auxiliary materials needed for one bottle of Sun Potion was about 1,000 reputation points. This expense would be covered after the potions were sold, meaning it would be deducted from Kaisa’s 9,000 reputation points, taking 1,000.
Su Xiao was long accustomed to Kaisa’s shady tactics. What he really wanted to know was how Kaisa planned to sell a potion worth 20,000 reputation points (2,000 Sun Gold Coins) for 3,000 Sun Gold Coins.
Su Xiao walked toward the right side of the living room. This area needed to be modified, at least to have a workbench or something where he could mix potions.
Three hours later, Su Xiao sat in front of a workbench set against the wall. Various bottles and jars were laid out on it, with some precision instruments placed on either side.
The first batch of materials Kaisa had promised had already arrived. Su Xiao planned to use 3 to 5 ounces of Sun Particles as the cost to improve the potion. The first issue was to make the solar energy within the Sun Potion purer, more easily absorbed by the body, and give it life-like properties.
Regarding purification, Su Xiao’s approach was to first integrate the Sun Particles into a liquid energy with no specific properties, then construct a simplified version of the Devouring Core to filter this liquid energy.
After filtering, he wouldn’t purify it immediately. This solution would be temporarily named Sun Solution-01.
He took the juice of a Thick Palm Leaf, poured it into a container, and then added cells from an insect called “Yepuke.” Neither had solar properties, but both had compatibility in this regard. Moreover, one was a plant and the other an insect, each possessing strong aggressiveness and assimilation tendencies, trying to assimilate the other into its own form of existence.
Neither of these was what Su Xiao wanted. During their supernatural confrontation, they would produce a type of active energy that was between “neutral properties.” This energy had both the stability and compatibility of plants and was easily absorbed by living beings. He temporarily named this active energy Plant-Life-02.
He then blended the previously prepared Sun Solution-01 with Plant-Life-02. The resulting liquid energy contained rich solar power while inheriting the characteristics of Plant-Life-02, making it absorbable by living beings. This liquid energy was temporarily named Unfinished-03.
After that, he needed to use the simplified Devouring Core to filter and purify Unfinished-03. This would yield high-purity Sun Particles that could be absorbed by living beings.
Su Xiao looked at the Sun Particles in the test tube and tapped the tube wall with his index finger. The particles inside brightened slightly.
“That’s basically it. A very simple process.”
Su Xiao’s gaze shifted to Kaisa beside him. Earlier, Kaisa had strongly requested to stay and watch how Su Xiao mixed the potion.
“Just… just these few steps? The difficulty is lower than I imagined.”
Kaisa spoke, sweat beading on his forehead. From his bewildered expression, he hadn’t understood a thing.
“Oh? Then maybe you could become a skilled alchemist someday. What you have now isn’t the finished product; it’s still the main material.”
Hearing this, Kaisa felt a pang of anxiety.
“Then how many steps are left?”
“The mixing progress is already at 2.7%. Sun Potion isn’t a very difficult potion to make.”
Hearing this, Kaisa was dumbfounded. This wasn’t difficult? As an “intermediate alchemist,” he couldn’t even follow it.
Developing a potion was very hard, but improving one was much easier. By noon that day, Su Xiao had already brewed the first bottle of Sun Potion. When his Alchemy skill was still at Lv.30, he could achieve over a 90% success rate with this type of potion, let alone now that his Alchemy had reached Lv.62.
However, there was one thing: brewing a perfect-grade Sun Potion was extremely difficult. The potion’s performance had already been pushed to near its limit by him. Improving it even slightly was a monumental challenge.
He might brew nearly a hundred bottles of Sun Potion without getting a single perfect-grade one. This also meant that perfect-grade Sun Potions were not for sale.
Su Xiao picked up the Sun Potion on the table. Inside the crystal bottle, the golden liquid had starlike specks drifting within it. Just looking at it was mesmerizing.
Sun Potion (Modified)
Origin: Sand World · Pending
Quality: Holy Spirit Rank
Type: Permanent Enhancement Potion
Effect: Within 30 minutes of consumption, Solar Power permanently increases by 4,500 points, Solar Power Adaptability +15 points.
Note: Because this potion perfectly integrates the characteristics of sun, life, and scorching water, consuming it will have an additional effect: permanently and significantly enhance the vitality of the heart and kidneys.
Note: Repeated consumption of this potion is ineffective.
Rating: 952 points (Holy Spirit Rank potion ratings range from 700 to 1,000 points)
Introduction: Pending (The Hunter may freely compose it)
Price: Pending (The Hunter may freely set it)
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