From Cold Palace Princess to Celestial Empress Ch. 16
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Pills, seizing the essence of heaven and earth, are refined into one.
After martial artists consume pills, they can quickly enhance their strength, but this enhancement is not without consequences.
The spiritual herbs and medicines used to refine pills have different medicinal properties. Even if the alchemist’s skills are superb, it is difficult to achieve a perfect blend.
Therefore, no matter the grade of the pill, there is a distinction in quality.
From the lowest-grade low-tier yellow grade to the top-tier heavenly grade, it is all the same.
Ordinary alchemists refine pills with a purity between sixty to eighty percent.
Skilled alchemy masters, after years of immersion, may refine pills with ninety percent purity.
When the efficacy of a pill is below fifty percent, the efficacy and impurities cancel each other out, and very little essence can be absorbed after consumption, hence it is called a waste pill.
As for pills with ninety-nine percent efficacy, since no alchemist can refine a pill with one hundred percent efficacy, ninety-nine percent is the limit and is called perfect purity.
The purity of the pills Xiao Minghuang obtained through the system depended on the purity of the pills she gave away.
Initially, the Qi-Mending pill she gave away had seventy percent purity, neither high nor low, and the system-compensated Creation Heaven-Mending Pill also had seventy percent purity.
The elixirs bestowed by the Emperor were mostly of around sixty percent purity, with relatively poor efficacy.
Having understood this point, Xiao Minghuang was naturally astonished when Ye Ruoshui suddenly produced an elixir of such high purity.
She carefully examined the remaining nine elixirs.
“Eight pieces at seventy percent purity, two pieces at eighty percent purity!”
Xiao Minghuang murmured.
Ye Ruoshui smiled shyly and pressed her lips together, saying, “It’s my first time refining pills, and I didn’t control the fire well. I will definitely work hard to refine perfect pills!”
Upon hearing this, Xiao Minghuang’s eyes widened, revealing three parts helplessness and seven parts astonishment.
“You refined pills at eighty percent purity on your first try, and you’re still not satisfied?”
Ye Ruoshui furrowed her delicate brows, her tone carrying a hint of uncertainty.
“I followed the tutorial in the book step by step. This… this should be quite simple, right?”
“Pounding the medicine, rolling the balls, starting the fire, refining…”
Ye Ruoshui recounted the process of refining pills, describing it fluently and smoothly, without a hint of hesitation, as if it were second nature to her.
Xiao Minghuang sighed, realizing why the little girl’s cultivation progress was so slow and why she couldn’t concentrate.
“When heaven closes a door for you, it opens a window.”
“???”
Ye Ruoshui looked completely bewildered.
“Don’t mind that saying; I’ve accepted this box of pills.” Xiao Minghuang took the box of pills.
“I need to return it to you now.”
【Ding!】
【Detected that the host successfully gifted an opportunity!】
【Congratulations, host, you’ve triggered a tenfold critical compensation, receiving Qi Recovery Pills *100!】
Hearing the voice of the system in her mind, Xiao Minghuang returned the brocade box to Ye Ruoshui’s hands.
Ye Ruoshui was even more confused.
“I really do like this gift very much.”
Xiao Minghuang took the box back again and stuffed it into her bosom.
After this series of actions, two beautiful big eyes of Ye Ruoshui seemed to have two spinning circles appearing in them, completely unable to understand what was happening.
With a hundred high-purity Qi Recovery Pills in hand, Xiao Minghuang’s heart was filled with joy.
The higher the purity of the pills, the fewer impurities they contain, the faster they can be refined, and the more potent their effects.
An eighty percent purity pill has at least double the efficacy compared to a seventy percent purity pill!
Compared to the sixty percent purity pills granted by Emperor Xia, their efficacy is a full two times higher!
Although Qi Recovery Pills are only low-grade yellow-tier pills, with a very low grade, the spiritual herbs and materials required for refining are quite common and inexpensive.
If Ye Ruoshui could refine a large number of high-purity Qi Recovery Pills and then receive substantial compensation through the system…
A hint of joy flickered in Xiao Minghuang’s eyes as she seemed to have found a new path to wealth.
Moreover, Ye Ruoshui undoubtedly had an extremely high talent for pill refining; she was able to refine such high-purity pills on her first attempt.
What would happen if she refined pills of even higher grades with such talent?
In an instant, many thoughts flashed through Xiao Minghuang’s mind.
The next moment, she licked her red lips, looking at Ye Ruoshui with a gaze that was somewhat dripping with desire.
Feeling such a gaze upon her, Ye Ruoshui shyly lowered her head.
“Your Highness really likes the gift I gave, so it seems I must work hard to strive for refining perfect pills as soon as possible!”
Ye Ruoshui knew that Her Highness’s cultivation would continue to rise, while her own talent for cultivation was indeed lacking. Therefore, trying to keep up with Xiao Minghuang by elevating her own cultivation was undoubtedly a pipe dream.
Therefore, she had to find another way, from a different angle, to make Xiao Minghuang unable to live without her, so that she could occupy Xiao Minghuang’s heart for a long time.
There was no doubt that she succeeded.
At this moment, Xiao Minghuang felt that she could never be without Ye Ruoshui, this little girl, in the future.
For no reason, she slightly leaned forward, getting close to Ye Ruoshui, and heard the rapid beating of her heart. Gently, she pecked at the corner of the little girl’s pink lips, like a dragonfly touching the water.
“Chirp!”
And Ye Ruoshui, who was “suddenly attacked,” momentarily experienced a brain freeze, falling into a state of suspension. Her little face instantly turned bright red, and wisps of white mist appeared above her head.
Her Highness kissed me! Her Highness kissed me! Her Highness kissed me! Her Highness kissed me! Her Highness kissed me!
At this moment, Ye Ruoshui’s mind was blank, filled only with these few phrases, repeating infinitely, never stopping.
Time passed, though she couldn’t tell how long it had been.
The sun was setting in the west.
The carriage drove into a forest.
Xiao Minghuang glanced at Ye Ruoshui, whose pupils were filled with pink bubbles and who still hadn’t come to her senses. She reached out and tapped the little girl’s forehead.
“Stop daydreaming, wake up!”
Suddenly being tapped on the forehead, Ye Ruoshui covered her head and whimpered:
“Her Highness is bullying me again, boohoo~”
Xiao Minghuang felt a headache coming on; how did she think this little girl was getting better at acting?
“I’m going to catch a few wild rabbits; we might have to spend the night in the forest.”
As they got closer to Beiyang City, the villages and towns along the way became increasingly sparse, and there wasn’t even a single family to stay with.
Although Xiao Minghuang had entered the Qi Refining Realm, to be unafraid of cold and heat and to not eat grains, she needed to reach the Springing Spring Realm.
As for Ye Ruoshui, being in the Body Refining Realm, she needed to consume a lot of meat to replenish her energy and blood.
Upon hearing the words “wild rabbit,” Ye Ruoshui’s stomach immediately growled; she was actually already hungry, but she had managed to hold on until now thanks to her princess’s stunning beauty.
“I’ll start preparing right away.”
Xiao Minghuang nodded and turned to walk deeper into the forest.
As they ventured further into the forest, the sun completely sank below the horizon, and the light grew dimmer, making it impossible to see a hand in front of her face.
Xiao Minghuang looked up at the sky, surrounded by towering trees. If she hadn’t been able to see in the dark, she would surely have gotten lost.
“I need to hurry; Ruoshui is probably starving.”
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So who will be the next female character?
Translator: Glariosa
Editor: Ruu
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