I Have Medicine

Chapter 602 - (Indeed ruthless) This kind of course content…

Upon hearing this sentence, the minds of the many students below the stage went “boom.”

‘Battle Soul Pill! Deceptive Pill! Poison Pill!’

Just by hearing the names of these three types of pills, one knows they are not good things…

All pharmacists know about Poison Pills; they are the opposite of ranked pills, medicines refined from highly toxic materials. However, they are not considered the righteous path, and since the materials are so dangerous, most pharmacists actually master very little of it, although they will all try their best to study them for the purpose of developing antidotes, which is correct… As for the Deceptive Pill and the Battle Soul Pill, only a very small number of pharmacists would have heard of them.

The students suddenly remembered that this instructor who had just taught them many methods for refining ranked pills and possessed a very deep foundation was actually a person with a notorious reputation!

They had almost forgotten that because they were so engrossed in the lecture…

Now, upon hearing this, the students couldn’t help but fall silent.

It seemed that they were indeed too naive; the things he was truly proficient in hadn’t even been demonstrated yet!

One pharmacist student couldn’t help but ask: “What is a Battle Soul Pill?”

Actually, compared to the pharmacists, those more interested in these Unconventional Pills were the martial artists. After all, pharmacists are only responsible for refining the medicine, but the main users of the pills are the martial artists!

The three types of Unconventional Pills sound very special! Very useful!

Therefore, after that pharmacist student asked the question, the martial artist students’ eyes subtly brightened, and they all leaned in to listen.

Among the other pharmacist students in the audience, there were a handful—two or three people—who showed thoughtful expressions.

Some of them knew about the Battle Soul Pill, and some knew about the Deceptive Pill, but they didn’t have a deep understanding of either, having only seen them mentioned in some ancient texts. To pharmacists, such Unconventional Pills still belonged to the category of miscellaneous studies. They wouldn’t delve too deeply into them when they hadn’t yet achieved a certain level of mastery in regular graded pills.

As a result, at this moment, these pharmacist students, whose knowledge was broader than their peers, were also highly interested!

Even if they didn’t necessarily choose to divert their attention to studying them, knowing more could still broaden their horizons and improve their ability to draw inferences and connect different aspects of pharmacy.

The lofty youth seemed to ponder for a moment and then said: “Since you are more interested in the Battle Soul Pill, I will speak of the Battle Soul Pill first.”

The students below the stage were instantly invigorated.

The youth mused: “A Soul Pill is one that uses a soul as the main ingredient to enter the pill. Although they are not spiritual pills, they possess a spiritual nature, making them extremely unique. It is an extremely unique medicine. The pill furnace used for its refinement, the medicinal materials consumed, and the merits of its completion are all very strange. You all should know that humans and beasts all have souls and spirits. The soul required for a Soul Pill is the soul of a human or a beast.”

As soon as these words were uttered, there was an uproar throughout the audience.

Battle Soul Pill, Battle Soul Pill—originally, many students had thought it was a type of pill that could enhance the fighting ability of a human’s soul. But they never expected that it wasn’t a pill that acted upon the soul; it actually used the soul to refine the pill!

This seemed a bit too cruel…

After all, the soul is the foundation of a person. Without a soul, a person will cease to exist!

However, no matter what the people below thought, the youth on the stage continued his lecture: “Living souls and dead souls can both be used to refine pills. If a living soul is used, its will must be broken beforehand, otherwise it will cause mischief in the furnace, which will surely be detrimental to the pill’s completion. Refining with a dead soul is naturally easier since the soul mostly only retains its persistent obsession, but dead souls are hard to come by, and since the dead soul’s spirituality is lost, the resulting pill will naturally be lacking in spirituality, and the number of times that Soul Pill can be conjured will often be greatly reduced.”

The students: “…”

‘As expected of a thoroughly wicked person.’ They were feeling uneasy in their hearts, yet this person had already started to seriously and eloquently discuss which kind of soul was more suitable!

However, for some unknown reason, even though they clearly knew that refining pills with souls was too sinister and evil, they couldn’t help but continue listening…

The youth’s voice was calm, as if he was talking about the most normal knowledge: “Dead souls are usually found in death zones, simply because when a dead soul is formed, its obsession is profound, and it is extremely fond of attacking. If one’s strength is insufficient and one falls into a dead soul death zone, it often won’t be long before they also turn into a dead soul, sinking into the death zone. Therefore, for those who refine Soul Pills, the living soul is excellent.”

The students’ expressions changed.

If one were truly to extract a living soul, wouldn’t that be an evil practice? If this continued for a long time, one would inevitably become a public enemy, be attacked by the masses, and eventually lose their life.

They were all sons of prestigious families, cherishing their reputation, and unwilling to gain the same kind of reputation as this ruthless person.

Immediately after, the youth added: “However, the refinement of Soul Pills is mostly for a pharmacist’s self-defense. Among them, the pill refined from a beast soul is for combat, and the pill refined from a human soul is for legacy/inheritance. Because the beast-soul pill has a longer range of uses, it is the one most commonly refined, and this is the Battle Soul Pill. Legacy Soul Pills are small in number, so people often only speak of the Battle Soul Pill.”

Hearing this, the students were stunned.

In other words, the Battle Soul Pill is actually just one type of Soul Pill…

Then they realized that the Battle Soul Pill uses a beast soul, while the Legacy Soul Pill uses a human soul, and the former is far more numerous than the latter. It wasn’t that all of them were as evil as they had initially thought…

That’s right, refining medicine with the souls of savage beasts or primordial beasts would not give the students the same sense of dread they had just experienced. The only material they did not approve of was the “human soul.”

Thinking about it, this makes sense. The fur, blood, and flesh of wild beasts have all been utilized; what is a mere beast soul? Its utilization is also a common thing.

However, the students remained very cautious in their hearts.

Beast souls are fine, but even though refining medicine with human souls is rare, it still exists…

The youth paid no mind to the students’ emotions and continued his lecture smoothly: “A human soul entering a pill is more difficult than a beast soul, simply because human thoughts are complex, and the soul’s essence is naturally extremely complicated. Such a multitude of thoughts is also extremely difficult to eradicate. Therefore, refining pills with a dead human soul often leaves little inheritance. Those who complete a Legacy Human Soul Pill are usually senior elders who are at the end of their natural lifespan. Before they pass away, they ask a familiar pharmacist for help, then take their own life, and the pharmacist harvests the soul… Naturally, while the human soul is mainly used to refine Legacy Soul Pills, if one is willing, it can also be refined into a Battle Soul Pill to protect descendants.”

Upon hearing the four words “protect descendants,” and knowing that it could be inherited, the eyes of the numerous pharmacist students subtly flickered.

Viewed this way, although the technique was somewhat bizarre, it was nonetheless an exceptional method of pharmacy that could leave behind many useful things…

Thus, the youth spoke non-stop, detailing the specifics of the Soul Pill and then lecturing on many corresponding refining methods. This listening even moved some of the more daring pharmacists—because once they had finished listening, they realized that if their own willpower was firm enough, it wouldn’t truly cause much harm. It was much like a martial artist learning a potent martial skill, there was absolutely no need to view it as a venomous serpent!

Following this, they listened even more intently.

The youth on the stone platform was also well-prepared. After concluding the preliminaries, his finger moved slightly, and a small lump of amber-like material appeared in his palm. Inside, a flowing radiance seemed to be swirling, full of spirituality. At the same time, a dark, black pill furnace appeared before him. The body of the furnace was entwined with eight snake heads; it was a furnace specially used for refining Soul Pills.

The youth shook the amber toward the crowd: “A Soul Crystal, refined from Heart-Severing Stone, which can store souls and spirits. What is stored within is the dead soul of a First-Level Primordial Beast.”

This was actually an unexpected gain from years ago. When the soul was sealed into the Heart-Severing Stone, it should have been a freshly extracted living soul, but with the passage of time and years, the living soul’s spirituality gradually diminished, thus turning it into a dead soul.

Then, the youth pointed at the black furnace: “A Soul Furnace, for the purpose of refining the pill.” He tapped the eight snake heads. “The place for delivering the soul. Those among you who intend to study the path of the Soul Pill must pay attention to these details.”

The students nodded in unison, a hint of delight appearing on their faces.

They realized that the instructor was going to demonstrate the refining of a Soul Pill in person! It was absolutely worth observing carefully!

Sure enough, the youth pointed a finger at the Soul Furnace, and a cluster of flames immediately ignited inside the furnace.

The flames emitted a pale green light. They didn’t know what kind of earth fire this was, or perhaps it was an exotic fire? However, they had previously heard that the flame this pharmacist had exposed was not pale green. Could it be that the flame had undergone a mutation? Or, was this ruthless person lucky enough to have obtained two types of exotic flames and successfully subdued them both!

Of course, more people believed that the instructor must have refined one type of exotic fire, and this never-before-seen flame might just be a fire seed. After all, some pharmacists above the Pill King level have countless fortuitous encounters, and to refine different pills, they will also obtain different fire seeds. However, they can generally only refine one type of flame into their life-bound fire, while other flames are merely preserved fire seeds, which can be used for pharmacy but are difficult to wield normally.

The well-informed students quickly dismissed this thought and concentrated on watching the instructor refine the medicine.

The youth was unequivocal. With a grab in the air, he took out at least a dozen strange medicinal materials. Some were plants, some were ores, and some were special medicinal parts from savage beasts or primordial beasts of unknown origin. He tossed them all into the Soul Furnace!

The pale green flame instantly enveloped the entire Soul Furnace. The medicinal materials inside emitted sizzling sounds, as if living things were being calcined. Then, inside the Soul Furnace, a mass of grayish-white substance seemed to condense into shape, almost spinning up to the lid of the furnace , which the intensely focused students saw clearly!

It was… a round object that seemed like a pill, yet not quite a pill.

The youth said, “First, the pill base is formed.”

Afterward, he placed the amber-like object in front of him and gently flicked it. In the blink of an eye, the outer layer quickly cracked open, and he immediately brought it close to the wide-open mouth of one of the snake heads.

Thus, the students saw that the snake’s mouth suddenly generated a suction force, drawing the hazy substance inside the amber into itself.

Almost at the same moment, the pill furnace emitted bursts of trembling sounds.

The youth’s voice rang out: “Next, refine the soul.”

The students saw even more clearly that the hazy substance quickly wrapped around the pill base, and then, like flowing water, was absorbed into it little by little. The pill base itself also slowly changed color during this process.

Piercing, low wailing sounds lingered, carrying incomparable anger and frenzied killing intent.

The students slowly took a breath.

No, they were wrong again just now. This was still utterly brutal!