Nine-layer armor-breaking

Chapter 8 Low-level elixir
Yingzhou City, Jiang Mansion Hall.

When the day arrived for the agreed trip to the Qixi Desert, the Jiang family naturally found the letter left by Jiang Xuan.

The Jiang family was at a loss.

"The two Heavenly Rank guards in the mansion have already followed the map to search for Xuan'er. They are respectively at the seventh and eighth levels of the Heavenly Rank, and are the two strongest guards in the mansion."

Facing Lou Xingman who was crying with her face covered, Jiang Yuan pointed out the ranks of the two guards and that they had already set out to find their son, to reassure his wife.

"I don't know whose personality Xuan'er takes after, he's so impulsive. He goes to the desert alone, what if he encounters danger? What if the guards can't find him? I've heard that there are many poisonous beasts in the desert. What if Xuan'er gets poisoned..." Lou Xingman became more and more excited as she spoke, and burst into tears.

Jiang Yuan was a little at a loss, and signaled Jiang Xian beside her to comfort her mother quickly.

"Mother, my brother's strength has also reached the Heavenly Rank. With the addition of the two spears, Wuxi and Yanxing, and the Suiyuan Spear Technique created by father, he is capable of dealing with even a peak Heavenly Rank warrior."

Jiang Xian held his mother's shoulders with one hand and gently stroked her back with the other.

Lou Xingman patted the back of Jiang Xian's hand, indicating to his daughter that his emotions had calmed down a lot.

Jiang Yuan saw Lou Xingman's change, and his nervous expression finally calmed down a little. He then comforted her, "Xuan'er, although there are risks on this trip, whether you encounter a Heavenly Rank warrior or a cultivator, the risks are not as great as you might imagine."

"On the one hand, if we encounter a Heavenly Rank warrior, Xuan'er is capable of dealing with it; on the other hand, true cultivators will often not embarrass warriors below the Jade Cultivation level."

"Firstly, there is a huge disparity in strength between warriors and cultivators. Secondly, warriors often don't have anything that cultivators are interested in."

After analyzing the warriors and cultivators, Jiang Yuan frowned again: "However, the various ferocious beasts in the Great Desert should not be underestimated. This is the reason why I sent Xuan'er and Xian'er to the Great Desert for training, but it is also what I am most worried about."

"Before the Medicine Valley was abandoned, my father harvested all the usable herbs in the valley, including many detoxifying herbs. However, the spiritual energy in the Medicine Valley was already very weak at that time, so the harvested herbs were all relatively low-level. At that time, the Lou family spent a lot of money to hire a pharmacist to refine the herbs into various elixirs, including dozens of bottles of detoxification powder. I brought most of them to Yingzhou."

After Lou Xingman finished speaking, a personal maid behind him placed a tray on the table and removed the cloth covering the tray. Twenty or so small light blue bottles were neatly placed on the dark tray.

Lou Xingman looked at Li Qizhi who was sitting not far away and said, "Butler Li, you will be in charge of these detoxification powders."

The maid placed the tray on the table next to Li Qizhi. Li Qizhi stood up and saluted Lou Xingman: "Yes, ma'am."

"Master, Madam, Qizhi wants to send these antidote powders to the two guards."

After all, Li Qizhizi is the steward of the Jiang family, so he naturally has more appropriate arrangements for the use of these detoxification powders. This is also the reason why Lou Xingman gave the pills to Li Qizhizi for arrangement.

"Wait, Qizhi, leave half of these detoxification powders in the mansion, and hand the rest to the guards." Jiang Yuan ordered.

Li Qizhi thought for a moment and had no objection to Jiang Yuan's arrangement. He bowed and left the hall. Watching Li Qizhi leave, Jiang Yuan couldn't help but sigh, "Alas, it's a pity that there's only detoxification powder, but no anti-poison pills. Previously, the Cheng family controlled the herbal medicine business in Yingzhou, but now the entire Cheng family has been exiled, and all the herbal medicine shops have been closed. Anti-poison herbs are suddenly nowhere to be found. These kinds of pills are already very expensive, and now they're even harder to come by."

Jiang Yuan sighed, "It's difficult to refine pills, and pharmacists are hard to find. The three most famous pharmacists in Yingzhou City are all in the Chamber of Commerce, one from the Xu family, one from the Xing family, and one from our Jiang family. Pharmacist Tan, who came to the Jiang Mansion, has the least experience of the three. He knows fewer prescriptions and can refine fewer pills. Fortunately, Pharmacist Tan has superb skills in refining pills, so he can refine pills of much better quality for the same purpose."

"However, when it comes to anti-poison pills, in the entire Yingzhou City, only the Cheng family has mastered the recipe for the relatively low-level, but also the most common type of anti-poison pill—the Anti-Poison Pill."

After hearing what his father said, Jiang Xian said, "Father and Mother, I have refined the Xiaoqingdan according to the instructions in the medicine book. According to the medicine book, the Xiaoqingdan has excellent detoxification effects and can resist the poisons of most ferocious beasts. It will be of great help on our journey to the Qixi Desert."

"Xiao Qing Dan?" Jiang Yuan was in his forties and had been in Yingzhou for about twenty years, but he had never heard of the elixir called Xiao Qing Dan.

Just hearing the name of the pill, Jiang Yuan couldn't judge the grade and efficacy of this Xiaoqingdan. He asked, "Xian'er, does the medicine book mention the grade of this Xiaoqingdan?"

"It didn't mention the specific grade, it just said it was a low-level elixir." Jiang Xian recalled what was said in the medicine book.

Jiang Yuan felt a little disappointed in his great excitement. He originally thought that a medicine book with strong restrictions should contain some recipes for high-grade elixirs, so when he first heard about the Xiaoqingdan, which he had never heard of before, he thought it was a high-grade elixir that had never appeared before.

In this case, this Xiaoqingdan is just a low-level elixir.

However, my daughter has mastered the recipe for a low-level elixir at such a young age and successfully refined it. Even in those upper-class states, she would probably be considered a genius.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan couldn't suppress his inner pride and excitement.

"This is already very rare. You know, a pill with the ability to ward off poison, even if it's the lowest-grade one, its value is incomparable to those second-lower-grade pills."

Jiang Yuan looked at Jiang Xian with a very certain look: "Xian'er, since this Xiaoqingdan doesn't have a clear grade, does the book mention its specific medicinal effects?"

"It can resist the poison of fourth-level beasts at most, and can basically resist the poison of third-level beasts and below." Jiang Xian replied calmly.

In fact, Jiang Xian was very excited when he saw the medicinal effect of Xiaoqingdan for the first time, because the higher the level of the poisonous beast, the higher its toxicity will be. The detoxification and avoidance pills will need to be of higher grade accordingly to cope with the sharply increasing toxicity.

The inner core of a second-level ferocious beast can allow a peak Earth-level warrior like Xing Yue to advance to the Heaven-level with almost no risk, thereby obtaining the opportunity to enter the official martial arts school that warriors of the same level dream of. This shows the strength of the second-level ferocious beast.

If a second-tier beast is like this, what about a third-tier beast, or even a fourth-tier beast...

However, the medicine book did clearly mention that Xiaoqingdan was a low-level elixir. This led Jiang Xian to speculate that the beast's toxicity might not be completely proportional to its true strength.

Perhaps, being able to resist a fourth-level ferocious beast and being able to resist the toxicity of a fourth-level ferocious beast are two completely different concepts?
"A fourth-level ferocious beast!" Jiang Yuan couldn't help but shout out, his eyes full of surprise.

Jiang Yuan knew that if this Xiao Qingdan could really resist the poison of the fourth-level ferocious beast, not only would Jiang Xuan's actions in the desert be much safer, but also, because of the existence of Yingzhou's sand thorn business, the Jiang family could easily control the Yingzhou Chamber of Commerce and become the largest family in Yingzhou just by selling Xiao Qingdan!
(End of this chapter)