Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

Grace asked Xu Jiawei to stand aside and demonstrated the steps herself. Xu Jiawei found that her steps were completely different from Grace's. Even without adding silver leaf, Grace still managed to make a pot of intermediate-level recovery potion.

Grace was no longer as relaxed as before; she was now very serious.

"You give it a try."

Xu Jiawei stepped forward and began refining the material in the same way as Grace.

"No, the heat is too low; the refining process isn't thorough."

"The medicine is the wrong color, and not enough time has passed."

"The herbs were added too early; didn't you see they haven't fully dissolved yet?"

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At this moment, Xu Jiawei finally understood why Jin Jian said that Master Grace had an eccentric personality; when she got serious, she could find more than 10 flaws in every step.

Xu Jiawei carefully finished brewing a pot of medicine, then looked up at Grace. Grace frowned and looked at it for a while before saying, "The previous steps lost too much of the medicinal power, so it's only half a medium-grade potion."

Grace said sternly, "You're still too inexperienced. Continue making the other two basic potions and let me see."

Xu Jiawei thought about the steps she had taken to refine the recovery potion before, and then applied the experience to the other two potions. It turned out that this method worked quite well, and the refining speed and purity were indeed improved a lot.

Grace's furrowed brows finally relaxed a little: "Not bad, you've made some progress, you know how to apply what you've learned to other situations."

Potions made using this method do indeed have a higher probability of being of intermediate grade.

"When you were refining the Purple Cloud Grass, you should have extracted it when it was half-dissolved, otherwise the medicinal properties would have been lost..."

As Grace spoke, Xu Jiawei listened attentively and even took notes. After pointing out Xu Jiawei's mistakes, Grace continued, "Actually, there are more ways to purify medicinal power than just this one. For example, recovery potions can be refined with silver leaf grass."

As she spoke, Grace took out a book and handed it to Xu Jiawei.

[Congratulations to the player for achieving Intermediate Pharmacology Advancement.]

Grace relaxed her brow: "Let's call it a day. Go back and practice hard. Contact me again when you can successfully refine it without the help of medicinal herbs."

Xu Jiawei quickly tucked the book into her bosom, unexpectedly gaining something new: "Thank you for your guidance, Master. I will definitely work hard."

"You still call me 'Master,' shouldn't you call me 'Teacher'?" Grace's lips curled up, staring at Xu Jiawei with a half-smile.

Xu Jiawei's eyes lit up with surprise. "Teacher, please guide me in the future!"

After exchanging contact information with Grace, Xu Jiawei gained another contact in her magical communicator.

Xu Jiawei found Jin Jian, who respectfully handed over the gold card and said, "Master Xu, this is your proceeds from this auction, after deducting expenses and handling fees."

Xu Jiawei put the card into her backpack, then had Jin Jian help her buy a lot of energy stones at the Chamber of Commerce before taking her leave.

Back on the wooden boat, Xu Jiawei found it in complete disarray, with a dilapidated raft moored nearby. She looked at Rainbow and asked, "Rainbow, what happened?"

Xu Jiawei didn't bring any mushrooms to the auction this time; she left them on the wooden boat.

Rainbow said indignantly, "Master, there were bad guys attacking the ship, and we killed them."

In other words, during the time Xu Jiawei was away, someone attacked, but Rainbow and Little Mushroom defended against it.

Xu Jiawei looked at Rainbow and said, "Rainbow is great. After we go out, leave some guards to watch over the wooden boat."

Rainbow nodded, and Xu Jiawei installed the protective shield on the wooden boat, then manually adjusted it to the size of the boat.

The smaller the protective shield's coverage area, the less energy it consumes. The energy inside the shield can last for several months without any problem, not to mention that Xu Jiawei has also bought quite a few energy stones.

In an instant, the heavy rain bypassed the wooden boat, and not a single drop of rain fell into it. Even the wind disappeared, rendering the windproof cover, which had only been made a few days ago, useless. So Xu Jiawei put the windproof cover up in the system shop.

After finishing all that, Xu Jiawei prepared to go and see the "abandoned" raft.

Xu Jiawei used a levitation technique to float onto the dilapidated raft.

[Ding! Opponent defeated, obtained opponent's raft. Disassemble now?]

Xu Jiawei disassembled the raft into basic materials, picked up the corpse's backpack, and then returned to her own wooden boat, where the mushrooms were dutifully standing guard.

After tidying up her things, Xu Jiawei discovered that her windproof cover had been sold. Wasn't it usually a long time before someone would buy it? Xu Jiawei went to the chat channel to check the situation.

[Day 24: My level 3 raft is already loose from the wind, and I guess it'll fall apart in a couple of days.]

[AAA Mushroom Fairy: Everyone should buy the expert's windproof shield; it effectively solves the strong wind problem, but it consumes energy stones quite quickly.]

[Another day of begging: I was terrified, I thought it was some big shot, but it turned out to be Mushroom, haha.]

[Day 24: What is an energy stone? I don't have one.]

[Ye Yezi: I just bought a windproof cover, and it really works.]

It turns out that this is the person who often speaks up for me in the chat channel. I can give some discounts to those who have always supported me in the future.

Xu Jiawei made a few more windproof covers and listed them in the system store, then left them alone.

Opening the "Advanced Intermediate Pharmacy" book that Grace had given her, Xu Jiawei glanced at it. In addition to the intermediate basic potions and the intermediate potions that temporarily increase combat power, there were also purification potions, disguise potions, and disguise potions.

The purification potion is the white potion that Si Yunming drank before. The disguise potion can temporarily change one's appearance, while the disguise potion allows the person who drinks it to disguise themselves as something else, such as a mushroom, a cat, or a dog.

For the next few days, Xu Jiawei only practiced making potions and improving her skill proficiency, and of course, opening boxes.

Otherwise, the boxes on the deck wouldn't be able to hold all the boxes. Fortunately, Xu Jiawei's luck was close to 50. Although she was still in the lower middle range, at least she was able to get some items.

The wind was getting stronger and stronger. Li Ming told Xu Jiawei that his wooden roof had been blown away. Every day, he did nothing but repair the roof and the raft that had been blown away. Li Ming felt that one day the wooden house would be blown away as well.

Xu Jiawei quickly made two windproof covers and gave them to Li Ming and Zhang Yunting. Of course, Zhang Yunting and Li Ming reciprocated with many nice gifts for Xu Jiawei.

Xu Jiawei's windproof cover didn't sell very well, after all, not everyone has energy stones, and the number of energy stones obtained from the boxes was not high.

On the last day of the natural disaster, the wind howled and the people on the level 2 rafts could not withstand it at all. The rafts were easily blown apart. Those who bought windproof shields consumed an energy stone every hour and could not withstand it at all. Even worse, the rafts of those who bought windproof shields were washed away by the rain.

Despair gripped everyone, and the number of people in the chat channel dropped rapidly. Fortunately, the raft hadn't turned into pieces after it broke apart, and people could still ride on it. So some people stopped repairing the raft and just bought some healing mushrooms to stay alive while killing the sharks that were attacking it.

Sometimes people are more resilient than they imagine. By midnight, the storm had finally subsided, and everyone cheered in the chat channel, celebrating that they were still alive.

[Congratulations to the 47987 people who survived the first natural disaster. The disaster contribution ranking and rewards are now released.]