My health recovery is incredibly fast.

“Mmm, mmm, mmm,” Anru nodded, her eyes drawn to the crystal-clear glass bottles on the display case. “Go on, go on. I’ll wait for you here.”

Xia Zuo watched as the other person walked in absentmindedly, and shrugged as if it were nothing unusual.

He cast a detection spell at the glass bottle on the display case, glanced at the price, clicked his tongue in amazement, and turned to walk to the other end of the street.

As he walked, he reached into his robe pocket and rummaged through the purse. Inside were about 31 silver dollars, his savings from his time in the circus.

Just enough to buy the cheapest skincare products at the Golden Vitex Pharmacy.

So, in order to complete tonight's plan, the long-awaited fire-breathing performance will make a comeback.

The oil-based alchemy area contains props needed for a fire-breathing performance. However, those items are, after all, Professor Zhuolang's personal property. It's not appropriate to use them.

Instead, go to the store and buy the flamethrower and solvent with your own money.

Xia Zuo pushed open the door and entered the Starry Night Pharmacy.

The elderly shop owner sat behind the display case, looked up at the Starry Night Robe, smiled kindly, and invited customers to browse freely.

Don't expect a discount.

The profits from Starry Night Pharmacy will be handed over to Starry Night Academy and used for the academy's expenses. Once back at the academy, eat a few steaks at the cafeteria, and you'll get your money's worth for today.

Xia Zuo chatted with the owner for a few minutes, then wandered around the display case on his own.

The knowledge stored in my book is now vastly different from what it used to be, several times richer than when I first visited Starry Night Pharmacy two years ago.

The information returned by the detection spell when it is thrown onto the glass bottle is no longer a simple sentence.

Xia Zuo found the ornate velvet box and used his Detection spell on the potion bottle on the red cushion.

..

Item Name: Perfect Recovery Potion

Item type supplement

Item Grade Master

Item quality completion rate 100%, perfect.

Related resistance to water system resistance

The prop's creator is unknown.

Item effects

After drinking it, you will instantly recover 100 health points.

..

Xia Zuo moved lightly, using his detection technique on each of the potions that had no side effects.

They are all only related to water resistance.

The same applies to gel-like satiating agents, universal antidotes, and slightly addictive painkillers.

Xia Zuo looked at the deep red display case. This was where potions specifically for practitioners of breathing techniques were kept.

Of these, only one agent is non-toxic.

..

Item Name: Weak Body Repair Potion

Item type: Functional potion

Item quality level: Beginner

Item quality completion rate 100%, perfect.

Related resistance to water system resistance

The prop's creator is unknown.

Item effects

After drinking it, it repairs hidden injuries in the body extremely slowly, reducing the negative effects caused by breathing techniques. The effect lasts for 30 days, and repeated drinking during this period will not enhance the therapeutic effect.

..

The low-potency body repair potion is of low quality. It can be made by a beginner-level alchemist.

The difficult part is the recipe.

There is no information about it in the academy, so it is impossible to refine it on your own.

Xia Zuo originally wanted to contract the body repair potion for Audrey and the others, but now it seems that won't work.

He turned his gaze away with regret, staring at the next vial of medicine.

..

Item Name: Weak Power Burst Potion

Item type: Functional potion

Item quality level: Beginner

Item quality completion rate 100%, perfect.

Related resistance 1: Aquatic resistance

Related resistance 2 Soil series resistance

The prop's creator is unknown.

Item effects

This potion increases Strength by 1 to 3 points within 30 seconds of consumption. A maximum of 3 bottles can be consumed within one hour, otherwise, a mild poisoning state will result. Drinking this potion without practicing breathing techniques will result in a moderate poisoning state with no other effects.

...

Sure enough.

Anything related to toxicity will be associated with soil resistance.

Xia Zuo suspected that the earth element might contain "poisonous", "highly toxic", or something similar.

He silently noted down this inspiration and continued to explore the remaining potion.

There are many kinds of drugs that can improve physical fitness in a short period of time.

Strength, Agility, Endurance, Perception, and Willpower—each of these five attributes has a corresponding burst potion.

It perfectly complements the characteristics of breathing techniques, strengthening the practitioner's body.

The only downside to this breathing technique is the hidden injuries left from the first practice, which can only be resolved with body repair potions.

Xia Zuo speculated that the hidden injury was a negative effect that deducted the maximum health or vitality value.

In other words, breathing techniques sacrifice vitality in exchange for improvements in the other five attributes.

If he hadn't entered academia, he would have practiced breathing techniques at the age of 18.

Hidden injuries will not be a concern.

The Immortal Body states, "Any injury will heal itself as health increases."

The hidden injuries caused by breathing techniques only affect the physical body. In other words, restoring health to full will eliminate the hidden injuries.

But then again.

Why is there no Vitality Burst Potion?

Xia Zuo stood there, blinking in confusion, realizing that he had discovered a blind spot in the art of potion alchemy.

Vitality increases maximum health and health regeneration rate.

Health can be restored through supplements.

What about maximum health?

Why are there no potions that can temporarily or permanently increase maximum health?

Xia Zuo circled the display case once.

That's really true. In the entire store, the only thing related to vitality is supplements.

Body repair potions are used to repair hidden injuries; they only restore the deducted maximum health and do not actually increase the maximum health.

Could it be that the alchemists haven't fully researched vitality yet and haven't created a potion to increase maximum health?

Xia Zuo recalled the Golden Finger's definition of vitality:

Vitality is the inner source of life.

As long as the source of life never dries up, life will never cease. Enhancing vitality, in a sense, is no different from prolonging life.

Even the ancient emperors of the previous era were obsessed with prolonging life.

Wouldn't the royalty and nobility of this world have similar thoughts? Wouldn't the mages have similar thoughts?

For a moment, Xia Zuo's thoughts were stuck in a quagmire.

He reviewed all the textbooks in his knowledge base.

None of them involve increasing the maximum health.

It’s weird.

Why don't you try other pharmacies? Maybe it's just that Starry Night Academy's alchemy doesn't involve maximum health.

Xia Zuo slapped his forehead, banishing the jumbled thoughts from his mind.

He approached the shop owner, bought several bottles of fire-breathing potion, stuffed them into his pocket, and pushed open the shop door to return to the bustling street.

Chapter 33 The Trouble Caused by Vitality

As the capital of the Starry Night Kingdom, Starry Night City boasts the most comprehensive selection of shops within the kingdom.

Alchemists' associations from the Eastern Continent will open their own branches here, as long as they have the capital and strength to conduct business across the ocean.

A street corner.