Meanwhile, Xiong Zhenzhen and Virgin Yin School’s disciples had been watching their interactions. They were still shocked that Xu Miao was here in Yeet City.

“Senior Xiong, should we report this to master Zhu?”

The disciple behind Xiong Zhenzhen referred to Zhu Huifang, the benefactor that saved most of the runaway women from the Mountain Goose City.

When Yao Lan and other elders migrated from the brothel in secret, Zhu Yanyu and Zhu Qiao contacted their clan master about their predicament. As such, Zhu Huifang deployed her subordinates to pick up the fleeing disciples.

Yao Lan, Qi Hong, and Qi Ning met the Zhu clan master. The latter agreed that she would take all of their disciples and elders to their branch.

The transfer took a long time as there were too many mental patients. They thrashed and resisted against the rescuers, especially Yao Lan’s powerful niece. The little girl fought against her aunt and Zhu Huifang as she didn’t want to get near the Crimson River. Moreover, her strength was unusually strong to the point that Yao Lan and Zhu Huifang had to use 50% of their strength to subdue her.

During the process, Xie Tian pestered Xiong Zhenzhen that he wanted to look for his master, Luo Cheng. The girl accompanied him and backtracked the sewer paths. Then, they ran into Xu Miao’s group.

After Xiong Zhenzhen aborted Xie Tian’s mission after the encounter, she returned to the evacuation site. While they were returning, they encountered Long Meifang’s group, who was lost in the sewer maze, so they went to the rendezvous point together.

Unfortunately, Xu Xiuying and Xu Lanying caught up while they were crossing the river.

Long Meifang, Qi Hong, Qi Ning, Yao Lan, and Zhu Huifang fought against the mother and the daughter. The alliance managed to repel the duo, but many disciples got hit by stray bullets, receiving heavy injuries in the crossfire. Most disciples were healed with low-grade and medium-grade healing pills, but a few of them were cursed by Xu Lanying’s mysterious skills.

Thus, Zhu Huifang sent Xiong Zhenzhen and healthy disciples to Yeet City, giving them a mission. She wanted them to find Han Wenjie or Ju Shoufen, so they could request them to make high-grade healing pills, a cure for vampire mutation, and a cure for succubi transformation. Zhu Huifang also sent Xie Tian here since she didn’t want a man to be near her disciples.

The team got here as planned. Unfortunately, they went to Han Wenjie first. She demanded that they had to leave behind Xie Tian as her semen cow.

Xie Tian and Xiong Zhenzhen declined the request since she didn’t like the perverted garden master.

Their last hope laid on Ju Shoufen. Xiong Zhenzhen and Xie Tian participated in the seminar, so they could get on the garden master’s good side.

But they ran into Xu Miao here.

Xiong Zhenzhen’s face was solemn.

“Keep watching. I don’t think Zhu Huifang cares if Xu Miao is still alive or not. She only wants the pills, so we have to get the pills.”

Xiong Zhenzhen turned to the masked woman, who was actually a cross-dressing man.

Xie Tian didn’t hide his killing intent toward Xu Miao. His temperament was getting worse.

“If you do something stupid, I’ll kill you here.”

Xie Tian receded his malicious intent. He clicked his tongue and rubbed his new spatial ring, which was storing his lost item inside.

“Fine. Had you not helped me before, I would have ditched you.”

“Just keep it to yourself. I don’t care.”

“…”

Xie Tian and Xiong Zhenzhen continued to observe Xu Miao and Ju Shoufen.

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“Okay,” Xu Miao received the cauldron and new ginseng from Ju Shoufen.

“Don’t be nervous. If you forget or don’t understand what I did, you can ask me while you’re concocting it. I’ll teach you again, step by step.”

“Understood. Thank you, elder.”

Xu Miao copied what Ju Shoufen did, starting from the ingredient preparation process to the energy usage.

But once Xu Miao began the baking phase, the ginseng root inside the ruby cauldron changed.

Before Xu Miao could cut the compressed ginseng root into smaller pieces, it reddened and grew bigger. The cauldron also got hotter.

It was the sign of overheating, and the cauldron might explode.

Ju Shoufen immediately summoned thick ice walls around Xu Miao and the cauldron as a precaution. The disciples also got scared as they ran away from the cauldron.

As Ju Shoufen prepared to pull Xu Miao out of the ice cage, the latter did something unimaginable.

Energy Drain!

Xu Miao absorbed the extra heat energy back into his body. He had done this almost a thousand times inside the isolation space whenever his cauldron was about to explode, so he knew what he could do to prevent it from happening.

The temperature decreased at a rapid rate, but Xu Miao maintained his yang flame and yang essence.

But the bloating pill inside the cauldron kept getting larger. It grew to the size of a fist, it was also about to explode.

“Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Welp, I might as well die trying.”

Xu Miao mumbled in frustration before he cut the expanding ball into finger-sized pieces.

The red balls melted into a red liquid and reshaped into burning pills. Still, they stopped expanding.

After a few minutes of cooling the cauldron temperature, all chain reactions ceased. Xu Miao opened the cauldron to see the remains of his failed pills.

Ju Shoufen also dispelled the ice walls and stood next to Xu Miao, wanting to see the result.

As soon as the lid was opened, the strong smell of boiling bitter medicine hit their noses. It soothed them, but it also made them too energetic.

Xu Miao had to bend forward to hide his erection. He felt like he had swallowed a blue pill.

As for Ju Shoufen, her face flushed as her wrinkled skin became smooth temporarily. Still, she bit her tongue and reverted back to her old lady form.

Realizing the effect of the mysterious gas, Ju Shoufen closed the lids and sealed the cauldron.

“Junior, your pills and your yang essence… are amazing,” Ju Shoufen’s face was solemn. Her kind expression was gone.

“I don’t understand. What is inside? Didn’t I fail?”

“Ha! If you call those pills failure, my perfect-grade pills would have been trash! Do you realize what you’ve just made?”

“No. Could you tell me?”

Ju Shoufen sighed. She looked at the confused alchemists and seminar participants. The women had already calmed down, and they were looking forward to seeing what Xu Miao had just made. Still, none of them had inhaled the mysterious pill gas yet.

“I already understand how you made such pills without proper alchemy knowledge. Keep the pills and the cauldron. It’s yours,” The elder changed the subject.

As soon as Ju Shoufen gave the cauldron and the pills inside it to Xu Miao, the crowd was thrown into an uproar. Some of them rushed to the garden master’s side to ask what the result was while the others gossiped among themselves of their hypotheses. Many alchemists, who couldn’t see the chaos, were confused about what had occurred. As for Xiong Zhenzhen’s group, they stared at Xu Miao in disbelief.

Xu Miao was still covering his erected crotch and bending forward. He partly understood the reason.

‘Haiya. Why the fuck do they turn out to be horny pills? I just want to make healing pills, goddammit!’

Xu Miao collected the cauldron and the pills into his invisible spatial ring. As soon as they went inside the space, the system revealed the truth.

Ding

Congratulations. You have successfully created mutated pills for the first time!

You have created 10 low-grade orc strength pills with perfect quality.

Low-Grade Orc Strength Pills have been registered in the recipe list.

Congratulations. Low-Grade Orc Strength Pills can be auto-concocted with a 100% success rate. You can mass-produce the pills with the auto-mass-production menu

Your low-grade healing recipe has been updated.

“…”

Xu Miao felt like he had cheated the world and the system big time. Normally, he should have struggled to make perfect pills 1,000 times in a row to get the success rate to 100%. However, he made new pills with perfect quality using only one attempt, so the system calculated the success rate as 100%, bypassed the hardship hurdles.

‘System, are you sure that your system mechanic is as intended? Will my sponsor fix this bug?’

Ding

Your Sponsor never expected this circumstance. No one has ever created a perfect new pill on their first try before.

Therefore, Your Sponsor allows this type of exploitation. If you can make new pills with perfect quality on your first try, you can exploit the auto mass-production menu to your heart’s content.

Xu Miao clenched his fists. For once, the system was kind and useful.

He checked the pill description right away.

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Low-Grade Orc Strength Pill (Perfect Quality)

A healing pill made by an orc king’s yang essence and yin essence, it is a low-grade healing medicine for orcs, commonly used as sexual stimulation. Once consumed, the consumer’s strength will increase by 10% for an hour, and all shallow wounds will be instantly healed.

Warning: This pill is made for orcs. Human consumers may experience side effects, such as rapid increases in libido and sensitivity.

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It was indeed a healing pill with side effects. Xu Miao wanted to scream out loud as everything he did resulted in something lewd.

“Xu Miao,” Ju Shoufen hadn’t done with him yet.

“Yes, senior?” Xu Miao came back to his senses.

“Go home for now. You’re not in the right condition for concocting anymore pill.”

Xu Miao nodded while he glanced at this crotch. It was inappropriate to stay here with his hard erection.

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After Xu Miao left the Ju Garden, everyone questioned Ju Shoufen about the pills Xu Miao made.

The garden master explained, “The pills just now were mutated pills.”

“What’s a mutated pill, master?”

“The mutated pills are failed superior-quality pills. Beyond the perfect level, there is another realm that we can achieve, the superior pills.”

Ju Shoufen elaborated.

The superior pills gave additional benefits other than the normal pill effect. For example, a perfect low-grade healing pill could heal shallow wounds, but a superior quality one could heal shallow wounds and improve the consumer’s strength, speed, stamina, or dantian without a backlash.

On the other hand, mutated pills were almost the same as superior pills. The difference was – they contained side effects, which could either be merit or demerit, depending on luck and various factors.

In Xu Miao’s case, Ju Shoufen had already noticed his unique Yang Qi characteristic, but she hadn’t told anyone.

“So, that boy made a better pill than you, master?”

Ju Shoufen laughed, “Indeed. He did.”

“What kind of pills did he make? Why did you chase him home?”

The garden master revealed a bitter smile, “The pills stimulate sexual desire. They are too dangerous for everyone here, and he has been hit by the pill’s gas.”

“Oh!”

“Enough with the questions, let’s continue our lecture.”

Ju Shoufen kept Xu Miao’s secret to herself and changed the subject. She returned to the stone pillar and continued her lecture.