Medicinal Plant Cultivation had achieved its third breakthrough.
Today, the latest batch of special herbs would mature and the production of the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill was officially scheduled.
Moreover, “Herb Recognition” had broken through for the second time, not only deepening Wang Sheng’s understanding of the herbs, but also teaching him new methods of processing herbs.
This increased his confidence in producing the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pills.
Now was the time when “everything is ready, except for the east wind.”
By the afternoon, the “east wind” was also ready.
Under Wang Sheng’s diligent cultivation, the latest batch of herbs had matured, and at the moment of maturation, they shone with a spirit light, just like chrysanthemums.
He dug out all the herbs, washed them, and set them aside for later use.
“Are these herbs enough to make quite a few Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pills?”
The method he planned to use was the most effective for enhancing medicinal properties, making large honey pills by binding all the herb powders with refined honey.
Each of these Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pills would weigh about 200 to 220 grams, including the refined honey, which was also perfect to be kept in the mouth during martial arts practice.
Of course, grinding all the herbs into powder was no simple task, different herbs required different drying methods.
Codonopsis and Poria could be roasted dry, while white atractylodes needed to be stir-fried with liquor, dried atractylodes in fried style…
In summary, each type of herb had a different processing method, and confusion or errors were not permissible, as any mistake could affect the final medicinal efficacy.
Even with the help of “Herb Recognition,” it was only after dark that Wang Sheng finished processing all the herbs into fine powders.
He took out the small scale that Li Yongfeng had brought back, and began to prepare the mixed herbal powders needed for the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pills.
He still remembered the proportions.
“Codonopsis 80 grams, white atractylodes, Poria, dry-fried liquor-treated atractylodes the same, licorice 40 grams, Sichuan lovage the same…”
A few minutes later, he had about a kilogram of mixed herbal powder.
At this point, the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pills were essentially complete; the next step was the simplest part of the process, rolling the pills by hand.
Perhaps in the future, he could do like the Immortals, who could throw the herbs into the Alchemy Furnace with a blast of celestial fire and produce powerful Immortal Pills.
But for now, he had to honestly roll them by hand.
100 to 120 grams of refined honey prepared from honey was mixed with 100 grams of herbal powder to roll into a pill; once rolled, the pill was a complete Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill.
The pill rolling process only required a bit of attention to dosage, so it was very quick.
Wang Sheng spent just over ten minutes using up all the herbal powder.
In the end, he rolled a total of 11 Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pills, although one used the remaining powder, less than 100 grams, so its efficacy might be slightly diminished.
Looking at the pitch-black glossy Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pills, Wang Sheng finally showed a smile.
To make these 11 Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pills, he had spent over two months from the initial preparations to now.
During these months, he had been digging and planting every day, without a moment’s rest!
Now, it was finally time to reap the rewards.
Just as Wang Sheng was about to put the less effective Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill into his mouth, he saw the scale on the hourglass he had made himself and suddenly realized something.
“Isn’t it time to read now?”
He decisively put the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill back.
“Discipline shouldn’t be relaxed even for a single day.”
Wang Sheng had extremely strict plans for what needed to be done during which periods of the day, and he would not easily break them.
For instance, if he were to use the time allocated for reading now for martial arts practice, the time for reading would be extended and the subsequent time allocated for sleep would be compressed.
Lack of sleep is a major enemy of good health.
If it gets worse, it could even cause all plans to collapse.
One misstep leads to many,, disrupting one’s own self-discipline plans, which for Wang Sheng would be like the sky falling.
He would not allow such a thing to happen.
The efficacy of the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill?
What is that?
Is self-discipline important?
Thus, Wang Sheng picked up a book to read. It wasn’t a profound book but a simple one about medicinal herbs, obtained from Li Yongfeng.
A second breakthrough in “Herb Recognition” gave him more knowledge about herbs and even methods to process them, which greatly helped him.
Wang Sheng was very interested in the effects of a third breakthrough and was not going to easily give up on progressing.
He spent one hour reading, and afterward, without any hesitation, he simply washed up and went straight to bed.
It was not until the next morning that he picked up the prepared Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill.
Because a long period after getting up in the morning was spent practicing the Eight-Section Brocade.
The Eight-Section Brocade had already made two breakthroughs, and each training session required a great deal of resources, so Wang Sheng first held half of the less effective Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill in his mouth before starting the day’s training.
Once the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill was in his mouth, it quickly melted,, blending with the saliva, and was unconsciously swallowed.
Once inside the body, this fluid turned into warm currents, quickly integrating into every inch of Wang Sheng’s flesh and every inch of his meridians, activating every area.
Then, Wang Sheng’s entire body became hot, his skin turned red, and his veins bulged, as if something was continuously surging through his meridians.
Wang Sheng had only felt such a sensation when he first consumed the water made from tiger bone ointment.
Yet now, just a bit of a less effective Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill had achieved this effect.
The medicinal herbs grown through a third breakthrough in Medicinal Plant Cultivation had indeed not been disappointing.
With so many herbs combined, the efficacy of the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill had surpassed that of the tiger bone ointment.
Feeling Qi-Blood so abundant that it seemed it might burst his body, Wang Sheng did not hesitate and began practicing the Eight-Section Brocade.
The Eight-Section Brocade’s frenzied consumption was terrifying, yet it barely managed to match the replenishment of the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill.
If it were a fully effective Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill, the twice-broken-through Eight-Section Brocade might not have been able to keep up with the consumption.
Feeling this effect,, Wang Sheng continued practicing the Eight-Section Brocade, unable to hide the joy in his heart.
Time passed by for more than an hour, and Wang Sheng, after finishing the fifth set of the Eight-Section Brocade, had completely consumed the two halves of the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill.
He did a quick calculation, and based on the current stage of consumption, the recent Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill was equivalent to the dosage of 15 bowls of tiger bone ointment water.
And such a massive consumption of energy obviously would not vanish into thin air.
They all transformed into Wang Sheng’s strength.
In the past two months, the Qi-Blood Power, which had not grown much, visibly grew thicker.
If it had been as thick as spider silk before,, now it was the thickness of two spider silks, more than doubling in size.
Simultaneously, the increase in Qi-Blood Power led to an enhancement of strength.
Since becoming a Martial Artist,, Wang Sheng’s initial strength had been about 500 jin per arm, which had increased over two months to 600 jin per arm.
This time, with unguarded cultivation of the Eight-Section Brocade, his strength increased by at least an additional 50 jin in just one hour.
It might not seem like much, but when combined with the training time, it was truly terrifying.
Wang Sheng couldn’t help but exclaim, “Is this what resource-sufficient cultivation is? Two months have passed? I’ve finally experienced this feeling again!”
Farming, forever a god!