Chapter 123
"Is that even possible?" They both cry out "Grade 1 pills have to come from a grade 1 recipe don’t they?"
"Not at all. At least not for every recipe. Qi Gathering, Clear Mind, and regeneration effects all have pills at every rank up to 3. Higher too, but that’s not the point today. If you make the rank 3 recipe, but focus on condensing it into smaller pills, you will get lower grade results, but in large quantity."
I show them with the grade 3 Qi Gathering recipe that is the basis for the grade 5 Core Forming Cursed pill. Where the recipe usually produces 10 pills or 6 cursed pills with my skill, it produces 50 grade 1 pills in its hour long process.
"We don’t have grade 3 recipes though Highness. We’re just acolyte Priestesses."
How did they recognize me so quickly? Oh, I am wearing a lace shouldered shirt with my combat gear, they’ve literally stared down at the Death God’s mark for an hour. They’d be idiots not to know who I was.
"Come, sit on a cushion and bring out your supplies. If you need a recipe I will provide one for your training. I will supply the materials, enough got turned in today to keep you busy here for a while."
The ratios coming in might be off, but they’ll likely even out over the course of the week. Each attempt takes about 2 kilos of total materials, most of them a very common grass we got nearly a hay bale worth of today. It’s still worth more to me than the pills I traded, so no loss to me.
"Here are the recipes, with my additional notes. I will watch this first attempt in its entirety and guide you both."
Teaching them how to split the pills into more grade 2 pills will be the hard part. Once they have the basic split down we can work on getting many grade 1 results from their work. That takes much more fine energy control.
The first attempt is barely a success, making 20 grade 2 pills, the desired result, but with a purity that barely reaches 75 percent on average and a few that need to be discarded as failures in the batch.
"Not bad, 35 usable pills in two batches. Now, here is where you went wrong" I give them a short lecture on the mistakes in processing and energy control that they add to their recipes before trying again.