Chapter 20: Pill Complete! Officially Taking Off!
“The path of Berries and Alchemy is truly profound!”
Without the Growth skill, Lu Li wouldn’t dare feed this to Tropius, but luckily, he had a cheat.
After practicing with Grass-type Pills, Lu Li began refining true Pills.
The Pill Tropius just ate couldn’t really be called a Pill; at most, it was an aggregate of Grass-type Berry essence, essentially an Energy Cube with excessive nutrition and energy.
A true Pill should be functional.
With the understanding of Berries from a Grandmaster Alchemist and a Junior Breeder, Lu Li multitasked, meditating to recover his internal energy while contemplating how to refine the next Pill.
Tropius gazed enviously at the Berries beside it, and the thought of all those Berries being thrown into the furnace made it ache.
After his internal energy gradually recovered, it was already afternoon. After hastily feeding Wailmer two Energy Cubes, Lu Li continued his Alchemy endeavor.
As Berries were continuously thrown into the Alchemy Furnace, the speed at which Lu Li formed hand seals quickened.
After the Alchemy was finished, Lu Li opened the furnace and fell silent as he looked at the few Pills lying inside.
“Another failure!” Lu Li sighed.
This time, he still obtained an aggregate of energy essence from Grass-type and Flying Type Berries.
Compared to what Tropius just ate, the Pills in the Alchemy Furnace only possessed an additional attribute.
“Where did it go wrong?” Lu Li frowned deeply.
In his expectations, the exclusive Pill he refined for Tropius should have possessed the following effects.
Firstly, abundant nutrients; secondly, it should be able to strengthen Tropius’s Life Origin and its Grass and Flying Type Origins, as well as accelerate Tropius’s absorption of Grass and Flying Type energy.
However, these Berry essence aggregates could only be considered semi-finished products.
“Oh well, let’s try Dazzling Cubes first,” Lu Li sighed.
For Wailmer’s Dazzling Cubes, Lu Li was actually quite confident.
Ever since he captured Wailmer, he had been contemplating the method for making Dazzling Cubes, especially regarding the pillification of Dazzling Cubes; he had been researching this problem for the past few years.
Now, his theories were all very complete; only practical application was lacking.
He began meditating again to recover his internal energy.
Time had passed from afternoon to 10 PM.
Razz Berries, Razz Berries… plus Water Type Berries.
Lu Li threw the prepared Berries into the Alchemy Furnace and entered the Alchemy state.
Wailmer in the Water Vat watched Lu Li nervously.
Half an hour later.
Lu Li looked at the Pills in the Alchemy Furnace and breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
Success!
The deep blue Pills were particularly conspicuous in the flames; they looked like deep blue pearls.
Unlike the Berry energy aggregates refined previously, the eight Pills before him were truly Pills in the true sense.
They enhanced the Pokémon’s beauty, accelerated and supplemented the Pokémon’s absorption of Water Attribute Energy, and even had a tiny effect of strengthening the Pokémon’s Life Origin.
Although this effect was minuscule, it indeed existed.
In this world, the strength of a Pokémon is generally judged by its Life Origin and Attribute Origin.
Lu Li named the Pills he refined “Spirit Beauty Pill,” with the main effects being to refine the Pokémon’s beauty and enhance its charm.
Since this was specially customized by Lu Li for Wailmer, the Spirit Beauty Pill also had the effect of accelerating the growth of Water Type Pokémon.
Lu Li, his face slightly pale from energy depletion, looked at Wailmer in the Water Vat with anticipation and said, “Xiao Mei, your dream is about to come true.”
Seeing Lu Li’s slightly pale face, Wailmer in the Water Vat looked worried and blew a few bubbles.
Lu Li, who had long been in sync with Wailmer, comforted it, “It’s okay, I’m just exhausted.”
“Alright, hurry and try out the effects of the Pill I refined,” Lu Li urged.
Hearing this, Wailmer leaped directly out of the water and swallowed the Spirit Beauty Pill from Lu Li’s hand in one gulp.
“One Golden Core swallowed, my fate is my own and not determined by heaven.”
Such a majestic sentence might be an exaggeration for a Spirit Beauty Pill, but for Wailmer, this sentence was not exaggerated at all.
Wailmer, having just swallowed it, its eyes lit up, and then it looked at Lu Li excitedly.
The obvious transformation on Wailmer was noticed even by Lu Li, let alone Wailmer itself?
It was hard to imagine that Wailmer’s ragged, pitted appearance could give off a radiant aura.
“Tro~”
“Big Sister, you really seem to have become more beautiful.”
Tropius beside them exclaimed honestly.
Upon hearing this, Wailmer’s face showed clear pride.
“Of course! I was always the prettiest among Wailmers. I think I’ll be able to Evolve soon,” Wailmer said, shaking its tail excitedly.
“These effects… even the top-grade Dazzling Cubes on the market can’t achieve such immediate results, can they?” Lu Li thought excitedly.
Lu Li suddenly had a moment of clarity: “Although cultivating in this world doesn’t grant immortality, it doesn’t seem like a bad thing.”
The cultivation speed of an eighteen-element Mixed Spiritual Root was indeed despair-inducing, but the mastery of Cultivation Hundred Arts that came with transmigration at least meant his Orb wasn’t clouded.
Although he felt a bit out of place, with his efforts, Cultivation Hundred Arts didn’t seem so out of place in this world after all.
Lu Li carefully examined Wailmer’s changes, then inquired about its current condition, and finally reached a conclusion.
Wailmer would probably need one Spirit Beauty Pill per day, and with a maximum of 30 Pills, Wailmer would Evolve into Milotic.
In other words, he, Lu Li, would be an Elite Level Trainer in a month.
What kind of concept was this?
The ceiling in Qingfeng City was probably the Principal of First High School, and that Principal, who was almost 50 years old this year, was only at the Elite Level.
Although his First Tier Pokémon were all Elite Level, which was a significant gap compared to him who only had one Elite Pokémon, their Status was at least comparable.
Having achieved strength right after graduation, Lu Li couldn’t even imagine how bright his future would be.
If he were shameless, Lu Li could even use Milotic to bully Novices in the Grand Festival a month later.
In previous Grand Festivals, the strongest Pokémon were only Veteran Level; an Elite Level Milotic would be a Dimensional Strike to those newcomers.
However, Lu Li only thought about such good things; although the Alliance hadn’t explicitly prohibited trainers from nurturing Pokémon before the age of 16, it was at least not encouraged.
Lu Li wasn’t so brazen as to defy the Alliance.
After confirming Wailmer’s condition, Lu Li turned to Tropius and asked, “Tomorrow is the start of the Campus Competition, Tropius, are you ready for battle?”
Tropius nodded energetically, then let out sounds like a hurricane blowing through the mountains.
Lu Li nodded with satisfaction, extinguished the flames in the Alchemy Furnace, and carefully stored the Pills refined that day in a sealed bottle.
After completing everything, Lu Li sincerely lamented, “My cultivation is still insufficient.”
He could only practice Alchemy three times a day at most, and each time could not exceed 40 minutes; Qi Refining Layer 1 was truly weak.
