In the Austin Palace, Austin was practicing in his specially curated cultivation room.
Sitting cross-legged, he practiced a cycle of the Golden Sun Scripture. After four hours of practice, his strength and vital energy were back in top form.
After all, during the month he spent in the Mysterious Nether World, he was entirely focused on dueling or to be alert of potential dangers that were more often than not lurking in the corners. He had not been able to devote any time to have a good rest and practice the Golden Sun Scripture.
Now that he was finally out of the Mysterious Nether World, it was safe to have a good rest and practice. He was feeling relieved. After all, he had succeeded in overcoming multiple difficulties and he deserved this leisure.
After practicing the Golden Sun Scripture for four hours, he opened his eyes and took out his Space Ring.
"It's time to check what I managed to obtain in the Mysterious Nether World. It was a fierce trial but I survived and got a good harvest."
With this in mind, he took out all the medicinal herbs from his Space Ring. He had been able to acquire almost a mountain of herbs from the Mysterious Nether World.
The medicinal herbs were his biggest harvest in the adventure. Most of them grew in the Medicine Valley.
Austin began sorting them so that he could get an accurate measure. Close to seven hundred were at the fourth or fifth grade;
more than two hundred were at the sixth grade; about sixty were at the seventh grade and only ten of them were at the eighth grade.
These medicinal herbs were priceless. In the Violet Orchid Empire, only sheer luck could get a cultivator a herb at a grade of six or higher. Many cultivators would never get a chance to even see a grade seven or grade eight medicinal herb in their whole life.
Angus had said the Mysterious Nether World was an ideal place for medicinal herbs to grow. One reason was that it was an isolated desolate world; the other being that it was rich with spiritual energy.
Even though there were countless cultivators coming in for a trial, only few medicinal herbs were picked. Don't forget that these herbs were duly protected by many powerful diabolic beasts.
That was also another reason why there were so many medicinal herbs at higher grades.
Among the medicinal herbs that Austin had obtained, there were ten black and white fruits. Austin knew these were soul-recovering fruits.
In fact, Austin had managed to collect thirteen soul-recovering fruits in total. But he gave three of them to Reuben, the youngest prince.
The invaluable soul-recovering fruit which was a kind of spirit fruit, was at the eighth grade. In all probability, one could only find it in a place like the Mysterious Nether World. In the outside world, it was absent.
Austin was not a fool. He was definitely not going to give all the thirteen soul-recovering fruits to Reuben. The ten fruits he was left with could help him make pills that could cure injuries or even save his life.
The ample quantity of high grade medicinal herbs made him content. He had far outreached his expectations.
Suddenly Austin smiled bitterly when the realization hit him.
Although he had high grade medicinal herbs, he couldn't refine them because he was merely a level two pill refiner.
It would be a waste for a level two pill refiner to refine lots of grade six or grade seven medicinal herbs. He would be unable to do it. Elixirs would fail to be refined successfully. If he forced himself to do it, the high grade medical herbs would in all probability be ruined.
In general, the grade of the elixirs corresponded to the grade of the medicinal herbs.
For example, refining grade one medicinal herbs would produce grade one elixirs.
Refining grade two medicinal herbs, pill refiners would get grade two elixirs.
It was the same with the rest of the medicinal herbs.
Austin, a level two pill refiner could easily refine grade two elixirs if he was given some grade two medicinal herbs.
But refining these grade six and grade seven medicinal herbs was a difficult task. He was simply unable to refine them.
After a careful consideration, he came up with two ways to deal with the mountain of grade six, grade seven and grade eight medicinal herbs.
Although he was eager to refine them, it was realistically impossible for him.
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