Collecting Experience Until I Am The Desolation

Chapter 2

"The second one involves refining medicines, writing prescriptions in the front hall, and attending to patients. You'll have three meals a day, half a jin of meat, 500 wen a month, and can learn the Qi-nourishing skill of the apothecary."

The three of them listened carefully and nodded.

"Then, is there any way for me to become an internal affairs apprentice sooner?" Gao Cheng smiled. Two years was too long.

"There is. If you can learn how to distinguish herbs in a few months, understand the properties of more than 50 herbs, and formulate at least three out of ten herbs that are different from the apothecary's prescription but have similar effects, you can be promoted."

Gao Cheng felt a headache just by listening to this long list of requirements.

It was the same for Yang Chen, but he had no other way out now, so he could only endure it for now.

"There will be a test once a week. If the results of the test are not ideal, you will be fired. So, don't be lazy. Work hard."

After that, Liu Changyue gave some simple instructions, and the three of them acknowledged him as their master.

Liu Changyue didn't have any strict rules when it came to accepting a master. The three of them served tea according to the order of recruitment, and they were considered disciples.

Yang Chen was the youngest junior brother. The girl who was shorter than Yang Chen was called Liu Xiaomei. She was their master's only daughter and the eldest senior sister of the three of them.

After the ceremony, the three of them were brought to the backyard and given their own living quarters.

The courtyard of the Liu family's apothecary was extremely large, with a total of 2,000 square meters. There were five medicine rooms alone.

Yang Chen and the other two weren't the only apprentices. The place would accept apprentices every other month.

Yang Chen saw that there were about 30 to 40 people living in the backyard, but he didn't know how many apprentices were in the chores and internal affairs departments.

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The next morning, Yang Chen and the other two had changed into short brown clothes with the word "Liu" embroidered on the chest, as well as a pair of long pants.

After coming to this world for half a month, Yang Chen had his first pair of pants.

"I finally have pants." Yang Chen sighed. There was no longer the feeling of wind and rain pouring in from below, and he felt especially at ease.

Soon after, he was called to the pill refining room.

In the apothecary, more than a dozen similarly dressed youths had already started to fiddle with things in full swing. The small wooden stick knocked on the wooden bowl, and the clattering sounds rose and fell in the refining room.

"Grind all these red ginseng into powder and fill these twenty jars." The tall man pointed at the medicine jars beside him.

Yang Chen glanced at the fist-sized brown earthen jars and didn't say anything. He rolled up his sleeves and started grinding silently.

After hammering it twice, Yang Chen saw a white ball of light fall out of Gao Cheng's body. He shook his head and rubbed his eyes hard. It was indeed a ball of light, and the others didn't seem to be able to see it.

He stretched out his hand toward the white ball of light, and it actually flew over by itself.

"Ding! You have collected a [ Potion Essence (White) ], [ Potion ] Experience +1."

Yang Chen's vision darkened, and something suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Red-eyed ginseng, roots used as medicine. It has the effect of dispelling blood stasis, regrowing new blood, promoting blood circulation, and regulating meridians," Yang Chen muttered in his heart.

Information about the red-eyed ginseng and some of its effects actually appeared in his mind as his experience increased.

"The experience points are not vague numbers or progress bars, but actual knowledge. When my experience points are full, it also means that my alchemy skills have reached a certain level."

The next moment, a panel appeared before Yang Chen's eyes.

Name: Yang Chen

[ Cultivation method: none ]

[ Skills ] [ Medicine (unlearned, 1/100) ]

[ Stage: none ]

The golden opportunity had finally arrived.

Yang Chen looked at the personal panel in front of him and was overjoyed.

While he was thinking, the other people around him also started to drop white light balls.

"Ding! You have collected a [ Potion Essence (White) ], [ Potion ] Experience +1."

"Ding! You have collected a [ Potion Essence (White) ], [ Potion skill ] Experience Points."

Yang Chen did not reject anyone and swept his hand at all the white experience points that dropped around him.

In the blink of an eye, [ Medicine ]'s experience had reached 29/100.

In an instant, the harvesting methods and uses of several herbs appeared in Yang Chen's mind.

However, after everyone had dropped a round of experience, Yang Chen waited for a long time, but no white experience balls dropped from them.

The next day, though, Yang Chen had collected another round of experience from everyone, bringing him to 60/100. Among them, there was also the little bit of experience he gained from grinding medicinal powder for a day.

'It seems everyone can only drop experience once a day. Although it's a little less, at this rate, I can become an internal affairs apprentice in the next test.'

Yang Chen had a relaxed expression. Under normal circumstances, according to his one and a half day of experience, it would take him two hundred days, or more than half a year, to learn the skill of pharmacy.

Now, he only needed three to four days, which was forty to fifty times faster. How could Yang Chen not be happy?