Chapter 100: Starry Sky Potion
Ten minutes later, Herag timely dispersed the fire energy particles and extinguished the flames.
He took out a medicine pestle and ground the Dragon's Tooth Grass in the beaker into powder, then accurately measured out 10 grams of Dragon's Tooth Grass Powder using a balance scale, placed it into a test tube, and set it aside for use.
For the next two hours, Herag was busy processing these magic potion materials.
After processing them, he began the formal magic potion refining process.
Herag poured the extracted Mist Tree Man Juice into a reaction bottle, then infused magic power until the juice started to emit white smoke.
The white smoke began as thin wisps and quickly erupted into a small mushroom cloud.
At this moment, Herag immediately dripped in Poisonous Violet Juice and Mandala Juice.
The mushroom cloud instantly turned purple and then quickly retracted back into the reaction bottle.
The originally light yellow Mist Tree Man Juice now turned grass green.
Herag then added the Dragon's Tooth Grass powder, continuing to infuse magic power.
This process lasted a little longer, requiring a continuous infusion of magic power for twenty minutes. Although the time was long, the magic power consumption was not much, only consuming 8% of Herag's magic power.
The Dragon's Tooth Grass powder danced in the grass-green solution and began to continuously decompose and merge into the solution with the infusion of magic power.
After twenty minutes, all the Dragon's Tooth Grass powder had dissolved into the solution, and the grass-green solution turned back to light yellow.
Herag shook the reaction bottle, and the solution's color turned sky blue.
"This color is good." According to the refining process provided by Shenlan, the sky blue solution indicated the magic potion was successfully refined.
Herag poured the finished magic potion into a test tube and then said, "Shenlan, check if this magic potion can speed up my meditation."
"Analyzing and checking..."
Herag only needed to infuse magic power into the solution, and Shenlan could begin analyzing the components.
Unlike before, when he needed to apply herbs on his skin to detect components.
"After checking, the potion does not possess the effect of speeding up the primary meditation. The properties of Dragon's Tooth Grass and Poisonous Violet Juice conflicted in this magic potion. Although these two components can complement each other, it's recommended to replace Poisonous Violet Juice with the root juice of Demon Flower."
A few minutes later, Shenlan provided the analysis result.
Herag pondered, "It seems that the deduced formula is indeed not 100% accurate. The characteristics of these magic potion materials vary across different formulas. Without actual experimentation, no one knows the real effect. Even Shenlan's deductions are based on existing data."
He was not discouraged and continued to improve the formula as per Shenlan's suggestions, since he had plenty of Demon Flowers.
Demon Flower is considered a high-tier magic potion material, generally used as the main ingredient, but in this formula, it only serves as an auxiliary ingredient.
If it were regular magic potion research, it certainly wouldn't be crafted like this, but Shenlan's suggestions were tailored to Herag's specific situation.
With so many Demon Flowers in his space ring, it was just right for use.
After modifying the formula, Herag experimented again, and five hours passed by this time.
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"Shenlan, check if this magic potion can speed up my meditation," Herag said, holding a test tube containing a black-purple solution, which was the result after the improved formula.
"Analyzing and checking..."
Five minutes later, Shenlan provided the result: "After checking, the potion can speed up the meditation speed of the Starry Sky Meditation Technique. The method of use and dosage: mix one milliliter of this potion with two hundred milliliters of pure water, and the subject will speed up their meditation speed after consumption."
"Experiment successful!" Herag felt a bit excited; this was his first self-developed magic potion formula, bringing him a sense of accomplishment.
After the excitement, he quickly calmed down and continued to ask, "Shenlan, does consuming this potion have any side effects?"
"After checking, the side effect is that the subject's X desire will increase; it's recommended to release it appropriately," Shenlan replied.
Herag was speechless: "It's such a side effect; it must be due to the Demon Flower."
After contemplating for a while, he decided to use the potion; the side effect was minimal and almost negligible, and solving it was very simple.
"Shenlan, name this potion Starry Sky Potion," Herag named the potion.
Unfortunately, this potion only works for him.
Shenlan customized it based on his constitution and his meditation method, so it won't be effective if others use it, making it impossible to market and sell.
"Named, recorded in the database."
After naming it, Herag took some pure water to prepare a dose.
The Starry Sky Potion was dripped into the pure water, quickly spreading like ink, turning the entire cup of pure water black-purple in a blink.
He picked up the potion, took a small sip, and held it in his mouth.
"Shenlan, check again if the Starry Sky Potion has any issues or if the results match the previous detection." To be safe, Herag had Shenlan check once more.
"After checking, the results are consistent with the previous ones," Shenlan confirmed.
With the result, Herag swallowed it.
He didn't continue to drink but waited to see if there were any changes.
The body showed no discomfort; he tried meditating and found the meditation speed indeed slightly increased.
Half an hour later, the body was still very normal; all indicators apart from a slightly elevated adrenaline level were normal.
After verifying everything was correct, Herag drank the remaining potion.
In an instant, he felt his perception sharpened considerably.
Herag could sense energy particles at a greater distance, and the number of energy particles he could sense increased.
When he entered meditation, he found that the stars above seemed closer, and his perception was keener.
The cumulative effects of these enhancements mean that his meditation speed increased significantly, at least doubled his previous rate.
In Herag's mind, the eighth star, which originally required four months to complete meditation, according to the original schedule.
But with the current speed, it would only take approximately two months to complete the meditation.
After verifying the potion's effect, Herag hurried to meditate, fully immersing himself.
The Starry Sky Potion's effect lasted for seven hours, conveniently matching the time it took to complete a meditation session.
In the morning, Herag slowly opened his eyes.
The effect of the Starry Sky Potion was exceptionally good, leaving Herag very satisfied.
The only imperfection was a slightly increased heart rate.
Of course, for men who often have more desire than strength, this isn't a side effect at all.
But Herag, with his physical condition, didn't need this effect, and it became a burden instead.
He took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down.
The side effect was a bit more significant than he imagined, and his mind kept replaying scenes from the night at Count Hu En's, which he found somewhat difficult to suppress.