Legendary Soul Art

Number One didn't finish his words as he immediately started heating up the golden cauldron. The amount of money he could save in the future by simply buying defective herbs was immense. Many Auction Houses simply threw those Soul Herbs away because no one was willing to buy them.

"I guess I just need to figure out how long it takes for the herbs to advance in rank," Number One muttered while recalling the process. He noticed the herbs were improving in quality after one week so they had to advance in two or three weeks.

It was a shame Number One didn't monitor the herbs more often but it wasn't that big of a deal. Three weeks was still nothing compared to hundreds of years that some herbs needed to ripen.

"What if I can just grow them from their seeds…?" Number One wondered and finally focused on working.

Number One knew thousands of pill recipes but most of them were rare and only used in rare cases. If he wanted profits, he had to start by making pills with the highest demand on the market. Those pills were naturally Body and Soul Revitalizing Pills which aimed to heal the body and recover lost Soul Energy.

Soul Herbs melted inside the cauldron one by one and everything seemed normal until the last stage of the pill forming. Number One expected to pull out beautiful and shining pills but the pills crumbled in his fingers as soon as he touched them.

"Huh?" Number One tilted his head as he inspected the powder and he didn't take long to figure out the problem. "I see… Since the common herbs advanced in rank, they are now too potent to follow the same recipe. There is a reason why there are many stabilizers in the higher ranks to keep the pill stable."

The Alchemy wasn't as simple as throwing random herbs inside a cauldron and expecting it to work. The old Alchemist was a prime example of that as he made a poisonous pill completely by accident. Each herb had a different reaction with another ingredient and one had to be careful about all the elements mixing together.

"What if I added a drop of Emerald Milk to keep the pill together…" Number One proposed out loud while gazing around the stabilizers he had. He had a whole pool of Emerald Milk which was concentrated enough to connect all the ingredients.

The second batch of pills showed a massive improvement but it also crumbled after a little bit of pressure. Number One wasn't even a bit worried and experimented further by simply increasing the number of drops to three.

"Perfect," Number One acknowledged as he rolled the third batch of pills on his palm and it finally seemed solid enough to store. "But what are the effects though."

It was taboo for the Alchemist to test his own pills but Number One only returned back to the real world to test them. Nami was already gone from the room so he popped the new Soul Revitalizing Pill into his mouth with no one else to stop him.

"Wow," Number One was taken back by the sudden kick as if he had just taken some berserk drug. The pill immediately melted in his mouth and he felt the Soul Energy burst out inside his body.

Number One's Soul was already full so it couldn't accept any more Soul Energy and began pushing the excess out of his body. He suddenly turned into an orange monster with vibrant Soul Energy oozing all over his body. It was so thick that Number One's mouth was open the whole time.

"Don't tell me…" Number One muttered as he suddenly realized something. "Did I just create a two-in-one pill?"

Soul Artists used Soul Crystals to cultivate since that was the purest and most accessible source of Soul Energy. Another method was using Cultivation Pills like a Common Rank Soul Forming Pill or Earth Rank Soul Pulsing Pill. They provided a concentrated Soul Energy which helped with cultivation but it was extremely cost inefficient.

A single high tier Soul Pulsing Pill cost close to a hundred Orange Soul Crystals. Who in their right mind would buy them if they could just use the hundred Soul Crystals to cultivate. If their Soul Talent was decent, they would be able to get higher value out of traditional cultivation.

'There is still plenty of Soul Energy in me that I can use for refilling my Soul and then expand it if I want to,' Number One thought in amazement as he began counting how long would the effects last. Even though his Soul couldn't take advantage of the bonus feature, there were many who would love diversity.

"At least one minute of a constant flow of Soul Energy…" Number One whispered as the effects began to wear off. "The volume is not bad either. I should be able to fill my Soul at least three times in a minute."

Number One couldn't help but stare at his pills excitedly and returned back to his heavenly space. He would definitely test the effects further with Luna but he wondered if he could do better than this. He already tried Earth Rank Soul Herbs so he decided to switch to the Heaven Rank.

The potency of the Heaven Rank Soul Revitalizing Pill was more than triple of the Earth Rank so Number One used ten drops of Emerald Milk this time. He was more careful with his calculation as the Heaven Rank Soul Herbs were more precious and laughed when the pills came out perfectly.

"I am going to be so rich…" Number One commented in amazement as the pills shone with a blue glow. He couldn't even call them Soul Revitalizing Pills anymore since they were much more powerful than standard pills.

Normal Soul Revitalizing Pills usually had just enough Soul Energy to refill the Soul once and the rest of its effects were lost after digesting. Number One's supreme tier pills were so efficient it could even be used as a cultivation material. The Emerald Milk coated the pills and prevented any losses.

"Does that mean I'm better than my Master?" Number One pointed out with a snicker and stored the pills in a vial. "He probably discovered the effects of this heavenly space but was unable to capitalize on the increased potency."

Those types of Pills would already exist if his Master came up with a new recipe. It was probably extremely random that the first stabilizer he tried actually worked but he would gladly take those. A win was a win regardless of luck.

"I'm going to call it a Soul Boost Pill," Number One decided after a short thought and gazed at the stacks of Soul Herbs left to be converted into pills. "I should be done in a few hours if I hurry."

Number One didn't forget about Nami's feelings and began working faster to keep his word to her.