A smile tugged at the corner of Opal's mouth:

"Of course, I have consulted several teachers who are good at alchemy, herbology, and curiosities.

"After studying the occult properties and pharmacology of Bloodstone, they determined one thing - you can use your herbalistic abilities to concoct it into a potion and neutralize the negative energy contained in the Abyssal Bloodstone with other medicinal herbs with opposite pharmacology.

"This is the method of refining the corresponding potion, including the skill of mastering the heat, the auxiliary materials required, and the mantra that needs to be chanted when refining......"

A flood of information came to Russell in the dream, which contained the knowledge that many teachers had discussed. It took Russell more than ten minutes to receive all the information and stop to sort out the knowledge in his head.

This is a potion called the "Secret Blood Elixir", and the core ingredient is the crumbs of bloodstone. Such a large piece of abyssal bloodstone can refine at least five or six secret medicines.

This potion can greatly increase the spiritual level of the person who takes it, and increase its strength. The effect lasts for 3 minutes.

During this time, the negative emotions in his heart will be dramatically amplified, and he may become cold or crazy. However, because of the short time, there are generally no long-term negative effects.

When the effect of the medicine ends, his body and mind, spirit and body, will fall into weakness and become more fragile.

"It's a side effect, but it's a very powerful hole card!" Russell preliminarily judged.

For the second-year students of the Necromancy and Life Department and the second-year students of the Transformation and Summoning Department, these two transcendent beings with extraordinary abilities such as "refining potions", it will be more effective to take the potions that they have refined themselves.

Scholars believe that this is because the potions they refine have a occult connection with themselves.

But Russell suspects that this is just a rationale for restricting the frequent use of drugs by professions other than "alchemists" and "herbalists".

The strength of the secret blood potion, coupled with the bonus brought by the pharmacist's own medication, how far Russell could improve his strength, Russell did not know how far he could go.

But he estimates that it may not just be promoted to the late second grade!

"20 Academy Gold Coins have been deposited into the bearer account of the College Campus Bank, plus the knowledge just now, as a reward for your action. The account is as follows, and you can go and withdraw it at any time. ”

After Opal finished explaining the reward, he snapped his fingers and ended the dream.

Russell woke up from his dream and opened his eyes to see the light of dawn.

……

For the next 3 days, Russell waited for messages from the Book of Shadows, checking the last few pages of the Book of Shadows every once in a while, almost as often as he looked at his phone.

He just wanted to see when the Red Order of Chaos would give him the information!

During this time, Russell went to the offline physical trading area again and saw Xinghuo again, but did not have an in-depth exchange. After spending money to buy several supernatural materials needed to refine the secret blood potion, he left.

……

On the afternoon of August 7.

"It worked."

In the laboratory, under the silvery moonlight, Russell looked at the bubbling blood-red liquid in the bottle, and the abyssal bloodstone next to him, which had been cut off, and wiped the sweat from his forehead with relief.

Although the secret blood elixir is not low, the difficulty of refining it is not high, and with the strength of Russell's mid-second year herbalist, it is not a problem to refine.

However, the refining process is particularly cumbersome, and includes several ritual steps with occult significance, such as requiring transcendents to dance in front of the potion like a great god, or requiring multiple people to sing in circles around the potion.

After an afternoon of hard work in the laboratory, Russell finally succeeded in refining the first secret blood potion.

"What are you tired of, we are tired."

The ghosts complained from behind.

Behind him, the ghost split soul separated by 4 wind chimes, and he was busy all the time, dancing and singing, but he was tired, and he became a lot lighter, and the transparency was extremely high, and he was panting now.

"Do you have an independent sense of self? Aren't they all part of the wind chimes? ”

Russell turned his head and questioned the vague ghostly phantoms.

"No," the soul splitters said in unison, making the sound of wind chimes, "I am the wind chime, but I am also very tired when I divide several soul splitting conductors, and one person sings and dances!" ”

Russell ignored the wind chime's complaints, and refocused his attention on the potion he had just refined.

He found that just staring at the blood-red liquid tumbling in the bottle would randomly swell up with different negative emotions in his mind, including pain, apathy, rage, madness, and murderous intent.

"It seems that the side effects still can't be ignored." Russell analyzed it seriously.

If you drink the potion, the random negative emotions it brings are just apathy, but it doesn't matter. But if he feels angry and crazy, it will definitely affect his intelligence level and interfere with his fighting thoughts.

"I still have to cooperate with the mind spell to suppress those negative emotions that will reduce my intelligence level and normal play." Russell had a solution for the time being.

In his phone's photo album, the Soul Photos had long since been refilled, including a "hint" from Clara.

……

After dinner, Russell wandered outside for a while, recovering spiritually and adjusting his state.

When Russell returned to the dormitory with the newly refined potion, he was surprised to see—

In the originally empty dormitory, there is a familiar figure!

Subway is back!

Subway, who had just returned to school, also happily got up from his seat when he saw Russell and came out to greet him. He greeted Russell warmly and boasted:

"Ah, how do you know that I've reached the peak of mid-sophomore and am constantly looking for an opportunity to break through to the late sophomore stage?"

Russell raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked in a little surprise:

"How did you level up so quickly? What did you just do to practice the extraordinary? ”

He remembers that both Subway and himself reached half-step second grade in February. It's early August now, and in less than half a year, even if absorbing the second-grade scroll can ascend to spirituality and increase the strength of a small realm, it's a bit fast.

Year 2 hasn't started yet!

Russell himself, but he has been relying on shooting ghost movies and practicing herbalism, practicing psychic and herbal medicine, and the great insight brought by the resurrection after death, he was promoted to the middle of the second year, and there is still a long way to go before the peak of the middle stage!

Subway shook his head and put on a different tone of singing than usual:

"Your Excellency Russell doesn't know anything, I don't know how wonderful the experience has been since I returned to the family for more than a month.

"On top of the family competition, I single-handedly broke through the enemies and became the best of my peers, which attracted the amazement of countless people in the audience!"

Given Subway's character, Russell was skeptical of the veracity of what he said:

"And then?"

"Then, in order to reward me, the family members spent a lot of natural resources and earth treasures to preside over the ceremony to help me improve my strength and let me reach the peak of the middle of the second year. The clan boss of the third-year realm also taught me powerful spells, which were quite in line with the transcendent system I had mastered in the academy. ”

"Oh."

Russell let out a faint oh and said nothing else.

Subway stood there for a moment, making sure that Russell really didn't mean to praise him, and returned to his seat in mockery.

"But this time I went home, I was really lucky, I didn't expect the harvest to be so big." Subway muttered.

Russell also sat back in his seat, pondering Subway's words, and suddenly realized:

"I see."

"What do you know?"

Russell explains:

"Because you and I are allies. After becoming the protagonist's companion, the speed at which you will increase your strength will also increase, and there is a greater chance that you will encounter an opportunity to improve your strength. ”

"......" Subway's face is full of black lines.

He looked disdainful at first, but after carefully observing Russell's expression, he was convinced that Russell was completely rational and natural, and did not seem to be funny or boastful.

He and Russell have been roommates for a year, and they know that Russell is indeed troubled by a special physique, so he actually believes that what Russell said is the truth.

At this time, Russell came up with a creative idea:

"If I team up with the whole college, can I speed up everyone's upgrade and improve the learning efficiency of all the students in the college?"

Because he was not in a position to put his ideas into practice for the time being, Russell put down the idea just now, took out the Book of Shadows from his dimensional pocket, and turned to the last few pages.

I wonder if anyone from the Red Order of Chaos has a message?

On the originally blank page, lines and lines of blood-colored words suddenly appeared!

……

(I want to enter "secret blood", voice input always gives me "Honey Snow")

(Honey Snow Ice City Sweet Honey ~~~ Beat the Luckin villain ~~~)

(End of chapter)