Dokmaeuiseon - Chapter 16

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Chapter 16

 

 

Hangzhou Black Point Branch Leader On Yang-ja.

He was a bigger shot than Jung Myeong had expected.

This massive city of pleasure, Hangzhou.

He was the one responsible for one of the giant forces there.

He was even stronger because the Orthodox Sect’s power was weak in this place.

Since their meeting was captured by those tracking On Yang-ja’s every move.

It was natural that the story would spread to various places.

 

“Really? That On Yang-ja met with a mere Gangho Physician?”

“I hear he’s called a divine physician in the market.”

“Even so, isn’t that just a rumor from some corner of the market?”

“That’s true, but…”

“Don’t worry about that. Don’t they praise anyone as a divine physician if they heal just a little well?”

“Even so, the meeting with On Yang-ja is concerning. Doesn’t he have some hidden identity?”

“Are you saying he’s just pretending to be a physician on the surface?”

“That’s how I see it for now. It’s also strange that he doesn’t take much money for treatment. What should we do?”

“What do you mean what should we do. Investigate him thoroughly.”

“Then the investigation level…”

“He’s still insufficient to be a person of interest. Make it second-class.”

“Then I’ll report regularly and comprehensively.”

“Good. That’s just about right.”

 

There were those who simply ordered investigations.

And those who already had some shallow connection.

 

“That man from back then met On Yang-ja? That Madman with the halberd?”

“Yes.”

“Did he use the gold ingot we gave him on him?”

“It doesn’t look like he’s used it yet.”

“Hmm… So he just ran his mouth in front of that On Yang-ja. Interesting.”

“Should we investigate?”

“No, let’s just watch for now. There will be many following him around anyway. They’ll capture the situation for us, so do we need to step in?”

“Understood.”

“On Yang-ja’s movements at this time… This should be interesting.”

 

They chose to watch secretly.

Besides this, all sorts of reactions emerged.

It wasn’t a strange thing.

Hangzhou’s profit business.

This was enormous enough to be recognized throughout the entire Central Plains.

Into such a massive whirlpool called Hangzhou.

Wasn’t it like a fragment had just dropped in?

Even if it was a small fragment, a fragment was still a fragment.

Since no one knew what changes it might bring, it was natural for everyone to watch.

Moreover, such naturalness was creating a certain flow.

 

 

* * *

 

 

‘The signs are gradually showing.’

 

How could On Yang-ja not know that flow?

He was sitting in Black Point, observing all of Hangzhou.

 

“Are they starting to move?”

“Yes. Starting with Hao Gate and Beggar’s Sect, Golden Tiger Gang and Sea Horn, which includes Sea Evil Gate, are also moving.”

“The rest will be soon too.”

“It seems so. Should we take measures?”

“Leave it for now. That’s why I brought him.”

“You know the situation isn’t good. To leave such a variable in this situation… Cough…!”

“What did I say?”

“I’m, I’m sorry. I’ll leave it.”

“Right. Right. You should listen well. Now, now. Go on in. Today was a long day, wasn’t it?”

“Yes…!”

 

Actually, On Yang-ja could have stopped this flow.

But he left this flow as it was.

This was also what he wanted.

 

 

* * *

 

 

Twenty days and nights after the flow was created.

Jung Myeong was staying in a completely different place, not the inn.

This place where he was staying now.

It was precisely the new residence that On Yang-ja had prepared for him.

Incidentally, this place was also evidence that On Yang-ja had kept his promise.

 

The very day after meeting On Yang-ja.

The Broker had come to find him.

 

‘That Broker wasn’t an ordinary person either.’

 

He was precisely someone pretending to be a broker.

 

-I heard you were looking for a place.

 

[Analyzing the opponent.]

[He is a first-class master.]

 

According to his analysis, he didn’t have the skills to be a broker.

 

-This way.

 

He thoroughly acted as a broker and led him to this place.

It wasn’t very far from the inn he was using as his base.

 

-This is it. Three rooms. The big one is ten kan. The small one is four kan. The warehouse is also usable. You even had an alchemy furnace installed, I hear.

-In just one day?

-It was quite difficult thanks to that.

-So I can stay here now?

-Yes. The owner says ten gold ingots would be sufficient.

-Hm? Suddenly ten gold ingots?

-Is it expensive?

-For a mansion, it’s cheap. But I thought it was being given for free?

-Hehe. You’re as greedy as I heard.

-I know where I stand.

-Actually, it is free.

-Were you trying to embezzle it in the middle?

-He lets me eat according to my abilities. I got an opportunity and moved on it.

-…Ha, really.

 

In truth, the person On Yang-ja sent wasn’t ordinary either.

He tried to pull tricks until the very end.

 

‘If I had made a mistake, I would have been robbed of my gold ingots.’

 

Ten gold ingots.

Since he had some from before, it wasn’t an amount he couldn’t pay.

Looking at the location and size of the residence, even ten gold ingots was cheap.

But.

It also wasn’t money he could easily give away.

To think he would demand such money without changing his expression.

He wasn’t an ordinary guy.

 

Anyway.

This was the residence he obtained that way.

 

‘I’ll create a territory.’

 

The system acknowledged this as well.

 

[Your territory has been created.]

[Your power is enhanced within the territory.]

[Your growth rate is adjusted within the territory.]

[It protects those who belong to the territory.]

 

‘…Oh. This works too?’

 

This kind of territory was something he had in his previous life as well.

He wondered if it might not work, but it worked right away.

In his previous life, it was just a nest as an alchemist.

But in this life, following alchemy, he was also a martial artist, alchemist, and physician.

Since he could surely accomplish more than before.

 

‘This time might be different.’

 

His expectations rose greatly after obtaining the residence as his territory.

 

 

* * *

 

 

Isn’t actually implementing expectations the basics of being an alchemist?

To uphold those basics, he was stationed here.

 

‘I should start with work today too.’

 

After finishing his internal energy cultivation, he headed to the warehouse first.

Incidentally, while he called it a warehouse to others, the real identity of this place was an alchemy room filled with alchemy furnaces.

What he did there was naturally the alchemy method.

His passion for work showed no signs of diminishing.

 

“Good. The alchemy furnace heat has risen properly.”

 

When the heat rose appropriately and the time came.

He would immediately proceed with the work.

 

“Extraction.”

 

The start of that work was extracting materials.

The materials for extraction were prepared in advance.

 

[Extraction succeeds.]

[Medicinal Herbs: Extracting components of hawthorn, bitter orange peel, and magnolia bark.]

[Extraction was successful!]

 

Hawthorn, bitter orange peel, magnolia bark.

Immediately extracting these was the start of the work.

 

‘Hawthorn is easy.’

 

Hawthorn. As the name suggests, it’s a material obtained from hawthorn tree fruit.

Incidentally, this had excellent effects on digestion.

 

The peel of bitter orange, bitter orange peel.

This also had similar effects to hawthorn.

What’s commonly called abdominal distension.

It was a material used to eliminate the feeling of fullness in the stomach.

 

‘It removes gas accumulated in the stomach.’

 

The last one, magnolia bark, was the same.

Like bitter orange peel, it was mainly used to reduce abdominal bloating.

The direction these three medicinal herbs were heading ultimately converged into one.

 

[You have successfully extracted digestive components.]

 

Precisely, digestive components.

When you mix all the digestive components together, doesn’t something come to mind?

 

‘That would be digestive medicine.’

 

Jung Myeong had placed these three ingredients in two separate pots each, boiling and extracting from a total of six pots.

He was enhancing them through extraction when normally just mixing and boiling them separately would produce well-made digestive medicine.

But this wasn’t the end.

He intended to go further.

 

‘I learned alchemy, so I should put it to proper use.’

 

If you just combine these three to make it, wouldn’t it be ordinary digestive medicine?

But if you use alchemy and infuse Internal Energy into it.

The story changes.

You can create a herbal decoction mixed with alchemy!

That’s the identity of another step forward that Jung Myeong was thinking of.

 

“The ratio should be one to one to one, keeping all three equal. The temperature is… Hmm. I need to be careful with this. Maintaining it is important.”

 

The problem was the difficulty level.

It might just be digestive medicine.

But for him, this was his first time making medicine through alchemy.

He had to do it alone without a Master.

He needed to be more careful than usual.

 

“Phew. Calmly. Let’s stay focused and do this.”

 

Gradually controlling by dripping the concentrated medicine.

While proceeding with the mixing.

 

Sssssss—

Simultaneously injecting Internal Energy into the medicinal herbs.

 

[Using Skill: Alchemy.]

 

“Whew.”

 

He concentrated with utmost focus.

And so.

When he succeeded in the final mixing!

 

‘Now!’

 

Ssssh—

Jung Myeong instantly poured in every last bit of his remaining Internal Energy.

 

[Congratulations!]

[You have succeeded in Skill: Alchemy Method.]

 

“Ooh!”

 

At that moment.

The notification he had been waiting for appeared.

Creating a herbal decoction by combining digestive medicine with Internal Energy and the Alchemy Method.

He had succeeded!

 

[You have succeeded in creating a medicine with greatly enhanced digestive components.]

[Would you like to name it?]

 

“Let’s call it Clear Intestine Decoction.”

 

A herbal decoction that clears the intestines.

He gave it an intuitive name.

 

[The medicine has been named Clear Intestine Decoction .]

[Excellent.]

[You have achieved the first success in Alchemy Method using medicine creation.]

[The experience points for Skill: Alchemy Method increase.]

[Would you like to remember the creation method for Clear Intestine Decoction?]

 

“I’ll remember it.”

 

[Secret Technique: Clear Intestine Decoction has been created.]

 

Secret technique. To borrow an expression from his previous life, a recipe.

With saving this, all procedures were complete.

 

 

* * *

 

 

“Whew…”

 

At first glance, it seemed like simple creation.

But Jung Myeong looked quite tired after finishing the manufacturing.

 

“This is harder than I thought, isn’t it?”

 

Matching the medicine’s composition.

And on top of that, controlling Internal Energy.

Trying to balance both wasn’t as easy as he thought.

There were several moments when one wrong move could have wasted all the Internal Energy he had poured in.

In other words, failure had come right before his eyes several times.

Having directly experienced the difficulty of medicine manufacturing, Jung Myeong clicked his tongue.

 

‘The raw materials are cheap, but there was a reason manufactured medicines are expensive.’

 

This shows why medicine is so expensive.

Anyway, it’s a success.

That’s what mattered to him.

 

“One success.”

 

He had set up his residence.

He had also succeeded in making medicine.

This meant all the groundwork he had planned since learning alchemy was complete.

 

Glug glug glug—

Jung Myeong poured the Clear Intestine Decoction into bottles he had prepared in advance.

He filled exactly 100 bottles.

Only then did he step outside.

 

“Whew.”

 

Perhaps because he had gone in early at dawn and was coming out after so long.

The bright sunlight hurt his eyes.

But his expression was still smiling.

 

“Shall I go?”

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