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Chapter 80 Advanced Meditation Method

Chapter 80 Advanced Meditation Method

Locke chose to place his standard three-piece set of first-class wizard apprentices next to the wooden house where Sophia was located, together with his plantation.

 This will be much safer.

 After being attacked by a group of wizard apprentices from the Blood Curse Court last time, Locke felt that Upside Down Alley was no longer safe. There were many people there and there were many wizard apprentices.

 Might as well live with Sophia the Witch.

 Although there are few people here, just the two of them, it will be safer to live around official wizards.

 In a small laboratory in a standard three-piece suite, there is a tool table in this room. There are some distillation equipment, dissection and extraction equipment on the tool table, as well as a set of the most basic tools for refining potions and extracting magic plant seeds. This is probably because of his identity.

 Perhaps it is also possible that this is the standard equipment for a first-class wizard apprentice in Lilith's cabin.

·There are still a lot of blank areas in the laboratory, with only simple decoration. You probably have to purchase the equipment you need.

 Locke carefully placed a bunch of shadow leechworms into a glass tube, and then used a dropper to drop the anesthetic extract of the hellebore plant into it.

 The pile of shadow leeches that were still struggling in the glass tube and trying to climb out began to twitch their muscles one by one, and their bodies were uncontrollable and stopped crawling.

 Shadow leeches are extremely dangerous magical worms.

 Locke's mind flashed a note of caution. The eggs of this insect will enter his body through skin contact and multiply in his body. When he reaches adulthood, he will break out of his skin and enter the host's shadow. He will parasitize within the host's shadow and carry out activities.

 For this reason, the blood essence of this worm is often used to solve the curse of shadows.

 After all the shadow leeches in the glass tube stopped moving, Locke pierced their bodies with steel needles, and then used capillary tubes to insert into their wounds one by one to introduce their blood into a glass bottle.

  This is extracting the blood of shadow leechworms.

  Next, Locke injected the bloodline separation medicine that he had designed long ago into it, and used the mana centrifugal extraction method to begin to separate specific bloodline essence.

 Ten minutes later, Locke looked at the pure blood essence of the shadow leech contained in the glass bottle and let out a breath. "Successful."

  "The blood-vein separation potion I designed has achieved my intended goal. The production and design of the blood-line separation potion is a major project in the Potion Master Assistant Certificate examination. I can complete it. It shows that my level is very close to that of the potion master's assistant."

 Hitchhiker separated ten bottles of shadow leech blood essence and went to Sophia's office next door.

 Shadow leeches are already considered a relatively advanced magic material. Being able to handle them by yourself means that your level has reached a new level.

  Different from the cheap and simple potion materials that he used to deal with, these shadow leech blood essences are already valuable enough and can be sold as first-class wizard apprentice-level potions.

  After all, this is one of the main materials that can be used to make potions.

         Sophia took the shadow leech blood essence from Locke, checked it briefly, nodded and affirmed: "The bloodline separation potion you made was very successful, with very few impurities, probably because your mana fluctuates less."

   "This is good, you can help me save a lot of work in the future."

Being able to process medium-to-high-difficulty potion materials such as shadow leeches means that Locke can handle most potion materials independently.

  Sophia Witch raised her head and said to Locke: "You have mastered the magic flame technology and the design technology of blood-vein separation potion. As long as you can refine another assistant-level standard potion, you can take the Potion Master Assistant Certificate."

  "I recommend you to learn - Meditation Ointment."

 Sofia Witch said frankly: "You can spend a thousand magic stones from me to buy the formula of Meditation Ointment, and then go back and learn how to refine it yourself."

 Sofia Witch said: "At your current level, as long as you know the formula, it is enough to spend your time and learn it by yourself."

"Otherwise, according to the regulations, I will charge you both the recipe fee and the teaching fee. I think teaching... is somewhat useless. The potion master's assistant must at least have sufficient self-study ability."

 Locke saluted Sophia Witch, "Okay, teacher."

 In the past two years, Sophia Witch has carefully taught herself the basics of potion science.

  This is the basis of the teachings of a first-level potion master, so it is extremely solid.

 Sophia Witch's mouth slightly curved, she crossed her hands, leaned on the back of the chair, and looked at Locke. "Locke, you should have understood in the past few days how difficult it is for a wizard apprentice to move forward."

 Locke nodded. "Yes, teacher, whether it is medicine or meditation, the effect is already relatively small."

"However, the academy will start distributing Tears of the Stars potion and Nightshade Potion to me next month. They may have different effects."

Witch Sophia shook her head and said: "Those are like drinking poison to quench thirst, they will only make you spend more magic stones."

"There is a price to pay for exploring the path of truth, and magic stones are just the most common price."
< br/>  "The Blood Nightshade potion can purify the blood and slightly improve the physical talent of the wizard apprentice. Below level 4, it can be improved by one level, and above level 4, it can be improved by half a level. However, this improvement requires lifelong medication, otherwise the improved talent will gradually return to its original state."

 "And you need to take ten bottles of it every month." Sophia Witch raised the corners of her lips, "And the academy only gives you one bottle of Blood Nightshade every month."

"Bloody Nightshade can not only improve the talent of wizard apprentices and make people addicted to it, but also makes every wizard apprentice who has experienced it reluctant to give up. It is very painful, so it is called Bloody Nightshade."

  "The Potion of Tears of the Stars is mainly used to improve the efficiency of meditation. When used in conjunction with the meditation method, the Potion of Tears of the Stars can indeed slightly increase the speed of your spiritual power." Sophia Witch curled her lips, "But that's about it."

  "The Potion of Tears of the Stars can only work when used in conjunction with the meditation method. The key point is the level of your meditation method."

"And two bottles per month is obviously not enough. You can use up to twelve bottles of this potion a month. An average of eight bottles a month will be just right to achieve a drug-poison balance. However, the academy will only distribute two bottles of Star Tears potion to first-class wizard apprentices every month. Each bottle of Star Tears potion is worth about one hundred and fifty magic stones."

"After this calculation, the magic stones you spend every month will reach 2100!"

Witch Sophia said: "So. For those wandering wizards and wild wizards outside the school, becoming a first-class wizard apprentice is almost the limit."

"Their chance of becoming a formal wizard is almost zero."

 There is actually a gap of 800 points of mental power between a first-class wizard apprentice and a formal wizard, and the gold content of each point of mental power is far more than the mental power of all apprentice-level stages.

 With his current speed improvement, even if he meditates for two hundred years, he will not be able to become an official wizard!

 In the future, I will spend more than two thousand magic stones every month to purchase potions such as Blood Nightshade and Stars. Obviously, this is not an expenditure that all first-class wizard apprentices can afford, especially since this is probably only a small part of the expenditure.

 Although the first-class wizard apprentice has a noble status, it is also more difficult.

 Locke asked in confusion: "So, teacher, how did the wizards in the southeast corner become official wizards?"

 Sofia the Witch smiled. "You've got the right idea."

 "Some people don't find the right way, so they can only use a huge amount of magic resources to forcibly increase their mental power to 1000. But in that way, a wizard will consume an unknown amount of magic resources."

 "It's really too difficult, too difficult."

  Sophia Witch said: "So, special advanced potions and advanced meditation methods need to be used here."

  "Special advanced potions aside, when you reach the stage where you should know about this, someone from the academy will naturally tell you. I signed a confidentiality contract, so I can't tell you now."

"Advanced meditation method is the foundation of a school in the southeast corner, and it is absolutely impossible to spread it outside. You are a student of Lilith's cabin, so you have the right to spend 50,000 magic stones to purchase the right to learn the advanced meditation method."

Locke's brows jumped.

  I finally became wealthy during the second-class wizard apprenticeship stage. Now I can see that after entering the first-class wizard apprenticeship class, I am clearly destitute.

 Sophia Witch said: "Of course, if you don't have 50,000 magic stones for the time being, you can sign a meditation loan contract first."

 Sophia Witch sighed helplessly. "Locke."

   "I also want to teach you directly, but I am also restricted by the non-proliferation agreement of the Southeast Angle Domain Advanced Meditation Method of the White Wizard Society."

“If I teach you privately at a low price, I will be subject to strict investigation by the association’s ethical review mechanism.”