This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 78 - Enhanced Version Senzu Beans_1

78: Chapter 78: Enhanced Version Senzu Beans_1

78 -78: Enhanced Version Senzu Beans_1

[Upon seeing you, the Old Farmer was elated and shouted ‘my grandson has returned!’.

He quickly brought you into the house and asked about your recent experiences.]

[You hid the truth and the old man didn’t pursue further, assuming you were tired.

He then scampered off to the kitchen and soon brought you a bowl of ‘Rainbow Rice Porridge’.]

[This was the Old Farmer’s secret recipe, a wonderful rainbow rice porridge containing the essence of Five-Grain Spirit Plant that he carefully brewed.

Eating it not only quickly restores stamina but also strengthens the body and clears the mind.]

[After consuming the Rainbow Rice Porridge, you felt a surge of energy.

Your slightly depleted HP and magic points were fully restored, and your completely used up action points instantly returned to their maximum value.

Moreover, a warm flow circulated within your body and was eventually transformed into an attribute point.]

[Action Points restored to 11/11, Free Attribute Points +1 (maximum increase limit from similar food is 10 points).]

“What the hell!”

Mu You was shocked, what kind of enhanced senzu beans was this?

A bowl of it not only fully restored HP, magic, and action points, but also granted an attribute point!

[With your action points restored, you bid farewell to the old man and prepared to go up the mountain to gather herbs.]

[The old man didn’t stop you, but he asked you to come home early.

He would prepare meals for you to come home to at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.]

“I see.”

Mu You finally understood.

This was the reward for choosing to inherit the identity of the Medicinal Plant Gatherer.

You could return to the Thatched Cottage once each morning, afternoon, and evening to recover.

This was equivalent to quadrupling the maximum action points to 44 in a day!

After confirming the reward for the inherited identity, Mu You no longer hesitated at all.

If one was a one-time short-term gain and the other a long-term gain, he would certainly choose the long-term gain.

After all, the essence of this game was a process of exchanging action points for lifespan.

In the game, action points were basically equivalent to lifespan.

And with him gaining over 30 extra action points each day, that was equivalent to at least 30 more years of life.

Over the long term, its value would certainly exceed that of the horn.

Even more so, eating the rice porridge could also increase attributes!

Although there was an upper limit, 10 was not a small number.

It was equivalent to the free attributes from leveling up twice, meaning he would always have ten more attribute points than others at the same level in the future.

This advantage was accumulated little by little.

[Having eaten your fill, you bid farewell and continued to gather herbs in the mountain.]

[Now that you have the Medicinal Plant Gatherer’s skin, you have a much stronger perception of the locations of herbs, making it much easier for you to find Spirit Grass while climbing the mountain.]

[You found a marjoram flower, a commonly seen Spirit Plant of the fragrance type.

Its scent is soothing to pain.]

[You cut it with a scythe, getting 1 marjoram flower and 1 herb essence.]

…

[You found a pot marigold, a common honey source Spirit Plant, whose aroma has a strong appeal to Insect Demons.]

[You cut it with a scythe, getting 1 pot marigold and 1 herb essence.]

…

[You found a type of mistletoe, a common parasitic Spirit Plant.

Its sap can neutralize many common toxins…]

[You cut it with a scythe, getting 1 mistletoe and 1 herb essence.]

…

Even though 11 action points seemed a lot, it actually only amounted to several tens of minutes of grinding.

Within less than an hour, Mu You had depleted his game stamina.

In this process, he only encountered three Magical Beasts while the rest were all various types of Spirit Grass that he did not recognize.

The gift of Elixir Perception was truly remarkable.

The only regret was that he seemed to have only found common Spirit Grass, and had yet to discover any particularly special one, let alone the herbs required for the Spirit Calling Potion.

This wasn’t surprising, though, since he was only at the foot of the mountain where the Spirit Grass was always picked over by various Medicinal Plant Gatherers.

The quality certainly couldn’t be as good as that from higher up.

Now totally out of stamina, he had to wait until noon for the next stamina replenishment.

Mu You had his character return to the Thatched Cottage along the original route, quietly waiting for granny to cook lunch.

For now, the game was in standby.

However, he still had a lot to do in reality.

Mu You logged out of the game, but didn’t have time to sleep.

Instead, he hurried out to buy some medicinal herbs from the nearest Chinese medicine shop.

He bought a small packet of each kind of frequently used herbs like honeysuckle, ginseng, goji berries, and forsythia.

Luckily, this shop was not so formal and didn’t demand a prescription.

Mu You paid off the bill with a swagger, prompting the shop owner to immediately wrap everything up for him.

The shopkeeper was an old traditional Chinese doctor wearing reading glasses.

When he saw the 15 or 16 kilograms of herbs on the scale, he gave Mu You an odd look.

After seeing Mu You’s dark circles and bloodshot eyes, his expression seemed to say “I knew it,” and he sighed, “Ah, you young man, you really have to control yourself!”

“…”

Mu You was stunned by the comment.

What was he supposed to say in response?

He decided to let it slide, the more he tried to explain the darker it would get.

He picked up the big and small packages, went outside, and hastily ran back home.

After throwing down the stuff, Mu You went upstairs, found his express delivery in the storage room.

Two large boxes of chemistry apparatus—beakers, test tubes, alcohol lamps, mortar…almost everything you could think of was amongst them.

After a brief inspection, Mu You took all these utensils, along with the herbs he just bought, to the basement of the building.

With all the materials now ready, he was preparing to concoct his first-ever Magic Potion!

To prevent being disturbed midway, Mu You locked the shop and sent WeChat messages to Little Ya and Lin Xue, telling them they didn’t need to come to work and that the shop would be closed for a day.

Then, he returned to the basement and took out the bottles and jars from the delivery package, placing them one after another on the table in front of him.

He also fetched the ‘Witch’s Cauldron’ he obtained earlier from the game.

This cauldron, which looked like a black pot, could adjust its size within a certain range according to one’s requirements.

It could grow into an immense soup pot with a diameter of nearly half a meter when at its largest, and could shrink to a teacup-sized mini-cauldron when at its smallest.

With the equipment set, Mu You didn’t hurry to start.

Before brewing the medicine, he had an idea he wanted to try.

Mu You took out the Fool’s Card.

The Barrier of the Fool’s Card could speed up time by 360 times.

Hence, a second was akin to 6 minutes.

If this could work in conjunction with his Time Pocket Watch, couldn’t he increase the original 5-second time reversal to a half-hour?

Of course, during that half-hour, he would have to stay in the narrow boundary space, and he couldn’t launch The Fool game in that boundary, so it was impossible to use this power to refresh the game on a grand scale.

But if that half-hour was used to prepare the Magic Potion, it would be more than suitable!

Provided this idea was feasible, whenever Mu You failed while brewing the potion, he could immediately rewind time, repeating the process of concoction again and again until he succeeded!

This could save a significant amount of herb resources and quickly elevate his proficiency in a particular Magic Potion in a short time.

The only issue right now was: to open the Fool’s Boundary required an ‘Adventurous Spirit’, so how could he create an ‘adventurous’ environment in his safe home?