"What's the problem?" Luo Keng asked softly waiting to hear the main concerns.
"Well, the first problem is that the pill recipe I have is not something that others have. It's called a Parasite Erasing Pill. The pill basically kills the parasite in your body without harming you."
"One of the ingredients to the Parasite Erasing pill is the root of a small herb known as Lavender Bloodweed, and I only have a single one of that ingredient."
"I will need to know the grade of the parasite after a few more examinations to know exactly how strong of a True Rank parasite it is. But, normally, the pill will need to be at least Earth grande to be successful," Alex said.
"So… we only have a single chance at making the pill?" Shi Nangong asked.
Alex nodded in affirmation. Both Luo Xing and Luo Mei gasped in horror when they learned that.
"How long do you think I can survive like this?" Luo Keng asked.
"From what I can tell… you will start having problems moving around in a week or so, and soon after that lose functions of your organs one after another. After that, it's only a matter of time before…" Alex stopped.
Luo Xing started sniffing as tears streamed down her face. Luo Mei was still in disbelief.
"C-Can't you wait until you know more before you make such conclusions?" Luo Mei asked.
"You're not wrong, but the fact still remains that we need to make an Earth Grade True Pill. That alone is clear to me. I will let you know if there are other methods," Alex said.
"An alchemist who can make True rank pills with Earth grade Harmony on the very first try… that is going to be troublesome," Luo Keng said silently.
"The number of people that can possibly do that can be counted on a single hand," Xiao Huang said from the side.
"Oh right, can't your master help father?" Luo Mei asked. "We can take him back and you get get your master to make him a pill."
The surrounding people were confused about who Luo Mei referred to as master when they should be disciple siblings themselves.
"Master… should be unavailable at the moment," Alex said. He didn't want to reveal that Ma Rong could no longer make pills like she used to. She had received a boon and a curse after her constitution awakened.
"Then… then… then the Royal Alchemist? He should be available. Let's go to the capital," Luo Mei said.
"Isn't the Royal Alchemist impossible to be found or recognized? He changes his face every time he moves around. Unless you have direct communication with him, you can't find him at all," Xiao Huang said.
"I've heard the same," Shi Nangong said.
"Then…" Luo Mei tried to think of other possible ideas.
"Meimei, enough," Luo Keng said. He then turned around to Alex and said, "I can't really move around a lot, so travel itself should be out of the question. Nephew Ming should try and see if there are other ways to heal me."
"Don't worry, Uncle. I will do my best," Alex said.
Luo Keng looked over to his girls and said, "Don't cry. At least I got diagnosed. Just a day earlier even that seemed impossible. Surely something better will happen in the coming days."
Old man Jin return a few moments later and stayed away from the group. Alex saw him standing at the side and walked up to him.
"Senior Jin, did you get it?" he asked.
"Yes, young lord. It's quite a few books though, I don't know how you will finish these," Old man Jin said as he took out about 30 books from his storage bag and handed it to Alex.
"Oh wow, there's so many," Alex said in surprise. He quickly took it into his storage bags and thanked the old man Jin.
"Uncle, Auntie, I just got some medical books so I will go and try to find out more if I can," Alex said.
"Sure Nephew, go," Luo Keng said.
Alex nodded and left them there. He went back to his room and looked at the time.
"8 pm huh? This… will take me a while," he thought and took out the books and started reading them one by one.
Since he was just reading and nothing else, he used his focus mode to the max to read the books as fast as he could. In fact, he didn't even read the books properly but simply just looked at them and moved on to another page.
When he tried to recall the information, he would simply just think back to this page and then could read it all properly at that time.
In such a way, he finished reading through all of the books in just 2 hours. However, at the end of the reading, he felt very mentally fatigued once more.
"Wow, using Focus mode to the fullest for so long is so problematic," he thought. He quickly tossed the books back into his storage bag and got into a lotus position to start learning about the books.
Memories of something he had never learned before started returning to him as he thought about the information one by one.
He still couldn't believe how weird it felt. 'I am easily allowed knowledge of all plants, but medical knowledge I have to read to get,' he thought.
The more he read, the more he remembered. The entire night passed by before he knew it and it was the morning.
Still, he was a little more than halfway done learning everything. Alex stopped after that.
He looked back at how much he had learned. Unfortunately, even though he learned about 20 books of content, a lot of them were content from books he had already read so most of it turned out to be a waste of time.
Still, he learned about 13 books worth of content, so he was quite happy. He looked through his understandings and at some points he got a little confused.
'Did I read that somewhere?' he wondered when he looked into the memories of the books. But from what he could see, he never read it anywhere.
It was minor information that he could've easily skipped, but he caught it, and now it was making him really curious.
"Wait, am I remembering more than I read?" he thought. If that was true then it would be glorious for him.
He tried to experiment with it a little and started remembering just one more book. There was information in the book that he had already acquired back in the Tiger sect, but most of it was new.
As he read the book, he realized that during some of the information he tried to understand, a few more information would be released in his mind.
"Are these… extra information, or just more accurate information?" he wondered and continued learning.
After a few more times it happened, he compared the results and saw that it was both. Sometimes the information would be something a little different from what he learned, and sometimes it would be a little more than what he learned.
It was never entirely new or entirely different. It was just extra.
Alex felt a little happy learning all that and logged out. He went on with his daily life for the rest of the day.
He went to get his breakfast, studied a little, checked the internet to see what was happening, went to his classes, and finally returned back to his game.
Once he was back in the guest room, he decided to finish learning the rest of the books. It took him quite a bit of time before he did so.
Only around 10 pm did he finally finish learning everything.
'That's a lot of information to keep track of. Thankfully, my mind does it for me. Alchemy God's Knowledge really is great,' he thought.
It was finally time to see if he could find some more problems or solutions for Luo Mei's father.
So he started searching for answers. As soon as he started looking for them, answers started flooding his mind like they were hungry dogs seeing meat.
"This…" he thought as he looked at what answers to the problems were.
The first thing he figured out was the name of the parasite. He had seen the parasite using his spiritual sense yesterday, so when he thought about it, a parasite with a similar description came to his mind.
Long and thin worm-like organism, with a gaping hole for its mouth. The parasite had giant wing-like flaps with spiky carapaces next to its tail to firmly attach itself to the host.
The overall color of the parasite was white but looked red in most parts due to the blood it was in. It had fine black circular lines across its body and would consume any Qi thrown towards it.
If it came across something that did not have anything to do with Qi or Blood, it would force the host's body to throw it away.
"A Hundred Lives Parasite, huh? Let's see…" he thought as he checked through the information. At first, it was normal stuff he read that all parasites could do, but when he reached the part about curing the host of the parasite, his eyes went wide and he smiled.
"This… this can be done. We don't need the pill or an alchemist. But…" Alex looked at the only problem there was for curing Luo Keng.
"I hope this helps a little," he thought and opened his status page.
Then, he clicked Breakthrough.
