Free Web NovelChapter 410: Chapter 397: Teacher Dan Temple
Gu Ming made absolutely sure Lu You wasn’t joking; she really wanted to continue adventuring with him.
He couldn’t very well refuse her outright.
Besides, without Mianmian’s Perception Ability, the difficulty of exploring the Yichuan Ruins would increase at least tenfold, if not a hundredfold.
Then, Gu Ming looked at the high-end materials he couldn’t use for the time being.
They were the Dreamland and the Dreamless Water Bud.
The Dreamland could treat patients suffering from soul loss. It was a product from a second wave of major development that wouldn’t happen for another ten years, so no one had yet researched its Rejuvenation effect.
Gu Ming could use this opportunity to start a research project to help patients with soul loss. A successful Rejuvenation would result in a major paper, guaranteed to be of the highest caliber.
The other rare material was the Dreamless Water Bud. It could make a Beastmaster or Pet Beast lose the ability to dream and was the core ingredient for the Dreamless Pill.
The Dreamless Pill was also a high-end Elixir from the future. According to fragmented hints from the system, it was a required Elixir for a new type of Spiritual Skills.
However, the other ingredients weren’t listed, so Gu Ming didn’t know the Pill Formula for the Dreamless Pill.
Therefore, he could only seek out a teacher who knew about the "Dreamless Pill" and consult them.
Gu Ming looked at the list of teachers on his phone.
Although the major rescue operation had been extremely dangerous, all the teachers he saved had exchanged contact information with him.
The list included top academic experts as well as Alchemy masters.
Gu Ming had originally planned to take the main ingredient and ask the nearly omniscient Teacher Tang.
But among the masters he’d rescued, there was one Alchemy master who the system had marked as a Nine-star Level expert.
Of course, in reality, the man was currently only an Eight-star Level Alchemy Beastmaster.
He had gone to the Yichuan Ruins simply because he’d heard the Spiritual Illusion Realm there was exceptionally severe.
All kinds of medicinal plants native to the area, even common Spirit Medicines, were tainted with powerful hallucinogenic properties.
Of course, stronger hallucinogenic properties also naturally gave rise to Spirit Medicines with extremely high resistance to Illusion Techniques.
This Alchemy teacher had come precisely for that reason.
He had been simultaneously participating in the rescue and foraging for herbs, but ended up getting trapped himself during his search.
Several of his Pet Beasts were trapped in a dreamscape, unable to escape.
He himself was lost in an endless Illusion Realm. He tried to break free but couldn’t, and at one point, he thought he was going to die in there, a thought that filled him with immense regret.
Gu Ming had rescued him, and the man was extremely grateful. He added Gu Ming’s contact information and said that if Gu Ming wanted to refine any Elixirs in the future, he could come directly to him.
Even if he was too busy, he had many Pill Pets, and one of them could always help complete the refinement process.
It was just that without his personal guidance, Elixirs refined independently by a Pet Beast might not be quite as perfect.
Gu Ming was currently messaging this Alchemy master, and he sent him a picture of the Dreamless Water Bud.
"Teacher Dan, I discovered this ingredient makes my Pet Beast lose the ability to sleep—meaning it no longer has dreams.
"Do you think this ingredient could be used to refine an Elixir that stops people from dreaming?"
Not long after Gu Ming sent the message, the teacher replied.
"This ingredient is very rare. I’ve only ever heard of an old friend of mine finding some. Bring it over and let my Pill Pet analyze it."
Teacher Dan wanted him to bring the ingredient over to analyze its composition.
That was the suggestion, but Gu Ming didn’t leave right away. Instead, he took the opportunity to glance at his system.
Sure enough, after he started chatting with this "future Nine-star master," the master’s offhand advice immediately appeared in the commentary feed.
It showed how to refine it and what ingredients were required.
It specified which highly corrosive psychotropic ingredients needed to be neutralized and with what.
It also detailed how to remove components that were highly destructive to a Pet Beast’s Sea of Consciousness, and so on.
Just reading the text made Gu Ming’s head spin; there were many names of ingredients he didn’t recognize at all.
Looks like he would have to put in some effort to research them.
If he couldn’t find them in any available records, they were probably ingredients that would only appear in the future.
Fortunately, however, Alchemy itself was a highly technical craft.
Even if some of the supporting ingredients weren’t available, there were often many lower-grade substitutes that could be used.
The guidance from a Nine-star Alchemist was, naturally, extraordinary.
All Gu Ming had to do was tell the teacher, "I don’t have these ingredients."
In reality, this was a pretense to discuss with Teacher Dan whether other ingredients could be substituted, or if certain ones could be omitted, thereby prompting a deduction of the Dreamless Elixir’s properties.
In the eyes of the Nine-star master, this was all common knowledge, so he casually listed the possible substitute ingredients.
You have learned the names of replaceable supplementary ingredients unknown to the common person. You now know that by refining it this way, its medicinal properties will not be significantly weakened.
At most, the processing steps for certain ingredients will be more troublesome. For a fifty-year-old like Old Deng, this is obviously a hassle and impossible to handle without a professional Pill Pet.
’Finally, I have the answers,’ Gu Ming thought.
The fact that it was troublesome to process wasn’t the main issue.
He couldn’t do it, but among the many Beastmaster students in the Capital, someone was bound to be willing to research it.
Besides, Teacher Dan’s Pill Pets could also lend a hand.
As long as Teacher Dan didn’t try to seize ownership of the Pill Formula, everything was negotiable.
Delighted, Gu Ming searched online for the key supporting ingredients mentioned in the commentary feed.
A moment later, Gu Ming finished his search.
The alternative ingredients Teacher Dan had mentioned were all well-known, high-end materials that were currently available.
The same went for the supplementary ingredients. It didn’t matter if the processing was twice as complex; the important thing was that they were popular materials, which meant they could be bought with money.
And just like that, he got his hands on the Pill Formula for the "Dreamless Pill."
An idea struck Gu Ming, and he decided to start two small projects over the next six months.
However, this would require the university’s support.
Coincidentally, his club needed a favor from him, so he could ask the club president to help him secure the necessary approvals from the administration.
He had also rescued the university’s teachers, for which there would be a separate reward from the school itself, not just from the archeological team. However, it would probably take some time for that reward to be issued.
With a plan forming in his mind, Gu Ming took the Dreamless Water Bud and went to find Teacher Dan.
Teacher Dan’s full name was Dan Temple, which was a rare surname. He was also one of the few teachers at the university who had reached the Eight-star realm relying on Pill Pets.
At the university, Teacher Dan only taught Spiritual Element Alchemy, focusing on the development and refinement of Elixirs for Spiritual Pet Beasts.
He could naturally refine other types of Elixirs as well, but he didn’t teach courses on them.
Wenquxing University had numerous Alchemy masters, each with their own specialized courses, so there was no need for him to teach other subjects.
When Gu Ming arrived at his Alchemy Room with the Dreamless Water Bud, Teacher Dan was nowhere to be seen. Instead, his Pill Pet floated before Gu Ming.
Gu Ming observed the Pill Pet. It was an ethereal ball of purple flame, about the size of two basketballs, with eyes as large as eggs.
When it opened its mouth, the surrounding temperature dropped, creating a strange sensation of alternating heat and cold.
The creature spoke:
"Come in.
"Master is still resting. He just got back from the Yichuan Ruins and needs to recover as quickly as possible.
"We’re not in great shape either, but analyzing the ingredient won’t be a problem.
"Ah, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Ice Orchid, but everyone calls me Ice Demon Flame."
Gu Ming was slightly surprised to hear this. ’A pure, incorporeal elemental Pet Beast, and with an Ice-Fire Dual Attribute at that.’ It was a combination of two completely opposite Attributes, second only to the Light and Dark Dual Attribute combination.
