After about half an hour of enlightenment and study.

[Your insight progress on the recipe: Evergreen Ointment has reached 100%.]

[Due to the presence of various ingredients in the Evergreen Ointment recipe that you cannot comprehend, your success rate of understanding has greatly decreased.]

[Based on your hidden profession: Daoist Alchemist's feature: East-West Fusion, you can rely on intuition to find substitute ingredients. This may lead to mutations in the Evergreen Ointment recipe. Continue?]

Bai Pu chose to continue. A brainstorm flooded his mind instantly:

The main ingredient: Void Cyan Milk is missing.

What exactly is Void Cyan Milk? Seems like a Spirit Realm rare treasure native to the Eastern Wilderness Forest Sea, resembling a wood attribute heavenly material and earthly treasure!

I wonder if I could use the distilled and purified sap of the demonized demonic plant from the Wilderness Area — the Giant Bull Milk Tree, to replace the Void Cyan Milk after cooling?

Recipe material: Longevity Fruit is missing.

What is the Longevity Fruit? Could it be a nickname for peanuts, no no, think again...

After a round of brainstorming, a virtually new recipe emerged in Bai Pu's mind.

[You have comprehended a brand-new recipe (unnamed).]

At the same time, the recipe Dongbo Cheng gave Bai Pu evaporated into a stream of particle-like smoke and dispersed between heaven and earth.

Bai Pu felt a bit nervous; this brand-new recipe was his own creation, and it might not succeed in producing a final product.

No matter what, as long as it has seventy to eighty percent of the Evergreen Ointment's efficacy, Bai Pu would be satisfied.

Through the Boundary Land of "Frost Moon Forest", purchasing materials from all over the country can be quick and convenient.

Bai Pu quickly gathered all the ingredients and fired up the furnace... no, started brewing the potion in a pot.

Upon learning that Bai Pu was going to make potions, his colleagues from Special Service Group Six came rushing over, keenly observing.

They don't have the knowledge reserves about pharmaceutics, merely here for the spectacle, with no possibility of stealing the recipe. If it were this easy to learn, alchemists, blacksmiths, and other sub-professions would have been out of work long ago.

"Oh, it's the first time I've seen potions being made in an iron pot."

"Shh, don't disturb Gangxin. Maybe this is a unique skill of a Daoist Alchemist." Anvil said quite seriously, envying Bai Pu's hidden sub-profession, even spending some Spiritual Points to inquire about transferring to a hidden sub-profession. Hearing about the S-level difficulty, he could only sigh in vain.

"Hey, isn't this a Glazed Fruit? I usually eat it as a snack, and it can also be used in medicine?" Yuan Yue curiously watched as Bai Pu poured a basket of crystal clear "peanuts" into the mill, grinding them into powder bit by bit.

Everyone was full of curiosity about Bai Pu's potion-making process, chatting as they watched.

Having watched most of the production process, the crowd was utterly shocked, only able to describe it as "eye-opening" and "unconventional".

Seeing Bai Pu pour a large pot of milky paste into an electric rice cooker and set it for two hours of slow simmering, they could no longer hold back.

Li Ling quipped, "Are you sure you're brewing a potion, not cooking?"

Yuan Yue added, "It shouldn't be cooking; the Glazed Fruit is ground too finely to withstand simmering."

Anvil looked confused, "Is this the potion-making method for a hidden sub-profession?"

Yuan Hall coughed, "I am a dignified leader; I must maintain my composure at all times, and I won't laugh no matter how strange the situation..."

Bai Pu picked up his practice heavy sword and left, leaving everyone around the rice cooker, staring at each other.

...

"Mind your strength... release only thirty percent of the sword's power, and reserve seventy percent."

"Reserving strength can increase the speed of the sword; when the edge touches the opponent, unleash the retained power one hundred percent..."

Bai Pu, while recalling the sword training pointers taught by Beiming Jihu, focused on swinging his sword, strike after strike, falling like the wind upon hanging wooden boards.

The boards trembled slightly, leaving one ink mark after another.

The ink marks were from the practice heavy sword's unsharpened tip — a method Bai Pu devised.

The force needed to leave ink marks on the board was just enough to crush a fly.

As long as Bai Pu could leave ink marks on the board without causing it to tilt heavily or break, he roughly achieved the goal of lifting heavy as light.

Thud thud thud...

After a flurry of soft sounds, the eight wooden boards trembled gently, each leaving a faint ink mark at its center.

The first step was a success!

Of course, it wasn't enough to meet Beiming Jihu's standards yet.

Flies are living creatures, and very nimble. To simultaneously and tracelessly kill eight flies on a wall is naturally more difficult than leaving ink marks on eight boards.

Bai Pu closed his eyes slightly, savoring the recent experience.

Suddenly, the door of the practice room was pushed open.

Li Ling and Yuan Yue entered first, squeezing into the practice room.

"Gangxin (Bai Pu)!"

They shouted simultaneously.

"Your potion is ready!" This was Li Ling's voice.

"It's amazing, how did you do it?" Yuan Yue's tone was more excited.

Bai Pu saw the faces of the two beauties, unable to conceal their excitement, and felt somewhat invigorated.

Could it be that the brand-new recipe is exceptionally effective? Even better than the Evergreen Ointment itself?

Under the half-pull, half-drag of Yuan Yue and Li Ling, Bai Pu hurried to the potion-making room — the kitchen. Of course, the different sensations of soft jade arms around his arms were absolutely a delightful experience along the way.

"Just what kind of potion did I make that would make Sister Ling so excited?"

Bai Pu stepped into the kitchen and approached the rice cooker.

Yuan Hall and others moved aside.

Inside the rice cooker, there lay a half-pot of cream-like, frost-white ointment.

[Unknown mysterious ointment: special item, an ointment for beauty. It deeply repairs aging damage in the skin, and frequent use can have youth-preserving effects. It can also remove scars when applied to healed wounds.]

"Just this?"

Bai Pu frowned. This was far from the effect he imagined.

"Failed... It's not even comparable to the Emergency First Aid Ointment, let alone the Evergreen Ointment. Probably because the cost was too low, using ordinary real-world ingredients as substitutes..." Bai Pu reviewed it carefully and started analyzing the cause with a frown.

"What failure?" Yuan Yue snorted, "This is an ointment with youth-preserving effects!"

Li Ling also coughed lightly, "Bai Pu, I think you're underestimating the effects of this miraculous ointment. I suggest you reevaluate it from the perspective of female consumers."

Beauty and youth-preserving effects...

Bai Pu looked at the description text on the ointment and understood the reason for Li Ling and Yuan Yue's excitement.

"Well, I should consider making some ointment for sale... though I wonder if any female Awakened would be willing to spend Spiritual Points to purchase it." Bai Pu said.

"Of course, they would!" Yuan Yue and Li Ling said in unison.

"Let's give this ointment a name first... How about 'Youth Cream'. Have Sister Ling and Sister Yuan Yue tried its effects? How does it feel?" Bai Pu asked.

Yuan Yue caressed her tender little face, "Of course, it's amazing! Better than any luxury skincare product on the market... and the effect is immediate! I even feel like my skin is breathing..."

Li Ling nodded, indicating that Yuan Yue was not exaggerating.

The nearby men, though unable to understand the women's craze for the "Youth Cream", provided their perspective objectively.

Yuan Hall said, "After all, Youth Cream is crafted by a Daoist Alchemist, making it a Spiritual Item, and naturally its effects are far beyond ordinary cosmetics."

Anvil's eyes flashed with envy, "This is the potion-making method of a hidden sub-profession? Got it!"

As for You Bai, as usual, he kept silent, staying as a decoration in the corner.

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