Ashen God
Chapter 49: Red and Yellow Pills

Chapter 49: Chapter 49: Red and Yellow Pills

"Unconsciously, I seem to have amassed so many healing items?" Zhang Yanhang mused to himself. "I feel like I could even take a bath in lava and survive for hours before dying."

Zhang Yanhang’s comment wasn’t entirely baseless, as diving into lava is surprisingly accessible. This is primarily because the temperature of lava is typically around one thousand degrees Celsius—a concept many people might not grasp. For comparison, a home gas stove (using natural gas) set to the highest flame can reach two thousand degrees, double the temperature of lava.

Moreover, only the innermost flame of a gas stove can reach a temperature comparable to that of lava.

So, overall, instead of attempting to bathe in lava, it would be more convenient and time-saving to try touching the inner flame of a gas stove directly. Should you desire greater challenges, simply turn up the flame. Compared to trekking to a volcano, touching a gas stove is much more suited to the modern human.

Of course, some might still wonder about the difficulty of bathing in lava. For a more detailed example, consider that a household electric kettle takes about fifteen minutes to boil water. If you were to fill a similarly sized kettle with water and place it over lava, depending on your chosen location, it may well be possible that the water wouldn’t even boil from noon to evening.

More crucially, lava acts less like a liquid and more like a solid. One can step on it without immediately sinking due to it being a non-Newtonian fluid, requiring finesse rather than brute force to maneuver through it; otherwise, you’d be stuck in place.

"I don’t need to continue crafting red and green pills just yet. Perhaps I can start addressing the yellow medicinal herb issue first," Zhang Yanhang said, picking up one yellow and one red medicinal herb from the bed. He planned to process them into powder and combine them, just as he had done previously with red and green pills.

"Currently, I only have four yellow medicinal herbs, which means I have only four chances to experiment. I hope to succeed on the first try, or it’d be a waste of three Life Value points." Zhang Yanhang’s hands glowed with the Alchemy Array, skillfully replicating the steps he used for crafting the red and green pills on the yellow and red herbs.

Since it was such a straightforward combination in the game that resulted in success, Zhang Yanhang continued using this method.

After the crafting was complete, a peculiar-looking red and yellow pill appeared before Zhang Yanhang’s eyes. He immediately checked the attribute list, curious to see if the yellow medicinal herb’s effect had been enhanced.

[Red and Yellow Pills (Unnamed)]

[Quality: Blue]

[Type: Artifact]

[Origin: Main World, Qin Island City, Xingfuli District, Room 505, Zhang Yanhang.]

[Usage Effect: Increases Life Value Limit by 6 points.]

[Usage Requirements: Constitution below 50 points.]

[Score: 33 (Blue item score ranges from 31 to 70.)]

[Description: Crafted by novice Alchemist Zhang Yanhang using red and yellow medicinal herbs supplied by the Umbrella Company, these pills significantly enhance the effects compared to using the herbs separately.]

"Only doubled?" Although the crafting was successful, Zhang Yanhang felt somewhat disappointed.

He had initially thought the enhanced effect might increase the Life Value Limit by more than ten points, but it turned out to offer only a six-point increase. Although it was a doubling, the base number was small; so even after doubling, it added only three more Life Value points.

Despite his slight disappointment, Zhang Yanhang diligently crafted the remaining three yellow medicinal herbs into red and yellow pills, harboring no illusions about developing a new formula to further enhance the yellow medicinal herbs’ effect since he lacked materials. "Currently, I have four red and yellow pills, capable of increasing the Life Value Limit by 24 points."

While Zhang Yanhang could try to fuse the red, green, and yellow medicinal herbs, his experience from the game suggested that besides adding a Life Value recovery effect, such a combination wouldn’t further enhance the yellow medicinal herb’s effect.

As for the alchemy materials Zhang Yanhang had obtained from the Goblin Merchant’s backpack? Since they all had properties that couldn’t be carried out, they were left behind in the Ashen World along with old clothes and mineral water bottles.

After crafting all the red and yellow pills, Zhang Yanhang opened his attribute list to check his current Life Value and Energy Value.

[Life Value: 285/285 (Constitution×15, the body has been formally digitized, Life Value Recovery Speed, 3 points per hour.)]

[Energy Value: 170/170 (Intelligence×10, the body has been formally digitized, Energy Value Recovery Speed, 9 points per hour.)]

"The T-virus enhancing potion and T-virus original liquid (Essence Extraction) that I previously injected enhanced my Constitution Attribute by one point and Intelligence Attribute by three points, which consequently raised my Life Value Limit by 15 points and Energy Value Limit by 30 points."

Additionally, Zhang Yanhang noticed another change: his Energy Value Recovery Speed had increased by three points, from six points per hour to nine points per hour.

This time, Zhang Yanhang’s previous speculation was essentially confirmed; the increase in recovery speed was indeed a result of the attribute enhancement, since the only change during this period was his Intelligence Attribute increasing from fourteen to seventeen points.

However, although he had clarified that the change was due to an attribute increase, he was still unclear about the specific pattern. Therefore, Zhang Yanhang would continue to monitor this, and when a similar situation occurred again, he should be able to deduce the relevant pattern.

"Even though I’ve already raised my Life Value Limit by 15 points, I only have 285 points of Life Value, which still feels a bit low... But after I consume these four red and yellow pills and level up later, there should be a significant change in both Life Value Limit and Energy Value Limit."

After saying this, Zhang Yanhang popped all four red and yellow pills into his mouth, casually chewing them like candy. He then checked his Life Value Limit again to see if it had changed as expected.