This time, A-Wu did not refine the pills in the pharmaceutical room. Instead, she chose the sunny balcony.
She hoped to use the energy from the sunlight to replenish a little of her spiritual energy. Just to be safe, she painfully spent some energy stones to set up a Spirit Gathering Formation around herself.
When the pill finally took shape, the Spirit Gathering Formation really did come in handy.
But A-Wu had no time to feel sorry about her energy stones anymore. Her heart was filled with joy. She completely forgot about the energy stones that had been drained of all their energy as she stared happily at the pills in her hand.
There were two light-red pills in her palm. Each pill had four evenly spaced silver patterns, proving that they were fourth-grade pills.
A-Wu had never expected that she would successfully refine a fourth-grade Mirror Fate Pill on her very first attempt!
It was one of the more difficult fourth-grade pills to refine, and what she had produced was actually a high-quality one!
It seemed that the pharmaceutical equipment in the interstellar world was even more useful than she had imagined.
Luckily, she was not a pure pill cultivator. Otherwise, with this kind of shortcut, she would probably find it difficult to truly understand the art of pill refinement. Her cultivation would likely stop progressing sooner or later.
A-Wu placed the two pills into separate jade bottles.
It was rare for her to refine a fourth-grade pill, and even rarer for it to be a Mirror Fate Pill. She absolutely had to keep one for herself, just in case she needed it someday.
“That soldier really has incredible luck!”
After sighing, A-Wu immediately contacted him and sent the pill by express delivery. If everything went quickly, it would reach the patient tomorrow.
She also sent out the two Cleansing Pills and included one Body-Nourishing Pill with each of them as a free gift.
After working hard for two days, A-Wu gave herself a good night’s rest.
Instead of meditating, she simply lay on her soft bed and slept soundly through the night.
The pills soon reached the hands of the three families.
A-Wu had clearly stated that the pills were extremely difficult to refine. If they took them somewhere for testing and the medicine was damaged or became unusable, she would not replace them.
The people who bought the pills had already lost hope. They were only trying one last desperate method, so why would they bother having the pills tested?
Even those who had considered doing so changed their minds after seeing A-Wu’s warning.
Besides, they had all bought the medicine anonymously. Why would the shop owner harm them for no reason?
If the patients’ families thought this way, the patients themselves were even less likely to hesitate.
All three patients had been tortured by illness until they had become extremely thin and weak. Once they learned that the medicine could cure them, they swallowed the pills without hesitation.
The desperate look on their faces made their family members burst into tears.
At that moment, every second felt like a year.
The people who had taken the medicine were suffering both physically and emotionally, while their families were also on the verge of breaking down.
What awaited them could be heaven.
Or it could be hell.
Time passed second by second.
Finally, the results they had been waiting for arrived.
The family members hugged each other and cried out loudly.
Meanwhile, the Star Network was buzzing with discussion.
Everyone knew that the owner of Pill Shop had selected three people and personally made pills for them.
With the three amazingly effective medicines already proving their worth, everyone was insanely jealous of those three people’s luck.
Who didn’t have a few sick people in their family?
But no matter how many private messages they sent to the shop owner, they received no reply.
People gradually lost hope, but at the same time, they were eagerly waiting to see how effective these customized pills would be.
There were countless patients across the entire interstellar world suffering from the same illnesses.
It was easy to imagine how great the demand for these pills would be.
People on the Star Network waited anxiously.
They were desperate, but there was no one they could pressure.
All they could do was leave ordinary requests for medicine in the Pill Shop comment section every day, hoping that one day a miracle would fall from the sky and the shop owner would choose them.
After countless people called out for answers, someone finally appeared.
And this time, the people who came to comment on Pill Shop were none other than the three patients who had taken the medicine.
A-Wu had pulled them out of the swamp of death.
At that moment, their hearts were filled with the joy of being given a new life and gratitude toward A-Wu.
They did not say much.
Instead, they simply offered everything they had and told A-Wu to take whatever she wanted.
But A-Wu directly refused.
A transaction where both sides paid and received what they agreed upon was simply business.
If she took anything more, it would create a debt between them.
The three people were disappointed after being refused, but they were also deeply moved.
They felt that a shop owner who could do something like this simply had to be that kind of person.
Since they could not give her a gift, they went directly to the Pill Shop comment section and posted under their real names, using their own experiences to express their gratitude.
“I am Qin Jue, the eldest son of the Qin family, a famous family on an A-grade habitable planet. I was injured by the energy of an A-grade fire-type ability user. After taking the shop owner’s pill, I have completely recovered!”
“I am He Donghao, ranked thirty-second on the explorer rankings. I was infected by an unknown insect parasite, but I have completely recovered after taking the medicine! Thank you, shop owner!”
“I am Shi Mo, an active-duty soldier of the Federation’s First Legion. I have completely recovered.”
Shi Mo was the soldier whose dantian had been damaged.
He did not specifically mention what illness he had suffered from.
In his opinion, a pill that could repair the ability core of an A-grade ability user was simply too miraculous and precious. The shop owner had also said that the medicine was extremely difficult to make.
Across the entire interstellar world, there were hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people whose ability cores had been damaged.
Some of them were even dangerous criminals.
He only hoped that he could do a little something to protect the shop owner.
The illnesses suffered by the three of them could practically be called incurable.
Because of that, most people who had been watching from the sidelines had been more suspicious than trusting.
But now that the three patients had suddenly revealed their real identities and publicly confirmed the effects of the pills, people had no choice but to believe them.
At the same time, countless people suffering from the same illnesses went crazy, just like drowning people desperately grabbing onto a lifeline before death.
The Pill Shop comment section was bombarded every day.
Because A-Wu had not given them any clear response, Lin Xu could not answer their questions either.
The Pill Shop was also attacked by hackers every few days. The Star Network’s central intelligence was almost too busy catching them all.
A-Wu paid no attention to any of this.
After receiving payment for the medicine, she bought a large supply of energy stones and stayed in the pharmaceutical room, focusing entirely on refining pills.
Lin Xu did not dare disturb her casually, so he could only deal with the people outside for now, telling them that he would definitely pass their messages on to the shop owner.
In fact, A-Wu had already had a rough idea in her mind before the customized-pill incident.
After the incident, that idea became much clearer.
Recently, as her reputation on the Star Network grew, her cultivation speed also became faster.
Especially after saving those three people, her cultivation seemed to have received divine assistance.
She wanted to refine more pills, but there were simply too many people asking for medicine.
She was not a Buddhist cultivator who could save every living being in the world!
Still, this reminded her of something Buddhist cultivators often talked about—merit.
Buddhists believed that the Heavenly Dao would grant merit to those with great compassion, helping them attain enlightenment and ascend.
In the words of Daoist cultivators, it meant doing good deeds and accumulating virtue.
After gaining enough merit, perhaps the path to ascension would become a little smoother.
But it was only a possibility.
The workings of Heaven’s secrets were impossible to predict.
Perhaps something you believed was a good deed could actually be considered evil in the eyes of the Heavenly Dao.
That was why Daoist cultivators rarely went out of their way to perform good deeds.
A-Wu felt that her current situation was somewhat similar to the path of divine cultivators who relied on incense and faith.
According to legend, as long as a divine cultivator had enough power of faith, they could even ascend in broad daylight!
Perhaps because she was not a divine cultivator, the only effect she was showing was an increase in cultivation speed.
But no matter what, she would never waste such a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity!
As for whether she should—or even could—save all the people who believed in her, she could think about that later.
For now, she was alone and had very little power.
She might as well take advantage of the wealthy people of the interstellar world and give herself, this “poor person” from the cultivation world, a little financial support!
Once her cultivation improved and she had enough strength to protect herself, she could think about the rest.
With her cultivation supporting her, her pill-refining speed also increased greatly.
After two days, she had completed her plan to build up a stock of pills.
This time, A-Wu had no intention of simply putting them up for sale like before.
The reputation of Pill Shop on the Star Network was now at its peak.
Especially after curing the “incurable diseases” of those three people, the shop had become famous throughout the entire interstellar world.
A-Wu was now a well-known pharmacist with proven A-minus-grade mental power.
After figuring out the reason behind her recent rapid cultivation, she had confidently prepared herself to welcome a visit from the Federation government at any time.
Just like the great alchemy masters of the cultivation world, who often served as honorary elders of major sects, A-Wu understood the importance of having powerful support.
She had never planned to fight everything alone.
Alchemists were not particularly strong in combat to begin with.
And when someone possessed extraordinary skills, it would be strange if villains did not become interested in them.
Now she had enough bargaining power.
All she needed to do was sit at home and wait for the Federation government to come knocking with resources and bodyguards.
Of course, she would also show them enough sincerity in return.
With the Federation government backing her, she would have no shortage of cultivation resources.
She could also gain another wave of faith from the public.
With the government supporting her and publicly recognizing her value, she would have almost nothing to worry about.
As for factional struggles within the Federation government, or the schemes and political games she might encounter…
That had absolutely nothing to do with her~
As her cultivation increased, she could refine more and more kinds of pills.
Just like those great alchemy masters in the cultivation world, she could simply recruit a group of “bodyguards.”
Then she would naturally be safe.
Just look at those arrogant and notorious interstellar pirates.
The interstellar world was simply too vast, and the Federation’s control over its territory was far from perfect.
If things really became impossible, she could simply run away with her bodyguards.
Her goal was only to use the Federation government’s resources to cultivate, while also helping people and gaining their faith.
She had never planned to enter politics and play political games with a bunch of old foxes!
A-Wu counted all the pills she had refined over the past few days and set aside the ones she wanted to keep for herself.
She planned to hold a unique auction with the remaining pills in Pill Shop.
Based on requests she had seen in the comment section and elsewhere, she had organized a collection of pills.
There were eleven sets in total.
Each set contained a main healing pill together with a Body-Nourishing Pill.
They could both treat the illness and strengthen the body afterward.
It was truly a combination of treatment and recovery—a medicine that could cure the illness completely!
Since it was an auction, the highest bidder would naturally win.
A-Wu had already decided to cooperate with the Federation government.
In the future, she would have to hand over the formulas for several important pills and find a way to mass-produce them.
Once that happened, their prices naturally would not remain extremely high.
Even if she made only a small profit from each pill, selling large quantities would still bring her a huge amount of credits.
The only problem was that converting the pill-refining techniques of the cultivation world into a method for producing interstellar pharmaceutical drugs might take who knew how long.
So those credits were still a long way off~
That was why A-Wu had decided to make one more big profit before that happened.
If she could stock up on more energy stones, she would feel much safer.
Even though she had already reached the fifth level of Qi Refining, several days of intense work had left A-Wu somewhat exhausted.
She directly posted the auction notice on the Pill Shop announcement board.
Then she took a good bath, lay down on her bed, and slept deeply for a long time, completely ignoring whatever chaos was happening on the Star Network.
Although cultivation was supposed to replace sleep, having a good, proper sleep every now and then was still quite enjoyable~
A-Wu woke up to the alarm she had set.
She slowly opened her eyes, hugged the soft and comfortable blanket, and rubbed her face against it.
Her thin pajamas had ridden up slightly, revealing her slender, smooth calves.
She turned over and glanced at the dark sky outside the window before calmly getting out of bed and walking toward the living room.
Her long black hair fell all the way to her waist.
It was as smooth and soft as the silk of her pajamas, dark and glossy, with a healthy shine.
A-Wu brushed the hair that had fallen in front of her ear back over her shoulder.
As soon as she reached the living room, she saw Lin Xu sitting on the sofa, staring blankly into space.
She frowned and walked over.
Even after she sat down across from him, he still did not notice her.
“Little Xu? What’s wrong?”
Lin Xu immediately came back to his senses.
He looked up at A-Wu.
Remembering what Luther had said to him earlier that day, his face suddenly became a little shy.
He quickly shook his head.
“I’m fine!”
A-Wu saw that there was nothing obviously wrong with his expression, so she relaxed.
She opened the Star Network.
The Pill Shop auction was about to begin.
She glanced at the comment section.
Surprisingly, it was quite peaceful.
This time, A-Wu had never intended to sell these pills to ordinary people.
Ordinary people generally did not dare to participate in an auction like this.
So the people who actually had enough money and influence to participate were busy making preparations.
None of them had time to keep chatting in the comment section.
Looking at the countdown on the light screen, A-Wu leaned back against the sofa and rested her chin on her hand.
She waited leisurely for the auction to begin.