# Chapter 7 Potion Crafting
After 3 days, Oak woke up from his deep sleep. He yawned for a bit, got a cup of water, and sat down to think.
'Should I go back?....
No, even if I ignore and suck up what happened, they have no connections to the Alchemical Ascension Sect. What's worse is that the sect they do have loose connections to is the Tiger and Dragon Blade Sect. They are clearly a combat focused Sect, and if they found out about me, I would either be put in a shallow Alchemy division they have, become a glorified healer or gardener which takes care of there plants.
Though it would be useful in my Ki and Qi cultivation but for my goals, the Alchemical Ascension Sect is clearly the better option. I also highly doubt my parents would let me go to that Sect because of political problems of not sending there descendent with a rare immortal root and the fact I ran away from home which they could use to trap me along with elders who are super commanders and the grand elder who is a super legionnaire.
I could have lost my life with just another super soldier beast. Those elders have centuries of experience to mine. Even my past life experiences wouldn't be useful in combat.
The main problem is my fighting experience and methods to fully utilize what I currently have. Potion concocting is a must.
Right now, I can't get any sophisticated equipment because of the lack of glass. I suppose that with more plants being engraved into my immortal root, this would allow for better control and storage of Qi, but I want poisons now. So wood will have to do. I can use my Qi to sterilize my equipment.
Though the water beaker.....'
Oak thinks while he starts to prepare his lab through the use of carving wood and getting buckets of water once again made from wood. In this process, he gathered around 10 plants that will be used.
After 20 minutes and everything gathered, he put on thick clothing.
'Since i would rather not accidentally potion myself and waste my Qi restraing, expelling, and treating it, this thick bear skin should work for gloves and protection.
First, the Everfeeling lily, this plant begins as a seed that grows on cliff sides it needs lunar, dark, and sun Qi to grow. In the earlier stages of life, it will mainly be under grown so as not to be burnt up by the Sun but have small leaves that will break ground to absorb sun Qi in small doses. After a few weeks, the flower would have strenghted enough to break ground and bloom into a flower. To which it would produce an intoxicating scent. This scent has Dark Qi wisps that would further strengthen the scent, and once a lifeform inhales it. It would boost the creatures strengthen but would cause the lifeform to seek out and consume the flower.
Then it would parasitizes the host and cause the person to lose his her mind while consuming anything with Qi to which it would slowly eat away at its host to make more seeds. Making them feel every bit and vein extend through there body as they die a slow agonizing death being used as fertilizer for the seeds being made. Then, directing them to a cliff side.
There is a cure through a mix of other herbs and being put to near death, which would cause the flower to loosen its grip on the body. Allowing for the use of surgical removal for less damage on the body. Or through throw up which will cause lacerations in the throat. Also, if caught earlier, you just need to consume a concoction of herbs.
Hypnotic Blue Lily is a lily with blue pettles, red stem, and green lines on said pettles....
Causes a calming effect excreting a special Qi infused scent which it will then absorb the Qi of lifeforms that gathered around it to which they have a sharp edges which cause lacerations on anything that tries to touch or eat it. Though it didn't get this adaptation only from this...
Evergreen sapling a young green tree with sharp leaves and green in leaves, trunk, and root. It doesn't have much in terms of poisons or beneficial ingestion but has a strong bonding agent to live during and Qi Storm events that turn this continent into a very dangerous place outside cities and sects. These trees are often used as a hiding place for weaker people and animals at the super levels.
True icrus veins.....
After 3 days, Oak snapped out of his deep thoughts and concocting to gaze at his creation. It's was a sinister looking black liquid. All around Oak was varius blades of grass that were covered in etchings that he used to replace paper to write down his formulas.
There were also various plants that numbered in the 30s passing the 10 plants he initially gathered. Wanting to test this out, he brought various rat like animals. He then mercy, killed one of them, and dripped a single drop of the black liquid on its body.
The liquid slowly invaded the body after about 3 minutes, and that body dissolved into a puddle of black liquid but not before violently twitching and getting a bunch of red marks that stayed.
'OK, don't add the flame tale vein because it looks cool and has an interesting effect'
After modifying the solution, he tests it again on another dead rat. This time, it was blue with specs of white, and when it touched the body of the rat, it caught fire, then exploded. But Oak was prepared and made a container with some glass to look through.
After his first poison melted through the wooden bowl.
'So the Flame Tail was suppressing something? Or was it suppressing another plant that had strange effects?
Wait a minute, why don't I use my Gaze of Life it helped when I was isolating different qualities of the plant?'
Oak finally thought of using his abilities activated his Gaze of Life and retried his exploding Rat poison or rather Rat Bomb solution.
This single act changed the trajectory of his life.