9 THRONES

CHAPTER 23: THE STRUGGLE

2 Months had passed since Vann came here, the results of his cultivation were still nothing at all.

It's not that Vann has never trained, but he still hasn't had a chance.

During these 2 months, Vann continued to try to make the Qi Medicine at night and studied in the morning as well as in the afternoon. Other than the knowledge of cultivators of his own becoming more widespread, Vann had still never managed to make the slightest Medicinal Qi.

Every day he could try to make as many as 5 times, so during these 5 months Vann has tried to make more or less as many as 300. But everything still ends up failing, nothing works in the least.

Vann opened his eyes and walked away from the warehouse to the back of the warehouse where the well was located, Foltra was still asleep next to him because it was too early.

Vann woke up at 5 a.m., the sun was still not up and the surroundings were still quite dark.

But Vann did not care, he cleaned his face with cold water so as not to fall asleep again, then took a wooden sword that was beside the field.

This wooden sword came from the warehouse, Foltra said that there was no point in practicing sword techniques before becoming a cultivator. But Vann didn't feel that way, he felt that practicing swords every day could strengthen the body. Therefore, when Vann became a cultivator then his strength would become even more terrifying as a result of his body already being processed.

Moreover, Vann had learned a special basic battle technique from the Wood Sword Academy through the lessons from Hasel, the Wood Sword Technique which was divided into 5 attack types.

Although this sword technique was only a low-level grade-1 technique, it was still quite good for basic cultivators.

Cultivation techniques in this world were divided into several classes namely from the weakest of 1st grade and 9th grade was the most powerful. In addition, each class is divided into 3 levels consisting of low, medium and high levels.

So the Wood Sword Technique was the lowest cultivator's fighting technique, it wasn't strange that they were taught to novice disciples.

Vann took a breath and mounted the horses Hasel had taught in class, staring at the tree in front of him before slashing down from the side.

"Shelf!".

Vann used the steps of the Type 1 Wood Sword Technique, Upper Slash. Despite not having a cultivation yet, by using this technique Vann's slash became stronger.

But according to Hasel's words, if one was already very skilled at wearing the Type 1 Wood Sword slash, they could use the wood element on their slash that could inflict additional injuries on the enemy.

No matter how hard Vann practiced, he would not be able to succeed before becoming a cultivator because putting wood elements on the sword required cultivation energy.

Practicing for 1 hour, Vann went to take a bath and immediately rushed towards the building to start cleaning.

He had made his daily schedule, the morning he practiced sword practice for an hour, cleaned the building for about 3 hours in the morning, listened to Hasel's morning and afternoon classes, cleaned again, clean up again, after that make the medicine at night.

Today Vann is more uplifting than a few days before, more precisely Vann is very much waiting for the night.

The reason he had indeed always failed to make Medicinal Qi during these 2 months, but that did not mean he had no development.

Every day, the time of maintaining the manufacturing of Qi Vann Medicines was increasing.

Last night, Vann managed to make the drug up to 9 minutes and 57 seconds. He failed in the last step, therefore Vann was confident he would succeed later tonight.

With all the science as well as the failure he made Medicinal Qi for approximately 2 months this time, he would make a great thing that a disciple without cultivation actually managed to make Medicinal Qi only use firewood.

Vann knew there might already be people who had succeeded before him, but making the Medicinal Qi only using firewood remained a great achievement for Vann. He could not wait until nightfall, perhaps from tomorrow he had already started to step his feet towards the path of the real cultivator.

In the evening, Vann went to Hasel's alchemy class again while carrying a pile of firewood. He had already gathered all the failed medicinal ingredients from the surrounding classes, so he started making Medicinal Qi in the furnace.

Unbeknownst to Vann, Hasel secretly observes everything Vann does through the darkness.

He was actually amazed by Vann. Although Vann was not talented, he saw with his own eyes how much Vann's spirit was. Every day for these 2 months, Vann advanced slowly from the progress of each second to the minute approaching the success of making the Qi Medicine. Hasel was confident Vann could make something great tonight, therefore he decided to watch it live from the start.

At the 1st chance, Vann still failed to make the drug.

2 Chance, failed.

The 3rd chance of return failed, but Vann had another 1 second advance of 10 minutes which was the time the Qi Medicine was supposed to make.

On the 4th chance, Vann still failed but he made another second of progress.

Finally this was the final opportunity, Vann laid the firewood carefully and moved the failed materials into the furnace.

He controlled the fire and passed 5 minutes quickly, then 9 minutes passed without any problems.

Vann regulates the temperature of the fire easily. When he arrived in the 50th second, Vann was sweating all over his body.

Besides being tired, Vann felt worried which made him sweat a lot.

Keep your attention, time moves.

Second to 56.

Second to 58.

In about 2 seconds, Vann did not dare to let his guard down in the slightest.

"But!".

The sound of vibration from the furnace rang out, the furnace vibrated for 10 seconds before stopping again, after which white smoke was seen from the visible lid of the furnace.

Looking at all that, Vann put out the fire under the furnace as quickly as possible.

He opened the lid of the furnace slowly, Vann's whole hand made the lid vibrate because this was the result of his struggle and hard work for 2 months.

When the lid of the furnace was opened, 2 small balls of gold were seen in the middle of the furnace.

Vann took out those 2 golden balls which were a pill, Medicinal Qi had a pill form.

Attractive golden color, there was not the slightest crack in the Qi Medicine pill on Vann's hand, he was now sure he had finally succeeded.

Vann raised his hands high while shouting loudly, releasing all his fatigue during this "I succeeded! I finally succeeded! Now I can already become a disciple and start my own cultivation step!".

Vann's shout echoed throughout the teaching building, but there was no one else in the building except Hasel so Vann's shout just now did not attract anyone's attention at all.