The Eternal System
System 17: Results of Pill Compounding

The eyes felt so dark. His body feels heavy. Li Chen opened his eyes slowly, and was greeted with the ceiling of his room. He who saw the sky of his room also felt dejavu against the events he had experienced when he first came to the world.

“(I... what is..)”.

His head and body still felt pain. The force he had previously forced to unleash made his mind not yet clear again.

Suddenly, the voice that came back in succession called out his name.

“Li Chen!”

“Kakak!”

The voice that felt so familiar was felt from both his parents and his sisters. Li Chen who immediately turned his head to the side and saw those who had faces so worried.

“Mother... Father...”.

Especially her two younger sisters, Li jia and Yaoyao who were sitting right beside her bed looked so tangled expressions waiting for Li Chen to wake up.

“Li Jia's…. Yaoyao….

As Li Chen looked down, there he saw an old male physician named Tang Lin. The healer was examining Li Chen's body from the pulse of his hand that was spreading blood flow.

As before, Li Chen's brain could not yet think clearly. He opened his mouth and asked.

“What happened?” muttered Li Chen

“Sister Li Jia found Li Chen's brother collapsed severely injured while spewing blood in the room. He instantly shouted calling father and mother in a frightened voice!” sahut Yaoyao

Li Chen who got the explanation from Yaoyao also became back to remember the entire incident.

“(Ah-! Right, I'm concocting pills. Furnaces and pills-?!)”

Both of Li Chen's eyes suddenly searched the entire room. However, he found no trace of the furnace nor the result of his concoction. Li Chen did not think of what his concoction was successful or not, what flashed inside his head at that moment was just….

“(Nothing. Where's the compound furnace?!)”

The bewildered Li Chen was still trying to turn his head left and right. Slowly but surely, in his heart he began to doubt himself against the results of compounding those cultivation pills.

“(What don't-don't.. I failed?)”

Right at that very second, cold sweat began to pour from his face. Li Chen only imagined what would happen to one Feng city, as well as his family if he failed to concoct the pill and could not defeat Lian Ping.

Haishe would come after his match with Lian Ping, and level one city of Feng without the rest like what he said. With a legend-level mystical beast ability, obliterating a city was not a difficult thing. Even if Haishe wanted to, such a mystical beast of his level could help obliterate Feng city from the plains as if it had never existed.

The look on his face that looked so panicked was clearly written. Li Chen's mother Ling Yao who saw her son looking so panicked was worried and tried to call out to him repeatedly. And on his call three times….

“Li Chen!!”

Li Chen had just regained his senses from that sunken mind. He turned his head to the side again and saw that he made mother and the others so worried to see him.

Li Chen immediately tried to calm himself while stretching his facial muscles.

“Ti-not what mom... I just.. feel not too good....”.

The statement that answered her mother was not enough to allay her worries. Until not too long later, Physician Lin started to stand up and let go of his examination as if he was done.

He turned his head towards Li Chen's father, mother and sisters by giving a news.

“Young master Chen is fine. He just needs a little rest again so that his condition returns to optimal” explained healer Lin

“Tabib Lin, did the healer know something why my son could be like this?” li Chen's mother asked worried about her son's condition

“Possibly young master Chen is doing cultivation training. However, his body that had not been able to receive more Ki energy reached the limit so that it turned to attack the organs in his body”

All who heard that instantly knew the intent of Li Chen's actions trying to break through to a higher level. That point is only focused on his match against Lian Ping at the beginning of next month.

The burden Li Chen carried put his life at risk.

Why could? The easiest answer was because Li Chen forced himself to increase his cultivation level.

A body that had not yet awakened was physically strong and also mentally formidable, hence the automatic level of cultivation would be almost impossible to increase. And if it absorbs too much of Ki's energy with that unprepared body, then the person can die by exploding into pieces, even the organs in his body are crushed by the uncontrolled nature of Ki.

This was also the same for cultivation pill making. Moreover, Li Chen used a crazy technique by absorbing the Ki of nature and channeling Ki himself to concoct cultivation pills simultaneously.

Still able to live and not lose some of his limbs was already magical to Li Chen himself.

While Li jia as the sister who was the bet of the match Li Chen and Lian Ping, felt guilty for making her brother carry the heavy burden.

On the other hand, the Lin physician who had completed his task was farewell to the entire Li family, including Li Chen himself.

“If there is no more, then I will resign...” said healer Lin.

Li Tao, the father of Li Chen turned his head and allowed physician Lin to resign.

“Alright, you can go. Thank you, healer Lin” said Li Chen's father

“By pleasure, big master. Physician Lin resigns first..”.

In accordance with the conversation, physician Lin walked out of the room. While Li Chen who had just realized the situation was trying to get up and position his body to sit on the bed.

“Uuh..”.

When he was sitting still, suddenly his father walked to stand right beside his bed. The sound of those footsteps felt different, as if Li Chen could recognize him.

He looked to the side and raised his head where his father's face was.

“A-father...” muttered Li Chen who was feeling nervous and scared simultaneously.

Why is he afraid? Li Chen thought that from the look on his father's face that shriveled strongly it was an angry expression towards him that forced himself. Because not a few people die horribly because they try to force themselves to increase their cultivation level.

Li Chen had already swallowed his saliva and was preparing to receive his father's entire ravings.

“(Alright, it's time I prepare myself to take a hard blow!)”

And when he thought like that, suddenly his father was heard breathing out of his nose as if he was laughing.

“Huft... hahahaha!”

That laughter from his father made everyone including Li Chen shocked. Even his own wife turned and scolded him.

“Darling, what's so funny?! Our son just recovered from illness!” upset Li Chen's mother

Li Chen's father did not say much. He who was standing right beside his son was holding back a laugh and stroking his head proudly.

“Hahaha! You are my son. Passing the limit for the sake of increasing the cultivation level, you lunatic!”

Li Chen who did not understand the way his father thought that could laugh in the middle of the situation. Even his father said that Li Chen was a lunatic.

“A-dad, are you okay?” li Chen asked who was a little hesitant towards his father's brain nerves