Chapter 25 - Formations

Alex looked at the weird-looking glass beaker and wondered what it was. The glass beaker was small, wide at the bottom, and narrow at the top. It had a circular metal place at its base.

The metal plate was on the outside of the breaker and looked magical with intricate designs. The glass itself had a single black line going across it vertically. There were small dots, along the side of the black line.

Kong Yuhan took his pill and dropped it into the beaker. He then focused as he poured his Qi into the metal part of the beaker. The beaker started to slowly fog up.

At the base of the glass beaker, the mist slowly appeared. The mist appeared on the outer edge of the metal, and it started to mist the glass itself.

Slowly, the mist rose up and started appearing more and more on the glass beaker .it had started at the bottom, and was moving upwards.

After a few seconds, it stopped moving and showed no other signs. Kong Yuhan looked closely at the black dot, next to the black line where the mist had stopped forming.

"Aww… it stopped at 19%. I was so close to 20%." Kong Yuhan sighed. Alex was puzzled. He asked, "What do you mean 19%, brother Kong?"

"Look," Kong Yuhan said as he passed along the beaker to Alex. Now that Alex had it in his hand, he could see that the black dots were not in fact dots, but numbers. They were just too tiny to tell apart from where he was previously.

"Is this the pill's harmony level?" he asked.

"Yes," Kong Yuhan said and started to pack his cauldron.

"How can a glass tell you what a pill's harmony level is, brother kong?" he asked.

"What are you talking about, Junior brother? Of course, it doesn't. It's the metal base that shows it." Kong Yuhan answered as if it was common sense.

"The metal?" Alex was even more confused.

"Well, more precisely the formation on the metal." Kong Yuhan clarified a little.

"A Formation?" Alex was shocked. He had never seen a formation before and only heard of it. "Wow, this is my first time seeing a formation," Alex said as he looked at the metal at the bottom of the beaker.

Kong Yuhan took the beaker back, and put the pill inside into a ceramic pill bottle, quickly closing the bottle with a stopper.

He then looked at Alex, and said, "No it's not