How to Make an Origin Fostering Pill
Sun Rong arrives to fanfare and walks straight past Chen Chao to call out for Wang Ling.
Wang Ling spots what he believes is a spell sign over Chen Chao’s head indicating her crush. As he moves to pop his name, his hand brushes her hair. He says it’s okay then walks off. While Chen Chao cries a bit, Guo Hao ponders Wang Ling’s flirting technique and Sun Rong looks traumatized. ..
Instructor Shengcong Pan is teaching a class on making vitality pills in the school lab. Most of the students have expensive machines, but Chen Chao has his family’s antique fire furnace and Sun Rong uses a furnace from her family’s factory. ..
Guo Hao unveils his fully modern personal-sized furnace, which Wang Ling proceeds to use. Froggy 2 appears and observes the proceedings, noticing that Guo Hao’s furnace is alive. Meanwhile, Chen Chao explodes his family furnace and runs from the room, screaming that his father will kill him. ..
Shengcong Pan sets a timer for seven hours of refining and dismisses the class. We get a brief update that Guo Hao may look idle in class but studies at home. While Chen Chao, from a Kung Fu family, believes muscles solve every problem.
Wang Ling returns to the lab, having presumed Froggy is up to something. She finds Froggy 2 watching Guo Hao’s magical furnace, and he believes eating magical beings will help him once again evolve into a demon king. Wang Ling is curious to see what Froggy 2 has in store for her friend, but she is quickly put on edge when he starts talking about eating magical beings in a way that makes it seem like it will be easy for him to become a demon king.
Froggy takes off with the furnace, but Wang Ling quickly catches up, grabbing it from his mouth. Meanwhile Chen Chao runs laps, remembering his father’s warning when he borrowed the cauldron – the family treasure. He continues to run/self-berate. Wang Ling rinses the furnace taken from Froggy’s mouth but Guo Hao spots him. ..
Chen Chao continued to race and started to lose focus, thinking he was following Sun Rong who was running into Wang Ling’s arms. Then he remembered the cauldron explosion and pictured his classmates pushing him out of the presidency while Sun Rong and Wang Ling laughed. In a daze, he wandered looking for Sun Rong. ..
Wang Ling tries to explain about Froggy – but who would believe that story? While Guo Hao aims a gun at him, he suggests they ask the furnace and it quickly confirms. Guo Hao continues to yell at Wang Ling anyway as Chen Chao appears from behind, also ready to kill him.
Guo Hao shoots a purple liquid at Wang Ling, who ducks and gets it straight in the mouth. Chen Chao is immediately hit and falls to the ground. Wang Ling assesses that it’s not that bad, but Guo Hao won’t let him touch Chen Chao.
Wang Ling is worried that they will get caught and forces Chen Chao to help carry him into the lab. By this time, Chen Chao has turned a lovely shade of purple from the ‘pentatoxic potion,’ which is meant for external use only. ..
Guo Hao believes they only have four hours before he’s in grave danger. But Wang Ling notes it isn’t that bad. Guo Hao insists on creating a cure and sends Wang Ling to collect the ingredients while he magnanimously directs.
Guo Hao is worried about the class returning in two hours. He carries on, but Froggy 2 returns to grab the furnace. As Guo Hao stops him, they realize that Froggy has the power to fast-forward timelines. They force him to speed up the antidote.
Froggy takes a pill to help him sleep off the purple. Chen Chao needs to sleep off the mission so Wang Ling helps him.
The instructor finds a golden pill and checks to see if Wang Ling made one himself. Guo Hao assumes that Wang Ling swapped the pills for help and is a good friend for life.
The main point of this article is that two different types of pills failed in the microwave, and it’s not clear which one was the cause of Guo Hao’s death.
He wakes up on the sports field with Guo Hao and Wang Ling. They fudge that he passed out from running. He suddenly remembers the cauldron, but the guys have already repaired it for him. Chen Chao cries his apologies to Wang Ling.
The Episode Review
In one quick episode, Wang Ling has made two friends, perhaps acquired a pet and has a girl crushing on him. However much he tries to remain under the radar, somehow that just doesn’t seem to be working for him. His pill tanked, likely as intended, if that’s any help. Microwave was likely the best choice to create/char a failed pill. ..
The fun of this series is that you get a glimpse of many character’s intentions early on, rather than just one or two. With all these conflicting objectives in the air, there must be an explosion on the horizon. ..
In this installment, we see how everyone else’s misunderstanding of Wang Ling seems to be painting him in a positive light. He’s the guy who is standing still while everything else is in motion around him. Sometimes it’s funny how things work out.
Wei Bo En’s new song, “Xian,” has been drawing comparisons to 1970s lounge music. The first time I heard it, I wasn’t sure if the groove fit the storyline. But after a few episodes, I can see that it fits well - perhaps because of Wang Ling’s reduced pills power. No matter what comes at him, he remains chill. ..
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