The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#441 - Chen Hanqing's new discovery

Lu Jing first tried Ecstasy and Bone Erosion, but the effects of both poisons were unsatisfactory.

So afterwards, he set his sights on Quagmire. This poison couldn't directly deplete the internal energy in his dantian, but it could slow down the circulation of internal energy in his meridians, thereby reducing the speed of his internal energy recovery.

Therefore, taking Quagmire alone was not very effective, but once combined with the other two poisons, it quickly took effect.

Lu Jing could clearly feel that the consumption of internal energy in his dantian had accelerated significantly after taking Ecstasy and Quagmire.

He thought about it and simply swallowed Bone Erosion as well.

With all three working together, Lu Jing finally felt a long-lost sense of satisfaction.

It was as if a person who had been constipated for many years had finally used an enema, bringing tears to his eyes.

Although it was still not as effective as Falling into the Mortal World, he could indeed clear the internal energy in his dantian before the next refresh at this rate.

This discovery also boosted Lu Jing's spirits.

He wondered if it was because of the new luck he had recently acquired that gave him a sense of turning bad luck into good. He had just received the good news that the poison pill from Han Shan Ke was about to be refined, and now a substitute for Falling into the Mortal World was also in sight.

However, Lu Jing didn't rejoice for too long. Perhaps because he had swallowed too many poisons at once, these poisons had an impact on each other. Although there was no change in effectiveness, and no deadly poison was produced.

However, the duration of these three pills was indeed different from before, and all had shortened.

Taking Ecstasy as an example, this medicine could originally last for one and a half hours, but now it only lasted for one hour.

And the duration of Bone Erosion had also changed from the previous two hours to a little over one hour.

However, what troubled Lu Jing the most was Quagmire.

Converted into the three poisons, that would be eight Ecstasy pills, six Bone Erosion pills, and... a full thirty-two Quagmire pills!

This was simply taking medicine as food, and taking poison as food!

Moreover, Lu Jing then did some calculations. Although the materials for refining these three poisons were relatively common and not difficult to purchase, the cost of each pill was five taels of silver.

Lu Jing didn't feel anything when he first heard Dongmen Weilan say this, but now he couldn't help but change his expression slightly after calculating the amount to be consumed.

What was the concept of a fixed expenditure of two hundred and forty taels of silver per day? Taking an ordinary family in the capital as an example, a family's annual income was probably only forty or fifty taels of silver, which meant that Lu Jing would spend five or six ordinary families' annual income in one day.

Fortunately, he had now found a way to get rich by growing ginseng, otherwise, even if this medicine was cheaper than Falling into the Mortal World, he might not be able to afford it.

Thinking of this, Lu Jing's heart couldn't help but become half happy and half worried.

What was happy was that in any case, he had finally found another effective way to consume internal energy. What was worrying was that whether it was secret power or internal energy, all the methods he could find were money-burning, and each one burned more fiercely than the other?

Just as Lu Jing was calculating how much more silver he would have to spend, Chen Hanqing on the side was also looking at him with a complicated expression.

Unknowingly, five hours had passed.

Chen Hanqing worked from the scorching sun to the sparse stars and bright moon, without taking a break once in between.

Of course, he was also thirsty and tired, especially his stomach, which had been growling with hunger for a long time, but every time he raised his head and saw that Lu Jing had no reaction, he swallowed the words that came to his lips.

Since Lu Jing could endure it, then of course he was not to be outdone. Among so many people in the academy, Chen Hanqing didn't want to lose to Lu Jing!

Especially since the latter seemed to be picky and unhappy when he talked about wages with him, and he didn't look like a conscientious employer at all. If he asked for food or water halfway through, although it was all reasonable, it was hard to guarantee that Lu Jing wouldn't seize the opportunity to take advantage of him and deduct his wages.

Chen Hanqing didn't want to work for most of the day and end up with nothing.

In fact, when he heard that Lu Jing was recruiting people, he wanted to leave on the spot, but Wen Xiaoqian persuaded him that this was a rare opportunity for him to approach Lu Jing legitimately and observe and study Lu Jing carefully.

Not long ago, Chen Hanqing had sent a challenge to Lu Jing, and now the entire academy knew about it, which had become a war that he couldn't lose no matter what.

Although Chen Hanqing didn't seem to care on the surface, he actually felt a lot of pressure in his heart.

If he could fully understand his opponent before taking action, then without a doubt, he would be able to grasp more initiative in the next small competition.

Moreover, he was indeed short of money at the moment, and it would be a win-win situation to take this opportunity to earn another sum. Not to mention that this money was taken from the enemy, which indirectly weakened the enemy.

In short, after Wen Xiaoqian's analysis, Chen Hanqing finally felt that he had to go.

That's why he lowered his face to dig ginseng for Lu Jing... no, it should be said that he endured humiliation and burdened himself to break into the enemy's interior to investigate the enemy's situation.

In order to conceal his true purpose, Chen Hanqing really worked hard when he was working. He worked hard in the medicine field for a full five hours. Even if he didn't eat or drink, he gritted his teeth and persevered, performing even better than an old ox.

Of course, he didn't forget his business. When searching for and digging up ginseng, he always kept a part of his mind on Lu Jing.

As a result, even Chen Hanqing himself didn't expect that he would soon have a harvest.

Chen Hanqing noticed that Lu Jing had been sitting by the field, looking like he was practicing his skills, and every once in a while, he would take out pills from his body and send them into his mouth.

Although Chen Hanqing was not very popular in his sect, he was still born in a big sect, so he naturally knew that many young disciples would take some pills to assist in cultivation when practicing their skills in order to improve their cultivation as much as possible.

And Lu Jing became a first-class master at a young age, which in Chen Hanqing's view confirmed the fact that he used pills to cultivate.

If it was just this, it wouldn't be a big discovery. What really surprised Chen Hanqing was the number of times Lu Jing took medicine and the amount of pills he swallowed afterwards.