Chapter 392

The moment the Spirit Marrow slid down his throat, Gao De could clearly feel the powerful magic power it contained, like a surging tide pouring in all at once.

A moment later, an indescribable force erupted in his body, rushing through his magic power veins.

Gao De's body trembled slightly, his forehead was instantly covered with fine beads of sweat, his facial muscles tightened, and his teeth bit down subconsciously.

It was also at this time that he discovered another benefit of the Li Oumeng magic power vein network:

The magic power vein network constructed by a full three hundred and sixty main magic power veins gave Gao De a magic power bearing capacity far superior to ordinary people.

A drop of Spirit Marrow contained the magic power equivalent to a fourth-circle mage meditating for three days; this powerful magic power was a terrifying impact for a first-circle mage.

This was like the water of the Yangtze River rushing into a river all at once, which could instantly cause the river to collapse.

However, the sufficiently large main magic power vein network was like countless branching river channels, which well diluted the impact of this powerful magic power, giving Gao De enough buffer time.

But the main magic power veins were helpless against the harmful substances contained in the Spirit Marrow.

With the flow of magic power, Gao De could clearly feel a burning, stinging sensation spreading throughout his body.

Master Lu Ping had said at the beginning that those who swallowed Spirit Marrow could indeed have their magic power soar, but the price was that they would suffer from "Spirit Marrow Disease" afterwards.

Because Spirit Marrow was different from ordinary magic plants, in addition to magic power, it also contained harmful impurities with extremely high concentrations.

Gao De was not a stubborn person and knew the pros and cons.

But he still ignored Master Lu Ping's warning and chose to swallow the Spirit Marrow.

All his confidence naturally came from 【Adaptive】.

In the process of constructing the Li Oumeng magic power vein network, he had taken I don't know how many bottles of Opening Vein Tincture, which were also claimed to have "fierce medicinal power."

Under the stimulation of the Opening Vein Tincture, his body's anti-toxin ability and metabolic ability had been greatly improved:

【Your immunity to toxins is increased by 85.9%, and your body organs' ability to digest, metabolize, and excrete various toxins is increased by 84.5%】.

Because he took too much, even in the later stages, his body had developed extra drug resistance to the Opening Vein Tincture; one or two bottles down, it was like drinking plain water and could not cause any stimulation to his body.

Therefore, Gao De chose to swallow the Spirit Marrow.

In fact, when Master Lu Ping warned him not to swallow Spirit Marrow raw, he had already come up with this idea.

First, setting aside its own toxicity, Spirit Marrow could truly be counted as a "heavenly treasure," which could help low-circle mages quickly improve their mage rank.

It was just that generally, one couldn't set it aside.

Second, at this point, even a fierce medicine like Opening Vein Tincture was helpless against his body, let alone ordinary magic potions.

However, both values had reached 80%+, and if nothing went wrong, as long as they reached 100%, he could evolve new abilities like 【Ice Blessing Body】 and 【Magic Endurance Body】.

With such a "reward" within reach, how many people could resist the urge to "grind"?

Anyway, Gao De couldn't resist.

But if he wanted to stimulate his body to start adapting again, he had to take magic potions fiercer than Opening Vein Tincture.

This condition was actually very harsh.

Gao De thought about it, and it seemed that only "poison" could achieve this requirement.

It just seemed a bit "self-abusive."

Until the appearance of "Spirit Marrow."

Swallowing Spirit Marrow was no less stimulating to the body than swallowing poison.

But taking poison was just pure self-abuse, while swallowing Spirit Marrow could stimulate the body and improve his magic power.

Win-win.

Winning big.

Winning was winning, but the suffering that had to be endured still had to be endured; this could not be escaped.

Gao De's body was like being burned by a raging fire inside, and the stinging sensation brought by the toxic substances was like a winding poisonous snake, following the flow of blood, penetrating into every inch of his bone marrow, and then surging outward again.

These were all harmful substances contained within the Spirit Marrow.

Spirit Marrow was an extremely compressed object, and the magic power and harmful substances within it were concentrated a hundred or a thousand times. After taking it, it erupted, like an explosion with a huge equivalent, enough to shock a person into a state of confusion.

The moment Gao De's body detected the invasion of toxins, it activated the automatic defense and enemy-destroying mechanism.

Because his body's function in this regard was much stronger than other people's, the entire physiological reaction was also faster and fiercer than other people's.

Under normal circumstances, ordinary people who swallowed Spirit Marrow would have to wait a few days before various uncomfortable physiological reactions appeared.

However, by that time, those toxic substances had already spread throughout the body, which the body could not resist.

It was like a siege battle; the body was the city, and the toxins were the enemy. Other people's city-guarding soldiers had relatively poor abilities, and they didn't notice when the enemy had just sneaked in. By the time they noticed, the entire city had already been infiltrated, so naturally, it was too late to save.

And Gao De's city-guarding soldiers noticed the enemy situation the moment the enemy was about to sneak in, so the battle was imminent.

If discovered in time, fighting while guarding the city, the winning rate would naturally be much higher.

The severe pain attacked his heart, hitting Gao De's nerves!

Even with the Magic Endurance Body, Gao De still felt uncomfortable all over, his five fingers clenched, his teeth clenched, and a slight friction sound came from between his teeth.

Every inch of his tendons, bones, blood, and flesh seemed to have a life of its own, wriggling violently, struggling to resist the toxic substances of the Spirit Marrow.

His blood began to flow violently, like a rushing river, with a flow rate far exceeding the usual.

Driven by this high-speed flowing blood, Gao De's external skin instantly became flushed, as if it had been roasted by a raging fire.

A large amount of hot sweat poured out from his pores, flowed down his body, and then turned into water vapor and rose under the action of high temperature.

Gao De was like being in a sauna at this moment; not only was he hot, but he was also in the clouds and mist.

As the hot sweat flowed out, the toxic substances contained in the Spirit Marrow also flowed out mixed in the sweat bit by bit.

While enduring the pain, Gao De also needed to focus on operating the 【Qingmu Changsheng Jing】 to refine and absorb the magic power contained in the Spirit Marrow.

This was like someone whipping you while demanding you focus on "learning." If it weren't for Gao De having the 【Magic Endurance Body】, it would have been difficult to persist.

Fortunately, he had it.

Therefore, although the whole process was torture, everything went smoothly.

Just like when he swallowed the Wolf Blood Ginseng, a magic power vortex appeared in his lower abdomen, spinning rapidly, absorbing the magic power erupted from the Spirit Marrow continuously, and then began to refine it.

Every once in a while, at the bottom of the vortex like a funnel, a drop of crystal-clear liquid magic power would drip down.

One drop, two drops...

I don't know how long it had passed, but just when Gao De's whole body was weak and his thick nerves were stretched to the limit, everything finally ended.

All the magic power had already been refined, and at this moment, all the impurities had been discharged from the body.

One drop of Spirit Marrow finally added five drops of liquid magic power to Gao De, causing his total magic power to soar to 47 drops all at once.

It couldn't compare to the heaven-defying Wolf Blood Ginseng, but it definitely couldn't be underestimated, equivalent to a year or two of hard cultivation.

On the other side was the improvement from the body.

【Your immunity to toxins is increased by 92.1%, and your body organs' ability to digest, metabolize, and excrete various toxins is increased by 91.5%】.

Just one drop of Spirit Marrow was equivalent to several hundred bottles of Opening Vein Tincture in terms of stimulation to the body.

Gao De didn't expect that one drop of Spirit Marrow would make his adaptability improve so greatly.

Perhaps it was because the toxic substances of the Spirit Marrow were mineral-based, which had a fundamental difference from the plant-based ones, and for the body, it was a brand-new "experience."

After all, plant-based toxins were actually contained in daily diet to some extent, and after long-term accumulation, the body already had initial resistance values.

According to this progress, after all three drops of Spirit Marrow were swallowed, both the toxin immunity ability and the digestion, metabolism, and excretion ability had a high probability of breaking through 100 together.

Thinking of this, Gao De became excited.

However, even if he was in a hurry, he had to slow down.

In the current weak state where both spirit and physical strength were exhausted, another drop of Spirit Marrow would be life-threatening.

Gao De rested for two full days.

During these two days, he lived as usual, and under the blessing of 【Comfortable Slumber】, he ensured eight hours of deep sleep every day, and also had to eat more food than usual.

He also went to the Walmart Magic Material Shop twice.

There was no such thing as the shop becoming instantly popular as soon as new magic materials were stocked.

The Walmart Magic Material Shop had been open for two or three months, and others' impression of it had been fixed as a "seed shop."

To change this inherent impression, without special promotion, it needed time to ferment slowly.

At least according to Joel, one deal was made in these two days, and a first-rank magic material was sold.

This was a good sign.

However, there was still a long way to go before becoming a magic material shop that could operate independently.

——At least it had to have the ability to start the business of purchasing magic materials to be considered a qualified magic material shop.

This requirement was too high and could not be achieved for a long time.

However, Gao De didn't care; just like this, relying on himself to bring magic materials from the northern realm to transfuse blood and attract popularity, being able to attract some mages to sell magical tree seeds would be considered achieving the goal.

In a state where he didn't think about having to rely on the shop for profit, his mentality was very good.

After confirming that his spirit and physical strength had recovered to the best state after a good rest, Gao De took the second drop of Spirit Marrow.

This time, the effect was not as significant as the first time he took it.

One drop of Spirit Marrow only increased his liquid magic power by four drops.

And the stimulation to the body also decreased.

【Your immunity to toxins is increased by 96.9%, and your body organs' ability to digest, metabolize, and excrete various toxins is increased by 96.5%】.

This was normal; any heavenly treasure or magic potion had the most obvious effect the first time it was taken.

Whether it was the reality or the novel biographies he had read, it was like this, and Gao De had long been mentally prepared.

It was just that the magnitude of the decline was higher than Gao De had expected.

Whether this last drop of Spirit Marrow could help him push the adaptation progress to 100%, he also became a bit uncertain.

After resting for another two days, Gao De took the last drop of Spirit Marrow.

This time, the increase in liquid magic power had plummeted to two drops.

After three drops of Spirit Marrow, his magic power had soared from 42 drops at the beginning of the first-circle middle stage to 53 drops in one fell swoop.

The progress was more than halfway through, and it was only 7 drops of liquid magic power away from the late first-circle stage.

According to this progress, before the end of this year, he had every hope of impacting the second-circle mage.

If he could succeed, that would be a sixteen-year-old second-circle mage...

Two years ago, how could he dare to think of such a thing.

Everything changed, it seemed, starting from 【Summon Familiar+】 and contracting with Flora.

A lucky star!

There was joy and also "sorrow."

The worst-case scenario he had imagined really happened; under the body's powerful adaptability, the stimulation brought by this last drop of Spirit Marrow indeed failed to make his body's adaptability reach perfection.

And it was stuck exactly at the critical point.

【Your immunity to toxins is increased by 99.9%, and your body organs' ability to digest, metabolize, and excrete various toxins is increased by 99.9%】.

Gao De, who had come back to his senses, was speechless for a moment after confirming his physical state.

If it were a little worse, he wouldn't be in a hurry, but it just happened to be 0.1% short.

This familiar sense of déjà vu made Gao De think of Pinduoduo from his previous life.

Could he endure it?

He certainly couldn't endure it.

Then what else could he do?

He could only become a masochist!

Enduring the bitterness of bitterness, one becomes a person above people. Comforting himself with the words of the ancestors from his previous life, Gao De took his money bag, left the dormitory, hailed a carriage, and headed straight for the magic potion shop in the city center.

Going to buy poison!

Like Gao De's previous life, the Jin Quehua Dynasty had regulations on the sale of poison; only poisons listed on the sellable list were allowed to be sold publicly, and others were listed as contraband.

If a shopkeeper dared to sell contraband poison privately, it would be reported immediately, and it was a serious crime.

But this only applied to ordinary poisons; the official authorities did not have many regulations on the sale of poison-type magic potions for mages to use.

First, mages had to fight ley line creatures, which were fierce and powerful, and often required various means to subdue them, so buying some poison-type magic potions for assistance was very normal.

Second, if a mage had evil intentions, they had plenty of means, and it wouldn't make a difference with one or two bottles of poison-type magic potions, so regulation didn't have much significance.

However, the market for poison-type magic potions was much smaller compared to auxiliary magic potions and buff magic potions.

Therefore, the varieties of poison-type magic potions sold in magic potion shops were also extremely limited.

Gao De didn't dare to buy high-rank poison-type magic potions either; it would be funny if he really poisoned himself to death.

He chose from first-rank magic potions.

The most common ones were "First-rank Paralysis Potion," "First-rank Slow Potion," "First-rank Hallucination Potion," and "First-rank Weakness Potion."

The medicinal effects were also obvious.

Gao De thought about it in the end and wanted one of each of the four potions.

The advantage of these four potions was that the toxicity was biased towards control rather than damage, not the kind of instant fatal poison, and it wouldn't bring Gao De any pain, so it was a relatively "safe" toxin.

The disadvantage was that the medicinal effect was not fierce enough relatively speaking, and perhaps a single bottle would not be enough to help him break through the last 0.1%.

Just like Pinduoduo, it said it was only 0.1 cents away from withdrawal, but the result was that there were 0.01 cents, 0.001 cents... all were possible.

Returning to the dormitory with the four bottles of potions, Gao De didn't need to rest and adjust his state like when taking Spirit Marrow, but directly took out the First-rank Slow Potion.

The four bottles of magic potions were all used to assist mages in battle and could not be taken orally.

Its correct method of use was to apply it to weapons and use weapon attacks to transmit the toxicity to the enemy.

But Gao De valued its toxicity, and the harm caused by improper use, conversely, might be a benefit to him.

So he didn't care about anything, opened the bottle cap, pinched his nose to block the pungent smell, hardened his heart, and drank a bottle in one go.

A spicy and cold feeling instantly spread in his body.

In Gao De's perception, he felt as if he had fallen into viscous mud, or as if he had slept for a while, his whole body was numb, and the speed at which various parts responded to the brain's command slowed down a lot.

The effect of the Slow Potion was to reduce the target's speed.

If one had to use a scientific explanation, it was to interfere with the signal transmission between the nervous system and muscle tissue, making people's movements slow.

Compared to Spirit Marrow, after taking the Slow Potion, Gao De didn't need any extra actions, just wait for the body to metabolize the toxins in the Slow Potion itself.

He lay down on the bed, extremely difficultly applied a 【Comfortable Slumber+】 to himself, and fell into a deep sleep with his exhausted body.

(End of chapter)