Chapter 37: Preparing to Act

"What kind of future do you hope for..."

"My battles are fought so that they do not have to fight; what are your battles for?"

"Seize the moment..."

"Do you truly have no regrets about your past self?"

"True grace is beautiful because it is imperfect, sincere because of emotion, and free because of fragility."

"This world has great potential and needs a good hammering!"

"Of all the sharp weapons, none is greater than your conviction..."

"Brother!"

Ning Feiliu woke up from his bed with a start, staring blankly in a daze.

The most critical thing is...

The toxins within Dugu Yan's body can be forced into her soul bone, while Dugu Bo needs to consume a decoction made from the blood of two Immortal Herbs, the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Blazing Apricot Delicate, to consolidate his foundation and cultivate his essence.

He had actually experimented with this a bit, but clearly, that bit of experimental data was not enough to achieve the effect he wanted.

Ning Feiliu was planning to wash up, but he discovered that the leftovers from last night's meal were still on the table in the courtyard, emitting an extremely unpleasant sour stench, yet attracting quite a few birds and insects to linger there.

"Eh? Did Sister Yan not help clean up?" He paused, feeling a bit strange.

What remained was to experiment with the mechanism of the flare-ups and how to effectively suppress the Jade Phosphor Snake Poison.

I must be more careful next time; at the very least, I should use soul power to sober up.

Although he was the one who got drunk last night leaving only Dugu Yan sober, Dugu Yan did not seem like the type of person to nitpick about who did more work.

Yet, as for what happened in the dream and what those voices said, he could not remember a single thing.

However, Ning Feiliu did not care at all; dreams are just trivial matters anyway.

Once he thoroughly mastered everything about the Jade Phosphor Snake Poison, Ning Feiliu planned to go and hoodwink Dugu Bo.

The only problem was how to gain Dugu Bo's trust.

In fact, for the detoxification method for Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo, he only needed to copy Tang San's approach from the original story.

"It must have been Sister Yan who sent me back to my room." Feeling a bit awkward, he got up.

"I actually got drunk last night." Ning Feiliu was speechless; if he told his friends from his past life that he had been taken down by that kind of alcoholic beverage, he feared he would be laughed to death by those guys.

Ning Feiliu's recent experiments had been mainly focused on the Jade Phosphor Snake Poison given by Dugu Yan, and he had already preliminarily tested the timing and reactions of the Jade Phosphor Snake Poison flare-ups.

Usually, after Dugu Yan finished eating with him, she would take the initiative to help him clean up the table and the food scraps.

"Forget it..." Ning Feiliu did not feel dissatisfied with Dugu Yan.

"Just now... did I have a dream?" he asked curiously.

He first tidied these things up, then went to wash up, and then continued his journey of experimentation.

The soul power of this world is indeed similar to the internal energy in martial arts novels; the ability to force out alcohol, poison, and the like with internal energy in those novels can also be achieved with soul power.

That would require solid Pharmacology knowledge, and the ability to state the flare-up times and reactions of the Jade Phosphor Snake Poison, and it would be best to even provide the suppression methods.

After all, in the original story, Dugu Bo directly poisoned Tang San to test him and make him detoxify it.

And the most terrifying toxin among them is naturally Dugu Bo's Jade Phosphor Snake Poison.

Therefore, just in case, he must prepare a foolproof plan.

But now, Ning Feiliu was not far from that step.

For over ten days in a row, Ning Feiliu had been opening his medical clinic, conducting experiments, and cultivating as usual.

The experiments began to make progress; he finally developed an Anti-Jade Phosphorus Serpent Poison Serum and produced the corresponding Alchemy Potion.

This gave Ning Feiliu sufficient preparation to gain Dugu Bo's trust.

At the same time, he also had a vague feeling that the day he would break through to twenty levels of soul power... was not far off.

During this period, when Ning Feiliu cultivated using the Moonlight Breathing Method, he was also intentionally calculating the time it took for him to break through each level of soul power.

It took 20 days to break through from level 14 soul power to level 15, which was the same as he had initially expected.

But when breaking through from level 15 soul power to level 16, he spent 29 days.

The last time, breaking through from level 18 to level 19 soul power took nearly two months...

This was again waiting for nearly two months.

Now that he was finally about to break through, Ning Feiliu was naturally somewhat excited.

Breaking through at this exact time would also allow him to go to the Sunset Forest to obtain his second Soul Ring after completing the task!

But just at this moment, Ning Feiliu seemed to have only just realized...

"Hm? Why hasn't Sister Yan come for so long?" He put down the experimental notes in his hand and said somewhat blankly.

Over these ten-plus days, he had been immersed in his experiments and the excitement of his impending breakthrough, not noticing at all that Dugu Yan had not come for a long time.

In fact, ever since Dugu Yan enrolled in the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, she did not come to see him every day.

But the interval was at most one week; there was one time when Dugu Yan went into seclusion for a week because she wanted to break through to thirty levels of soul power, which was why she didn't come to see him during that period.

For a Spirit Master, breaking through a bottleneck is far more difficult than simply breaking through one level of soul power.

Naturally, many Spirit Masters speak of seclusion for breakthroughs.

But she had only just broken through to level thirty not long ago; it was impossible for her to be breaking through a bottleneck again so soon, so how could she have not come to see him for so long?

He had a bad feeling.

Ning Feiliu frowned slightly; he took a deep breath and said, "Then I will go find Sister Yan... I should be able to find Sister Yan at the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy."

So he immediately got up, preparing to head to the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.

The Heaven Dou Imperial Academy is not in Heaven Dou City, but far away in the outskirts of Heaven Dou City.

The main reason is that if it were in the suburbs, the campus of Heaven Dou Imperial Academy would occupy a larger area, and it would be possible to build all kinds of Mimicry Cultivation Fields.

In the Spirit Douluo era, there were no shortcuts for Spirit Masters to increase their soul power; apart from those Immortal Herbs that only Tang San knew about which could increase soul power, one could only cultivate honestly.

The medicinal herbs of this era were used more for tempering the body and restoring physical strength.

It was equivalent to the medicinal diets and protein powder of his past life; eating them could accelerate the recovery of one's physical state, allowing one to continue training.

But this only increased things like strength, speed, and defense, and could not really increase soul power.

However, there can be shortcuts to cultivation.

This shortcut is the Mimicry Cultivation Field; by cultivating in an environment corresponding to one's martial soul and its attributes, one can accelerate the speed of soul power cultivation.

For example, direct descendants of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect can accelerate their cultivation speed by cultivating in places filled with gems and precious metals.

Although the accelerated speed is not much, it is still an improvement in cultivation speed.

The original owner had always cultivated this way; unfortunately, the original owner only increased 10 levels of soul power in 6 years.

But if they did not have these cultivation conditions, perhaps the original owner would have needed even longer to increase 10 levels of soul power.

After all, the cultivation speed of an Auxiliary System Spirit Master is generally slower than that of a Battle Soul Master.

Soon, Ning Feiliu arrived at the city gate of Heaven Dou City, and after being cleared for entry, he walked in the direction of Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.

The cultivation speed of an Auxiliary System Spirit Master is slower than that of a Battle Soul Master; in the original plot, Flender once said that the cultivation of Auxiliary System Spirit Masters is generally very slow, especially for Food-type Spirit Masters.

For example, Oscar, who had Innate Full Spirit Power, only broke through to Soul Elder at 14, while Dai Mubai, who definitely did not have Innate Full Spirit Power, broke through to Soul Elder at 13. (It is known that in the Spirit Master tournament of Tang San's generation, there were only four people with Innate Full Spirit Power: Tang San, Xiao Wu, Feng Xiaotian, and Oscar, and Dai Mubai was certainly not one of them.)

Ning Rongrong had Innate Level Nine Spirit Power and was only level twenty-six at twelve years old; in other words, Ning Rongrong's Innate Level Nine Spirit Power is almost double the protagonist's talent, yet she only increased 17 levels of soul power in six years, so it is reasonable for the protagonist to have increased 10 levels of soul power in six years.

(End of this chapter)